The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-05-18

| earnings OIL the same ROADS from January
1st to April 30th, |. G., 1883, $2,037, 392;
1882, $2,l47,536. Iron Mountain, 1888,
$9,2Oo9s0; 1882, $2,O09,6ss Mobile and
Ohio, 1888, $696,746; 1882, seOs,3ss St.
Louis and Cairo, 1888, $llOs57; 1882,
$ll53J6.
Some idea may be gained of the enor-
NIFTY Of Centralias strawberry crop from
the fact that Golden firm has received an
order from Centralia for $4,000 ready
made and filed crates for the growers of
that vicinity. This order will alone make
about 20 car loads Of crates, or about 40
car loads of berries when filed. The Cen
tralia berries are noted for their superior
quality and generally bring top prices.
There is growing evidence that the straw
berry IS to lead all other Southern Illinois
fruits in extent Of planting and profitable.
ness.
The funeral of the late George II. Lentz
yesterday was one of the most imposing
there has been in the city. A short service
waslheld over the remains at the residence,
where many friends had gathered, and then
the cortege moved toward the train at the
foot Of Fourteenth street. The Knights of
Honor attended in body and besides
hundreds of people on foot, fifteen buggies
and carriages followed the hearse to the
train. Three coaches took the remains and
followers to Villa Ridge, where the last
rites were solemny performed and all that
was visible of a man who left not an enemy
behind was put to rest.
The latest news from Springfield, con-
corning Mr.. Linegsr's street filing bill,
house bill No. AIT, is to this effect blouse
bill All was read third time. This bill
provides for dividing cities and vilsgs sub.
ect to overflow and inundation into i'm
provement districts, aud to provide ways
aud means to raise the streets and blocks
above the line of overflow. Senator Ho-
gan, rep Of Pulaski, explained that the
bill only applied to Cairo, and possibly
Mound City, and he hoped every senator
would vote for it, as the people there were
unanimously in favor of il, and it has the
emergency clause. 1t passed to l."
Alderman McHale and Coroner Fitz.
gerald ran foot race yesterday afternoon,
from the court house to Col. Taylor's Office
The corpulent coroner was little tricky;
he started off ahead Of time and YVES
twenty-five feet ahead Of the alderman
when the latter started and left him away
behind before half the distance was run.
AT this juncture the coroner gave up the
race in disgust and putting like porpoise.
The victorious alderman, who was good for
another mile, assisted the painting coroner
back to his quarters at the court house and
helped to rub him down and bath his
heated brow with ice water. The alder
man took the biscu it.
Any one taking stroll up or down
Commercial avenue between Tenth and
Sixth streets, and taking critical note of
the houses, will be struck with the bad ef-
feet the many old wooden awnings have
upon the general looks Of the street. There
are some, constructed more after the man
ner Of porches, that look well enough, and
these are not to be classed with the black
ened, tumble-down old barracks that hang
over the fronts Of some otherwise respecta-
bic looking business houses. On the west
side Of the avenue between Sixth and
Seventh streets, these old wrecks have all
been torn away and neat canvas awnings
upon gas pipe frames substituted for them.
While this is very decided improvement
in itself the contrast between it and other
parts Of the street renders said other parts
only the more offensive. The improvement
ought to be extended; the old wooden
wrecks should all be exchanged TOR the
scallopped, bright-coored canvas shades
that may be raised or lowered as occasion
may require and that is an ornament rather
than adeformity. An ordinance requiring
this change to be made would, if enforced,
do much toward convincing people that
their houses would be improved by the
change, and toward bringing about the i'm
prUvement.
The attention Of people on Ohio levee
and Commercial avenue was attracted on
Wednesday by dozen or more of queer
people queer in language, queer in acts,
queer in everything. They came in on the
Illinois Central train and wandered about
the streets in an aimless sort of way, look
ing about them as though lost read
ing evory sign, stopping to examine a hand
car on the track and asking simple ques
tions about the most trivial things. They
acted like overgrown children fresh from
Fogyland. The women were oil dressed
alike In plain.colored dresses, plainly
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