The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-05-05

The firm Of Hinkle, Moore & Hinkle,
sold twenty hogsheads of tobacco yester'
day.
Mr.. Rice, the cooper, has his resi-
dence, near the corner of Twenty-fr
street and Washington avenue, nearly
finished.
"A new variety store was opened yes
terday morning at the corner of Eighth
street and Ohio levee, in Mr.. +. Vincent's
building
ALL the stock in the Cairo city opera
house company has been taken, but there
has not as yet been any decision as to the
site upon which the structure is to be
erected.
Rev. w. F. Whitaker performed the
wedding ceremony at the Methodist church
for Mr. Roger Ong and Miss Nora Bryant,
Tuesday evening. The couple were both
Of Cairo.
On the 9th instant our people will
have an opportunity to see and hear Mrs,
Ann Eliza Young, one of the wives of the
late Brigham Young. She will lecture at
the Atheneum.
The latest railway news concerning
the Southwestern railway system is to the
effect that the Texas and Pacific road, hav-
Ing failed in Its efforts to embrace the Iron
Mountain route, has opened negotiations
for the purchase of controlling interest in
that road.
The Brigham property, at the corner Of
Twelfth and Cedar streets, was yesterday
sold to the Barrey heirs for the sum of two
thousand four hundred dollars. II was to
have been sold to obtain funds for the sup
port of the minor heirs, but there being no
other purchaser, it was bought in by the
guardian for the heirs themselves.
Some attention should be given by the
police force to the habit the women in the
Fourth street mansion have gotten into OF
giving dances at regular periods. The
habit is, perhaps, not obnoxious to the
neighborhood in which it is practiced, but
It is glazing violation of the
ordinances. While the ordinances pro-
hibiting entirely the existence of such
places cannot be enforced, those Others,
which seek to control them, can and should
be enforced to the letter.
Our tobacco market is growing in i'm
portance daily. The several dealers in the
city are receiving and selling on an aver
age OF about twenty hogsheads per
day, in spite Of the tact that
the crop is somewhat short and the season |
has not yet fairly opened A strong effort
Is being made by our dealers
to attract the trade to Cairo, and
they are succeeding remarkably well.
1t is only few years since Cairo has been
looked upon by planters as place where
their eafy product could be proftably dis
posed of and now it compares favorably
with places that have labored for score of
years to attract the trade. For this new
branch OF commerce Cairo is chiefly in
debted TO few energetic men who under
stood the business and pushed it. Yester-
days prices ranged as follows: Lugs com
mon, 81 to 81; Tugs good, a to SC; leaf
common, 8 to 5-75; leaf medium, to $50;
leaf good, $50 to 1Oc; leaf selections, 10
to 12c.
Arrangements are in progress of COM
pletion between the several fire companies
in the city, having for their object
the appropriate celebration of the Fourth
of July next. Committees have already
been appointed by several of the compa-
MES, which are to meet other similar COM
mittees, to be appointed by the other COM
panies in the city and confer with them as
to the advisability Of making united eff
fort towards celebrating the birthday of
the country in manner commensurate
with the importance of the day. Nothing
that could be done on that
day would give more salts
faction to the people Of Cairo, or be of
greater benefit to the city generally, than
celebration sufficiently attractive to bring
the people of Cur neighboring cities and |
villages here and to entertain them In a
magnificent style. We hope that the COM
panles will succeed in consumating their
plans and In carrying them out.
1t does not seem likely, at least not |
for awhile yet, that the council will resolve
to provide the officers with uniforms but,
whether they do or not, it would not be
very Objectionable should they appoint a
shrewd man as q secret detective, whose
sole duty it should be to ferret out the Sc
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