The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-10-25


make mp the "world on wheels as com.
pnsed in the modern circus. Tomorrow has
been looked forward to for weeks, ever
| since the pictures first appeared upon the
dead walls of the city,-by the young boys
of six and old boys OF sixty, as we'll as all
the other boys of intermediate ages, and
they will all be at the circus because the
circus will be here
The voters in the county are very
much exercised over the recent action Of
the board of county commissioners in ex-
changing the county poor house farm for
small piece of ground on hill near Thebes,
and two hundred dollars, the trade being
made with Judge c, A. Marchildon. The
ground aforesaid is described, as follows,
in the county clerks report OF the proceed
ngs Of the board at its last meeting: "Be
ginning at the southeast corner of the north
hall OF the southwest quarter of the south
west quarter of section nine (o), township
number fifteen 1J), south range three (3),
west, running along the south line of said
tract TO the Thebes and Unity road, thence
along said road to the east line Of said
tract, thence along that line to the begin
ming, containing five acres, more or less,
lying IN the southeast corner of the north
haliof the southwest quarter of the south
west quarter Of section No. nine (9), town
ship fifteen (l5), south of range three (3),
west Of the principal meridian" Upon
this five acres Of ground is an old frame
barrack, one and half stories high, CON
tanning about three rooms, and being in
condition that would suggest danger to all
who would enter il, The two hundred
dollars cash received "to boot will be alb
sorbed in rendering it habitable. The
ground itself is barren OF timber, hardly a
tee being upon it, 50 that the county
will be required to purchase
frewood to keep the paupers warm during
the winter and cook their victuals during
the summer. The soil is untillable, because
of its Doggy condition, so that those sent
there would be compelled to drag through
a life of ideness at the expense of the coun-
ty. The poor farm-that is, the property
| given 10y the commissioners for the above
described place-conssted of one hundred
and twenty acres Of land, twenty acres of
this was cleared Of timber and was tillable,
the other hundred acres was covered with
oak and ash timber, which, alone, as it
stood, was worth from six to seven hundred
dollars, On the c"H'H patch of ground
stands frame building which, in
1871 or ~, cost the county about
one thousand dollars to build; and that it
was still in q tenable condition is evident
from the fact that it has been in constant
use 10y ten or twelve county paupers, and
will continue to be used by them until the
other one is made habtablc. Resides this
there were several outhouscs, good well
and other conycnicnccs. 1t appears, there
FORE that the county commissioners gave
one hundred and twenty acres of land, six
or seven hundred dollars worth of timber. a
habtabc building, with necessary
out.buildngs and a GOOD we'll.
for five acres of land, barren
of timber, with an unnhabitable old bar.
rack, and two hundred dollars which will
be absorbed in repairs on the barrack alore.
said. The trade was made at the sugges.
ton of Commissioners Brilcy and Gibbs,
who were in the majority, who knew all
about the property the county was 10 re.
ceive for the poor farm and strange to say,
professod to believe that it would be for
the countys interest TO make the trade.
In a certain sense they were right in this
belief The poor farm has been a heavy
and an unnecessary expense to
the county ever since Its
establishment There have not been
more than ten paupers upon il at any one
time, some of these would have been able to
take care of themselves had they made IN
effort to do so, aud all Of them could
have been cared for in another way with
less expense, The trade is n step (and
long step toward the adjustment Of the
poor farm, and, it the commissioners will
only follow this up with another by trad.
ing their new acquisition for sand bar in
river, they would probably be doing tho
people of the county great service.
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Reject the Offer
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