The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-07-14

to 305 per 100000. Then vaccination
was made compulsory, and in 1871 tn NOR
tality had fallen again to 223 per 1000
900. In the years 1919, when true com
puson was in fore, only 1855 per 100000
was the mortality rate. Scotland and Ire
land show decline in the average mortal.
ity, only to greater degree, for Scotland,
in 1889, the rate was only Q per 100000
The injuries received by the negro
Charles Carver, the fugitive from justice
whom Constable Robinson brought back
Thursday, were not received by fall from
a train, but by a thump from passing
engine as he sat on the end of a tie, asleep.
| Carver left here on foot and when he was
near Villa Ridge, he sat down to rest but
fell asleep and was awakened by a terrific
blow from the engine. His injuries are
more internal than external and are thought
not to be fatal. He has cut across his
back, just below the shoulder-blades.
An act passed the late Illinois legista-
ture providing for the better arrangement
of election districts. 1t requires board Of
county commissioners to create election dis
tricts for general election purposes, and to
define their boundaries, each district to
contain not more than seven hundred voters
with but one voting place in each district.
The act also provides that separate regis
try shall be made for each voting district
The late plan of voting by precincts, with
as many polls as was deemed necessary to
accommodate the voters may have done
very well in the past, out is entirely insult
ed to the present time.
"A permanent organization was effected
by the Mississippi River Conference at ST.
Louis on Wednesday, with Mr.. D. d.
Wood, of New Orleans, as permanent
chairman; Mr.. Geo. 5. Wright, permanent
secretary, and number of prominent gen
temen, among them Mayor Thomas W.
Halliday, of this city, as vice presidents
Captain Thomas w. Shields was appointed |
by the chairman on committee on order
of business. The committee on River I'm
provement,of the Chamber of Commerce OF
this city consists of Captain Thos W.
Shields, Captain Thomas Wilson, Ex.Mayor
N. b. Thistlewood Mayor Thos. W. Hali'
day, and Postmaster W. NJ Murphy.
Persons who, believing that the corpo-
rate limits of the city of Cairo are defined
by the levees, and amuse themselves by
shooting at birds, ETC., just out side of the
levees, are laboring under mistake and
are liable to prosecution under the ordin-
ance prohibiting the discharge of weapons
except as specified. By an act of the leg
islature the boundaries of tie city of Cairo
are, a line drawn from river to river at point
Just below the Wabash round house, and the
centre line of the channels Of the two
rivers. These remarks" are called forth
by the fact that several young gentlemen
have been firing guns and pistols just out.
side the Mississippi levee near the Oil |
mills, to the annoyance of citizens.
The subject of buying up trade dollars
at discount and paying them as wages to
worklngmcn IS exacting much attention.
Some of the newspapers call upon the
trades unions to use their influence TO stop
this dishonest practice. The New York
World says: 1.-THE trade dollar has long
been used by employers to pay for labor.
1t has been taken in ordinary business
transactions, and no one knows to what cx
tent the country is flooded with these DO.
gus representatives Of an honest dollar.
No one knows how much tribute the poor
working people of the United States have
been compelled to pay to the silver kings
by buying eighty-seven cents worth of their
metal for dollar"
The fourth centennial of Martin Lu
ther will be celebrated in Brooklyn by a
festival on November II, the day after Lu-
theirs birthday. The movement was started
the other day at meeting Of German
Evangelical clergymen, and the programme
settled upon include orations in German and
English and vocal and instrumental music,
The jubilee is to open at o'clock in the
afternoon and proceed to its conclusion.
On the three days succeeding the festival
lectures are to be delivered on the Reforma
ton and Luther's life by noted German ora
tors. Somebody was thoughtless enough
to suggest statue to Luther, but the prop
ositon was not entertained. The living re-
suits of his life and work it was deemed
would be beli,tle1 be defeating to him
cold statue in this age Of free thought and
enlightenment which he was primarily in
strumental IN building.
The London Lancet has made the dis