The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-05-19

grants were going to crown 1881 with an
incoming greater than ever by an enormous
amount The statisticians are counting on
half a million addition to our population
from abroad for this year.
There are no new developments IN the
Conklipg affair TO note to-day. There are
many rumors and much speculation
The next move on the board is to be made
by the New York Legislature, and this it is
thought by some may be postponed fol. the
next legislature, SO as to give the people an
opportunity of voting to indorse either
Conkling or Garfield.
A colored man named Henry Flake,
living, when at home, on Washington ave-
nue., near Herbert's saloon, was run over
and seriously hurt by a train on the
Chicago, St. Louis g. New Orleans railroad.
His wife was dispatched to-day before yes
terday and she started on the five o'clock
train for Jackson, Tenn, where the accident
occurred. The man had one leg and an
arm cut off and was injured about the
chest, which leaves but little hope for his
recovery.
John Jenkins, alias "Charleston," the
negro gambler, etc, was tried by Police
Magistrate Comings yesterday afternoon
uApn the charge of vagrancy. He plead
noR guilty, claiming that he was making a
living by silver coating spoons, pistols, etc.
but the court was not satisfied with the
flimsy plea and fined him twenty-five dol
lars and costs and gave him four hours in
which to leave town. The same programme
ought to be carried out with the "Nobby"
Thomas.
Night before last q crowd of mis-
chievous white boys, who are almost night
~ gathered at the corner of Fourteenth and
Walnut streets, engaged in boisterous play,
threw hard clods of dirt through the win
dows of Mrs. Jenkins, a colored widow
living IN a small house on
the corner aforesaid. They broke three
or four panes of glass and then, with loud
cries, ran away. The woman, who is not
in easy circumstances, has no recourse, as
she did not recognize any Of the young rut-
fans.
Our city authorities and citizens who
are interested in sidewalks building might
be profted by watching the experiment in
sidewalk building that is being tried in
front of the Halliday House. The pave
ment that is being LAID down there is said
to be superior in every respect to any that
is now commonly in use. 1t is some kind
OF composition, firmly packed down, which
when dry, will be as solid as rock and
equally as durable. 1t may or may not be
practicable for general use; at any rate it Is
worthy of consideration.
The spectacle of resigning Official
Except when one resigns in order to take
better place. is so rare that the grea
double resignation of Senators Conkling
and P.att created a genuine sensation.
Whatever was expected of those senators in
their grand, gloomy and peculiar contest
with the president, 1t was not their resig-
nations. Ben Hill or some other gentle
poet should at once rise and address the
senate as follows:
When lovely Conking stoops to folly
And finds, too late, that men betray,
What charm can soothe Conk's melancholy
What soap can wash his grief away:
The only art his blk" to cover
And hide his shame in vegenance fine,
To give his salary to another
And beat himself is TO resign.
There are several very good reasons
why horses should not be allowed to run at
large, chief among these is that they endan-
ger the life of pedestrians and of persons
in buggies, etc. 1t is very common oc'
currence that they gather in
squads and run through
the streets at furious rate, booming to
destruction anything that may come in
their way. This, when it happens after
dark land it has 50 happened frequently
endangers the life of all who may be on
the streets. Owners of horses, who do not
depend upon their animals work for Inv.
Ing, can afford to keep them IN stables and
those who DO work their horses will not al.
low them to run about the city in search OF
food and to frolic, to the detriment of the
public good.
Last evening was the second of the
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