The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-04-02

highwayman in accordance with the law
Of the land Is to be charged against such
head or power as a crime against liberty,
how many nations are now ruled by men
who ought to meet the fate the car was
compelled to meet?
Last evenings temperance meeting
was very well attended and the exercises
were quite interesting although no re-
nowned foreign orator was present to adj
dress the audience. Dir. M. yesterday
spoke in his own peculiar and very enter
tanning style for about three quar-
tiers Of an hour. Songs and
prayer were also a part Of the programme
and the committee appointed at the pre-
vious meeting to confer with some of our
citizens with view to selecting temper
ance ticket in the coming campaign, report
ed that it was not quite ready to report.
1t had, however, good reason to believe
that candidates for aldermen from the sew.
eral wards could be secured. Further
time was given the committee to perfect
its labors and then, with another song and
prayer the meeting adjourned,
The "center of population of the
United States is south of Mason and Dixon's
| line, and the star of empire southwark
takes it way, In the year 1900 the center
of the population was not far west of Balt.
more. In 1910 it was very near Harper's
Ferry. Each successive census has thrown
it further westward at the rate of from five
to six miles annually, or about fifty-fve
miles with each succeeding census. In
1870, the center was about fifty miles east
of Cincinnati, or rather little north of
east Between 1870 and 1880, the increase
in the west has driven it westward at about
the usual pace, and the increase in the
southern states has drawn in that direction
about eight miles. These two causes acting
together will, it is thought, cause the pres,
ent center" to be located about one or two
miles south of the Ohio river, Immediately
back Of Covington, KY.
There are four prisoners in the city
jall-two men and two women. There
have probably been no less than two men
in the prison, and, often more, every day |
while the work on Eighth street has been
going on, They have been fed by the city |
and allowed to sleep off their drunkenness |
and rest their strong but lazy bones In a
place shetering them from cold, furnished |
by the city, and then the city has gone and
hired men to do its little work The city
has been very kind to its criminals, 1t has
has been too kind, it has overwhelmed |
those who have broken its ordinances
with treatment such as only confirmed
vagabond could wish for. Possibly the
city is gwen to the idea that breakers OF |
ordinances are not good breakers of rock,
but the idea has not yet been put to the test,
and hence it is liable to be fallacious. The
experiment should be made at any rate,
even though these creatures are not now
very numerous, and would perhaps not &C
,ompish very much. Two or three men
Kept constantly at work breaking rock
which is the most expensive part OF the
street pavement would save the city many
4 dollar during the time that the work Of
paving continues. Nor is it necessary that,
when Eighth street is finished, there should
DC any halt in the good work. Every male
prisoner, and female too, for that matter,
ought to be kept at work on a rock pile If
nothing else, so that when the city is pre-
Dared to pave another OF its streets the
mall rock may be in readiness. Let us
lot tempt men and women TO become petty
by holding out to them an in.
iucement in the torn Of life OF plenty,
comfort and ideness.
Yesterday being the first Of April a
lumber of practical jokes were played by
,eople upon their friends and upon unsus-
,ecting strangers alike. The telephone
vas frequently brought into use. Some
nischievous person would ask the central
'flice to connect two numbers, other than
lis own, and would then stand with his
niger upon the lever and broad
grin upon his face listening while
hcse two would each simultaneously and |
With angry voices ask why the con.
lection was made. Messages, purporting
% come from reliable parties, told the news.
paper men Of horrible accidents in distant
portions Of the city, which, upon inquiry
(by telephone, Of course,) proved 10
be false. One poor fellow was
gwen quarter and sent from
one drug store to another until he had
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