The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-07-29

consist only Of moral influence, improve.
ment in the intellectual and physical con.
dition, and more reaectiveness and sense Of
responsibility on the part Of those who give
but never investigate.
Mr. Wood Rittenhouse is still soiourn.
ing at Dixon Springs, where the health
giving waters are steadily improving his
health. Dixon Springs is, without doubt,
the finest of places to rusticate, but, during
the crowded season, II is not a good place
to go with children. During the last of
season when the great crowd has scattered
children would thrive and grow fat on its
waters, and that only is the time to take
them there.
"A person living up town reproved Mar
shal Myers yesterday for allowing it to be
published that she had failed to pay her
dogs tax. The marshal very pertinenty
replied that il che had paid the tax when
notified to do so she would not have been
sued, and if she had not been sued, her
name would not have appeared in print
The case may serve as forcible reminder
to others.
Mr.. Rendleman,o of Jonesboro, was In
the city yesterday, seeking to making ar.
engagements with our authority to furnish
the city with flag stone for sidewalks at a
reasonable price. He says that he has an
inexhaustible supply Of good tagging that
he could furnish at a'much less price than
has been paid for SOME of the stone used in
the lower part of the city. Flag stone
pavements would be better and cheaper than
any other that could be used therefore, it
Is desirable that Mr.. Rendlemans offer
should have due consideration.
The maximum temperature for six
teen hours preceding three o'clock p, IN,
yesterday, CWashington.time) were as fol-
lows; Chattanooga, Tenn, "a; Cincinnati,
Ohio, 81; Davenport, Iowa, 81; Dubuque,
Iowa, 81; Keokuk, Iowa, SO; Lacrosse,
Wis, 70; Leavenworth, Kas., SO; Louis
vile, KY SO; Memphis, Tenn, 81; Nash.
vile, Tenn, 81; Omaha, Neb, SO; Pitts.
burg, Pa, 75 Shreveport, La, 90; st.
LOUIS, Mo, IS; st. Paul, MINI, 50; Vicks-
burg, Miss, 90; North Platte, Neb, 70; !
Yankton, Oak. 49, Dodge City, Kan, rs
Bismarck, OAK, SO.
The Chinese government has ratified
the two treaties negotiated by Messrs. Ang-
ell, Swift and Prescott last year. One reg
ulates the character and quality of Chinese
immigration, excluding the lowest labor
ing Mongolians, and the other ia COM
mercial treaty which prohibits the importa-
ton of opium into either country absolutely,
and binds both powers to avoid making
against each other in re-
spect to duties on imports or exports, and
requires disputes between Cinnamon and
Americans to be decided by the proper Of
fetal Of the nationality by the defendant.
The time made at the walking
match held at Scheel's hall Wed
nesday night was as follows:
Mr.. Thomas Owens walked five miles
against five men, each of whom walked
one mile He made the five miles in forty
seven and quarter minutes. His fastest
mile being made in nine minutes. Mr..
Fitchlaw made twenty.nine laps in six and
a half minutes. Peter Ronen made twenty
three laps in seven minutes. Mr.. G.. o.
Farris made his first mile in fourteen and a
quarter minutes, and his second mile in
nine and three-fourth minutes. Mr.. Far
ria won the second prize, which was sill.
yer cup. Mr.. Andrew Williams made one
mile in eleven minutes The running race
was won by Will Hogan.
Exchange: Once upon time a man
got mad at the editor aud stopped his pa
per. The next week he sold his corn at
four cents below the market price. Then
his property was sold for taxes, because he
didn't read the sheriffs sales. He was ar
rested and fined IS for going hunting on
Sunday, and be paid $500 for lot of
forged notes that had been advertised two
weeks aud the public cautioned not to ne.
gotiate them. He then paid a big Irish.
man, with foot Ikea forge hammer, to
kick him all the way to the newspaper
Office, where he paid four years subscrip-
ton In advance and made the editor sign
an agreement to knock him down and rob
him II nc ever ordered his paper stopped
again. Such is life without newspaper.
The product of wheat throughout the
northwest is very generally reported to be
inferior in quantity and quality, and vet,
for some unexplained reason, the specula.
tors fail to create manic and rim tbo nr;co