The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-03-11

Gen. and Mrs, Grant yesterday dined
with the president
A good baby buggy for sale. Apply
to George Wichert
1t IS announced that Levi p. Morton,
of New York, has accepted the French
MISSION
Check books, receipt books, order
books, etc, made to order on short notice
at The BULLETIN office,
Harry Walkers uniformed Comique
band favored the people of the city with
some fine selections Of music yesterday
Mr.. Serbian has men constantly at
work on his new stable on Fifteen street
and it is rapidly approaching completion.
City Clerk Foley is putting up a lamp
post at the corner of Nineteenth and Pop.
lar streets, tor the benefit Of his neghbor-
| hood,
Five hundred bills, advertising the lee
ture of Eli Perkins, which comes off at Re-
form hall on the twelfth instant, are being
distributed
Mr.. Samuel Walters will secure the
services of a competent man in his planning
mill and start it up about the first of the
coming month.
Eggs have come down to Sl,25 per
dozen and fire wood to $500 per cord.
Praise the Lord !"--Benton (Montana Ter
rltory) Weekly Record.
Mr.. Fitzgerald's little daughter May
Lillian, died yesterday morning, al ten
o'clock, and will be buried this afternoon,
Notice of funeral in another column.
Mrs, Dunbar half sister to Mr.. Chas.
Lancaster, of this city, died, on the 7th
inst, near Hastings, Mimi, of a throat
disease with which she had been suffering
for some time.
Judge Cooley, of Michigan, is thought
to have a good chance of being appointed
TO fill the vacancy on the supreme bench.
But it is said that Garfield promised Hayes
to send Matthews name IN.
The stalwarts, Conkling, Edmunds,
etc, are reported to be strongly in favor of
an extra session of congress and the stall
warts predict one will be called in May, to
consider funding bill, etc
The Mystic Krew is endeayorng to
affect arrangements with the proper parties
at Anna, H., to secure the theatre hall
there, with a view of repeating their min
strel performance in that city,
Wires we're yesterday being put upon
the poles on Fourteenth street. They will
be run to DR.. Marean's residence and Mr..
George Wicherts cigar store, and the
instruments will be put in in a day or two.
1t is said that Conkling and Cameron
are damning the new administration in par.
ticularly protane style. AS Conkling sell
dom swears it is thought he must have
very peculiar reasons, just now, for doing
so.
The Minnesota clerks sercnaded Win.
dom, the new secretary Of the treasury,
Monday night. He sand the secrotaryship
had come to him unsought, and he had
something Of a struggle with'himsei to &C
cept 1t.
A social party was given last night at
the residence Of Judge j. II. MILKY, on
Ninth street, by Miss Fannie Bradshaw,
Mrs. Mulky's niece. About twenty-five
people were present and had Joyous
time.
"A number OF workmen were yesterday
employed on the Illinois Central railroad
tracks opposite the round house, ooseninl
the ties and raising the track several
| INCHES WHcIc IL lUN Sunhcn DcloW WIS IlV
per level,
- Mr.. John English has the contract fo
building two more frame cottages for Mr.
W. b. Gilbert One oft them is TO stand OF
the vacant lot below Fourth street, on III,
west side Of Washington avenue, and the
other will be built On the south side o.
Fourth street. One of them has already
been begun.
Commercial avenue, between Eighth
and Twelfth streets, is receiving some OF
the surplus gravel taken from Ohio evee
The improvement is necessary one, for
the avenue between the points designated
has, for some time been in bad condition
MIR, Thomas Clark found his gold
watch ard chain yesterday under the side.
walk near his place of business. 1t is sun.
posed that the thief was frightened at the
excitement his act created and hid tho
watch and then told some one where il wa,
to be found