The daily Cairo bulletin., 1884-05-07
The Daily Bulletin.
LOCAL BREVITIES.

him. He will remain month or six weeks
and ftake an active part in the party's
politics in this county during his stay here.
He says though, that he does not think
there will be much of fight made
by the ant-Thomas faction here, because
there appears to be no reason to hope to
defeat Thomas before the convention. He
comedies that Thomas is already assured OF
more delegates than will be necessary to
nominate him. Two years ago Mr.. Reeve
was an enthusiastic anti Thomas man and
did some effective work at the county conven
tion against him; but this year-well, this
year things are little changed, you know,
and minds as we'll cases are subject to
alteration by circumstances. Logan, Grant,
Longstreet, Chalmers and Mosby changed;
so did Barton, then why not Reeve alsos
The Jackson County Era is very, very
naughty Republican paper, or else it is very
indiscreet, 1t asks foolish questions; ques-
tions so foolish that none of its Republican
contemporaries to which it addresses them
deign to make any answer, but very prop
erly ignore them entirely. Such compound
statements and questions as the following,
for instance, taken from last weeks Era,
do not merit even passing notice and THE
BULLETIN apologies for reproducing them:
Congressman Thomas has, during the past
few weeks, been bolsteriDg up his support
ers by telling them that 90 delegates were
instructed for him, when at the same time
he did not have one-half that number.
Does that agree with the Sparta Plaindeal-
er's parade of his hone3yl'-"We would
be pleased to have our newspaper friends
to answer the following: Does a member
of Congress fulfill his pledges to his con,
stltuents by running around the country
attending to his own private business, when
questions of great Importance are being
voted upon iu CongressY"
Mr. John Hilz who went with Miss
Clara Barton and party on the steamer
Matte Belle, to distribute provisions among
flood sufferers below here, being inter-
viewed at St. Louis day or two ago,
made the following interesting statement
with regard to the work of the Red Cross
Society south and the condition of the peo-
pie there "As you know" he said, "we
left St. Louis four weeks ogo, loaded chiefly
with forage and taking also medicines and
clothing. Our object was to work in har-
mony with the Government relief force and
to supplement their labor, and hence our
care was principally to furnish the stock
with provender to keep them from stsrva-
ton. Our supplies were replenished at
Cairo, Vicksburg, Memphis and Natchez
We went all the way to New Orleans, stop
ping at stations where relief was needed.
This is the first time that the Red Cross has
foated on the Mississippi in an independent t
effort to relieve distress, although field
agents of the society have been on the
ground before. Miss Barton in making the
trip had in view not only relief, but also
the examination of the country in order to
familarize herself with the field and the
work down there for more intelligent ef-
forts should they be needed in the future"
He said that at least 10000 animals had
been furnished with provender. The loss
of cattle will be very large, as there is alb
solutely no grazing to be had in the over
fowded districts, and the water is flowing
off very slowly. The animals are hudded
on platforms, knols and on the levees,
which are cropped as clean as floor of
herbage. Some of them are ted on willow,
brush and bark, and where there are trees
they are cut. down and stripped of leaves
for the animals. The Government Com
mittee has done admirable works in the
distribution of food and there is no actual
starvation imminent among the people.
Numbers, however, of carcasses of dead
animals may be found in the low districts
and the saving of tie cattle and Of horses
especially is of immense advantage, because
when the water does ron off the horses will
be needed for plowing and other farm
work. In addition to lack of food, Mr..
Hitz says the terrible gnat plague's caus-
ing an immense amount of suffering and
death. The gnats attack the animals
weakened from hunger and kill them,
crawling in swarms in their mouths and
nostrils, and singing them to death. The
only relief is by building smoke fires and
by running gnat oil on the tender parts of
the animal. There is one instance of a
man having no means of protection, being
killed by the gnats. The insect is very
much like our COON gnat, but is much
larger and hes severe poisonous sting.
The damp cool weather has been favorable