The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-04-15
GENERAL LOCAL ITEMS.
Notices in these columns, ten cents per line,
each insertion. Markeds

About three thousand emigrants ar
rived at Castle Garden Wednesday. TIT
commissioners report an urgent demand FOL
labor.
Blanks to be filled in for publication
of tax purchasers notice will be furnished
free ofcharge on application at THE Bull
LETIN office. IT,
The Presbytery Of Alton will meet vt
Chester, H., on May 1lth for the purpose
Of ordaining and installing Rev. o. G. Nor
ton as pastor of the church.
The twenty.second anniversary ball
will be given by the Hibernian fire com
company at its hall next Monday night.
Every body should attend. 1t =
1T is an open secret that three hundred
dollars have been sent by the narrow-gauge
company, to be used in the interest of the
company in the coming city election.
An interesting communication in re-
ply to "Tax payer, proving conclusively
that all the latter's assertions Of any impor
lance are untrue, came in too late for pub
LEGATION in this issue.
In her copments and predictions con-
corning the cut in the Mississippi levec,
Grandmother Argus initiates with painful
exactness, the tactics of the proverbial old
woman who anwers all arguments and facts
with, you'll see" and 81 told you So"
"A petition to congress not TO interfere
with Chinese Immigration has been signed
by four thousand firms of New York, in
GLIDING the entire dry goods trade and the
president of every bank in the clearing
house.
The firm Of Livings & Jones, tress-
hoop manufacturers, has been dissolved.
Mr., Jones has bought the material and ma
chinery used by the firm and will 90 to
Anderson, Ind, to do business. Dir. Liv-
ings remains here.
Repairs on the two neat frame build
mrs, at the southwest corner of Seventh
street and Washington avenue, which were
lately much damaged by fire, have been in
progress for some time. Both houses will
be haaisomer than before, and ready for
occupancy within week or ten days.
On the ground that it should have been
presented 10 the probate court of Chicago,
Judge Loomis refused to consider the Pc
tition of Mrs. Scoyille for the appointment
Of conseryator for the estate Of Charles ].
Guiteau, and quashed summons thought
lessly issued by deputy clerk.
The evidences of returning confidence
in future prosperity among the farmers
around US are nowhere more plainly seen
than on the steamer Three States, which is
daily crowded, every trip she makes, with
wagons, stock and country folks from Mis-
souri, and Kentucky, which bring with
them much good trade for Cairo merchants.
The senate confirmed the nomination
of William L. Chandler to be secretary Of
the navy by 2S TO l6. The appointments
of W. Ii. Hunt as minister to Russia and
j. II. Partridge as minister to Peru were
also approved. A. c. Dotkin, formerly q
journalist in Chicago, has been reappontcd
marshal for Montana.
Shall we have grand May Day picnic
on the first Of next month"; If so, it is
about time that preparations were made.
1t should be a celebration worthy of the
occasion Of Cairos fortunate escape from
destruction Of food and wind; a beautiful
May Queen is to be elected, and other cere.
mony performed which shalt make the
event one Of great pleasure and worthy of
remembrance by all whomay attend.
"A man who has made trip over the
new county road within the last few DAYS,
states that it is much obstructed by drift
wood, some Of which consists of great trees
which must be cut up before they can be
Other distractions in the form
of waShouts and bottomless CD sloughs also
remain as the effects Of high water, all Of
which will doubtless have the attention of |
the county commissioners soon after the |
ground dries enough to permit work.
AT meeting Of the subscribers to the |
First Lake, (Ky.,) fishing fund, held at the
hall of the Mystic Krew on Wednesday |
night, a permanent organization was at.
iected under the name the "Grafton fish.
ing club" Dir. w. II. Smith was elected
president; Mr.. Al. Susanka, vice president;
Mr.. G. Q. Mason secretary, and Mr.. Ed
Dezonia, treasurer. board of trustees
was also elected and a committee appoint.
ed to see whether those elected to this
board would serve. A committee was up.
pointed to ascertain at what price a number
of old flats could be secured, which arc to