The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-12-31

correctly addressed letters. The new order
authorizes postal officials 10 send letters i'm
: perfectly addressed, when they know, eth
er personally Of by partial address, to
their true destination. Sensible.
The annual festival of the Baptist sun
day School will be held at Turner'S Hall
tomorrow night. The main feature OF the
} evening will be an cmblamatic concert OK
ercisc entitled "The Christian Graces." We
are requested 10 say that all friends OF the
school and particularly the parents OF the
: children who attend arc cordially invited
to be present
We are almost daily asked to say
something about this holc-that hole and
'tother hole in the sidewalks, but we now
make the declaration that, though we may
offend some of our readers by our silence,
VIC won't say another word about the walks.
1t would never do to let ourselves loose on
on this subject. No. our opinion on it
wouldn't look well in print.
An exchange says that diptheria is
now cured in every case with lime. The
first case cured was child whose life was
despaired of. Small Jumps Of lime were
kept Stacking near its mouth for over day
aud a half, until barrel Of lime was thus
Stacked. The child was thought to lie dy-
ing before this remedy was employed. 1t
constantly breathed fumes until cured
The cold weather or the wet weather,
we don't know which, and don't care, has
cracked the pavement around the custom
house building and has done the job up
fine The pavement was bad enough, in
fact typ bad, before, but now it is still
worse, and men may be seen jumping over
the various puddles with the speed and
dextcrty of locomotives in trousers.
The crossing over Eighth street on
Commercial avenue, on the west side, is an
intoerable nuisance aud our street commit
tee should give 1t immediate attention.
The avenue is too high for the crossing or
the crossing too low for the avenue. At
any rate it is constantly covered with mud
- running on to 1t from the street. Every
path hath its puddle" rs true enough, but
in this instance the puddle hath the entire
path.
An election wall be held in the First
ward to-day for Alderman, to fill the va
cancy occasioned by the death of Alder
man OCallahan. Mr.. II. II. Candee and
Mr. Peter Saup were yesterday spoken Of
as probable candidates, but we have no
positive knowledge that either of them will
seek the office No candidates having an
nounced themaelvcs, the interest mani
| tested, so far, in the affair, has necessarily
been very small and the vote cast to-day
will be very light.
--Justus Cunningham has returned to
| Cairo again. He did not come to this city
as General Grant came to Chicago and
| Philadelphia. No; he came quietly and
decently lie is opposed, as are all men Of
capacity, to show and noise, and is firm
believer in the trucism that empty wagons
do the greatcstrattling. Therefore he came
quietly. But hardly has he returned when
his Jealous rivals are already found speak
ing disparaglngly of him behind his back.
We have only this to say to these men:
that Justus Cunningham is too much their
superior to be injured by their clatter and
| that he will not bclittle himself by throwing
| water on drowning mice.
Our streets were muddy and sloppy
yesterday and were nuisance. A see Of
diluted mud was seen rs Tar rs the eye
could reach. Dray and wagon mules and
horses splashed mud all over The pcdes-
TRANS at crossings. Everybody was mud
dy. Men with pants tucked up plowed
through the mud, children hoped through
it, and women held up their bedraggled
skirts and bravely wadcd through, regard
less OF consequences, present or prospective
Yesterday was Il nuisance from weather
point of view. Above dark, murky
clouds were seen; below as far as the eye
could see, nothing but mud could be de-
tccted 1t was indeed, "bluc Tuesday,
or, more properly, black Tuesday.
The other evening while Mrs. L. n.
Lovelace, who resides on Tenth street, be-
tween Washington and Walnut, was on Il
short visit at a neighbor's, a thief broke
) into her residence by the back way and
''raised cane" generally. The fellow being
hungry, it appears that he first went for the
! cupboard and finding therein prepared
turkey, cakes, and other good things foI
the inner man, he did ample justice tc
r them, throwing that which did not suit his