The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-01-15

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of the general offices of the Iron Mountain
railroad offices is nearly finished. Even
now tits as handsome a front as any Of the
railroad offices St. Louis can boast of.
The ice dealers throughout the country
are in league for an advance of 100 per
cent in the price Of their cooling COM
modify. 1t seems to us they are a little
premature, There is plenty of time for a
big crop yet. \
Mr. Joseph L. Lemen was passenger
on St, Genevieve yesterday to st. Louis on
his way to Bond County for the purpose of
settling up his business preparatory to
taking possession of Dixon Springs on the
first of March.
Five handsome new coaches were
brought down on the Wabash road yester-
day. They were in charge Of Mr.. Slater,
of the Barney & Smith car works, Dayton,
Ohio, and are bound for San Antonio, for
the Sunset Route.
There has been m average reduction
of about thirty per cent in river freight
rates from this point to New Orleans and
way points, which should have the effect of
increasing the amount Of river traffic.
"A dancing school, has been started in
this city by Prof Ed. Mason Lessons are
given in the hall of the Knights of the
Mystic Krew of Comus, over Mr.. VIM.
Kluge's store.
Everybody should be religiously in
cined to-day and attend one or other of
the many churches in the city. The pull
pits in all of them will be occupied both
morning and evening by earnest and able
workers in the vineyard of the Lord.
Good music is also one of the attractions in
each.
Mr.. II. H. Knowles, of Chicago, &C
companied by his wife, passed through
Cairo Friday morning enroute for New Or
leans. Mr.. Knowles will be remembered
as the lively general agent of the Equitable
Life Assurance Society, who spent several
weeks here couple of years ago increasing
the amount of the companies business in
Cairo and adding large numbers to his
list ofpersonal friends.
Governor Cullom has, by special order,
changed the counties of Calhoun, Christian,
Clark, Coles Cumberland Douglas, Edgar
Greene, Jersey, Macoupin, Montgomery,
Moultrie and Shelby, now in the nothern
penitentiary district of this state, to the
southern penitentiary district, in conse-
Quence of the over. crowded condition ofthe
Joliet prison, and to proportion the same
according to the capacity of the two institu-
tons.
Sixty singers were Sscnrolled at the
meeting held in the Presbyterian church
on Friday night All preliminary arrange
ments for opening the convention were
made. There is no doubt but that there
will be a very successful opening Of the
convention tomorrow.
According to Sergeant W. II. Rays
report issued at i'll o'clock yesterday
afternoon, the Ohio river stood at forty feet
six inches on the government guage, being
rise of just sixteen inches during the
previous twenty-four hours, At Louisville,
Ky, during the same period of time, it rose
three feet nine inches and at Pittsburg, Pa,
six feet.
The thermometer stood at forty three
degrees in this city at 211 o'clock yester-
day afternoon, which was fall of six de-
grees during the previous twenty-four
hours. During the same time it rose TWEEN
ty-one degrees at North Platte, twenty-five
at Bismark and twenty-ninc at Dodge city.
Since the state of the weather at these
three points usually affects Cairo somewhat,
it will be Of interest to know this
"A party Of young people, five couple in
all, organized themselves into little sur
prise party yesterday evening and when
darkness began to fall from the wings Of
night, they suddenly and Unexpectedly
dropped in upon Mr.. Newton Kent and
helped him to celebrate the anniversary of
his birth. The party had very pleasant
time indeed during the three or four hours
of their stay, Mr.. Kent will remain the
greater part of this week and then return to
Chicago.
The chimney Of Mr. w. p. Halliday's