The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-03-24

Notice. in these columns, ten ceiiis per line'
each insertion. Msrkods

The president has signed the bill APP
proprialing one hundred and fifty Thousand
dollars for the flood sufferers Of the south
Blanks to be filed in for publication
of tax purchasers notice will be furnished
free of charge on application at The Bur
LETrN office. IT,
"A force Of men are at work on the
Illinois Central company's tracks on Ohio
levec, repairing them. The earth used in
buk.heading some time ago has all been
removed.
Another passenger war has broken out
at Kausps City for eastern points, and rates
are very much demorahzed. Tickets to
Chicago are selling as low as $500, and
to New York az low as $1,000.
"A FIRE near Northampton, Eng, We'd
ncsday destroyed twenty-five houses and rem
dcred one hundred persons homeless. An
other at Emod, Hungary, destroyed three
hundred and fifty houses and caused the
loss of nine lives.
Next Sunday noon Mr.. Henry Winter
! gives his last meal at the hotel which has
sailed smoothly and prosperously under his
name for so long, and il may be safely ex-
pected thatit will be feast worthy Of the
gods.
Gen. and Mrs. Grant are the guests Of
| the president at the white house, and are
quartered in their old rooms. Dinner
parties ere the order Of the day, and on
Tuesday evening reception is to be given
at which Mrs. Grant and the wives OF cab
met officers will assist.
A wire guard along the outer edge of
| Mr.. James Coleman's new counter is an
eye sore and an aggravation to the many
| who were in the habit Of crowding around
| the counter to read the news without pay
in for it-transforming the newsstand into
a free p, bl reading room, as it were.
The counting room Of THE BULLETIN
is, for the present, in the Office of Messrs.
Cunningham g. Smith, on Ohio leyce, where,
from8 a. m. to 5p. m. orders should be left,
during other times favors should be sent
to the office on Commercial avenue, over
Frazier's shop. M #.
"A small flame was kinded yesterday on
a small frame building on the south side Of
Twelfth street, between Commercial avenue
and Poplar street, caused by hot ashes thrown
out near the house. Prompt action on the
part Of number Of citizens put the fire out
before much damage had been DONE
Hereafter the Wabash will grant stop
over privileges to passengers holding first
class unlimited singletr.p tickets on any
portion of its line, east or west OF the Mis-
sissipp river, instead of conlining their is
sue to lines east of the Mississippi river, as
HIS DGCU TIC CuSlVlu llCICbOlOlCs
"A st. Louis woman gave her arm to
street corner masher, took him to where her
husband was, and the husband wore out
the floor with him. The time is not far dis
tunt when the few Cairo swells will be
triking attitudes on sunny corners again,
and the lady who would serve one of them
as this ST. Louis lady did would deserve
gold medal.
The secretary Of war has ordered
100000 rations issued at New Orleans, for
| the benefit of Louisiana; 100000 at Mem
phs, for Mississippi; $4,000 at Helena, for
Arkansas, and 10000 each at Charleston,
New Madrid and Gayoso, for Arkansas.
The secretary Of war has issued instruc'
tons for the transportation Of 100 hospital
tents from Philadelphia to Vicksburg for
the use of sufferers by the floods,
A man named John Bourne died at
st. Louis several days ago. He was a pro-
fessonal printer of talent employed for
several years back as foreman in the news,
room of the Post Dispatch. In former
years, 1865, 'G7 ana 'GS, he was in Cairo,
employed in the printing office of Mr..
Thomas Lewis, and afterwards in TnE Bull
LETIN office. He will be remembered by
some of our citizens now, He left wife
and several interesting children.
One hundred colonies of bees were on
the Illinois Central wharfboat yesterday,
awaiting shipment to small town near
Chicago. They had come from Cat Island,
about forty miles below Memphis; they
were Imprisoned in their hives and were in
charge Of their owner. The object of TAX
ing them north is to produce honey which,
it is asserted, can be done with better salts.
faction in the north than in tho south
Honey produced in the south would be
dark, while that produced by the same
bees in the north would be white and clear