The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-12-02
LOCAL MATTERS.

before Judge 0lmsted yesterday and sworn
out warrant against Mr.. Balfrey, the
Fourteenth street school teacher, for exces-
sively cbastising him. The trial will prob
ably come off to ,day when the facts in the
case will be brought to light.
City Engineer Chas. Thrupp has been
at work for several days at the Illinois Cen
trail railroad company's road embankmcnt
that is being thrown up below the Halliday
house. Thirteen teams have been employ
ed until yesterday, when the bad weather
prevented further. operation for the time
being.
Almost the entire of yesterday tore
noon was consumed in Judge Olmsted's
court by holly contested case in which
Mr.. Thos Meehan and the American Union
Telegraph company were the interested
parties. 1t appears that the company had
carried their lines through Mr.. Meehan's
corufield without his permission and claim
ing that his field was damaged thereby, he
resorted to the law for redress. Judge
ment was rendered in his favor-the court
fixing the damages he had sustained at
sixty dollars.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton thinks women
ought to write their names in full as she
does, and not allow themselves to be repre-
sented by letters, like spool Of thread or a
barrel of flour. A spool of thread or a bar
rel of -four is much more useful than most
Of the women who like to display their own
names. A woman may be as vain and fool
ish in one way as another, and she may as
we'll exhibit her vanity IN dry goods as in
the pomposity of her name. What if Mrs.
L. D. L. n. Southworth were to be led
astray by this absurd notice of Elizabeth s?
What printing office would be able to stand
the strainl Not The BULLETIN.
Young ladies, IN the language of
slang, often "kick" the young men, thereby
breaking their hearts and driving them to
suicide, but it is seldom that we hear of a
young lady kicking" herself into sorrow.
A few nights ago at Earlham College, near
Richmond, Indiana, after the lights had
been turned down tor the night, the merry
girls concluded to indulge in the luxury of
a kicking match. AS long as they kicked
in rational manner and to a reasonable
height with only one foot, hilarity reigned
supreme, but when ambitious Miss John
son, of Hokomo, attempted to kick square
yard of plaster from the ceiling with both
feet at once, it resulted, as all such cases
should, in gloom and misery. The reck-
less young lady lost her balance, fell heavi-
ly to the floor and was so badly stunned
that she had to be taken to the nursery,
where she still lies suffering from a severe
attack of nervous prostration-and other
injuries. Moral for the girls BE sure
you're right, then kick ahead.
The Springfield State Journal (repub-
lican) says: "Hon. John II. Oberly APP
pears to be in request as the editor of the
democratic papers at several points in the
state. 1t has already been reported that,
at the expiration of his term of office as
railroad commissioner, he would go back
to his first love, THE CAIRO BULLETIN. 1t
is also stated that strong combination of
Oberly and Dowdall, of the Peoria Demo-
crat, has been projected-we forbear, in
this connection, to quote Oberly's remark
about Dowdall, several years go;-again,
there have been rumors that Oberly was to
find field for his journalistic genius among
the "moss-backs" of Quincy and Adams
county, and still later we are
informed that the discouraged and
down trodden democracy of Mclean county
were firmly impressed that the penacea for
all their woes would be discovered If he
could be placed at the head of bourbon
organ at Bloomington. While it is evident
that what the democracy OF Illinois want
in order to give them success is more popu-
lar ignorance instead of more intelligence,
it is difficult to see how their condition is
to be helped by multiplying their news
papers. However this may be, we predict
that Mr. Oberly's career as newspaper
editor, wherever his lot may be cast, will
be much more brilliant than that he has just
closed as democratic candidate for secre-
tary Of state"