The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-06-07
THE DAILY CAIRO BULLETIN: THURSDAY MORNING. 1888

Pottery, The school of Wood Carving, and
an account of the Dramatic Festival, read
by request OF the club were delightfully."- en-,
tertaining. Thoughts about Life" by Miss
Halliday, is paper too full of fine things
to be lost we have obtained copy to
publish tomorrow and believe the readers
of THE BULLETIN will enjoy reading it as
much as the writer's audience did listening
to it. AT the close of the Literary exercises
Bishop Seymour favored the meeting with
few remarks eulogistic of the papers read
and of the ladies club.
of those who left on the steamer Silver
Cloud yesterday afternoon to attend the
wedding of Rector Davenport and Miss
Fannie Willis at Metropolis to-day, were
Mr.. and Mrs. Miles f. Gilbert, Mr.. and
Mrs. Menager, Mr.. and Mrs. H. H. Candee,
and Misses Katie Howard and Maud Rit-
tenhouse. Besides these the relatives and
few friends of the bride in Metropolis
and Mr.. and Mrs. Harrison, of Du Quon,
will be present at the wedding. The cere-
mony will take place this morning at the
residence of the brides parents; a big din
ner and little reception will be held and
then the party will go aboard Of the steam
err Silver Cloud and come down to Cairo
and from here they will start out for we'd
ding tour of several weeks.
AT the instance Of Postmaster Muir
ply, petitions were circulated among citi-
gems here some days ago, asking the post
master general to establish system of street
mailing boxes in this city, in accordance
with section 933 of the postal laws, giving
the postmaster general power to do this in
any city where, in his opinion, such asystem
may be necessary or prove convenient to
the people. The petitions have been num-
erously signed and will soon be forwarded
to Washington. The establishment of the
system Is probably more neces-
sary here than 10 many cities
where it now exists becau'e
the city is 80 much scattered and many
citizens must now go long distance in or
der 70 mail letter. II the boxes are put
up, several carriers will be appointed,
whose duty it will be to gather up the mail
from all the boxes at given times during
the day. The great convenience resulting
from this, not only to the residents, but to
the many transient people always IN the
city, is obvious.
The collections in this internal revenue
district under General C. W. Pavey, collect
or, and Major w. II. Eubsnks, deputy,
were as follows during the month OF May
Just past Distilled spirits, s24,092-s2;
tobacco, snuff, cigars, ETC., $43,6S2.s3; fer
mented liquors, SIC, 261 90; total, s7s,037.-
IA. 1t will be observed that the total
amount is much greater than it has been
for number Of months back, and this,
too, IN spite OF the fact that nothing was re-
ceived from banks and bankers, which tax
was removed by recent act of congress; and
although the tax on cigars, ETC., has been
materially reduced, the principal increase
appears on tabicco. This increase is due
partly to the fact that the tobacco and Ii
quor interests have become fairly started
again under the new law, but principally 10
the collection Of the annual special taxes, or
licenses, due from dealers in manufactured
and rawgoods, which were collected 10 May
1t is believed that the reduction in the tax
on tobacco will not effect the collections
very much. The collections on spirits will
probably be larger henceforward than they
have been of late, because the distilleries are
now in operation again; but il will proba
bly, be some time before the receipts from
this source will be as large as they were
formerely, as there is combination among
the proprietors to the large distlleries, to
run their establishments at only half their
capacity, in order to first get rid Of large
su rplus stock