The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-07-14

serious injury OF the track and road bed.
Yesterday force of men were put to work
by the railroad company to open the sewer
so as to permit the water 10 run of.
Bank checks made to order, bound in
books, $500 per thousand, at The BuLLE-
TIN Office. Perforating 25 to Soc, number
ing 800 per thousand extra Linen or reg
ular folio paper. Call and see samples OF
paper or checks. u
For some reason we failed to state yes
terday morning that Prof Storer's band
had large audience at the Tenth street
stand the night before and entertained it
splendidly, as usual
Mr.. Alex. G. Royse has resigned his
position with Mr.. G. r. Woodward and
gone into the brick manufacturing busl-
ness at Mound City, in company with Mr..
Frank Payne.
In addition to the fine display OF SSH
YER gold and precious stones" in the win
dow OF Jno. A. Miller's jewery store, there
are number of photographs of the beauti-
full scenery round about Dixon Springs
that are worth studying. tt
The funeral OF the young man Fred
Kohler, yesterday afternoon was attended
by many friends of the family. Three
coaches we're necessary to carry the cortege
to Villa Ridge, Deceased was a very
promising youth and well liked by all who
knew him.
Mr.. Ed Close is at home, from Oceola,
Fla, on a visit. He reports that the Cairo
Families that have gone down In that
neighborhood to. live within the last year,
Mr.. Z. W. Green and DR.. Marean and fam
lilies, are we'll pleased with their locations
and are doing well.
Among the work recommended by the
street committee in lis last report to the
city council, was the reconstruction of the
| Ohio levee walk between Twelfth and
Fourteenth streets. The accomplishment
! of this work will give the denizens of that
| neighborhood new lease of life.
On Wednesday, the little child of Mr..
John Mitchell, postmaster at Birds Point
died on the steamer Three States just after
she had showed out from this shore. Mr..
and Mrs. Mitchell had come over here to
| obtain medical treatment for the child and
were on their ways back home when the
child died.
Mr. A. o. Phelps returned yesterday
from St. Louis, bringing with him fine,
large Tense for his business. While at ST.
Louis be saw the fixtures and materials of
the art gallery Of Mr.. VIM. Winter, which
that gentleman had sent from Denver to
st. Louis to be sold Mr.. Winter has re-
moved from Denver and is now in Mexico
in search of health.
The star route jury seems to have had
soft snap" One Of the jury, who before
the trial was known as day laborer with
out days savings ahead, has commenced
to build a fine house, and several of them,
not much better of, have gone to fashlona
BILE watering places to pass the heated term.
Juryman Horrigan is credited with having
been told that he could have made $4,000
had be not been so hard to approach.
"A little child of family living on
Railroad street near Eighth street died
sometime during Thursday or Thursday
night. The little corpse was refused con-
veyance to Villa Ridge by the railroad com.
pany, because Of the absence Of certificate
from the attending physician that death
had not resulted from a contagious disease.
The remains were therefore; conveyed to
Beech Grove by wagon yesterday afternoon.
The contract to raise the Mound City
levee has been let to Mr. Jno. Hogan, at
22c. per cubic yard. The work is all
scraper work. For a short stretch of wagon
work Mr.. Hogan is to receive SOC. per cubic
yard. When the city council Of Cairo was
having the work on the city's levee done at
by day labor at II or 10 cents per cubic
yard, there we're citizens who cried aloud
against such extravagant prices Tor work.
Speaking of the sales Of the effects of
the late Captain Hambleton at Mound City
Wednesday, the Argus-Journal says: "At
the sale Of personal property at the ways
last Wednesday, Capt W. p. Halliday
bought the most Of it, including Dan
Rlce's old circus band wagon, which the
lamented Capt. Hambleton took on a debt
some years ago. Capt. Halliday
bought the OK teams at the ways last Wed
nesday and Mr. Thos. H. Hambleton the
| mules"
In ordinary matters Green Phelps is
| pnnd ctizen hnt in n hoht hn 10 Hhaad