The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-03-09

.,l, wLl ne prayer meeting at the
Methodist and Presbyterian churches to-
night.
The board of county commissioners
finished their work yesterday forenoon and
adjourned.
Rev. Bush, of Columbus, Ky, will ar
rive here to day and speak at the Reform
hall tonight.
The metallic root on the corn meal
mills of Messrs. Green, Wood & Bennett is
being repaired
The Choral had good meeting last
evening at the office of DR.. w. G. Jocelyn,
IT'S strange but true.
The farmers of Southern Illinois have
begun to pillow their fields preparatory to
putting IN the seed.
Check books, receipt books, order
books, etc, made to order on short notice
at The BULLETIN office.
Mr.. Henry Kinnear will probably be-
gin the erection of Mrs. Cunningham's ne W
home on Ninth street tomorrow.
The board of commissioners, which
appraised the railroad strip lots put their
aggregate value at twenty thousand dollars.
--WANTED-Boy to learn to set type and
work in The BULLETIN news-room. Apply
by letter in own hand writing.
In another column may be seen the
advertisement of Mr.. G. Clark, the NAM
moth grocery dealer on Eighth street.
Don't fail to call and see him, and also his
handsome and polite clerk.
In yesterdays issue of THE BULLETIN
the net proceeds of the entertainments of
the Irish Minstrel Company of
this city in was stated to be
eighty-seven dollars. 1t should have read
ninety seven dollars.
The rivers generally are falling. The
Ohio was reported to be rising at Cincin-
natl, but that will not effect it at this point
for sometime yet. 1t is probable that it
will fall to twenty-five feet on our
gauge before the rise from above reaches
here.
ELI Perkins made fifteen hundred of
Baltimore's most melancholy people shake
with laughter last night. A grand sue
cess. Sew on your buttons and 60"
ii, DowNEs.
Reform Hall. March ~ Admission 35
cents; children 25 cents.
City Engineer Charles Thrupp
has finished the construction OF
the Illinois Central embankment,
and the company has now number
of men at work putting the track In order,
which, when finished, will be used as a
side track for freight or passenger cars.
The rattle for the elegant writing desk,
which was exhibited for some time near the
corner of Sixth street and Ohio levee by
Mr.. Floto, its maker, came off according to
previous arrangement on last Saturday. and
resulted in favor of Mr. Gus Batto, of the
Planters house, who held the winning num-
Der.
| The temperance people of Nokomis,
ILL.,, had grand jubilee day before yestcr,
day over the success of their cause in the
election of town board last year, which
was contested aud has just been decided In
their favor. Their average majority was
thirty. The village of IIillsboro also elect
ed temperance ticket.
On Friday, the eleventh instant, the
atheneum will be thrown open to the pub
lie by the Victoria Lotus Combination, u
large company composed of every variety OF
artists, each specially adopted to his or her
particular part. II is a congress OF celebri-
ties and they are reputcd to give one OF the
best entertainments of the season.
Miss Tennie Woodward occupies a
desk in the great iron establishment of her
father, Mr.. G. r. Woodward. We might
remark here that Mr.. Woodward was the
pioneer in Cairo in giving responsible posi-