Cairo evening times. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1865-1866, 1865-10-20

The following announcement of candi
date was found posted on tree by the road
side, and brought to the editor of the Jack.
son Missisippian. who gave it a gratuitous
publication: f#a-a 3t<-.
ATTENTION SovEREIGNs!-Allow me-
through this medium, to introduce myself
to- your acquaintance as a candidate for as
SCISSOR of taxes of Kinds county. If any one
should be so inquisitive as to ask why man
of my gigantic intellect should fly so low
my answer is this The Feds, in May, 1864
deprived me of my left wing therefore
vaulting ambition must stoop her flight to a
level with my capability. Again, should
any one wish tOknow why l do not have
printed bills would ciyily, reply that my
pocketbook would laugh for a week at the
rustic of a greenback, and would never sur
vive the falntest clink of metallic currency
would like very much to call on the dear
people, and talk to them face to face; but to
effect this, my little school would have to
close, and with it my bread and butter.
Under these circumstances 1 hope to be
excused. -4sr--19-5at e,r-v
With high regards, I am yours to COM
mand. s. B. HUGHES.
- The question of negro suffrage will be
voted upon at the next election in Wiscon-
sin for the third time in the history of that
State. The Constitution requires that the
amendment shall be approved by majority
ofall the votes cast, therefore, not to vote
on the question counts against it. In 1849
there were 5,265 votes in favor of eqnal suf-
frage out of 81 ,759: and in 1857 there were
year, on Governor, will probably not sbe
less than 100000
BUSINESS IN THE SOUTH.-The Southern
newspapers never were so crowded with adj
vertisements as they are at present 1t is
no uncommon thing for the daily papers to
publish supplements filled with the adver-
tisements the ordinary sheet will not con-
tain. These evidences of local activity srise,
no doubt, from the new condition in which
the people find themselves, but they show
also that the people have the energy to ap-
ply themselves in the proper manner to the
recovery of their true industrial position
Two California gentlemen recently took
trip far enough among the foot hills to find |
Indians industriously employed in reaping
a rich harvest OF grasshoppers. The male |
or pits, while the females guarded the holes
and pounded the grasshoppers down. They
continued until they had gathered about two
bushels, and then went to work and cooked |
them. This done, one of the gentlemen ioin
ed the Indians in the feast, and AYERS 1pon
his honor that they were quite as good as
"parched corn, and much better than plate
of shrimps he ate lately at San Francisco,
in a fashionable saloon ON Montgomery
street."
A GENEROUS FEE-The Rev. Eli Thurs
ton of Massachusetts,, as marriage fee, had
a mortgage which rested upon his homestead
of &c. 800 extinguished by the families of the
happy pair,
Wish we were ''Rcv" in the old Bay
State, and all the old maids had an opportu-
nifty OF becoming SO many halves of happy
pairs, by employing our services. Some of
their families, we have no doubt, would man.
ifest gratitude -r-""-
"a Our old friend P, who is proyerb-
ial for fastidiousness in Dress we were sur
prisedto see perambulating the streets with {
shocking bad boots" Upon being queried
as to the cause of such seeming negligence /
he replied-that he was engaged to be mar
ried, had joined the temperance society, and
Jared not have his boots mended for fear of
being reminded of cOJJkers
RAILROAD TINE BEATEN.-Five hundred
md eighty five carrier pigeons were lately :
urned loose at Toulouse, ona wager. Their