The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-01-31

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unanimously signed, and may have the de-
sired effect
The vagabonds who find their way into
our city Jail should be made to work daily
at something, 1t is not enough that they
clean the crossings IN muddy
weather and lay on their backs
aud whistle and sing in dry weather, but
.thcy should be made to work upon our
streets with as mnch regularity as they re-
ceiyc their meals Eighth street and Com.
mercla avenue are in q dsgNccful condi
dition, and these men who make their brags
that they can live upon the city without
labor should be made to keep them, and IN
fact all ourstrcets, in atleast such acondition
that traffic upon them will not be impoSi-
BILE, If the city intends to delay work on
the streets until it is able to gravel them,
they will have gone to the dogs, before that
| time comes
Tally one more for John A. Logan.
Four years ago Chester P. Davis, of Mont.
cello, ran tor Senator. Two weeks before
thu election he became frightened, and, GO
inc to Decatur, implored Senator Oglcsby
to come INTO the district and help HIM.
Kindhearted old Dick responded to the
appeal, and Davis was elected. Last win
ter 0glesby confidently counted on Davis
helping him back to the Federal Senate,
but Davis joined forces with Logan To
day Davis returns home from Springfield
with a commission as Deputy United States
Mrrshal in his pocket The interest in said
commission centers in the fact that il was
made in Washington and not in Springfield
THUS Logan continues to reward his follow
ers. Old man Mayborne or Geneva, and
Mcclellan, of Galena, are the only retiring
Senators unprovided tor,
The counsel for Harnctt Bernard, the
woman who was some time ago sent to the
city Jail by jury of six citizens, for gen
eral had character, have instituted proceed
ings to have her released under writ Of
habeaS corpus. We understand that said
counsel asked Judge Bakers opinion as 10 the
legality of the ordinance under which the
woman was convicted and that the Judge
gave it as his opinion, that the ordinance
was perfectly legal. But, that, if it were
possible to wrench from it any other mean
ing than that which appeared upon its face,
by aprocess of ingenious reasoning, twist
ng of words and general peryersion OF
terms, he preferred that it should not be
done in favor of class Of criminals such
as the woman above referred to was The
Judges head is level--as it always is.
--Carmi Times: Three men have been
killed within the bounds of this county in
side Of year and fourth one is lowering
between life and death from the effects Of a
cutting received last night, A few years
ago it was customary to send to the peni-
Tertiary from this county two or three con-
victs each year, but for the past three years
the number sent up has ranged from ten to
eighteen. These facts would indicate that
public sentiment needs building up
and clevating here, and We
might add that the cleo
ton o. men on account Of their ability and
worth, rather than on account Of their being
good fellows who will set EN- up should
be the first step taken. Those persons who
wear long faces on Sunday, talk so sweet
and nice" at Sunday School, and when on
the streets work for the interest Of men who
are far from being men Of the right stamp,
are to great degree responsible for the
low state Of society,
The bushes, failures in the United
States for the year 1870 thanks to the re-
peal OF the Infamous bankrupt law and the
general revival in business, were only G,GjS
against lO,lis in 1873, showing decrease
OF $3.50. In the amount OF liabilities the
decrease is most marked. This amount in
1879 was sos, 1902, as against s234,3Sl,-
1872, IN 1879 decrease OF l27,234,0S
The geographical distribution Of these fail
ures and percentage in each local
ity afford figures from which
interesting comparisons may be
made. The figures for 1879 show that
in the western states only one trader in
every $50 failed in the Middle States, one
in every 100; in the Southern states, one in
every %; in the Eastern states, one in every
81, and on the Pacific slope one in every A..
These percentages are worth studying, as
indicating more clearly than anything else,
perhaps, the locality in which the chances
of a business man meeting with success are
greatest, as well as the section in which
the condition Of trade has the most rapidly
improved