The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-08-17

"'hoIS' biT' NiaThs was residence
Messrs' Hughes and Sparks had stocks o
groceries and dry goods IN their houses
and Mr.. Jones had the drug store. The of
fee of the "Wickiffe Paindealer" was ais,
burned. No very reliable particular
could be obtained yesterday. The Stock
were reported to be also nearly all destroy
ed. The red glare Of the big fire was re
Elected on the face of the smooth rive
clear to this city and those who were out or
the street say it was a magnificent sight
The only alarm given was the blowing Of
an engine whistle at Wickliife, which was
family heard here
News has reached here that our late
states attorney is now waiter in the Hot
Springs hotel at Las Vegas, New Mexico
and that the story he has told there, of the
reason of his departure from here, is, that
the county officials here are all corrupt
| all defaulters that he was about to expose
their guilt and bring them to Justice when
they all connived against him, trumped up
charges of dishonesty against him in his
official capacity, and having the judicial
branch otthe county government all under
their control, were about to succeed in hav-
ing him convicted Of the false charges when
he thought it wise to comply with their re-
quest to leave, and he left This informa.
ton comes to a citizen here from a friend
in Las Vegas.
Cincinnati possesses valuable old cli-
zen of African origin, who has made him
self comfortable in the decline of life by
"tailing on" to the building operations of
Cincinnati's successful pig.stickers. Where.
ever wealthy man bought lot on which
TO rear his palace the now venerable Uncle
Tom at once bought a strip adjoining. He
was the most neighborly old African yet
heard from. BY the time his cabin was
built and housekeeping oper atoms fairly
begun the lord Of the palace
was always SEIZED with a yearning to pos
sess that strip Of land, and the colored
brother generally got his own price. In
St. Louis it is tabled that the livery stable
tiend propers by similarly observing the
drift of the real estate market
The Egyptian Mills were started up
again Monday or Tuesday and have been
running nearly every day since. An in.
spector has been sent here, by the firm that
furnished the new machinery with which
the mills have been supplied, aud he is 90
ing through the mills to see that every part
works as it should Messrs Halliday Bros.
have been to considerable expense to furn-
ish the mill with the new process machin-
cry, but they usually make it point to
have the best there is and to keep up with
the times regardless Of expense. Their
Hour mill is now one Of the completest and
finest in the West. by its new machinery
ii will be able to campete with the largest
Institutions Of its kind in the country in re-
spect to the quality d its -four, and its ca
pacity is greater than it was before.
Taxpayer" in last evenings Argus
undertakes to set The BULLETIN right on
the county road question. He claims that
the cXlentiou Of thecounty road 10 tue hills
IN Pulaski county, to improve which The
BULLETIN has been urging the raising of
$1,000 has been open all the time and in
constant use. But "TsX-payern is in error.
He has huge beam in each eye and yet
would pluck an imaginary splinter out Of
The BULLETINS optic. He refers to
piece OF road entirely different from that of
which THE BULLETIN and Mr.. Dougherty
spoke He refers to a mile and n quarter
stretch Of road lying between the iron
bridge and the Mound City and Mounds
Junction road, while The BULLETIN refer
red 70 a continuation Of this stretch Of road
in q straight line, from the Mounds juno
ton road clear to the hills Al TINT Tax
payer" said about the piece Of road he re-
ferred to is probably true, but Taxpayer"
will probably now comprehend that he had~
the wrong OK by the Gaudle appendage.
"Tax- payer" needs only to travel little
further away from home than be evidently
has done in order to catch the drift Of our
remarks aud the animal to which we had
reference.
Another stormy meeting Of the board
Of managers Of the Widows and Orphans
Mutual Aid Society was held at the office
Of Mr.. Thomas Lewis last night. The com
mttce appointed to consult an attorney, as
to whether the term Of the secretary ex-
pted with the other officers, every year, re-
ported that the attorneys opinion was that
it did, and the board thereupon started to
proceed with the election Of new secre-
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