The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-12-24

stunning nOu-eAibtenCei Dut VI so, WHY 80
There ought to DO n grand dance some
where in the city during this week, o
Mound City will monopoize the interes
aud attention of the lovers of dancing il
this city.
--Iu tue proceedings pending between
the st. LOUIS and Cairo railroad compan,
and the city OF Cairo, on Friday at Mr.
Lansdens office, Col. S. s. Taylor testified
for the city, and atthe conclusion of his ex.
animation the court adjourned to NEE,
again for continuance of the trial not later
than the 22d proximo
Mr.. George NJ. Dugan, telegraph man
ager Mr.. John G. Mann and J. W. Turner,
division superintendent, and Mr. G. NJ
Sheaie, general superintendent, all of the
| Chicago, st. Louis & New Orleans railroad
and from different points on that Tine were
some of the distinguished guests at The
Halliday yesterday,
MIR. VIM. b. Williamson who has for
about four years been employed in THE
BULLETIN Office mostly in the job depart
| ment, and for year or more as foreman of the
job rooms, and given good satisfaction gen
orally, has gone to st. Louis, where his rela-
tives reside, and where he will seek to make
his fortune for awhile. He deserves to
succeed.
Yesterday happy surprise came to
Mr., and Mrs. II. c. Lofin in the return OF
the formers step.son George Slocum who
had not been heard from for seven years
and was supposed to be dead long since.
He had been away from home altogether
qbout sixteen years, but had been heard
from last about seven years ago. His safe
return is indeed cause for rejoicing among
his relatives.
The Wabash excursion train yesterday
was well laden with passengers, all of
whom came down to make purchases for
Christmas, and they made them as many Of
our merchants can testify. The streets in
the principal business portion of the city
presented very lively appearance all day
until late in the night it being quite diff
Guilty at times 10 get through the crowds,
From all of which we judge that Santa
Claus will be very liberal tomorrow IN
various ways.
The simple announcement that the
"Major and the Judge" will return here on
Thursday night, in company with Kit the
Arkansas Traveller" is sufficient to insure
full house. We were in error yesterday
regarding revision Of the old and popular
play Of THE Octoro0n" which the Chan
fraus propose submitting to our people on
Saturday. We are glad to be able to say
thatit is the Identical Melo.drama playci
years ago, the hand of the vandql never
having changed it in any particular
Mr.. Jacob Kline has AS yet done moth
ing with his artesian well since Mr.. Gerould
abandoned the work; but it is his inten.
ton to put a man of experience TO work
on it within week or ten days. He has
great confidence in the ultimate success of
the work and is willing TO risk the expeu.
dlture Of a sufficient sum of money to
prosecute he work until it shall have been
fully demonstrated that the scheme is not
practicable, or the well is in satisfactory
operation, which will probably require but
a little more money ard effort.
People living up town and wanting
anything in the meat and vegetable line,
tine beef, pork, mutton, venison, veal, game,
fish Or anything usually kept IN first-class
market, need not 90 down town for the
same, for Fred Koehler, at the corner of
Twenty-ninth street and Commercial ave.
nue., keeps all these things in large quanti-
ties and of the best qualities During
Lent he will make it a point to have fine
fresh game fish three times per week Up
: town people should patronze up town en-
terprise, especially whel they can do so
consistently with their own interests,
which they undoubtedly can when buying
from Fred, who always aims to and docs
meet all competition, 1t
One of those fancy thirty -two.page
pamphlets issued by the Wabash com.
pany for December is before us, ard we
have found lis perusal very pleasant task
indeed. 1t is gotten up apparently re-
CARELESS of expense; is composed of heavy,
tinted, book paper; contains several very
fine engravngs, including, one Of Mrs.
Langtry; contains concise history of the
great Wabash system Of railroads; lit is
in short altogether one of the most expen-