The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-06-19

New York Store Saturday, Two hundred
and forty bottles of Hosford's yeast powder
were sold, yielding $3.50. From this it
would appear that biscuits and yeast pow
der must have gone like hot wafiles are
said usually to 60. Hosford's yeast powder
is for sale at the New York Store.
The excursions on the steamers Ella
Kimbrough and Three States Sunday, the
former to Paducah and the latter to Fort
Jefferson, were fairly attended. The
weather was fine for boat ride and those
who went enjoyed themselves nicely.
Street Supervisor N. A. Devore and
Deputy w. +. Axley, have so far collected
1851 as street tax. Notices have been sent
out to nine hundred persons in all, some OF
whom are, however, exempt for various
reasous The Fourth ward is being can.
vassed now.
A darkey named Jno Harris living on
Walnut street, between Twelfth and Thir-
tenth streets, amused himself Sunday
night by roughly beating his wife and
niece. Both the latter swore out warrants
for his arrest Yesterday, but John had left
town and, therefore, for the time being at
least, remains UNPUBLISHED.
1t took five coaches to convey the re-
mains and friends of the late Bernard
Smyth to Villa Ridge Sunday afternoon,
The remains were taken from the residence
on Ohio levee to St. Patrick's church where
short service was held over them by Faith
er Murphy. From the church the process
sion went to the train at the foot of Eighth
street. Prof. Storer's band headed the
cortege both to and from the church.
George Gray the negro charged with
the theft of money from one of the
Comique actresses was examined yesterday
before Magistrate Comings and acquitted
The principal evidence against him was the
IS bill that he had paid for pair of
shoes. The only means by which the vic
tim of the theft claimed to be able to rec
ognize the bill was by the manner in which
il had been folded. The court held this to
be insufficient and discharged the defen-
dant
The State Journal charges the city
council of Peoria with "verdancy" for per-
hitting: saloon keepers whose licenses had
regularly expired to renew them for another
year before the 1st of July. The Journal
would have Permitted the saloon keepers
to do business without license for several
weeks, or refused to issue license and closed
them all up, until it could have demanded
the increased price established by the Har-
per bill.
There are probably many cisterus in the
city that have sipewater in them, the use
of which causes more sickness than any
other cause. The Purifying Pump sold by
Lancaster & Rice is warranted to purify
the water inside of ten days, or money re.
funded. Also all heart shaved cypress
shingles, making aroof last longer than any
other kind Of shingles sold in this country.
The Asbestos Roofing is conceded to be
the best for fiat roofs, preferable to either
tin or iron; constantly kept in stock by the
above named firm. ct
"A negro named Marsh Brown, general
ly known as an undesirable citizen, who
has been guilty of several little freaks of
lawlessness for which he was never brought
to justice was arrested yesterday by Chief
Myers aud charged with being vagrant
He was brought before Magistrate Comings,
but swore that he didn't believe he could
get justice there and took change of venue
to Justice Robinson's court. Here eight or
ten witnesses were examined and the result
was that he was proven guilty of having no
Legitimate business, loating about the streets
in idleuess, lreQuentiug ordinaries and bad
houses, was a horse jockey, a fiddler
and a thief by turns in
short, that he was vagrant
of the most Objectionable kind. He
was fined s25 and costs and given a stay of
execution for twenty-four hours on condi-
ton that he shake CAiros dust from off his
feet aud skip, But owing to the fact, no
doubt, that he has been dealt with very
lightly in his several little felonies, he
is not afraid Of the law and has determined
to fight the officers He has therefore given
notice that he intends to take an appeal to
the circuit court or county court.
Las, Friday week ago Hon. VIM. A.
SpNnn, of johnson county, was given his
seat in the lower house Of the Illinois gen
ersl assembly, held through the remainder
of the session by DR.. Lodge, through the
fraudulent count of the Pulaski county re-
turning board. We minated s)me time