The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-11-06

er there, even though he had made no can
vas before hand, could poll comparative
ly strong vote, which it would take
strong vote in this city to overcome
voters of Cairo should, therefore, be on the
alert and each drop his little paper into
the ballot-box as he goes to or from his
meals.
or the ten aloon-keepers whose licen.
SEES expired on the LIST of this month, only
three have taken out licenses at the new in
creased rate, namely, Messrs. Kennedy,
Mallory and Ronecker. The ten, paying
licenses at the old rate, produced a revenue
to the city OF 81 500. The three, al the in.
creased rate, produce the same revenue ex-
actly and there are seven saloons less in
the city. 1t is not at all probable that this
is criterion to the result in case all the
saloon licenses in the city expired, for II is
likely that most of these seven had deter
mined to quit long ago and therefore failed
to extend their licenses at the old rate when
the opportunity was given; but that the
number would be reduced 10y about one
half is probable. Such result would
greatly increase the business Of those re-
naming and would also increase the rcvc-
nue. to the city, so that the high license
would benefit the corporation aud the sa-
loon keepers alike These beneficial results
are due to the wisdom of our city council
in ignoring entirely that partisan, Republi-
can machine made feature of the Harper
bill, known as the $3.50 beer sop" thrown
to the Germans of the State to catch their
suffrages.
Last Sunday Drs. Parker aided
by DR.. Gordon performed very
important surgical operation upon
Mr. Jno. Koehler, the uptown
saloon keeper. Mr. Koehler had for
some time been suffering from tumor in
the thigh of the left leg; hut 1t had not in
terfered much with his daily duties until
about two weeks ago, when 1t caused him
much pain. He could hardly move about;
he lost sleep aud flesh, until he fell away to
about half his normal weight and was in
almost continual misery. He finally resovI
ed to have the cause Of his troubles remov-
ed and Drs Parker were entrusted with the
difficult operation. The operation was
skllfulIy and speedily performed. While
Mr.. Koehler was under the influence of
chloroform, about two pounds of diseased
flesh were cut from his thigh, almost e1.
posing the bone Of the leg. The tumor had
the bone, and WAS gradually spreading up
and down and around the leg. Its removal
was timely, tor it is the Dr's opinion that
Mr. Koehler would not have lived thirty
days longer had it not been removed 1t
Was also attended with danger, for Mr..
Koehler was not good subject for a surgi.
cal operation Tor several reasons, chief Of
which is that he is no longer young man
being over ffty-four years of age. But
there is every reason to believe that be
will survive the operation and that, by rea-
son of it, his career here, which seemed to
be so nearly and certainly drawing to a
close, may be Heightened many years.
Not long ago the Times Democrat, of
New Orleans, contained interviews with the
governors of all the southern states upon
various subjects Of importance to their re-
spectivc states. One OF the most important
subjects was Mississippi river improve
ment and concerning this Governor Knott,
of Kentucky, said II think that under an
enlightened system of engineering the Mis-
sissippi river can be and should be made
naviglbIe from the Belize to Cairo for the
largest OCean-going steamers and the peo-
pie living within its enormous water shed
will never realize their true commercial in
terest or their own political Importance,
until it is done. But l very much fear, sir,
that this generation will not even see it
commenced, for there is such a contrarity
of opinion among those most interested in
its accomplishment, as to the manner in
which it should be done, that nothing
practicable will be agreed upon. The mere
building Of levee along the banks so as to
protect your people from overflow, would,
no doubt, crafty the people of Kentucky
very much, but what their interest demands
is the opening of the Mississippi so that
the steamer from Liverpool or Rio Janeiro
Can discharge its cargo and take on its
freight at Columbus or Cairo. That can not
be done, however, by petty appropriations,
to be frlttered away year after year in mud
walls along its banks. The enterprise will
demand skill and millions, but it can be
done if the two should be combined, and if
it should be done the advantages resulting
from it would be simply beyond compute
ton. II is idle, however, to speculate upon