The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-05-02


over him. The selection Of MIR, Millourn
was not based so much on consideration
of comparative merit as upon the pre-
cedents set in all the important changes so
far made in the offices Of the two railroads.
But Mr.. Milburn's retention will give gen
eral satisfaction, alike to the management
and to the public-the patrons OF the
roads.
TIE boss oil stoves, retrigerators and
ice-chests, water.coolers, the best ice cream
freezes on earth and great variety Of
other household articles for the summer
trade, just received at q. W. Henderson's,
corner 18th and Commercial. lw
"A large part of our space is filled this
morning by Mayor Halliday's inaugural adj
dress delivered before the council last night;
but it is the most interesting matter IN the
paper and will be read clear through al
tentively by every body. 1t is, as predicted
it would be, full yet concise statement of
the affairs of the city in all
their variouss aspects, and makes
suggestions which will commend themselves
to every reader IS of the greatest impor-
lance and the greatest good to the city. 1t
foreshaddows an administration of munich
pal affairs that will stand forth boldly as
the best aud most important in its results
beneficial to the city generally, that the
people of Cairo have ever had.
Postmaster Murphy is about to make
another much needed improvement in the
postoffice. The rules against permitting
persons who are not sworn agents of the
mail service to come into the mail depart
ment of the Office are very strict and have
not been observed as they should have been
owing to the fact that when porters carry
ing the mails from the trains or steam boats
into the postoffice or vice versa, they would
step directly from the threshold of the
door into the mail distributing department.
Postmaster Murphy has obtained permission
from the secretary of the treasury to put up
an iron railing separating the mail depart
ment proper from the rest of the room and
shutting out of this department all who
may enter the room. There are other more
important improvements, concerning the
public more directly, In contemplation, of
which mention will be made at the proper
time.
No weather or river report was received
by Sergeant W. H. Ray here yesterday
afternoon or morning and no more reports
OF any kind will be received by him until
probably the LIST of July. The appropra-
ton tor the United States signal service,
for the present fiscal year, has been exhaus.
ted or nearly so, aud many reports to sal.
lar points in the weather circuits have been
cut oft in order that the balance remaining
Ia the signal service fund may serve to give
| the large cities in the circuits the iull re-
| ports to the end of the fiscal
year. The morning reports here,
though quite convenience, could
have been dispensed with, but to de-
prive US Of the evening reports also, for two
whole months, is really to awiully mean
for anythng-is an almost nubearable
hardship. But what are We going tn do
sboutitl
--Barton's Free Pree insists that for col
ored men to demand representation in the
offices controlled by the Republican party
is an attempt to draw the color line" and
| this the Free Press believes to be very,
very wicked--in colored man. But the
Free Press hasnta word of reproof for the
white otficeholders who perslstenrly "draw
the color line' in favor Of the whites and
against "the poor, down trodden colored
the Free Press the wrong'ulness OF wrong
and the sinfulness Of sin depend entirely
upon who the actor may be, and the right
fulness Of drawing ''color line depends
upon the color Of the line intended TO be
drawn. If the line be white, drawn by
white Office holders to exclude colored men
from Office, it is all right; if the line be
black, drawn by colored voters to gain rep
resents'ion in Offices to which they have by
their votes elevated some Of their white
boses, then it is all wrong, you know.
A committee of the railroad branch Of
the, Young Mems Christian Association
here will hold meeting in day or two
tor the purpose Of taking further steps to-
ward the completion Of arrangements for
the permanent establishment of public
reading room in convenient portion OF
the city. Mr.. Crane, who has the matter in
charge, has been busiIy engaged, with q
number Of citizens who are prominent in
work of this kind, in carrying out the
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