The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-08-05


dosed with tartar emetic.
Yellow fever has undoubtedly broken
out in Brownsville, Texas, and an epidemic
is feared. The death rate in Mata Morass is
greater than in Havana.
The Bloomington Bulletin Is to be
changed from morning to an evening pa
per soon Mr.. Obery believes the change
will be a profitable one to him.
Mr.. Eckenberg who has opened
new cigar store on Washington avenue
is having his place of business neatly rem
ovated, that is to say, painted.
"A telephone war is raging in Evans
vile, growing out of the demand of the
Telephone Co. for advance payments. On
Wednesday two hundred subscribers Or
dered their instruments taken out
"A white man who became disUrderly
n the saloon OF Mr.. Joseph Steagala
Thursday night was arrested, and yester-
day fined five dollars and costs by Justice
j. II. Robinson,
Miss Lydia Pitcher has been confined
to her home with malaral fever for few
days, but was able to be about again yes
terday and will soon again take charge OF
the central telephone Office.
The entrance to The BULLETIN news
and editorial rooms is on Railroad street.
The front entrance to job Office i9 closed
after seven p. IN. Visitors will always find
the Railroad street entrance open. u
Mr.. W. T. Avery and R. B. Merri-
weather of Memphis, Tenn, and bosom
friends of Mr.. juno Wright, the very gen
temanly frs clerk of The Halliday were
in the ~ny yesterday enroute for home
J On the Cd instant an ambushed band
of Apache indians attacked small body
of United States troupes near Tucson,
Arizona, killing all but the colonel and
two men, who escaped, the former badly
wounded
The excursion train to Mound City to
see the match baseball game between the
Mound City aud Paducah clubs this after
noon will leave the corner of Sixth street
on the Wabash road at I o'clock this after
noon.
--FoR sALE-an or 10 horse power up
rlghl engine, in good condition and 10
foot horizontal . fuo boilers, with all the
valves, pipes, new heater, drive well, water
tank. etc, new smoke stack all complete,
price $3.50 Apply at The BULLETIN. If.
AT Versailles, Mo, an artesian well was
completed Wednesday, which is one hun
dred and seventy feet deep, cost five hundred
dollars, and furnishes three thousand gallons
of water per day. Cairos artesian well,
when finished as intended, will lay over this
in every respect.
The cash value Of the medals made
and distributed to the three hundred and
six friends of Gen. Grant, is said to be
thirteen cents peice. They are made of
cheap composition and covered with thin
sheeting of bronze.
Nov that the Mississippi river has
been given an adequate appropriation for
the first time, the work of improvement
may be said to be fairly begun. The work
of deepening the channel between Cairo
and New Orleans will 90 on now to a
swift consumation.
"A new earthen sewer has been put in
at the corner of Thirteenth street and
Commercial Avenue. 1t was much needed
in order to drain the low lots in the square
above. Trenches leadug to the sewer
have been dug across the lots, which will
hereafter insure perfect and speedy drain
age of that and adjoining squares.
The "tooth- pick boot is going out of
fashion It's SAID. But certain young man
away up town has good evidence that the
broad, easy swinging boot worn by vigorous
men of about fifty, with viagable
daughters, is still in vague. 1t will never
20 out of fashion, young man, never. Keep
out Of its reach
AT meeting Of the Anchor fire COM
pany No. 8 Thursday night Mr.. Steel was
elected president; Mr.. Frank Stofield, sec
rotary and Mr.. VIM. Kean, Captain
Messrs. James Carroll, VIM. Kean, and
Officer Henry Bunker were elected a board
OF directors. The company is now in OK.
celIcnt condition, has good hall, large
membership and good acoutrements.
The Railway Age has figures showing
that the total construction of the main lines
OF railroads for seven months in the United
States has been more than 5000 miles.
Should the proportion hold good during the