The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-03-13


action towards promoting the interests of
commerce at that point. Cairo is certainly
situated at point where the expenditure
of some of the surplus would do a great
deal of good to the country at large and to
her particularly. There is no one, however,
who would object to Csiro's prosperity,
especially when it will prove an advantage
to the entire country"
The Republican county convention,
which, according to the decision of the
central committee is to meet on the 9th OF
April next, will be composed of sixty
six delegates, one for every twenty-five
votes and one for every fraction of twelve
or over cast for Garfield in each precinct
IN the county in 1880, The representation
by precincts will therefore be as ful
lows: First Cairo, 14l votes, 6 delegates;
Second Cairo, 1873; Third Cairo, 2G4 -
1t:Fourth Cairo; 1913; Fifth Cairo, 1877
S; Beech Ridge, S4-3; Unity, 72-3;
S4ndusky, 29-1; Elco, 95 A Clear Creek,
43-2 East Cape Glrardeau, 79-3; Thcbes,
7G-3; Santa Fe, Isl; Goose Island, 81
3; Lake Milligan, 36-2. These viii! he
selected in the primaries to be held in the
several pecincts on the 30 h instant.
A day or two ago Rev. Scarrlt and Mr..
Walt. Mckee went to Birds Point In search
Of people there who were in need of cloth.
ing, etc sufferers from the food They
found several, among them a widow with
SIX children, whose home had been wrecked,
who were half naked and half starved,
living on roasted corn. Returning to Cairo
they put up lot of some clothing left here
by steamer Throop some days before, being
careful to select such clothes as would fit
the several members of the family. A
-four barrel was packed full and sent over
to Birds Point, addressed to the widow
but when the barrel arrived there it was
taken possession of by one Jim Fogy,
who knocked the head in and distributed
the contents Unfortunately among those
who crowded around, and the widow ard
her family got only one sheet and one
pillow slips. The gentlemen who took the
trouble to look up the needy at Birds
Point naturally feel very indignant at this
outrageous misrepresentation Of the Thugs.
The most important part Of the coun.
eli proceedings last Thursday night, was
the adoption of the report of the street
committee, which was as follows "That
inasmuch as Congress has in late session
already made independent appropriations
for the protection Of hsrbors of far less i'm
than Cairo, viz: of Alton, Cape
Vicksburg and others, and bills
have been introduced into the present
Congress for appropriations for the contln.
uaLce of the same works Of protection, it
seems highly probably that upon proper
representation Of the great importance Of
Cairo as a commercial point, a similar ap-
preparation could be obtained for the proteC-
ton of our city, therefore your committee
recommend that an effort be made to get
such an appropriation, and also recommend
the adoption of the following resolution,
viz "Resoved, That the Mayor be and be is
hereby authorized to employ such person as
he can arrange with, to visit Washington
and endeavor to procure an appropriation
by Congress for the protection of Cairo
from the erosion of the banks Of the Missis-
sippi river, and also to arrange for the pay
ment of such reasonable compensation for
the service as he may deem expedent."
A large portion of the rations left here
several days ago by the steamer Carrie
Caldwell, for food sufferers at East Cairo,
WicklIffe, Reeifoot, Norfolk, Birds Point
and Dog Tooth Bend, were yesterday dis
tributed to Cairo negroes. The streets Of the
city swarmed with negroes to whom day S
industry is punishment more dreadful
than month in the pententiary. All car
ried sacks or baskets and gathered around
the store Of Mr.. Robert Miller where the
rations had been stored. Probably not less
than five hundred were furnished with sack
fulls or basket fulls of meal, bacon, pota-
toes, etc. The rush back and forth was
kept up until about o'clock in the even
ing when the commissary was pronounced
closed until tomorrow. There was no
sign of suffering in most cases and no pre-
tense to it in many the beggars consisted Of
that very large class of negroes who are
always on the lookout for something that
will cost only the effort Of reaching out for
it; and some of their own race, more provi-
dent and Independent than the common
horde, stood at the street corners watching
them and denouncng the practice ofissuing
rations. 1t was an outrageous business, a