The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-08-18

vious year.
The Kansas corn crop will reach 20o,-
100000 bushels, wort $eO0,O00,0O. The
oat harvest averages so to 90 bushels to the
acre, and wheat runs to five or ten bushels
above the estimates.
Strange to say the woman, OF Mas
sachusetts have the habit Of snuif dipping
to an extraordinary extent. Reports state
that fifteen tons were sold in one manu-
featuring town alone in one year
A canal connecting the waters OF Lake
Superior and the great Red river OF the
| North is the latest project asking aid from
the government. The projected improve
ment will be only forty miles long
The correspondent OF the Times at
Berlin says it is feared that the Russian
cabinet intends to take advantage OF the
present troublee in Egypt to renew some
of the old claims which we're declined by
| the Berlin conference.
A nice Judge when asked why he had
allowed totally unnecessary female wit
ness to take the stand and testify, said:"l
knew it was not necessary, but saw that
she had new bonnet and was striving to
show it,"
The completion of the Council Bluffs
division Oft Chicago, Milwaukee e. st
Paul railroad makes the entire length Of
the st. Paul system of roads 1880 miles,
by long odds the greatest system in the
country, 1t is operated in sixteen divisions.
We have received the programme Of
the Saline county fair to be held at Harris.
burg, ILL.,, October Goth to 18th. 1t in
eludes trotting and running races and
promises to be interesting. Thanks for a
complimentary.
| One of our justices was visited the other
day by a pair who had but recently mar
ried, and who did not get along as we'll as
they expected, to obtain divorce. When
they found they could not they went away
very much disheartened.
The yellow fever at Brownsville is not
growing worse. 1t is bad enough however
to suspend business almost entirely. Al
Matamoras and Laredo affairs are worse
than at Brownsville but notso bad as last
week.
Our shippers will be glad to learn thai
the war rate of Insurance for risks via.
Suez canal is withdrawn owing to De
Lesseps persistent resistance of England
policy. Send on your watermelons and
peaches.
Circuit court meets on the third Mon
day in September for criminal business
After finishing the criminal docket the
+ court will adjourn till the third Monday in
/ October, when it will take up the civi
docket.
r M. Werner, corner of Eighth street and
: Commercial avenue is extending his prem
Uses. He has pulled down the partition
which divided his place into two rooms ant
thereby enlarged his store to meet the re
quirements Of his increasing trade.
AS predicted in Wednesdays BuLLETn
a storm centre was developed in Wisconsin
, Madison was visited by one of the severes
q storms ever experienced. An unprecedented
rainfall and hurricane did great dsmag
to houses, railroad tracks and other prop
erty.
From Mr.. Ham Irwin who returned
a Wednesday night with his family from Dix
on Springs, we learn Mr.. Thielecke is get
ting along nicely and will return on tn
10th. The patrons Of The BULLETIN viii
:. be glad to know this and will bide wit
patience day or two more.
Mr.. L. E. Dewey, the general solicito
= for the Odd Fellows Herald, official OF
gan of X, w. G. L. of Illinois, is in the cit
, in the interest Of the Herald and Of thu
order He is giving the revised worl
u wherever he goes and we presume will d
~ 80 here.
Surgeon Gen, Hamilton receive
telegram from the mayor o
10 Galveston, Tex, asking Government aid |
~ establishing quarantine at tn at port, out {
IL the $4,000 appropriated to aid local an
State Boards Of Health in suppressing eT
, idemics.
~ Social saws: Good qualities stan
u more in the way of ones making friend
than vices do. A woman's wit
more frequently pressed into the servic
"a Of her folly than Of her sense, There
v one consolation about growing old-yo
i live to 500 your friends growing old too.
Sheriff HODGES Ia every dav selline