The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-12-02

fed for market has been c,relessly bred and
for cows any cross was considered good
enough, but with the ADVENT of blooded
stock and in the right hands farmers will
become interested and 10 very short time
the grade of fat cattle and cows In South.
ern Illinois will show very material i'm
provement.
Various Thanksgvings; "For thy
bountiful blessings We thank thee, o mol"
-IR. }. I.-Prof. Huxley's thanksgiving:
10 Thing behind protoplasmc nodule, We
thank thee that all is o. k. Pass the tur-
key "--"To that which this calls God,
much 'blige--tho' lecturing is dull. - Fee
lix Adler.-Thanks--to the d---l-[J.
g. B-c.--The night following thanks
giving men go to Guinea, Greece, Turkey,
Hamburg, Bologna, and the doctor--in
their dreams. K.
Measures are eing concerted 10 Chi
c.go to secure indictments of each indivld-
ual member of the grand jury OF the federal
court, as we'll as the federal judges, guilty
of the late interference with state election
in ILLINOIS in investigating the Leman-
Brand contest involving 'going behind
the returns" and examining the ballots
Nothing more high-handed HIS occurred
since the national fraud of 1867, and
whatever side may suffer it is to be hoped
that the inquisition will be punished to the
uttermost limit | the state OF Illinois
lacks the power TO protect her political
rights the matter should he brought before
Congress.
MIR. Scott, Of Bloomington, WAS in
CAIRO yesterday. Mr.. 5. is wealthy land
owner and owns great deal of fine land in
Mclean county as well as in different parts
in Iowa. His first visit to Cairo was Gade
last Spring, when his impression of the fu
ture of Southern Illinois caused him to buy
$40 acres of land, one mile southwest o.
Hodges Park, which he proposes 10 have
cleared and placed under cultivation Al
fast as it can be done. He Intends pur
| ing several hundred acres more in Alexan
der county, believing that no better invest
ments IN land can be made. When mer
as experienced az Mr.. Scott sec so bright {
future for .his section, there must be
good reason for it.
"A prominent New York merchant says
I'VE can see cause for the depression IL
trade In the fact that the country banks ar
poor. Since the recent Wall street PAM
all the money that could be obtained IA
been concentrated in New York. II 4
held here now, and outsiders cannot secur
dollar of it. Naturally, this embarrasss
the country banks, and business men in tn
rural districts are unable to secure dlscuuu
upon paper" There ia hardly city {
town outside of New York, especially
the west and south, where both banker
merchants and man ufacturers hsve not "a
perienced the cramping Influence OF tn
bank policy of New York referred to b
this evel.headed merchant. The G. urlei
Journal says we hive often commente
upon it in the same line of argument, bu
those bankers somehow have had more con
fdence in the tangible presence Of thci
money than in our Judgment. hut il viii
soon begin TO dawn upon them that the.
are boarding like misers instead of bank
ing, and that money is dead stock unless i
be kept in use. A result of this will sool
be witnessed in the annual dividend pay
ments, the rates of which will doubtless b
greatly lowered, though the banks Of tina
city have had in the curren' six month
larger working funds than ever before
while the local and interior require ment
have been sufficient to keep those funds i
active employment.