The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-08-30

ing" just below the cords "for ten" the last
four letters, sting are in italic. In the
counterfeit the letters'ar cvery'irreguar, the
lathe work, particularly in the upper right
hand corner being blurred.
Cholera has been regular in its appear
ance once in II years, and next year should
on this estimate be one on which to expect
the temperance OF the plague. There
may be law which has caused the reoc-
currencc at exact intervals in the past but
it will do no harm if preparations are
made for it.
Mount Vernon News. democratic
papers throughout southern Illinois, so Tar
as we have noticed, are advocating the
nomination by the state convention for
superintendent of public instruction Hon.
L. Walker of McLeansboro. He has
served term in the legislature, has been
county school superintendent, and is now
states attorney for Hamilton county, He
is an unfinching Democrat, a classic schoI'
ar, and not only we'll qualified but worthy
the position"
"A letter received by the clerk of the
| Planters House from friend of Mrs Lamb,
the lady whose husband died at that house
some time ago, expresses the lady's thanks
to the management of the Planters for the
attention shown her husband before and
after his death. Mrs. Lamb says the writer,
is now poor widow, dependant entirely
upon herself for support Her husbands
remains were taken charge of by the men
who were soldiers under him, he having
been a captain in the army and inferred in
the soldiers cemetery.
Roberts, of the Pulaski Patriot, knows
not whereof he speaks when he says;
General Pavey will take charge of the col,
lector's office on the first of September.
The sooner the better, general our boys
are anxious to get things in such shape
that they can place full ticket in the
field in Alexander county with some hope
of electing it. There isno chance the way
things are now. Move as soon as possible,
and move out some of the drawbacks as
soon as you get ia. No possible arrange.
ment could be made by which Republi
can ticket could be elected in this county
at the coming election. The party is hope,
lessly split, here as IN all other parts Of the
district
There are still several cases of small.
pox in the county. DR.. Stevens, Of Com
mercial Point, who WAS In this city yester-
day, reports that since the Goth of July, when
there was no sign of the disease there, the
disease broke out in family named B elford
who moved there recently from Paducah,
and now the entire family Of four persons is
down with it. The disease is not ola virulent
type, but yet it may prove fatal in the cases
of one or two of the patients. DR.. Stevens
believes that the germs Of the disease we're
brought to Commercial Point by some one
from this city, who had been afflicted with
it here aud cnne there about the middle of
July on business. The proper steps have
been taken by the local authorities to con-
fine the disease to the Bedford family aud
the prospects are that they will succeed,
If the Republican press is wise it will
refrain from personalities in the campaign
now opening. 1t is true that Captain Muir
phys record is so clear that nothing can
be said against him, which fact is eXas-
perating to the average enthusiastic Repub-
lcan editor and excites him to the
use ofepithets, as the editor Of the Jackson
county Era, for instance who, without any
provocation whatever, and with perhaps
gaeater insight into the
meaning of the apparently meaningless
term, calls Captain Murphy "a miserable
Digger Squaw." The Era will find, per.
haps too late, that epithets in political
campaign always act as boomerangs-they
are treacherous weapons, missing wide the
mark at which they are aimed and return
ing fnallyto wound him who hurled them,
Let the Era and its confreres beware.
Yesterday the thermometer was out of
all proportion in this city to the temperature
as experienced by the average citizen. The
air was found to be generally cool all day,
yet the thermometer in various parts Of the
city bad one to believe that it must be I'M
comfortably hot. But this state of things
may be explained. The reason why the
thermometer does not always accord with
the comparative discomfort Of hot weather
is owing to the variation of moisture in the
air, While the human body is always Civ.
ing off perspiration, either sensible or in.
sinsibe, this evaporation will 90 on more
rapidly when the air contains but little