The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1871-05-23

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prominent wants.
Our lawyer-preacher, Gordon Turner, is
arranging to build large brick building
on the corner east Of the Winstead House.
The Miller Brothers will put up two
story brick block of buildings on Main
street this Summer.
Other improvements are In prospective
and our town is progressing rapidly. She
will soon take her place among the cities
of the Garden State.
The Golconda Herald and the Anna
Advertiser are brilliant newspapers. They
are organs of the party that possesses ali
Of the intelligence, refinement and ele.
gance in these United States.
| The Herald discourseth Of nAinerican
Arstocracy" thusly:
American sristocracy rest upon about
as firm foundation ss the misty
visions of a dream.
Misty fiction seems to be the editors
.forte.-He says Of tho aristocracy; at
1, the boast of doubt-the fabric of
hope" Tho editors friends cannot "boast
Of doubt about his being an excellent
modern Dogberry. According to the laws
Of compensation the Herald editor ought
to be a very handsome man. Ancient
Oogberry says-"to be well favored
man is the gift Of fortune; but to write and
read comes by nature"-and Dogberry was
a model Radical. The "fabric Of hope
woven upon an imaginary loom; the
warp of cob-webs and the woof of the
moonbean,'s watery rays" would make
arsre garment for the parvenu aristocra-
cy down in dixie where dark browed
Etheips and dusky Didos revel in marble
halls, metamorphosed into semhlance Of
humanity by the magic wand of Radical
ism. l wonder il that "fabric" has an an
chor for trade mark.
Quoth the Herald: 1.-THE very essence
of this nation consists of Its being very
crucible in which true worth true nobility
and true grsteness is separated from the
dress, even though it be clothed in satin
and broadcloth." A "very crucible" made |
Of "very essence" would be a splendid
alembic in which to distil the editors eff
fusions, ifthey should ever be suspected Of
"a trace Of common sense.
He is u little discouraged
in his grammar, but right
in the notion that broad cloth and satin
often hide . great deal OF "dross." He
talks Of "grinning skeletons from the
past" tearing down "Aimsy castles of
pride, &c, leaving "not one brick upon
another" If he hath a "brick in his hat"
there's brick upon "a brick for surely
the Herald man is "a brick r.
Our Anna Advertiser has occasional lu-
cid intervals, lately. There is some pow
er behind the tripod, making some i'm
provement both in the mental and physi-
cal departments" Yet it occasionally ex-
hibits plentiful lack of attention to what
Mr.. Curdle calls "the unities of plain
English. Mr.. Curdle says "Tho unities,
six, are completeness-a kind of univer-
sal dovetailedness with regard to time and
place land grammer and orthography)-l
. sort of general oneness-if / may be
allowed SO strong an expression" Mr..
Curdle would have made an excellent
Radical editor.
While wishing Joel G. Morgan the sue
cess in his enterprise at Shawneetown, to
which his talents, energy and fidelity to
Democracy entitle him, we Annsites very
much regret that he did not choose our
town for his place of labor. A live, well
conducted Democratic paper, devoted to
the interests Of the county IN general
having for its motto: "No pent
up town contracts our powers, the
whole boundless county and vicinity,
including "the universe is ours -
would be we'll supported. The fate Of the
Herald which was established under favor
able auspices, but declined and went under
in a few months, is not a fair cri-
terian. The laziness of its first,
and the weakness Of the second editor |
would have killed any paper. A fair re-
view Of the circumstances connected with
he origin and management of that paper
would encourage rather than discourage q
correct observer, for it proves that our
people are very generous so long as the
'bject is worthy. Our citizens donated in
lash $500, and borrowed for the office $780,
making a thousand dollars, which sum was
lsed by the editor and p publisher, Mr.. Rich,
n putting up the office. A good sub
cription list was raised, and advertise
nents were generously furnished. When
he first paper was issued, the Office all
lew meterial, had cost about $l,4OO, and
Mr.. Rich had less than $4OO invested
n the enterprise. 1t rarely hap
'ens to an editor to have SO good an op-
'ortunity of making money as was then
'ffered Mr.. Rich. But there is no excel.
ence without great labor, and Mr.. II, was
lot fond OF labor. Half the energy and