The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-10-19

terday Hon. VIM. NJ. Springer, represen-
tative in congress from the Springfield dis
trict; Hon Alfred Orendorf, of Springfield,
the next treasurer of the great state of Hi
nois Hon. j. NJ. Scurlock of Murphysboro,
Republican candidate in this senatorial dis
trict for the lower house of the Illinois
general assembly; Hon. VIM. Hartzell one
of southern Illinois most energetic, sensible
and popular Democrats; and last but by
no means least, Hon. Daniel Hogan, of
Mound city, once upon time custodian of
the Pulaski county school fund and now
Republican candidate in the 5lst district
for the Illinois senate.
"A slight error occurred in the comment
on the verdict of the jury in the Wabash
railroad case, In yesterdays BULLETIN.
| The verdict had reference to the westerly
| track of the company, below third street.
northwest corner of Second street and runs
to the companys freight depot. The
company obtained permission from the
city council, upon petition ofthe owners of
most Of the property abutting the avenue,
to lay down this and two other tracks upon
the avenue below second street. But the
company extended all these tracks to above
! Second street, several of them as far up as
| Sixth street, claiming that il had an implied
right to 90 above second street to make the
curves necessary to reach their several side
| tracks below that street. But the court re
| fused to allow even the introduction as evi.
dence of the ordinance granting the right
of way below second street on the ground
| that this ordinance had no bearing upon
the tracks above that street, which were
the sole subjects of dispute in the case,
Men are employed in forcing four
inch pipe horizontally through the Ohio
levee from behind w. r. Halliday's com
meal mill, below Sixth street, at depth
of about twenty feet from the top of Rail
road street, The pipe is to protrude from
the outer slope of the levee at a point
about thirty feet above the present stage OF
the river, and is to communicate
with the river and furnish water supply for
the boilers of the MILL The distance from
the starting point on the inside, to the point
where the pipe is to come forth on the out
side of the levee, is about three hundred
and sixty.fve feet. Yesterday evening
about one hundred and seventy five feet
had penetrated the levee, and the work was
being prosecuted at the rate of about forty
hVe fee> per day This is the second attemp,
70 pierce INT levee at this point for tins
same purpose The Grst time the pipe
struck rock not far from the vater slope
and the pipe took sudden turn upwards
and had been forced number of feet out o
the levee considerable distance above the
edge Of the water, almost in perpendicular
position, before it was noticed, and the worl
begun over again
General Jubal A. Early, who was in
St. Louis Tuesday, and VINO is one of the
Louisiana state lottery commission, has
curious proof that connection with lottery
is dlsreputable only when law and public
opinion are sganstit Itappears that the
esteemed father of our country was connec.
ted with good old continental lottery
scheme and Gen, Early shows photograph
Of one Of the lottery tickets, which has
upon it the autograph of Washington, at
tached in 1863. The original ticket was
purchased by a gentleman in Fredercks.
burg, Va for 800, and there is now one OF
the same tickets in the Richmond Mueeum
This is a sort of clincher for the people
who think lottery is wicked thing in
itself when it is not against the law, espe.
cially as this class of reasoners are the
ones who accept the theory that George
Washington was an angel, lacking only the
wings. 1t is refreshing to the masses
though, to know that our George was not
really such thinblooded and goody -goody
old dufer as some of the, Histories would
make him.
In examination of the mar
riage license record Of this county affords
interesting results; The fact appears not
only that there are fewer applications for
licenses to marry from native born Ameri-
cans than from foreigners, but that there
are even fewer marriages among the Amer.
cans in proportion to their part Of the
population. How can this be explained
Is it because the American is not willing
to attempt housekeeping on as small sum
per annum as the citizen from abroad, or
because he does not fall in love so deepy2
1t is "a beautiful problem for debating
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