The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1878-07-27

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levee and has not been heard from since.
The train due from st. Louis at four
o'clock yesterday morning was delayed by
the engine breaking down near DuQuoin
This will explain the failure of our citizens
to get their st. Louis mail yesterday
morning,
An awkward blundcr in an editorial
yesterday morning referring to the calling
together of the Democratic central commit
tee of the eighteenth congressional district,
made lis set the day for the 18th of August.
| 1t should have been the 30th of this month,
and the place the parlors of the st. Charles
hotel in this city.
Appropriate exercises in honor Of the
emancipation of the slaves in the islands Of
British West India will he held at Hyde's
Park, on Thursday next. Political issues
| will be discussed by Messrs. j. B. STEELE, Of
| Murph sboro, and Matt. j. Inscore, of
Jonesboro. Details of the celebration will
appear in future issue Of TIE BULLETIN.
The report that there is, o. has been
this season, case Of yellow fever at our
Marine Hospital is not borne out by the
facts as stated by DR.. Waldo. The case to
which we make allusion, and from
which the report doubtless originated is
one of malarial fever, and is at present
convalescent. In its incipient stages it had
many of the symptoms of yellow fever
a not unusual circumstance.
The rain yesterday was welcomed by
all nature. The dust in town had
become almost insutferable, and vege-
tation everywhere had about given up the
ghost. 1t gave new life to everything ami
mate, and to ourselves was as grateful as the
lions share of a square divide of other peo-
pies wealth, or the immediate issue of that
$67 per CAPITA would be. Suitable weather
and sufficient wealth; that comprehends
everything worth having here below.
The small boys of the town have erect
ed a spring board on the vacant lot at the
corner of Eighth street and Commercial
avenue, and spend the greater pat of each
day in initiating the exploits of the be-
spangled heroes of the saw dust ring. We
expect to reap at least one tirst-class item
from the performances there, and thought at
one time yesterday, while watching them,
that the suspicious moment had arrived.
A youthful tumbler attempted the diff
ticult feat of back somersaut from the
spring board and landed upon his back He
lay prone l on the ground for few moments,
but was no sooner up than he was att again
with as much vim as if his little jnsides had
experienced no shock minute before. His
pluck was admirable but his judgment
hardly commendabe.
The political enemies of Mr.. Comings,
who seem to gloat over what they call his
scoop" at Jonesboro, laugh too soon. They
laugh best who laugh last and all the midi
cations are that Mr.. G. will have this pleas
ure. There was time, it is true, when he
coveted the honor Mr. Houpt gained at
Jonesboro, but look over the political field
convinced him and his friends that there
were prizes to be won in the pending canvass
beside which seat in the general assembly
was as nothing. Mr.. G. and his friends, with
remarkable foresight, see that in the next
general assembly the Greenbackcrs,
if not having an actual ma
jority in that body, will be sure to control
its action in the selection Of United States
Senator. Seeing this they gave the Jones'
boro nomination to Mr.. Houpt, with the
understanding that that gentleman was to
support Mr.. Cohiings as the successor of
Mr.. Oglcsby, through thick and thin. The
movement meets with enthusiasm among
Gree1backers throughout the state, and
after it shall have been consummatcd and
Mr.. G. is in u position to distribute post
offices, collectorships, and other fat per-
quisites of his position, those who are now
laughing at what they foolishly consider
his discontinue, will hide their diminutive
heads in sorrow and in shame. Senator Com.
ings, old boy, THE BULLETIN salutes you.
THE BULLETIN has already alluded to
the case of the old man lying sick at thecourt
house. His name isTusten John Gundersen.
He understands English with difficulty and
speaks what little he knows Of it in broken
and almost unintellgible accents. Through
the persuasion of Mormon missionary he
was induced to leave Norway with his wife
about eight years ago and emigrate to
Utah. Eight years among the Mormons
satisfied him, and he and his wife deter.
mined to leave them. They worked their
way from Salt Lake to Omaha, where his
wife found work. He left her there and
walked to St. Louis and from st. Louis
here. On the latter part of his journey he
says he was snake-bitten, and his swollen
and fostering leg seems to corroboratc his
story. About week since county clerk