The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-06-19
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terson; who stole Charley Ross; who sl
Cadet Whlttaker's ears and who is tho
lawful chief of police Of Cairo. On sec
| ond thought, We conclude to add one hun
bred thousand million other things to the
list Of the worlds mysteries, for good
measure.
OF course, business is growing COM
paratively dull with the advance of sum
mer but there are many sigus that the gen
eral state of the trade of Cairo is much
healthier than it has been for several
years. The vast improvement which
has resulted from the past prosperous win
ter shows how great is the recuperative
power of Cairo. A few such years in sue.
cesslon would work a marvellous change,
both in the financial condition and the out
ward appearance of the city. One can
hardly fail TO notice that there is more
general desire to build houses with some
pretensions to architecture. If more care
had been taken at the times when the PEG.
pie Of Cairo had the money to build
anything they wanted-during the
war and Immediately thereafter-we
would now be living IN one of the hand
soonest Of American cities. Why is it that
on some OF the principal streets, in the
very heart of the city, there stand shanties
which would reflect no credit on the slums
There must be something wrong. The
owners of this property, surely, cannot OBJ
tain an adequate rental from the tenants
who occupy such novels. Do the owners
OF such property bear their proper share of
the burden of taxationl Sound public
policy would require that the landlord who
persists in being satisfied with shanty
that mars the appearance and disgusts the
inhabitants of an entire neighborhood
should be taxed so heavily as to force him
to decently improve his property.
AT about dusk yesterday evening
gentleman, whose name is Thos. Howell.
called az the police headquarters and re-
ported that he had. but few minutes
since, lost twenty dollars by betting that he
could open snuff box which had been
handed to him by two sleek looking fell
lows at the stone depot. Chief
of Police Robinson, who had pretty
good idea who the confidence men
we're, lost no time in sending Officers Lally,
schuckers and Hogan after them. The
officers, upon reaching Twentieth street
saw their men and after attempting to run
up on them in roundabout way, and fail.
ing to catch them, saw that the only way
they could effect their arrest was to tire
them out by Running after them and
accordingly put after them with a hearty
good will, Officer Lally taking
the Cairo and Vincennes railroad track and
being in the lead. The rascals, however.
stretched their legs enormously and hav-
ing good deal the start of the officer were
making the matter of catching them
difficult job for the officers,
when Officer Schuckers was met by
little boy on horseback
and taking the horse, overlook the men at
the Cairo and Nincennes round house.
They were brought back to the city, locked
up and will have their hearing to-day.
The gentleman vino lost the money, Mr..
Howell, of jackson, Tenn, contemplated
leaving the city for home last night, but on
second thought concluded to postpone his
departure until after he had appeared
against the criminals.
The business man has charming and
somewhat provoking disregard for the
grammatical construction of language. In
his business letters he writes very much as
is common in the wording Of telegraphic dis
patches, and omits nominatives, preposi-
tons, occasional verbs, and pronouns as if
the world were bound to burn up before his
epistle would have chance to 60 off, But
in the art of advertising he is
still more unique, and the long
suffering proof roader, who has
lead pencil corns on his thumb and fingers
almost as long and as hard as the cheap
pencil he has to use, wastes many minute,
aye hour, IN the endeavor to give uniform
lty and style and symmetry to the mercan-
tile announcement which has come into the
printers hands. Almost invariably the