The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-02-25

| tneU performance thcTe, Inc company
comprises some of our best IRISH talent, has
given two excellent entertainments here
and will, we doubt not, meet with the
greatest success wherever they 90.
- Captain Waldren, the manager of the
cotton compress up town, is having that
institution handsomely painted and gotten
in tirst-class working order 1t will prob
ably be some time, however, before active
operations will be begun with any certainty
of continuing, as the bulk OF the last cotton
crop had already been disposed of before
the compress here was ready and will go
north by other routes.
The sidewalk carpenters, under the
direction of Mr.. German, have been doing
good work within the last few days. The
plank walk on Lcvcc street, from Sixth
street down, has been repaired in various
places; IA new crossing has been made over
Eighth street on the west side of Washing
ton avenue; the paving, with rock, Of the
Sixth street walk for q distance of twenty
five feet, where it crosses Railroad Strip, has
progressed rapidly; preparations have been
made for laying the brick walk on the
south side of Sixth street and the new
plank walk ON Twelfth = ct, between
Washington avenue and Walnut street, is
rapidly approaching completion.
There is bill before the state legiSIa-
ure: To tax tinerant doctors, etc, license
Of 500 per month; allowing mileage to wit
ncsses before justices Of the peace; rcquir-
ing insurance companies to pay full face
value to policy when property is destroyed;
to prevent cXtortion 10y sleeping car compa-
MES; limiting their charges to 81 for Il
berth preventing the changing OF freight
rates by any freight or transportation com.
pany without 60 days notice by posting
at all points where freights are received
under penalty of not less than $500 nor
more than 10000 which the railroad
commissioners are instructed to enforce,
1t has been many years since the even
ing Tor any other sky presented pretticr
sight than that now afforded any clear
night, an hour or two after sunset, 10y the
planets Jupiter, Venus and Saturn Venus
is the brightest of the three and this spring
is unusually brilliant, To night the three
planets will form perfect equiatcral tri-
angle with sides five degrees III length land
by March lst, Venus will have moved east
ward and the triangle will have become
right angled, with Saturn at the right angle.
To add to the interest Of the situation,
Mercury may be seen in the west, for a few
days setting at 20, ~ hours after the
sun; while farther up in the skies a good
glass will disclose Neptune who, so far as
is now known, stands guard on the out
posts of the solar system.
--Washington's birthday was celebrated
in various ways by our different citizens,
each of whom, no doubt, thought that they
were setting good example to all who did
not celebrate, and all Of whom ought to
have credit for their remembrance Of
one u our greatest characters upon the
worlds stage; but they didn't come up TO
Mike ODonncll. Mike got away with
them all lie thought of Washlngton's
birthday long before they did, and, on last
Tuesday, the day upon which the great
truth teller and cherry tree destroyer was
born, there appeared in Mikes family son.
We don't know whether he was a bouncing
boy or not, (somc boys don't bounce, you
know but as to his name there can be
no doubt it will be G. Washington
O'Donnell