The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1871-07-23

The Decatur Magnet says Ihk
BULLETIN exultingly observes that 0ai-
70 is the finest watering place on 'he
continent. Very true There is SO
much water there that half ofthe houses
stand on stills The olu joke again
There is no place on the Mississippi river
that suffers Ms little inconv .nience from
high water as Cairo. When other cites
are being swept by the raging waters
Cairo seated behind her splendid levees,
the best in the world, feels perfectly Sc
cure and is not in the least disconnected
by the foods that sweep by her wborve'.
THAT pestferous little sheet, the Pu-
iaski Patriot declares that the Delta base
ball club of this city defeated the Pastimes
of Mound City by procuring the services
of biAsed umpire. The Deltas are above
such meanness. The umpire oil know
who saw the game, leaned decidedly to
the side of the Pastimes. The truth is,
the Pastimes can't play base ball. They
haven't learned the game yet, and will be
compelled to practice it many days before
they become passably skillful. Their bad
playing is the secret of their defeat The
Delta boys do not know great deal about
the game, but they do know enough to
beat the Pastimes. .-.---r pr.
Mr. Bouton, of the Jonesboro Gazette
called upon us yesterday with the good
news that, on Friday night the city cOun-
Gil Of Jonesborc had ordered that $4,000
bonds should be issued to the Cairo and st.
Louis railroad company,and that yesterday
the county court of Union county provid.
ed for issuing 100000 bonds TO the same
company. Both the city and county
agreed to. place the bonds in escrow, and
appointed Mr.. John +. NALL trustee. The
Judge NJ. g. Crawford to the governor for
a place on the board of directors. Bully
for Jonesboro and Union county. And,
now, il Hon. VIM. NJ. Morrison shall do his
duty in the upper counties, all will be
well, and the road will be finished within
eighteen months. The success of the en-.
terprise lies in. Mr.. MoIrison's hands.
| The gas company propose to reduce
the price of gas to the city one dollar pei
month on each post, a total of sixty-fv,
dollars each month The board Of alder.
men dilly daily with the proposition, and
propose to try an experiment WITHHOLD Il,
three dollars per month to each post, the
city,at its ownexpense, TO change each y
the lamps from gas burners to fluid burn
ers. On this proposition the council viii
probably wranglc three or four months
thus taking each month sixty-fve dollar,
fromtne city $ poke, and patting it into
thepockct Of the gas company. OF course
the gas company don't care how long the
fight goes on. 1t would be delighted to
have the council wrangle for year, provi.
ded the wrangle should, as IL now does,
put into the companys pocket sixty-fve
dollars per month.
Mr.. Wilson is anxious to light the
city with patent burning fluid, and oil
Eers to do so for SO per post, the city ,c
pat the posts in order for his lamps. The
gas company propose to furnish gas fol
50 so per post, keep the lamps in repair
and light and extinguish the gas. Nov
which proposition should be accepted
We unhesitatingly assert, the gas com
panys. Gas has become n necessity in
| Cairo. Our merchants and citizens gene.
| rally could not get along without the light
it furnishes to them. 1t may be said, we
got along without it before the gas works
were built. 1t is also true that we used to
get along with talIow dips, and yet there
is no person who would forego oil for tai
low, and gas is as much super ior to oilas oil i,
to tallow. Every small town in the coun-
try now uses gas, and it will not do to
have Cairo go back to oil. lfit could be
shown that the gas company proposed to
charge an exorbitant price, then there
might be some reason to abandon gas blu,
since they have made a proposition rs rea'
sonable as could be desired, the council
should lose no time in accepting it.
OUR RAILROAD lSTEREsT.--The presen