The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-07-14
GENERAL LOCAL ITEMS.
Notices In these columns, ten cents per line,
each insertion. Marked

or tour weeks, is able to be about again.
Mr.. Sam'l Wilson is having the walk
In front of his residence, on Eighteenth
street, graveled.
Judge Harker presses the bench dur
ing this session of the circuit court, and
with much fitness he does so.
The sewer opening at the corner of
Eighth street and Washington Avenue has
received much needed new cap.
Mr.. c r. Stuart has left for st. Louis,
Mo-, where he will spend few days in the
purchase of stock of fancy goods.
The family of Mr.. c. R. Stuart left for
Rockford, Ill.,, to spend the summer. Mr..
Stuart accompanied them short distance
of the way.
We we're informed last night that Mr..
Loet, to whose destitute condition we have
several times called attention, had died
last night.
The Hibernian Fire company cleared
in the neighborhood of one hundred and
seventy dollars by its late picnic in St.
Mary's park.
The brick work of the addition which
is being built to the mill of Messrs. Green,
Wood & Bennett is finished and carpenters
are already at work on the roof.
Rev. Benz. Y. George leaves the city
to-day and will be absent several weeks
We hope his health may be benefited by
his trip.
The Jockey club held meeting last
night and took into consideration the ad-
visibility of holding horse fair and race
in st. Mays park some time in September
Mrs. Laura Grayham, formerly of this
city, but for three or four years resident
of New Orleans, has returned and will keep
house fox her brothers, Robert and JAS
Stewart.
Mr.. John Madden, who has the con-
tract for the construction of the convent is
pushing the work to completion with all
possible speed. 1t is believed that the
building will be finished sometime in
September.
The two negroes who last week attack
ed and robbed the Oldham who is in the en-
ploy of DR.. Dunning, while he was walk.
ing to Mounds Junction, were yesterday
tried in the circuit court and sentenced to
the penitentiary tor ten years.
Thomas Spaulding, a colored man, was
yesterday arrested by Chief Robinson tor
striking Matte Dixon, also colored, and
brought before Squire Osborn for trial and
fined five dollars and costs of suit. This
was the only case in the courts yesterday.
"A thousand pounds of note, letter,
statements and bill-heads, Quaker City
best papers in the market, pure linen fibre,
pure Irish linen, white and colored poster,
light and heavy linen, azure, yellow,
cream, ETC., just received at The BULLETIN
office.
ON account Of the Hogan and Sheehan
matter consuming 80 much of our time OF
late, we have been unable to give the de-
sired attention to items of news, but will
hereafter again be permitted to devote the
proper attention to them-unless something
else interferes.
1t is said that the Republicans are con-
sidering the ACCESSIBILITY of giving Garfield
the electoral vote of New York by an act
of the legislature. We venture to say they
are not thinking Of it. They never did
contemplate such an act except for Grant
and only for him in the last extremity.
Women stand the heat much better
than men. None of them are seen running
about with their coats of, sleeves rolled up
vest open, or half undressed, because they
wear none OF those garments. They live
and breathe inside stays, and corsets, ruttled
neck wear covered arms, and as salaman-
ders can discount the men two to one.
DR.. Clark addressed crowd of boys
and young men at the corner Eighth street
and Ohio levee last night and was,of course,
vociferously applauded at those times when
silence should have reigned supreme The
old gentleman is heart and soul into the
Greenback movement and doing is not
particle of good for the cause.
The Garfield club had a meeting in
the store room of the city brewery last
evening. We do not say that beer was ter.
ribly punished" during the meeting, but,
it is said that the proprietor went around
with a hammer after the meeting was over,
and found that three casks hadn't the same
sound that they had before the meeting,
Mr. Fred Koehler contemplates open
inp another branch hutchcrshnn IN thn ror