The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-03-14

The Globe Democrat says the Missss-
ippi river commission will leave Cairo on
the 18th inst on its way down the river.
Cooking Oil at G. D. Willlamson's
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Judge Davis has made public the fact
that his wedding will take place at Fayette
vile, N. c., to-day, the 14th, at II o'clock
a. m.
The Mystic Krew met last night, had
circus at the expense Of some poor mem
Der and elected officers for the ensuing
year.
ALI damage occasioned by the food
on the tracks of the Iron Mountain road,
has been repaired, and trains will run into
the city as usual to-day.
School children will find THE BULLE-
TIN scratch books Nos. 2 and 3 tor sale at
Phil Ssups candy store. tt
The weather continues favorable to
continued decline in the river. All around
is the sky clear, and the atmosphere is dry
and quiet
Mr.. W. w. Wooton, formerly of this city,
but for some years citizen of Barlow City,
KY, died suddenly last Sunday of heart
disease.
-Jno. Paley, living on the Cairo road,
about four miles this side of Paducah, KY,
mysteriously disappeared in Paducah
Monday.
| Andrew Lohr's Genuine Aromatic Bel
fast Ginger Ale, a pure pleasant and
wholesome temperance beverage, is now
on sale at the leading saloons. If
Mr. Henry Block has rented the new
store room of Mr.. Peter Neff, on CONNER
cial avenue next to that to be occupied by
Messrs Coffee g. Bross.
Many of the young people of the city
will learn with pleasure that at meeting
of the Myths last night it was decided to
give calico hop al The Halliday on the
night of Thursday, the Goth instant.
Justice J. Fl. Robinson is having new
police Office fitted up in the room next to
his present Office. 1t will be larger, better
ventilated and better lighted.
The five thousand dollar libel suit be-
gun by Mrs. Mclean, of Bloomington,
against the Bulletin, of that city, was de-
cided by the jury in favor of the latter on
Saturday.
The masquerade at Washington Hall
last night was a success in every way. Mr..
Shees had exerted himself to make it more
an affair of pleasure TO those who attended
than profit to himself. The attendance
was good, and the enjoyment great and
general.
ALL but one of the sewers in the city
were open yesterday evening. The excep
ton was the thirty second street sewer.
That on Fourth street was stopped up in
some way until yesterday about noon when
it began to emit water at lively rate, The
water in some of the low places was falling
at the rate of nearly an inch per hour yes
terday.
The repairs on the food wrecked
tracks of the roads IN this immediate viclni
ty have been somewhat delayed by reason
of the scarcity of laborers. In view of the
fact that our streets have been almost con.
stantly full Of idle strangers, this fact
seems strange. The idle strangers must
have some conscientious scruples against
work--many of them have.
A scheme is on foot to build bridge
over the Mississippi river at Grand Tower.
The conditions are said to be more favorable
there than most anywhere else, by reason
of the rocky bed of the river, the rock
banks and the several natural piers in the
river. AS yet the scheme is purely specula-
tive and will probably never to be any
thing more,
The river is now nearly low enough TO
begin work on the stone wall on Ohio
Lcvee street. below Fourteenth street. This
improvement will, in connection with that
to be done by the Illinois Central company,
be one OF the most substantial and impor-
tant ever done by the city. Mr.. Healy,
the Illinois Central company's civil engi-
necr, is expected here in day or two and
then the work of wall building, filling aud
levcc raising will begin,
The man-hole to the sewer on Eleventh
street, near Commercial avenue, caved in
some time ago, leaving large cavity In the
middle Of the street. The result was that
the sewer connecting the low lots In that
part OF the town with the main sewers was
stopped up and drainage obstructed. Yes
terday Street Commissioner Baird had men
| AZ work repairing the damage Arother