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CAIUO, ILLINOIS.
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LIX018, A.B SECOND-CLASH 1IATTKH.
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GENERAL LOCAL ITEMS.
Noticed In the commni, ton conts pur lino,
ach Insertion. MirkaJ
Seo notice of C. Koch in special locals,
For the correct timo taken from tho
bud yesterday, go to Messrs. Taber Bros.
A letter from Tom Morgan finds its
way into The Bulletin this morning.
Gould, Sage and Seligmanwc.ro among
the new directors of the St. Louis and Snu
Francisco elected Tuesday. Tho old board
of the Iron Mountain wero ro-elccted.
Tho dnto ot the grand reception to be
givon at tho Ilalliday by thu ladies of
Cairo to the Array of the Mississippi Levee,
has not yet boen determined.
Ai in this city, so in St. Louis and
other placet, much moro than half the pa
tients at quarantine tire colored. Small
pox ' is thriving principally, among the
negroes.
A rumor comes from Washington that
the verdict of the court-mnrtial in tho case
of Sergeant Mason, will bo declared void,
in cbnacnueuco of irregularities in tho
trial." '
The remains of Miss Mury E. Fallonfj
who died in Kansas City last July, was ta
ken through Cairo yesterday ou tho way to
Jackson, Teno.j for interment in tho bury
log ground With her mother's relations.
Yesterday evening's weather bulletin
reports rain from three places LaCrosse,
Memphis and Pittsburgh; at tho first named
place the fall was two one-hundredth of
an inch, at the othor two it was imtncnsu
rabla because of its lightness. Tho
thermometer was of a mixed state.
To her stock of wonderful blowers St
Louis has added a fan for cluaring tho rail
road tunnel of smoke, and tho concern
works like a charm. Tim fan, when in
operation, will drew forward tho smoke of
an engine running at tho rutoof ten miles
per hour.
Captain John E. Eneliah, of tho Ilal
liday guards, has received notic'o from
headquarters at Springfield, telling him
thai a geoural inspection of tho ktatu ma
litis has been ordered and Col, H. B. Stin
ion, assistant general inspector of the third
brigade, will bo hero at a unto to bo here
after fixed, to Inspect the guards.
; -Tbo president Monday sent a message
to congress ia regard to .the question, of es
tablishing a seaboard tlnrautlue against
amall-Dox. lie rccomrueiju the pasHaua o
; the Harris bill with some modifications. It
is believed that tho bill will pans the senate
without trouble, but that it will be font-lit
ia the bottso by the steamboat compim!'?
tad the New Twit quiimutmo .officers.
TUB DAILY CAIRO HULLKT1N; THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH
The government steamer Anily left St.
Lnuis Monday loaded with rations for the
srtffurcrs near Friar' Point, Mi;-s. A pus
senger from!" New Orlnuns, desiring to give
iuterveiwers something worth while, says
iulcrveiwers soi icuiing worm wiun, p.-yo
at Terrene; that back of Biverton there Is
an acre of noflooded land literally covered
with snakes; that starving cattle are feeding
on each other, and that five mules are given
for a skill. ,
Mr. Henry Ward Bcccher said in his
lecture at Mercantile Library hall, in St.
Louis, Tuesday night, 'Unit ho never trod
upon a lady's train that he did not sy
"Glory," and never heard tho stitches crack
without saying "Hallelujah," and no doubt
in a general way he is right. Still, a more
j4thetic and less emotional method of dis
robing must, wo fear, remain tho popular
favorite for soino time. Great reforms are
inaugurated slowly.
In order to dispel certain rumors inju
rious to his credit on tho bull side, Jay
Gould Monday took a few prominent op
erators to his ofliee, opened the vaults, and
showed them securities of the pur valuo of
$00,000,000 or more, all registered in his
name. The largest bundle wits $23,000,000
in Western Union telegraph. Ho also of
fered to exhibit "$'10,000,000 in railroad
bonds, but thu gentlemen were satisfied to
take his word.
Instead of closing the schools for a
month or two, the board of school directors
has very wisely decided to continue them
and to have tho walks loading to them re
paired and made entirely Bate. To close
the schools "because of unsafe side-walks,
would not ouly deprive the children of the
benefits of schooling during not less than
a month, but would have other very unde
sirable effects. To remove the principal,
perhaps tho only, reason urged in favor of
closing them and then continuing them is
much the better plan.
