The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-10-03

fire caught in the boiler room, but as the
facilities of the company for putting out
fires are unequalled, It was confined to that
part of the works. The:Anchor fire COM
pany was first on the ground and worked
admirably. Other companies soon joined
in the fight and that settled it, The dam
age was small, the roof of the boiler room
and a part of a shaving loft only being de-
stroyed.
AT Prof. Hagan's portrait school any
lady or gentleman can learn to draw beau
tiful landscapes, animals, flowers, birds, fig
ure- pieces, statuary, and elegantly finish
ed family portraits. The ability to do
these things is fortune to anyone who
will push it. Visit his studio and see the
work of Cairo people.
The examination of applicants for
teachers certificates began yesterday morn.
ing and will continue to-day. The Cairo
teachers attending are Misses Risley, Has
brouck, Spear, Hays, Patterson and Riley,
and Messrs. Avant, Carter and Rush of the
colored school. Several county teachers
were also in attendance.
The Singer Mfg Co. comes to the
front to say it feels douby insured since it
has tried its friends. The promptness Of
our mayor, of the Illinois Central railroad
officers and employees, of the transfers Os
borne and Macomb, of the city fire com
panies, OF their ueighbors at the box fac
tory, coal dump and pump boat, and of
their own men deserve their thanks. Their
help aud kindness is fully appreciated.
Judge Robinson yesterday morning
performed the ceremony that made NM NJ
Arlington and Miss Matte Pippin (she wa
the apple Of his eye, of Nicklitfe, Kentuc
ky, one famiy.-Only one case wa
brought before him; that OF young man
who had "lambasted" his best girl, but {
change of venue was taken to Judge Com
ngs and there we lost sight of the party.
Nearly one thousand people ATTENDED
the opera house at the opening to witnes
"a Bunch of Keys" and about nine hun
dred of them wished they were anywher
else. Our reporter from the outside) tool
the shouts of laughter at the desperate fail
ures of the actors for rounds of applause
and wrote his criticism accordingly: "'i
Bunch Of Keys in the minds Of the major
lty Of their Cairo audience, are bunch @
frauds and the play and the players i
merit, far below the variety exhibition Civ
en- nightly at Theatre Comique."
And now the voice OF the wood vende
with the sharp complaint of the bucksa'
as it strikes a refractory splinter, is hear
through the city, and there is mourning
the house of him of wood stoves, as h
compares the price of wood Gin the woot
: she'd, S5 per cord, with the price of Goa
SO per ton. Yea, verify, he has cause t
mourn. The winter supply must be laid i
now or never; the colored man and brotht
who engages to bring ten cords and nevC
shows up again is getting more pentif,
every season. This is a wooden countr
most emphatcally, but the rosds,--and Il
, said colored brother, there is the hitc)
D Ask man on a load of wood, benin
Q a pair of skeletons covered with horse {
! mule hides where he comes from aud tn
q answer is stereotyped Beech Ridge"
: takes very little rain or wet weather to CT
Beech Ridge off from the rest of Il
world by wagon road, therefore the mont
o of October must be devoted to wood hau
/, ing, and the house keepers who fail to G
Y their work in this month generally g
left. The price of wood has not change
in ten years; wood is hard to get, and "
believe the time is near at hand when Il
exasperated head of the family oman
r woman> will be seen-.fgur atvely --kci
70 ing out their wood stoves and rcplacir
@ them with coal.