The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1872-12-08

OF carbolic acid on or about the person
would prove ~ effectual a preventive as
vaccination, and the continued use of IL
would prevent any serious consequences
following an attack Of the disease" Car.
bolic acid is a good thing in its way, but a
little vaccination, with the acid would, in
our opinion, be decidedly good thing.
The county court at the next regu.
lar session, will appoint an assessor of
real and personal property in this county
Who is the coming man for this impor.
tant position ? Is there any man in the
county better qualified for II than Mr..
Thomas Wilson, He is thoroughly post.
cd in the value of town lots and farm
lands, and his experience in tho State
Board Of Equalization would be valuable
to him as assessor. His appointment
would, we believe, give satisfaction to Cit
liens of every shade of politics and COL
or.
The central elevator company are en-
gagged in q valuable enterprise-that Of
deepening the river bed the whole length
Of the elevator so that steamers may land
at oil seasons Of the year. When the river
Is at low water mark there will be twelve
feet of water at the elevator landing. The
company brought from Chicago a dredge
boat, two mud scows and a tug, all OF
which are used in tho work of removing
the mud from the river bottom. The mud
shovel weighs ten tons. 1t scoops the
river bottom at q surprising rate, soon
filling a mud scow which is towed out in
the stream some distance from tho ele-
vstor and emptied. A large force 10 at
work paving the bank to make IL secure.
Judge Bross visited Mound City yes
ter]ay on road business, and reports that
the highway commissioners for township
Is range west, have levied tax Of thirty
cents on tho hundred dollars valuation.
This tax will in part be expended in max
ing that portion Of the Cairo and Mound
City road lying between Cache river and
Mound City. We hope the city council
of Mound City will be as liberal as the
council Of this city has been, and devote
that portion Of the tax collected within
the corporate limits OF that city for the
purpose Of helping in the construction Of
the bridge across Cache rive.
Yesterday morning, we looked
through the establishment Of Parson, Da.
Wis l. Co. These gentlemen are doing a
thriving wholesale business in china.wsre,
glassware, cutlery, toys, etc, etc. They
are now all hands busy in filling the or
ders crowding in on them from southern
and neighboring points. and are daily
sending off invoices of goods from one to
many hundred dollars worth each. Their
stock occupies space equivalent TO six
store-rooms Of Thorntons block. The
firm has been so largely engaged in whole.
sale business, their retail department is
not neglected. They have on hand, and
are receiving daily china-ware, glassware,
mirrors, cutlery, lver.plated ware, vases,
ETC., etc. In time for the holidays, they
will display An elegant assortment Of sill
ver-pls:ed ware, intended to cast into the
shade anything Of the sort ever opened
in the city. In cutlery, they have a fine
stock Of tAble-knives, pen.knives, scissors
etc. Among the last, they have an article
which tailors, seamstresses aud shirt max
ers will regard as invaluable. 1t is but
ton-hole scissors, which by the setting of a
screw, may be regulated to cut button.
holes any size desired. The scissors can.
not slip, and the length ofthe button-hole
in any garment is certain to be Uniform
The price of this simple instrument is SC
low that it is within the means Of every.
body
1t has been suggested by prominent
citizens Of Pulaski county that move.
ment should be inaugurated to annex &c
Pulaski that part of Alexander county
| lying between township line, west of Sd
principal meridian, and the present line
between Alexander and Pulaski counties
This annexation would include the city OF
Cairo, and, as Mound City will, in very few
years, be the Eighth or Tenth ward of this
city, the Pulaskisns are willing to yield to
US the county seat as soon as the annexa.
ton can be accomplished. We are in
clined to favor this important project.
Alexander county is too much like linked
sweetness long drawn out, Clear
creek precinct has nothing in common
with this part of the county, and
nearly all the country precincts are
inclined to occasionally 60 back on Cairo,
when any project i, suggested for her vel.
fare. The contamination Of the sugges.
ton above made would throw Cairo
coupled with our sprightly Mound City
suburb, into Pulaski county, while the bal.
snce OF Alexander county, relieved of our
hateful presence, could establish the
county sea. ut Thebes, as Of old, and q,
leisure plod along paying the interest on
the Cairo and Vincennes and Cairo and
st. Louis railroad bonds with as much
grace IS possible. In this event, the old
courthouse At Thebss and the Ave &C res
Of land attached to it, would DO what
they are not now, of consid-
erable value to Alexander county. We
are informed that Judge Msrchidon is
heartily in favor of this project. He is Of
the opinion that, if Thebes were made the