The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-11-26


against the Western Union. Our trouble
is all with the VIGOROUSLY partisan and I'M
fair Associate Press.
"A world of amusement will be fur.
nishcd during the sleety days of this win
ter by the incline in front of the Planters
House. The amusement however will be
confined to the lockers on. The profanity
accompanying the amusement will be mo.
nopolzsd by the the unucky pedestrians
and the expense for broken bones must be
borne by the city.
Yesterday morning a man from Me.
tTop)ls who started out Monday night to
paint the town the usual color but only sue
ceeded in getting very drunk and whip.
ping few women in a maud in fashion,
was brought from the Jail, wnere he had
spent the night in happy dreams, before
Judge Comings and assessed the regular
fine and costs.
"A rather buxom looking mulatto girl,
who was selling I've hominy this morning
on market, was taking to an ebony hued
Individual and was heard to remark: "That
she felt good that she could now hold her
head up and look every body in the face,
and she wasn't ashamed at nothing and
didn't care who knew it, The listener sup
pgsed she either had got married OF got
religion.
Full returns Of the vote cast for elect
ors 10 Michigan reduces The plurality OF
Blaine to 1889 votes, In 1880 Gen. Gar
field carried the state over Gen II tncock by
plurality of 5S744 And yet Mr.. Blaine
places Michigan IN THAT magnificent cor
don" through which his banner was borne
$50 loftiIy," and pictures it as swelling "the
wild acclaim Of triumph" We believe
that Mr.. Baiue's friend Mr.. JOY resides in
Michigan. - State Register
Upon the face Of the returns Brand is
elected to the state senate in Illinois by q
majority Of ten votes over Leman, but it is
| claimed that the vote As actually cast elects
Leman by a mnj rity of 200, Ordinarily it
won dn't matter which 90 tie two is elected
bu' In this case United States senator is
Involved n the issue But, as in the case
of the presidency eight years ago, there is
no authority "to 90 behind the returns" in
| this instance. Thus does smother Republi-
can invention return to plague the invent
ors.
The wheel barrow race between Com.
ingc aud Farnbsker took place last night
IN the presence Of several Thousand people
more or less The race around the block
was closely contested, but Fsrnbsker go
the lead in the start and held it "trom pos
to finish" passing under the wire at tn
judges stand nearly wheel-barrow lengt
ahead AMI fresh as daisy. The judg
came IN considerably blown and breathin.
hard He was Immediately taken in chsrg,
by sympathizing friends and carried off tn,
field, wrapped in a blanket, so to speak
defeated, hut not demoralized
There is a mistaken idea prevailing
among democrats and republicans that
with the coming in Of Cleveland as presi
dent on the 4th of March there will be {
general going out of the republican Office
holders and II long procession Of Democrat
going in to take their vacant places. Moth.
ing is farther from the facts. The civi
service act received the endorsement anC
recommendation of all leading democrats,
aud one of the provisions of this bill i,
such that no federal officeholder can be re
moved until the end of the term for which
he is appointed, without cause. Unier thi
clause Captain Murphy will continue t.
hold the Cairo postoffice until the end o
the four years for which he is commission
ed, or until about the middle of Presiden
CIeveIands term, unless for cause he is ask
ed to resign, and as a matter of course h
will control all the ohpr positions in tn
postoffice. The same state of things gov
ems Mr.. Fishers app ,intpent as surveyor
of the port, and Of all the other government
places from ,nitor up and down.