The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-07-10


surface for all manner of vehicles.
Tho postponed picnic OF the Comique
band will take place next Sunday at Gun
ninghams grove, The affair is under the
management of Harry Walker, and all that
was promised for the fourth will take place
on that day. Refreshments Of the season.
fine music, sectional dancing floor, the
finest fishing in the country and amuse'
ments for everyone. Go and enjoy day
in the woods
The meeting Of the Reform club and
the Ladies Christian Temperance Union at
the hall on Tenth stree! yesterday evening
is said to have been very interesting. The
various features of the evenings pro
gramme were highly entertaining, well
rendered and well received, We regret
our inability to be present for we know
that we would have enjoyed them. The
meeting was under the management Of the
Ladies' Christian Temperance Union, who
labored hard to make it what it was.
The Argus of last night claims to have
one hundred aud fifty more subscribers
than The BULLETIN, but is very careful
not to say how many subscribers it has.
The only way its circulation can be discoy.
cred is by referring to the newspaper dlrec-
tory, published yearly, and III it we find
that the Argus is quoted as having
five hundred subscribers The same
directory quotes the circulation Of The
BULLETIN at one thousand and three hun
bred. We find these figures IN II. 7. Hub
bard's Internationally acknowledged
the most reliable directory in the world
Of course, the Argus will deny rs truth
fulness.
Below we publish copy OF letter from
Auditor Needles correcting an error that &C.
Cured in his office in making UP the state
ment Of the Equitable for publication, The
company has not single dollar Of resisted
claims on its books.
STATE OF ILLINOIS AUDITORS OFFICE.
SPRINGFIELD, H., June so, 1880. !
T. 7 Watson, Cashier, Equitable Life Assurance
Society, No. los Dearborn Street Chicago
DEAR SIR Your favor Of Goth inst. at
hand and contents noted The Chicago
Evening Journal has this day been notified
to correct the error in advertisement of your
annual statement. The S313,730 should be
amount of claims in process of adjustment
or adjusted and not due instead Of claims
resisted. Yours, respectfully
Signed 7. B. NEEDLES, Auditor
Mr.. Potter, of the Argus, evidently
believes in mud-throwing. In last
nights issue be loses his temperate has
but little else to lose--and numerically
and without fear for the future world, plays
the part eli a little boy and calls US names.
1t hiss been said Of Abraham
Lincoln that his death came at an ap-
perfume moment for his fame And it may
he said of II. f. Potter that he has already
lived too long by half for the convenience
Of friendly biographers Nevertheless the
newspaper historian must write Mr. Potter
down as large man-with some very small
parts. His mind is strong, but not fine; his
ambition is vaulting, but his methods at
tanning itruthless; his selfshness is deep
rooted, but thinly covered with quicksand.
He has been little seen, hence greatly mag
nifed. Neither does lie desire to be view
ed, but prefers being felt. lie has deserved
some praise, and received great deal; he
has also had a fair share of censure, but
never did he deserve it as now. He may
choose to pursue q course, that is obnoxious
TO the better class Of our people, but wheth.
er or not it is wise to do this time will tell
In the United States district court, at
Springfield, the other day, Judge Edwards
made a motion to quash the indictment
against Henry Taylor for violating the civil
rights bill The indictment charges that,
some time during last summer, the deten-
dant was captain Of the steamboat James
Fisk, Jr, plying between Paducah and
Cairo; that Z. A. Macarthur, colored man,
paid for first-class passage from Metro.
polls TO Cairo; that on the boat he was not
allowed to eat at the same table with the
other passengers, which, the indictment al
leges, was in violation Of the civil rights
bill. The points upon which the indict-
ment was quashed are that the
act of 1875 10 unconstitutional, and that de-
PENDANT is not citizen of the United States,
but subject Of England. The point as to
whether the southern boundary Of Illinois
ends at the edge OF the Ohio river or ex-
tends to the centre Of the stream was also in
volved. The points il the case were ably
argued by Judge Edwards, for defendant,