The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-04-24
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street hall, OCCUPYING several hours. captain
English aud the boys were very highly COM
plimented by the Inspector, who expressed
surprise at the great improvement made
by them since his former visit, This, OF
course, is an indirect compliment to Cap
tain Waldron, to whose able teaching the
improvement Of the company is entirely
due
Call at Mrs. S. Williamson's, on Sew
enth street near Commercial avenue, and
have your old hats shaped aud made over
in the latest style for the small sum Ct
twenty five cents. Il
The city clerk, in compliance with
resolution passed by the city council at
its last special meeting, gives notice else
where in this issue that there will be spe-
cial election held IN the Fifth ward, on tbe'
18th day of May, for the purpose OF elect
ing a member OF the city council to ill the
vacancy crested by the resignation Of Al
dermsn Halliday.
The BULLETIN does not dictate to its
correspondents, so long as they refrain
from personal denuucia,lons, nor does
it always endorse what they
now say; neither does it head correspon-
dence with (advertiscmenO through fear Of
the consequences of its publication, nor
charge for Its assertion. That course be-
longs exclusively to the Argus.
Thursday evening April Goth, at Tenn
perance hail, the Sunday school aud y ing
people of the Presbyterian church will
give Pink, Tea and SOcisble. Admission,
including refreshments, rs cents. Straw
! berries extra. 1t
Two car loads Of fixtures for the new
drug store Of Messrs. Coffee 6 Bross arrived
on the Wabash road from Cincinnati yes
terday and we're unloaded in front of the
business place of the firm. JEFF Clark has
force Of painters at work inside and car
penters are giving the room the finishing
touches in their line Of work. The store
will now soon be ready to receive the stock
and promises, when thrown open TO the
public, to be one ofIthe most palatisl es'ab-
Iishments in the city.
Magistrate Comings did big bust
ness yesterday in his official capacity. Oot
case of drunkenness and six Of disorder,
conduct were dealt with according to law
The more important case was that Of Mrs
Jane Thompson with a p. VS.. Mrs. Harriet
Delk. Jane charged Harriet with havinI
stolen some small article out OF b walls
that belonged to Jane, but which Harriet
held as security for debt which Jan
owed her. The evidence in the case di
not at all sustain the charge and Mrs. Del
WAS honorably discharged.
Private dispatches received here We:
, terday morning announced the des'ructio
and partial destruction during Sunday nigh
by cyclone, with great loss of lite and il
, Jury TO limb, Of two towns In the state {
-, Mississippi not far from Jackson. Beaurt
a gard. small place about forty miles iroI
i. Jackson, was entirely swept away, not
house left standing, sixty persons wei
a killed, sixty wounded and thirty MISSING
At smaller place, called Wesson, thirt
4 persons were killed, thirty-seveu wounde
:, aud eighteen houses blown away.
The building Of the marine bospit'
j., 10 this city IS now only matter of a lit
=. time. The matter is entirely out of Il
/, hands Of the commissioners, General Pave
- Mr.. George Fisher aud Surgeon Gener
Hamilton. The commission selected h
:. ground lying west Of Cedar street, bc,wc'
Tenth and Twelfth streets, as the site f
tho hospital. Other sites equally conve
!" lent for the hospital and much better
IT the city were offered, but the surgeon &c
y eral was determined to have the ground |
70 dicated and instructed United States d
y" trict Attorney Connolly, at Springfield,
's institute proceedings to gain possession
=" the land as soon AZ possible. The distr
attorney has az yet taken no steps unt
On these instructions and so the matter re
'le entirely In his hands The money is reaC
en- the plans for the buildings are also rcat
the ground Is selected; an order for Its p
In chase has gone for,h---ond there the mat
Ct rests. We want the marine hospital;
'as we don't want II in the heart Of the CT
tn We should like to see II erected 10 the 81