The trial of Sergeant Mason, which
has been in progress for some time before
a court -martial at Washington, on the
charge of attempting the assassination of
Charles J. Gilitean, the assassin of Presi
dent Garfield, by shooting nt him in his
eel!, has been brought to nil end by his con
viction and sentence to bo honorably dis
charged from the service and confined at
hard labor in the penitentiary nt.. Albany,
N. Y., for eight years, which finding and
sentence have been approved by General
Hancock.
President Arthur has found a Now
Yorker who will accept the vacant seat on
the supreme bench of the United States.
Samuel Blatehford of tho city of New
York, judge of the second judicial circuit
of the United States circuit court, has been
promoted to the seat made vacant by tho
retirement of Juslico Hirnt. Judge Blateh
ford was mado circuit judgo in 1873 by
President Hayes. The pluco ho gives up
has a salary of $0,000 per annum; that to
which ho has just been appointed has a sal
ary of $10,100. Judge Blaclhrord, though
his name is not familiar to the country, is
nevertheless regarded as a good lawyer and
has sustained himself with credit ou the
circuit bench.
The Ohio river stood at forty-seven feet
eleven inches on the government guago at
this point at ono o'clock yesterday after
noon, showing a fall of ono inch during
tho previous twenty-four hours. During
the same period of timo '.ho rivers fell nt
different ' points above Cairo as follows:
Ono foot four inches at Chattanooga, one
foot ten inches at Nashville, one foot five
inches at Cincinnati and ten inches at
Louisville; St, Iniis not being reported.
The total rise here this .timo was jut what
had been predicted by Sergeant W. II. Bay,
C inches, mid it began to fall, as The Bl'M.b
tis predicted it would, yesterday morning.
Prospects for a continued tall aro very
favorable.
A nico point has been raised as to tho
ineligibility of present sheriffs imd treas
urers in Illinois for reelection. In Novem
ber, 1880, an amendment to the constitu
tion was adopted providing that they should,
from and after Nov. 1SS2, bo elected for
four years, the term of oflloo huving up to
that timo been two years. Attached to this
was a proviso that no person once elected
as hheriffor treasurer should bo eligible for
reekctiou until four years had elapsed ufter
tho expiration of his term. Now it-is con
tended that this does not apply to tho me-n
who were elected in 1880 for two years,
and with good reason, too, for tho present
inccmbuuta wero not elected under tho new
amendment and aro therefore uot liublo to
its disqualifying provisions.
Nothing is moro pleasing 'to the
leisure wanderer about the city than tho
sight ot tho many beautiful places of busi
ness at every side. Since tho "lalo unpleas
antness" new life seems to have taken posses
sioii of our men of business; they seem to
take more pride in the looks of their iuuno
diatosurroiindins.and to hnvobcon inspired
with tho important truth that tlio attrac
tiveness of their places is tin important con
dition to a prosperous business. To those
already mentioned in these columns tiny
be added tho confectionary and lco crenm
parlor of Mr. Phil Saii5 nnd the saloon of
Mr. Louis Herbert at Twelfth and Wash
ington, both of which are raro specimens of
the paper hanger's art and do credit to Mr.
B. F. Blake, who superintended the Jobs.
" Since hie arrival here Mr. Traveiso
Daniel has been making an examination of
the site selected and laid out for tho Cairo
water works an 1 finds that, as llio water is
bo high, the commencement of active oper
ations hero will have to bo deferred for sev
eral weeks longer. But ho assures This
Bn.LETtK that as soon as tho water shall
have receded sullicicutly, a largo forco of
, , ,, . ..,.
ci Hw. w,iH,-s shall bo finished. Holms
found some difficulty in making contracts
for tho piping and machinery with tho
largo foundries and machine shops of tho
oast, because all of them had orders ahead;
but he has succeeded in concluding con
tracts with several of tho principal estab
lishments in New York and Buxton, which
aro busily engaged in preparing tho piping,
machinery, etc.
