The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1878-11-27

hotel and business house of the city, and til
merchant who employs its columns mos
literally viii! have share, correspond
ingly large, of the profitable trade the hol
idays will occasion.
Certain members of the Cairo Turne
society give notice Of an entertainment il
Turner hall on Thanksgiving evening, t.
which everybody will be welcome wht
comes provided with half dollar witt
which to pay the admission fee. The pro
gramme consists in part of pleasant LITTLE
comedetta entitled the Harvest Home,
and sundry gymnastic and trapeze perform
ances of daring and interesting character
AT the conclusion of this advertisement
the crowd will whir away in the may, OF
the more intricate evolutions of the quad.
rifle, contra-dance or Virginia reel. A good
time is anticipated, and we see no reason
why such anticipations should fall short of
realization
| Barton, of the Carbondale Free Press,
talks like a father" TO his Republican
brother Davis, of the Radical Republican,
Of this city. The latter gentleman ven
tured to express the opinion that it is not
essential that the gentleman whom the Re
publicans of the Illinois legislature may
choose to represent the state in the United
States Senate, should outswear the army in
Flanders, should be able to digest "pota.
tons polite deep Of whisky and brandy, or
should flourish the handle of Major Gen
eral. Barton shrewdly construedthis honest
admonition into an attack upon Logan, and
replied with all the venom of an irate ad-
der. He told his friend Davis that the tri.
umph of the Republican ticket in Alexan-
der county, for the first time in five years,
was due to the fortunate circumstance that
he, Davis had been scared away from
Cairo, and renamed away until better Re.
publicans than he had worked out victory
To this he cruelty added that Davis was
dead weight to the party in the district,
and that it i'll became him TO return home,
after the work had been performed. and
engage in the work of defaming men, the
latchct ofwhose shoes he Davis, was, in
political sense, unworthy to loose. And so
on, and so-forth. Where the end will come
in we can't say; but end where the contro.
yersy may, it presents a spectacle that is
from our democratic tand-point, perfectly
charming
We visited the primary school build.
ing, located on Eleventh street, yesterday,
and were we'll pleased with the order that
prevailed, and with the air of cheertulness
that seemed to animate all the little ones
in the building. At every turn of the ma
chinery of the school room, We we're furn-
ished convincing proof that the right kind
of relations have been established between
teacher and pupils. In other words, and
to employ a thread-bare phrase, Mrs.
Rogers, the teacher, is 1.-THE right woman in
the night place no, not the right place,
either. The right place would be a build
Ing with seating capacity for at least two
hundred children, with not less than two
recitation rooms, and two subordinate
teachers. With an attendance of something
over one hundred children every day, and
seats for only seventy of them, the disad-
iantages under which both teacher and
scholar labor, are too manifest to call for
mention. Mrs. r. does all that anybody
Gould do, and much more than the
average teacher could do, under the cir.
but the situation is such that
'he can scarcely do justice to either her
elf or the children. 1t should, therefore.
become an object with the Board of Educa.
ion to provide for the wants Of Mrs RS de.
,artment. The need of funds has stood in
he way, most likely, but better run in debt
han have scores of children deprived of the
cry means Of education that our laws are
imposed to guarantee to them. As our
eighbor over the way is wont to remark,
We shall refer to this matter again"
Bob Nichols, resident of Beech Ridge
recinct, in this county, is well known to
lumber of our citizens as man OF verac-
y. lie is also known as an expert with
he rifle and shot gun. This Bob Nichols
! responsible for the following story. Par ,
ally within the limits of Beech Ridge
cities vast lot of bottom timberland,
nown as the Turkey Flats Within the
lemory of the writer Of this paragraph,
lcse flats abounded most abundantly with {
irkey, wolves and deer, to say nothing of !
iurrcl and smaller game. If Bob's story {
c true, it still retains traces of its departed q
lory. One day last week he had made
he rounds of the flats, bagged all the SPUR
i he could conveniently carry, and was r
Gcrtaken by nightfall before he reached n
is domicile. The only fact that rendered
his circumstance peculiar, was that he was
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