The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-10-26

gravel
Every man, woman and child seems to
have made up their minds to 60 to the cir
Gus today.
A new fence is being built in front of
the residence of Mr.. e. s. Dewey, on Fiji
teenth street,
The latest break in the Sny levee is
eleven miles below Hannibal, where the
Mississippi is seven miles in width.
MIR. John Petrie is making extensive
repairs on his residence on Walnut street.
between Fourteenth and Fifteenth streets.
The front of the commission houses Of
Mr.William Lonegran and Messrs. Cunning
ham & Smith, on Ohio levee, is undergoing
improvement by painting.
Clear and fair weather and slowly ri
sing thermometer throughout the northwest
was reported by Sergeant w II. Rays bnl-
letin yesterday afternoon.
The Mississippi river improvement con-
vention meets in st. Louis to-day. A mum.
Der of delegates from all parts of the coun-
try arrived there yesterday.
"A fashion letter from The BULLETINS
regular New York correspondent, "Lucy
Carter" appears elsewhere in this issue. 1t
will be interesting study for the ladies.
.-Messrs. G. D. Williamson & Co. are
having new circular counter built near
the front of their store on Ohio levee, upon
which they will display line of tobacco
and cigars.
Confederate bonds have been handled
and quoted ut 2@915 per cent. at the Frank
fort Exchange during the past week. Dis
patches say the demand appears to be com
ing from Rotterdam.
Will be sold to-day for cash to the
highest bidder, the hump-backed horse,
known as the "butfalo horse" owned by
Sam Stickney, Must be sold to pay feed
| bill. D. e. & B, +. Thistlewood.
Steadily the Ohio river is crawling up
on the government guage at this point. At
800 O'clock p. m. yesterday it stood at
twenty-five feet, four inches, being a rise of
five inches during the preceding twenty
four hours.
One of the stages Of wharf-boa No.
2 was yesterday drawn further up the levee
by means of windlass. The rise in the
river since the wharf boat was taken away
for repairs and the stages laid down made
this necessary.
Painters are hard at work on the Chi.
cago store, at the corner of Eighth street
and Commercial avenue. An attractive
| sign, covering nearly the entire Eighth
street side of the house, is in process of
| development.
The Knights Of Honor had festive
time at their hall on Commercial avenue
last evening. The occasion was the initia-
ton of new member, which was done
with interesting ceremony, oysters, floral
symbols, cake, etc.
Near Hoboken, n. j., at daylight Sun
day, commenced fight for 800 side be-
tween Frank MCGOWAN and Denny Lyons,
with three hundred persons in attendance.
Seventy nine rounds were fought, MCGOWAN
winning, Both men were badly hurt.
For good reasons the committee of So
lctors for the Cairo Horse and Fair associ-
alton was not out last Saturday; but will
probably be out to-day. There should be
no hesitation among the solid men of the
community when the committee comes
around
Mr. Oyster, foreman of the public
printing office at Washington, became a
candidate for printer and was dismissed by
Mr.. Detrees. Now Mr.. Oyster opens his
shell to decry gross immoralities which
have been steadily practiced under his nose,
and threatens to give names and dates
next week.
| The steamboat owners of the lower
Mississippi Valley-Texas, Alabama, Flori-
da and Georgi representing $50 steamers
and $30,00O,000 capital, headed by the
Morgan Line, have Just commended the ad-
ministration of Supervising Inspector Gen
eral James A. Dumont, by a memorial to
President Arthur.
Those in position to know say that cot
ton-picking in Arkansas is sufficiently adj
vanccd to show that the shortage in the crop
in that State will be fully forty per cent.
There will be but little cotton in the fields
after the LIST of November, and the bulk of
the crop will have found a market before
the middle of December.
The great show whose tents will be