The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-02-04
GENERAL LOCAL ITEMS.

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gently with the old man.
sold mother Mack, she Of the suicide
brigade, will be buried to-day at eleven
o'clock in the seven mile grave yard.
Mr.. A. j. Birds fine-blooded nag,
maggie" had an attack Of lock-jaw yes
terday morning. The cause is not known.
A painter, aud stranger in the city,
fell on the street yesterday, in an epilcptic tit
He was taken to police headquarters where
he remained during last night.
Nearly oil the Ohio river steamers ar
irving at this port have great numbers of
passengers going "to New Orleans to see
Msrdi Gras,"
The late wet and muddy weather left
some of the streets in a fearfuly bad con-
dtion, and it will require good deal of
work and expense to place them in good re-
pair again.
The leap year party takes place Mon
day night and will be fine affair which re-
minds us that the "Fautlcss' is the best
five cent cigar ever sold in this market.
Sold by F. KorSmeyer,
Mrs. Stephen Bird, Master Hunter Lin
wood Bird, Miss Annie Hunter and Miss
Mollic Clark took passage on the Anchor
Line steamer, John A. Scudder, for New
Orleans, where they go to visit friends and
relatives.
New Orleans will have her full quote
of thieves, pick pockets and burglars for
some time to come. Criminals from all
parts OF the country are ilocking thithcr-
ward "to work" during the Mardi Gras
festivities.
The criminal docket for the term Of
the circuit court commencing next Monday
is the largest for long time. Burglary and
larceny are the crimes charged against the
most or nearly all the prisoners. There
are no murder cases on the docket.
The alarm Of fire at nine o'clock last
night was 'occasorcd by blaze in the
roof of the two shanty on the corner OF
Fifteenth and Poplar streets, The fire was
soon put out and the old hulk saved. The
fire companies were not called upon to
squirt
Capt. Jim johnson is just home from
a business trip TO Texas, While in that
state ne visited an Indian camp where he
made the acquaintance of a big lnjun
known as Chief Joseph. Ask the Captain
to relate his experience among the copper
coIored gang.
Tie excelsior division of the high
school literary society viii give an enter
tanmrnt in the high school room at ,
o'clocl, p IN. on next Friday, 1t will be
free to all and everybody is invited to be
present. We may publish the programme
TO moTOw.
Chief I.n Hue should see to il that the
man employed to bury dead hogs, removes
the curcasscs from the city We notice a
number OF fresh graves on the vacant lot at
the corner Of Fifth street and Washington
avenue; and from appearances we don't he
lieyr the carcaSscs are very FIR under the
ground either,
- Our old friend ,IoAn Cain has been in.
, stalled in the whNrf.maSter's Office as dep.
uty, II position he will fill to the "satisiac
= ton Of all" In other words John is III,
right man in the right place. and We con
graduate him on his good luck IN procur
my 50 good "A job, and the property com
, paay on their good luck in securing TIT
services OF SO valuable a man.
+ Pope County Democrat "Jno, X
y Thomas has done nothing AS congressman
- since his election, except to tag after Lao
?, CANS coat TAIL make one thin little Speecl
n about hurting the Democrats from th
battLcmcnts Of Heaven, down to heil--th
: abode of traitors and the damned, pa,
Some little bills he owed to Rcpuhlca,
p newspapers in his district, and yet JOIN
.r Thomas i, being talked up for reelection
W "OI. Heavens"
y. An exchange has this; I'VE have
or number Of subscribers who always pay fl
d their paper in advance aud these men ncy
Ia or have been sick day in their lives, neyc
y had any corns or toothache, their potatoc
., never rot the lice never kill their whca
frost never kills their corn and beans, thei
b babies never cry in the night, aud mo,
on wondcriul Of all their wives never scold.
81, The attention Of some Of our subscribers
I'd called "a ihcs, wonderful rlct,.
Of We have been requested to state tla
the Reform CIub has not decided Chat lad
no members shdI pay dues, Aon the 18th d
'a' Noyamhcr 1878 articles Ct the Constitu'io