The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-03-19

flItleth page OF every police court docket
in the city, and he was probably oue.third
OF his lifetime beneficiary of this com
munlty's hospitality at the municipal bastile
lie was at one time handsome young
fellow; he became man of family and a
drunkard simultaneously, lived a life OF
wretchedness and dissipation and died
pauper, to be buried by the county. He
leaves family of wife and several chill
dren.
About two wagon loads of blankets,
etc, were sent from here to Beech Ridge
yesterday morning, to be distributed there
among flood sufferers. Beech Ridge pre-
cinct is the Republican stronghold OF this
county, in which the party tickets are
always taken straight" by eight-tenths of
the inhabitants. 1t is not to be wondered
at, therefore, that providence should visit
his wrath upon them more particularly;
nor is it matter for surprise that the great
and good God and morality party should seek
to defeat the aims OF providence, by reiev-
ing the suffering imposed upon them as a
punishment for their objectionable sin.
In 1889 thirteen counties in the State
paid a much heavier tax for all purposes
but city or town purposes, than Alexander
ln.
son, Kane, Logan, Macon, Madison, Nc
Lean, Montgomery, Peoria, Pulaski, Sangs-
mon, Stark, Tazewell and Vermilliou. Last
year six counties paid larger rate, viz.
Ksne, Macon, Moultrie, Peoria, Sangamon
and s.. Clair and yet few people talk
about being taxed to death in this county.
These people should try Peoria county
few years, where the rate of taxation per
acre for state and county purposes last year
was within one cent of double what
il was here.
The Johnson County Journal, of
Vienna is being boycotted because it dared
to expose the the official "crookedness" of
Marion Jones some time ago, compelling
him to dIsgorge several thousand dollars of
the county's funds, which he had "wrong.
fully withheld" Mr.. Jones and the Jour
nal man now never speak as they pass by"
and the former persecuteth the latter by
refusing to recognize him in the party
councils as a Republican. While, if the
Journals statements are true, the Republi-
can party of johnson county is not the bet
ter eff because Jones didn't die young, yet
Jsnes seems to hold full sway in the party
aud from behind the party's back lie ever
aud anon "pastes" the Journal man one IN.
der the ar, matsphorically speaking. But
the Journal man is long suffering; he is
strong in the belief that he who suffereth
for righteousness sake is blessed, and he
Will prevail. THE BULLETIN wishes him
success in bis efforts to turn the -ascals
OUT
maps NV OuV PCloOh III huuuICh
knows why point thirty.two degrees be-
low the freezing point on Fahrenheits
thermometer is called zero. For that mat.
ter, nobody knows. The Fahrenheit scale
was introduced in 1890. Like other Their
mometric scales, it has two fixed points
the freezing point, or rather the melting
point of ice, and the boiling point Of
water. The centigrade and Reamur call
the freezing point zero, and measure there
from in both directions. This is very
natural arrangement. Fahrenheit kept the
principle on which he graduated his Their
mometcrs secret, and no one has ever dis
covered it. 1t is supposed, however, that
he considered his zero-thirty-two degrees
below freezing-the point of absolute cold |
or absence of all heat, either because, being
about the temperature of melting salt and
snow it was the greatest degree OF cold be |
could produce artifciallN or because it was
the lowest natural temperature of which |
he could find any record. The grounds on
which Fahrenheit put 1870 degrees between
the freezing points are likewise unknown.