The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-04-18

VI the meeting, Dr. w. L. hlng, OF 81.
Louis, will deliver public lecture. The
session of the association will probably &C.
cupy two days
Capt. james g. Eads is again at home
in st. Louis. Although the value of his
great triumps as an engineer and man of
unbounded public spirit are national and
his professional fame worldwide, it is her
in the west that his personal worth and
name are most cherished. He is prophet
who is honored in his own country.
"A new brick residence IS being put up
on Fourth street, near Ohio levee, by Mr..
Mahanny, proprietor Of the boarding house
at the corner of Ohio levee and Fourth.
Mr.. Mahauny finds it necessary to do this
i'll order to make room in his other build.
ing for the growing demand for accommo,
dation from the travelling public.
The Argus twill turn The BULLETIN
over to the tender mercies of Mr. WIN.
Smith" In like manner the big BOBBY
who, having been deservedly drubbod by a
sppnky school.fellow, for lodging fair
bail instead OF catching it, aud thereby
losing the game, bawls like calf and turns
his chastiser "over TO the tender merces or
my big brother"
The Cairo Ice company sent samples
of its ice to some Of the citizens of Mound
City and they tested il 10 comparison with
the natural article and the result is given
as follows by the Pulaski Patriot: 1.-TWO
one.hundred pound cskes--one natural
aud one manufsctured-were placed to-
gether in an ice chest and it was found
that the artificial ice lasted ten hours lon
ger than that frozen 10 the ordinary way.
The st. Louis and Cairo railroad has
strong force at work raising the track at
all places where it was overaowed, above
high water mark. They expect to be
ready for the "June rise" in case one shall
come. They are also building a track
from Columbia to Centerville and George.
town, in St. Clair county, which will ult.
mately be extended through the strip of
country lying between the Cairo Short
Line and the st. Louis and Nashville rail.
road.
The Spring number of Ehrichs' FASH
ion Quarterly more than fulfiIs the promise
OF its predecessors. Within the compass of
its one hundred and twenty pages, it sets be-
fore its readers an absolutely complete epit-
ONE of the fashions of the coming seaaon In
ladies wearing apparel and fabrics of every
kind; and this, not in the shape of a series
OF vague generaltieS, such 40 the ordinary
fashion journal too often contents itself
with, but by means OF succession Of clear
y written descriptions of actual articles,
each accompanied with an engraving OF the
thing described, and all arranged in 40 Or
DERBY and methodical q manner that any
desired information can be referred to with.
out difficulty. Over sixty new designs for
ladies and children's dresses are illustrated
and described, together with large mum.
Der of trimmed hats, light spring wraps,
and other articles for the sdornment OF the
outer woman. The literary features Of the
Magazine also deserves their need of praise.
Hope Ledyard's talk from the Easy Chair
will be read with interest by mothers, far
and near. Altogether, we think the en-
phatic verdict pronounced by every lady
reader on the present number Of the Fash.
ion Quarterly will be: Worth its price
and ten times more" Published by
Enrich Bros, Eighth Avenue, New York,
at so cents a year, or 10 cents a copy.
Commenting upon the proceedings of
a meeting of colored voters of Quincy, at
which measures we're taken for iudepen-
dent action, the Cairo Gazette, the repre-.
sentative colored paper of Southern Illinois
speaks the following ominous words, which,
coming from Mr.. W. T. Scott, the cOlored
leader, must have some weight even with
the Bartons of the Republican party: zone
third of the entire Republican voters of this
district are ignored and without representa-
ton 10 the different federal departments
namely: Collector Of internal revenue,
collector Of custom and postofflce. The
heads Of these departments In the past have
refused to give US representation. Changes
have been made recently in the collector Of