The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-04-21

Mr. II, Block put new canvass avn
over his shoe store on Eighth street yestcr-
day,
Mound City's election was much more
exciting than ours, II resulted in the re-
election of Mayor Fnganza and the old
council.
The ladies of the Methodist church
will give series of monthly concerts at
their church. The first will be given soon
and a ten.cent admission will be charged,
Mr. Richard Fitzgerald has employed
a number of men to clean up, repaper, re-
paint and generally repair his saloon oppo-
site the court house, internally and extern
ally.
The Cairo City Street Railway Compa-
ny is now waiting tor the water to go
down, so that they can get earth from the
river bank to ill up Poplar street, above
Twentieth, before commencing operations
IN earnest.
The people of Du Quoin do not like
the flavor of the report that it rained sui
phur there the other day. They now think
it was a shower of pollen from the owery
south land. But 1t looked and smelled
like sulphur.
Lumber for the new sidewalk on the
west side OF Washington avenue, between
| Twelfth and Thirteenth streets, was yester-
day put upon the ground where it is to be
used and 1t is probable that work on the
walk will begin to-day or tomorrow.
The Ohio river was forty five and seven
and half tenths feet on our gauge yester-
day evening, against forty-tive and eight
tenths feet the evening before. Showing a
slight fall. The Mississippi has also fallen
several inches within the last day or two.
A telegram was yesterday received
from Minister, Ohio, by Mr.. Henry Goss
man, stating that his sister, Mrs. DR.. Schiel-
der, had died and asking him to come i'm
mediately if he would attend the funeral.
He departed on the four o'clock afternoon
train.
WITH a few days more of dry weather
the work on Eighth street could begin
again, but to Judge from appearances at
this writing we are not to have any such
thing. The weather is all that can now
interfere with the progress and rapid co"l-
pletion of the work.
Emigration among the Hungarlans
has assumed serious proportions. Warn
ings and threats from the police are of nd
use, as letters from former emigrants to
America hold out magifcent prospects.
From the district of Saros the emigration
is to America; from southern Hungary TO
Bulgaria.
Work on the portico of the Halliday
House was commenced few days ago, and
Is progressing as rapidly as careful work
manship can make it. The work Of laying
the tile floor in the general reception
room has also begun. The slabs OF tile
used are about eighteen inches square and
one and 4 quarter inch thick. The color
is mainly pure white.
One day last week horse owned by
DR.. Written, of Nokomis, became detached
from the halter and assembled the stairs
leading to the hay loft. After searching
for the animal in various parts of the coun
ty, he was discovered in the second story Of
the barn in good condition. A block and
tackle were brought into requisition and the
nag was lowered to his accustomed sphere
in lite.
Evening before last Mr.. j. A. Naugle,
of the Narrow Gauge railroad, saved little
colorcd boy from drowning near the freight
depot at the point. The little fellow had
been fooling around in a skiff
and had in some way lost
his balance fallen over board
and would certainly have persisted in the
waters of the mad Ohio had not Mr. Nau-
gle plunged in after him and pulled him
out
--Disracli is dead at last, passing away
peacefully at an early hour Tuesday morn
ing, the hour Just before day when death is
said to come most frequently. The career
thus ended has been in many respects the
most remarkable Of the century, a romance
the hero of which has been an anomaly, a
i brilliant thcorist at the head Of the affairs
of the most practical nation in the world.
That Dsraci was great man will be dc.
MED less frequently than when he was still
living.
Yesterday evening, about seven o'clock,
Mrs. Ann Redman, the venerable mother Of
Mr.. Joseph Redman, expired in deatht
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