The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-09-12

Wanted: A good tailor to go to CAp'
Girardeau apply at BULLETIN office.
The shipment of wheat down the river
during August was the lasgest on record
Sunday the attendance in the severa
churches was generally better than usual.
The city was full of strangers, mostly
country people, yesterday, to attend Sells
Bros. shows.
Alderman B. F. Blake went to Chicago
Sunday on little business which will keep
him but little while.
Mrs. c. r. Woodland and daughter
Tenne left yesterday for Boston where the
latter will attend school.
Hon. John r, Thomas was at The
Halliday yesterday. He and Hon. T. W.
Halliday returned from st. Louis Sunday
night.
Col James johnson was IN town yes
terday. He was kept very busy shaking
hands with his many friends and answer
ing questions as to his affairs generally.
Mrs. and Mrs. Geo. W. Higgins, of
0lmsted, came down Sunday to spend a
few days with the latters parents. Mr.. and
Mrs. Geo. L. 0lmsted.
There have been 1889 cases Of yellow
fever at Brownsville and So deaths at
Pensacola the record shows 80 cases and
10 deaths
Mr.. G. W. Davis, of the oil mills, has
been quite sick for week or more but is
now able to be about again. The mills
will start about the 1st of next month.
Mr.. W. w. Wright is expected to ar
rive home TO day. He has been in Chicago
for week or longer introducing his patent
electric scale attachment.
- Two circus men quarrelled and fought
on Eighth street yesterday morning, but
they made such quick work of it that COM
paratiyely little attention was attracted.
Mr. Hartman II. Black will leave on
the LIST inst, for the Madeira Islands,
making his headquarters most of the time
at Funkel, one OF the principal towns. He
will probably remain there all through
next summer for his health.
From the 18th to Goth inclusive, Of
October, the twentieth annual fair of
the Franklin County Agricultural Society,
will be held at Benton, Ills. The associ-
alton has gained an enviable name in its
management of former affairs of this kind.
Go to VIM. Albas on Commercial ave-
nue. for hair cut, shampoo, shaves etc. The
best shop In southern Ills. If
The September moon, the GLORIOUS
harvest moon" of which poets have sung
will be in its full beauty the latter part of
this month, when for several days the full
moon rises at the same hour and we have
no twilight.
Sunday night while Mr.. Peter thinner
man Sr. was returning from a visit to his
sick son on Seventh street, he stumbled and
fell near Walnut street, striking the side Of
his head on the edge of the side walk and
cutting it badly.
Mrs. w. w Wright and daughter re-.
turned Yesterday, by steamer j. II. Hilman,
from Smithland, KY, where they had been
on visit to Mrs. Haynes, mother of Mr.
John Haynes of this city. A sister of the
latter accompanied Mrs. Wright home.
On Saturday Messrs. T. w. Halliday
and j. r. Thomas addressed the Mississippi
River Improvement Commission, in session
at ST. Louis upon the needs of the river at
this point They made some good points
in favor of liberal expenditure here
which were taken under advisement by the
commission.
The present officers OF the Young
Peoples Temperance Club are: Miss
Maud Rittenhouse, president; Miss Fannie
Barclay vice president; Miss Annie Will
son, secretary; Miss Eva Shepard, treas
urer; Miss Nellie Magahey, fnancials ecre
tary. The organization is gaining in
strength
Mr. George Cooke returned last week
from Mr.. /. N. Smiths camp in Arkansas
He was driven home by sickness--m alarial
fever. He reports Col. Rearden about and
busy but showing some of the symptoms of
the prevailing ailment. The Col. has
good constitution and is probably able to
withstand the evil miasmatic influences
which characterize the country.
There is pond or hog wallow 10 the
only part of the city that can be called a
square--in the center Of the principal street
of the city Washington ave at the inter