The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-03-02

vice Captain Dorae Smehiey VINO u'e"
Tuesday evening.
The new brick building on Ohio levee,
to be occupied by the Iron Mountain rail
road, is being plastered and will now be
pushed to speedy completion.
Rev. F. P. Davenport having been sud
denly called out of the city, there will be
| no further services at the Church OF the
| Redeemer until Sunday morning.
Richard Willis, son of Col. j. {.
Willis while under the influence of liquor
and engaged in dispute with a young boy
named Whiteman, shot and killed the lat
ter at Metropolis yesterday. Young Willis
claims that the shot was accidental. Whit
man was only sixteen years of age
Beyond all question Haverlys Consoli-
dated Mastodons are the absolute leaders
of the minstrel art, aud even this latest
huge effort will soon have imitators. -Clip-
per-
Mr.. Samuel Burgers Palace clothing
house is undergoing extensive renovations,
internally and externally. A new awning
is to be among the latter Improvements
In word the Mastodon Consolidation
places minstrelsy on far higher plane
than it has ever before occupied. --Tele-
gram.
Soon after Lent The Myths purpose
giving party. The matter is to be con-
sidered at meeting OF the club tonight.
A calico party would be in order now.
Some Of the bulkheading along the
Ohio levee below Fourteenth street was re-
moved yesterday. There being no longer
any necessity for it, as the water had fallen
to several inches below it..
The Wall Street News says that the
national board of health, which has before
now doue good service in the Mississippi
valley and elsewhere, will ask for 100000
to keep off the epidemic which is likely to
follow the subsistence Of the foods.
Mr. Samuel Burger who is now IN
New York City, is TO be married in that
city on the It'll instant to Miss Levi. After
pleasant tour the happy couple will come
to Cairo to live.
"A colored woman in the Paducah jail
was discovered to be afflicted with small
pox Wednesday. All necessary precsu-
tons were Immediately taken by the au-
thorines to prevent spread of the dis
ease.
The only case of any Importance in our
police courts yesterday was that of negro
named Caleb Sherman, who was arrested
on charge of stealing timber from the
warehouse of Mr.. G. X. Woodward. Mag
istrate Comings held him TO bail to answer
to the circuit court.
The ferrryboat took out a very nice
party of ladies and gentlemen on her ex-
cursion trip around the city and to Wick.
life yesterday afternoon. The trip must
have been interesting and will probably be
repeated Sunday.
The Mobile aud Ohio railroad will be-
gin running into the city on time to-
day. The Wabash will do likewise Monday.
On both roads large forces OF men are at
work repairing damages as rapidly as the
water leaves the tracks.
SUBSCRIBERS CAN ORDER The BuLLE-
TIN OF THE CARRIER OR BY POSTAL CARD.
C. W. McKeaig p. NJ. ia no more; it is
plain Col. G. w. McKeaig now. But the
Col, can retire to private life with clear
conscience and peaceful mind, He left a
straight official record behind him.
Our merchants are all getting ready
now to leave town for the north and east, to
lay in large new stocks of spring goods
Messrs. c. r. Stuart and Louis Burger will
go to-day aud several Others will follow
Monday or Tuesday.
After to-day the general delivery Of the
Cairo postoffice will be open every night
until 1880 o'clock, instead of 8 o'clock as
heretofore. This change will be hailed
with pleasure by the laboring classes, and
Others whose duties prevent them from be.
ing at the delivery promptly at o'clock OF
before.
Mr.. Charles Baughman made trip
around the levees of the city 10 fifty-seven
minutes on Wednesday. He was at liberty
to 20 as he pleased and ran part OF the
way. The fete was performed under bet
that it could not be done in less than an
hour and half The levees enclose thir.
teen hundred acres and are supposed to
be seven miles along.
Young r. W. Willis, to whose violen
act at Metropolis reference is made else
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