The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-09-19

son or other our merchants, rs a rule, nave
preferred not to invest all their money in
goods and carry all their possessions in
"stock,' evidently deeming it advisable,
rather, to carry such stocks as will supply
the local trade and what little outside trade
may come voluntarily, and lay aside their
money, where high water, ''in case the
levees should break" cannot reach it.
The BULLETIN said nothing that could
be tortured into an "inuendo to have its
(the ArgusO financial condition inquired
into" The BULLETIN hopes and believes
that the Argus financial. standing is as
good as that of any other institution of
equal magnitude; but The BULLETIN does
not consider it its business or the pubIiC's
business whether such be the case or not,
and cannot see the slightest connection be-
tween the Argus financial standing and the
street filling project. The Argus probably
only strained point, thereby laying Itself
liable to the charge of stupidity in order
to find an excuse for Boosting of its tinan'
cial stability, No harm done.
On Saturday night Sept Sth W. r.
Brooks, of Phelps, New York, discovered
singular object in the constellation Of DTaco'
lie was not certain as to its real character,
but on Monday night Prof Lewis Swift,
Director of the Warner Observatory at
Rochester, New York, verified it by means
Of the large Warner telescope, as being
comet. 1t is quite large, nearly round, and
moving slowly westward, Mr. Brooks re-
ceived Especial prize of $3.50 from Mr.,
Warner some two months ago, and II there
is no prior claimant, will be entitled to the
5000 prize on the present discovery.
Pulaski Patriot; estates Attorney
Bradley last week took up with him to
Springfield and had served by the sheriff of
Sangamon county on the auditor OF public
accounts of Illinois, writ Of injunction
preventing HIM, the said auditor, from levy
ing any tax whatever to pay interest on the
Cairo Il Vincennes r. r. aid bonds. This
will make taxes much lower next year, and
is intended to facilitate the funding of the
c. & V. bonds still out-Mr, John Hogan
is getting well along with his work on the
levee. The back levee is finished from It's
Intersection with the cross levee to the jail
The works being done in good style, and
every one whom we have heard speak of it,
says that it could not be better
City Attorney William E. Hendricks
went to Paducah again Monday afternoon,
son business" lie went there finally to
conclude little business matter that has
been pending between himself and Padu
cab party for some time and neCeSsitated
his frequent visits to the city OF gravelled
streets, The details have now all been
agreed upon and the contract is to be
signed at Paducah at 8 o'clock this morning,
with.Miss George Thompson as theparty of
the second part, The ceremony is to be
performed stthe residence of the brides
parents, in the presence Of few select
friends and Mr.. and Mrs. Hendricks will
arrive on the steamer Fowler this afternoon
and take up their permanent residence IN
neat frame cottage on Cedar street, near
Seventh which Mr.. Hendricks has had
furnished completely and elegantly. May
they have bountlul share of all the good
things of this lite, is the wish of The BUL-
LETIN and Of the community.
The Argus respectfully refers q few
questions to US about where property hold
ers are to get money from to do things that
nobody wants them to do, and that it
would be very foolish for them to ever do.
BY an effort SIC are able to answer the qucs-
tions in serious manner, though we would
much prefer to dismiss them with an "Oh :.
you-makc me-tired,' and would doubtless
please our readers better five did so. We
repeat, and we would ask the Argus man
to pay particular attention to the words and
their literal sense, that the only expense
that any property holder on the street
where the "ecyating project may be in
augurated would be REQUIRED to make,
would be on account Of the filling Of the
street and the laying Of the sidewalk IN
front Of his lot The expensive paving
Of the street. the curb.stone and gutterng,
would be An after consideration, and in
view OF the fact that 50 few Of the streets
are paved and guttered and curb-stoned,
Commercial avenue, tor instance, only
from Sixth to Eighth, this question cannot
cut much off, fgurein this discussion now.
The walks would not have to be of "costly
brick or flag stone" as the Argus insists it
must be, but it may be Of good oak or pine
plank, just AZ now, The raising Of houses