The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-06-21
The Daily Bulletin.
LOCAL NEWS.

rascal just as he got out again aud shot at
him. But the burglar had reason to thank
his stars that Frank was no match for
Bogarius in the use Of the "pop." A thief
also entered the residence of Peter Walder,
on Fourteenth Street, and took what change
there was in Pete's trouser pockets, amount
ing to a dollar or two.
Judge Bross is having his buildings, at
the corner of Eleventh and Commercial,
painted up in fine style. Mr. KoehIer, the
gun.smith, Is also giving his house re-
dressing of paint. We take pleasure in
noting all Improvements of this nature, be-
cause the city generally stand greatly in
need of deluge of paint, whitewash, etc.
There has been, it is true, considerable
work done in this line during the last
month or six weeks, but there's room for
more. There are pieces of property in our
principal thoroughfares, apparently utterly
abandoned and are rapidly going to the
dogs, though the expenditure of few dol
lars for carpenerting and whitewashing or
painting would transform it go that, to look
upon it, would fill one with pleasure. How
ever IT may be in other things, in the mat
ter Of real estates and its varied improve
ments, antiquity, as exemplifed in delapi-
dated fences, crazy out houses, tumble-down
barracks all bleached aud cracked by the
action of rain and sun, wasted, wornout
more through neglect than with age-such
sights are not likely to challenge the ad-
miration of even the most sentimental hun
ter after relics of ages past and gone; and
to man whose mind is trained to judge
of the beautiful aud the grand more through
comparison of the things of his own age,
will feel repulsed rather than attracted by
the crazy architecture with which some
citizens, who could we'll afford to do better
permit this community to be afflicted.
There is nothing that strikes stranger so
fayorably as to see premises neat and
clean; and there is no man so poor that he
cannot keep his premises in a moderately
fair state all the year round. We want 10
see the town painted or whitewashed and if
we can't have it done in any other way
we'll engage one of those good old Republi-
can investigating committees that have In
times past repeatedly astonished the coun-
try by the perfection of their work and
the ease and dispatch with which they &C.
compllshed it.
Speaking of the Boiling Republicans
in various parts of the country, the Du
Quoin Tribune ridicules the movement II
| this wise: "a few more conspicuous gen
tlemen have deserted the Republican stand
ard. The Republican hosts do not desert
The boilers are an army of generals, witt
no soldiers. There are enough of them tC
completely officer quite numerous legion
There is, however, no numerous legion
wanting them as officers. The loyal ranks
of the Republican party are unbrOken, and
its numbers are not seriously diminished v
Yet the following is only partial list Of
the representative Republican and Indepen-
dent journals, mostly the former, that have
openly declared against Blaine since bis
nomination New York Times, Springfield
Republican, Boston Herald, New York In
dependent, Boston Advertiser, New York
Evening Post, Harper's Weekly, Buffalo
Express, Buffalo Commercial, Albany Elk
press, Chicago Herald, Brooklyn Union
Worcester Gazette, Reading Eagle, New
Port News, New York Telegam, Worcester
Spy, Rochester Post-Express, New York
Commercial Advertiser, Philadelphia Rec
ord, New York Truth (Ind.,) Boston Tran
script, Chicago News Qnd.,) Chicago Times
Qnd.O Rochester Heard, Flushing News
Philadelphia Times. And besides thi:
there have been more indignation meeting:
than ratification meetings in the country
and the former have invariably been much
the larger and more enthusiastic. The
boilers meeting held in Boston on the 18th
was called in five hours notice, the call had
been signed by one thousand five hundred
business men of the city. Col. Charles r
Goldman, the Chairman of last years Re-
publican State Central Committee, presided
over the meeting and fiery speeches were
made by dozen leading Republicans who
denounced the Chicago Convention for
selecting man who, as the Globe-Demo
crat put it in its issue of May 23d, before
the nomination. had IA repulsive, rotten
record, who stands self.convicted of prosti-
tuting the high offices he has held to build
up private fortune, and Of cohabitlng with
corruption for dishonest money" The
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