The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-02-12

Remember the X. M. X. G. ball al
The Halliday, on the night of the 2lst IN
slant io'
--Aldermsn's Woods explanation OF his
negative vote on the salary bill. The alder
man voted "non because there was not SUI
ficent money in the treasury to meet the re-
ouirements of the bill, and because he was
opposed to issuing "interest bearing ant
icipaton bonds"
FIX. Governor A. P. X. Stafford, brother
of the late A. B. Stafford passed through
this city on his way from Arizona to Flori-
da, where he will be joined by his family
and by his sister and Mrs. A. B. Stafford, OF
this city, who has been spending the winter
in Boston
Miss Belle Braden, who has recently
been reelected treasurer of the Waynes-
burg & Washington railroad, in Pennsyl'
yania for second term, is probably the
only lady in the United States who is a
railroad officer. She is also pay-master
and makes regular trips over the road In
the pay-car.
The members of the "a" class at the
high school INDUCED in the first dinner par
ty of the season, on Tuesday last and the
table was loaded with innumerabe deica-
cies, besides schools girls substantial food,
and the seniors and teachers after an hour
of uninterrupted pleasure felt much refresh
ed and ready for good afternoons work.
The ladies of the Presbyterian church
will give "Paper Sociable" Thursday,
Feb. 18th at the residence of Wood Ritten-
house, Esq. A cordial invitation is ex'
tended to every one to attend and all that
choose are invited to dress in costume
Merchants are invited to represent their
business in costume. 1t.
"A German lady at Collinsville objected
to the extension ola mining company's side
track over small piece of ground belong
ing to her. She made charge on the men
drove them off and threw the ties in every
direction. A compromise was subsequent
ly effected by the man in the nearest tree
top carrying on negotiations.
According to Vennor, we may look fol
a cessation of the present pleasant weathe,
about the eleventh of the month, when W,
are pomised q week of cold and clustering
weather, with snow and rain in some sec
tons. About the seventeenth, genera
snow falls are predicted, and the nineteenth
"will probably usher in terrible week o
rain storms, SHOWS and floods and higl
winds and gales"
The question now for the city council
to "tackle" is what shall be done with tn
cinder sidewalks2 Although built in az
. cordance with ordinance accepted by II
e city authorities, and paid for by the pro-
d erty-owners, they are nevertheless flat fai
ures, of the --LATEST of flat kinds 1t seen
to LOCKER on as though the councils be-
plan would be to try the experiment {
covering them with six inches of goo
gravel, as cinders was the mistake of tn
q council, and not of property owners.
Professor j.. L. Sullivan, the Bosto
slugger, will probably make Chicago hi
permanent place of future residence. TIL
. business he proposes to follow is not state
s but is not hard to forecast. He will ope
"store" whore "wet goods" will be ven(
! ed to his numerous admirers, night an
y day. After thus honoring the city for
: year the Professor will except an Aldel
mansfip from one Of the southwest ward
! and when the new congressional district
= constructed of these wards, ineludin
: Bridgeport and the Stock yards, he wi
a undoubtedly be sent from there to Cor
= gress by the admirers of the manly art,
]. John Morrisey.
Cairo, likeall other cities of cosm(
politsn character is troubled with its prt
portion of street Arabs, whose special bus
!. ness is, on all public occasions, to max
themselves as conspicuous and disagreeab
as possible. The coming event; the gran
masquerade ball Of the Knights of Il
J. Mystic Krew on mardi gras eve at TT
Halliday" will doubtless be no exceptiC
1t to the general rule so far as the gutter snil
is concerned but the Krew will take mea
te ures to confne their ebulations to the 10y
t. est possible line. The mayor will be r
quested to appoint special policemen,
~ that maskers will not be interferred vii
IN as has frequently been the case heretofc
when approaching the hall where the b
is held.
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Harrisburg and Ohio river railway conn