The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-09-29

| Parity DecauSe 4 laws SHOW VIII NC
here on Saturday, the manager ofthe Katie
Putnam tioupe which was to appear here
on the night of that day, has concluded to
change the date OF the engagement. The
troupe will be here sometime during No.
vember. The next entertainment at the
Opera House will be given by Lambert &
Richardson's Dramatic company, about the
middle Of October.
The material for the freight depot of
the Mobile and Ohio railroad company, at
the lead of Eighth street, IS accommodating
rapidly upon the ground. An immense
pile of brick is already there. 1t would
seem soon to be time also to begin work on
the proposed improvement on Eigth street,
back of Washing avenue; but it is likely
that nothing will be done in this direction
until spring.
A negro named Walker, who claims to
have killed another negro in this city about,
ten years ago and to have been sent to the
penitentiary for life therefor and pardoned
short time ago by the governor because
he was afflicted incurably with consumption,
applied to the city authorities for aid yes.
terday. He is, indeed, in bad plight
and has, perhaps, not much longer to live.
He will probably become a burden to the
county or city during the remainder of his
life.
A responsible gentleman has three
hundred dollars to bet on the coming con.
gressional election. One hundred, that
Thomas does not get 1000 majority; one
hundred, that he does not get 800, and one
hundred, that he does not get any, All
three or none OF the bets are to be taken.
The money is ready. If Mr. Thomas is as
confident of his election now as he was
when he boldly asserted that he would
double his last majority, he willjump even
at this three-corned bet, Or, perhaps,
some of his enthusiastic Republican toll
lowers will do his betting for him.
Another train load of ten cars Of
gravel was brought in on the Wabash road
yesterday ard unloaded below Sixth street,
This portion OF the avenue, which has al
ways been the worst, is being rapidly
transformed by the company into first
class street. At several points the entire
width of the street has been filled to the
depth of several feet with clay, gravel,
rock and cinders. New ties are being
laid under the tracks, preparatory to plank
ing the tracks as is required by the ordi-
nance.
- \ small frame structure, standing be =
tween the tobacco establishment of Mr.. f.
Korsmeyer, at the northwest corner Of Ohio
levee and Sixth street, and the truit.stand
in the rear has been torn away, leaving a
| space of about ten feet in width and
twenty-five feet in depth. The structure
was in a very bad condition, and Mr. Kors-
meyer desires to replace it with new one
Heis prep ring the necessary petition to
the city council, to be submitted at its
next regul r meeting. A neat little struc-
ture there would be great improvement
upon the old one and also upon the vacant
space as it now appears.
49, Five barge loads of rock were thrown
! into the river near the bank in front of The
Halliday during the last few days, for the
purpose of making a break water and cause
a sediment Of silt in the space between it
aud the shore as the water goes down. This
same process has been applied on the bank
there at different stages of the river and
the bank has thus been formed into a sort
of terraced plat, gently sloping toward the
river. 1t has been covered with a green
sod, and several rows of trees were planted
last spring and surrounded by a wire fence
all of which is most pleasant to behold,
The improvement will continue steadily
until it will be very park, where citizens
generally would love to spend an idle hour
of an evcning--if permitted to do so.
The new comet which was discovered
SO suddenly, surprisingly near the sun, his
slipping away again without leaving much
reliable information concerning itself with
our astronomers. 1t is generally supposed
to be an old comet which at one time had
long revolution about the sun. The time
Of its return has become shorter, and there
are strong suspicious that it has been DIAL
lying around our luminary several times
when it has not been observed probably
not visible This time it was observed
l6,000,000 miles from the sun on Scptem-
TENDER 10Th, and 25000,000 miles on the
2lst. 1t was, therefore, moving away at
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