The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-07-21

ing's issue Of The BULLETIN, Col. Oar
Rice has purchased the steamer Champion
from Mr.. Andrew Bird. The Colonel in
tends to transform her into novelty in the
way of museum and opera house. He
yesterday closed the contract with the
Hamblcton Bros, of Mound City, for hav.
ing the necessary changes made, and will
have her out as soon as possible on hel
grand new career as the only floating
amusement palace in the country. Col
Rice has harbored this scheme tor years
and with his experience with the people
and the various means of entertaining
them, he has no doubt that this new enter.
prise will prove entirely successful. Al
any rate, whatever many years of intercourse
with the amusement loving people Of the
entire United States has taught him, and
his natural talent as a judge of human ma.
ture together with all that money, labor
and indomitable energy can do to make
this new enterprise the grandest affair OF
the time, will be done. We hope that Col
onel Rice will have ample reason to con-
graduate himself upon his success in the
undertaking.
The Democratic congressional conven-
ton meets at Carbondale for the purpose of
nominating candidate for congress from
this district tomorrow. We stated in yes
terday mornings issue that, in our opinion,
Mr.. Hartzel would be the best because
the strongest man to nominate and we still
believe so. But it has been said that a
clark horse is to be run in as acompromise
between two factions that are said to exist
in the party. If it is true that such course
is necessary in order to insure harmony in
the party, it is to be regretted. If how
ever, it must come to that we hope that a
good man will be selected. There is no ex-
cuse for selecting any other kind, for we
have plenty of good material in the party.
Judge Green is spoken of as one of the
'dark horses" and we must say that, if we
can not have Hartzell. it would be the
heigth of wisdom to agree upon him. Of his
eminent fitness for seat in congress
1t would seem almost unnecessary to speak,
since his reputation extends over the en-
tire state and into Kentucky and Missouri
He is Democrat by birth, and it can
not be SAID that he has not been and is
not now as consistent Democrat as there
is in the country. He has lent his services
to the party willingly and without stint,
during these many years of successful de-
feat He never stood back when his
efforts could contribute in the least to the
success of its nominees and often sacrificed
his own interests to those Of the party and
the people, He is shrewd lawyer, an
eloquent, logical speaker, whose argument
at the bar or on the rostrum never fails to
convince, and these, together with his
many other qualifications enable him to
cope successfully with whatever opposition
he would meet in the halls of congress and
to see and perform the duties that devoved
upon him as the representative from this
section of the state. We believe him to be
specially fitted for, and well deserving of
the place, and would gladly do all in our
power to elect so worthy man.
Two young men came to this city,
from Ballard county, day before yesterday
and after becoming intoxicated landed at
the cottage on the corner of Eleventh and
Commercial. Having obtained permission
to make themselves as comfortable as pos
sible they laid down to sleep and while one
of them was resting easily in the arms of
Morpheus the other relieved him of his sill
yer watch and chain and twenty-five dol
lars in money. Upon awakening he found
his partner gone and discovered
his loss, but not being acquainted with
city life or the ways OF the
world generally, he failed to
notify the officers of the affair
and undertook to find the thief on his
own account. He tramped up and down
the various streets Of the city until about
four o'clock yesterday afternoon when a
disinterestcd party informed Chief Robin
son Of the affair and that gentleman at once
his subordinates of the loss and
tried in various ways to gain clue as to
what route the thief had taken, but at the
present writing his whereabouts is un-
known.
The thought has doubtless occurred to
our readers "does Cairo suffer from absen-
teeisml" Certainly not seriously. 1t must
be borne in mind that there are two classes
of absentees and that between them there
is nothing in common. A portion Of the
real estate Of this city is owned by absen-
tees who permanently reside abroad, who