The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-11-29

SDAY MORNING, NOvEM
Wabash, st. Louis and Pacific, and the
Mobile and Ohio railroads, at this point,
the former road will probably move its car
hoist from the yards above the city, down
to the vacant lots below the Union depot.
Tracks are also to be laid from below the
Union depot to the oil works and Mobile
and Ohio freight depot.
Mrs. Cantwell, living on Walnut street,
discovered a burglar in her house early yes.
terday morning and surprised the fellow
and the neighbols by opening vigorous
bombardment upon the former with a
"barker" of no mean cslibre. The fellow
scooted without taking anything. Mr..
Cantwell is on duty nearly all night and
his wife is left alone, but she seems to be
we'll able to protect herself and the
premises.
You make mistake if you buy furni-
ture without first examining the large and
elegant stock now on exhibition corner 18th
and Washington avenue, next door above
postoffice. The line of bed room and par
or sets, reed, cane and folding chairs, is the
finest ever shown on this side of Chicago,
Cincinnati or St. Louis, and is offered for
sale at low prices. Sales now open until
o'clock p. m. WM. EIoHHoFF.
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Work on the Thirty-second street sew
er continues without interruption. The
water lacks considerably of being UP to the
mouth Of the sewer, and the mayor who
gives the work much personal attention,
believes that the sewer will be finished be.
fore the water can interfere with the men.
The gate was put up in order to be pre-
pared for an emergency that does not now
seem likely to occur
THE Bad Boy Cigar
Is better by tar
Than the majority.
1t smokes very tree,
And good it must be,
For its enemies re in the minority.
For five its the best
Create and behest,
Our patrons cry with stentority.
This piece Of poetry was written by our
special poet. He has since died.
On Bit wasn't the cigar, but the pc.
etry, that killed him. If
Barney King picked up coon skin
from the premises Of Nr. VIM. Ludwig
yesterday evening and deliberately walked
off with it under his coat Constable Mar
tin was put on his track and caught up
with him on Ohio levee and took him be.
fore Magistrate Comings. The charge of
vagrancy was preferred against him, and
he was fined $25 and costs and sent to
work for the city for couple of weeks.
Manager G. w. Davis started the oil
works up Tuesday and will keep them in
full blast now throughout the season. At
present and for a few days yet only one
force of men will te employed and the
mills will run only during the day, but
soon night force will be put on, and then
the mills will be run at their fullest capa-
city. In the meantime large quantities of
cotton seed are on the way here and being
received every day.
Chief Signal Officer Hazen has just
issued several books from the government
printing Office which may prove of value
and of interest to those interested in the
various important matters reported upon.
His report for 1880 comprises 1920 pages of
reading matter and ll9 maps, etc. Besides
this there is bis report for 1879 and
another giving numerous proverbs in use by
people of this country aud others, and tell
ing some important facts about cyclones
and other matters. The BULLETIN &C.
kuowledges the receipt of these books
through Sergeant Ray, the local observer.
"A civil case in which the plaintiffs
were two colored people named johnson
from Pulaski county, and the defendants
Messrs. Smith Bros, of this city, occupied
several hours of Magistrate Comiugs' court
yesterday afternoon. To satisfy claim of
about $40 against Pink McAllister, a color.
ed preacher of Pulaski county, defendants
had levied upon seven sacks of beans sent
here by Pink to his own address, to be re-
ceived here by himself and disposed Of
The Johnsons came down to claim the
beans as their own, saying that Pink was
merely acting as their agent. But the
evidence did not hear out this claim and the
court decided the levy good. An appeal
was taken by plaintiffs.
A lady WAS brought up from Point
Pleasant, Tenn, by the steamer Ella Kim.