The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-05-04

DeVorc did all they could to make the lady
comfortable They stretched a mattress
upon the floor In the cabin and performed
the duties of midwife and physician in a
mastery manner The lady and child me,
the husband and father and all went re,
joicing to their home
"A meeting of the sub committee OF
| five was held in the office of Messrs. Wood
Ritenhouse d Bro. yesterday forenoon.
The meeting was called by the
chairman for the purpose of formal.
ly receiving a communication from Pres.
dent Whitehead, replying to the commit
tees proposition which offered to remove
all distractions to the company's entrance
into the city if the company will do its
share of tho work proposed in q written
offer by President Whitehead. The answer
was brief and pointed, entirely ignoring the
subcommittee offer and simply stating,
that as the Wabash company had refused
to accept President Whitehead's PROPOSE
ton, the st. Louis Sc Cairo company should,
by the .erms of said proposition, be al
lowed to enter the city Internationally on
the company's new right Of way,
old Lady Argus says that when she
had the contract for doing the city printing
"the council proceedings always appeared
the day after the meeting, while THE Bull
LETIN often defers the publication for
days. Under THE BULLETINS contract
with tue city, twas given ten days after
the meeting in which to publish the pro-
ceedngs, and it seldom or never allowed
more than half that time TO pass. Were
Old Lady Argus awarded the contract now
she would be entirely unable to publish
the proceedings before the expiration of
ten days after the meeting, because the pro-
ceedugs now are about double what they
were when she published them before. She
might be able to publish them as required
by procuring additional machinery and in
creasing her facilities generally; but this,
by her own admission, she is pecuniarily
unable to do.
The St. Louis Globe Democrat made
an investigation last Sunday showing as
nearly as it could how many people attend.
ed church that day, and how the day was
otherwise spent 10y the socalled Sabbath
breakers At the morning and evening
services in all the churches there were in
attendance ll9,449 persons, and in the
Sunday schools, 22,lO2 children. OF these
the Catholic church il represented by So
III persons; the Methodist by 7,402; the
Presbyterian by G,929; the Baptist, 4,5l9;
the German Evangelical, including the
Lutheran, 1919. At the parks, beer gar.
dens, theatres and other non-religious
places, there were 2O,242 persons. OF these,
more than one-third Witnessed base ball
games. Allowing for Implications Of
church goers that is, tho same persons at
tending church both morning and evening
the number of individuals who attended
church was estimated at fully 100000, as
the Catholic churches do not usually hold
night services. AS large majority of the
people of ST. Louis are non.C Catholics com.
paratively few of them appear to attend
church.
1t took sharp eyes to catch q glimpse Of
tho new celestial visitor known as Wells
comet which, according to prediction, would
be visible Monday night, According to
Prof, Bess it could be looked for the first
OF May. twill not be conspicuous, how.
ever, until the middle Of the month, and
by the end Of may and during June il will,
without doubt, furnish splendid display.
ny tuC ulbt vi y uuC lllC NOLlCL Will UhNG
descended near Cassioped and Perseus into
Auriga and will then rise shortly before
the sun About June or 8 il will proba.
bly, be seen in ITS greatest glory far down
in the northeast just before dawn. The
Albany On, " Argus says that Mr., Eg.
bert, one Of the assistants at the Dudley
observatory, has computed new comet
will reach IT'S perihelion, or nearest point
to the sun June TO- and will then be dis.
tant from that Iumiuary about five and one
half million miles. Only eight comets in
the entire history Of exact astronomy have
approached the sun 50 nearly as this. So
good an opportunity to observe the effect
consequent upon the close approach of a
comet to the sun has never before occurred
The comet is now about 125,0OO,O0O milcs
from tho earth. II will continue TO ap.
proach until May 20, whom its distance
will still be about S000O,OO0 miles from