The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-10-23

| TRAIN lOuus VI NHo stuhi "h" 10 uisposlnS
1t nearly as fast as it arrives. From wlic
= fact we draw the comfortable conclusio
l. that coal oil, as a fire kinder, is fallir!
!. into disuse,
We heard that two highway robborie
were committed between midnight ant
daylight yesterday moining, in the vicinity
:. of the round house. Making inquiries OF
y the ground, however, we couldn't find any
: body who had heard of two robberes. of ont
: robbery, or even of an attempt at robbery
: Like rumors can be heard in any part o.
the city, halt dozen times day; but they
don't "trace up" to anything,
If the active young men who prepare
four thousand copies of the Chicago Time,
for delivery at the post office, every hour
will have care not to dab the direction
slip directly upon that paragraph of the
first page which Of all Others in the paper
the reader is most anxious to read, the
active young men will not, as now, be re.
sponsible for great deal of expressed and
unexpressed profanity.
If the editor of the Argus, who is un-
necessarily solicitious about the consist
ency of THE BULLETIN, will furnish us the
editorial criticisms Of which he speaks, we
shall certainly give them place in THE
BULLETIN. Furthermore, if he will favor us
with the names of exchanges that contained
criticisms that he didn't clip, we will obtain
copies of the papers, and add the criticisms
to the others. We are somewhat curious
to see what they amount to-
The second examination of constable
Tom Echols tor the killing of the negro
White, instituted before Squire Spence,
Monday last, resulted in q second acQuittal
a complete eXhoneration from blame.
During sixteen years service as constable
and deputy sheriff, Echols never before had
occasion to fire upon anybody, and, although
he feels that the law fully excuses him in
this case, he says he'd feel immensely more
comfortable if the ugly affair had never
occurred
Very properly, we think, the police is
bestowing attention upon the homeless,
purposeless fellows who find lodgings IN
empty railroad cars warehouses, sewers, and
lumber piles. Yesterday morning officer
Schuckers caught three chaps of that class,
to wit: Henry Weis, Thomas Kelly and
John Marphy, as they were leaving their
respective quarters, and conducted them to
Squire Robinson's court, where they were
| fined ten dollars and costs, each, as va
grants. They accepted stay of six hours,
and promised most faithfully to leave the
city. In tie event they fail to observe their
promises, they will, in police parlancc, "be
picked up and run in
Now that the merclless Utes have
killed off the agent at White river, and all
Of his assistants; turned and destroyed
everything that was subject to destruction,
the government has concluded to establish
garrison there for the protection Of the
property. Had this been done a month
ago, when the agent was pleading for sol,
diers to protect the lives and property at
the agency, the act would have been wise
and discreet. Now that both have been
destroyed, the government is about to sub
ject itself to ridicule by locking the stable
door after the stable has been robbed of the
horses.
Mr.. Gerould's hunt for pure drinking
water is calculated to discourage the idea
that such an article Is to be found at any
depth within the reach Of ordinary means.
At depth of one hundred and forty-fve
feet he struck 4 hard substance, which he
supposed, from the character OF the over.
lying stratum to be species Of conglomer-
ate. We are not geologist enough to argue
from these facts and speculatons, what
kind OF strata follow; but il, as Mr. Geroud
intihates, our prospects of reaching pure
palatablc drinking water depend upon the
contingencies he names, they are not such
as are likely to stimulate any further search,
If, by building a high.watcr road out
Of Cairo on line that will form the best
possible connection with theroads that ram,
ify Alexander and Pulaski counties, we
should bring about the construction of pro-
tcctivc entertainments that would reclaim
the great bulk Of the lands hither to Cache
river; and if, following the reclamation, the
lands should be leased out, cleared of their
timber, and cultivated as cornfelds, cab.
bagc and potatoe patches, gardens, etc.,
if, all this should follow the construction of
of the road, could we, would we, survive it!