Tho committee of flvo citizens, ap
pointed by the coinmitteo of twenty-llvo
citizens, appointed by the tax-payers ut thu
Tenth street hall on Monday night one
week ng, met in the office- of Mr. Wood
Itittenlwuso yesterday forenoon and pro
ceeded to prepare for Jthcj duties imposed
upon it. Tho duty of tho committee is "to
confer with the various roads on tho levee
question," and as the committee is promised
a conference with Col. Hamilton and Ue
ceiver Suiithers, of the Cairo and St. Louis
railroad to-day, and Was warned
in advance that these gentlemen
"came to hear, not to make, propositions,"
the coinmitteo determined upon a series of
propositions which it will submit to the
gentlemen named at the conference this af
ternoon. Tho conference will probably
take place at tho council chamber this af
ternoon. . Henry Houston, tho young negro who
was taken with varioloid in tho old "Bum
gard" rookery at the corner of Seventeenth
and Poplar streets on Monday, was remov
ed to tho St. Mary's hospital by order of
Chief Myers, and is now isolated there
with tho three other cases and doing well.
Thu origin of his case is not positively
known, but it is certain that it did not orig
inate in this city. He could not have got
ten the disease from any of the marine
cases previously iu the hospital, because t'je
time between the coming of the present in
cumbents and Houston's case is too short,
and between nt:y previous cases nnd'llous
ton's is too long, to justify such a conclu
sion. It necessarily follows, therefore, that
Houston must have come in contact with
tho germs of the disease outside of this
city. This is the more probable since he
is a sort of bohemain, running o'J on shcrt
trips on tho several roads and steamboats
every now Hnd then.
H'3 was also a so:i of the proprietor of
the Gilsio bouse, oau of the principal hotels
of New York city, was the silk, skull-caped
youn man, named G. W. Wallace?) who
was given orders out of town by Chief
Myers on Tu .'sday; su lie told M;. J. W.
Hill, of the Planters hoiw, to whom heap
lied for lodging. He entered the hotel
ofllco with the air of a young Vanderbilt,
and when he was refused tho courtesy of
fico board and lodging on account
of his distinguished descent, he
became indignant and left the
office, declaring that Cairo was "the d (1st
d d'towu ho had ever struck." But he
returned a, little while afterward, boldly
strutted to thu dressing room, prepare.! his
toilet, cast a longing glance into tho dining
room, lingered about tho olliea and posted
himself as to tho routo to" the sleeping
rooms up stairs. But when ho had untie
all this his meditatio-jg were suddenly
brokeu. in upon by Clerk ,11111,
who informed the young gentleman
linn he, Hill, believed that ha, tho young
gwutlcniau, was a cont'ouuuJd scoundrel
and that he must leav tho house never to
return. Tho order was promptly and
strictly obeyed.
Til k Bulletin has been consistent in
tho assertion that Cairo has suffered com
paratively little from hih water this season
and her people have little reason to be dis
couraged on that account. Cairo suffers
more in an indirect way than she does in a
direct way, just as tho eastern wholesaler
suffers indirectly because of tho destruction
of the property and tho trade of his western
customer. Cairo meichants suffer parti
cularly in this way. Tho country around
in ia submerged, tho people ami their little
all is promiscuously huddled together upon
little knolls of ground surrounded by an
unbroken sea of wider. Their crops are
ruined, their homes uro swept away, their
stock is drowning, nnd they nro starving
or spending their Bnvings for tho absoluto
necessaries of life. Many of thoso suffer
ing people aro tributary to Cairo; they are
customers of Cairo merchants; iu prosper
ous times they contribute largely to Cairo's
commerce, to tlio prosperity of Cairo's mer
chants. But now they do uot do this, and
therefore the Cairo merchant, both largo
and small, HUiferi also. Ho will bo com
pelled to reduce expenses for tho timo be
ing, and should bo assisted iu this by the
landlord, who should bo willing to bear his
share of tho general but temporary prontra
tlon In the a flair of his lessee. Therefore,
reduce tho rents, gentlemen, reduced ex
horbltuut rents'.
