The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-05-18


The Kankakee Times has been pur'
chased by Chas. p. Livingston and Geo b.
Ready.
WIN. Anderson has sued Griggsvllle
for 81 900 damages for leg spralned py a
defective sidewalk.
The business men of La Sale have re-
solved to raise $4,000 to establish mint
glass works there.
The residence of S, B, Hartz, at PEORIA
was burglarlzed of $40 to $50 worth. OF pro-
perty, in open daylight, Friday
Since March /, Chicago packers have
slaughtered and sailed $4,000 hogs, against
s54, 900 tor the corresponding period year
ago.
Homer Curtiss, of Waverly, has been
bitten three times in his life by rattle
snakes, and is yet living at the age OF o4
years.
Day before yesterday the pay car OF the
Illinois Central railroad was in the city ana
settled up with the company's employees
here.
The Republican and Beacon at Paris
are to be consolidated under the manage
ment of ]. NJ. Sheets, publisher OF the
former.
To-day the house of Mr.. Peter Saup,
which is being moved up town, Will be
placed in position on the lots it is to here
after occupy.
DO not forget the Temperance picnic to
Fort Jefferson on Saturday. Fare for the
round trip is twenty-five cents for adults
and fifteen cents tor children.
Late last night the new fire engine for
the Anchor Fire Company arrived on the
Cairo & Vincennes railroad. The compa-
ny is now ready for business.
Some one entered the gas.fitting shop
of Mr.. Charles Newland day before yester-
day and deprived the drawer of what money
it contained, which was about five dollars.
Yesterday forenoon the remains OF lit
tie Carrie Williams were taken to Beech
Grove for intermcnt. A number of friends
accompanied the little corpse to the train.
AT the coming Fourth of July races
there will be no four mile race, consequent
ly there will be no fourth mile post and no
twenty dollar prize for the winner to such
post.
The Illinois State Dental Association
closed its session at Rock Island Friday.
A, w, Harlan, of Chicago, was elected Pres
ident The session of 1882 will be held at
Quincy.
For some days past Mr.. Frazer has
been at work repairing the metal roof OF
Col. S. 8. Taylor's office on Washington
avenue, between Eighteenth and Nine
tecnth streets.
Large numbers of cattle purchased in
the southwest part OF Arkansas, are being
driven to Missouri and Kansas, to supply
the losses occasioned there by the severity
of the past winter.
$. X. Noble, of Bloomington, had two
ribs broken, and was probably otherwise
seriously injured internally, by fall from
scaffold upon chair while hanging wall
paper at his residence.
Some attention should be given to the
park by somebody before the Fourth of
July comes around. 1t is sorely IN need of
repairs in various ways the drive particu-
larly needing attention.
The drug store of Mr.. Paul G. Schulz
is again assuming its wonted elegant APP
pcarance; goods have already been put into
some of the shelves and show cases. The
whole promises, when finished, to look bet
ter than it did before the fire.
On the coming Friday or Saturday
Mr.. J. NJ. Hagie, agent for the firm of
Kelly & Co., manufacturers of picture
frames and wholesale dealers in oil paint
ings, etc, will probably open temporary
place of business in this city.
Work on the bins of the elevator was
commenced yesterday. They are being
built on top Of the first story and will be
fity-six feet high, nine and a half feet
long and nine feet wide. There will he a
hundred and forty-four such bins.
The Bloomington Bulletin, like The
CAIRO BULLETIN, is the official paper Of the
city. Its bid for the city printing was
considerably lower than those OF its hoary-
headed rivals. We congratulate the infant
Bulletin upon the rapidity with which it
has attained a leading position in Bloom
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