The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-04-30
DONGOLA LETTER.


On the Goth instant, the Odd Fellows
anniversary at Elco was largely attended.
A free dinner was given to all and several
addresses were delivered. The address, by
Rev. Cunningham, was decided success.
The Dongola brass band furnished the
music for the occasion, and it is conceded
by all that the music was par excellent -
the jovial and generous.
IL. Meyers, of Cairo, gave Dongola a
call on the Goth and by the way, he COM
plimented Old Trim with half pound of
his best one -hundred-year.ol smoking
tobacco. Of course Mr. Meyers did not say
it was 100 years old, but, from its mellow
aroma, we conclude it was, at all events if
it was not one hundred years old, and was
not made by George Washington's negroes,
it was no fault of Mr.. Meyers Come again,
Mr.. Meyers, we are always glad to mectyou
and, by the way, those cigars OF yours are
just the thing for smokers. Really they
beat the one-hundred year-old tobacco.
After all the-"well, I never seed the
likes"-sprlng has put in her appearance
and the bloom in our orchards makes one
forget that we have had an unusually pro-
tracted winter. Everybody save the
croakcr-scems happy.
Business is pushing on lively, and we
believe if the deadlock in the United
States senate and the Illinois legislature
were to suddenly come 10 an end, the
country would be yet safe.
In our municipal election, in Dongola,
this spring, the temperance ticket was de-
feated Eight years ago, the whiskey
party beat the temperance one vote only,
but in this last race the whiskey side had
thirty-iour majority.
Whether such shall always be ruling, we
know not. 1t looks, however, that IN
Dongola the prospects to defeat saloons
are not at all ilatterng.
Our old reliable, Miller FNeibaur,is hav-
ing some repairing done to his mill and
putting in some additional machinery, af-
ter which look out for some of the finest
flour ever made in the west.
After all the severe weather, we shall
have an abundance of fruit.
Strawberries will soon be ready for con-
sumption. Strawberries, sugar and cream,
are good enough for anybody, and then
strawberry pie Is nice thing to have
around.
Corn planting is now in order, and our
farmer neigbors have been redeemng the
time for the last week or so.
Wheat, though as yet low, has good
color and promises an abundant yield.
In our 80 years of residence in Southern
Illinois we have never seen the farmers
more prosperous than they are now.
IT'S true in Union county we are few
thousand dollars in debt, but that
democratic board" will soon engineer the
matter in such happy manner that it will
melt away like the snow under the warm
rays Of an April sun.
Dongola is rapidly improving in her
morals. Her redeemlng qualities begin to
stand out in bold relief The kuklux, if
she ever had any, are behaving themselves
pretty well. "Her son of b. on wheels
since Tom Hudson gave him such severe
castigation, has concluded to get on his
wheels no more
Our business men are doing lively
business. Since the Dongola timer and
stove man closed out his business and left
Dongola, our merchants have brought on
stoves and tnwarc, SO that dealers in said
articles can still be accommodated and
that at bottom prices. OLD TRIM.
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