The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-02-01


here and Hickman. While we sympathiac
with Captain Ambrose in his loss, we must
also congratulate him upon the speed with
which he will be enabled to recover all
through the efficiency Of the wrccker,
Charley Hill
DR.. G. w. Dunning, like nearly every
other citizen of Cairo, has lost faith IN, and
become digustcd with cinder and gravel
sidewalks and will replace his present
gravel walk with one of bricks. He has
already procured the material for the pur-
pose and the work will begin in day or
two.
The Illinois Central railroad company
has builta side track at Mounds Junction
IN order to accommodate the great number
of freight cars, which are constantly accum-
ulating at this end Of the line, and for
switching off passenger trains when neces-
sary. The track will accommodate three
hundred cars.
Professor Rely, chairman of the
chronological commission at Washington,
has prophesicd a grasshoppcr raid durlngt the
coming summer, which is to devastate por-
tions of not less than dozen states, including
the southern portion of Illinois Our
farmers and gardeners may govern them
selves accordingly,
Sunday evening the Mississippi rail
road made the fastest time on record IN the
transfer Of the passenger coaches. From
the time the coaches lett the incline on the
Kentucky shore until they were taken off
the steamer here, hoistcd, their trucks
changed and ready to proceed upon their
route north, was twenty five minutes,
AT the request of parties interested we
call the attention of whomever, under the
ordinances, it may concern, to the condition
of the sidewalk at the southwest corner Of
Nineteenth street and Commercial avenue,
which, though only one of hundred other
similar places, is entirely impossible and
causes much dissatisfaction among the citi-
zens in that neghborhood.
In one of the towns Of Northwest Ar
kansas, Thanksgiving services were ap-
pointed to be held, in accordance with the
proclamation 10y the governor. When the
hourcame for opening the exercises, the only
two persons in the church were the preach.
er and the village editor. "Let US be
thankful. " observed the clergyman, that
;Ae.e are TWO people IN this God forsakcn
,3wnwhoare mindful ofthe claims of heaven
upon them" Keno" said the editor;"I
mean amen, he added, correcting himself
hastily.
Last night about fifteen minutes to ten
o'clock Mr.. Mike Mshany, an old resident
Of Cairo, and s,ep-father of our city clerk,
Dennis Foley, died at his residence
on Nineteenth street at mature
aye. He had been sick with quick con-
sumption for about three weeks, and his
death was quite sudden and unexpected
and will cause surprise and deep regret
among those who knew him. Owing to
the lateness of the hour we were unable to
obtain full particulars. Services and
funeral will probably take place tomorrow.
Squire Osborn seems TO haye become a
fayorite among young people who contem
plate marriage, which cannot well be ac-
counted for in any other way than that,
either from personal experience or from
long practice, he is enabled to perform the
delicate job in the latest approved style.
We are led to these remarks by the fact
that within the last few days he has been
three called upon to transform his criminal
court into cupid's court and his desk into a
Hymennial altar The names of the happy
couples were first, Henry Beller and Rena
Russel second, Joshua Crofton and CalIic
Nichols, and third, William Mccormick
and Mollie Mckee. The first were married
on the cath; the second on the 2Sth, and
the third, on Sunday night last.
Sunday evening, at five o'clock, young
Mr.. Patrick Naughton breatbed his last,
after lingering illness OF many months,
He leaves behind him mother, two sisters
and a number Of more distant relatives and
innumcrabe sincere friends, who deeply
regret his untlmcly taking off. lie was
twenty-five years Of age, at the time of his
DEATH was raised in Cairo, and had been
an efficient and trusty empoyc of the New
York store, for five or six years. Owing to
an agreeable disposition and a freedom
from misanthropy, he was always looked
upon as Indispensable when any social or
other event was under consideration, and
was u universal favoritc with all who knew
him, both young and old, His funeral