The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-02-12

correct accountant, and very obliging
and courteous gentleman The office was
never filled more satisfactorily, and the
people Will make no mistake if they elect
Philis TO be his own successor
-. We hear it said that we are to have a
colored calNlidate for City Clerk. If, in imi-
tation Of the old know-nothing example, the
colored voters or Caro- unite upon him be-
cause of his color, he will be elected-pro-
yidcd the game isnot "scotched," by concert
of acton on the other side.
We had a call from j. H. Mulc0hey, of
Commercial Point, yesterday, who came in
to lodge complaint against the postal SER
vice between Cairo and Goose Island.
THE BULLETIN failed to arrive
on time; and he regarded such
a deprivation as too much for average hui
man nature.
The somewhat notorious Phocion How
ard, who figured quite conspicuously in the
Senatorial contest between Logan and
Oglesby, is said to be the jerks Howard"
who, manyyearS ago rama paper in Paducah,
and, at later day was connected with the
Golconda Herald If this be true, well,
show are you Jenksl"
The House Committee on Commerce
reported 100000 for the improvement of
the Mississippi between the mouths of the
OHIO and Illinois rivers. As it's thought
that the bill will pass under a suspension
OF the rules on Monday of next week, Cairo
should be on the alert. if it is the purpose
to look after our interests IN that quarter.
If Uncle Sam feels himself too poor to
repair the Custom House flag pole, we shall,
upon proper assurance of that fact, circu-
late subscription paper among our Re-
publican friends who fly the flag from it
under various pretenses, for money enough
to put top section to it. AS it now stands
an unseemly stump-it is an eye-sore to
every patriot in the city.
An irate parent, with a thunder cloud
in his countenance and a three-foot COW
hide down his pantaloon leg was lettering
about the custom house block, yesterday,
keeping a lookout for the negro who had
stigmatized his little daughter as a puny
specimen of poor -whito trash" 1t may
be stupid negro who insuted the child;
but if that father finds him he'll make him
smart" by process both severe and sud
den.
The county Jail contains eight inmates,
all of whom, we hear, are awaiting the &C.
ton of the Grand Jury. While it may be
true that all these prisoners are guilty of
the crimes imputed to them, not more than
two or three of the whole number will be
convicted. This result will ensue because
the charges, in the main, having been pre-
ferred by strangers it is not at all probable
that the said strangers will come to Cairo,
a distance Of Il hundred miles or more, to
appear as witnesses.
Sarah Williams, regular bi-monthIy
patron Of the police court, was before
Judge Bird yesterday, under the same old
charge of vagrancy. There was no doubt
Of her guilt, on the mind Of the court: but
Sarah had proved such an Improbable
customer in the calaboose; had eaten four
or five hundred dollars worth Of prison
grub, without the least promise in the
world of q moral revolution. The Judge,
therefore, accepted her solemn promise
that she would put herself on her good
behavior, and let her 90.
-Four or five of the most valuable dogs
owned in the Fourth ward have been killed
by poison, within the month past The
malicious villain who administered the
poison has been careful to select the finest
dogs he can fnd--generally large New
Foundlands. The last dog poisoned be-
longed to Mr.. Miller, late ,Jaior. Sheriff
Hodges shaggy cur, one of the largest dogs
we ever saw, cot dose several weekssince
but resisted the effects until day or two
ago, when he stretched himsclfout and sue
cumed. The party guilty of this hcartless
mischief, be he man or boy, deserves to be
severely punished; and if discovered will
be punished to an extent that will make
him curse the day he yielded to such a
cruel heartless impulse,
A gentleman who has resided in the
South during period of twenty-five years
scouts the idea that the several deaths that
have recently occurred in Memphis and
Grenada are chargcable to the presence OF
yellow fever germs. Cases Of precisely the
same character have occurred in Montgom-
cry and Savannah and other points that es-
capped the yellow fever altogether, 1t is a
. disease peculiar to the South, and prevails
. to greater or lesser extent every winter