The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-02-04

| luIHC SlDth Nv h''P"'NFNs w
Sixteen marriage iscencs were issued
in the city of Chicago on the first of this
| month
Check books, receipt books, order
books, etc, made TO order on short notice
at THE BULLETIN office. y
Squire Osborn was out Of town from
early morn until afternoon yesterday. He
was up the Cairo and Vincennes railroad on
business,
No new telephone connections will be
made until the general Office has been re-
moved to its new quarters, which will be
in few days.
Mr.. Louis Blumes, OF Mound City,
took passage on the steamer Grand Tower
at this point last night, on his way home,
from Chicago.
---Meerschaum pipes and cigar-hoders,
large stock at f, Korsmeyer's.
Ice again appeared along this side of
the OHIO river yesterday morning. But 1t
was too thin to do any damage. 1T comes
from Pittsburg.
The druggists may confidently expect
that the revenue stamp on patent medicines
will be abolished by congress this winter,
and they will all smile.
We have still q few mounted and var
nlshed maps of Cairo for sale, at The
BULLETIN Office. \
Mr.. S. p. Cope, cashier of the First
National bank, of Paducah, resigned his
position on the LIST inst, and Mr.. Thomas
A, Baker has taken his place.
Use The CAIRO BULLETIN scratch
book 1t contains one hundred leaves
securely bound, and is for sale singly, or
by the dozen, at The BULLETIN Office. =
Owing to the time consumed in setting
up the council proceedings, the local page
of this issue is not up to the usual standard
in respect to the quantity of reading matter.
The Mystic Krew will celebrate the
coming mardi gras day with grand ball
only, their scheme to have street parade
having, from some cause or other, fallen
through.
The alarm of fire was sounded about
l2 90 o'clock, this morning, from the Delta
engine house and quickly taken up by the
other fire bells. But there was no occasion
for it, there being no fire visible.
Another man in tbs Illinois Legislature
has immortaized himself. His name is
Bailey, and few days ago he introduced
bill by which saloon keepers are prohibited
from employing or allowing vocal or instru-
mental music on their premises.
- Mr.. Summcrwell is constructing n
wooden lamp post for Messrs. Swoboda &
Schultze, which is to be placed in front Of
their store on the corner OF Eighteenth and
Poplar streets. They are the first, we be-
leve, who are acting under the new ordi-
nance respecting the lighting Of streets,
and we commend their good example to
others.
Fred Hart is the editor of the Virginia
Enterprise. Something happened in his
family recently, and this is the way the
Carson Appeal refers to it; "The Enter
prise, for some days past, has contained an
announcement headed, "a girl wanted"
and yesterday Fred Harris wife presented
him with boy. This shows just about
how much influence the Enterprise has as
family newspaper."-Ex.
| "A number of our citizens have re-
qucsted the Cairo Amateur Dramatic and
Irish Minstrel Company to repeat the
entertainment they recently gave at the
atheneum to crowded house, and the
organization has accepted the invitation
and have set the evening Of Tuesday, tie
99d instant, as the time for the repetition
The general verdict Of those who witnessed
the entertainment before is, that it was
SPLENDID, and hence good crowd will no
doubt greet them the next time.
"A young man named l.. Il, Rivers, an
cmploye Of the Mississippi Central railroad
in East Cairo, had both his legs badly
mangled by an engine night before last.
His foot was caught in guide rail- which
threw him down with his left leg across the
track, and the engine, passing over
it, nearly severed it in twain and broke his
right leg below the knee DR.. Parker
aluputated one leg and set the other, and
though the poor sufferer rested apparently
quite comfortably through the night, he
died yesterday morning, about eight
| o'clock.
On Tuesday, the 10Th instant the
second Of series of sociables and dances
t.ll 4 Al A