' Thero are twenty-five teams aud seven
ty fivc men at work on the new levco lor
tin city and about hail' that number for
the Cairo Trust Properly company. So far
the 1'ilter's share of txp-iis"-n hi Now Leveo
Mlre.il will 'tot full tijiu.h i.bort of four
thousand Mollies nnd may ivnch ten thous
n:ul dollars IkI'oid thu woik case, The
cityViiliHPf ha'i not bee i b tet ruined, ns
tho bills h ivj not 5t. all e-uiio in, but It is
m.feto sr. tint. (Mil'm.il will i;o: iv ten
, thousand d''ll.i!. T'.i': expi lo'l'.u: of b
tween five and ten thousand dollars moro
will put tho city's new leveo in a condition
equal in strength to tiny portion of tho
Ohio leveo . and several feet
higher, aud then nothing short
of a Hood such as has never been known to
date, and which could, by shoor forco of
circumstance and inviolable natural
laws, never occur, could, in any way or to
any extent, endanger tho city from that
quarter, If soma effort Will now be mado
by tho city council and by tho Tax payor's
Association to induco tho Illinois Central
railroad company and tho Cairo Trust
Property company to raise and strengthen
the other nortious of the levees around the
city, a great deal would bo gamed. That
these companies are willing to do any rea
sonable thing iu this direction is very evi
dent. Tho former company has done its
share on tho city's new leva) ami is still
doing its share, and tho latter has signified
its willingness to raiso its tracks and the
Ohio leveo whenever the city council may
yiirect that it bo Hone, uut it muni on re
membered that this very desiraiiio otjeet
can not be accomplished by angry force.
Lm'svillo Courier-Journal: "The
eastern newspapers aro unconsciously very
droll in their discussions of remedies for
tho overflows of , tho Mississippi. Ouo of
our exchange advocates tho construction
of "a great reservoir,' at1 some point near
Cairo, into which tho surplus waters could
be diverted in time of Hood and retained
until tho subsidence of the river mado it
safe to set them frco again."' That is a fair
snplo of tho knowledge easrern editors have
of the Mississippi river. It would n quire
a hole about as big ns the state of Illinois
or Kentucky and some miles deep to drain
off tho "surplus waters." Another paper,
thu Press, of Philadelphia, says: "The
Mississippi Hoods (should be allowed to
spread out (it intervals whero they wiil do
least harm until the channel proper can
carry the surplus of the Gulf. Levees ar"
well cnouh ai u protection to to,vns and
thickly populated districts, but to try to
protect every bottom is a vain endeavor,
inviting a peril to life an 1 property at
every high water, and rosuitinrr at Mich
times as the present ia dire di iU"r. Gen
uine Mississippi improvement me ics the
creation of nutlets whero possible in the
southern part of the river's course, and'of
safety vents for the dispersion an I storage
of Hood waters between Cairo and Vicks
burg." A trip of observation dowi the
riyer would show that writer that he knows
ve'ry little of the character of tho river.
The creation of outlets is apruco's which
means the destruction of tho river ua a
navigable tr-wn. D'H'usion in-mns a shoal
river, the diwrr-ion of the main htream and
its locution at a distance from exinting
towns. When tho river is properly concen
trated, with a width of:J,0U0 fct by means
of levees and jetties, there will be no more
di.""tivo overflows.
--The Bulletin always knew that obi
Grandmother ArgU3 was tho sweet -nt tem
pered of all old creatures ever created, or
issued, or compiled, nnd in yesterday's issue
she confirm this opinion in tho following
style: "The Three-Stales Bulletin simply
utters a (low might lie, made out of
whole cloth, when it fays the Argus
gave ris to 'the tumor that the Singer
Works would remove from this city. The
boy that perpetrates the bulls tor the prop
erly named Ball-et ia has uot been whip
ped enough for lying by his mother."'
When The Bulletin siated that tho old
lady had given rise to the rumor that the
Singer company contemplated removing
from Cairo, it did so without any malicious
intent and in the firm belief that it stated tho
truth, and even now, in the face of the above
positive denial, Tun Bulletin feels sate
i'i saying that a careful glauce through the
issues of the Argus, fur not over ten days
back, will reveal the fact that the old lady
did what Tub Bulletin said she did.
Tiik Bulletin' belief in this respect is
confirmed by several readers of the Argus.
Hut in the second sentence of the above,
the old lady's inborn egotism asierts itselt.
