The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-01-06


hesdwsy. Lamps had to be procured, but
the sudisncs went out with the gas and did
not return.
Several men ventured across the Mis-.
sissippi river on skates yesterday morning.
and went some distance into Missouri and
back without any sign Of danger.
Full stock and complete sample book
of wedding invitations, ETC., just received at
TEE BULLETIN job Office, No. 70 Ohio
Levse. II
.No.e6, THI BULLETIN telephone, hssnot
yet got over the holidays, has done no work
since New Years, and worst Of all refuses
point blank to call up the Central otice
or let us know what 10 the matter.
900 pieces Hamburg sdgings bought at
the great sale Of Cleveland, Cummings q
Woodruff, Chicago, at shout half value,
now offered for sale at extraordinary low
prices at stuart's Popular and Reliable
Dry Goods House. 1t
Tho magnificent Anchor Line steam
ers ". p Halliday and John A. scudder
are laid up here and were last evening
lowed across to the Kentucky shore to
avoid damage from the running ice on this
side of the river.
Capt. ]. E. English rsjoices over the
fact that the Halliday Guards are now
about out of debt and can devote themselves
more exclusively topsrtecting arrangements
about their srmory. They meet once every
week for drilling.
We have at The BULLETIN Office q
good newly lined stove that will warm an
ordinary store room-cost $25-is In good
order and will b sold for 81 cash. A good
secondhand stove ought to sell this kind of
weather and this is good bargain.
AT . o'clock yesterday afternoon the
Thermometer stood 10 below zero at Bis
marck. 10 below at st. Louis; 8 below at
Cairo;3 below at Louisville. The highest
reported was % above at Nashville. The
sky was clssr everywhere.
City council is to meet Tuesday night,
in second regular session this month. The
joint committee, to which was referred the
last petition of the St. Louis & Cairo rail.
road company fo1 permission to cross Wssh'
ington avenue and Lsvss street, will sub
NIT it, report.
After our enormous trade Of Dec. We
have great many odds and ends Of all
classes Of goods which We are DESTROYS OF
working off at great concessions from for
mer prices, in order to clean up stock.
Bargain hunters willHnd this favorable op
portunitY to procure rare bargains. Stuart
For . while yesterday forenoon the
Ohio seemed like . stream Of boiling water
emitting thick clouds Of steam which on
velopsd boats nearly to the top Of the chin
MES and made running in the harbor dan.
gerous. This vspor extended up and down
the river - far a. the eye could sec, but
disappeared toward evening.
Metropolis had several weddings this
week. Miss Helen Brown, the belle Of the
place, was married to Capt. Whitlow, Of
Louisville, and Miss Howard, niece of Capt.
Ben Howard, Of the Evansville line of
steamers, was married to Mr.. Geo. Shelton,
q young business man of Metropolis both
on Thursday.
Our 9th annual sale Of muslins, linens
and housekeeping goods will be insugura-
ted this week. We will offer some Of the
greatest bsrgsinsin cotton goods seen
in Cairo. An advance in cotton goods in
the spring is inevitable and We advise easily
purchases. Stuart. It
Attorney General Mccartney holds that
"there is legal prohibition Of the sale of IL
quor within two miles of any incorporated
city, town or village, and that within this
belt around each corporation neither the
corporate authorities nor county boards can
license the sale Of liquor, but that it must
be held sacred to temperance"
Ice began running in the Ohio river
here about 10 o'clock yesterday morning
but not heavy enough to necessitate the re-
moval of boats lying in the hsrbor. 1t is
believed by river men tn It If the weather
continues cold through to-day the Ohio
will be closed at Caseyville, where the river
is narrow and obstructed by bars.
Several frozen noses, ears and toes we're
reported Yesterday. Capt. James Good, su-
perintendent of tho Anchor Line company,
had his ears frozen while walking from The
Halliday to the wharfboats. Attorney Leek
had an ear badly frozen while coming
down from the court house, and City Clerk
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