The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-07-25

and the Indians are now engaged in har
yesting them. Already many hundreds of
bushels have been prepared, and if the
crop holds out the Indians are in no dan
ger of starving.
-Concludng paragraph of the New
York independent platform; ave respect
fully recommended to all such citizens to
support the electors who will vote for Gov.
Cleveland, in order most electually to en-
force their conviction that nothing could
more deeply stain the American name, and
prove more disastrous to the public welfare,
than the deliberate indifference of the peo-
pie Of the United States to increasing pub
lie corruption, and to q want of official in
tegrity in the highest trusts of the Govern
ment'
1t is now about time that melons were
coming into market here from Missouri.
The weather for several days has been
such that good water melon on ice
would have been just too delicious. South
ern melons have about give out,
Adyces from Georgia indicate that
the "melon movement" is about ended
The shipments over the Savannah, Florida,
and Western road reached 1000 carloads,
and that region had only half q crop. The
total shipments from the state of Georgia
to the North are not yet ascertainable, but
are certainly prodigious. tits demonstra-
ted that melons can be shipped almost any
distance 10y rail without much danger of
loss, and they are accordingly looked on as
a good crop TO raise.
AS an evidence that the Democrats of
this city are thoroughly awake aud are not
bit discouraged over the prospects in No
vember, It may be mentioned that yester-
day afternoon at ) o'clock not a vehicle of
any kind excepting dirt wagons and drsys)
could be had for to-day at any of the livery
stables in the city-every buggy and hack
and carriage had been engaged for the
Democratic barbecue at Commercial Point
to-day, 1t IS thought that not less than
one bundled and fifty Cairoites will 90 to
the county in huggies, etc, this morning.
A pair Of fine tables have been placed
in the rooms of the Young Mems Social
Clubs billiard and a pool table The
rooms have been neatly prepared, curtained
and painted and will soon be carpeted.
The club is now one Of the fixtures of Cairo
society and Is destined to WELD an iufu-
ence for good among young men, in pro-
yiding means Of innocent amusement with
out the usual unpleasant and demoralMng
associations. The club Is composed only Of
gentlemen Of the best standing socially, as
such societies all are in large cities, and its
rules are strict in all thiEgs relating to the
organization.
According to the decision of an Eng
fish Judge, schoomaster has no right to
impose upon his pupils lessons to be studied
at home. 4 boy had been kept" after
school because be had failed to prepare a
"home' lesson, his mother directing to his
doing any work of the kind after school
hours, BY counsel or next friend the school
master was summoned before the Magis-
trates for assault. They dismissed the case
on the ground that there had been no actua!
assault. The case was carried to the
Queens Bench, when the Magistrates de
cision was reversed, the Judges holding
that the child had been punished for not
doing what the teacher had no night to or
der him to do, and that, therefore, his de-
tention amounted to an assault in law.
Last night Officers Mahanny, Dunn
and Hogan were in search of traces of
fellow who got 5000 from c. A.
Holcome, Of Hickman, Ky. Hol-
come came here Wednesday with
the money in his possession, placed it
in a. safe place, then went on little
spree, and in the evening got his money
and went on board the City Of Cairo toward
home. When half way down the river, he
felt for his money opay his fare and could
not find it. He does not know how It was
lost, and it is very difficult to account for
Its disappearance. He says he went
straight from the place where he had de
posted the money in this city, to the
wharfboat and onto the boat; SO that he
could not well have lost it here. But he
was here last night, looking for it. No
traces Of it had been found late last night
The good news Is received that the
cholera has not made its appearance in
Paris. The disease with which several per-
sons were attacked was not the Asiatc
plague. A case is reported from Lyons,
and Vienna acknowledges two cases. These,
however may be simply sporadic, and such