She manifiistscousiderab'e confidence in her
own knowledge of the art of "teaching the
young idea," find questions tho correctness
and effectiveness of tho method
employed by tho mother of "tho
boy that perpetrates tho bulls for
Tub Bullbtin-." While "tlio biy"
aforesaid Ins great reverence for old Grand
mother Argus' opinion upon all questions
relating to tho management o( "Young
America" at homo upon maternal thinu's
in general, in fact yet ho, "tlio boy" nfore
said, has much greater confidence in tho
method employed by his (own parent ; is
vain enough to believo that that method
was as nearly perfect as is usually pursued,
and, but for his inborn respect for infirm old
age, would give way to tho temptation to
reent tho self sufficient old croaturu' in
sinuation, PERSONALS.
Mr. David A. Curtis, representative of
tho New York Herald, was In tho city
Tuesday, on his way to visit and writo up
tho Hooded district for that journal. Ue is
also a lecturer of somo note, his latent and
most popular effort being entitled "Secrets
of the risnctum."
Col. W. F.Merrill, assistant general su
perintendent of tho entire Waba-h system
of railroads, and Division Superintendent
Mores, of tho Cairo division, arrived in
Cairo from tit, Louis yesterday morning ou
their special trains. They left again iu the
10, 1SS2.
afternoon on a trip ot inspection of tho
Cairo division of that great system of roads.
Mrs. Jckso Ilinklo was much improved
yesterday evening, which will be glad news
to her many friends.
Mrs. Scarrett, who was reported seriously
ill at St. Louis several day ago, is much
improved.
NEWS FROM LARAMIA CITY.
Laiu'u City, W. T. March 10th, 1333.
IMitur ILtlbtlii:
I have been watching with interest tho
reports of Cairo and the floods. I am glad
she has been so lucky arid hope the wniBt
is past wUh we had some of the great
deal you could spare hero. I havo not seen
any rain sinco I left Cairo, there has been
none in Denver sinco S'pt. last, J. don't
know when they had any here. I left Den
ver nine days ago to accept a situation here
with the U. P. II R. and if I like the place I
will stay. Liraini.iis .I? 3 miles west of Oma
ha (so you seo I am getting pretty near Salt
Lake City.) Wo havo two daily papers
each of them issuo a weekly, nnd wo lmv
another weekly besides. Population not
quite 4000. We havo two Lodges ot I. O.
(). F. and tho Encampment, a Masonic
Lodge, a K. of P. with ono hundrnd mem
bers, a good Templer Lodge, A. B. of
Locomotive Eng's and Firemen.
I must tell you tho name of ktho leading
paper and hiw it got the name. Bill Nye,
one of the comic writers of the far west,
has his homo hero and edits tho paper.
When Bill was prospecting in tho moun
tains ho had an mule called "B lomerang"
which, for amusement, ho would shout at
when lonely. "Boomerang" wandered away
from ramp one night and Rill went after
him with his gun and saw what ho thought
to be1' Boomerang" and took a square shot at
him. Thinking he killed his long legged
companion, he got up early next day to bury
th;i brute, but to his surprise in the morn
ing, he found 'Boomerang'' making the
best of time in hunting up anything he
could get to cat, with nothing the matter.
After this Bill f!uc!c to "B ran' rang."
Wrote a large book called "Boomerang,"
then started a paper (I sen 1 you a copy of),
Cajlcd "15 mmerang." Now, Laraniia has
the "R.joiiioning" paper, the "Boomerang"
base ball club, the "Boomerang" bat, and
many other things called ''Boomerang."
The weather was a groat deul colder here
than in Denver yesterday, had n little snow.
I met a Cairo boy (who was a boy when I
went there lirjt, but hot a unn V. E. Car
penter. II e i:i practicing law here.
It look like bu-.ine.si to seo these large
trains pass c lit and West wish 10 coaches
and tv) cn.'in"S. Mono N.
A MAN KILLED.
The incoming Illinois Central passenger
train, at-about twelve o'clock yesterday,
brought toe news that the body of a white
man had been fouo I on tho track a short
di-tnnee IilIo'.v thu three-mile post. C To
ner P.. Fitzgerald was notified, and he se
lected :t jury an 1 went by special train to
the scene of the tragedy.
