The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-05-08

doubt lalu up Wnlie WORKING ior hlgn wages
which a protective tariff gave them and
study the beauties and benefits of the sys-
TEN as expounded by Judge Kelly and
other high protectionists.
Mr.. Thomas j. Ent yesterday filed his
bond as health officer and has entered upon
the discharge of his duties. 1t is in order,
therefore, that citizens should look about
them and clean up, lest they receive call
from the officer. Mr.. Ent is an energetic
man, they say, and will see that the city is
Immediately given general cleaning up
and kept neat all through the summer
months. But he has difficult work TO
perform and citizens should help him as
much as possible.
AT the Council meeting Tuesday night
the City Jailor reported having furnished,
during the month of April, 46 meals at 1872
cents, to 90 prisoners before trial. and
boarded 20 prisoners l65 days at Acc. per
day. The Police Magistrate reported hay
ing assessed $500 in fines and collected
| $3070 leaving a balance uncollected of
| $5S9.30. The Marshal reported that the
city police force made So arrests in all, 72
| of which were for violations of city ordi.
nances and 10 for vioat ion of state law
| Always read the newspapers carefully
There may be fortune 10 it for you.
Joseph Cowherd, Tennessee printer and
country newspaper publisher, while wait
ing in store in Carthage, in that State,
picked up a scrap torn from a Virginia
newspaper, on which he saw an advertise
ment asking for information of his where
abouts. He promptly answered it, and
learned that by death of an uncle in South.
ern Virginia he had fallen heir to fine
plantation, much personal property and
several thousand dollars in cash.
Mrs. Samuel Wilson has been appoint.
ed administrative of the estate of the late
Samuel Wilson, Sr., her husband. De
ceased's property consisted principally of
the store on Ohio Levee and the homestead
on Eighteenth Street. 1t is understood
that the store will be sold out as soon as
possible, either at retail or as whole; and !
unless some one purchases it as whole and |
continues the business it will be closed up.
Mr.. Samuel Wilson, Jr., does not wish to
remain in Cairo and will leave again as
soon as his fathers affairs are settled up. 1
Now that the Morrison bill is defeated |
in Congress, the tariff question will go be-
fore the people of the country in the COM
ing election and there can be but little
doubt that the party which in its platform
announces Its determination to reduce the
tariff so that it will yield several millions
less revenue than il now does and materially
reduce the great surplus collected every
year, will carry the country in November.
The defeat of the bill in the federal house
will only make the people more determined
to reform the gross abuses of the tariff.
Strawberries made their first appear
ance this season on the table of The Hslli-
day several days ago. They came from
away down South. Shipments will be
made from Villa Ridge next Monday or
Tuesday, if the weather clears up to-day or
tomorrow so that the sun can ripen them,
The berries there are large aud plentiful,
but the continued rain has kept them green.
Unless the sun comes out very soon from
behind the thick canopy of vapor that has
hidden it from view so long the strawber-
ry crop will be much damaged; likewise |
the corn crop and other crops. Bardwell,
KY, is expected to place the first strawber-
ries on the Cairo market.
Ono of the best and most important
recommendations to the City Council made
by the Mayor in his annual address to that
body Tuesday night, was that the Conn.
Gil offer some premium for efficiency in our
fire department. He asserts that, for vol
unteer fire department, ours is unquestiona
bly, one of the best in the country and he
suggests that citizens who are not members
of any company, but who crowd about
fires by the hundred, should give the COM
panies more physical aid and less unfavor-
able criticism. The companies being made
up of men who have business OF their own
to attend to could not be expected to give
the same attention to fires that paid firemen
do in large cities; and since they voluntar-
lily engaged themselves to give their time
and efforts and risk their lives frequently
to protect the citizens against fires, they
deserved all the encouragement that could
be given, and no citizen could afford to
withhold it. He expressed the belief that
if the Council would offer prizes once or