The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-08-23

Col. A. W. Soper has resigned his po-
sition as superintendent Of the Iron Noun.
tain railroad, it being the desire of the
owners to place it under one general man
sgement with the International, Of which
Mr. Hoxie is superintendent. Col. Soper
has been for ten years the practical man
ager of the Iron Mountain road, and has in
that time given the strongest evidence Of
ability in his profession. He has seen the
road extend in length from 232 miles to
6S5 miles, and its earnings increase from
s, eS6,9O3 in 1871, to $6,265.597 in 1880.
He has always been watchful of the inter.
ests of the great corporation under his con-
troll. He expects very soon to be at the
head of an enterprise which is worthy of
his energy, enterprise and skill.
In speaking of the plans of Mr.. G. p
Huntington, president of the Chesapeake,
Ohio aud Southwestern railroad company,
the Louisville Courier-Journal says in re-
cent issue: "From Paducah he will build q
road to Cairo, connecting Herewith the Wa
bash system and with the Mobile and OHIO.
The gap between Covington and Trimble
will be built as rapidly as men and money
can do it, and it is the confident expecta-
ton of Mr.. Huntington that cars will be
running through to Memphis by June lst
| 1882. The entire road from Louisville to
Memphis is to be put in frstclass order
and fully equipped. Nothing but sixty
pound rails will be used. The headquarters
of the road from here to Memphis known
as the Memphis branch-will be in Louis
Vile"
speaking of weather prophets in gen.
eral and of Prof II. G. Vennor IN particular,
the Globe. Democrat says: "The weather
prophets are having hard time of it this
summer. Their predictions have failed
about as often as they have been fulfilled;
and public opinion, always exacting and
impatient, has been much quicker to con-
denim and ridicule them in the one case
than to give them proper acknowledgment
in the othrr. AS matter Of fact, il can not
be denied that the representations of Ven
nor have been, upon the whole, so remark
ably near to accuracy that we must concede
them to be something more than guess
work. The trouble is that we accredit these
well.abused gentlemen with claims and
pretensions they do not assume. They have
never asserted tina, they could forecast the
weather for every separate city or township
all over the continent. The most they un-
dertake to do is to calculate general chang
es; and in this respect, il is but fair to say,
they have rarely been at fault"
i AT the last meeting of the city council
a bill of twelve dollars, for assistance tc
paupers, presented by Mayor Thistlewood
was rejected by vote of five for to -four
against. The motion to allow IL was lost,
because it did not receive majority of the
votes of all the members OF the council,
| which is six. The four Aldermen who voted
against the motion, have been spoken harsh
ly of. because Of, what the speakers pleased
to term, their hard heartedness. at does
look somewhat niggardly,, they say, Gin the
| city council, to refuse to reimburse the
mayor for what he expended out OF his own
pocket in assisting half dozen paupers,
who were begging in the streets of the city,
to get to their respective homes, and thus
rid the community of a very
troublesome burden. The mayor
is IA gentleman of heart as we'll as BRAIN he
is easily touched by the sight of human
suffering. To him, though covered with
rags, unkempt and unclean, a mans man
for that. And ii such man, besides be-
ing dirty ragged and neglected, is also far
from home, hungry and sick then the
mayor as any good man would be, is filled
with compassion and sheds tears and
nickels simultaneously and copiously, and
helps the poor wretch out of his dlema
and out of town, also simultaneously. The
mayor finds degree of pleasure in thus do
ing good, but the council does not appreci-
ate the good that he did and therefore
turned his pleasure into regret, by refusing
to pay back to him the money he gave to
several non-descripts and theresore the
council-those of that body who voted
against the motion to reimburse the mayor,
are hard hearted men who ought to be re-.
buked by their constituents Thus speak
those who sympathize with the mayor and
with all the poor wretcbes who
knock at our door for Lelp.
1t IS certainly true that the council did not
do exactly right by the mayor. thought to
have allowed the twelve dollars and fifteen
cents, which he paid out tor the benefit Of
the poor suffering WANDERERS who came here