The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-04-26

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Tomorrow night the X. NJ. X. G.
ball. Ut.
Window shades all styles and prices al
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"A fire at Depere Wis, destroyed sixty
buildings on Sunday.
| See notice in special locals for sale by
| NJ. j. Howley.
/ Don't miss the X. NJ. K. G. ball to-
morrow night. ct,
White Lcghorn and Buff Cochin, war
ranted pure strain; eggs for sale 10 Leg
horns, $1.00; 10 Buff Cochins, $3.50. IL.
s. Williamson.
"A republican mass meeting for the
purpose of electing delegates to the con
| gressi0nal and senatorial convention will
be held at Metropolis on Saturday, May 9Th
Thick. M. X. C. ball tomorrow night
is the only amusement attraction in the
city.
The Wabash railroad company is
again running its trains into the city for
several days back, thanks to "Dutch Gap"
and the canal, which allowed the water to
leave the company's tracks so much sooner,
than ordinarily.
Mr.. Harry Walker requests all the
would be baseball players in the city to
meet at his place on Sunday afternoon at
8 o'clock for the purpose of organizing a
baseball nine. Mr.. J. Page, the champion
catcher, is again in the city and will take
part in the organization.
- One more case of smallpox was dis
covered on the north side of twentieth
street between Poplar street and CONNER
cial avenue yesterday afternoon. 1t is
negro wman She has but mild case.
The premises has been placated and quar-
sntined against,
The Farmers Institute Of seventeenth
congressional district will hold series OF
meetings under the auspices of the state
board of agriculture, at Belleville, May,
nth and 18th. Addresses will be delivered
by number of gentlemen prominent in
the farmer organizations in the state.
The Bloomington Bulletin says Hon.
John H. Oberly is "off on lecture tour"
He left Bloomington Friday, spoke at
Moline Monday; yesterday to the Odd
Fellows at Hillsboro; to-day he speakes at
Jerscyvlle, and on May lst he delivers the
dedication GRAFTON in the new opera house
at Centraia.
--Cairo's streets yesterday showed IN
usual signs of activity. Aside from the
large number of men employed in repair
ing the streets and removing the wrecks of
the late storm, there were many country
teams in, which scattered all over the city
and halted before our wholesale and retail
stores to load up with merchandise. The
city had very prosperous appearance.
From the last monthly report of the
condition of crops issued by the State Board
of Agriculture, it is evident that the crop
prospects throughout the state ore very
good now. In southern Illinois, reports
from which appear in another column, the
prospects ere equally encouraging. 1t is
hardly reasonable to expect any further
changes in the temperature which may
blight these good prospects, therefore it is
safe to expect prosperous times generally
during the coming fall and winter.
Eleyen ocean steamers, containg about
$500 immigrants, landed at Castle Garden
one day last week 1t is expected that
fully 10000 will make their advent in this
country this month, and not less than 100,-
900 next month These figures are unpre-
cedented. The. immigrants are mainly
from Holland, Germany and Scandinavia,
with considerable numbers from England,
Ireland, France, Switzerland and Italy.
The Ohio river rose again at this point
yesterday and the night before. During
the twenty four hours ending at one o'clock
yesterday afternoon, it rose one inch and
stood, at the hour named, 30 feet inches
on the gauge. AT points above the rivers
moved as follows during the same period
of time: Chattanooga, fall OF one inch;
Cincinnati rise of five inches; Nashville,
fall of four inches, and St. Louis, rise Of
seven inches. The rise here will not
amount TO much.
Within the last couple Of weeks, Mr..
j. b. Reed has procured and put up in his
macbiu6hhops, on Ohio levee, an entire set
OF new machinery, consisting of all that is