The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1878-08-06

himself through the columns of THE Bull
LETIN as a candidate for the office Of sheriff
Of this county. OF Mr.. Hodges, personally
it is needless for us to speak. No man in
the county has larger personal acquaint-
ancc, or more devoted friends. His know
ledge of the duties of the position is thor
ough, and has been acquired by long eX-
pcrience andhard work, and in the discharge
of the office branch of the shrieyalty he has
been uniformly civil and obligingS
never failing 10 give satisfaction to the hun
dreds whose business bring them in CON
tact with him. while as the executive
officer of the laws we can safely look to
him for discretion and trmnesS. Mr..
Hodges is in every way worthy to fill the
office to which he aspires.
The Jonesboro Gazette in abiding to
our comments upon the remarks o. its Anna
correspondent about DR.. Wardncr uses the
following gracious language; We were
not aware that DR.. Wardner had this eXpe-
rience in the government hospital. We are
also assured by the doctors friends in Cairo,
and in Anna and JOnesborO that he is a
good tinancier and possesses all the Gle
ments to make "A firSt-class superintendent
of the hospital for insane, in this place.
We have no doubt that should the trustees
appoint DR.. Wardner they would do the
right thing, and that the institution would
be conducted in a superior manner under
his management, together with the assist
ance of his estmabc wife, who is Il lady of
superior ability and sterling worth, and who
has always taken great interest in charita-
blc institution, OF the state.
In Sunday mornings issue of THE BrL-
LETIN in our statement in regard TO the
Golden Crown, we doubted the truth of the
report that there was any yellow fever on
board the boat We were led to this be.
lief by the assurance of Il trustworthy gen.
tleman who had been thoroughly convinced,
by Captain Walker. master Of the Golden
Crown, that there was no yellow fever on
on his boat. We had the same authority
for saying that the Captain had said that
the health officer at Memphis pronounced
the boat clear of the disease 1t is now
evident that Capt. Walker imposed upon
the creduity of our informant, and that
There could have been no intention
to cast any reflection upon Dr. Dunning in
the discharge of his oncrous and vcXatious
duties, AS our reporter got no information
from him, and did not know what the doc
tors opinion Of the Golden Crown was, or
what course he subsequently pursued to-
ward the boat. The opinion Of the doctor
that the yellow fever was on the Golden
Crown, is confirmed by the following dis
patch from DR.. Erskne Of Memphis -
"Memphis, Tenn, Aug. > 1877. To'Dr
G. W. Dunnng :-Golden Crown had three
cases of yellow tcvcraboard when she passed
quarantine at Memphis. J. II. Erskine
health officer
Capt. 5. /. Davis, the National Green
back candidate, Mas the attraction at the
courthouse last night. The house was
well filed, and listened attcntivcly to the
speeches made by Mr. Ingram and Capt
Davis. Mr.. ingram opened by making
some personal charges against Judge Allen,
and then gave away to Capt. Davis who
made an elaborate speech on the financial
issue. The portion Of the audience in ac-
cord with the grecnback idea seemed pleas
ed with his remarks; but, in our opinion,
he fell tar short Of Mr.. STEELE in ability rs
Il rcasoncr and, probably without knowl-
edge Of the fact, made some very palpablc
miscellaneous. For instance he said Scna-
tor David Davis, Of Illinois, had made
an investigation Of the treasury OF
the United States and found dis
crcpancy in its accounts Of over
two millions of dollars. For this reason
he took much merit for his own party.
"Why was not this found out bciorc!'
he inquired, and his inference was that the
old parties would not discover such die,
honestes. The fact is, Senator David Davis
made no such investigations but Senator
Davis, of West Virginia. Democrat, did,
and he did it after making repeated at
tempts during five long years to get at the
books This is Il fair specimen of the
ignorance displayed by Mr.. Davis in his
speech. We acquit him of an intention to