The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-06-07

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The Alexander county banks tank wa'
put up yesterday afternoon.
The city council did not meet last nigh
as was expected, There was no quorum
present.
The little child of Mr.. Ben Lynch died
yesterday evening and will be buried to-
day.
Prayer meeting at the Presbyterian
church will begin promptly at 7; 80 o'clock
tonight. A large attendance is desired.
Mr.. S. S. Tory was much worse yes
terday than he had been the day before, but
there are still hopes of his recovery.
"A new awning has been built over the
front of Mr.. Henry Winters new brick bus
mess house on the south side of Eighth
street.
The fine weather of the last few days has
probably induced farmers to begin blowing
and working their fields generally. There
have been but few in the city.
Much good work is being done on the
streets with the scraper. The loose earth is
being gathered together and hauled of to
| the low places.
WANTED - Railroad hands ON the mar
row gauge over the river. Wages : $50 per
day. Enquire of Kyger, on the works,
/ 4 miles from Birds Point. 2t
Fruits vegetables aud berries are grow
ing more plentiful every day in our markets.
Raspberres are among the latest additions.
Tomatoes appeared for the first time yes
terday.
Hon. John NJ. Crebs is out in card in
the White county Democrat declining to be
candidate for congress in the Nineteenth
district. This leaves u clear field for Hon.
Dick Townshend, one of the most able
democrats in the Illinois delegation.
Col. James S. Rearden left early this
morning for Shawneetown to meet his
brother once more before he (the latter goes
back to his home in Colorado. The COL
will return Friday and in the meantime his
business will be attended to by Mr.. Loner-
gan
The meeting of the Methodist Mite so
ciety, which was to have been held at the
residence of Mr.. j. A. Woodson, at the cor
ncr of Fifteenth and Locust streets, to-mOr
row night, has been postponed until next
week some time because of the temperance
revival meetings which begin tonight.
No new cases of smallpox have been
reported to the authorities within the last
two weeks. Yesterday two negro women
living on Walnut street were reported to
have the disease, one of them even pro-
claimed that she had 1t and desired to 90 to
the city hospital; but investigation proved
that she was mistaken and that neither had
anything like the disease. The few patients
still in the city hospital are doing we'll
Grandmother Argus of last evening
says: "The nature of the soil beneath the
city and the results that may be expected
from pudding, can be best taken into CON
slderatlon by visiting the place where Mr..
Jacob Klein is shaking his artesan we'll
No blue clay IN sight yet, although the well
is 200 feet down ."-Grandmother Argus is
mistaken. The well in question is about
l25 feet deep, and at the depth of thirty
feet strata OF soil was struck.
The rains of Friday, Saturday and Sun
day have brought out gloomy messages
from some of the corn counties in Illinois.
The farmers begin to fear that it will be
impossible to finish planting in time to Sc
cure a crop, and that the growth of the
corn already above ground will be serious
y retarded. In contrast with this unfav-
orable outlook as regards corn are dis
patches from Minnesota and Kansas where
the prospects are unusually bright for all
crops
"A certain corner house in the extreme
lower portion of the city is strongly sus.
pected to be the resort for gang of sharp
ers who have been making Cairo their head
quarters for sometime. The result of the
decision of the Missouri supreme dourt, de-
claring the st. Louis gambling law consti-
tutional, has been to induce many of what
are commonly known as "slick" fellows to
scatter from that city and make their head.
quarters in other cities. Cairo seems to
have gotten its share of them. But the Off
GERS are cognizant Of them and will sudden
ly break in upon their plans when they
least expect it,
| "A MARYLAND iury has iust declarad