The Cairo evening bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1868-1870, 1869-01-18
hopeful footing. The company have secured,
or will secure, such amendments 70 their

hopeful footing. The company have secured
or will secure, such amendments 70 theil
charter ms will guaranty the construction D
the road as speedily as capital and labor car
bring that end about. ha t f'.'T1o $50
r.. Ii. Cunningham, the oldest dealer II
dry goods in the city, has a tremendous
stock of winter goods on hand, embracing
everything that is desirable in the way of h.
dies dress goods, piece goods, domestics, and
everything elsc ordinarily kept in first class
variety store. WE should not, mention this
fact perhaps did we not desire to do the
public service by adding that his prices are
so very low that money may be saved by
patronizing him. The hundreds ofcustomers
that throng his store from morning until
night are influenced by the inducements he
offers, and make money by 1t.
A dirty, ragged bedtick, two dilapidated
husk.b6ttomeda chairs; a skillet; n crock half
full of corn meal; box containing shank
of bacon; a bundle Of very filthy bed cloth
ing six sallow-faced, pot-bellicd children,
aged respectively, IL, o, 8, 6, 3, and years,
their nakedness scarcely concealed by the
many-colorcd rags that hung about their
bodies u long, lank-iawed, tobacco-chewing
shock headed man. wearing a tattered blue
blanket overcoat, and literally patched, but
ternut breechcs a poor, sickly, cracked
voiced, snuff-chcwing little woman, enveloped
in homemade linsey dress and flimsy calico
sun-bonnet-all these filed rickety old
wagon, drawn by two frames of horses, that
might have been seen camping, yesterday, on
bn ,t,t,cr hits ..f tha Tbo obilJror
and mother were all sick with the "fevcrn-
ager,' and were greatly alarmed at the prob
abilities Of catching the small pox. The fa-
ther was enjoying mighty poor health" but
hoped to be able 20 "hold up" until he reached
Scott county Missouri, for which point, with
only three dollars in his pocket, he was aim
ing What such wretcled family wanted
to reach Scott county for, what they wanted
to go or stay any place for, appeared mys.
terry for which we had no solution. To shake
to pieces, to starvc to rot in their filth, seemed
their inevitable destiny, and why run about to
face it2 Such family might as well be one
place as another
Ed Terrell brought to our market, the
other day. from his farm in Ballard county |
thirty hogs that averaged 364 pounds each |
Phil. Howard became the purchaser.
Allthe live stock, hogs dressed or undressed,
brought 10 Cairo find ready market at the |
highest rates ruling. -t.
1t Is notable fact that forty-nine out of |
every ftly of the volaters of our criminal
code, are found destitute of money to pay the
fines imposed upon them as a penalty for
heir misdeeds. The result is, many of the
minor offences are overlooked, the police cor
ectly determining that IL Is better so than to
un the city TO the expense of feeding Jail
ull Of moneyless petty offenders.
The Public School Tablet, whose monthly
ppearancc il warmly greeted by at least Ave
Undrei youngsters, will be published today.
'hc influence it exerts in the government of
be .chocl, in securing punctuality in attend
nee and in stimulating effort in composition,
&C.. readers it almost Indispensable Large
shools that have never employed such an
gency, should try il. 1t is cheap and cGc-
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