The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-04-18

10 Tic many NolcIs Vi tHc iHlTu Wuru WHO
have solicited him to run for reelection to
a seat in the council that while he is very
grateful to them for the friendly assurances
they have expressed, he is compelled, new
because of the nature of his bus
mess engagements, to decline candidacy.
lie will not, therefore, under any circum-
stances, become q candidate.
The "busness boom" of the Planters
House, on Friday, was next to the ''patri-
otto BOOM" in honor Of General Grant.
The list of arrivals was too large for the
space we devote to that use, hence the omis
sion of nearly one hundred names, Mine
host, Thompson, proved himself equal to all
the demands of the day, however; his ar
were complete, and his great
crowd Of patrons were more than satisfied
they were delighted.
Police circles were quiet yesterday.
A few cases before Squire Comings consti
tuted the entire business of the day, Squire
Robinson being out on his farm Sin the
country" Three black men were fined for
and disorderly conduct, and
two white men were subjected to small
penalties for the same offences. THIS, and
q small penal int1iction upon young man
who was beguiled into ''sQuabble" on
Tenth street, formed the sum total of the
police business OF Saturday.
Elder Shores was abroad among the
sovereigns, yesterday, and commanded the
attention of considerable groups of them
everywhere. He proposes 70 make 1t lively
for his opponents, and to show them that,
although it Is possible to distance "Old
Virginia" in the race, they will find
that he is neither "wind-brokcn' nor
suffering from the "striug-halt.' Shores
is cut out, comporeally, for police
magistrate, and would fill the Office with
dignity equal to the demands of every
occasion.
A colored gentleman whose political
preferences and convictions amount to
tierceness, declared yesterday, that "it was
a id shame that Democrats was admitted
to anticipate in the deception Of General
Grant to Cairo" IF I'd had my way"
exclaimed this ardent Republican Of sable
hue, "I'd discluded every Democrat from
the ling and run the circus on publican
principles discluslyely" Wherefore, a
score of our Democratic friends will be
very apt to eXclaim: "There now didn't
I tell you?"
The Illinois Central excursion train
that left Cairo at o'clock yesterday morn
ing, dashed into an open switch at Elkville,
near Du Quoin about 80 a'clock, and, as
Bill Howe expressed it, "diffused herself
all over the neighboring country" For
tunately nobody was badly hurt, and
none Of the cars very seriously
damaged. The Grant special train and the
south bound passenger were delayed, in
consequence, several hours; but the report
that "this was an attempt 70 kill Grant, we
regard as the merest bosh-stuf.
The Centennial celebration and EXPOSE
ton to commence at Nashville, Tennessee,
on the 3rd instant, promises to be one of
the grandest affairs of its character ever
seen in the South. 1t will be continued un-
til May Goth, and as people from all parts
of the United States will congregate there,
scores Of our people will certainly be among
the number. Reduced rates have been secur-
don all the routes of travel thither, and from
Cairo as well as from other points. All in
formation desired will be cheeriuly furn-
ishcd by Capt J. F. Miller, of the Green
Line.
The election for two members of the
Cairo Board Of Education, yesterday, ex-
cited but little attention. Those citizens
who should have interested themselves,
were not to be seen about the polls. 1t so
happened, however, that the result was
precisely what 1t should have been. Mr..
George Fisher and Mayor Thistlewood
were reelected without opposition. Only
eighty.three of the seventeen hundred votes
of the township were polled, and all of
these were thrown for Mcssrs. Fisher and
Thistlcwood. THE BULLETIN is pleased
with the result.
John H. Barton, caustic, fearless
writer has purchased the material of the
Tamaroa Watchman Office, and will remove
it to Carbondale, where he will at once re-
commence the publication Of the Free
Press. Some time ago Barton admonished
Hon. John X. Thomas of "rod he had in
nicklpn for him. and we shall not hn cir.