The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-03-19

pany has commenced laying its track to the
new Union depot, which is rapidly APP
preaching completion.
Rev. Armstrong conducted a prayer
meeting at the Presbyterian church last
evening. The attendance was good in
spite of the bad weather.
Mr.. s. Walters has repaired CONNER
cial avenue in front of his business house
80 as to make it possible for teams to come
closer to his door. Several wagon loads of
earth were used in the work.
Mart Gillen, passenger conductor on
the Illinois Central railroad, died yesterday
morning. He had been connected with the
road for over twenty years, and was gen
eral favorite among the employees.
MIR. w. NJ. Davidson, the Eighth street
timer, has received large lot Of hot
house plants of every description. Itcom-
prises a great variety of flowers, shrubs,
trees, vines, etc. Call and examine his
stock,
"A man named Joseph Warsaw assault
ed young lady named Flachs, in Warsaw,
Ill., day before yesterday, and the citizens
of the place threatened to lynch him. TIE
authorities had to remove the brute to
Carthage for safety
st. Patrick's society is extinct, and
could, therefore, not have attended, in a
body, the lecture of Father Eckles at the
Catholic church night before last as
was stated in THE BULLETIN yesterday
morning. 1t was the Ancient Order of
Hibernians that attended.
MIR. S. Walters has sold the stock in
the "Boston store" on the corner of Tenth
street and Washington avenue, to Mr.
John Lane, a young man of some exper-
fence in the business. Mr.. Lane will re-
stock the store and continue the business.
He took charge yesterday.
Miss Annie Alvord is at home for a
short vacation and rest that Is much need
ed, after several months close attention to
her large musical class in Chicago. Her
many friends here welcome her with pleas
ure and regret that her visit cannot be
prolonged through the summer.
In our special local column will be
found the advertisement of DR.. w. C..
Jocelyn, the assignee for the firm Of Taber
Bros. A grand closing out sale takes
place this evening, which all who have any
spare change should attend, as every induce
ment will be offered to the purchaser in the
way of low prices and variety and quality
of goods
"A violent thunderstorm passed over
southwestern Missouri yesterday morning.
At Joplin the gale did considerable dam
age, unroofng buildings, etc, and several
persons were quite badly hurt At Galena,
Kas., sixteen buildings were destroyed, two
persons were fatally injured and six Others
were seriously hurt.
"A colored teacher IN Belleville, before
Diminishing his school Wednesday, made his
scholars short speech on the subject of
st. Patrick's day. Said he, "Young ladies
and gentlemen, tomorrow is the day our
brethren, the Irish, celebrate and there
will therefore be no school. Our brethren,
the Irish, are striving, you know, to obtain
that which we have already received. OBJ
serve the day and pray that God may help
our Irish brothers"
The shooting match, which was adver-
tised to come off yesterday afternoon be-
tween Mr.. f. S. Kent and DR.. G G. Parker,
did not take place because the hack man
that had been engaged to take the contest
ants out to the place designated for the
match disappointed them. There has been
no postponement of the affair, however, and
unless some at present unforeseen obstacle
appears, it will surely take place this after
noon, at four O'Clock, on grave yard ridge.
DIR. G. X. Clark announces himself as
candidate for mayor on the greenback
ticket in this mornings BULLETIN. The
Doctors announcement was written by him
self and sets forth his principles admirably,
better than we could do; and hence, we re-
fer our readers to it. We have no doubt but
that he means what he says and believe that,
if elected, he will make as good a mayor
as any who support him for that position
could possibly make.
Beware Of the peripatetic card writer.
Nlnety-nine out of hundred are dead
beats-swinders. Lying comes as natural
to him as breathing. He would rather 90
hungry than tell the truth for square
meal. He is on small scale sort of
five cent dead beat. who has all fine inclino