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


in an effort to secure the institution with
which he is now travelling. His performers
are all stars, his trained animals the most
valuable of their kind and his managerie
the largest collection of wild animals that
has ever been placed under tent
Yesterday the street cars at st. Louis
were again in full operation, but under the
guard of the police of the city and state
guards, who permitted no one to stand
upon any one place along the entire line
for even minute. Thus it was that no
crowd could gather and any designs
of interfering on the part
of the strikers was thus
defeated, for the time being, at least. 1t
is now only question of endurance be-
tween the strikers and the authorities. 1t
may be that the strikers have no idea of
interfering until this strong guard is re-
moved; they may take their time to it,
waiting patiently but determinedly for
favorable opportunity when they will break
out afresh. 1t is probable, however, that
the blue coats can stand it longer than the
rioters because the latter depend mostly
upon their daily wages for subsistence and
will be compelled, in little while, to seek
employment of some kind and abandon the
strike.
In the last issue of the Bloomington
Bulletin the following reference to Hon. D.
T. Linegar occurs; "Mr. Linegar, of the
Cairo senatorial district, is an inquisitive
member OF the lower house of the general
assembly. The commissioners of the Chester
penitentiary ask for an appropriation to pay
for the maintenance of prisoners in that
prison. They say such an appropriation is
necessary because the prison is not self-sus-
tanning. Why is it not self-sustalningf
Because the labor of the prisoners cannot
be let-there is not demand for their la
Dor. But" remarks Mr.. Linegar, show
can that be? You are so anxious to obtain
prisoners to work you take all United
States convicts of the southern district OF
Illinois and keep them for nothing7 If
you have such demand for convict labor
your convicts ought to be sclf-sustaning."
Therefore Mr.. Linegar has introduced res
oluton into the house under which he will
seek, but all in vain probably, to get an an
swer to his question"
There is no abatement in the Missis-
sippi floods at St. Louis and at Hannibal
and other points above. AL
though the river in the
extreme north is reported to be falling
there is but little hope of speedy relief to
the inundated portions, as the principal
food has not yet reached Alton. The lum-
Der yards and stock yards at St. Louis are
still under water and it is expected that
much more damage will be done to the city
proper before the immense volume of water
subsidies. Around Quincy the work of
strengthening the levees that have |
not yet been washed away and
other precautionary measures still
continue with unabating vigor. Yet
several buildings have been swept away |
and several railroad bridges ditto. AT
Alton the river is higher than it was in
1876 and is the highest since the great
flood of 1858. Opposite the city hundreds
of acres of farm lands are covered with
water; a force of twenty men is kept con-
stantly at work at the glass works levees
trying to keep the water out, but without
success as the lower story Of the build
ing is flooded The cellars,
under the buildings on Front street,
are also filling with water. The Ohio river
is generally quiet all along its course
though it rose a little at Louisville yester-
day.
We had supposed, until we read yes
terdays News, that that paper considered
the slight decrease of Mr.. Thistlewoods
majority in the last election, as a mild re-
buke to his administration. Our SUPPOSE
ton was based upon an article, which ap-
pearcd in a former Issue of the News and
in which the editor intimatcd as much.
We are glad to know that the editor did
not mean to intimate what he did. Mayor
Thlstlewood's reelection to the Office,
he held for two years, is undoubtedly
a compliment to him and is
to be regarded as an unequivocal endorse.
ment Of his administration. But an en-
dorsemcnt of this kind does not necessarily
imply that the administration was perfect
that it is not susceptible of improve
ment. What it certainly does imply in
this case, is that the majority of the voters
believed Mayor Thistewood's administra.
ton to have been better than that of his