The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-09-18

Thirteenth street. fought like Amazons O
old yesterday morning, right out ia tn
street. They were all arrested and eacl
fined $500 and costs. Dora Porter, a col
ored Inhabitant of Pinch, was "taken in
for being out on the street at unusual hour
and was fined IS and costs. "Lucky Bill
a negro that " notorious for his indoenc
and general worthlessness, who but few
days ago was releasedIfrom Jail WAS charged
with being a vagrant. He pleaded guilty
was fined 800 and costs and given stay
OF execution on condition that he leave
town in three hours, which he promised t.
do. Then there were Andrew Kelly and
Thomas Wilson, two negroes who bad
been captured by Officers Mahanny and
Hogan Saturday tor aiding notorious
negress named Kate Fisher IN escaping
from young fellow whom she had robbed
of sum of money. They were charged
with vagrancy, were each fined 500 and
costs and given three hours in which to
leave town.
Last Sunday night Rev. j. A. Scsrritt
preached his last sermon before the confer
ence meets to reassign pastors to different
charges. In this sermon Rev. Scarritt made
statement Of facts concerning the Congre-
cation, the church and its management,
which is interesting to the general public
During his two years connection with the
church there had been but one death in
the congregation and that was member
not living in this city, and he had been call
ed upon to attend less number of cases of
serious illness than in the case Of any other
congregation he had ever presided over. all
of which certainly speaks well
for his health of his locality.
lie had never had more attentive, respectful
audiences, nor any with as few sleepy ones
among them, as here, but he said with res
greet, that the average attendance was, in
to the numerical strength of the
much smaller than it ought
to have been, smaller than it had been in
any other congregation over which he had
presided. The financial condition of the
church was hattering one. The church
had not only met all its regular expenses
promptly, but had made heavy
extraordinary expenditures, and had
also paid the interest on its
Did debt and reduced the principal
10 the extent of $50. 1t had paid s570 for
'epairs on the church building; the pastors
salary, 5000; donations for benevo-
ent purposes, Sl30-the expendi-
ures had been upwards of
$4,000, all of which had been paid. Rev.
'carrit will 90 to the conference this week
md will be able TO make az excellent report
If the condition of his charge here.
Replying to THE BULLETINS assertion
hat the payment of over $4,000 by the
city to citizens who had labored for 1t was
a practical illustration of Mayor Halliday's
assertion that "the employment of idle Cit.
.ens in public Improvements does not cost
The city at large anything" the Argus in-
,ists again that this statement is not true.
It insists that only % per cent. Of the
$4,000 paid out as above stated would be
etaned by the merchants as profits on
FOODS sold and that the remainder, $1,000,
would be sent out of the city for new goods,
Most anybody else would say that the 800
lad been paid for new goods; but the Argus
insists that it was paid for "public improve
nents." Most anybody else would say that
t the city had not paid out this
100000 there would, in the first
)lace, have been no public improvement,
md secondly, no employment of the con-
'umers; that the consumption of groceries,
provisions, ice cream and whisky, and the
wearing of clothes, would have gone on all
he same; that the consumers would either
nave drawn on their savings and paid for
hese things, or they would have bought |
he goods on tick; that the merchants
would either have sent 1880 of the con
nmers' savings out of the city to replenish |
heir stocks, or having marked it on the
slate, they would have had to draw on
heir own bank accounts to the tune of ST. |
800; but the Argus claims that if the con.
sumner Is not employed he neither eats,
irnks, smokes nor wears clothing (the |
ruth being, however, as Mayor Halliday
aid, that he does these things-foolish |
hngs if the Argus may be believed-more
when idle than when Employed; that the |
merchant may then keep his goods In
lis store, needs not send money out |
VI the city to replenish his stock, can suck |
lis thumbs for living andshis clerks do |
he same thing, Most anybody else would |