The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-08-14
GENERAL LOCAL ITEMS
Notices In these columns, ten cents per line
each insertion. Markeds

tice CT interest to contractors.
r. Fitzgerald has a couple OF good
mich cows for sale.
Mr.. Buchanan, of Henry Elliott " Co.
has gone to Indiana on few weeks visit.
The flag staff of the city national bank
building sports new flag, received yes
terday.
New show windows are being placed
in the front of Messrs. Burger Bros cloth
ing store on Commercial avenue.
Washington avenue, between Seventh
and Tenth streets, and Seventh street, be-
tween Washington avenue and walnut
street, are being sprinkled since Friday.
The Kentucky board of agriculture re-
ports that there has been no such shortage
IN crops in that state since 1854. Not
more than half an average yield OF wheat
will be harvested.
Mr.. NJ. r. Kuhne has successfully re-
moved the Episcopal church organ from Its
old place TO the form lately prepared for it
and It will he used In the services at the
church to-day.
The continued hot weather has caused
q great deal of activity in the hammock
and bunk trade. Nearly every other citi-
zen in Cairo has one or the other of these
conveniences to rest their painting forms
upon and keep cool.
News arrived here yesterday evening
that the steamer Bedford had sunk in the
Mississippi near Grand Tower, with a
heavy cargo OF grain. No particulars
could be learned. The Fannie Tatum is
bringing down the cargo.
-Vennor, the astronomer, 10 about to
leave Montreal for the white Mountains,
and asks his friends to meet him on the
summit of Mount Washington between the
| 18th and Goth of this month, to witness an
extraordinary phenomenon, "a midsummer
snow storm. Vennor carefully cautions
his friends to bring wraps and snow'shoes.
"A new counterfeit of the silver dollar
has been detected. Experts pronounce it
the most perfect ever made. 1t is silver
plated to resist the action of acids, is OF
good weight, 95 per cent. of the genuine,
and has a good coin ring. 1t so clearly re-
sembles a genuine coin that not one in a
hundred will be able to detect it in ordin
ary trade.
A man named Robert Clemon, claim
ing to be marshal of Ashley, Ills, was ar,
rested in Mound City a few days ago fol
drunkenness and carving concealed weap
ons, ana was fined five dollars and costa
The state law makes the fine for carrying
concealed weapons alone twenty-five dol
lars; but there seems to be discrepancy
between the Illinois state law and the
Mound City municipal law.
On next Wednesday, August nth, the
grangers of Pulaski county will hold their
annual midsummer fair and festival at Sy-
camore grove, one and one-half miles east
Of Villa Ridge. The organization has puff
chased the grove and intends to make a
permanent picnic ground out of IT. A large
dancing floor has been provided and placed
in position for the benefit of the young
people. Every one desiring to do so are re-
quested to bring all kinds of farm produce
TO the fair.
The steamer w. p. Holiday ran
aground in the Mississippi river opposite
Cairo yesterday evening and was still there
when last heard from, While laying there
in the early part of the evening and while
the crew we're at work on the torecastle
with the derrick, the main spar of the der
rick suddenly broke letting the derrick and
stage planks down with terrific crash and
scattering splinters and great chunks OF
timber among the men in reckless man
ner, but fortunately without iniurying any
one.
TO Louisville newspaper reporter
Governor Blackburn, the doctor-governo
Of Kentucky, said, concerning the condition
of the President: 81 thought at the tim,
the President was shot that his wount
would prove mortal. / still think so, AM
he will undoubtedly die. believe the bal
was DETECTED and struck the spinal column
affecting the great nerve. Nothing else coulc
account for the pain in his feet This thing
you noticed In the papers about their get
ting him to sign his name in order to test
his nerves, is all foolishness. II is my 0pln
ion that they got bis name signed for thu
purpose of calling Congress together in the
event of his death.
Several hundred citizens went to st.
Mary's park yesterday afternoon in the ex-
pectation Of witnessing the races that were