The daily Cairo bulletin., 1880-09-16

undertaken.
The attempt to establish the system OF
telephone lines, in this city, is meeting
with marked favor among our citizens,
Mr.. Kent has already received twenty ap-
plicatons from citizens for its establish
ment in their respective homes and now
needs but five more to have the requisite
number to justify him to proceed in the ac-
complishment of his purpose. In the
other cities whose citizens have so
far adopted ii, the benefits derived there
from have surpassed the most sanguine ex
pectations of its most ardent advocates.
The merchants are enabled to
dispense with errand boys and are enabled
to transact all manner of business in their
Offices in few minutes which, under ordi-
nary circumstances, required hours of time
and long walks. Families and citizens
generally are saving the expense of
market boys and are enabled to secure
every thing they need in the household
merely by speaking the wish into wooden
tube. Enterprising retail merchants have
even gone so far as to establish the lnstru-
ment in the homes Of their customers,
in order to secure their trade, and
facilitate the ordering and delivery of goods
Friends living miles apart, in different parts
of the city, are enabled to chat socially with
one another about the latest fashions, or to
arrange matters of greater importance.
Great mercantile houses and manufacturers
are using them in the transaction OF their
multfarious matters of business and lntelli-
gence and newspaper offices have found
them indispensable. What the telegraph
and the railroad have done for nations and
tor the world at large, the telephone is do
ing, on smaller scale, for the communities
As the former have had civilizing intiu
ence upon the entire human family, and
established better understanding and
more permanent friendship between peo-
Piles; so the latter will bring the inhabitants
of city into closer relationship; tend to
increase sociability; to elevate the general
status of society, and insure more
general good feeling among all
classes and individual citizens.
But it is superior to the telegraph in 50 far
as it can be used by all who understand
and can speak language 1t is not neces-
sary to learn new alphabet, or string Of
word signs, in order to enable one to use it
and hence 1t can be used to transmit alike
the papa" of the prattling babe, and
weightiest message that can be articulated.
1t is to be hoped that our citizens will
give Mr.. Kent all necessary encouragement.
Gen. Haskell and his army had fair
attendance in his tent last night, and held
the close attention of his audience. He
began by reference to what is generally
called the aristocracy and INDUCED in a
severe criticism of that elment saying
that it had been one of the bitterest op-
ponents of the temperance cause. He
could see no difference between becom-
ing intoxicated on wine and
getting drunk on whiskey. From this he
| passed over to a more direct consideration
/ of the mode of temperance reform. He
. lauded moral suasion believing that it had
! accomplished much good where other inhu-
ences might have failed, and that he would
not now detract from It's power. But he
! held that it alone was incapable of etfectlng
, the end sought by earnest temperance re-
, formers All that the enemies of drink all
over the country had so far been able to do,
was to hold the demon of rum
at bay, and that stronger efforts must be
made if he should be destroyed. Whisky
was backed by legislation and the strong
arm of the law; it had for its votaries some
of the most influential public men in the
land and had established itself in every
community with a irmness that detied
all opposition. The dealer was
licensed by law to sell his wares to whom
ever he pleased, and with a disregard foi
the misery he caused that was diabolical
he resisted, with all the power at his COM
mand any attempt to curtail his traffic
He did not believe in concentrating the e.
fort in the direction of temperance reform
entirely upon the drunkard, but thought
that heavy hand should be raised, and
bitter warfare waged against him who
makes the drunkards. Men came to city
and for anumberof dollars bought from the
authorities, the privilege Of dsrupting the
prosperous and peaceful state OF the com
munlty; they brought riot where there was
quiet; crime where there was virtue; misery
and want where there was happiness anl
plenty. Moral suasion had no power