When the body was found by tho officers
of tho train afores tid. tha trunk was on the
outer s:,i.j of the track and the head on the
inside, between the rails, the wheels having
severed the head from the
trunk seemingly without coming
in contact with tho nran's shirt collar. Tho
train oilicers had drawn tho body and head
asi do near th track, whero the coroner and
jury found them. After the jury had ex
amined tli'i premises an 1 th-j body thor
oughly, tin latter was taken aboard of tho
special train nnd br ejght to the Illinois
Central round house. where the
inquest wbs continued until late
last night, as the jury lnd to wait for tho
arrival of tho engineer of the outgoing
'rain which, it was supposed, nn over tho
man.
Tho circumstances rurrouuding the rase
pointed soniew it to suicide. Tho man hr.d
been in the city but a short time and had
linen seen by several, not over an hour be
fore tin ou'going Illinois Central train
started, left here, going up the track. He
w is accosted by one gentleman, but con
tinued on his way without making reply.
Ho was well dressed from head to foot and
had an intelligent expression of fuco. Ly
ing in great disorder about tho body wero a
number of private papers, somo of them
bearing signs of having been violently
crunched and torn. From these, which
wero all written in a good German
hand, it was ascertained that tho
man's namo was Carl Gasah, a
German, that ho was well educated, having
attended and graduated from a German
academy; but gave no evidence of the rea
son of his prcsenco here, or any clue to his
violent death. A pocket-book was also
.found uin tho body, but it contained no
money, nor wero there any other valuables
found'. Tho trunk was not bruised, but the
head bore a deep gash across the top near
the front, another on tho right side and
another back of tho left ear. It is stated
by those who saw the man a little before
he was killed, that ho was not under tho
influence of liquor, and if ho had been, that
would bo no positive proot that ho was ac
cidentally killed, for it would seem next
to Impossible that a mail could bo at ruck
by a cngino in such a manner that ho
would fall as this man was found, and that
ho did not fall from tho train is
sufficiently proven by tho scattered papers.
Tho man's behavior when InHt seen nlive,
the position of tho body, tho scattered pa
purs, the empty pocket book nnd several
other less important circumutauccs, acorn to
point to suicide, though what the engineer4
testimony end the coroner' jury' verdict
wa wo were unable to learn at the present
writing.
THE MISSISSIPPI.
BILL AQRKKD ON. $
Washington, March 14. Tho sub-committee
of tho Mississippi lefee and im
provement committee carefully examined
to-day all tho bill before them relating to
the Mississippi river and lgreed to repott
without amendment the . two bill Intro
duced into the house by Gibson and Rob
ertswn. Gibson's bill concisely formulate
tho recommendation of, the Mississippi
river com mission as to the appropriations
and makes an appropriation of two and a
half million for building and repairing
levees aud closing gups in levee which is
an excess of $1,41)0,000 over the amount
asked by the river commission for work on
levees. The levee clauee ' will, it is be
lieved, be chanired by the full committce
duly as to its phraseology.
Robertson's bill, agreed to by the ab
cominittee, has the full indorsement
of the Mississippi river commission,
and' is regarded by them a very
important to facilitate the commission'
work. It defines tho power and
jurisdiction of the commission, and author
izes the appropriation of the land anil ma
terial for tho improvement of tho Missi
tiippi and tributaries, prescribe the method
of assessing damages, and provides penal
ties for injury to tho improvement.
It is the intention of this committee to
report the Gibson bill to the hous and atk
for it passage, but the friends of the Mis
sissippi are not all agreed that it would not
be wiser to merely report the bill and move
that it be referred to the commerce com
mittee. Tho latter would then incorporate
it in the river and harbor bill, and the con
flict of jurisdiction between the commerco
and leveo committee would be avoided.
Tlio commerce committee to day inicrted
in the river and harbor bill an appropris
tion of f 010,000 for the Misissippl river
fnm the mouth of the Ohio to the mouth of
the Illinois. - .
TiiElifiln daughter of tho editor of tho
Tiffin, O , Daily Star was immediately and
permanently relieved of a severe cough by
threo doses of Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup. A
twenty-five cent bottle of this valuable
reui'-'h' will cure the worst eolith.
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