The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-03-01

into which he moved all his "contraptions"
and where he will open out in full blast
to morrow or the day after
Miss Adelaide Zanone and Mr.. August
Questa were united in marriage ut st. Pat
rick's Catholic church on Sunday forenoon,
by Father Masterson. The church was
crowded with friends Of the young couple,
who wished them happy life journey in
their new state They will take up their
residence in the city.
The tree trimming time has now ar
rived. All trees should be shorn of their
| superiluous branches, IN order that the 9TH
ers may grow more vigorously and the tree
assume IA symmetrical form, We notice
that some Of the trees in the city have al
ready undergone this treatment, and some
Of them look something like huge egg
heaters stuck in the ground handle down
wards,
Yesterday afternoon between two and
three o'clock the freight train, going north
on the Chicago, ST. Louis e. New Orleans
railroad, ran over and killed white man
that was quietly Of walking along the track
between here and BardwGll station. The
name of the man we could not learn, but
the suppositon is that he was farmer of
the neighborhood, bound for Bardwell, and
that his hearing was not perfect.
Mr.. i. S. Marshall, the uptown under
takcr, has purchased the property of Mr.,
G. Il, Howell on the corner of Thirty fourth
and Sycamore streets He is having new
kitchen built to 1t and other improvements
made internally and externally with the
intention of occupying it as a residence
when it is finished. 1t is his intention also
to go into bee culture, being well vcrscd in
all that pertains to that art May he be emf,
ncnty successful in his new undertaking.
The Reform club will probably hold
It's meetings every night next week, in or
der to infuse new life into the organization,
a thing which, to judge from the work the
ladies of the club have done Of late, seems
hardly necessary But however active the |
club may have been or be, it is certain that
Col, Lowry, who will be here for next Fri
day, can increase it greatly; for he never
fails to make an impression upon his hear
ers and excite them to more vigorous action,
Friday or Saturday of last week the
county of Alexander, but more particularly !
the precinct of Elco, lost one of its oldest
inhabitants in the person Of Mr.. John
Hurston. He was one Of the first settlers in the
county, being known by some of our clti.
zcns who have lived here forty years, to
have come here a number OF years before
they did. The old man was well and favor
ably known in Cairo, and his death, though |
it occurred at good old age, will be re.
GREETED by many.
Thomas Sratton, Coored farmer, up
in Alexander county, was the first to come
to town yesterday since the water cut Cairo
off from the country above. He came
through with his team without any diff
iculty, and j, is now question of but
little time when our streets will again be
crowded with teams and our stores with
purchasers. The roads in Ken
lucky and Missouri are reported to be
which gives additional force to
the above statement
The people of the Mount Vernon
judicial circuit are dissatisfied because
Judge Browning failed to open court there
at the time set for that purpose. They do
not however attach any blame to the Judge
himself, and in this they are night. The
Judge has had his hands full here and
though he has done all in his power to get
through in time to open court at Mount
Vernon on the day set by the new arrange.
ment, he has not been able to do So The
case was the great clog upon
the court wheels here, being prolonged be-
You'd the time it was expected that it
would occupy
Yesterday about noon, the frame
on the Missouri shore, opposite
this city, which was occupied for some
years by Mr.. Phil Hysey as general store,
but more recently only by family who
lived upstairs, caught fire from defective
1ue and burned entirely down. The fire
was seen by many people here ard created
some alarm, but there were no other houses
near by and hence only that one was swept
away, The house was the property Of Mrs.
Greenfield, who has been living here for
some time and was worth about six hun.
dred dollars. Everything in 1t, we under
stand, was also consumed.
On Sunday night the dry goods store