The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-09-14
LETTER FROM DIXON SPRINGS.

and that reminds me that Alderman How
ley was the champion archer at the springs
1t was nothing unusual for him to send the
arrow whizzing through twelve.inch tar
get at seventy yards. DR.. Smith and Capt.
Wright did some fair shooting at shorter
range, the Captain especially, several times
came within thirty feet Of the target,
welcome the coming speed the parting
guest Only the first part Of this injunc-
ton is practiced by the Dixon sojourners.
Al! new arrivals receive
A HEARTY WELCOME
but 10 speak Of going means to call around
you all the rest to urge and plead and
wrestle with you, until you are almost over
persuaded and "dont want to 90 home"
Sometimes departure makes a great
change in the company. This was especial
ly the case when the Halliday family left.
The fun Of the big folks and the noise of
the children were greatly missed. Mr..
Brown remarked, when the Hallidays
leave it makes an awful hole in boarding
house" Seventeen Of them skipped out"
in one day, perfect caravan of vehicles.
THE CAIRO PEOPLE
here are all locking and feeling well Mr..
Stewart is much stronger and better than
when he came notwithstanding the unfavor-
able weather. BERTHE Smith holds his own
with any Of the boys. DR.. Will looks salts
fed and smiling, but there is faint sus-
picion that he would be better satisfied, if
a certain Cairo young lady had come up;
Gus; well, Gus gets homesick and little
protane. He thinks ''this is a HI of a
place to puta white boy bu, he is all
alone in that opinion. Mrs. Green looks
healthier and roster than ! ever saw her
look before Mr.. Rice and family are
steadily improving; Capt. Wrights only
ailment is caused by over-eating and sour
plums; Mrs. Wright is healthy and
happy as usual, growing younger with
every day that passes, and Mrs. Marnel
looks almost like another person.
Are you not tired! am, and it is almost
supper time. may come again to see you,
that is send you letter, if you don't grow
too impatient and frown too darkly on me
this time.
One execrable thing in connection with
coming to Dixon Springs is the beastly
hour of leaving home. One must get up at
three, take the train at five, arrive at Vienna
at seven and take mail-hack, or a private
conveyance if you have trunks, and travel
fourteen miles over succession OF hills
that makes your head swim TO remember
1t is long, tedious, billy, ride, and even
the arrival at Grantsburg with its two
stores and three dwellings, fails to break its
monotony. Bay Bottom presents the
only half mile of level road 10 be found on
the whole journey. odd man Fox" the
hack-driver, pointed out the only
PLACES OF NOTE
on the road. One Of these is double log
house, one room in johnson and the other
in Pope county. The other is a tree that
bore fruit under the auspices of Judge
Lynch" few years ago, The
old man pointed out the limb
to which the rope was tied, 1t seems that
a mile or two further down the road, a
highwayman met man and captured his
horse; the man followed him up too closely;
the robber turned and shot him dead; he
was captured that night by party OF
farmers; the next morning sll that was left
Of him was found hanging TO the limb Of
this tree.
Visitors are sometimes puzzled to know
why this rough country was settled by old
settlers when so much fine land was omen
to them, This question was asked by Capt.
Wright, of an old farmer named Palmer,
who came to Illinois forty-seven years ago,
from Logan county, Ky, and settled in the
Lighthouse that is still his home. His reply
was that "men were not looking for farms in
those days. They were all hunters and
perferred hunting deer and turkeys to lay
ing the foundation tor fortune; that game
was plentier and the ranges better on the
ridges, and there they settled; that he took
the high ground for health, having always
been used to low country and chills and
fever, and that ne could now make more on
rented land in Logan county than by farm
ing his own two hundred acres" The land
is poor. No doubt about it.
OCCASIONAL.