The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-02-17

-Clrcult court ulu mourning VI imPoi
lance yesterday forenoon. Two men
charged with stealing cattle from the
Harkless brothers, plead guilty in the az
ternoon and were remanded to Jail.
The bill recently introduced by Hon.
]. r. Thomas, appropriating one hundred
thousand dollars for the erection at this
point of government marine hospital,
has been reported favorably upon by the
committee which it was referred.
Col. Hamilton was told upon pre-
vious visit here that the council committee
was ready to meet him at any time or place
he might designate. 1t was Col. Hamil-
toms business to seek conference, not the
council committees. Col. Hamilton, or
the company which he represents, seeks
privileges OF the council, the council does
not ask them of the railroad company;
therefore the railroad company should seek
a conference, not the council.
Grandmother Argus allowed its pre-
judice against the council to color its report
of the conference between Col. Hamilton
and the council committee so strongly that
one is almost unable to recognize in the re-
port an account of the actual proceedings.
Such tactics may suit those of her readers
whose prejudices are equally strong in the
same direction, but they cannot suit per-
sons who are in search of the truth. The
old grandmother is violating both truth
and the confidence its readers.
Owing to dsarrangement of THE
BULLETINS machinery, it was little late
in coming out yesterday morning,
and, until the disability is removed,
its forms will be closed by eight o'clock at
night and the paper will be printed at the
Banner and Cleaner office, thanks to the
kindness of Messrs. Throgmarton & Alden.
Persons having advertising to do will please
bear this in mind and send in their copy
before, or Immediately after, six o'clock at
night
Grandmother Argus says the meeting
between Col. Hamilton and the council
committee RESULTED in nothing" Being
totally blind with prejudice, it cannot be
expected to see what was done, 1t is GER
tain, however, that all that could be done,
was done, and that, if more should have
been done, it was not the
committees fault, but the railroad
company's, for not sending some one here
who was empowered to act-to conclude a
treaty, as it were. 1t night have required
the presence of the entire company and all
its stockholders, from Amsterdam, Holland,
and from all over Europe, to
achieve this result; they ought to have been
here and the treaty ought to have been con-
cluded according to the grnudmothers no.
| ton.
AS soon as the wea her will permit, Mr.
f. Vincent will begin placing another story
upon his building at the corner Of Eighth
street and Commercial avenue. Some
doubts have been expressed that the exist
ing walls and foundation will bear safely
the weight of another story; but Mr. Vim
cent assures The BULLETIN that there is no
cause whatever for apprehension upon this
point. The foundation wall, for distance
Of five or six feet, is nine inches thick
built of the best material and in the best
manner possible. The remainder of the
wall is four inches OF brick on the outside,
set against and imbeded in frame work
| of wood on the outside. The upper story
will be finished in good style and divided
up into number of rooms for offices anC
for gentlemen lodgers-no families will bt
admitted. 1t will meet want tina
is steadily growing and, being CENTRAL!
situated, will rent readily.
Between ten o'clock Wednesday nigh
and two o'clock yesterday afternoon tn
amount of rainfall at this point measured
two and a half inches according to tn
measuring apparatus at the signal servic
Office This. was an unusually heavy rainfall
as often the rain fall during the Who'll,
month does not exceed this amount Ii
the year 1881 the average rainfall pc
month was but two inches sXty'eight one
hundredths. In 1880 the average MONTH
rainfall was Alb, and the total 1886; !
1879 the average monthly fall was 3.7S, /
1878 it was 1928 and in 1877 500. Las
year lthc proportion Of clear, fair an
cloudy weather was nearly equal. Thes
figures appear in a very elaborate repoI
which sergeant w. II. Ray and his assis;an
Mr. I w Eyerly are preparing 'piyinu a