The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-07-20
GENERAL LOCAL ITEMS

-WANTED-lO pounds of clean, white,
cotton rags at THE BULLETIN Office. If
Mr.. E. A. Budcr returned yesterday
from New York, where he has been for sew
eral weeks for business and for pleasure.
NoTIcE-Past due accounts will be
thankfully received by VIM. NJ. Davidson.
If
Mr.. W. W. Wright is in the city for
day or two. lie is son the road" now for
Schweppe & Scudder, large grocery firm
of st. Louis.
Rev. Jno. F, Eden proposes to preach
a sermon at the Baptist Church tonight
especially to young men and he cordially
invites them all to attend.
Mrs. George Parsons is taking a course
of study at Chautauqua, New York. She
has been away several weeks and will re
main several more.
The family of Mr.. l. N. Coffee have ro
turned and have taken up their residence in
the house formerly occupied by Mr. c. N.
Hughes, corner Eighth and Walnut
"A Republican who is in Jail in Ohio
wants to be pardoned out because he has
'honest impulses" An Ohio man viii! put
up any plea to get back to Washington.
81. Campbell, "bad Missouri niger
was fined So and costs by Magistrate Com
lngs yesterday, for coming over here for the
expess purpose of finding and whipping his
wife, or, rather, for carrying out that pur-
pose,
Deputy Sheriff Myers yesterday arrest
ed several negro women Of bad repute, who
were displaying themselves too much on
the streets He judges very rightly that
black women of this sort should have no
more privileges than the whites are allowed
I believe in open and sturdy partisan
ship, which secures the Legitimate advanta-
ges of party supremacy; but parties were
made for the people, and I am unwilling,
knowingly to give my assent to measures
purely partisan, which will sacrifice or en-
danger their interests. "-Grover Cleveland.
The Republican press continues to harp
on Blaine's "intense Americanism" and the
consequent love of the Irish for him. Blaine
"lntense Americanism" probably began
when he joined the knownothlng party and
with the cry of america for Americans, y
wanted to drive all the Irish out of the coun-
try.
The widow of E. E. Jarboe who was a
member of the Ale Lincoln Mutual Life
and Accident Society, has received the full
amount of his certificate, and the bene-
fciaries Of others have also been paid in
full. The change of the system of the old
w. & o. NJ. A. Society by consolidating
the various classes into one; proves much
more satisfactory to all parties than the old
system.
"A man named Seaver, who had been
at work for Mr. Anterior at Goose Island
come to town Friday and got drunk; and
while in this state he "fell in with fellow
named Jim McMullen, who was hungry and
thirsty and without cent. The two lun-
ehed and drank togather for some time, and
| then NJ. McMullen deliberately robbed Mr3
Seaver Of his pocket-book containing $40.
The thief was arrested by Deputy Sheriff
Myers and Constable Martin yesterday and
bound over in Magistrate Comlngs court.
Mr.. D. W. Lusk, of Springfield, for
| many years asnewspaperman for Southern
Illinois, the author Of Politics and Politici-
ans of Illinois, was in the city yesterday
and called upon The BULLETIN. His book
is very popular and is meeting with rapid
sale. 1t is nonpartisan and thus reflects
truly the history of the times of which he
has written. The chapter relating to the
campaign between Douglas and Lincoln il
| 1866 is of an interest as OUTLYING the posi-
tons of political parties upon that quar-
; ter of century ago.
; The latest reports to the Illinois De
partment of Agriculture give more hope
full outlook for winter wheat than the pre-
a vious report Winter wheat has general,
(, been harvested, and the probable yield ca
at this date be very nearly Appropriated
4, There will be nearly an average yield @
. wheat per acre in the Northern division
% over three -fourths of an average yield pc
acre in the Central counties and nearl
-, three-fourths of an average yield per acre !
% the Southern division. There has been
:, slight change for the better in the cond
III ton OF wheat in the Central counties, an
10 the July returns show that there will be
to per cent larger yield per acre than predi'
ted in the June report. The area Of wint'
@f wheat in the Northern counties is quite lin