The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-12-30

house for rent. See special locals.
Ice, wood and kindling, at City Brew.
cry, Jacob Klee. "
The Masonic school of instruction
opens at Carbonate on the 9th OF January.
Mr.. J. B. Reeds machine shops are
closed down for repairs and improvements
For rent, frst-class dwelling, in good
order, Seventh street. Enquire of o. Hay
thorn. ~
Lawyer Leek is in Metropolis where
he went to spend Christmas and evidently
"got aground"
Indications in last evenings weather
bulletin favored q change OF weather.
colder temperature.
-Hartman's spacious hall has been
selected by the young ladies for their Leap
Year party next Thursday.
Take a ticket and your wife or sweet
heart to the Rough and Ready ball to-mor-
row night. II
The church bells in this city will all
ring out the usual call to the public to-day.
Some Of them for the last time in the old
year.
The best music in the state OF Illinois
at the Rough and Readys ball tomorrow
night. Pref. storer's full band. 1t
Billy Short, whom nearly everybody
knows, is tho happy father Of a bouncing
boy since the 28th. That makes grand
father of Mr.. T. W. Lehigh.
City council will meet New Years
night-eggnog or no eggnog--for 1t Is
the first Tuesday night in the month of Jan
uary and the first regulnr meeting night.
Full stock and complete sample book
OF wedding invitations, ETC., just received at
The BULLETIN Job Office, No. 70 Ohio
Levee. u
The great event Of the season---the
Rough and Readles' New Years Eve ball.
Tickets are for sale at all the drug stores.
Don't you forget it and don't you miss it. 1
The cornlce is now being put upon the
walls Of the Stafford Memorial building.
Already the building presents an imposing
appearance, but the most artistic part OF the
exterior walls is yet to come.
The usual services will be held at the
Baptist church, corner Teeth and Poplar
streets This morning at II o'clock and
at 7 80 this evening. Rev. Jno. F. Eden,
pastor, officiating.
The steamer Fowler did not arrive
here till about 4:30 o'clock yesterday after
noon. She had laid over here until about
o'clock the previous night, to have her
boiler repaired.
The cause of Mrs. Pitchers death was
heart disease, from which che had been
Frustrated for several months. Mrs. Clark
was telegraphsd to before leaving st. Louis
and she returned home in time to attend
her mothers death bed.
Mr.. James Douglas, state lecturer for
the Masonic Order, was in the city for sew
eral days last passed, lying at the European
hotel sick. he was able to be out yester-
day, however, and left. He is to deliver q
lecture here In the course of this week.
"A heavy plank fell on Mr.. G. LANES
left ankle yesterday afternoon and injured
him so that he had to be assisted to his
home. He was directing the construction
of the sidewalk on Ohio levee above Eighth
street.
The Baptist Sunday school will hold
its sixth annual festival at the church, cor
ner Tenth and Poplar streets tomorrow
evening. Appropriate recitations, music,
ETC., will constitute tho exercises OF the
evening. Friends of the school are cordial
ly invited to be present.
The coke crusher in the oil mills was
broken yesterday and was taken to Mr.. ].
7. Rennie's foundry for repairs. Mr.. Rem
ME also has several pieces Of machinery for
the Singer works in course Of production,
one of them being large cylinder for the
engine.
News was received here yesterday Of
the death Of Mr.. NJ. NJ. Yourd, former
Cairoite and we'll known here now. He
moved from here to Mckinney, Tex, where
| he followed his trade Of painter and had
been doing we'll for some time before biz
death, which occurred last Christmas. Hi
wife survives him.
The river continues to rise here. Dur,
ing the twenty -four hours ending last even
ing 1t rose two feet three inches. 1t fell d
Cincinnati, Chattanooga, Nashville and St
Louis. At Louisville it was rising but
slowly. 1t does not appear that the river
will reach forty feet, ct which stage 1t would