The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-05-26

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cab Sunday.
| The weather of the northwest, accord
ing to yesterday evenings bulletin, was
clear and fair The thermometer ranged
between sixty and elghty-four degrees
above zero. Rain was reported from Pitts
burg, but it was too slight to measure.
One new case of smallpox was dis
covered yesterday in the second story of the
frame building above the Hibernian engine
house. II was woman who had lived
there during all the time that the disease
had existed in the house. She was taken
to the city hospital,
"A late dispatch says that "IIon. j. X,
Thomas, Of the Cairo district succeeded to-
day in procuring, under q suspension of the
rules, the passage by the house of his bill
appropriating $4,000, to be expended un-
der the direction of the sectary of war, in
grading and macadamizing road running
from Mound City, ILL.,, on the Ohio river,
to the national cemetery located mile dis,
tant from that place"
AS predicted by THE BULLETIN Grand
mother Argus took column of crow un-
flinchingy yesterday. She had not the
encourage to meet THE BULLETINS fair
interrpgatories, but Ignored them entirely
She seasoned her unsavory dish with pre-
tended new discoveries, which either exist
only in her own dull mind, or have been
known to the public and to her for months,
even years. She is cowardly, mercenary
old hypocrite, and she knows it.
The little three year-old son of Mr..
Stephen Schwartz had a narrow escape
from death yesterday. Mr.. Schwanitz's
COW was eating bran from a bucket and
the little boy stepped up and playfully
tossed a stick into the bucket, when the
cow, enragcd, turned upon the child, caught
him upon her horns and tossed him some
distance in the air. Fortunately the little
fellow fell in a manner that resulted only
In severe jolt, and is about all right again.
Snow and ice on the morning of the
23d of May were the meteorological phe-
nomena existing over very wide extent of
country in the temperate zone The dis
patches Wednesday morning shows that
frost and snow were general throughout
Iowa, Wisconsin, and Northern Illinois. In
many places garden vegetables and fruit
have suffered severely, but serious injury ap-
pears to have been the exception rather than
the rule, while wheat, corn, and other
grains have escaped damage altogether. In
Tennessee the wheat yield will be 80 per
cent above the usual average, counting the
increase acreage, and much of it has already
been harvested in good condition. The
outlook for corn, oats cotton, and crops in
general in that State is better than for sew.
eral years past at this season.
Last night was one to be remembered
| by the large number of young people who
attended the calico ball given by the
Mystic Krew at their hall. The attendance
was as large as the spacious hall could well
accommodate, and made good looking,
lively company all arrayed in the material
suggestive of the occasion. Dancing began
early and continued till late, as is always
the case when everybody is well pleased.
Nothing occurred throughout the night
that could mar the general pleasure for q
moment; all came with high hopes of a
night of carnival, and all left with those
J hopes fully realized. The music and
dancing was interspersed briefly with con
versation, laughter, confectionery and re.
freshments. AS the Krew's closing ball OF
I the season, the affair must certainly have
proved eminently satisfactory to the man
agers as it did to the dancers.
Advance sheets of the Forthcoming
crop reports of the Illinois agricultural
board speak thus of the prospects in South
ern Illinois; The condition of winter wheat
in Southern Illinois promises three per cent
, more than an average yield per acre, anG
the present prospects, as shown by the table
are good for SO per cent more wheat PEI
acre than the same counties produced il
1881. With the exception of Madison ant
Effingham counties, the condition promises
about an average or better yield per acre il
all the Southern counties. In Jasper, Mas
sac, Monroe, Pulaski, Randolph and vii
hanson counties the condition indicates tel
i or more per cent, above an average yielt
4 per acre. The number of chiDch- bugs anc
! army-worms reported in some of the centra
> and southern counties should prepare tb,
. public for u large reduction in the outcome
o Of the growing crop of winter wheat.
In the Circuit Court at East st. Louis