The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-04-23


on the 9th instant. 1t
Mo damage was done on the river a
this port by the hurricane yesterday even
ing.
White Leghorn and Buff Cochin, war
ranted pure strain; eggs for sale; IL Leg
horns, $l.00; l3 Buff Cochins, $3.50. ii
S. Williamson
Everybody should attend the X. NJ. X
G. ball on the night of April 9th. 1t
-MacLean, the man who fred at Queen
Victoria few weeks ago at the Windsor
railway station in London, was Thursday
acquitted on the ground of insanity.
"A barbed wire fence is being construct
ed along the outer edge of the Ohio !evee,
in front of The Halliday, in order to pre-
tect the young trees along there against
damagesby COWS, hogs, etc.
The X. M. K. G. ball, on the 27th
instant, will be the most delightful OF the
season. IL
The ferrryboat Three States will make
her last excursion trip to Fort Jefferson
this afternoon. She will start about two
o'clock and return about four, giving ample
time for enjoyment at the fort. Round
trip, twenty-five cents.
The Illinois State Sunday School con-
vention meets in Champaign, Champaign
Co., on the 10th, 18th ana 18th of May.
The Illinois State Sunday School institute
of the Cumberland Presbyterian church
meets in Taylorville, Christian Co., June
9th, 2S and Goth.
"A meeting of the Cairo Temperance
Reform Club, for the purpose of electing
officers, was to have been held at the clubs
hall Friday night; but no quorum being
present the business was postponed until
the next regular meeting. A suitable cele-
bration of May LIST is contemplated by the
club, and it is hoped will materalize into a
reality.
AT the municipal election held in
Mound City last Monday, Messrs. Dough-
ertY, Meyer and Hogan were elected alder
men for the long term, and Mr. Reel was
chosen for the abort term. Mr.. Robarts
was elected city attorney; Mr.. Casey, city
clerk and Mr. Mertz, police magistrate.
The council will meet tomorrow to canvass
the vote, and declare the result.
The distinguished scientist, Charles R.
Darwin, is dead. He suffered for some
time from weakness of the heart, but con-
tinued to work to the last. He was taken
i'll Tuesday night with pains in the chest,
faintness and nausea. The nausea lasted
more or less during Wednesday and Gull
minated in death in the afternoon Mr..
Darwin remained fully conscious until
within quarter of an hour of his death.
The Madison Square Theatre manage
ment of New York is busily at work engag-
ing the best actors in the country for next
season. Nearly two hundred have already
been signed with, and 1t is proposed by this
management to send out next season better
class of companies than have hitherto been
seen in the towns ana cities Of the United
States. They will present "Esmeralda."
'"Hazel Kirke," and "The Professor" in
every part of the country next year,
Rev. A. ]. Hess, the Baptist minister,
has rented the house formerly vacated by
his brother n-law's family, Col. Ii. G.
O'Bryan, and will shortly move his family
here from Clinton, Ky. Rev. Dir. Hess
will preach the End and 4th Sundays in
each month at this place, and the let and
3rd Sundays at Cairo. He preached last
Sabbath to large and appreciative audi
ence. Rev. Hess is much liked by the cit
izens OF Charleston, and will do great deal
for the benefit Of his church. Charleston
(Mo) Enterprise,
Bloomington, the birth place of the
republican party, has for the first time in
many years, selected democratic mayor, a
democratic council and democratic police
magistrate. Mayor Trotter, the democratic
candidate for mayor, was reelected. This
glorious result can be attributed only to
the influence Of Hon. John II. Oberly and
the Bloomington Bulletin, for from their
advent there dates democratic success. The
democrats Of Bloomington and Mclean
county can not afford to let the Bulletin
'succumb, and they will not, republican
prophecies, fathered by republican wishes,
to the contrary notwithstanding.
Chief Myers makes daily rounds Of the
city, experimenting the work of rendering
the city healthful. He keeps a,number Of
men and several teams employed In TO