The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-03-15

enterprise on the part our citizens. The
offer is open, will Cairo make an effort to
take III A golden opportunity is present
ed, will our people arouse themselves from
their lethargy and seize III We pause for
reply; let us not pause too long.
Saturday evening Mr.. John English,
who has the contract tor building Mr.. w.
b. Glbert's two cottages below Fourth
street, was at work on the roof of one of
them, shingling Suddenly the strip of
wood which he had tackled upon the roof
as stay for his foot, gave way and he slid
down the roof, striking first the scaffold and
then the top rail OF fence with his back,
before landing on the ground. The house
was probably twenty-five feet high, but the
scaffold broke the fall somewhat, and it is
due to this, perhaps, that his back was not
broken when he struck the fence, though
he was severely injured. At last reports
yesterday he was resting easily.
General r. n. Pearson, wife and little
daughter, who have been here for several
days on visit to relatives, Mr.. E, L.
Walbrldge and family, left for Springfield,
Ills, yesterday, where the general goes to
attend the Legislature, he being member
of that body. On last FRIDAY Mrs Pear
son and her little daughter, May, visited
the high school and the little girls peculiar
talent as an elocutionist being known by
some one, she was called upon to favor the
scholars with defamation, which she did
to the delight Of all present. She seemed
to be perfectly at ease, leven before a strange
audience, and spoke in a manner that be-
tokened thorough acquaintance with the
rules OF rhetoric and elocution.
The people of Ru ssa have at last ac-
complished their purpose of destroying
their ruler, the car, as will be seen from
dispatch published elsewhere. That they
were urged to this proceeding by causes of
no unimportant character is tolerably well
established and cannot be well denied 1t
is true that at times conspiracy against
the life of a ruler may be formed by few
dissatisfied leaders in nation, whose
hatred is the result of personal motives or
fancied injury, but in the Russians case the
injury must have been real and more than
local, for the hatred against the car was
almost universal The people rose against
him as a body and the people are seldom
mistaken in their conclusions, especially
when these conclusions have, time and
again, PASSED through the crucible of
persecution and death.
Strange rumors will sometimes get
ahoat withou. having any foundation in
truth and this is much oftener the case
about persons than things. But the rumor
that prominent down town cooper left
town last Saturday without giving fair
warning to his friends and creditors is to.
lerably well sustained by the facts He left
no tracks behind HIM, unless that term can
be applied to open accounts with a number
of our merchants, 1t is not probable that
his business was insolvent for he was doing
large business having only recently
greatly increased his facilities for doing all
manner Of cooperage; but it is likely that
other causes induced him TO resolve upon
clandestine departure. One of these causes
was, perhaps, the indictment which was
found against him by the grand Jury
that was recently in session
Yesterday morning about sixty of the
laborers on the foundation of the new Gle.
vator struck-not for higher wages, but for
full time" 1t has been the habit of the
company, when there was no work for the
lack OF stone to dock" the hands for the
time they were thus compelled to loose
which has occurred several times during the
time that the work on the foundation has
been going on, This most always caused
a general dissatisfaction among the men,
but it did not show itself in serious form
until yesterday morning, when they were
again told that they would have to lay off
few days until more rock could be pro-
cured. The men vented their dissatisfac-
ton at this and when finally some rock was
brought IN, refused to 90 to work unless q
promise was made that they should receive
full pay for every hour they lost because of
the companys failure to have material on
hand. This demand was agreed to- but on
condition that the men should be on the
ground to do work, whether there be any
work to do or not:
On Sunday night the police force of
the city, headed by Marshal Robinson, de-
cided that it was good time for raiding
the house of John Gladney, who keeps
saloon on the corner of Twentieth street
and Commercial avenue. Accordingly thew