The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1878-12-12
DAILY CAIRO BiILErIN THURSDAY 70 1875

DelnB luillisncu Will HO iess tnuu BLK ut-
tachmcnts for hose, so placed as to render
successful fire, on any portion of the boat
or ncighboring bank, an impossibility. The
new pump is known as the Worthington
Duplex steam pump, and is placed on the
larboard side of the boat. On the star
board side is n Cameron pump. Both
pumps are so arranged that by changing
the valve, pumping may be done from
either the hold Of the boat or the river.
Wherefore, in so far rs pumps are con-
cerncd, the McComb is "all right
Whenever you meet business or pro-
fessional person, male or female, who seeks
to build himself or herself I'D by tearing
down their competitors, keep your suspic-
ions of that person constantly alive, for he
or she, will not do to rely upon. The pub
lie is learning that the person who seeks
patronage and cannot base his or her claims
for it on the merits of their wares, tangible
or mental, that the individual who cannot
do this, is no special loss to the community
if he or she is compelled to seek another
field of operations. The professional who
elbows his own horn" is almost invariably
fraud; but the professional who not only
cxalts himself but seeks to belittle and
scandalizc his competitors is not only
fraud and mischief maker; but curse upon
any community upon which he may inAict
himself, If anybody who studies this
'lesson in philosophy feels himself hit
all right, He is the individual at whom
we are aiming, and one Of the class that
needn't seek an apology for, while we
have large assortment of apologies on
hand, we have none that are applicable TO
that class, separately or collectively.
Our Vincennes neighbors are alarmed
They have learned that really ingenious
people can build railroads in the west with
out making Vincennes the objective point.
Fortified by the conviction that the road
MUST come there, in any event, it was but
indifferent encouragement that the city gave
to the builders of the c. & V. road, or, in
fact, to any Of the roads that are now giving
it business prominence. But the position
Of the city is not as all-powerful as it
seemed to be, and the property holders of
the place have been brought to the consid-
Grafton Of an ugly combination, that
promises to divert from that city very con-
siderable portion of the stream Of travellers
that pour thitherward over the c. e. V.'The
facts that agitatc that people just now, are
these: The proposed consolidation of the
Paris, Danvlle and Vncennes road with
the Cairo and Vincennes the connection to
be made on the Illinois side of the Wabash,
and the iron 10 be laid on the bed already
Francisvile. This will open up through
route from Cairo and points farther south
direct to Chicago, that will leave Vincennes
entirely out of sight. Another ugly com
bination, from Vincennes standpoint, is
this, that the indianapolis and Vincennes
road is to effect a consolidation with the In
diana end of the Cairo and Vincennes road,
and then to run through trains from In
dianapolis to the Junction of the three roads
at st. Francisville where union hotel is
to be built, union machine and repair shops,
and other buildings, grand and costly, and
magnificent alike in appearance and pro-
portions And this is where 1.-THE shoe
pinchcs' st. Franclsyiile, Illinois,
and not Vinccnnes, Indiana, is
to be benefited by the proposed
consultations and the latter is determined
that this shall not be- if she can muster the
means to prevent it. These will involve
the construction of another bridge across
the Wabash, and the building of new
road to a convenient point on the p. y. and
V, road To do this will require an outlay
Of money that Vincennes, rich as she is,
Will scarcely furnish.