The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-12-17


government has no excuse for taxing the
newspapers as heavily as it does.
The show windows of Joe Bernath's
jewellery store was filed with great varie-
tyof new goods of the latest styles in all
kinds of jewellery. He proposes to sell his
stock at low figures, during tho holidays
especially, 1t
In the fire at Hickman on Thursday
three blocks of buildings were destroyed.
| Among the business houses burned was
thar of Powell & Bros, one of whom is
father-in.lsw to Mr. Gholson, of this city.
Messrs. Powell's losses we're over four thou
sand dollars.
In view of the approach of the holidays
the question Of how to protect their little
boys against ock,jaw will become OF some
importance to parents Of Cairo. In some OF
the eastern cities the best preventive is
thought to be neutrality-suspicious.
of the sale of toy firearms.
According to the plan proposed by Sec
rotary Chandler tor the next Republican
national convention that body will be COM
posed Of 1,O34 members, 10 delcgates.at-
large, $50 district delegates and 2l4, on the
theory of additional representation. This
would be large and unwicldy body, and
would make rafting sort Of gathering.
Interesting investigations have been
made lately as to the adulteraton Of can
dies. Glucose gum arabic, starch and
terra alba are the chief ingredients of many
candies nowadays Plaster Of paris is
also used. Many of the ingredients are
indigestble, and some are poisonous. Red
candy is sometimes colored with oxide Of
lead and blue with cobalt both dangerous.
Yellow candy contains chromste of lead
and this taken into the stomach cannot be
eliminated from the system; in large
quantities will kill Think of this parents
in this Christmas season.
Thursday was a feld.day for the fire.
fend, who got in his work very successful
ly 10 two hemispheres. The old palace at
Hampton Court, near London, was partially
destroyed, but fortunately its famous gal
lery of pictures received little damage. A
disastrous blaze occurred in large co-ope
rative store in Dublin, The extensive cab
inet-shops of the Remington Sewing Ma
chine company at Ilion, n. Y; the depot
and works of the Manhattan Beach Rail
road company at Bay Ridge, n. Y, with a
large number of engines and passenger
coaches; two hotels at Winnipeg; and a
number of houses at Hickman, Ky, were
destroyed with great loss.
Hon. W. A. Spann, late candidate for
member of the lower house of the Illinois
legislature from the Fltty.first senatori al
district, has taken the necessary steps to
contest the election of Dr., Lodge his COM
panion, on the Democratic ticket. He has
made out the necessary papers to be sui
mitled to the Thirty. third general assemb g,
among them being certificate from Mr..
Waugh, the newly elected county clerk Of
Pulaski county. giving the corrected re-
turns from that county and showing that
Mr. Spann was elected over DR.. Lodge by
q majority of 92b votes. The uniformly
peculiar character Of the errors in the ab-
stracts gives some ground for the suspicion
that they, the errors, did not all come by
chance. But to harbor such q suspicion
would be to doubt the honesty ofa Repub-
lican returning board, and to do that would
be simply monstrous.
In the senate Thursday the French
claims bill passed and the Pendleton civil.
service bill was proceeded with. Messrs.
Miller and George advocated its passage,
On motion of Mr.. Pendeton the fret sec.
ton was amended so as to require the
commissioners to be codirmed by the sen.
ate. Several other amendments were or.
dered printed. In the house the bill passed
amending the act to repeal discriminating
duties on goods produced cast Of the Cope
OF Good Hope. DR.. j. II. Mclean was sd,
mitted to a seat AS member from the old
Second district of Missouri. Bill reported
by the JOINT shipping committee to relieve
burdens of the merchant marine was refer.
} red to the committee on commerce. The
post.office bill was taken up and the pro.
posed reduction Of letter postage was dis.
cussed WITHOUT action. An amendmen,
: was adopted increasing the appropriation
for star service 1910 600