The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-08-12
NEWS FROM CACHE.

Dear Bulletin
A cool, damp wind is blowing in the win
low as | write and the sky is completely
obScured by soft gray clouds in every di.
yectiOn, toward the orient, the occident the
north and the south looking down the
railroad vista see the thin blue rings of
smoke from the locomotive, which has lust
passed, struggling 10 mount above the trees;
and now the faint rushing sound OF swift
wheels that will be far, far away before
this sentence shall have been completed, is
borne back to my ears in that manner Pc
culiar If your typo makes that FAMILIAR
as he did in my first shall hate him with
the supremest degree Of hatred as heard
Republican say Of DemocratJ peculiar
to moisture laden atmosphere.
All Of which makes us hope that some
time in the near future we shall have to
fly about housing young calves and poul
try, picking up half dried fruit and ad.
J"SN'lS ""NNl SvONNS' VI AAS 4eeN stH
days It has been cool, part Of the time
cloudy, and twice there was very light
sprinkle for few minutes, but it will be
four weeks tomorrow, according to my
count, since we had rain. The ground is
dusty, a foot deep, so imagine moisture
has evaporated to begin TO fall again.
The flower garden looks like a deserted
waste. have clipped (chipped, your ras
cally printer will say the wilted half open
flower buds of, hoping to have bouquet
material on hand the last of the mouth.
am told that soon the political wekin will
ring with the rich, deep. toned eloQuence of
both parties, and won't go to hear one syl-
liable Of il, whether it is Numbered forth by
Thomas or HartzeIl, if l can't take nose
gay with me.
understand there will be speaking at
Grand Chain on the Goth. The grove there
is very good one for such gatherings, and
if the barbecue now talked OF is as well
conducted as the one Of July Sd, it will not
be pad. The meats on that occasion were
very carefully prepared, and the strictest
proprety of the highest order was main
tanned, as is customary there.
The owners of the different refreshment
stands dcpreciate their own wares and
praise their neighbors', seeking rather to
benefit each other than themselves. There
are never any harsh words spoken, never
any attempts to throw anybody into the
railroad cut to be ironed out by the down
freight in the evening; and when gently
fall the dews of eve" those of US who do
not intend to dance the night away, atfec
tionately shake hands all around and start
home, singing "We are Band of Brothers
Dear B., have learned my lesson rightl
Does that sound real good0
go to Grand Chain sometimes and 1t is
not such bad sort of place. 1t supports
large Touring mill a nice looking hotel;
three stores; two weakly saloons that ought
to be ashamed Of themselves, and no doubt
are a telegraph, express and post-ohice
But am not census taker, and do not
propose getting up city directory, so I'll
| stop when I have written that the drug
store is drug store, and the postmasters-
there are half dozen or more ARE all gen
tlemanly, polite, attentive, in spite Of the
fact that one of them has buggy with
shed to it."
Like every other town of any importance,
this one is surrounded by fine farming
land, some of which is for sale. Not be-
cause Of anything lacking in the location,
however. In one instance the owners wish
to 90 to their children in Texas, in another,
they wish to return to their childhood
home, in the land of the crape-myrtle and
the magnolia.
How dreadful in NJ. b. II. to express
himself so plainly about Mr.. Irwin. A lady
would have said as much, but so delicately
it would not have hurt the feeling of every
ether man in the county. | suppose,
though NJ. B. II. wrote in the superlative
simply because he has left Alexander.
can not see to write another word.
stared and stared at my reflection in the
glass and said mouse as you directed, but
instead of q sweet nfantile expression, my
mouth hoops up in the middle and droops
at the corners while my eyes feel as though
had taken an overdose of belladonna. l
shall not dare try the gum arabic recipe.
: I rains it rains--a very little, cries
NIRs. ID. GREEN.
: Cache, Aug 10th, $780,