The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1878-11-02

OCy NhO NOAuhsoAhy hNitS " SOhhbSe WIN
such an insidious and lethiferous an enemy
as is the Yellow Jack. There Is, In such q
conflict, but little chance for either glory or
victory. ,>y~l
--One of the Goods blessings" that at
tend the poor Of this city, IL the cheapness
of coal: The Cairo City Coal Company
will deliver even asingle ton in any part of
the city, for two dollars and twenty-five
rents. With q winter ahead of us that
threatens to be hard one--in financial
sense--we have assurance that even the
poorest need not freeze,
Such of our citizens as formed camps
on Cache river, during the season of panic,
maintained such robust health and found
such varied means of amusement and pas.
time, that they express purpose to pass
few weeks of every summer in like man
ner. With fishing, hunting, nutting and
cribbage.playing, their time passed as
pleasantly as if they were in the enjoyment
of the most welcome dreams
Mayor Winter has no love for The
BULLETIN, but that does not blind us to the
fact that he acted the part Of a humane
and fearless officer, from the commence
ment of our atfliction TO its close. Not
having his own reelection in view (being
informed that he will not be candidate
for reelection, his conduct Is stripped Of
all seeming of selashness, and rendered
such as even his enemies (of which we beg
to assure him we not one) will applaud.
We regret to be informed, as VIC were
last evening, that Squire Shannessv is so
very i'll that nearly all hope Of his recovery
has been abandoned. His health has been
bad for several years; so much shattered,
indeed, that he has been unable to give any
attention to business to which he had
been accustomed. He is the oldest citizen
of Cairo living today, and widely
known as he is, his friends everywhere
will learn of his condition with feelings Of
unfeigned sorrow. :
Governor Hendricks, Of Indiana, will
address the Democracy Of Southern Illinois,
at Carbondale, at 9 o'clock this afternoon.
A special train for that point left Cairo at
4 o'clock this morning, and will return at
5 o'clock this evening. The 5000 Demo-
Gratis that congregate in Carbondale to-day
will have the pleasure Of listening to the
eminent statesman who was seventy.
eighted out of the vice-presidency of the
United States--to which position he was
elected by popular majority Of quarter
Of million votes.
Mr.. Hooper, vice president Of the
coopers union, Of this city, died in the
neighboring town Of Anna, on the Goth ult.
Remaining at home until the germs of the
disease had planted themselves in his sys.
tenn, he sought refuge from danger among
the good-hearted people Of Anna; but too
late The disease developed, and all the
kind attentions he received, could not res
cue him from its deadly tolls. His brother
coopers adopted resolutions Of respectwhich
we will publish when furnished with copy
of them
AS no man is responsible for the natu
raj color Of his skin, the pelting and clod.
ding of negro for no other reason than
that his skin is black, savor too strongly
of brutality to be denominated by any 9th.
er name. Old Dr. Thornton Dillon is
harmless old blatherskite, fully three.
quarters Of a century old, but these con-
siderations do not protect him from clods
and heavier missiles thrown from the hands
of thoughtless boys and ruffianly young
men, He has knots and holes in his scalp
which he owes to the pranks of sportive
youths; and has, as he should have done,
sought the protection Of the law. Let the
harmless old creature be.
We have, in the presence Of q horde of
tramps, very satisfactory evidence that there
is no longer any danger here, of either pes
thence or famine. Many Of them are wend.
ing their way south, where there will be less
call for heavy clothing. And right here we
will take occasion to make public sugges-
ton made to US, to which we attach some
weight. The tramps that reach the city
should not be furnished free ferriage across
the rivers. Trampism has been 90 system.
lied that it is no doubt already widely
known among the thousands Of that class
bending their steps southwark, that Cairo
furnishes them free ferriage. The conse-
quence is and will continue to be, that
Cairo is made an intrepot on their line of
travel. Drive every mothers son Of them,
who refuses to work, out OF the city, or
make him pay the penalty Of his vagabond.
age. They find means to congregate here;
let them find means to get away.
Mrs. Cha,. Thrupp met with painful,
and probably fatal accident, yesterday fore.
noon, while on the way to the station at
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