The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-01-02


we started out to say. List Monday Mr..
Butler met with another curiosity in the
upper end Of the county, IN Tie form OF q
perfectly white coon, with pink nose, eyes
and toes. The little fellow was trapped by
4 farmer living there, AMI NJ. Butler learn
ed of it by accident and secured IT,
Go and see the several articles of beau
ty and usefulness that ale offered as prizes
in rattle soon to take place at the drug
store of Mr. Paul G. Schuu. Tickets are 81
each and are selling rapidiy. Only one
hundred and sixty are to be sold, and each
ticket will have six chances for prize.
The drawing will take place rs soon as the
last ticket Is sold. 1t
"A dispatch has been received from
Paris announcing that Bartholdi's statue OF
Liberty Enlightening the World" has been
entirely finished. But scarcely enough
money has been raised in New York so far
to pay for the foundation Of the pedestal
IN Bedloes Island, on which the statue is
to be placed. In all it will require $780,
900 to complete the pedestal, of which not
over one-fourth has been raised.
Last evening the report was circulated
that the new Tenth street sewer was leak
Ing. A little pond of yellowish water that
had gathered in the bottom opposite the
custom house, and stream pouring out of
the sewer at that point, was the cause Of
the report. But personal examination Of
the sewer outlet. by the mayor and Com.
missioner Baird, proved that not drop of
water was coming in through It, The pres
ence of the water is easily explained in this
way A neat little rain fell Sunday and
Monday after the sewers had been closed !;
the bottom referred to is the lowest place
in the city; water naturally seeks the lowest
place and will get there il there is any way
to do il that does not involve too much
climbing; and as the sewers afford direct
communication between this lowest place
and other parts of the city, the rainwate
naturally and easily finds is way through
them into the said lowest place. The
deep yellow color of the water is also easily
accounted for and may be traced directly
to the newly-grsvellsd streets, which shed
sufficient quantities of clay to discolor the
whole city full of water.
Postmaster Murphy was at work yes
terdsy upon his quarterly report to the de-
psrtment at Washington, and he found that
the reduced rate of postage had made but
very little difference 10 the receipts OF the
Office during this first quarter. he believes
that, at the end OF the year, if not sooner,
the receipts purely from local business will
be as much as they were before the reduc-
tisn was made and, perhaps more; and then
it will not be long before we may demand
q free delivery system, even it congress
makes no change in the postal law, reduc-
ing the amount of receipts necessary to en-.
title community to such a system. The
reason why the reduction in postage has
had 50 little effect upon the receipts of the
Office here is that there has been an increase
in the demand tor stamps of the larger
denomination. Business men who do
much of their advertising with circulars
know, from their own experience, perhaps,
the tendency of the recipient Of an unsealed
letter with one-cent stamp, to toss it
promptly into the waste basket without
even glsnclng at the contents. Whereas
sealed letter is always torn open aud it's
contents examined. The Use Of one-cent
envelopes, unsealed, is, therefore, decreas-
ing, while that Of two-cent sealed envelopes
increases in proportion; hence the result in
respect to receipts as stated above.
The lynching of four negroes in Yazoo
City, Mississippi, on Saturday night as a
measure of retribution for the death of
three white men, turns the eyes of the
country on that unfortunate state. The
question involves something deeper than
the mere politics of the day-it is ques-
ton of race, especially perplexing in such
states as Mississippi, Louisiana and South
Carolina, where the negroes are most num-
erous and most ignorant. Their antagonism
to the whites dates from the days of "recon-
struction," and is directly traceable to the
methods employed to bring it about. In
the states long dominated by carpet-bsg-
gers and adventurous citizens, of whom
the turbid Tourgee stands for specimen,
q condition of things exists which can be
found no where else IN the south. Negroes
and whites watch each other with mutual
dlstrust and mutual fear. Being the most
ignorant, and the least capable of self-con-
troll, the negro is generally the aggressor.
His lawlessness frequently provokes law
lessness; murder is melted out TO ayeuge
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