The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-10-30

ent colored men who decline to be led by
him. II Mr.. Thomas had said to the Dem
ocrats, us not niger just as good as |
am" the answer would have been, to a
man, the same as that of the Irishmen
when asked, is not one man as good as
another; "Fath and he H." said Pat, "aDd
a good deal better, sure"
"A reporter was sent to interview a
western statesman ON political question.
The result was coherent and reasonable
quarter OF column. The next mail
brought an indignant complaint that the
man had no. been fully or accurately re-
ported add to what you wrote all that
you didn't write" said the editor severely.
The reporter sat down and made this ad-
dendum: Having thus expressed himself,
Mr.. - miStook the nearly emptied bot
tie of caret (Which had been constituent
OF his dinner for Worcestershire sauce.
squlrted the sour remnant on his steak,
salted it with sugar, picked up the corner
of his coat tail for napkin and wiped his
chin with It, aud finally cautioned me that
he knew by CORD wash he wash talking
about, that wsshn'; no chump in politics
'shelp him goodness and he bring suit f'r
damages if be wac unsupported. Seven
hic'coughs are also necessary for entire &C
curacy," Elk.
He was telling them in the village store
that his son in Chicago had failed, and
when they asked for particulars, he ex-
planned
Why he writes TO me that he bought
June delivery aud got left
How leftl
| dunno, but l guess he couldn't deliver
it. Mebbe teams was awful skeerce, and
mebbe the roads was awful bad.
Well, said one of the crowd as he
brought his hand down on the counter, if 1
had knowed that your son Bill was pinched
to deliver wheat Id gin him the use of nv
team whole fortnight for nuthin', fur Bill
was one of the best boys who ever left this
town.
And me too added every man in the
crowd, while the old man observed
It'll probably be warning to William,
and mebbe he'll set in and buy waterme-
ons for January delivery and git on his feet
again. Unidentified Exchange.
w. F. Storey, of the Chicago Times,
died at his home in Chicago last Monday.
Referring to him the st. Louis Chronicle
says: "In his long life of incessant activity
Wilbur F. Story made many enemies, the
bitterest of whom could have wished him
no worse fate than that which befel him.
Like Dean Swift, "he withered first at the
top" In his day he did much good and
not little evil, as must all men who do
not strive to do the right for its own sake.
Without being a bad man, be had no firm.
ly fixed conviction to guide him. As
he belonged to the school of
which the elder Bennett was the expounder
md founder. Out of nothing, by the force
II the mind in him, he has created great
newspaper and became great intellectual
power without being, except indirectly,
moral one He simply served the times
and the times served him. His paper was
'ptly called "The Times" for it reflected
hem as they were. As the paper expand.
I'd under the ideas IN the fertile brain con
rolling it, each issue became a microcosm
"a reflection Of the world in miniature.
Il became great in the same sense that Stor-
~ was great. II it did not make the world
better, it did its share in teaching the
world to know itself. 1t was simply part
md parcel Of the nineteenth century,
which cultivates intellect at the expense of
conscientious conviction. Now that lis
'ounder is dead, the paper remains to speak
or him, giving daily tfuer epitaph than
will be found on his tombstone, and tru
n reflection of his virtues and faiings than
will be found in the funeral sermon to be
preached over his remains
The county boar has issued the fol.
owing circular:
70 the voters and Taxpayers Of Alexander county:
GENTLEMEN; - The members of the
county board deem it proper and due to
you to state in this manner for what pur.
pose the additional tax of 80 cents on the
300 valuation is required, which PROPOSE
ion has been submitted to be voted upon
It the approaching November election.
The object for which the tax is needed, and :
o be set apart for, as provided in the order
the question, rs to repair and
improve the county court house and Jail
md yard. The court house and iail were 7