The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-12-15

and the highest market price allowed a
Miller's jewelry store. ct
Parties holding claims against the
city that were allowed at the last meeting
of the council can now receive warrants on
the city treasurer for the money due them
by calling on City Clerk Foley.
Mr.. Sebastian Barth will set a grand
free lunch at his new saloon opposite post.
office, tonight. at 9 o'clock. Roast pig
will be one of the delicacies of the feast
Everybody is invited. ct
"A white man and colored woman, resi-
dents of Arkansas, where the law forbids
the intermarrisge of the races, came to this
city and were united by Magistrate Com
iugs at the house of George Robinson, cor
ner Fifth and Commercial.
We have received from Lord & Thom-
as, Chicago, combined ruler, measure
and paper cutter. 1t is ono of the most
convenient tools that could be placed on a
desk. They send it to merchants and all
others on receipt Of ten cents.
Mrs. Herbert, mother OF Mr.. Louis G..
Herbert, was to have been tried for insanity
by the county court last Wednesday, but
owing to the absence of one of the import
ant witnesses the trial was indefinitely de-
ferred. The county court will probably
take it up next week.
The Bangor, (Me.) Commercial regard
ing temperance from the trade standpoint
lamentingly notes that "because OF our IN
wise legislation the hops that are raised in
prohibitory Maine, especially in Aroostook
county, are now taken to New Hamsphlre
and manufactured into beer, to be sent
back to Maine to be drank, without our
state obtaining any financial advantage
from the industry"
You make a mistake if you buy furn-
ture without first examining the large and
elegant stock now on exhibition corner 18th
and Washington avenue, next door above
postofice. The line of bed room and par
lor sets, reed, cane and folding chairs, is the
finest ever shown on this side of Chicago,
Cincinnati or St. Louis, aud is offered for
sale at low prices. Sales now open until 8
o'clock D. IN. WIN. EIcHHoFg.
The dog that bit Mrs. Hugh O'Calla-
han some days ago was not killed in TWEEN
ty-four hours afterwards as ordered by the
court and yesterday his owner, Mrs. Cor
dell, was fined s. and costs by Magistrate
Comings for not obeylng the order. Mrs.
Cordells plea was that the animal ran away
and had not been back home. But the
whereabouts of the doomed canine was
known to the officers yesterday and the
execution has probably by this time taken
place.
A sociabls will be given by the ladies
of the Church of the Redeemer on next
Thursday evening, at the residence OF Mr.
Charles Gallagher. A marked feature OF the
evening will be an auction sale of large
number of deliberately dressed dolls. This
will be the greatest display of the kind
ever witnessed in this city. Do not fail to
be present as the sale by auction bespeaks
a sacrifice; and the holidays being 80 near
at hand, membranes OF this kind are in
order for the little odes. 1t
The public schools of South Carolina
instructed last year .5,l57 white and 9S,'
93S colored pupils. This is an increase Of
27,l21 over the large enrolment for the
preceding year. From a comparison OF
this enrolment with the data furnished by
the census of 1880, it appears that over 70
per cent of the white children and nearly
SO per cent. Of the cOlored children Of the
state between the ages of six and sixteen
years, were in attendance on the public
schools.
The mackeral, venson and blanket
thief arrested by Officers Mshanny and
Boughnsr and Constable Martin Thursday
night vas brought up before Magistrate
Comings yesterday tor examination. He
gave his name as Joseph Mccarthy, which
is not his real name, and pleaded guilty to
stealing the mackeral and vension. He was
held to bail in the sum Of 5000 and went
to the county Jail. The value of the articles
stolen is not sufficient to permit sending
him to the penitentiary and he will prob
ably only receive fine aud short term in
the county Jail. 1t is believed that this is
what be wanted, in order to be housed and
fed during the winter without being com
PEELED to stoop to the level of the plebian
who earns his bread by honest toll
"A we'll dressed man came to The Halli-
day several days ago and registered as j. H.
Campbell, land agent for the Chicago and