The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-05-26

Wabash road. He is considered in railroad
circles one of the best posted men In the
business, which his long service for the
same company and repeated promotions
fully attest. He well deserves the impor-
tant promotion he ia about to receive and
will carry with him from here the good
wishes of many friends.
Twelve hogsheads of tobacco were sold
at the warehouse of Messrs. Ashbrook Il
Robinson yesterday, all of which came
from Kentucky, some of them from new
shippers secured by Mr.. Penn during his
recent trip there. The prices brought were
$3.50 to $670 per hundred.
Tomorrow morning at 3 o'clock an ex-
cursion train will leave the Union depot
on the st. L & c, road for st. Louis, will ar
rive at East st. Louis at 10 a. m, and re-
turn will leave there at 6 p. m, arrive here
the same day. Round trip tickets, $500;
good to return on regular trains Monday
and Tuesday, thus giving three days in St.
Louis to view the great attractions there It.
Two negro youngsters had bad hight
near the Illinois Central passenger depot last
evening. One threw chunk of iron weigh
ing about half a pound with all his might
and struck the other squarely in the cheek,
making an ugly bruisc. This freak ended
the fight and the modern young David
was declared the cock o. the walk by those
who witnessed the sport.
The survey of Ohio levee, from Four
teenth street down, was made Thursday by
engineers Of the Illinois Central railroad
company. This was made preparatory to
raising the company's tracks up to the grade
established recently by the city council, viz:
titty.four feet at Fourteenth street and
gradual decline to fitty.three feet at the
point.
"A rumor has been afoat for several
days, to the effect that Messrs. Halliday
Bros. had disposed of the river front just
below The Halliday, upon which the ware
house stood. There is no truth in the ru-
NOR at all. In this connection it may not |
be out of order to say that, so far as we can
earn, the warehouse will be rebuilt, but |
where and how and when has not yet been
decided upon.
Mr.. L. B. Church has been appointed
icket agent of the consolidated Wabash
nd Iron Mountain roads here, vice Mr..
fred. Miller, resigned. Mr.. Church has
een seven years connected with the Wa
ash company here and has been steadily
t his post of duty. If long-continued,
lithful service make an employe deserving
promotion, Mr. Church certainly deserves
is new appointment and his friends will
ongratulate him. Mr. Church took charge
esterday.
The fire in Missouri Thursday night
roves to have been the saw mill and corn
ill of Mr. Stephen Bird, large, substan-
al concern, with fine machinery, together
nth large quantity of lumber and about
even thousand bushels of corn, six thou
md of which was in cribs and one thou
md in the mills. The total loss IS estima-
ID at between ten and fifteen thosand
ollars, and there was no insurance on any
the property destroyed, 80 far as we
'uld learn. The fire was still burning ,
'sterday morning.
There will be the usual services in the
resbyterlan church tomorrow. 1t was
,lieved that the change of the seats in the {
lurch, which is now in progress, would
terteie with the service tomorrow, but |
lis is not the case. The benches in the
iddle of the auditorium will all remain
lose on the sides only will be removed in
der to permit the work on the wainscott-
e to proceed. And if the centre seats shall {
rove insufficient to accommodate the au-
ence, chairs from the lecture room will
substituted for the side benches. Sab
ath school will also be held as usual.
Prof. S. A. Forbes of Normal, state
ltimologist visited several Of the fruit
limitations in Southern Illinois few days
90, to examine into the nature of an in
sect that has been doing serious damage
strawberries this season, and he reports
lat "the injury to strawberries already re-
orted, IS due to what is properly known as
lie furnished plant bug Hygus lineola-
81, an insect well known for years and
1undant everywhere, but not heretofore
ncwn to injure the strawberry and prevent
filling out. The damage done Is already
cry serious and is still increasing"
1t you want to know Just where to 20
Ind cool retreat for few weeks or
Ionths, during the cheated term, of 'S3.