The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1871-11-21
LETTER FROM ANNA.
SOUTHERN ILLINOIS 90 UNION COUNTY
ANNA AND HER ESTERrRIsiNG BusI-
NESS MEN, ETC.

Correspondence Of the CAIRO UulIctln.
Dame Nature has been ever generous to
| Union county. She has given us good gifts
with lavish hand. With fertile soil n
| splendid climate, immense FORESTS, mex
hsustiblo quarrics vast mines Of coal and
minerals, thousands of ncrcs OF corn and
wheat, and fruit orchards upon every hill
side and in every valley, ours is much
favored land and our people ought to be
prosperous, contcntcd and happy Egypt
| is the svnonymon of abundance suggcs-
| two of n land where milk and honey flow,
whore corn, wine and oil abound where
hunger, thirst and poverty are unknown
Yet, with all her grand opportunities, her
natural gifts and great resources Union is
less progressive than she ought to be In
some respects she is Sio,r, and has not kept
step with the march Of Improvement
Her best resources are undcyclopcd, few
railroads cross her Mills and valleys, not
1.-THE Of her mines have over been fathcmcd,
vast fields Of coal remain undisturhci, cn
deposit for future generation, and Trim-
eval forests rcmain untuochcd upon, some
VI her hes, acres,
In some measure, the lack of progress in
Egyp, is attributable tc inhcrcu, fegyism,
traditional with largo class OF her pco-
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'"'"''S' " use '"' same N"'" " '"'" ma
chirerv to cschcw innovations and new
'"Ns''' '"eaN 10 gamer money a. '"'
stones al 'h' Ga sp'ins gamer moss, WIN
40 intent ~ use '"' '"'H ~ h'a'@ ID an"
to look ssSanee at new departures i
'ae normal e'na'i'o 80 loo many ~ on
a.lve population
Tie one great cause az 'oT lack "' 'aa
aegr"e . Hr'>9t''y 'AN' N'r'"'fH '''''.''
. enjoys .e> ~ VIC Nh'l - H&..''-" CON i'e
tifon,
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their mill. Tic Alden Frui. Dryino
cor,,.rro,e ,,,,i,, mn . 900 Oc0 .s,.l.
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Meanwh'Ie number oil nc" business
houses have been adaed 10 our commercial
i's' recently """ '"'se ""'"o'' VI ""e"-
ihgs nave peeh D"I''
Inc northern wing oil tAe southern Ill
mos Insane Asylum l. rapidly approach
ing completion
This constitutes about one fourth of the
| whole building and will cost over two
hundred thousand dollars, 1t will of it.
self, be Il stately aud magnificent struct-
| ure, but, by itself wholly useless to the
| State-as il canno, be used until the main
| building is completed. Unioue and rath-
err debateable taste has been disploved nv
tho orchi,ect in orromon,i,,, r,I ~, al
ce. The arches over every window and
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6laek brcks-pre.cntip, = motley and
radical miv,,ro -, ,l7o,. and chit
Tboro oro oolnurs c,rhi,o hrioI ., oacl
,ro;o,,ion and oorror ana o,tornst,
s,rino. 90 ,,hi,o and hlocL ru,riro oloo,
o,onra no ,,ua;,, ,i,io,, :, Co..
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