The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-07-11
RATES,
LEAD PENCIL JOTTINGS,
Memorandum Made in the Re
porter's Wanderings.
Local srIinterx.
Local ~Splinters.
MONDAY.


We understand that there is likel
to be a lawsuit owe the property LEI
bv Eliza J. Houts.
They will soon begin shippin;
watermelons 10 the market from Scot
county The crop this year is said (,
be the finest in that county for serera
years.
A railroad from Maiden t,
Memphis is the latest railroad ventur,
IN this section of the country, and i
is said that such a road will be built
Ill. L. Peironnet has ornamentet
the front of his mammoth store Will
two handsome g~old-colored signs
Mr.. Pieronnet is m euterpri>ing maj
who always keeps up with the times
Our millers have not vet cstab-
iished a price for new wheat
Mr. Pott informs us that he has paid
eighty cents per bushel for some
brought to market this week, but he
says that is no established price.
The subscription price of the
DEMOCRAT is not increased BY the
Mckinley bill, but we wish to correct
che misspprchensions of some of our
subscribers who appear TO think it
was placed on the free list.
-Megrinine cures any headache
in 80 minutes Sample free. The
Dr. Whitehall McgrinIinc Co. South
Bend. Ind. Sold by Druggists.
A canning factory with a capital
stock of ten Thousand dollars has been
established in Cairo, Illinois. Why
cant we have a canning factory:
About a year ago some gentlemen
came here for the purpose of estab-
Fishing a factory of that kind, but
they wanted a capital stock of twenty
five thousand dollars and they also
wanted the people here to furnish the
money and Let them supply the cxpe-
riruce, but our people declined TO be
caught as suckers
There were over one thousand
{rol lc al The Delta celebration las.
Saturday. The excursion trains on
the 81. Louis, Cape Girardcau a. Fort
Smith Railroad werr crowded all day.
and the railroad made some mono
carrying the cxcursioni>is.
The elegant new steamer. City of
Paducah. down, landed at our wharf
Yesterday. She was making her initial
"trip and WAS received at Paducah
in grand style. The city of P&iucah
is the finest steamer in the line of
Tennessee packets and she Will be the
favorite steamer with the people of
Iaducah.
The people residing on North
Sprigg street have subscribed about
five hundred dollars TO have that
street graded and gravelcd and we
understand they will now ask the
city TO pay the balance and have the
work done at once.
The crop of blackbcrrics this year
is immense and if our people do not
can all the berries they will want to
Use next winter il will not be because
the berries are not here to get.
Mayor Peironnet and ID. a. Glenn
had fine displays of fireworks at their
residences Saturday night. The sky
rockets sent up by them fairly lit up
the heavens for nearly an hour.
Died. i'm this city July 9th, 1891,
Mrs. Maggie Richard, wife of W. ".
Richard, aged % years. The deceased
was a member of the Second Baptist
Church.
A prominent merchant says: Il
have sold Megriniue for owe a year
and guaranteed it TO cure any head
ache without bad after effects and
have not found a single case 1T did
not relieve. Sample free. The DIR.
Whitehall Megrimine Co, South
Bend, Ind. Sold by druggists.
Tho II ,,,l,orap opurooot;on tnot
in over four hundred dollars at their
picnic last Saturday.
Born, July 5th, 1891, to the wife
of Richard Carroll. a bouncing big
girl. Dicks boys are all girls.
The colored Masons of this city
will build a Masonic Temple up on
Sprigg street. They are now receiv-
ing bids for the erection of the build
ing.
The Union Milling Co. has IT.
ceived a fine large freight wagon. II
is one of the best wagons of the Kind
in the city.
DIR. Sam Harris went down to
Sikeston, Scott county, last week and
performed avery difficult and danger
ous surgical operation on Mr.. James
Boutwell, of that place.
TUESDAY,.
Charley Borcy has a fine room in
his new building up in Harrig that
he will rent for a store room. The
location for a dry goods store is as