The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1872-02-29

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Innumersble boxes, barrels etc. were
gathered up ard placed on vacant lot in
| the lower end Of the city. But toward
the last OF the count IL became evident that
Winter had "pe;ered out'--"gone where
the woodbne twineth," and when the vote
Of the fourth ward was amour ced, those
who had gathered about the huge mass of
boxes, barrels, boards, ETC., awaiting the
order to touch the match to it and kindle
the fire that was to inform the citizens Of
Cairo that sack Winter" was the mayor
elect, skulked on like so many whip.
ped ours. But the material for the FIRE
still remains where il was deposited, and
If II is not burnt until Jack Winter is
elected mayor Of Cairo, then 1t never will
be burnt
THE TOBACCO TRADE.
The Cairo tobacco market has opened
this season with unprecedented favorable
auspices. The liberal manner, in which
the Ballard tobacco ware house
was conducted during the last year,
and the superior quality Of the tobacco Of
this immediate vicinity, has won for this
market a most envahle reputation, and
each succeeding sale day may be seen
among the board of buyers present many
new faces. So tar this season every pound
Of tobacco put upon the breaks has been
taken q, highly remunerative prices and
orders are now in for large proportion OF
+ the present crop. The crop grown along
, the Cumberland river is now seeking, and
will continue to seek an outlet to the sea
board via Cairo. West Tennessee anc
southwest Kentucky tobacco has al
ready commenced TO come to this, IT.
natural market. The planters of the sec
tons above referred to are to be congrat
ulated that in Cairo they have found
, market SO accessible, and where their to
!, bacco can be disposed Of at as goo
prices as can be obtained in any market i
), the southwest. We quote from sales {
;. :. last Friday, as follows;
Planters Lugs................. Sc 50Cd7 8
Low Lugs...................... Z OWd9 U
Good LuSs."................. Oo(dt3
as Bright Wrapper. ..."...".lb 0Ot9l5 0
IS A FEW WORDS.
ne Mr.. Carl Thomas has thought necessal
cd to publish card to clear up suspicion
he concerning his vote for police magistra,
Of some of his German friends having char
be ed him with voting for Col. Winston al
ne threatened him with a withdrawal of bu'
ness and frien dship We regret TO belle
that any of the German friends of N
in Bross would be thoughtless enough
MI had almost said mean enou
10 to make the threat said to hs
ro- been made against Thomas. VIII
&C.. if he did vote for Col. Winston
as the fact that he preferred the Colonel d
at German to Mr. Bross-to be made &c
the reason for sporting" him? We cam
!. believe that any German would indulge
such narrow, contracted smallness. I
:, people of that nationality are intelligt
: and they ought to be tolerant; they oue
Peo to recognize tho right of q member
ave- their own nationality to vote against a
''s' German he does not believe worthy {
- office he is seeking, or for an American
~ thinks better fitted for the office sought
than his German opponent. To do less
VII 60 -os"rroos know-nothinsism in Its wo'
form-is TO be clannish and bad Americ
citizens. Carl Thomas didn't, b
be- Carl Thomas had the right
ss- he had SO desired to oppo
MIN Bross or any other German, a
his the German who denies him that right.
W. now seeks to punish him because he is ;,
S'Ii pected of having exercised it, is a SUI
VIII specimen Of German know-nothing, a
the sooner he learns few lessons
= American tolerence and common sense I
better.