The daily Cairo bulletin., 1884-04-08

but only few wire connections need to be
made, and man is expected to arrive
every day to do the work and start the bat
teries up.
Ice, wood and kindling, at City Brew
cry, Jacob Klee. if
Mr.. Claude Winter left Sunday for St.
Louis where he will remain while to see
what the prospects for him may be in the
way of business.
Twenty-Five thousand dollars worth of
boots shoes and dry goods, regardless of
cost, at the great closing sale
3t HAWTHORN & SLoo.
Capt. Thos. W. Shields is In St. Louis.
selecting an outfit for his prospective resi-
dence in this city, the erection of which
will now soon begin.
Bankrupt stock of furniture for sale
cheap at No. 101 Commercial! avenue, near
''h etcclj upstairs. II
Next Tuesday is election day, and only
two candidates out SO far The contest
will be short and sharp, and we do not
doubt that good men will win.
For SALE-At the Cairo City Livery
Stable, some good work horses and mules
also second wagons. Ct
Mr. ]. W. Reno of Chester was
guest at The Halliday yesterday. He has
the contract to furnish brush for the Gov
ernment work at Plum Point and was on
his way down there
Ladies button shoes reduced from
$500 to $l.35, at the great closing sale.
3t HAWTHORN & SLoO.
The river continues to fall here. The
fall recorded yesterday afternoon for the
previous twenty. four hours, was fifteen in
ches. In day or two it will be low enough
to permit the opening of the sewers.
Ladies' front lace shoes reduced from
Sl.75 to Sl,25. Great closing sale.
2t HAWTHORN & SLoo.
We have been given to understand
that Mr.. c. r. Woodward candidate for
Alderman in the Second ward, is sound on
the Narrow.guage question; beives that
the road should not be permitted to enter
the city where II has proposed to, without
giving some reasonable consideration; and
that the offers made the company by the
city some time ago, and which the COM
pany rejected with silent contempt, were
very fair.
The Na:rOwgauge argument of "high
taxes" will probably not take well among
the laboring men who were employed at
good wages to do the work which has
caused the comparatively little increase.
With the masses of the voters strong levees,
good sidewalks and good sewers are very
popular and since these things alone are to
blame for the actual increase in taxes dur
ing the last year or two, it will be hard to
lind man who would be mean enough
and inconsistent enough to praise and ac-
cept the great benefits and denounce and
refuse to pay the very reasonable price of
those great benefits.
High taxesl-Well, yes. But high
levees, also; and the former is not near so
much Of an evil as the latter is blessing
at least it will not appear SO to those who
recognize the fact that high taxes are the
necessary result Of high levees, and that iu
high levecs and strong levees alone lies
Cairo's only hope of safety. The increase
in the city taxes during the last two years
has been about ten thousand dollars per
year, just about the amount spent during
that time on our levees and sewers. This
work is now about finished. What i'm
proVements are yet to be done, under ordi-
hances already passed aud contracts al.
ready let, will be done by special assess.
ment; and next year there will be a very
marked decrease in the taxes, for there will
n be no leeee work to be done this summer.
/. and there will probably be a considerable
!, Increase in the receipts from licenses