The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-05-08
The Daily Bulletin.
OFFICIAL PAPER OF ALEXANDER COUNTY
ENTERED AT THE CAIRO PosToFFICE FOR
TRANSMISSION THROUGH THE MAILS AT
SECOND CLASS RATES.
GENERAL LOCAL ITEMS.

An interesting letter from Mrs. D.
Green on third page.
Ice, wood and kindling, at City Brew:
cry, Jacob Klee. If
Deputy Sheriff Guy Morse left Tues
day night for Florlds, on the steamer
Golden Rule.
Work was begun Monday on Captain
Shields residence, but the heavy rains have
interfered with its progress very much.
Closing out q bankrupt stock Of furni.
ture at and below cost, at 10l Commercial
Avenue-up stairs. 4.6t
The Ideal League has sent out invita-
tons for the farewell party of the season,
to be given st Hartmsn's Hall on Tuesday,
May 18th.
The family of Engineer Mcknight, of
the Box factory, left yesterday for Clinton,
Va, to visit relatives snd friends for
month or two.
Mr.. Wood Rittenhouse returned yes,
terdsy from Kansas. He is we'll pleased
with the country through which he passed,
particularly with Kansas City.
Here the rlyer continues to rise At
Cincinnati and Louisville it is falling, also
at Nashville, bu. rising slowly at Chstts.
noogs snd St. Louis. The sewers are
closed.
The bids for the Marine Hospital were
to have been opened at Washington on the
25th OF last month, but up TO yesterday no
one here had received any intimation that
the contracts had been let to anyone,
The three liquor bonds approved by
the City Council Tuesday night, makes
the number approved so far this fiscal year
an even forty, which still lacks twenty-four
of being as many as we had last year.
The citizens OF st. Louis are making
arrangements to entertain the cattle-grow-
ers of the United States and territories,
who are to meet in convention in that city
in November next. The body, when con-
vened, will represent over $4,000, 100000.
Bad weather is not permitted to inter-
rupt the work of graveling Ohio Levee
Street. All the water and soft mud is be-
ing removed from the old gravel bed and
the new gravel is spread upon clean,
solid bottom.
The Internal Revenue office here shows
the collections in this district during last
month to have been as follows: On dis.
titled spirits, $30,3G997; tobacco, cigars,
ETC., $7,S3sOS; fermented liquors, $780,
80; fines, etc., $4,000; total, SAC, 5ss.37.
The Secretary of the Charity Associa
ton informs us that the Third ward IS the
banner ward for charity pensioners During
the past three months forty-one famlie
and persons have been assisted, seventeen
of whom were colored; also four sufferer
from the late floods, who took refuge il
our city.
The Democrats Of Perry County hav
instructed theiT delegates to the Congress
sional Convention for Hon. w. K. Murphy
and the delegates to the State Convention
for Carter Harrison and Henry Setter 70
Governor and Lieutenant Governor. As ye
Perry and Pope are the only two countie
In the district in which the Democrats hay
held conventions this year.
Judge Hilton, who owns wooden mil
ia the East, in which he employed twel,
thousand persons, has shut them down, b
cause he says the tariff on wool is so hil
that there is no profit to be made by wea
ing into cloth, and his twelve thousand er
ployes are thrown out of employment tt
is the way protective tariff gives stea
employment and good wages to the wor
ingmen. These laborers who will now ha
an opportunity 10 rest, should take some
their Surplus" wages which they have