The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-07-01
THE DAILY CAIRO BU1LET1N MORNING. 1888

easier Inehns oi removing the OIal lar
enough away from the mills, to places
where it can DO utilized. The complete
reconstruction Of Messrs. Halliday Bros.
Touring mills is also rapidly approaching
completion. AS has been stated before, the
mills are being furnished with an entirely
new grinding apparatus by which flour is
manufactured according to II new process
quicker and better aud cheaper than by
the old process Thirty or forty mechanics
have been at work in the mills for several
months remodeling the mills and putting
in this new machinery. 1t is thought that
in a few weeks more the mills will be ready
to begin operations again on the improved
plan These several industrial institutions
are the lite of the upper part of the city, rs
the river and railroad and commerce are the
life of the lower and central portions Of the
city, and the continued and increasing &C
tvity in them is matter of much rejoic-
ing among uptown people.
There was boom in police business
yesterday, as natural result OF the boom
in lawlessness, and the activity Of the po-
lice officers, the evening and night before.
In Justice Robnson's court j. W. Scott and
Sam Gillet, the two negroes who had run
another young negro into the water with a
knife and brick bats, because he wouldn't
pay them 80 cents which he owed them,
were each fined $50 and cost, and sent to
Jail for month. Nathaniel Brown, who
"laid for" and shot Frank Stark on Fifth
street. to settle some old grudge, was held
to bail in the handsome sum of $500 and
sent to the county Jail for safe keeping I'M
til circuit court shall meet again. Susan
Bullet, woman with tongue that Is I'm
usually active and not at all particular as to
the character of its utterances, was fined IS
and costs for abusive language. In Magis-
trate Coming's court Frank Stark, the fel-
low who was shot at by Nathan Brown,and
who was drunk and disorderly and interior
ed with Officer McTigue when he attempt
ed to take the pistol away from Brown and
arrest him, was fined So and costs, and
jailed Jerry Harder, who was accused Of
cutting Wash Turner in a row that origin
ated in "Catfish Johnnys" row Saturday
night, was discharged, the evidence OF eye
Witnesses proving that no probable ground
for guilt existed. Turner is rapidly i'm
proving.
The Argus suggests that possibly
there may be poor man here and there
along the lIne' of blocks the owners OF
which are to bear the expense of improve
ments contemplated by the Lnegar bill.
Perhaps the Argus is right; there may be
poor man here and there who, not having
the ready money, will have to avail himself
of the ways and means out of the difficulty
provided by Mr.. Linegar's bill expressly
for his benefit, and he will be the gamer
Under Mr.. Linegar's bill no lot
owner can be so poor as not to be able to
bear his share Of the expense of any i'm
provement contemplated by the bill, unless,
indeed, his property is already mortgaged
for all it is worth, in which case he wouldn't
lose very much to let it go. Or does the
Argus mean to say, that the owners OF
thirty-nine lots in a block sh ould forego all
the great advantages that would accrue to
them if they raised their property and the
street abutting it beyond the food line,
simply because the owner of the forteth
lot was unable to share in the blessing,
even under the most favorable crcum.
stancesl This would be foolish, sentiment
al twaddle which we believe not even
the Argus could indulge in seriously.
POSSIBLY poor man here and there"
must not be permitted to serve as barrier
to the present advancement and prosperity,
and the ultimate greatness of whole city
full of people. In the first place the man
who owns property in our business blocks
where nearly every inch of ground brings
large revenue, is not 50 very poor that he
can not even pay interest at per cent. on
dollars or less; and if in twenty
years he can't scrape enough money to-
gether, over and above his daily expenses,
to meet this little thousand dollars or less,
he ought to be made to sell his property at
a good price to some one with more energy
and judgment! and economy. And in the
second place, if the owner of any lot abut
tins the improvement feels that he can not
bear the expense, he can sell his property,
subject to the assessment, at greater price
than he could have done if the improve
ment were not to be made, and he could
find ready sale for it at its full value, and
receive cash down or its equivalent, But
the Argus would probably call such fair
exchange Of values squeezing the poor
man out of his little property, and confs-
eating the savings of perhaps twenty years."
The Argus does have such queer notions at
times.