The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1878-04-05

tilC VI lie Vi thO ShhlNc W
Colorado occupying central position,
directly over the main entrance A nag
pole, seventy feet high, will DO erected
in front OF the building. from which the
stars and stripes will be thrown to the
Partisan breeze.
AT the exposition, we will, all things
considered, make
A PRETTY FAIR DISPLAY,
especially in agricultural produce and
implements, edge tools OF all kinds,
hardware goods generally, and electrical
apparatus. One very interesting ex-
hibt will be the complete process OF
making shoes by machinery, the
machines being the same as those which
recently carried off number of prizes in
Belgium. Among the states, California
is prepared to make the most snowy dis
play, and her exhibition Of minerals will
be the finest the world has ever seen. A
pyramid, twenty feet square at the base,
aud slxty>seven and.a-half feet high, will
represent the
10000 OF CUBIC INCHES OF GOLD
which has been produced on the Pacific
coast. This mass would be equivalent
to solid block OF pure gold as large rs
u square room sixteen feet in height,
length, and Lrcadth. Encrcling this
pyramid there will be fifty plate glass
showcases, in which will be artistically
arranged the mineral wealth OF that fay
ored section.
| THE APPOINTMENT OF JCDGE sCOFIELD,
OF Pennsylvania, tn The reglstcrship OF
the treasury department, made vacant
| by the sudden death OF the late register
Allison, and his acceptance, has caused
not 4 little comment in official circles
here. The high social and political pos
sition heretofore held by Mr. Scofleld in
state, his long and very prominent ser,
vice in congress, his candidacy for the
Office OF secretary OF the treasury under
Grants administration, and for the
iudgeship OF the United States district
court these facts. coupled with his I'M
doubted legal attainments, have had the
effect OF casting ridcule on him for ac
ceptlng q place purely cIerical-a sort
of
CHIEF BOOKER rERsHIr,
whose most arduouS dulles consist in
signing his name on an average OF q
thousand times day. If he does make
himself at all familiar with the records
and red.tape system of accounts, OF the
office over which he presides, it will re-
quire years OF irks0me labor to get the
run of the machine; and even then he
will have to confess himself Inferior as
| to posting. to many OF his subordinates,
vino have entered the department as mes-
sengers. But the reeistership, with its
salary Of four lhouand per annum, is 3
soft shelf for brOken' down or
BREAKING DOWN POLITICIANS;
yet it appears to me that il political
hacks are to be provided for in that way,
it would be well to elect poor spe-
| cimens of the animal, and not wealthy
ones. like Mr.. Scofeld, worth hundred
| thousand dollars or more.
SENATOR PADDOCK,
| OF Nebraska, who is chairman OF the
senate committee on agriculture. has,
with commendable energy, been engaged
recently in collecting the statistics of the
diseases which affect hogs. lie has, in
consequence, become alarmed at the
number aud violence of these diseases
and the frlghtiul mortality which pre-
walls among these animals. With view
OF checking this yearly dead" loss OF
capital, which, he believes, can be sttri.
buted only to tho ignorance which pre-.
walls in regard to this matter, he pro-
poses to draw up bill asking congress
to appoint commission of three of the
best veterinary surgeons In the country,
to inquire into the causes and proper
remedy Of these diseases. Hogs contract
measles in early life, as some of their pro-
toty pes of the human race often do. They
also have pneumonia, scarlet fever,
smallpox, al. the throat diseases; and il
they survive oil these, they are very LA
BILE to be taken with consumption. His
bill Will doubtless pass, for sympathy Is
such powerful thing.
Speaking of a senator naturally leads
me think OF
I Tue BODY TO WHICH HE BELONGS.
The ACHIEVEMENTS of the senate, during
the week just past, have been compara>
lively few and unimportant; the passage
Of bill to encourage tree-planting on
government lands; and, three days after.
wards, the passage OF the so>called "Lit-
tie Deficiency Bill" The net result OF
the weeks work Is, therefore, almost in.
visible. The house passed bill to re-
form the advertising of mail-contracts,
and the naval appropriation bill, whose
specifications are minute beyond pre-.
cedent, and therefore well calculated to
prevent abuses in the expenditure of
moneys.
Senator Howe's speech against the nd,
ministration created some
| TEMPORARY EXCITEMENT
but that has all blown over, and that re.
minds me that, while travelling "out
west" during the last election. l saw this
dipnified and venerable senator. whose