The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-03-29

tho acreage mucn larger tnan last year.
The late crop Of Irish potatoes Is of good
quality, and the yield per acre much above
an average. Farm animals are healthy,
and in good condition. The weather dur
ing the fall and winter has been favorable
for farm work. The supply of fat hogs is
quite limited but few cattle ready for mar
ket. The number of fat sheer is almost as
large as at same date last year. The far
mers of this county are giving considerable
attention to tile and surface drainage.
Some Hereford and Jersey cattle have re-
Gently been introduced into the county. A
factory for making sorghum sugar and
syrup was built in 1889, near Hodges
Park, in this county"
Tuesday night man and womsn
called at police headquarters and told Chief
Meyers that they were in search of run
away young man and woman who had ar
rived here on the steamer Fowler that af-
ternoon. The chief gave the matter into
the hands of the officers with instructions,
and within few hours the clipping couple
were at the headquarters, awaiting identif-
cation by their pursures. The young girls
name was Sarah Gardner aud the mans was
w. II. Grimes. The former was about nine
teen years of age and tolerably cookbook.
ing. Both are from Ballard county, KY,
and were bound for wedlock, wherever that
might be. But there was serious stumb..
ling block in the way, in the form of liv-
ing wife and two children of the despica-
BILE wretch who would have played the worse
half in this escapade. He ran away from
his home at Kelly Springs, Ballard county,
after having sold the only bed there was in
the home, taking the proceeds with him,
and left his family in destitute circumstan-
ces. The foolish young girl was quite in
fatuated with the miscreant and would
have gone with him in spite of the will of
her mother and uncle; but the latter's
threat to give Grimes drubbing if he per-
sisted in his purpose, induced that young
man to withdraw and the pursueing party
left for up the road, taking their bagged
but unwilling game with them. Whether
Grimes repented aud returned to the bosom
of the family he had so grievously wronged,
is not known, but it is hardly probable
that thing with soul so small could ex-
hibit courage and conscience enough to be
guilty of so manly an act. Grimes formerly
lived in New Columbus, Ills.
--Paducah is about to take desperate
and, it would seem to one up in tree at
this distance, rather severe and unwarran-
ted method of Kidding itself of the small
pox. The News of Tuesday says: 1t is
learned this afternoon from Mayor Reed,
that he, this morning, telegraphed the con-
dition of affairs on the "Acre' to General
Echols, ice-president OF the G. o. & s. W.
r. II. company, owners of the property,
and asked their permission to burn down
the delectable(Ddens thereon, in which the
smallpox has so frequently appeared for
the past two or three weeks. The utter
worthlessness Of the buildings is known to
Gen. Echols, and this afternoon he prompt.
ly answered that Mayor Reed could do with
the property as he thought best for the
clty's welfare. AS Mayor Reed had during
the day secured the permission of those
owning adjoining property to fire the houses
alluded to, with the precautionary measure
OF having the fire engine and firemen pres
ent, his honor has decided to do with the
buildings as he desires as soon as be can
have them vacated by the few families oc-
cupying them. The people may, therefore,
look for fire in the direction or the "Acre"
most any time this evening or tomorrow
and need experience no alarm therefrom."
Information brought down by the Fow-
Ter yesterday afternoon was to the effect
that the Paducah council had held a spe-
ciaI meeting Tuesday evening and had or
dered the destruction of the buildings on
the Acre The buildings comprise about
fifty little shanties, occupied mostly by
colored people-something after the man
ner of our barracks 1t is considered the
disreputabie part of the town, partly, no
doubt, because the poverty of the town is
concentrated there. The destruction of
these houses is considered an easy way, not
only of exterminating the plague, but of
Kidding the city Of very undesirable por.
ton Of It's inhabitants. The end is all
right enough, but it can hardly be said to
justify the means. We are under the i'm
preston that Mayor Thistlewood and Chief
Myers, of this city, could give the Paducah
authorities some valuable advice as to the
best method for fighting mall-pox, advice
that would, it acted upon, relieve Paducah