The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-03-16

sufferers near Friars Point, Miss. pas
senger from New Orleans, desiring to give
interveiwers something worth while, says
the Mississippi is one hundred miles wide
at Terrene; that back of Riyerton there is
an acre of unhooded land literally covered
with snakes; that starving cattle are feeding
on each other, and that five mules are given
| for a skilf.
Mr.. Henry Ward Beecher said in his
lecture at Mercantile Library hall, in st.
Louis, Tuesday night, that he never trod
upon a ady's train that he did not say
"Gory," and never heard the stitches crack
without saying "IIallelujah," and no doubt
in general way he is right. Still, a more
aesthetic and less emotional method of dis
rcbing must, we fear, remain the popular
favorite for some time. Great reforms are
inaugurated slowly.
In order to dispcl certain rumors inju
rious to his credit on the bull side, Jay
Gould Monday took few prominent OPP
orators to his Office, opened the vaults, and
showed them securities Of the par value of
$G0000,000 or more, all registered in his
name. The largest bundle was S23,eO0,00O
in Western Union telegraph. lie also Of
fcred to exhibit $30,000,000 in railroad
bonds, but the gentlemen were satisfied to
take his word.
Instead of closing the schools for a
month or two, the board of school directors
hes very wisely decided to continue them
and to have the walks leading to them re-
paired and made entirely safe To close
the schools because of unsafe sidewalks,
would not only deprive the children of the
benefits of schooling during not less than
month, but would have other very unde-
sirable effects. To remove the principal,
perhaps the only, reason urged in favor of
closing them and then continuing them is
much the better plan.
The trial of Sergeant Mason, which
has been in progress for some time before
court martial at Washington, on the
charge Of attempting the assassination of
Charles j Guiteau, the assassin Of Presi
dent Garfield, by shooting at him in his
cell, has been brought to an end by his con-
viction and sentence to be honorably dis
charged from the service and confined at
hard labor in the penitentiary at Albany,
N Y, for eight years, which finding and
sentence have been approved by General
Hancock.
President Arthur has found New
Yorker who will accept the vacant seat on
the supreme bench Of the United States.
Samuel Blatchford of the city Of New
York, Judge Of the second Judicial circuit
of the United States circuit court, has been
promoted to the seat made vacant by the
retirement of Justice Hrnt. Judge Batch
ford was made circuit judge in 1873 by
President Hayes. The place he gives up
has salary of $4,000 per annum; ;hat to
which he has just been appointed has sal
airy of $4,000. Judge Bacthford, though
his name is not familiar to the country, is
nevertheless regarded as good lawyer and
has sustained himself with credit on the
circuit bench.
The Ohio river stood at forty-seven feet
eleven inches on the government guage at
this point at one o'clock yesterday sftcr-
noon, showing fall Of one inch daring
the previous twenty-four hours During
the same period of time .he rivers fell at
different points above Cairo as follows:
One foot four inches at Chattanooga, one
foot ten inches at Nashville, one foot five
inches at Cincinnati and ten inches at
Louisville; st, Louis not being reported.
The total rise here this time was just what
had been predicted by Sergeant W II. Ray,
Ginches, and it began to fall,as THE BUILE-
TIN predicted it would, yesterday morning
Prospects for continued fall are very
favorable.
"A nice point has been raised as to the
ineligibility of present sherils and treas
urers in Illinois for reelection. In Novem-
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!. Der, 1880, an amendment to the constitn-
ton wasadopted providing that they should,
from and after Nov. 1882, be elected for
four years, the term Of office having up to
that time been two years. Attached to this
was proviso that no person once elected
as sheriff or treasurer should be eligible for
reelection until four years had elapsed after
the expiration of his term. Now it's con.
tended that this does not apply to the mon
who were elected in 1880 for two years,
aud with good reason, too, for the present
incembunts were not elected under the new
amendment and are therefore not liable to
its disuualifying provisions.