The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-06-12
,FIcGAL PAPER OF ALEXANDER COUNTY
t9ENER AL LOCAL ITEMS
Additional locals on third page.

AuultOudl lOCuls vi thIlu pogo
Jefferson Club No. s had meeting
last night, and several new members were
inflated and important business
Ice, wood and kindling, at City Brew
cry, Jacob Klee. If
Mr.. Jno. B. Ellis, Agent for the st.
Louis Post Dispatch, was in the city yester.
day working the town for subscribers.
The Congressional Dem ocratic Central
Committee will meet in Parlor A at The
Halliday at 10 o'clock this morning.
Hon John H. Oberly is expected to be
here and address the convention at the
Opera House to-day. This alone will insure
a large attendance.
Next Monday delinquent lands and
lots will be sold for taxes Purchasers are
ready to take all that are offered, and the
sale will probably be completed in one day.
The old Democratic pole. on Ohio
Levee will to-day float in the air the stars
and stripes, as the first signal to the gather
ing hosts of the party, of the opening of
another victorious contest.
Mr. L. A. Hays of Louisville, ILL.,, is
in the city, soliciting subscribers to the Odd
Fellows Herald, published and edited at
Bloomington by Hon. John II. Obcrly
He has promise of a good field here for a
day or two.
e. The Wabash pay car is expected to be
down this week, to pay off all hands here
for April. Another is expected to be down
next week, to pay off for May. The news,
il correct, will cause general rejoicing
among fall hands"
MIR. Gus BOtto has sample of crystal
from Hot Springs, all in one large mass,
weighing perhaps several hundred pounds.
1t is a beautiful specimen end cost him
an even 800. Mr.. Joe Steagala also has
fine sample, but smaller,
Ladies are cordially invited to attend
the Convention at the Opera House this
afternoon at o'clock. The fact that it is
to be a Democratic Convention will be suf
d, ticent guarantee that the entertainment will
be of the highest order in every way.
Mr.. Adams, General Road-master of
the Wabash road, is in the city since yester-
day. He came down to prepare for work
on the several improvements laid out here
some time ago. lie has located the line
for track to be laid below the point, to
the silt bank from which the dirt is to be
taken for filling upper Commercial Avenue.
laa--"Business is dull. A war would make
things livelier and times better,"is the dis
tressing motto of many Of Blaine's stoutest
advocates among the masses and even in
this community. The suffers, shoddy and
mule contractors and beasts Of prey always
welcome war, and are generally shouting
for the candidate most likely to plunge the
Nation Into strife.
A grand excursion to Arkansas and
Texas will be run on the Iron Mountain
Railroad, leaving the Union Depot in this
city at 1890 p. m, June 25th. Round trip
tickets will be sold at one fare to all regular
land points. This will afford a fine oppor-
tunity to all who may desire to take trip
through the states named. For further
particulars call on or address L. 3. Church,
Ticket Agent.
There seem to be no two opinions
about the Republican platform adopted at
Chicago. 1t is long, pretentions and
empty document; tull of claptrap and with
not enough veneering to deceive a cheap
demagogue. The Philadelphia Times sizes
it up very well when it says ut is the most
extraordinary combination of meaningless
platitudeS and rank denagogy with which
any respectable party ever entered nation
al campaign"
Yesterday short jury trial was held
by Judge Baker in which the value of
some property which the Illinois Central
Company wanted to gain possession of by
condemnation proceedings, was to be de.
termined. The property in question COM
prised thirteen lots below Twenty-sixth
Street, fronting on Ohio Levee, in block 4,
First addition to the city of Coiro. 1t was
part of the Hayworth estate for which
Judge Robinson was agent. The jury fixed
the price OF the lots at $500 each. The
railroad company has bought the remain.
der of the lots comprised in that block
from Col. Taylor, and it is understood tina,
il intends to make switch yard of the
ground, as il stands greatly in need of more
.oom.