The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-08-02
THE DAILY CAIRO BUILErN SATURDAY MORNING AUGUST 1879

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tam controlling ownership. Near by an
other man staked of claim which he sold
to the Buckley Mining company, Of New
York, for $i45,OO0; and this company, in
an outburst of generosity, let other parties
have S2,0O0,000 of their stock. Within n
scope of country not more than ten miles
long and three miles wide, fully thousand
claims have been located, more than half
ofwhich are being worked, the dumps of
the shafts assaying an average Of over an
hundred ounces Of silver to the ton, with
nearly two ounces of gold. Men who start
ed from the States penniless, and walked
the distance from Denver, are now, at the
end of twelve months, Silver-clitf million.
aires. The saw mill men are rich beyond
computation, and yet it is said that the
wealth of Colorado has scarcely been
tapped. Yes, we have about made up our
minds to 60.
-"Pete," like "Antl-Hog," has COM
plant that he desires shall find utterance
through the columns of THE BULLETIN.
He writes us as follows Judging from
the droves of dogs running at large IN the
streets one would naturally suppose that
our city authorities cannot grapple with
more thin one evil at the same time, to-
wit: the yellow fever |, for one, say
either abolish the dog,tax altogether or en-
force it. Probably twenty-five people in
the city who happened to own dogs worth
having, went and paid the tax IN good
faith; and as an offset to that example of
good faith we have at least forty dogs run
ming at large upon which no tax has been
paid, for every single dog that tax has been
paid upon and wears his tab to show the
fact. AS the dog business is now conduct
ed am disposed to think that any citizen
who pays the tax is what the lamented, but
profane Greeley would call ga d f.
All of which is respectfully submitted,
etc.
In our need Of repotorial help, cor
respondent who signs himself "Anti-Hog,"
comes to our assistance with drive at the
city authorities. His chirography is so DIFF
ticult to decipher that he will readily find
it in his heart to excuse us should we mis-
translate him. ut seems" tour correspon-
dent seems to say "a strange thing that
our city authorities who pirate so much
about cleaning up and who have brought
the thing down to such fine point that |
saw lady forbidden to throw little wash
water in the street-it seems a strange
thing, repeat that their common sense
does not open their eyes to the nastincss of
the nuisance making hog. ANY, knows
that il is the nature Of the hog. in hot
weather especially, to root in the mud and
cutters. AS consequence when Mr. Hog
finds gutter or ditch with An inch of
water in i, he forthwith begins roofing and
wallowing, and very soon the inch of water
is great nauseating hog wallow. 1t may
be that our honorable authorities suppose
that it is only the boar hogs that create the
nastiness, and keep it in active duty.
judge this to be so because Of the edict re-
Gently issued, declaring that whatever other
hogs might do the boar hog must not he
allowed to run at large. Hog owners
couldn't have paid less respect to it had it
been verbal order from old Bill Lee
All Of which is likewise respectfully sub
mitted for the pious consideration of whom
it may concern.