The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-05-17


ground and necessitate replanting. The
bright sun and brisk breezes which fol
lowed tho cold rain will rapidly dry the
surface OF the earth, but until warmer
weather sets in the advance of vegetation
will be quite slow. Some compensation
for the dismal weather of the past few days
| is found in the fact that the chinch-bugs
have been very generally drowned and
frozen out, so that the conditions that were
unfsvorable to corn will probably prove
benefit to the winter wheat crop.
Magistrate Comings contemplates the
organization Of a stock company, whose OBJ
ject it shall be to establish large dairy
and cheese factory in this county.
The scheme could certainly be
successfully carried out if the right
kind of men take hold of it.
BY tolerably close calculation it has been
ascertained that Cairo sends at least five
hundred dollars daily to the large diaries
of northern Illinois and Wisconsin, and no
good reason can be- offered why much the
greater share Of this sum
should not DO retained in
Alexander county by dairy capable of
competing with these northern institutions
in the manufacture of pure, fine butter.
Even now, fine diary butter sells at forty
cents per pound, and creamery at fifty cents.
Dealers paying from thirty three to forty
cents for it by the package.
Several gentlemen of means contem-
plate the establishment in this city of an
exclusively wholesale grocery house and
running it on q scale equal to any establish
ment in the larger cities. Cairo's situation,
her shipping and receiving facilities, have
commended her to these men, and they
have full confidence in their ability to
make an establishment such as they pro-
pose, pay well. Freights from New
York to Cairo are just as
low as from New York to St.
Louis, and Cairo's shipping facilities
to the south are superior to those of St.
Louis, because she is never cut off by low
water. The lots vacated by the late
fire is suggested as asplendid location for
business of this kind il would be good
location for business OF any kind, and q
good building or series of good build
ings erected there would find immediate
renters.
"A case OF some importance was up for
trial in the court of Magistrate Comings
yesterday, A negress named Louisa Bur.
| ton and her husband were under arrest for
stealing variety of articles from variety
OF places. The woman had been in Mrs.
S. Willismson'a millinery establishment in
the morning, attempting to sell piece Of
fine satin containing twelve yards, and,
while there, was detected by Mrs. William
son in the act of "lifting" bolt of fine silk
ribbon, worth about seven and half dol
lars. Mrs. Williamson notified Mr. John
| McNulty who arrested the woman. In
searching the home which is on Eleventh
street, next to the city jail, the officers
found several new clocks and also several
| fine silk dresses, some of which the woman
had also offered TO sell. Though it is
known that all these things have been
stolen, no clue TO the owners could yester-
day be obtained, and the preliminary ex'
animation was postponed day or two to
await further Developments. 1t is evident
that the Burton family has been guilty of O
system of shop-lifting and perhaps more
violent stealing, and they are both in jail
for safekeeping.
"A total eclipse of the sun is to take
place to-day, the 17lh instant The New
York Herald gives tho following interest
ing information relative to this astronom
cal event. "The activity now noticed OIL
the solar surface lends peculiar interest t
the occurrence on the seventeenth of thi
month of total solar eclipse. In tn,
eclipse Of 1878 the sun was in a state o
quiescence, but the astronomers who hay
made arrangements to view the coming
phenomenon will have fine opportunit.
{ to study spectroscopically the red promi
nences and corona. The path of the tota
eclipse, or of the central line is over Ash
and Central Africa, in direction from west
, southwest to east-northeast, and the pheno
. menon Of total observation will be best vie
: ible at Teheran and on tho Nile about
hundr5d miles north of Thebes where q
A this season the probabilities favor clear an,
i. cloldlcss skies and the period durin
: which tho moon entirely covers the sun vii
, DO about soyenty-two seconds. On the lot