The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-03-25

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General G. W. Pavey is in the city,
looking after the internal revenue office
here.
Pure white Leghorn eggs, 10 for one
dollar. E.A. BURNETT.
"A special convocation of Cairo Lodge
No. 237 is called for this evening. See
special locals.
Hon. W. s. Rogers, member of the
Congressional Republican Central Commit
tee, was at The Halliday yesterday.
Ice, wood and kinding, at City Brew
cry, Jacob Klee. If
Strangers were numerous in the city
yesterday. Nearly all respectable looking
psople-few tramps.
The steamer Ella Kimbroush has
big trip for St. Louis, and she will leeve for
that point early Wednesday morning.
We offer, to arrive this week, 200
boxes choice lemons at 50 to $3.50 a box.
ct G. II. JACKSON & Co.
Several skiff races were run on the
lake opposite the Postoffice Sunday after
noon, and some money exchanged hands on
them.
Mr.. James Kinnear is now clerk on the
transfer steamer Morgan and is kept very
busy since the Iron Mountain transfer bus
mess is all concentrated here.
Bankrupt stock of furniture for sale
cheap at No. 101 Commercial avenue, near
9th street, upstairs. If
The transfer steamer Junius Morgan is
to have electric lights in operation within
the next ten days. The apparatus is on
board and is being put UP to be ready for
use probably next week.
"A little son of Mr.. James Summerwel
fell in the High School yard yesterday af-
ternoon and broke his collar bone. The
little fellow was carried home and given
surgical attention, and at last accounts was
resting comparatively easy.
Work on the streets progresses finely.
After so long season of trowniDg sky,
rain and mud, it is refreshing to see the
smooth pavements again appear, under the
action Of scrapers, wagons, shovels, and
sunshine.
"A drunken man made himself very
troublesome on Ohio levee Sunday night.
He found his way up into the hallway OF
Capt. N. B. Thistlewoods store, and yelled
like Comanche until the Captain got up
and boosted him down stairs and out of
doors.
Mr.. Whitehouse was reelected presi-
dent of the st. Louis g. Cairo Railroad
Company, at the meeting of the Board of
Directors in Chicago day or two ago.
Mr.. S. Corning Judd was elected vice.
president. Judge Bross returned Sunday
from the meeting of the board, he being a
member.
"A Chinaman, named All Lung, of
course, came here from St. Louis yesterday,
with the intention OF remaining and start
ing real Chinese laundry. He was the
object of much curiosity on Commercial
avenue yesterday, but bore the scrutiny and
the bandying with 50 smile that was child
like and bland"
About twenty Of the Levee Guard dur
ing the last freshet, gathered on the MISS
sippi levee, with Capt John A. Poore at
their head, Sunday afternoon, and stood up
in row to be photographed by Mr.. o. A.
Phelps. 1t was picturesque group-all
dressed as they were when on duty and
supplied with the tools they then used.
Water has interrupted traffic on the
Iron Mountain road between Columbus and
Belmont, and as necessary consequence
the former point has been temporarily
abandoned, as point of transfer between
the Iron Mountain and Mobile and Ohio
Railroads. All the transfer business be-
tween the two roads is now done by the
steamer Morgan here.
The ferry-boat now makes q trip to
Wickliffe twice every day. When the
water gets down to forty-fye feet she will
60 to Fort Jefferson every day. which trip,
on Sundays, will doubtless be taken adj.
vantageof by many who seek pleasure, and
will, as usual, be much enjoyed by them.
But the regular picnic season will proba-
bly, be delayed for month or more yet.
Time was when the grasshoppers
swept across the green fields of Kansas and
LETT nothing behind them but barren fields
and threatened famine, but Ohio lent q
helping hand and the settlers of that new
State were saved from distress. A freight
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