The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-02-05
GENERAL LOCAL ITEMS.
Notices In these columns, ten cents per line,
each Insertion. Marked'


Read notice of housekeeper wanted
under head of new advertisements.
--Meerschaum pipes and cigar-holders, a
large stock at f. Korsmeyer's.
Don't forget that to-day Saturday is
the last discount day for paying gas bills.
Mr.. Walter Spear, clerk of the internal
revenue department, is here and sick.
Check books, receipt books, order
books, etc, made to order on short notice
at THE BULLETIN Office =
The little girl of Mrs. Sullivan, sister
of Mrs. II. Wells, is quite sick with
measles
Captain r. D. Morrow, of the steamer
w. A. johnson, was in town on business
yesterday.
Mr.. Val Lind favored us with telc.
phone serenade, upon French harp, from
station number fifty, last night.
Our efficient circuit clerk, Mr.. A, II.
Irwin, was appointed master IN chancery by
Judge Baker short time ago
Meerschaum pipes and cigar-holders,
a large stock at F. Korsmeyer's. y
Captain j. C. Willis, the present and
future internal revenue collector, is in
Cairo on business in his official capacity.
Rev. Whitaker left yesterday for
Mound City to assist in the Methodist ser
vices in that place. He will return to-day.
The prayer meetings in the Methodist
church have continued all through the
week, every evening, and been well attended.
We have still few mounted and var
nlshed maps of Cairo, for sale, at The
BULLETIN Office
A resolution was a1optad in the city
council at its last meeting, requesting the
city marshal to look up all parties who are
dong business without license.
Persons holding the city treasurer's
receipts for licenses are requested TO present
them to the city clerk and receive their
papers, as the receipt alone does not an
swer the purposes of the law in the case.
"A club of sixteen names for THE
WEEKLY BULLETIN, with the opinion that
sit is the best paper ever published in
Alexander county," was one of tho en-.
couragcing items brought us by yesterdays
mail
--Dlr. Serbian is preparing the timbers
for a large mule stable to be erected IN his
lot on Fifteenth, between Walnut and
Cedar streets. 1t is to be forty-four feet
long by twenty-five wide and one-and-a-
half story high.
Like the police Of Cairo, those of St.
Louis have made a raid on the gambling
institutions Of that city and succeeded in
| capturing the proprietors the implements
and one hundred and forty.fve of the
patrons of the establishment.
"A collision between two freight trains
occurred evening before last, on the lll-
nois Central railroad, near Dongoa, but
beyond wrccklng both trains and slightly
brusing one OF the engineers about the
head, no serious results followed.
Mr.. F. Vincent has had new stair
and porch built on that side Of his frame
building on the corner Of Ohio levee, front
ing on Eighth street The improvement
was very necessary one and adds much to
the appearance and safety Of the property.
"A number of our young ladies, among
whom were Miss Alice and Matte Lane
and Katie and Phills Howard, went to
Mound City on the steamer Gus Fowler
yesterday afternoon to attend masquer-
ade ball that was being given in that
city.
We understand that Mr.. Gerould will
erect wooden lamp-posts with everything
complete ready tor lighting, for twelve
dollars each or iron lamp-posts, furnishing
lantern, burners, etc, complete, for fifteen
dollars each, provided he gets an order for
twenty iron lamp-posts within the next
three days.
AT printers festival the following
toast was presented The printer, the
master Of all trades he beats the farmer
with the hoe; the carpenter with his rule,
and the mason with setting up tall col.
ums; no surpasses the lawyer and the
doctor in attending TO his cases, and beats
the parson in the management of the
"dcvil."
The republican member from this
district, Hon. II. II. Black. has introduced
u bill in the Illinois legislature amending
section Of the Appellate Court act in
regard to the assignment of circuit judges
to serve on the appellant bench. II
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