The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-01-30
LOCAL REPORT.
GENERAL LOCAL ITEMS.

The Morning Bravo" is what the
brave Evening Sun calls us now.
A new crossing was yesterday laid
down at the corner OF Twentieth and Com
mercial.
Wanted, a boy who lives in the neigh
borhood of the Box Factory, to carry the
up town route of The BULLETIN. Apply at
this Office.
The "Faultless" cigar sold by +. Kors-
meyer is pure Havana filler, bright wrap
per and sells for five cents. Everybody
smokes it.
Subscribers who miss their paper or
receive it irregularly are requested to send
word to the Office that the carries may be
reconstructed
Mr. William Holden, Of Hodges Park
brought four fine cattle to market yaster-
day. The four netted him one hundred
and sixty dollars.
Mr.. Frank NJ. Walker, who has assist
ed Messrs. Watson & Walbridge in the get
ting out OF the city directory OF Paducah,
has returned to this city,
The little four ear-old son of Mr.. Ed.
Shaunnessy, who was run over by dray
| the other day, was not as seriously injured
AS was reported to lis at the lime the acct
dent occurred. His injuries are now not
not considered dangerous,
Over two hundred and fifty people
took supper ut the Reform Club Hail last
night and the young folks, who had it in
| charge, have reason to be proud OF its sue
cess. The receipts will net between sixty
and seventy dollars.
Mr. F. NJ. Wuri va yesterday engaged
in hauling ice from the cars to his ice house
on Seventeenth street We lei ri that he
has purchased sixty car loads Of ice in Pc
kin and is determined that our peoule shall
not suffer for the want of that luxurious
| article.
--"The frigid, blue-noscd, ce-bergy Da-
kota of geographical ignoramuses, was last
week basking in the sunlight of May and
drinking iced lemonade, with the thermom
cter at 60 to 20 in the open All" is the way
the Deadwood Pioneer crows over the win
try climates Of some OF the Southern States,
Mr.. VI. b. IIarrcl, who has for some
time been sojourning in Chicago, has re-
turned, but will nor be able to resume
his duties as editor of THE BULLETIN
for the present. We hope, however, that
he will soon be in condition to do 50,
The Marion Monitor says: "The unu-
sual warm weather has so swelled the fruit
buds OF all kinds that it is feared by fruit
growers generally, that severe and sudden
cold snap may result very disistrously to
many Of the earlier varieties. A month
more such weather will bring the blossoms
| out"
Compliant has been made to those in
authority, of the conduct Of small boys,
who, in passing along Walnut and other
streets, are in the habit of throwing mud
balls against residences and fences
This comes under the head Of "malcous
mischief" and is liable to land the offender
in the hands Of the police.
The Governor OF Iowa says that crmi-
nal prosecutions in tina; State from 1854 to
1870 cost $l,iG2.0j2 or about $1,000 per
day. Among the reforms proposed by the
present legislature is proposition to aboi.
ish the grand jury system or reduce the
number from fifteen to five. THE BULLETIN
has long advocated the abolishng OF the
grand jury system regarding it ms u USE
less and expensive nuisance-and the soon
er it is universally abolished the better
While the winter III Caro- and, in fact
the entire Mississippi valley has been miIder
than has been known for years, the cold on
the Pacific coast has hecn quite unprece,
dcntcd, with n heavier fall OF snow than
ever before, California has not suffered as
much MS some other States, but even there
the orange and lemon trees have sustained
serious damage, especially the young trees
in the nurseries.
The Peoria Jouma makes so bold as
demand the establishment OF whipping.
post as punishment for petty crimes, and
applauds the Illinois representative who, at
the last session. introduced bill establish.
ing the whipping-post as n punishment for
acts Of brutality as wiIe.beatjng and
and the iike--as ahead rather than as was
charged, behind the age The whipping.
post is not near 50 revolving as some forms
; Of imprisonment and for the wretch who
beats his wife, what better punishment thar
! a bit Dr his oun lngh}