The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-09-23
The Daily Bulletin.
OFFICIAL PAPER OF ALEXANDER COUNTY
ENTERED AT THE CAIRO PosToFFICE FOR
TRANSMISSION THROUGH THE MAILS AT
SECOND CLASS RATES.
GENERAL LOCAL ITEMS

Walter Wright has the new Democrat
ic pole ready for the ground now, and the
raising will probably occur the latter day
of this week
The box factory Is again interrupted
by breaking down of the log carriages
The damage occurred Friday and was
more serious than on former occasions.
The carriage will have to be built nearly
new and the track is also partly torn up
under the water.
The price Of bread stuffs and other
products, and business generally, will not
take on any real tirmness until the minds
OF the people become tranquillized The
first two weeks of September are usually
the duIlest of the year. The great panic of
eleven years ago waited for Just this thin
spot in the business calendar. Now those
weeks ore past and gone. They were
marked by the hottest September weather
easily remembered, and yet beyond the
shaking out Of few more big thieves there
has been no collapsed 10 only misguided
Willingness of the people to accede to the
demands of the buyer, There is no com
mercial sense in the recent decline of the
prices which are paid to farmers. If the
farmers permit much more Of il, they will
deserve little sympathy. In some regions,
as in tie Northwest, it is easy to see the
cause of the decline. The mill monopoly
is apparently operating with the object Of
getting ftty-cent wheat to make the seven
dollar flour. There are lot of capitalists
IN this country who think they learned how
to operate during the last panic, and who
would joyfully make bid for this part of
the earth if they could preclpitate six
months of panic-which they cannot.
Nearly everybody here knows that our
fellow citizen, Mr. J. S. Hawkins, has a
good record as pedestrian. His walking
feats have been subjects of extensive news
paper comment in years past and have not
been much excelled, if any, by late pro
fesslOnsl pedestrians. But those who are
OF the opinion that now, at the age of over
three score years, Mr. Hawkins is not ca
psble of any extraordinary exertion as a
wakist, will be surprised to learn that
yesterday morning early he walked to
Mound City IN several hours without show
ing any evidence of exhaustion. He started
for the early Wabash train about o'clock.
He missed the train and waited while for
the freight, but being told that be would
have to go to the round house TO get on the
freight, be walked up there, waited a while
longer for the train to 90 out and when he
got on was told that no passengers were
permitted to ride on the freight train, and
then he started for Mound City on foot.
He spent some time IN Mound City attend
ing to the business he had gone there to do,
and returned home, arriving on Eighth
street by about 10 o'clock. The whole
time consumed was five hours, from which
an hour and half might be deducted for
the time consumed in delay, leaving three
and half hours consumed in walking the
fifteen miles or more to Mound City and
back. Mr.. Hawkins says that, according
to the record In the family bible be is six
ty-sevcn years old, but he thinks he is only
sixteen.