The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-02-11

dollars OF county and city bonds were
funded,
The Choral society will meet at the
Office of Dr. Jocclyn,on Eighth street, next
Tuesday evening.
Col. J. W. McKeaig is making cX.
tenslve improvements on his residence be-
tween Fourth and Fifth streets on the east
side of Washington avenue,
City script was issued yesterday and
parties holding warrants from the city
treasurer against the city, can now obtain
the money upon them on demand.
Nineteenth street, between Washing
ton and Commercial avenues, is, and has
been for some time, brilliantly illuminated
by lamp and reflector which DR.. W. II.
Stoner has placed IN front of his residence.
-Messrs. Smith Bros. are having a
scaiiod erected along the side of their
grocery house, on the Forth side Of Thir,
teenth street, between the avenues, prepare.
tory to putting the finishing touches upon
the roof Of the building.
The people on Twenty-seyenth and
Twenty-eighth streets, between Washing
ton avenue and Poplar street, are under
obligations to Alderman Ernest b. Petit
for his unceasing labor in securing the
consent of the council to have sidewalks
built along those streets.
Our readers will learn with feelings of
sorrow, that Mr.. DeVoo, father of Mrs.
Thomas Sloo, died yesterday morning at
10 o'clock, of the effects OF partial par
alysis, from which he had suffered long
time He died at the residence OF his
daughter, No. T. Winters row, at the age
of seventy-one years, and his remains will
be sent to Madison, Indiana, by the Hi
nos Central train at 80 o'clock p. m to-
day, Owing to the severe illness of Mrs
Soo, there will be no services.
Yesterday the driver of team of two
mules and an empty dirt wagon, attempted
to drive over the Illinois Central track at
Fourteenth street while an engine and a
train Of cars were coming along, and, Just
as the wagon got across the track, the mules
SHE'D at something and backed, bringing
the wagon again upon the track. The
driver, seeing that il was impossible to get
it out OF the way in time for the engine to
pass, jumped down and cut the harness,
thus freeing and saving the mules; but the
wagon was completely wrecked by the
Iron horse
The soft mud on Ohio leyee is about a
foot deep and of temper that would per-
nit Of its being drained off through straws,
such as are commonly used by boys when
there's any untapped cider around. Under
meath this slush a solid bottom is found |
and, it seems to US that, were the soft mlre |
removed in some way as was done once
heretofore, and then not replaced by stuff |
equally as bad as was also done once here
totorc) Lcvec street would not be subject
to such fearful inundations Of filth at every
rainfall, ltwould also lower the level of
the street to its proper grade with the side
walk and prevent the mud from encroach-
ing upon the sidewalk to the depth of
foot and to the extent Of three or four feet
so as to leave barely room to pass, as is the
case near the corner of Fourteenth street.
The last number Of the Young Ladies
journal, published by Harper Brothers, is
out and is an elegant edition, and contains
Colored Fashion Plates of Twenty Figures
every month, comprising fifteen Ladies
and five Chidrcn's Dresses of the latest
PARIS Fashions all the Newest Designs in
every kind Of Ornamental and Useful Fan
cy Work, with directions for working
Articles on Etiquette of Good Society,
several Complete Stories, illustrated, every
month, also Continuous Stories,
illustrated, every month; also gigantic
supplement of about one hundred figures,
every month, showing all the latest fashions
for ladies and children, with cut-out pat
terms; also music, poetry, recipes etc.
Price, including all the supplements 80
cents, post paid. Yearly subscription
thirteen numbers), including the extra
Christmas number $3.50.
As soon as the weather will permit and
the material can be obtained, Mr.. G.. r.
Stuart will build an extensive brick add
ton to his business house on Eighth street
which will give him the room he now so
much needs because of the constant
increase Of his business. Mr.. W. L. Bristol,
the popular Eighth street grocer, will also
put men to work on his new brick house
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