The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-03-03

men of ordinary minds these simple propo-
sitions are posers and mark the outlet sys
tenn as the most nonsensical Of vagaries; but
the superior minds of Cowden and his few
adherants may be able to discover some
sense In their pet theories.
Yesterday morning Mayor Thstlewood
received dispatch from the mayor OF
McKeesport, Pa, asking if he would re-
ceive contribution for the people of Rose
Glare small river town about fifty miles
above Paducah, but in this state, Mayor
Thistlewood responded affirmatively and in
the afternoon another message requested
him to draw on The Peoples bank, of
McKeesport, for something over seventy
seven dollars, which he did and sent the
money to it's final destination,
Two years ago, Dr. Aonzo Hull Of
Berlin, in this state, was found dead il his
bed, He had been hard drinker for a
long time and the result of the coroner's
inquest was the decision that he had died
of alcoholism, and the verdict held Wads.
worth, a saloon keeper, responsible for his
death. The wife OF the deceased Lad re-
peatedly begged Wadsworth not to sell her
husband liquor, and she has now brought
suit against the saloon keeper for FIVE thou.
sand dollars damages. The case is before
the circuit court now in session at Troy,
In response to resolution passed by
the house few days ago the state bureau
Of labor statistics reported the following
interesting mining statistics There are,
at present. 704 active coal mining establish.
ments in the state; of these, 226 are opera.
tee by steam sharfs, 149 by horse power,
by steam power slopes, and 32O by slopes in
which horse and mules haul the coal out
The whole number OF men and boys en-
poyed is 20,290 Only 3h4 mines are
provided with escapement shafts. As TO
ventilation, in 396 mines it it reported
good; 1874 as fair aud ia as bad. Out of
the 704 mines there ara only 23S operated,
in all respects within the requirements of
the law.
The editor OF the American Farmer
describes telephone, wire 200 yards
long, that he constructed at a cost Of As
cents. All that is required is wire and
two cigar boxes. Select your boxes and
make holes about half an iGch in diameter
IN the center of the bottom OF each, and |
then place one in each OF the houses you
wish to connect; then get five pounds of |
common iron stove-pipe wire, make loop |
It one end, and put it through the hole in
'our cigar box, and fastcn it with nsil;
hen draw 1t tight to the other box, sup.
'orting it when necessary with steut cord.
Icu can easily run your line into the house
y boring hole in the glass. Support
our boxes with stats nailed across the
window, and your telephone is complete.
lie says this telephone will carry music
when the organ is played thirty feet away
u another room. 1t will not be all sur
'rising, says an exchange, if, within few
'ears, farm houses are quite generally con-
lected by telephones. The benefits and
of its use in this way, would
De many, as any one will admit on Tefec.
ion.
Cairo has demonstrated now beyond |
he possibility Of doubt, that she has with.
q herself the ability to overcome her most
powerful enemy the annual food in the two
great rivers conyerging here. She has twice
now come out victorious in fight with an
adversary against which much greater cit
les failed utterly. The first attack was the
ierciest then known and the victory was
barely won; the second WAS made with still
stronger force and WAS more protracted,
but the victory for Caro- was only the more
easy aud complete. The eyes of the coun-
try have been upon Cairo; some of them
jealous eyes, beaming with malice and be.
traying strong hope that Cairo might be
less fortunate than she has been. This hope
has found expression 10 words in wild
pictures of her dangerous position, and con-
ident predictions of her certain, speedy, to-
tai destruction, But she has emerged from
the fight with flying colors, intact, drawer,
stronger, more hopeful and certain of con.
tinued prosperity and ultimate greatness,
than she has ever been before, and her bril-
liant prospects can now no longer be regard
ed with asneer, or be entirely ignored as st.
Louis aud Chicago have been pleased to DO
until now. The improvement of the Mis-
sissippi river, in accordance with the plans
OF the river commission, will produce
channel thirty-,hree feet deep from Cairo
down TO New Orleans, aud will, in time,
make Cairo one Of the principal maritime
cities in the country, not to say in the