The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-07-16

delegation invaded The BULLETIN news
room Friday night after the departure of
the editor, and inveigled the boys into n
debauch in which Damron sham" and
Thomas "pi" were conspicuous factors, is
Indignantly denied by "thc boys" but the
editor has his suspicious nevertheless.
Capt. Thomas, of the steamer Scioto
which was wrecked last week near Mingo
Ferry, o., is insane at his home. The yea.
sci has not been raised and is still two.
thirds under water. The total number of
bodies recovered is 81 and the total num-
ber of missing is g. When the body of
one of the victims, W. T. Lane, was found
II miles below the scene of the disaster, a
coach dog was with it, which had been
great pet of his during life, and which nc
companied him on the boat, and it is sup
posed that he had kept watch for the body
ever since, and finally found it, When dis
covered the dog was exhausted that it
could not move.
Without intending to cast reelection
on Carbon lale, or Beech Ridge, where one
of Captain Thomas colored postmasters
lives and has his being in a sumptuous
manner on the magnificent salary of five
dollars a year, we may be permitted TO say
that in no town in the Twentieth district Of
Illinois, except Cairo, could the late Re
publican convention have been even dc
Gently accommodated. Coming here as 1t
did,e candidate accompanied by the del
CREATIONS instructed for him, which he de-
sired to have all together near him during
their stay here, and bringing with them
many friends, no hotel in Southern Illinois
but The Halliday would have been able TO
provide comfortable lodgings and good
meals for all. And though the one hun
dred and twenty odd rooms OF The HALT
day were all ovcr.crowded, many of the
delegates were loud in their praises OF
) the very satisfactory manner, in which they
had been provided for in every way. The
, Democratic congressional central comNllt.
tee, which meets here next Tuesday, should
be guided in their determination upon tie
, place for holding the Democratic conven
ton by the experience of the late conyen'
, ton.
Mr.. Rgbaits, the man who was sin
favor of peace and harmony" in the Re
< publican convention as soon as he found
9 that the Thomas influence was becoming
r formidable, believes that The BULLETIN
4 representative was imposed upon when told
:. that the gentleman who declared that llar'
S ris, the coored Republican nominee for
{: county clerk in Pulaski county stood no
, more chance Of election than did the speaker
, of going to heaven with his clothes on
S that the speaker OF this prediction was "a
r prominent Republican of Pulaski county
h Robarts positively denies that any
r prominent Republican of Pulaski
:. county made any such statement
e which is equal to calling theprominent Re
!, publican of this city, in whose office the
G prominent Republican of Pulaski county
| made the remark quoted, a--"no such
thing" Mr. Robarts and laxative Repub-
! licans generally should be careful in their
, assertions and denials, and bave daily eau
t cusses, in order that they may not inadver-
, family call oneanother bad names and prove
! oneanother guilty Of deeds that are naughty
e but nice" "There is nothing like har
= mony," Mr.. Rpbarts, and there is no better
= way of obtaining harmony than by frequent
e consultations and the constant application
t of white wash" to the many dark spots on
= the Republican body polite.
: In the first night session of
c the Republican congressional convention at
d the Opera House in this city, one gentleman,
S Mr. W. r. Scott, in speech detailing the
h little acts of unfathfuluess to the party in
u the dispcnsation Of official "ham,' OF
s which the Hon. j. r. Thomas had been
c guilty, and of the manner in which that
gentleman had attempted to carry the nom.
ination in this city, said that, in converse
= ton with several OF the many delegates and
a Others who were wearing the Thomas badge
# they had admitted that each Of the badges
r "meant dollar" given them by Captain
y Thomas or his friends. But subsequently
/ one of the white delegates prostested
: against this bold imputation Of dishonesty
ii on the part of the Thomas delegates, which
C induced Mr.. Scott to retract SO far as the
&c whites were concerned, saying that he had
l. reference only to colored voters. On the
first day OF the convention Mr.. Glen. Young
d another colorcd voter, openly charged that
n Judge Damron had paid him and others
n $3.50 each to vote and work for him in