The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-05-16
The Daily Bulletin.
LOCAL BREVITIES.

The Mayor says the Argus does no
quote HIM correctly with reference to wha
he said in the Council about Capt. Thoma
in connection with the Mississippi Rive
appropriation of 10000, and several Others
who were present at the Council meeting
In question concur with him. He did no,
say that Capt, Thomas had refused to intro.
duce the bill, when Col. Taylor asked him
about the matter; but that the Capt. had
SIMPLY expressed the wish that the bill
should be recommended by the Mississippi
River Commission. Nor did the Mayor say
that the commission had no jurisdiction
above the mouth Of the Ohio. Tho COM
mission has advisory jurisdiction over the
Mississippi above Cairo and ii would there.
fore have had perfect right to do what
Capt. Thomas desired it to do, advise
the appropriation OF $4,000 for tho contn-
uance of the Government work at this
point. The Mavor took occasion to state
'-
that Capt. Thomas had rendered much and
valuable aid to get the bill reported iavora.
bly, by his committee.
Now let Cairoites contain their souls
in peace and remain at home. All the wild
stories of prosperity in western towns, 10
tailed here by men who took run through
the country taking rapid glimpses Of what
confronted and surrounded them, with in
experienced eyes, all these stories about
crowded streets, rushing business, cities
built in day, sudden transitions from
poverty to oppulence are fatty coptradic-
ted, so far as Kansas City is concerned, at
least, by the following item from a late
number of The Times of that city: There
is a strange, restless feeling in Kansas City
journalistic circles Two days have elapsed
since somebody, who "used to be employed
on the Chicago Times" and "worked for
Dana on the Sum-" has dropped in to Dor
row 90 cents. We have been to Paducah
and may clam to have some idea of what
constitutes thoroughly God-forsaken town,
but we cannot, even in Imagination, picture
to ourself the utter desoateness and gener-
al cussedness of place ut which "devil
would turn up his nose in contemptuous
sneer. Things are a little dull IN Cairo, it
is true, but you bet your life we haven't
lost the respect Of tramp printers and can
scare up a pair or more Of the most forlorn
looking specimens you ever clapped your
optics upon, from under some pile Of rub
bish, or out of some freight Car, any night
Of the week.
Republican candidates for the Legisla-
ture are as thick in this district as are bees
in hive, and just as buzzy, too. Jackson
County has half a dozen or more; Union
County has three or four, and Alexander
County has two, so far as now known. The
bondale on the Goth of June, 30 that there is
still considerable time in which candidates
may come forward; and, from present in
dication there is some cause to fear that, bv
the time the convention meets, there will
be but very few "lay men, left in the party
in this Senatorial District. BY the rule of
minority representation, nomination by the
party is equal to election; hence the clamor
for the nomination. In this county Mr..
John A. Revee was the first to indicate his
to contest for the nomination;
and Capt. Charles Nellis, our city treasurer,
has since also yielded to the earnest solicit
tatlons Of many friends and is q candidate.
Col. John Wood is also spoken Of, and we
do not hesitate to say that he would be the
nobest Roman of them all; a good par
strict dciplinarian, quick
to detect irreguIarity of any kind and GER
tain to combat it wherever found, vgor-
ously and effectively; man who has for
years made public affairs subject of con-
tlnuous watchiulness, whether in or out of
public position, and who has had much ex-
perience in the management of such affairs;
he would be a valuable man in any legis-
lative body, and one who would not lose by
in any particular, with the
best man the Republicans of this district
could trot out. But Col. Wood has bust
ness interests here which require his con-
slant attention, and which would very
probably cause him to refuse the honor;
md the Republican Convention will prob
ably permit him to refuse and set up some
one who is less of statesman and more OF
A scheming politician.