The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-03-04

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An excursion Of Paiucah ms is prom
ised VI to morrow or next day.
Senator Dan Hogan and Alderman
McCrackcn, of Mound City, were in town
yesterday.
-FoR SALE-A walnut Ova-iront show
case 81, at The BULLETIN office.
Mr.. w. F. Lambdin returned yester-
day. The river column is again u feature
of The BULLETINS "inernals."
The ice prevented Capt Cole from
bringing that other lot of rock down the
Mississippi yesterday, for Col. Taylor.
The ComiQue presents az unusually
attractive company this week. G) and see
| the show. 1t
Henry Hunt, brother of the well
known lobe Hunt, aud pilot II the steamer
Hays, was put off here yesterday and taken
to the Marine hospital, to be treated for
fever.
We are still ready to sell our entire
stock OF clothing. G,listine & Rosenwater
If
The steamer W. w. O'Neil came down
the Ohio yesterday shortly after noon, h,v-
ing in tow twenty-seven barges of coal, be-
ing about seven hundred and fifty thousand
pounds.
During last week the transient ar
rivals a, The Halliday were as follows
Sunday, &c. Monday, 90; Tuesday, 25
Wednesday, 50; Thursday, 40; Friday, 80;
Saturday, 40; total, 234.
Heath and Latto, in military tactics;
and Frank Venetts and Hattie Adams in
plantation characterzations are leading
features of the Conique performance this
week. It
Capt. Cole came down from Chester
yesterday. He reported the river full OF
ice there from bank to bank, and one of
his boats, the Success, bound for Cairo, had |
to lay up at Cape Girardeau.
-Mcssrs. NJ. Hes'er s. Sons, on Court
Street Paducah, advertises IN the News that
they will pay the highest price for all
dead cattle, hogs, etc, drowned in the food |
or killed otherwise"
The boys Of the Y. NJ. c. A. had an
interesting time at the rooms last night,
producing the exercises embodied in the
published Sunday. A fair
audience OF young folks and older ones too
were present.
Auction sale OF household goods &C.
ours at s a. m. to-day, at home of late Mrs.
Hunter, on 18th near Commercial, by FL
mer Z. Hunter. 1t
Mr.. and Mrs. w. T. Smethen arrived
in this city from New Madrid, Mo, yester.
day aud will make their home here. They
were married but few days sgo at New
Madrid. Mr.. Smethen is connected with
tie Texas and st. Louis road.
DIR. Van Meter, OF Maiden, Mo-, has
oeen appointed by the Secretary of War to
position on the medical staff Of the Mis-
.iss!ppi River Commission, and has been
ordered to report tor duty at the L. S. Gus
tom House here on the 18th inst.
Misses Mile Roze, Hattie Adams,
Maggie Mauri and Nellie Clifford all at
tractive and talented speciality artists, are
on the Comique stage this week, and need
but be seen to be admired by everybody.
Capt. Mckinney, of the new transfer
w. II. Osborn, was for nine years captain
Of the railroad transfer boats between
Columbus and Cairo making during that
period 1000 tnps, or about gao, 900 miles,
and, strange to say, was never sick day
and never had an accident.
You can't drown those web.footed
- anyhow" remarked an angry
Paducahan In speaking of Cairotes; to
which one OF the "web-foOtedn replied with
exasperating GOODNESS, "those fellows had
better come down here and get some of
those web-leet."
Jim Robinson, of Dubois & Robinson,
druggists Of Paducah, was 10 the CITY yes
terday. He was formerly citizen of Cairo
with Geo E. O'Hara, druggist, and knows
hcw to fight water. He bulkheaded his
store and, while all the others were flooded
theirs WAS dry His sales of cigars alone
during the "wet spel' was Fl teen hundred
a day.
Some excitement was created in the
Episcopal church, during the service Sum
day morning, by the burning of one of the
numerous ornaments on the altar, which
caught from a candle near by. The fire
Was put out by prompt acton of Messrs.
Candee and Menaper and tho sar1;oo want