The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1877-10-05

Number OF patients on hand Septem-
Der I"............,............ q
Admitted during the month.."........ a
Discharged, ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. y
Remaining Sept. 3O.......",,.,.....".". 81
Number OF days Of relief furnished. GAG
Number Of patients who received
Ciiice treatment.....,.............".,.. 2G
Number OF prescriptions to same. 80
Applications rejected. Z
The City of Helena found feet }
inches at lorsetail, but feet elsewhere
coming out.
The city OF Alton has $50 hhds. OF SUI
gar, 30 tons sundries for ~. Louis, and
reports q feet below here. Captain
Burch, who went down on the Danube
TO look at the river returned on the City
of Alton and goes up the Ohio on the
Siverthorne. Unless congress makes
the much needed appropriation to start
the snag boats to work soon, Capt. Burch
will have to go to plotting again. The
City Of Helena made liberal additions and
has very fair trip for the south,
The Jno. b. Maude passed to ST. Louis
yesterday morning with light trip OF
freight Charlie Mesnel, second clerk OF
the City OF Vicksburg, is passenger on
the Maude to st. Louis, and is, we are
sorry 10 say, quite i'll with malarial
fever.
Mr., Mat. Clark, who for a long time
past has been in the employ of the wharf
boats here, departed tor st. Louis on the
Jno. Il. Maudc yesterday, and took with
him his entirs household outfit showing
that he intends to leave Cairo for good.
The big steamer Jas. Howard is now
at the wharf just below the Illinois Cen
trail wharf-boat. We went aboard of her
yesterday and found the carpenters, Vim.
Guion and John O'Neal,and the mate
Dennis Corners, working un.
der her bottom docking her. The three
men named commenced work on Satur-
day last aud since that time up to last
evening had completed five docks;
and had it not been for the
high winds which prevailed yesterday
which shifted the boat so much as to make
it difficult to work they would undoubt.
edly have completed the sixth dock by
last evening, This Is considered fast
work, and as the men doing the work are
all regular employees OF the boat, they are
doing the work for about one>third what
it would cost il she was compelled to hire
outsiders.
The Republican OF yesterday says
Captain Pegram and Clerk Channey
go down to the Howard this evening
At p. m. yesterday the purchase of til,
James Howard was not contaminated
......The lighthouse steamer Alice vii
leaye Tor Cairo to-day.....".Nels Upland
cook of the Silver Lake, was drowned il
the Upper Missouri last week. He wa
cleaning the deck near the cook house
when he slipped and fell and was seei
struggling in the river. Not knowing
how to swim, he sank to the bottom
The Dora Cabler for Evansville; jim
Fisk for Paducah; Gold Dust, Futur,
City and barges are due to-day
Pilot Stephen Mcbride, who represen'
ted Cairo in the Pittsburg convention o
river men returned home day before yes
terday. The jim Fisk brought yer,
: nice trip from Paducah yesterday an,
will be on hand to-day again to leave TO
Paducah promptly at . o'clock.
From the Cincinnati Commercial:
"WHEELNG, w. Va, Oct. 2.-About
, O'Clock this afternoon the little steamer
Comfort, en- route from Wheeling TO Mari
eta exploded her boilers four miles be
, low Moundsvillc. Capt. kirkebrlde, thu
! owner of the boat; Pilot Umsetter, and ,
passenger named Soupless, from Suniish
were killed. The wounded are Rev. Mr.
Baker, Pittsburg, Andy Harrison the mat
/, John Landmesser, and several passenger
whose names have not been ascertaned
There were about twenty passengers OF
: board, several of whom are missing
D The Comfort was a small packet that hat
@ been chartered to carry the Unite,
States mails to Marietta, the regula
packet being unable to run on acconn
4 of the low water, and this was her frs
= trip. She. lett the city at 1880 a. IN
|, The cause of the explosion Is unknown
|. The engineer claims that, here was plent.
: of water In the boilers"