The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-09-07

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delightful entertainment during these long,
dull summer evenings. y
Five feet six inches above low water
mark is what the Ohio river marked on the
Government guage yesterday.
-Messrs. Swoboda & Schultz have re-
moved their business into their elegant new
brick store since Friday last.
w. R. Hoopaw, OF Villa Ridge has
opened family grocery store in the Celia
building corner Twentieth and Poplar
streets.
The two cottages built by Mr., John e.
English on Commercial avenue near
Twenty-eighth street, for Hon. Jesse Ware
are nearly completed.
The front of Mr.. p. Neff's house at
the southwest corner of Commercial avenue
and Eighth street was yesterday torn out
and the sidewalk removed preparatory to
replacing them anew.
Owing to the extreme shallowness of
the water over the chain between Cairo and
Paducah the Gus Fowler is compelled to
tow barge in order to avoid being too
heavily laden with freight herself.
Several men were employed the great
or part of yesterday in fishing for the body
of young Joseph Berton, the painter, who
drowned near the Iron Mountain wharfboat,
in the Ohio river, on Sunday night but
without finding him.
The famous racing mare "Jule" is now
the sole property of Mr.. Geo. T.. O'IIara
who bought Mr.. W. d. Llppett's share IN
her. The mare is in excellent condition
and ready for the track against any nag in
this part of the country.
--Messrs. Lancaster O. Rice are contem-
plating the erection of large planning mill,
on the vacant lot, near the corner of Fit
teenth street, on Commercial avenue. The
building will be fifty by one hundred feet
in dimensions and one story.
The consolidation of the firms of c. O
Patier & Co., and Il. B. Petit, which it was
rumored, some time ago, would take place
has now been consummated, and will result
in Mr.. Petit making his head quarters in
the New York store, while still continuing
his business on Twenty-eighth street.
Very extensive improvements are con-
templated by the Cairo and st. Louis r. R.
company on this end of the road The tracks
be will moved and extended; the grounds
of the road filed up and some new build.
ings erected. 1t is expected that thou
sand men will be at work here under the
company within the coming three weeks.
Yesterdays signal service report show
powerful atmospheric disturbances in the
northwest which is moving towards the
east and will very likely make itself felt
here. AT North Platte the thermometer
fell to Al and one-tenth of an inch of rain
fell during the eight hours preceding ell
pm. At Yankton the thermometer fell to
Az with three-quarters of an inch of rain.
AT Dodge City the thermometer stood at 81
and the rain fall measured one and quar-.
ter inches, which is very heavy.
An accident occurred yesterday even.
ing on Sixth street, between Commercial
avenue and Ohio levee, which might have
resulted seriously to Mrs. Geo. W. Shellet
She was driving down the street in hel
buggy, and when the horse reached Rail
road street, he run against wire that wa,
stretched across the street by two men who
were in the act of raising it upon poles. tn,
horse stopped suddenly and turned dowl
Railroad street, nearly overturnlng the bug
gy. But Mrs. Shellet did not lose her pres
ence of mind; she grasped the rcigns tight
ly and stopped the horse before any dam
age was done.
The Chicago Times has been gather
ing statistics from this and other states. re
garding the supply of hogs and the pros
poets for pork the coming winter. 1t ar
rives at the conclusion that, owing to th,
late cold spring the supply of pigs is abou
20 per cent. less than usual; that becaus,
OF the drouth they are in poor condition
that because Of the scarcity and high price
OF corn less quantity will be fed, and con.
sequently less pork be made than in othe,
years; and finally, that what is made vii,
be likely to bring good prices.
The alarm Of fire which occurred yes.
terday evening about seven o'clock, was due
tn the appearance o, FIRE on the river front
above the Cairo and Vinconnes freight de.
pot The fire department turned out PROMPT.
ly but soon returned, as the fire proved to
be an old barge lying in the river in front