The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1878-11-12

| vi system ol WclBHts anu ihcusWTcs ti',l'
will apply TO every load Of coal or wood
they dispose of. 1t would impose but q
trifing expense upon the dealers nothing
more than the cost of wag0n-beds that
would contain ton Of coal or cord OF
WOODLANDS so constructed as TO indicate
quarters. Such an arrangement would sat
isfy the buyer, and protect the dealer from
the unjust unwarranted, harsh and inhuman
suspicion Of giving short weight and meas
ure. In short, it would prove step toward
a business millennium, and for that reason
alonethe BULLETIN ought not to intcrpose
any objection.
We hear grumblings among our ship
pers, not loud but very deep, because of al
legged determinations in the matter of
freights, against Cairo. II is said that
Cairo has no advantage, in the cost of NOV
ing South-bound freights, over St. Louis.
In other words, the merchants Of Jackson
Tennessee Columbus, Mississippi, and other
points South, can have their st. Louis pur-
chases laid at their doors at about the same
figure they would be compelled to pay
should they effect their purchases in Cairo
If these complaints be well grounded the
determinations form an abuse that affects
TO a greater or less extent every citizen of
Cairo. We shall, as opportunity serves,
push inquiries in this regard, and deal with
the facts as the occasion may seem to
require.
Our community was considerably
shocked, yesterday, by the announcement
of the death of Mrs. Magner, mother in
law of Mr.. P. Mockler, proprietor of the
Delta House. Some weeks ago she was
taken i'll, and tor time she was named as
one of the victims of the fever; but she re-
covered, and for time was in the enjoy
mcnt of her usual health. About week
ago she was again taken down, and her dis
ease soon developed into case of acute
jaundice. Of this disease she died. Her
remains, accompanied by relatives and
friends, were conveyed to Villa Ridge,
where they found sepulture in the Calvary
cemetery. Mrs. NJ. had resided many years
in Cairo, and was loved and respected for
those traits of character that marked her a
faithful, careful and industrious wife, an
affectonate and thoughtful mother and
good neighbor, and sincere and open-heart-
ed friend.
The AIgus-Journal is disposed to deny
that We have had single case of yellow
fever In Cairo during the past season. We
should very much dislike to see the Al.
make such an intimation good Resting as
we now are, under the conviction that the
yellow scourge did gather in small harvest
here, we can profit by experience obtained
and fence it out of our city, when again it
approaches, as Mound City and Columbus
and all the towns and villages around us
did. But prove that the bronzed terror
was not here, and you rob US of all ASST
rance that the same pestlence may not
come upon us at any time, in mid-winter,
spring time or in hot weather. We will be
in constant suspense, for if it was not yellow
fever, like that which devastated Hickman,
Memphis and Grenada, then it is disease
peculiar to Cairo, that may come and go
once in century, be upon US every summer,
or remain in our midst constantly. We
want none of that. We prefer to call the
disease by its right name; and show to the
people in the years to come, that we can as
effectually close our gates against it, as we
have against the floods Of the Ohio and
Mississippi rivers.
"A colored man named Merritt Billiard,
who resides with his mother on the corner
of Fourteenth and Walnut was seriously
hurt yesterday afternoon, while at work in
the stock pens of the Illinois Central rail
road. He was engaged in loading cattle
on the cars for shipment, having, as is Gus
tomary with men SO engaged, a stout club
or pole with which to punch and belabOr
refractory cattle. He was in the act OF
opening the gate that communicates with
the schultz, when number of cattle dashed
against it with great force, the gate catch
ing his bludgeon in such manner as to VIC
lently thrust the end against the lower por-
ton of his abdomen. He Immediately fell
to the ground in great agony, where he re-
NAMED until assistance came, placed him in
a wagon and took him home. At four
o'clock in the afternoon he was suffering
intensely, every nerve and muscle Of his
body being in constant culver from the
intensity of his pain. 1t is believed tina,
his internal injuries are Of most serious,
if not of fatal character. Their exact ma.
turc, however, had not been ascertained
when we saw him.
Observation-Disclosures, mince meat, apple
butter, and the best line of pie fruit, at thu
New York Store.