The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-07-15

elcltcu anu tnc jury huJOurncu again UNI
next Tuesday, when five or six more wit
nesses will be examined. AS yet the jury
has not obtained one iota of proof upon
which it could base even recommendation
for an indictment, and the investigation is
rapidly dwindling down to mere farce, in
which halfa dozen ignorant negroes are
"assertin their rights" as free American
citizens, in dragging their white fellow
citizen before them from distant parts OF
their own to adjoining counties, putting
them to expense and inconveni'
ence, merely to subject them
to series of silly cross questions
put in an Extensively overbearlng and die,
tatorial manner The Howard jury is rap,
idly developing into rival for the star.reute
trial or the Thirty-tLird general assembly,
and with these, will form trinity Of "Re
publican institutions" that will hold prom
inent place in history, butonly toproduce a
severe attack Of nausea whenever reader
shall venture to tackle" it,
The tax on matches ceased last Mon
day and the price of ordinary lucifers sud
denly dropped from 81 so down to so cents
gross. Parlor matches are quoted at
from rs cents to 81 at wholesale. At re-
tail there has been corresponding drop
the box which used to cost nickel being
sold fora cent in places where that humble
coin circulates. During the first few days
after the reduction took effect the demand
upon the factories was greater than they
could supply. People who deal in the
goods had been letting stocks run down to
the lowest notch and the consequence was
big orders came in with such rapidty dur
ing the first of the week that the factory
price was advanced to rs cents. This had
the effect to check the sales slightly and
the price will probably drop again soon.
One would hardly expect that the removal
of the tax from so cheap an article as
matches would make very much difference
in the consumption, but the manufacturers
sayit will and that hereafter there will te
an immense increase in the number used.
Some people can't do anything quietly.
With them even every act and every word
must be done for, and spoken to, the pub
lie, to satiate thoroughly their unbounded
egotism. OF such are the uncomfortable of
pinch" and also, to some extent, those OF
the barracks" near the Mississippi levee.
In the latter place Mr. and Mrs Washing
ton differed in their respective opinions
with reference to little matter of purely
government concern, and forthwith the
world must be apprised of it by their
very fluent use Of cataract of weighty,
material arguments, which caused GRIM
son food. II is said that George gave
Mrs Washington three trade dollars to 90
and bug marketing; that she couldn't pass
NhShi Nhat pCoIBo t,Ol uiuuh tual NHCh
Mrs. Washington had sarcastically asked
George if he had gotten drunk on trade
dollars, because OF his disappointment at a
total failure in an attempt to define the
properties, characteristics and aver
age Longevity of Pulaski county
coroner's jury; that George then
got mad and "sluggcd" Mrs. Washing
ton, and that Mrs. Washington thereupon
had George arrested. All this may be
true. AT any rate, it is safe to conclude,
no marriage can be truly happy where hus-
band and wife undertake to discuss the ma
tons finances, or "monkey" with Pulaski
county coroner's jury, even in thought.
Mound City has a very fair prospect Of
a little boom before many weeks. Since
Captain Halliday came into possession of
the ways there there is promise that they
will be operated more constantly than be-
fore and that between seventy-fye and
hundred men Will ma constant employ
ment. The ways are now occupied by a
wharf-bost from below here and
about thirty men are at work
making the repairs. Mr.. G.. F.
Meyer, the moneyed man of Mound City,
and his associate Mr., Ellis, from Indiana,
will contribute largely toward the "boom"
by the establishment of their large furni
ture factory. The building that will be
occupied is the north end of the Stokes
House, which was about going to ruin,
but has been repaired extensively and
made substantial to bear up under the
weight of machinery that will soon be
heard in every part Of its three spacious
floors. Messrs. Meyer & Ellis expect to
have their factory in full blast by August
18th and employ about one hundred men.
The work to be done on the levee, for
which the contract has already been let,
will also employ from fifty to seventy. five