The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-02-03
GENERAL LOCAL ITEMS.
Notices in these columns, ten cents per line,
each insertion. Marked

near Evansville, Ind.
--Meerschaum pipes and cigar-holders,
a large stock at f. Korsmeycr's.
We yesterday laid in cases twelve new
fonts-latest patterns of job type.
Captain Dugan is in ST. Louis, and re-
ported to be slightly "under the weather"
--Meerschaum pipes and cigar-holders, a
large stock at f, Korsmeyers.
The News Office we understand, is
about to be removed -from its present
quarters.
We have still few mounted and var
nished maps of Cairo, for sale, at THE
BULLETIN Office.
The first issue Of the Bloomington
Bulletin" Mr.. Oberly's paper, will be out
on the Sth instant.
"A perfect beauty OF a mail car came
down on the Illinois Central railroad yes
terday afternoon.
Check books, receipt books, order
books, ETC., made to order on short notice
at THE BULLETIN office.
"A new cable house is being placed
over the spot, where the American Union
cable enters the ground at the lever end of
the stone depot.
Mr.. Oberly has succeeded in renting a
residence in Bloomington, and his family
will probably soon leave for that delect-
able little city.
The steamer T. r. Hillman, is in the
hands of skillful steamboat carpenters and
reparers, and is rapidly approaching
'scaworthy" condition.
Mr.. F. Korsmeyer and family will
leave the first days of next week, on
visit to New Orleans, Florida and other
places south, in search of health.
Mr. II. Eichhof has gone to st. Louis,
Mo, to attend lawsuit there, which in
wolves the sum of thirty thousand dollars.
He will be gone several days.
The Delta fire company met at its
engine house on Commercial avenue, last
night and installed their new officers.
They will probably give ball soon.
u,t w .al.s
Union will meet at Reform hall at three
o'clock, this afternoon. Important business
is to be transacted, hence full attendance
is desired
The Offices of the Illinois Central and
Mississippi Central railroad companies on
this side of the river are connected by tele-
phone with those in East Cairo, the tele-
graph cable being used as conductor.
The counterfeiters, Green and Fletcher,
who were taken from our county Jail to
Springfield for trial, plead guilty to passing
bogus money, and will have one year each
IN which to learn more honorable occupa-
ton in the penitentiary.
Yesterday morning Mr.. D. ]. May, an
old conductor on the Illinois Central rail
road, died of consumption, at Centralia.
His death is much regretted by the en-
ployes of the road, with whom he was a
o,onnrol fovor;to
--Barnhardts managers share of the re-
ceipts at the opera house last week were
$l693520; the managers of the opera
house received only $7,23350, but then
they got the theatre back and the scenery
and seats were left behind.
John Koehler returned from Spring
field yesterday. He is of the opinion that
the capitol for mud is hundred per cent.
worse than Cairo. He goes TO Union City |
this morning to bring home his folks, the
doctor having pronounced them cured.
The man, Mike McGinn, who was
robbed on Commercial avenue night before
last, lost only his watch, nothing more.
The robber was caught by Officers Schuck-
ers and Hogan yesterday and placed with.
in the tombs for temporary safekceping.
The city council will never have per
formed all Its duty until it has passed an
ordinance against whistling; and the
penalty should be death, for man who
whistles at his work and imprisonment tor
life, for any one who whistles on the streets
The gravel distributed in heaps ut
regular intervals along the track of the
Illinois Central railroad on Ohio lcvce is
All obstruction to teams etc, that IS be-
coming quite unbearable to draymen and
tcamstcrs. But we suppose that the evil
will be remcdled as soon as the weather
will permit
One of our most popular young mar
ried men sports beautiful gold watch,
Christmas present from that much abused
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