The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-12-18

with remarkable success.
Every farmer ought to raise his own
fish, and if he has suitable pond he can,
by sending to Fish Commissioner Bartlett
at Quincy, ILL.,, be supplied with German
carp free Of charge, except the can In
which they are shipped and the express
charges.
-Muldoon's Picnic is without doubt the
most absurd, laughsble, ridiculous aud side
splitting farce ever put on the stage. PEG.
pie 90 once, twice, three times to witness it,
laugh till they cry, and then go again, un-
able at the same time to say what it is all
about, John L. Sullivan says it knocked
him out the first round, while Ben Butler
insists that one attendance cured his off
eye.
AS mail and express train on the
Texas nsrrow-gauge was nearing Maiden,
Mo-, the engine broke loose from the tender,
the latter jumping the track, being follow
ed by the express and mail car. Walter
Comings, of this city, WAS running in MIR.
Morton's place as postal clerk, and had it
not been that at the time of the accident
he was holding on to the transom between
the express and mail departments, he
would have been killed. AS it was, he es-
capped with a bruised leg. The express
messengers were thrown behind the stove,
which was indeed lucky for them, as the
goods in their part of the car were banged
up against it, thus saving them from in
jury. The car was badly mashed, and the
wonder is that no one was killed.
"A double party, one-half Of which con-
stituted surprise, gathered at the resi-
| dence of John Antrim, Esq, Tuesday even
ing. The younger portion were invited TO
greet Miss Ell, Kent, who is visiting the
family, and the others-'he old young peo-
pie or the young old people were brought
together to surprise Mr.. and Mrs. j. d.
Lsdd IN this their tin wedding anniversary
The affair was engineered by the Misses
Antrim and the surprise was complete
The young couple suspected nothing, in.
deed were somewhat mysttied 10y the
gathering of married people, until the rat.
tie Of tinware gave them an inIling of wbaI
was going on. Mr.. and Mrs. Ladd are
very popular and their friends expressed
their appreciation of them by cordial greet
ing and numerous ornamental ard usefu
articles designed by the tinsmlth. Among
the guests present were Mr.. and Mrs. G
W. Strobe, Mr.. and Mrs, Chss. Pennebaker
Mr.. and Mrs. John A. Miller, Mr.. and Mrs
A. Msrx, Mr.. and Mrs. John Haynes, Mrs
DR.. Smith, Mr.. Hubbard and Mr.. and Mrs
Burnett.
"A writer, who clearly understands tn
situation says, the days have come whe
the thoughtess merchant shall say: "
am all undone.' At the rising of the sui
he goeth to his store and no man enteretl
therein to annoy or interfere with him. Fl,
stitch day after day like bottle Of verm
fuge, but the people with sheckels pas
him by as thing Of no good. He failett
to advertise his goods and his place Is un
noticed and forgotten On the face of the
earth. Who hath dried codfsh2 Who
hath boxes of ssrdnesi Who hath rem
nsnts of calico that are faded and out Of
style2 He that stitch like bump on 9
log. He that hoardeth his scsnty supply
of filthy lucre and will not so much as ad
vertse in live paper. Behold that man
and pass him by, for he hath become an on.
,ject of little notice. He bath become as 9
broken fshhorn after the campaign. HI:
ways are dark and like unto the counte.
nances of the defeated Beware of that
man and 60 not into his dusty place. He
is all undone and the last days of that mar
will be like unto the first, only much more
so. He is joined to bis idols, leave him
alone.