The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-12-20
present and it adjourned without taking

intelligence thai since yesterday morning
he is the father of a nine pound boy, and
mother and child doing well. 1t is hardly
necessaryto say that Mr.. Warder took The
first train east on the Wabash and is now
10 Vienna.
MIR. A. j. Alden, formerly of THE
BULLETIN office, latterly of the Marion
Monitor, has accepted Il position in the
government printing otiica at Washington.
He mas brought his family
here and will leave them
here while he goes to Washington to
assume the responsibilities of his new
position lie will leave in few days.
To-day, this evening, the celebration
OF the twenty-tifth anniversary ofthe organi-
cation of the Presbyterian congregation
will take paccat the church on Eighth
street. 1t will be an interesting affair no
doubt, for the ladies of the church have
exerted themselves to make it so. No adj
mission fee is charged, but voluntary con-
rtbutions will certainly not be refused.
Captain John G. D. Knight of the U.
y. Engineer corpse, in charge of Mississippi
river work from here down
to Island No 40, who has
m'ie his headquarters ia this city, is
now having the office in the southeast cor
ner, on the Sc opd floor of the Custom
house furnished for his own use. He will
probably take possession in the course of
this week.
And now ladies and gentlemen you
are invited to call at Mrs. Willamsoa's
fashionable bazaar for one of those lovely
opera fans suitable for Christmas presents
toryour lady friends; also a full line of
handsome albums, toilet-sets and hun.
bred other beautiful articles for holiday
trade. All are invited to call and see the
lovely display OF goods this week at Mrs.
5. Williamsou's, Commercial and Seventh
streets. It
Captain |, N Smith is up again from
Arkansas. The work of filling on "his"
railroad is rapidly progressing and track
laying has already begun. Twenty miles
OF track have already been laid and there
are seventy more still to lay, the whole
length of the road being ninety miles. The
Captain expects that the road will be flu
ished in about two months. Col. Rearden
sends word that he is entirely well and
invites everybody that don't believe
1t to come down and see.
The ice cOmpanys supply.plpe has
now nearly penetrated the Ohio levee. |
Only about fifty feet more and it will ap-
pear IN the trench inside the levee, over
hve'hundred feet from where it started near
the edge of the river. So far as can be as.
certaned it is coming in a perfectly strait
line and will appear within few inches of |
where 1t Is intended that it shall appear.
If it does this it will prove very close cal
culalion and skilIfrl management on the
part of Mr.. Fare who has the work IN
,harge.
Lovers of delicious harmony, those
who have fine ear tor gentle sounds, who
delight In the soft murmur of brooks, the
sweet music of rustlng leaves, the sooth-
ng notes from harp touched by def tin-
gers, will learn with feelings of exquisite
disgust that the three tugs now in use in
our harbor have each been furnished with
)no OF those variation steam whstles-one
ii those delightful abominablc fog-caliapey
which, beng in use upon several of the
steam machines in The city, have frequent
" filed the souls and dreams of citizens
with mad resolves.
Or all the judges of election appointed
n all the thirteen election precincts in the
county OF johnson for the late election,
here was not single Democrat. Before
he late election 1t had been customary to
appoint at least one Democratic Judge at
zach poll, but the last county board
changed this equitable state of things.
There was probably no fraud practlced by I
any of the thirteen Republican returning
boards in johnson county, and we do not
mean to intimate that there was, but the
opportunity and temptation to commit the
yrossest Irregularities were great anil seem
o have been designedly provided {
In the motion to reopen the Injunction
Ease Of The City of Cairo VS.. The Cairo and
vt. Louis railroad company, on trial before
Judge Baker in the office OF Messrs. Green
Gilbert, yesterday the city {
introduced nearly all its doc. I
evidence, through Judge w.
Green, its representative in the absence {
rom the city Of Corporation Counsel W. B.