The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-05-10

advertising medium in the form Of "green-
backs" That is, he offered to sell them tor
the trifling sum Of $22 three thousand
greenbacks of the three dollar denomina-
ton, with blanks on one side for the names
of the purchasers, and the other side in
close resemblance to the government green
back. The young man took many orders
and all heavy ones as he refused to take
any for less than three thousand, and in due
time the greenbacks arrived by many thou
sands. Some of business men had their
names stamped upon the bills and proceed
to circulate them. In several places the
sidewalks and street crossings were strewn
thickly with what appeared to be real money
and much amusement was created by ped
estrians who were deceived and gIasped
largcrly for the neatly folded slip showing
boldly big rs" and "V" of green In a
finely worked background of the same color,
But day or two afterwards cards came
from a government official at Springfield
informing the clrculators of these bills that
they were laying themselves liable to pros.
ecution under the law prohibiting the imi
tation by any other than officers of the
government appointed for that duty, for any
purpose whatever, of the legal tender of the
government. This was severe blow to the
enterprise OF the citizens who had been
wheedled into an investment by the smooth.
tongued young man, and those who had
not destroyed it, are now boarding their
imitation money with almost as much care
as though it we're the genuine unclean
stuff.
During his recent visit here Major Con
nelly, United States district attorney, of
Springfield, in conversation with BULLE-
TIN representative, made some statements
concerning certain railroad projects in
Southern Illinois which are of importance
to the people of Cairo and of number of
counties in Southern Illinois. Speaking of
the new narrow-gauge road, the Toledo,
Texas and Rio Grande road, which is in
tended to run into this city within year,
partly by way of the st. Louis and Cairo
road, he said, in substance, that the project
was mere speculation by those who were
engineering 1t, Col. Buell. and others; that
they were making money out of it right
along by inducing people in the counties
through which the road was to run to sub
scribe large sums of money for making
surveys to make which would absorb but
small per centages of the amounts sub
scribed. There was really no intention of
building the road and there would be no
traffic for it if it were built. But of the
Toledo, Cincinnati and st. Louis road,
another narrow.gauge which has but recent
ly been opened to St. Louis the major spoke
very hopefully. He thought that before
many months this road would form COM
bination with the St. Louis and Cairo and
the Texas and st. Louis here, by which
these two roads would become members of
one of the largest systems of narrow-gauge
roads in the country, if not the largest.
THE BULLETIN man ventured to suggest
that the ffty-year traffic contract which ex-
iota1 hafnaap tha Inc a1
road and the Illinois Central ROAD, by
which all the traffic OF the Texas narrow
gauge is to be transferred at this point to
the Cairo Short Line for st. Louis, might
prove an insurmountable obstacle in the
way of the consolidation; but Major Con-
nelly stated that the consol.
idation of the Texas road
with the other roads would change its
identity and invalidate whatever contract it
might have entered into previous to snch
consolidation. This, to our mind, seems a
somewhat remarkable statement for
United States district attorney to make; but,
though tollerably well versed in the code
applicable to an ordinary case of excessive
stimulation, we are untutored in the laws
governing corporations and hence our sur
prise probably only betrays our ignorance
to those who are. Nevertheless it does not
seem reasonable that corporation sucn as
the Illinois Central railroad company
should, at considerable expense, enter into
the carrying out of u contract which might
at any time be so easily annulled.
A York auctioneer namep Pryor,
Fell in trying to reach bid higher,