The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1878-11-29

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on the record"
The st. Charles valise thief has not been
captured. The imply valise was found
near the Mississippi levce.
There was runaway yesterday after
noon, the result of which was badly
smashed up wagpn-the property, We hear,
OF Mr.. Klein.
- The observance of Thanksgiving day
yesterday, was qaite general majority Of
the business house becoming closed, after 10
o'clock in the morning.
= The vcstymen of the Episcopal church
will hold meeting at o'clock this eve
ming, in the office of Messrs. Green Il Gil
bert, City National Bank building.
The death of Major Robertson is an
nounced. He was, for some length Of time
division superintendent of the Mobile and
Ohio railroad. He died in Jackson, Tenn,
on Wednesday last.
Thanksgiving services were held in
Episcopal and Presbyterian churches, yes
terday, the Methodist congregation attend
ing the latter church. The day was also
observed in the colored churches.
They were delayed perhaps--we refer
to three car loads of turkeys and chickens
that were to be seen in the /. c. yard yes
terday, awaiting shipment to Southern mar
kcts. A thanksgiving meeting was in pro
gress among the turkeys, suggested, no
doubt, by the delay that kept them off the
Southerner's thanksgiving table.
- The fresh fish business has very decid-
ed drawbacks. AS often as two or three
times a week, Mr.. Sproat is compelled to
throw away great packages, weighing at
times hundreds of pounds of white fish,
trout, salmon, bass, ETC., because Of the ap-
pearance of faint in the gills. The body
of the fish remains untainted for day or
two after the gills commence giving out
suspicious odors, and for that reason it is
mystery that they are not snapped up by
the boarding house keepers If they only
COULD be worked up into Sausage!
The temperance people of Macon coun-
ty appeal to their co-workers in other parts
of the State, to unite in petitionto the next
General Assembly for an amendment to the
constitution, entirely prohibiting the manu-
facture and sale of intoxicating drinks. We
do not think that public sentiment is ripe
for movement of this character Indeed,
since moral suasion has proved such an
effective agent in weaving men from their
cups we feel disposed to urge acontinuance
of its use and not seek to force men to do
that which they can be more easily persua-
ded to do. The time may come, and that
within the next few years, when the propo-
sition submitted by the Macon county
people, will command the hearty support
of a majority of the voters of the common
wealth but that time is not now. Hun
dreds and thousands of men belonging to
temperance organizations will oppose the
movement as impolitic and premature
and without grand pressure from the tenn
perance men of the state, as a compact and
united body, the effort will prove still-born,
and stand in the way of future efforts letter
grounded. Our advice, therefore, is TO
wait awhile.
About midday, yesterday, as many
as fifty or sixty loafers, tramps, dead-beats
and vagabonds gathered in groups in the
vicinity of the stone depot, and discussed
in an earnest manner, the "blarsted chances
Of the poor man. Not more than a half
dozen of the whole crowd had the remotest
idea how or where they would get their
dinner; but we question it seriously if one
out of every five Of them would have ac-
cepted a job Of work had it been rendered.
Contirmatory of this conclusion was the fol-
lowing conversation: rs there much cot
ton to pick in Arkansas Dead loads of
il, re piled theman addressed. "Well, re-
joined the first speaker, "why didn't you stay
therel' "Stay there" CALCULATED the
other" Catch me att. The old biz.
card | worked for wouldn't have
every-othcr day pickers, and when a
man can live by working half his time, he
ought to quit living-thats me-" The
growl Of approval this defamation received
showed quite plainly that the speakers six
or eight listeners were in full sympathy
with him-and no doubt regarded the
planter who insisted upon saving his crop,
even at the sacrifice of the picker's luxury
Of idleness, as very great monster-as a
man whom it is the duty Of every la
boring man to "spot" and remember.
-Laboring men who accumulate little
money, come to Cairo, spend part Of the
money for whisky, and lose the balance
while drunk, are entitled to no pity. But
such is the experience of at least two out of
every three of the class named, who get too