The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-06-17

psalm book was found, ON the fly leaf Of
whicd was written, "Wm. Ransom Ray
Cairo, Ills, or Duquoin, H." Mr.. Elwell
offers liberal reward for the capture of
the thief, or the recovery of tho stolen
goods, or any information leading to either
Ballard County News; Farmers have
had most delightful season for harvesting,
and cutivating crops the past week. The
only regret has been that one man and team
could not do the work of five in the corn
which, owing 10 cold weather and rain, had
become foul and the ground packed hard.
The wheat crop is going to be surprise
even to those who were fearful the worm
had ruined It. 1t is estimated by some that
there will be nearly an average of fifteen
.dshels to the acre. With good luck, or
rather, we should say, with good manage.
ment in saving the crop, there will be a
greater surplus of wheat than known in Bal
lard for years
The results of observations of the late
total eclipse of the sun made at Sohag on
| the banks of the Nile appear to be satisfac
| tory, although Just what the results are the
astronomers are not yet ready TO report
| During the seventy seconds totally each
took section or department and worked
in silence. No words was spoken except
some EXPLANATIONS of surprise at finding a
new comet very near the sun. They named
the comet after the present khedve in re-
cognitlun OF his kindness in assisting them
in the preparations for observing the eclipse.
| The old suspicion OF an atmosphere in the
moon arise again, but the question evades
solution. The photographs taken during
the eclipse were fine of the sun, moon and
comet The spectroscope observations and
results were also satisfactory,
| Bernard Bayles, brother of James w.
Bayles, who was SO brutally murdered for
his money about three miles from Vienna
| on the 9Th inst, offers areward OF one thou
sand dollars for any information leading to
the capture Of the murderers. He thinks
| that Governor Cullom will offer two hun
bred dollars more. The crime was most
horrible one. Bayles was an old bachelor
who had lived for years in the house IN
| which he was killed. From the condition
of things in the room where the body was
found, it is judged that he was tied hands
and feet, placed in chair and tortured by
holding lamp under his bare feet which
| were burned to q crisp. This was probably
done in order to make him
reveal the whereabouts OF his
money, and refusing to do this his head
was split with an ak, which was also found
on the floor near the corpse. The murder
els left two very dirty bandana handker
chiefs, and pair of sheepskin gloves. They
are thought to have carried off about five
hundred dollars of the mans money.
The principal argument in favor of
Judge DamrOn, or anyother Of the Repub
lican opponents of Captain Thomas, is en-
bodied in one little remark made by Mr..
w. T. Scott at the little mass meeting at
the Tenth street stank Thursday night, to-
wit: ave (meaning the colored voers)
have been buying the ham, and the white
Republicans have been feasting from it TO
our exclusion long enough. What we
want now is good big slice of that ham
and we're going to work for the man that
will give us that slice" Mr.. Scott
has the reputation of being
one of the shrewdest colored men in the
city, in fact those who heard his own little
speech and that of Judge Damron that
night, gave him credit for much more in
telectual force than the latter. Mr.. SCOTS
remark means that the colored Republicans
care nothing for the qualifications of the
rival candidates, nothing for Captain
Thomas superior qualifications as rcpres.
entative, nothing for the advancement Of
the great river improvement interests Of the
people Of this district; but that their only
care is the personal political interests OF
the colored brothers. The effort to adj
vance these personal interests is laudable
enough, but when it is to be done at the
sacrifice Of the material good of the entire
district, there is certainly some ground for
objection by those whose interests are 50
sacrificed.
james Vaughn was hung at Pinckncy-
vile, Perry county, yesterday, for the muir
der OF VIM. Watts. The crime for which
he was hung occurred at the village of
Tamaroa, on the Illinois Central railroad in
that county, on the 4th day of last August,
when James Vaughn, the condemned man,
premediately took the life Of his fellow
townsman, William Watts. 1t seems, from
| a.. o,,, l,noo ,hat wn, Wa,,u u,o, ,ho oil