The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-08-05

senate was about two hours. This was re-
markably quick work,
Mr.. George Fry arrived in the city
yesterday. He has made business trip
through Arkansas and has found strong ov-
idence of great prosperity, especially in the
rural districts. Crops, he says, are the
finest ever known in the state, and corn and
oats particularly are fine and plenti-
titul. Some of the former is
eleven feet high, and of the latter there is
said to be thirtyfve bushels TO every in
habitant. The cotton, as Mr. w. G. Davis
manager of the Cairo Cotton Seed Oil com
pany, who recently visited that state, re-
ported, is also in fine condition With all
these excellent prospects, and the fact that
by the new narrow guage this prosperous
state is made tributary to Cairo, must cause
Cairo merchants to feel deep interest in
the state of Arkansas.
--A An old woman, apparently about 70
years old, arrived in this city
yesterday, and, armed with a written
paper which told tale intended to excite
pity and liberality, she besieged nearly
every merchant on Ohio levee and other
principle thoroughfares, and humby asked
for contributions. If her petition met
with favorable response, she would be
profuse in thanks, but if otherwise, she
would be equally proluse in denunciations
sometimes curses. She is professional
beggar and to Judge from the roll of green
backs she was seen by some to possess she
is by no means in needy circumstance.
The readers of The BULLETIN are fore
warned, let them ,thereforel also be fore
armed.
In the senate bills passed for public
building at St, Joseph and to settle land
patent questions in the Virginia military
district of Ohio. The bill to prevent pleuro-
pneumonia in cattle was taken up but soon
laid aside. House bill to provide for deduc-
tons from the tonnage of vessels and to
regulate steam vessels was passed. A new
conference was ordered on the japanese
indemnity bill. An agreement on the leg
islative appropriation bill was reported and
report adopted. The tax reduction bill
was then taken up and after debate laid
over. The senate passed the house resolu
ton for temporary appropriations, and laid
on the table house resolution for adjourn
ment Saturday. In the house joint reso-
luton was adopted providing for final ad
journment Saturday. A disagreement was
reported on the general deficiency bill A
lot Of bills on miscellaneous subjects passed
and to number OF others consideration
was refused, objection being raised to near
ly everything
There has been great fitting of wives
| to summer resorts from cities and towns
throughout the country, and, as most of
the ladies receive the news papers it is the
duty of all papers to tell OF how the poor
deserted husbands are getting along.
There may be one or two men who devote
themselves to pleasure now, but we have
heard OF none As a rule the husband is
unhappy, very unhappy indeed, because
his ownest wife is away from him, He does
not drink anything, does not attend his
| club, he does not hug the servant girl,
he does not visit the gardens, he never
drives at twilight in the park with
something in muslin beside
him; he labors through the live.
long day and at night he sits and mopes.
He does not believe what Mrs Brown
wrote regarding the behavior of his wife
and that young man at the watering place
he is only lonesome and miserable and
wants his ducky back again. But he does
not hurry her home because he does not
want to spoil her enjoyment. We know
that absent wives will be glad to get this
Information and so itgoes into the paper.
The paper can be relied upon.
Among the one hundred and ten mem
bers OF congress who lodged vote on the
final passage of the river and harbor bill,
by which the presidents veto was rendered
void was Congressman Thomas, of this dis
trIct 1t appears, therefore, that out of
four votes taken on appropriations for the
Improvement of the Mississippi river during
MIR. Thomas membership of congress, he
voted once against the appropriations, and
three times he acted the
coward or was crimually negligent
of the interests of his constituents
twill not do for Mr. Thomas to say in ex.
tenuatlon OF his first vote against the river
improvement bill that the bill was "a steal"
lie must have known that in Rep,Sblican