The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-06-19

will have the hearty support Of oil good
citizens, which is tower of strength to a
man in his position. Besides, he has sew.
eral old, tried men on the force, and the,
good will of Others who were on It before
whose experience will doubtless be at his
command.
Yesterday Senator Hunt, candidate for
Attorney General in this State, on the Re-
publican ticket, was at The Halliday. He
introduced himself to the local lights of the
marty here.-Did we say all the lights2
Guess we did. But Scott is no longer looked
upon as very much of a light since his fail
ure to prevail against Capt. Thomas. The
machine has snuffed his polctical candle
and smashed the Candlestick into smith
Greens.
Some of "the boys," the festive railroad
boys and others, are talking seriously of es-
tablishing Bachelors Hall, as a means of
relief from regulation boarding house fare.
Boarding on the Bachelors He'll plan may
seem more alluring than the European and
other plans, boys; but you take FOOLS ad-
vice and let 1t alone. Experience has
proven that the Bachelors Hall plan doesn't
pan out according to first impressions. Be-
meath. pleasant surface there turks a
world of woe. There's said to be a much
better remedy for the evils complained of
and-but bold! We had forgotten that
twas leap year.
There is an atmosphere of summer all
through the July Harper's, which is nearly
ready for publication. The opening paper
deals with the Nile, now in the season of
its inundation, and another with the St.
Lawrence and its summer resorts; while the
approaches to New York, a London sub
urb, "Harrow-on-the- Hill," aud one of the
suburbs of Washington, Kendall Green, are
the subjects of other articles. Both the
serials are very summery; the paper on
Bismarck gives pleasant account of his
summer life, and one on professional
Beauties of the Last Century" includes a
graphic description of summer nights
party at Kanelagh Gardens. There is also
a paper on cattle farming at the West, and
poem by Philip Bourke Marston sings of
"Roses and Ningtingales."
The Republicans will hold their Con.
gresSioual Convention at Carbondale to-.
day; and their Senatorial Convention at the
same place to morrow. The delegates from
Cairo to the former conventiod are J. A. NJ.
Gibbs, Samuel Briley, E. A. Harrell, c. O.
Pstier, Chas. Lancaster, A. Comings, G. R.
Woodward, Chas. Nellis, Chas. Gallagher,
Fl. H. Candee, J. L, Corcoran, John Tyler,
J.J. Bird, Warren Wins, John Gladney,
George Robinson. Those to the latter are
j. A. Gibbs, E. A. Harrell, ]. L. Corcoran,
Wood Rittenhouse, ]. A. Goldstine, W. N.
Butler, Samuel Orr. Samuel Booker, j. II.
Woodward, D. ]. Baker, Harris Schulze, j.
II. O'Brien, G. W. Curtis, J. A. Lpsomb,
Reuben Smith, Samuel Briley. The first
delegation is instructed for Thomas for
Congress, and John Stern, of Randolph
County, for member of State Board of
Equalization. The Senatorial Delegation
was not instructed. There will be several
candidates before the Senatorial Conven-
ton, chief among whom will be Mr.. James
NJ. scurlock, the Republco Prohibition
member of the Thirty-third General Assem-
bly,, from the Fiftieth District
The Louisiana State Lottery came off
Tuesday, and again there are perhaps five
hundred Cairoites who failed to "catch on"
and are disappointed, while the ready cash
of the city has suffered reduction of
another thousand or two without any pros
pect of return. 1t may be that all who
invest regularly in this enterprise can afford
to lose all they invest. and then again per.
haps they can't. 1t may also be that the
lottery is not the worst species of gambling
| and the most ruinous that is INDUCED in.
Certain it is, that the lottery is not the only
business that draws heavily every month
upon the exchequers of this city. Grain
gambling as it is carried on in Chicago, for
instance, is probably more illegitimate and
more ruinous than the lottery business and
it counts its victims by the dozen in this
and nearly every community of this size. II
all the money that is monthly sent out Of
this city to be used in these variou:
means Of gambling, and that never brings
any return, were pooled, in years time
there would be a sum sufficient to establish
a great industrial institution of some kind
that would yield liberal and steady profit
to the stockholders. If all the widespread
wretchedness and misery-the murders,
suicides, insanitics, forgeries, perjuries, de.
falcations, embezzlements, lying, stealing,
and general knavery caused by stock
gambling could be shown, the aggregate
would be appalling. Until within recent
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