The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1877-05-09
From Washington.
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Irregular Correspondence ofthe Bollet.n
WASHINGTON. May. ISL.
There seems to be a good deal of use
less mystery in reference to the date OF
the assembling of the Forty-iitth con-
grcss in
EXTRA SESSION.
The mystery, It's said. Will be cleared
By the presidents proclamation, to BE-
issued to-day but it is generally under
stood that it will be on the lth OF June.
which is certainly 4 better day than the
18th. since it will give more time for or
canization and work before the smtry
dog DAYS. Il will be remembered that
"BLvE JEANS" WILLIAMS,
The present governor OF Indiana. when
he was member OF congress heroically
threw himself into the breach and
staunched the Niagara of lemonade that
was draining the country OF its sub
outlets of congressman. Our legislators
were in the habi. Of quaiiiug great
draughts OF this liquid. SO grateful to the
heated yisccra after nocturnal saturnalia
But when Blue Jeans come to congress
he "shut down on it, and sat down on
it," Why should this greatest repub.
lie, the envy OF surrounding tribes, etc.
90 into the lemonade business: 1t is
opposed 10 all maXims of political econ
omy for nation to enter into compcu-
ton with The mass OF its subjects-old
negresscs, for eXample-who sell lemon
AIDE OH the street corners from wooden
buckets, ice cool, only five cents a glass.
hope you will not think that your cor
respondent is surrept!ously advertising
lemonade, much less ridiculing the econ
omy of the governor OF Indiana. There
are
TWO MLN
From that state, no longer in national
politics, who deserve each monument
from the national government, but a head
stone with tho truth inscribed will suffice
4 life.like statue OF one Of them woul'
! be no better than an aesthetic scarecrow
while as TO the other, although OF heroi
head and figure. the expense of monu
ment would be opposed to the theme an
labor of ms lfe--a reduction of the pub
Ii: burdens. The remark that Judg
Holman, OF Indiana. saved the people
sum OF money equal to his weight
gold, is short OF the truth.
shall not forget VIII It heard from
prominent Republican member when i
babe the
GREAT PRACTICAL ECONOMIST
goodbye, at the close ofthc Forty-tour
; congress. Judge" said he, Il ha'
been very angry with yon when Won o
: posed Us but look upon your dcpar
4 ure from public lite "a public cllau
ity..' But to return 10 the suhiec
Blue Jeans stopped the leak il govern
| mcht lemonade. There was no mo-
reason why the government should SUI
ply its legislators with lemonade tina
, that it should supply the babies OF sa
legislators with condensed milk. u
, would be practically impracticable, +
while a large number Of diflere
shades Of complexion are in Washingto
Identification would be pulling al
ycxetious. Now when member
congress has been drinking too much
FIERY STUFF,
the fountains OF lemonade being dri,
up, he will be compelled to go to SOC
fountain or a pump for his antidotc, al
this brings me the beginning, the pr
priety of an early extra session, wit
an a ljuurnment, if possible. before Il
heat Of summer makes il necessary f,
senators to wear anything 80 unsenat
rial a. linen busters and palm leaf tan
Apropos Of the weather.
STRING HAS CONE
|, on schedule time BY the almanac. b,
there j. nothing in this raw. chilly atmo
phere 10 suggest her geniel presenc
still we know by the house cleaning, b
the moving Of furniture, By the prett
girl in the treasury department hayin
Laid OF her fur trimmed cloak, and b
the milk AMI butter which taste .of CARL
that .pring il here. spring radiant
roseate. ! had in:euled.to write a neat
tidy apostropha to spring, q mcritoriOu
subject that is too much neglected, but
lind myself at the bottom OF the pagt
] ana will merely suggest that it bcin.
broad and original field, some writer wi
yet make reputation by devoting hin
:. self 20 the unhackneyed theme. &.