The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-07-30

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q disposition to SANDER good man for nc
other reason than to make political capital
1t is well known fact that Judge He'll
man has been county judge Of Union county
for number of years and that he did not
earn the title of Judge" by being county
commissioner. The matter would be one
Of no consequence even if the Judge
had earned his title in the
manner the Plaindealer says
and under the circumstances it simply
shows what silly twaddle the Republican
journals are driven to in their attempts to
defame the Judge. The statement that he
was the only man who could be used by
Judge Allen, is silly in the extreme, and
at it, even the Radicals will smile incred-
ulouly. 1t is a well known fact that Judge
Allen favored the nomination of Graham
and not Heilmau,
We mentioned some days ago that
the Illinois Central Railroad company was
removing the old warehouse from above
the elevator, down to a point on Ohio
levee opposite the company's passenger
depot. The work has steadily progressed
until now all but the lower floor is gone.
Twenty-eight laborers and twenty carpen-
tiers have been at work tearing it down.
removing the timbers to the new site, and
preparing to re-erect it there. When this
undertaking has been accomplished the
company will, so we are informed by Mr..
g. f, Jenkins, the foreman commence the
erection upon the spot where the ware
house stood, one Of the largest elevators in
the state OF Illinois. An extra force Of
hands will be employed to hasten the work
of rebuilding the warehouse, and then
work on the elevator will be begun.
A stone foundation is to be built
for it and piles will be driven in
order to render it more secure against
the washing of the river. Mr., jenkins
says the building will be equal in capacity
aud completeness to any of its kind in the
city of Chicago, 1t is to be two hundred
and fifty feet long one hundred feet wide,
and one hundred and twenty-six feet high.
The machinery and inner arrangement is to
be of the latest improved and so complete
in all its appointments that it will compare
favorably with any elevator in the country.
-Four tracks are to pass through the build
ing, so that cars can be switched off of the
main track into it and there be ulloaded or
loaded as may be desired II is to be 50
arranged that the grain, after having been
elevated, can be run into sacks
cars or barges on the river
On the whole, the building,
if built according to the plan as given Us,
will be a credit to the city and the com
pany and prove quite an addition from
commercial standpoint. Our facilities for
handling grain are not nearly ample and
hence much of the grain that goes south
must either be delayed here, as was the
case last winter, go through by rail, or
pass US by. The completion OF the new ell
evator will furnish ample handling capacity
for all the grain that may be sent US, and
will cause more to come this way than
would be the case were no such induce.
ment offered,
We observe recently feeling of ner.
vous anxiety in the minds of some people
because Of the fact, now established, that
the year 1880 is to prove another of boun-
tlful supply in all the great food staples
Most of our exchanges are more or less fill.
ed with predictions based upon statistics Of
production at home and abroad, and i'll.
considered propositions growing out Of the
same. The average merchant--who ought
to be, but seldom is a political economist
predicts great depression in values
upon the assumption that there must
necessarily be this year large
unmayketable surplus, This thing has
been SO dinned into our ears that in COM
mon with others we have half believed it.
In the meantime it is observed that the
markets steadily maintain themselvs on
very satisfactory basis, and evidences mul
tiply that the country is not only prosper
Gus now, but likely to continue SO; in
word, that this country has reached
condition that enables it to undersell
all Others in many lines Of manufactur-
ing, and in all agricultural staples, We
may have toaccept lower prices than we're
obtained last year, lower possibly, than
are obtained at the present momeuts but
the fact has generally been overlooked that
values for the past two or three years have
been maximum and and not minimum, and
that the outlook in the gloomest pictures
drawn, does not justify the belief that
values for any Of the great life.supporting