The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-12-05

may soon see the Christian church one
OF the most tlourlShing in the city
Two lines Of the telephone wires have
been stretched along Commercial avenue,
and about thirty-eight more are to he
stretched along the same street. Eighty
instruments have been ordered and were to
arrive last evening, and it is expected that
the system will be completed and in full
operation about the middle of this month
The Casino society will celebrate its
thirteenth anniversary and installation of
officers by q ball at Shcel's hall, on the
l4th inst, on which occasion our citizens
may depend upon really enjoyable time
A number Of the members of the society
will shortly call upon our people with
tickets, when We hope everyone will find
the necessary fifty cents to possess himself
of one.
The Baptist Sunday school, which has
been meeting at Turner hall since its or.
ganization in February, 1878, has been re-
moved to Reform Club hall, where the first
meeting will bgIheld this morning. There
will also be ell prch services at the hall,
morning and etening, by Rev. A. ]. Hess,
pastor of the church. The public 10 cor.
daily invited.
We have already received the names
of some gentlemen who propose to call on
their lady friends on New Years day, and
will publish full list of them a week be-
fore New Years. The names of the ladies
whowill receive callers will appear on New
Years morning, and for the accommoda-
ton Of the gentlemen will be so arranged
as to deprive calling of much of its irk-
someness.
The Cairo & Vincennes railroad com.
pany has decided to run an excursion train
from Carmi to Cairo on the god inst The
train will leave Carmi in time to arrive here
at II o'clock an and will leave here on
its return at o'clock pm. The object of
the company in running this train, is to
give the people OF Carmi and intervening
stations an opportunity to come to this city
to make their holiday purchases and, at
the same time, to give them pleasure trip
at reduced fare. The company has also
in view the interests of the merchants of
Cairo, who will, no doubt, appreciate its
efforts in their behalf.
Several weeks ago we announced upon
the very best authority that minstrel
show would shortly be gwen at the Athe-
neum, in which Capt Hambleton, Pat Fitz.
gerald, John Sproat John Reeve, John |
Clancy, Jack Lally and several other prom.
inent citizens would act the leading
part. the heaviest of these gentlemen,
handsomely dressed in gorgeously colored |
tights, favoring the audience with clog |
dance. We learned from Capt Hambleton
yesterday that our citizens would certainly |
be favored with the performance as soon as
a sufficient amount Of burnt cork could be |
obtained to cover the uneQualed cxpansc of |
the 'cheek" of the gentlemen aforesaid.
The father and brother Of Joseph
Reeve, the young man who three or four
weeks ago was held in bond to appear be-
for the circuit couithnd, if possible, clear
his skirts of the suspicion that he was in.
terested in the robbery of the show case of
Mr.. John Stelzer, arrived in this city from
Mt Vernon, Ind, yesterday, and. at once
vet about to obtain bail for the supposed
young criminal. When the necessary doc.
iment was presented to the Eighth street
supreme judge it bore, among few other,
signatures, the names Of the father, brother
md Constable Hogan, and on it, with the
consent Of Squire Osborn and the Judge
'toresoid, Reeve was released from the
ounty jail and permitted to return to his
Iome. The brother Of the accused is a
merchant OF Mt. Vernon, and the father is
wol.to.do farmer who resides within q
cw miles Of that city.
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