The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-06-21

do consider it somewhat Of slight that
he should marry in North Madison, Ind,
thus depriving them of the extreme pleas
ure of doing proper honor to the occasion.
Metropolis was also visited by the
storm Of Saturday. A dispatch from that
burg, under date of the nth, says: "a ter
rible cyclone struck this city at o'clock
this afternoon, which blew down several
houses and a hagpole which killed Dick
Turner The steamer Jennie Walker lying
at the upper wharf capsized and sank out
of sight Wharfboat No 2 and the steamer
Hudson were blown thirty yards up the
river. The Paris G.. Brown, tied to the
bank below the city, had her smokestacks
blown off, Wheat which was harvested on
neighboring farms was scattered. The
damage is great
The Damron delegates selected in the
First and Second Cairo precincts were not
instructed to vote for either Damron or
Thomas. They are at liberty, therefore, to
vote for whomever they may please in the
convention tomorrow. The feeling be-
tween the white and colored Republicans
being very strong, because of the mex
| cuseble manner in which the c0lored ele-
ment carried its point, it is likely that
some of the white delegates will share in
the general disgust of the white Repub-
llcans generally and will not vote as the
faction which elected (0 them would have
them do. In the event OF such
an exhibition of manliHess on the part of
some of these Damron (0 delegates the
chances that Captain Thomas will get the
instructions from this county will increase
by so much.
The following is the text of Mr.. Flow
cr's resolution providing for an international
conference to fix q common prime meridian
for the regulation Of time throughout the
world. BE it resolved, etc, That the presi-
dent Of the United States be authorized and
requested to extend to the governments OF
all nations in diplomatic relations with our
own an invitation to appoint delegates, to
meet delegates from the United States, in
the city Of Washington, ut such time rs he
may see fit to designate, for the purpose of
fixing upon meridian proper to be employ
cd as n common zero of longitude and
standard Of time reckoning throughout the
globe; and that the president be authorized
to appoint delegates, not exceeding three in
number, to represent the United States III
such international conference.
The bronze fence around Vanderbits'
houses in New York cost $4,000, but a
poor little Lutheran church society in the
city has paid ten times as much for a fence
they di Int build. Several years ago, in
tact in 1706-the church in question was
looking around for new building site.
| A lot containing six acres "out in the coun-
try" was offered them as free gift provided
they would not only erect the church ed
| itice, but put neat and substantial fence
around the entire tract. They demurred
at the fence, it would cost too much and
the place was SO far out Of town that the
fence was unnecessary except to keep the
cows out, and they had no objection to the
cows being IN. So they declined the offer.
That SIX acres embraced what is now the
corner of Broadway and Canal streets, and
six millions would be too small figure tor
it to-day. II the church had built the
fence and held the ground, they would now
be rivals in wealth with the aristocratic
Trinity church corporation which hardly
knows how to spend its income. The
Lutherans Of the present day think of what
might have been, and rail at the indefensi-
bic hort-sightcdncss of their ancestors.
Granny Argus, the usurpers' organ,
makes "Col. Scott, Mr.. GLADDEN. and the
other Damron leaders" say that it THE
BULLETIN chad been against Captain
Thomas as actively as it was for him, they
could not have defeated him." "Col.
Scott Mr.. GLADDEN. and the other Damror
leaders and sympathizers (among the lat
ter, the old lady herself, arc taking mucf
for granted. They have not yet heater
Captain Thomas. II these men and thei
sympathizcrs imagine that such frauds a.
were perpetrated in the First precinct, TO-
instance, are to stand unrcbukcd and b'
carried to their legitimate ends, they Ger
tainly take it for granted that the inteli
gcnce and honesty of the Republican part.
of the county is at a very low cbb. The.
will find, before they get through will
Captain Thomas, that he is a very ivel,
corpse, and that their bold, bad strokes vii
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