The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-09-25

yuan ihh BULLETIN hhs oeen figuring on
all along Now an acre is piece of ground
forty rods long and four broad, and it con-
tains 100 square perches or rods, or 1910
square yards or 43,560 square feet If one
acre contains 4,S4O square yards, l,120
acres will contain 1,l20 4,840 square
yards, or 5,42O,sOO square yards. Now
twenty feet is equal to six and two.thrds
yards, and to I'll 5,420 300 square yards to
the depth of twenty feet would require ak
and two-thirds times 5,420,S00, or $685..
666 2-3 cubic yards of earth, which, at
thirty cents per cubic yard would amount
to just SlO,s4l 10000.
We do not profess to be much of math.
amatician oursef all we know about fig
ures was taught us during term or two
in the Thirteenth street free schools; but
we are willing to wager on the correctness
Of the above and submit them to any
scholar in the city. How the Argus man
arrives at his extravagant results is a pro.
found mystery to us as it must be to any
one else who has not forgotten the multi.
picauon table,
Benton Standard: Cairo has in dis
cussion a plan Of filling up her streets
above the high.water mark The BULLE-
TIN says the main cost will be assessed
against the property owners to be benefited,
and they will be given term Of years in
which to pay it. The plan is good one,
If it will not cost more than the property
owners can pay. 1t would make CAIRO a
great city. 1t would insure her commercial
prosperity, which would give to her bust.
ness men golden harvest Those who
are trying to luaugurate the work have
given all due attention to the ability of the
property holders to bear the expense. First
they induced the Legislature to pass cou.
pie Of bills under which poor property
holders can paw for street filing, etc, when
they can't pay for anything ese and next
they propose to begin the work where the
property holders are more than able snd
willing to have it begun, and prosecute it
only AS rapidly as the property holders n
the adjoining low districts become able and
willing to follow their high grade neigh
bors good example.
Mr.. B. o. Jones, of Metropolis, was in
the city Saturday and took occasion to call
on The BULLETIN to state bis side Of the
case sought to brought against him by Prof
Smith, He says no clErges have been made
against him, but that the examination of
Smith and Special Agent Paines visit here,
were to ascertain whether or not charge
should be made against him. He accepts
the fact that Pane eft without making any
charges against him as proof that Paine re.
garded the evidence as not good He says,
though Smith reported that he had twenty. |
three attidavits, he furnished copies of only |
five; that Pane was in Metropolis for a
week or longer, interviewed all the atlantis |
AMI received from some of them contradic. |
tons OF the statements made by them in the |
atfidsvits; that the affidavits were illegally |
obtained; that he Jones) never over-charg- |
ed any one, the cases in which be charged |
more than the limit Of the present law hsv.
ing been commenced under the old law,
which permitted him to charge more than
10 for each claim that 50 far as the pro-
seedlings that were to have been had before
Candec are con
,9rned here he found him.
self in the same position occupied BY the
victim Of an Investigation by grand jury
which hears but one eide OF the case and
Toes not permit the victim to appear to de
.end himself Mr.. Jones makes out very
strong case for himself End in the present
state Of the matter We have no reason to
doubt that he tells the truth. But neither
lhNc We any lehAou W lhhe oaCh vi dulcuu
anything we have said about the matter.
We insist that all that Mr. Jones has
said for himself, or the contrary if the con-
rary were the case, ought to have been
made the subject of proceedings before
Cundec, before whom Smith,
he accusing witness, was summoned to
estify. Smith appeared but did not testify,
1t least the commissioner doesn't know any
hing about it, He had secret confab
With the special agent who constituted him
ief United States Commissioner, grand jury,
tates attorney and defendants counsel, and
in some way the matter was "ixed up"
THE MYSTICS.