The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-03-06
GENERAL LOCAL ITEMS.

We are still ready 10 sell our entire
stock of clothing. G lls!ine & Rosenwater
If
The sewers will probably be open Sat.
urday or Sund y. At tie existing stage of
the sipewater they can be opened when
the river stands at about forty feet. The
tenth and Thirty elghthistreets outlets will
take the hint thems ,lves.
Superintendent Buchanan, Agent
Loomis and Fuel Agtnt w. 7.
Smethen made trip to Birds Point yes
terday to inspect the condition of things in
the Texas s. S.. Louis yards there. They
found everything out of water and all
right, and the road will run In few days.
The Iron Mountain road began run.
ming trains again yesterday. The water
had barely left the tracks, but it lett them
| in good condition. The St. Louis and
| Texas road will resume to-day or to-mor-
row. Thus all the roads in the city will
probably be in full blast az lin by Monday
at the farthest.
The cotton compress is almost ready
to resume operation, but Mr.. Morland,
who is in charge, thinks Of closing the ms
| titutioL doNn Cor the season. The food in
the SJu'h now interiors very much with
the shipm mt Of cotton, and the crop is
short anyhow. He thinks CT turning to
Memphis alb ut Sandy.
Work Will soon be commenced on the
81. Louis and Carr railroad between this
city and II ,dges Park. A train and gang
Of men are already waiting to 90 TO work,
It is thought the water will be low enough
to permit work at some points below
Hodges Park to morrow. 1t is not yet
known how much damage was done.
That was an excellent bill lately pass
ed by the House reducing the postage on
transient newspapers and magazines to one
cent for four onces. 1t is to be hoped that
it will be promptly passed by the Senate.
1t will greatly Increase this class of mail
matter an will a's1 insure its delivery,
much OF VIII ich, owing to the present regu
i.tons, now remains in the off :e in which
it is deposited.
In Toledo, OHIO, several days ago,
Robert Bailey, a negro who haf married
white woman, was convicted under the
State law against mi cegenston and given
its tu'l penalty three mCaths impr,son-
ment AMI hle of 800 The trial judge
overulel the demurrer to the indictment
i.e by the defense on the ground that the
law was Unconstitutional under the l4th
amendment. H d this happened in Miss
ssippi it would have been frst.class
Southern outrage.
"A general reduction is now being made
in the wages of workingmen in various
parts of the country by iron and steel man
ufacturers A month or two previous to
the election in the fall however, the same
manufacturers will throw out broad hint
that wages will be raised in the event Of
Republican victory. So it was four years
a %, ana 81 it will und ubtedly be this
year; and yet workingmen, 50 far as better
wages are concerned, are no better if not
worse eff than they were before the lsst
presidential election.
The Orange County reporter, publish
ed It Orlano, Fla, says in recent issue:
Walton W. Wright of Cairo, Ills, passed
through Orlando yesterday on his way to
Lake Alfred, Polk Co, where he has laid
out town on Juth Florida Railroad. He
purchased thi. properly less than year
ago, before the line of railroad had be- n
defnitvely fixed, and now returns to find
that station has been located on bis
"plant' He has an OFF, Of S. 900 for half
his town site. Til. whole cost him $1,000
eighty acres"
From Postmaster Murphy we have the
following statement Of mail box coll ctions
for thirty days commencing February 1st,
1884, and ending March lst in .lusiye: Let
ters, 81, 1888; postal cars, 0,44), and papers,
l,1G7. This shows a collection on an aver
age, each day, of over 1887 letters, over
3l4 postal cards AMI over 80 p,pers. It
shows an average daily collection of postal
cards and letters combined of over 1859;
or, on An average, 1876 from each box each
day. The mail that went to he post-ofice
during direct the s.me time Vas about
tso-thirds as much.
-Clrbondale is Cairos most formidable
competitorlnthe contest for the Republican
Congressional Convention. Jackson Coun.
ty has name in the district as being q
little unreasonable in her demands for poll
teal and other honors. She will want a