The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-06-24

y Yesterday was bnolHeostcr III the
way of heat One could readily fancy
they resided next door TO h-adcs and Old
Nick had gone to Long Branch and left
the furnaces all ablazc. The sun came
down hot as fire and dried the mud holes
dryer and dryer; sidewalks were hot as wild
despair, and steam and gases filled the air (;
mps of Satan with blood red hair were
wandering the city everywhere, in search Of
Damron ham.
News regarding strikes now prevailing
all over the country is, practically, that
there is no change in the situation. No GER
tainty of an immediate resumption Of work
is shown any where, but, on the other hand,
there appears to he on development OF a
more bitter feeling between workmen and
employers and no new obstacle in the way
Of compromise AS the demand for manu-
featured products increases terms will no
doubt be made without much difficulty
but the demand comes slowly.
j. Burger offers his entire stock Of
summer goods at prices that will astonish
every buyer Call and convince yourself. ct
The Woman's Christian Temperance
Union of Chicago has asked that the min
listers Of that city preach Temperance ser.
mons next Sunday in behalf of the pro.
hibitiOn vote to be cast IN Iowa next
week, aud has also requested that
the 9th, the day of the election, be OBJ
served as a day OF fasting and prayer. This
request was preferred in the general meet.
ing of Baptist preachers, and no general
resistance has as yet been made to it.
Last Sundays daily Springfield Regis.
ter completed years issue Of that excel
lent paper, under its new Management.
Messrs. Smith, CleDdennn & Reese, who
took hold Of the establishment about year
ago, laboring much under the difficulties a.
ways attending All at first unsuccessful en-.
terprise, have established the paper upon a
firm basis, and made it a popular and in.
fluential Democratic sheet in this state
The enterprise and good judgment shown
by these gentlemen is deserving of the fiat
tering success with which they have ap.
parently met.
The water melon crop in Missouri
promises to be very early and very good
this year. Mr. L. and +. Rendleman, who
together have about fifty acres in water
melons in Scott county, Mo, say their crop
is looking fine aud will be ahead Of all
others, The backward season has been
very unfavorable for melons, Mr., Rende-
man having had to plant three different
times. He expects to ship direct to east
ern cities in car load lots though Cairo
will, Of course, get her share Of the crop.
| Mississippi county is also well supplied,
and promises good and early crop.
Undoubtedly all civilization is per
fectly wiling Charles j. Guitoau should be
hung for having murdered James A. Gar
field, but the .flendishness of sentiment ut
tered by many aud published by some of
the more distressingIy enthusiastic newspa.
pers is not especially creditable to our ma
tionaI reputation. There seems to be an
element Of society in this country Just now
"a respectable element, too--which would
gladly hail an announcement that Guteau
would be killed by the phlebotomy pro-
cess, and his blood sold for dollar drop,
SO that society could dissolve it and drink
it in bumpers to his eternal damnation.
A letter from friend at Eureka Springs,
to citizen OF Cairo, received last Tuesday,
| says that there are strong hopes that Mr..
John Q llarman will entirely recover. hr.
Harman, as is well known, has suffered for
years from Bright's disease, and when he
left Mount Vernon it was thought by his
friends there that he would probably not
recover, and hence the report as published
in yesterdays BULLETIN. But since his
arrival at the springs, he has placed him
self under the care of a physician who is
reputed to be as successful in the treatment
of the disease named rs Bright himself is
reputed to have been Under this ply.
sican's treatment, Mr.. Hartman has already
improved to such an extent as gives strong
hope of his ultimate aud complete recovery
Within the last week or two there has
been more sickness than usual among little
children in the city, and the extreme heat
during some days, coupled with cool nights
Is said to have a vitiating effect. But gen.
| orally Cairo does not suffer from very long,
hot summers aud this year We are promised
an unusually short period of hot weather
In the cities not as fortunate rs Cairo is in
this respect the problem Of what shall be
done with the little children during the
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