The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1878-12-04

eide. On the day before his death, he Dade
several of his friends goodbye, and invited
them to his funeral. They regarded the in
yitation as the idle talk of a drunken man
but Fred was in earnest, and that night
took dose of morphine that ended his
earthly existence.
AT conclave of the Cairo Command
cry, No. Is, held Monday night last, Sir C..
w. Dnnning, was elected Imminent Com
mandcr, Sir Charles Wilson, Gcncrallissmo,
Sir viii X. Murphy, Captain General, Sir
G. w, Henderson, Senior Warden, Sir p.
W. Barclay, Junior Warden, Sir +. Kors-
meyer, Recorder, Sir John Antrim, Treas
urer The following officers were appoint
cd: Sir Stephen Mcbride, Standard Bear
err b. F. Parker Sword Bearer, Leroy C..
Church, Warden.
II. +. Bouton, editor Of the Joncsboro
Gazette, was in Cairo yesterday and paid
TmE BULLETIN office friendly visit. Mr..
Bouton publishes the best county paper that
reaches our exchange table Its local de-
partmcnt embraces the accidents, incidents
and happenings of all the towns in Union
county, up to the day of publication, and is
thus rendered necessity TO every intelli.
gent family in the county. The Gazette is
furthermore, the oldest paper, excepting
one, in Southern Illinois.
The Board of County Commissioners
made very favorable Roadway yesterday,
dispatching large amount Of business Of
the usual routine order. Sundry reports
were examined, claims passed upon, and
the business of the term so far advanced as
torender an adjournment this evening quite
probable. Verbal notice was given to the
proprietors of the different Cairo papers to
bid for the county printing for the coming
year, The BULLETINS contract expiring
with the commencement of the present
term.
--Messrs. IIinkle, Thistewood & Moore
are, and for several days have been, in the
full tide of operation, in the work of
slaughtering hogs, cutting and packing. An
unavoidable consequence is an abundance
of very toothsome trimmings such as ten.
der-loin, spare-ribs, back.boncs, pigs'-feet
etc, which are sold at something less than
one half the price ordinarily expended fr
other meats. Pure, fresh, sweet lard is alo
put up by the firm. in packages of suitable
size TO accommodate the demands Of FAM
lies. From 800 to 700 hogs a,e slaughtered
daily.
About ten days ago, one William Ayrs,
of Santa Fe, was committed to our county
Jail for refusing to perform the road labor
required Of him, under a lawful order of the
Board of County Commissioners. He re-
manned confined until yesterday, wien,
signing an agreement to return home md
perform the required road labor, he was lis.
charged. Concerning the legality Of Mr..
Ayrcs' protracted imprisonment, we donot
feel competent TO express an opinion; but
Of one fact We are certain, and that is that
his stubbornness didn't pan out" to his al
vantage any.
The majority of our readers were pei
sonally acquainted with William Ehlcn,
the Twentieth street shoemaker. He len
Cairo two or three years ago, and, with bis
family. took up his residence in Greenville
Miss. He was among the early victims OF
the yellow fever his child soon followed,
then his wife. Thus the whole family be-
came extinct, and that too, within period
OF ten days. Years will clapse, perhaps,
before We shall know who among us has
not lost a relative or friend by the terrible
epidemic that so fearfully ravaged the
southern country.
The opinion is quite general that four
years service in the circuit or county clerks
Office, ought to make the incumbent rich;
bur the reports on record fail to confirm
such an opinion. The allowance to the cir
cult clerk and his deputy is only 1890 per
annum, and this amount is payable only
out Of the earnings Of the office. The re-
port Of the clerk submitted to the Board
of Commissioners yesterday, showed that
all the cash received fell $4O3 short of the
allowance. If this deficiency is never col
lccted by the clerk it will never be paid.
In other words, the office is made sclf-sus-
tanning.
The thrift and improved morals of the
people have marked effect in lcssening
our county expenditures. Six or eight years
ago the bills for dieting our prisoners ran
up from $500 to 81 200 per quarter, while
the expenditures on account of paupers and
poor persons amounted to $4,000 or $4,000
per annum. The better times and i'm.
proved morals of our people have wrought
a change that is us gratifying as it is wonder
full. The paupcr bills have been reduced
nearly or quite one-half, and what the
charges for dieting confined criminals