The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-08-01
Mr.. Charles Hardy is in the Infirmary,

The C0mlque band IS attracting som
attention again. Ii is rapidly improving
General c. W. Pavey, came down yes
terday to look after the affairs of the inter
nal revenue office here.
If the weather is favorable we vii
have another concert by Prof. Storer's band
at the Tenth street stand tomorrow night
Andrew Lohr's Genuine Aromatic Bel
fast Ginger Ale, pure pleasant anC
wholesome temperance beverage, is nov
sale on at the leading saloons. If
"A colored man died in the barracks
night before last, and yesterday his friends
were taking up collection to meet the eX
pense Of his interment.
Mr.. Washington Garin, formerly &
clerk on the Halliday & Phillips wharf
boat here, is now clerk on the Belle Mimi
tonka on lake of the same name in Wis
consin.
Bank checks made to order bound in
books, $500 per thousand, at The BuLLE-
TIN office. Perforating % to Soc, number
ing 81 90 per thousand extra. Linen or reg
ular folio paper Call and see samples OF
paper or checks. If
Work on the city's levee was to have
begun Monday, hut the weather was too
wet. The three toremen selected by the
street committee are each to hire a certain
number Of men and teams, and start in as
soon as weather will permit.
VIM. McClutchey, mate of the steam
er City of Vicksburg, was taken to ST..
Louis yesterday on the steamer Ste, Gene
We've, by his wife and son who came down
after him. lie is IN much improved con
dition and will soon he about again.
In addition to the fine display of SSH
yer, gold and precious stones in the win
dow OF Jno. A, MilIer'S jewelry store, there
are number of photographs of the beaut-
full scenery round about Dixon Springs
that are worth studying. If
Two section hands of the Iron Noun.
tain road got into q fiery alteration at the
Mockler house yesterday, about noon, and
by a hearty set-to at fists. Off
Ger McTigue came upon them, stopped the
fun and took the agressOr off to Jail to sober
up.
The manager of the Texas and st.
Louis railway informed Missouri Repub-
lican reporter Monday that trains could be
run from one end of that line to the other
before the end of the week, as the bridge
ever the Arkansas river would be completed
n few days,
The passenger conductors on the Wa.
Dash, ST. LOUIS and Pacific are being sus-
pended from duty by the half dozen. The
alleged reason is stealing fares, one of the
more honest having said that from forty to
agility per cent of fares received had been
Appropriated by some of them.
-EXTreasurer Polk, Of Tennessee, be.
ng refused new trial, has appealed to the
supreme court and is now out on $4,000
bond, until December If the court shall
leci1e against him he will have to pay
S306,54 fine and undertake twenty years
If hard labor for the state he defrauded.
Miss Edwards, sister of Mr.. Flowers,
# the firm of Johnson & Flowers, is in the |
ity on visit. Monday night a pleasant
,arty was given in her honor at the resi-.
ience Of Mrs Sites, on Seventh street, at
which refreshments, music, dancing and
general enjoyment prevailed until late
lOur.
-"lncipent abdomen achen is what the
humorous writer" of the Bloomington
Bulletin calls the Georgia watermelon, Of
which about fifty carloads have been con-
'umed in this city this season without just
flying the said writer's aversion to them.
That is to say, there has been no "abdomi-
nal excitement" in this city, that may be
charged to the consumption of the "abdo-
men ache" aforesaid.
Following copy; Proofreader, excit-
eiIy invading the editorial rooms-"Look
here, MIR. Brains, here is paragraph that
speaks OF parentless children You don't
mean that, do your" Brans--"Well. 7 !
should say not Just put it 'childless ma
rents" Proof-reader- nv dear
Sir, how csn parent be childless if he's
parent" Brains-"Great snakes that's n
fact! Look here, Mr.. Proof-reader. inst
make it 'childless couples and then YOU
aud will 90 and have some lemonade. at
Charley Bowers"
The modern printer must be satisfied
with about one-thrd of price for his work
and then he must be willing to do the work
over seven or eight times, "just to see how
II will lnnk y fnr thn unnnral;,, "a .,.-..,