The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-07-13

Messrs. Halliday Bros.
Circuit court convened yesterday morn
| Ing at nine o'clock, and continued
the examination Of candidates for
the Jury in the Reynolds murder case.
Up to five o'clock in the evening,
eleven jurors had been selected,
being mostly men from the country
and the examination was continued until
six. The lawyers in the case are: For the
prosecution, States Attorney James M.
Damron; for the defense, Hon. w. j. AL;
leu, of Carbondale, Judge NJ. G. Crawford
and Hon. Jesse Ware, of Anna, Col. r. II.
Townes, OF Alabama, and Hons. d. T.
Linegar and j. NJ. Lansdcn Of this city
--Griscom, the Chicago faster, has proved
even more of puzzle than was DR.. Tanner,
the formers fast of six weeks having left
him in very good bodily condition, while
at no period of the long term of abstinence
from food have his spirits fallen or his
nerves given away. lie has supplemented
the work of Tanner in showing that q
human being, deprived of food, but supplied
with water, can exist without injury, for q
much longer time than has been - the
past supposed. He concluded his fast Of
forty.fvc days Yesterday at noon, when he
took hearty meal in the Olympic Thea
tire before large audience which ssas al
mitted at fifty cents per head.
In a communication to the Blooming
| ton Bulletin, DR.. r. +. MorIell gives the
following treatment for persons suffering
with sun stroke, which might prove of use
to persons in this city during these extreme.
ly hot days. son the subject Of treatment,
I would say, the first thing to do is to send
for aphysician the next is to remove the
clothes from the upper portion of the body
and pour constant stream of cold water
on the head, and apply mustard plasters
over the chest and back and to the lower
extremties. These simple remedies, which
any ope can apply, will restore the patient
in most cases, if employed soon enough"
The pleasant news still comes that the
president is gaining strength and that his
wounds promise to heal. The chances OF
his recovery are now pronounced by the
able physicians in attendance to much eX-
coed those of his death, and great nation
breathes more freely in consequence.
Should Garfield recover, it may be that the
attempt upon his life will have been a
good thing in its final results. Attention
has been called in the most dramatic and
| telling manner to the evils of our system
| of political patronage and the danger which
attends high place in a population OF fifty
millions, with Its proportion of madmen
and tools, has been made apparent. The
people and their representatives have been
gwen food for thought and some results
should follow. We can no longer look
upon the lands where rulers are assassin
atcd AS countries the social aud political
problems of which are unlike our own, and
! it remains to be seen il American tact and
practically, with the advantages our sys-
TEN of government affords, can devise a
remedy long sought in vain on the other
side of the Atlantic.
Now that the complaints against the
scavenger or slop gatherer, because of his
failure to make daily calls at all places in
the city, have somewhat ceased, they have
broken out in different form, charging
him with refusing to accept any oflal that
is not clean A gentleman living up town,
at whose house the scavenger has been in
the habit of coming, offered him some
kitchen otial day or two ago, with which
| the sediment of tea and coffee had been
mixed and this the man refused to take
away because sit was not clean" 1t IS
to be presumed IRON this that,
under his contract with the city, the scav-
engcr is not required to take anything un'
clean; that nc is to take only such offal as
can be used by him or others who are will
ing to pay him for it, to fatten hogs with.
The sediments of tea and coffee pots not be-
ing rclished by hogs and impariing a
flavor to the other offal when put together
which renders the whole Objectionable to
them, the scavanger, with considera-
ton Tor the well being of his fastidious(t
boardcrs that is really touching, refuses to
take anything but "clean offal."
But il so happens that the ordinance, page
l44, section %, does not warrant .,any such
discrimination on the part n - scaven-
ger. 1t does not permit him to refuse any
thing that may, in his opinion, be unfit for
hogs to cat the trainers of the ordinance
did not intend to provide means by which a