The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-04-25
AN INTERESTING ELCo LETTER.

VARIOUS NEWS OF LOCAL INTEREST.
ED. BULLETIN
Elco and vicinity people seem to be en-
joying good health, at least doctors com
plain that is dlstressingly healthy.
+, The recent heavy rains have caused farm
ers to cease blowing for awhile, and will
make them later planting corn, the heavy
rainfall having made the ground so it will
be necessary to rebrake it.
Mr.. j. R. F. Standard received fine sup
ply OF drugs last week, which adds very
materially to the appearance OF his stock,
and fills demand in that line that existed
at this place,
Mr.. J. S. McLane is in our town sick
with consumption. He was sent for and
brought here by the |. o. o. F. of this
place. to whose lodge he belongs, who pro-
pose to take care of him. In this we sec
part Of their motto verified, which says,
visit the sick, "reieve the distressed"
Mr.. Editor, we do not wish to write an
extended article, nor weary your
patience, nor occupy too much
of good readable space, but good manners
demands that we should say something in
reply to an article which appears in the
Argus-Journal of the 18th inst. over the
cognomen of "Horse- eats -oats -too," not to
compel her, H. E. o. T., to write again, but
to treat him with that respect
which is due from one member of society
| to another.
In the first place we wish the coats hossp
mot "oats eating mare') to fully under
stand that he has misrepresented us in sew
era ways.
To begin; he misrepresents our sex, as
he understands from the name under our
article in THE BULLETIN, for never in my
life before did ever know grammarian
to persist so strong in trying to make the
pronoun HE personate any living thing of
the feminine gender. So, Mr.. Oats Hoss,
pass over your grammar and divide
knowledge with us or we'll change our
name again and try and find one where you
can't crowd alongside of Us and claim kin
with Us. If you think we are mare say so,
and don't call us che" you make us
ashamed, and we hate to blush In company.
Next, you say that it is your honest
opinion that mare-eats-oats never under
stood any such thing as he claims in regard
to petition being circulated to discontinue
the post Office, and other points in your
article in the Argus-J Journal, OF April 18th,
1880. will answer all at once, without
reproducing different clauses
We say positively that we did under
stand just what we claimed to understand,
in our article in The BULLETIN of the 12th
inst, in regard to the petition, and don't
you dispute II. f. o. T., or Wen change
our name. And, however, we did not
know (aS you charge us, we did that there
was 10 such petition in existence, and not
withstanding you say so, it did not
originate in my mind, neither
was |, p. o. aspirant. But it is
no mystery to US, why you changed
in regard to the new road, for
we know now you could not help
it, and we have learned why. We
do not blame you, if you bieve you are
right, we say to you hold, to your opinion
until you are convinced that you are
wrong, and then change again, but, don't
change more than once in two days
But, we commend you, Mr.. Horse, etc,
excuse familiarity for your frankness in
owning up that at one time you was in ia
vor of the new road, but you are like the
COW that gave so much good milk and then
kicked the pail over; you don't make us
mad, but then you make US think about
our name again when you insin-
nate that we offered you corner LOT to cir
cuate the petition, for you know we could
not afford to pay such Il price without get
Ing deed to the road, and | guess you
couldn't made us y good I'm.
Now Mr., H. +. o. T., we positively
ieny that there were misrepresentation
made to u single individual in
rider to get his name on the petition for
he new road, and further say that
here is not single name Oh said petition
'ut that was put there By the petitioners
'wn hand, or if he could not write, it was
written in his presence and by his consent,
md as for anyone being "bull-dozed" that
S certainly tarfeched, and would gladly
NOV who the victim is, for would like to
ympathize with him. o! Mr.. H., / like to
orgot We had no connection with the fes-y
lval that we are ashamed Of Did your
10, sir that it Is "euphonious and sioni-