The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-03-05
GENERAL LOCAL ITEMS.


one more since Sunday. 1t is Leap yer
fairy.
Mr.. ]. A. Goldstine is back from New
York, where he bought heavily for the
spring trade here.
Ice, wood and kindling, at City Brew
cry, Jacob Klee. If
Mr.. Charles L. French, agent of the
Glenn Falls Insurance Company at Ches'
ter, was in the city yesterday.
Ice in the Mississippi river does not
prevent navigation. Steamers come and
90 between here and st. Louis without
difficulty. The ice is all new made and
not very heavy.
We are still ready to sell our entire
stock of clothing. G1ldstine & Rosenwater
If
Mrs. n. E. Jacobs arrived Monday
from Jackson, Tenn, on short visit to her
parents here. Her son, only eleven months
old and weighing thirty-fve pounds, is the
object of much interest.
"A. r. Bradeen and wife are at The
Halliday Mr.. Bradcen is General Agent
of The Equitable, and will remain several
weeks in the city, in the interest of his
company.
The elevator was getting ready to
start again yesterday. Belts that had been
taken off at the approach of high water in
the basement, we're being replaced, and the
great institution will probably be in full
blast to-day.
Charleston Courier: "The railroad
company is making preparations to open
their lines of road to Birds Point and Bel
mont as soon as possible. Large numbers
OF ties are being hauled to the high water
ready to be used as soon as the men can
find standing room to work in"
--"What waste of water" said milk
man as he anchored his canoe, to the win
dow sill of one of bis customers, and gazed
sorrowfully in upon confusion OF house
hold goods floating in ten inches OF the
substance that usually formed large part
of his tactical huid.-From "Recollecuons
of the Flood by Eli p. Unham-
The firm of Goldstlne & ROsenwater
are now receiving daily large lots of dry
goods Of every description, everything in
the newest styles, which they are display
Ing upon their counters and shelves for the
inspection of the ladies, and offering at the
lowest market prices. Ladies are invited
70 call at once and make their selections.
1t
Those who may have been led to be-
lieve that dursg FEBRUARY JUST passed tno
preclpitations we're greater than IN the same
month last year will be surprised to learn
of their error. According to Sergeant
Rays report last months precipitations,
55S, was 2.49 inches less than the same
month last year and 4.56 less than in Feb
ruary 1882.
The Cairo box and basket factory is
O lly awaiting the arrival of logs now on
the wsv here, to start its wheels anS turn
out $4,000 feet of lumber per day. The
expansive yards are already crowded with
timbers ready for the carpenters tools,
but building boom is confidently ex.
pected and will be anticipated here as
elsewhere.
Ella Lloyd and Susan jenkins, two
sable damsels inhabiting Thirteenth street,
'shot off, their mouths and their fists at
each other yesterday and were fined for the
ofiensc by Judge Robinson, presumably
under the ordinance prohibiting the reck-
less handling and dangerous weapons and
the discharge of arms except for certain
stated purposes.
The semi-anuual meeting of the South
ern Illinois Press Association will be held
at Liederkranz, hall, Belleville, on Friday
and Saturday. March 2sth and Goth, 1884.
The meeting is intended rs reunion of all
the newspaper men in the Southern Grand
Division, no matter Of what political creed
or religious faith. 1t will be no junketing
excursion, but a sound practical meeting
for the purpose of exchanging views and
discussing matters Of importance to the
craft.
"A man named VIM. Gatlin, living in a
cottage on Washington avenue, opposite
the postofiice, died there Sunday night,
leaving a wife and several children in
Strengthened circumstances. Through the
efforts of Mrs. Ford, member of the Ward
Charity Commute, means were provided
for burying the remains and the survivors
A..