The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-02-20

John Reese is suffering from rheuma-
tism and not from asthma as the local pa.
pers enormously stated.
Reserved seats for X. M. K.C. per-
Torrance, to take place Feb. 2sth, now on
sale at llartman's.
The demand for cars to run to Wash
ington for Garfed's Inauguration exceeds
anything ever known.
Property in Chicago recently sold for
$4,125 per improved front foot-highest
| figure ever reached.
A full line of wooden and willow ware
such as buckets, baskets, tubs, etc, at Pet
It's & Mercdith's.
We stated yesterday that Mr.. II.
Thompson was going to Vinccnnes, Ind
1t should have been indianapolis, Ind.
The Library column in to.day's issue
of THE BULLETIN is unusually interesting,
1t will be found on the third page,
Prof. Jack Emery brother to William
Emery OF this city, is about to be married
to Miss Emma Hull, at Poughkeepsi,
New York
The new song books for the Methodist
Sunday school have arrived and will be
used in the Sunday school prayer meeting,
Immediately after the Sunday school.
The editors convention met at Spring
field, Illinois, on the 10th instant, and had
some very interesting exercises in the way
of speeches, essays, funeral oratiOns, etc.
Gen. Walkers census Of the municipal
Indebtedness of the country foots up 1914
,000-one-th third of the national debt, and
New York staggers under one-ffth of it,
Mr.. Harry Warden a business man in
North Cairo, buried one of his children this
week, and his friends will regret to learn
that the other members of his family are
sick
Mrs. +. NJ. Stockheth contemplatcs the
erection of a residence on the vacant lots
next 10 her present residence on Ninth
street, between Washington avenue and
Walnut street.
DR.. Clark has taken the pains to find
out something about Billy Patterson and
the man that struck him, and he gives the
result OF his researches to the public on his
bulletin board, free gratis.
The ball of the X. NJ. X. c. which
comes off on the evening Of March LIST,
promises to be by all odds the grandest
event Of the season. Costumes at Phil II.
Saup's.
We notice in a late number of the
"Notre Dame Scholastic" published at
Notre Dame, Ind, an article entitled,
lessons Taught U.s." which displays con-
siderable scholarship and research.
In our list OF jurors in the WhitCamp
case, published yesterday morning, a mis-
take occurred Instead of "Wm. San
dusky, Sandusky," it should have been
VIM. Holmes, SanduSky, With this ex-
ception all was right
Colonel Starkey Powell, who has ex,
erted himself toward carrying through the
Illinois legislature bill providing for the
erection of elevators, was presented with a
cane by number OF his colleagues at the
state capital the other day,
By a decision Of the state board Of
agriculture, the state fair will be located at
Peoria for the years 1881 and 1882. The
Springfelditcs are naturally somewhat dis
appointed and the Peorians are unduy
elatGd over the action Of the board
la the report Of the school exercises
yesterday morning, our reporter got little
mixed in the names. When he wrote
"Willie" McGahey, he should have written
Nellie" We are glad to set the young
lady right.
-Mcssrs, Pettis & Meredith, the grocers
on the corner Of Elghtb&treet and Wash
ington avenue have something interesting
to say to the public in this mornings issue
Of The BULLETIN Read their locals else
where
--Pcttis & Meredith have recently re-
ceived larger stock Of sugars, molasses,
rice and coffee than they ever had before and
are able to supply their customers with any
of these articles at figures as low as the
lowest.
lIartmans hall, the largest and finest
in Southern Illinois, has been secured by
the X. NJ. X. G. for their ball March 1st.
The Crew will give no parade this year
but propose to excel all their former etl'olts
in the way of Masquerade Ball.
The Rough and Ready Fire Company
will celebrate Washngton's birthday next