The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1878-11-17

haNc' N'NiIH wv year I'usl, Iprlolncu
greater amount Of work than at first SCENE,
possible, without eXhausting the appropria
ton.
We thought we had, inthe wormy negr,
from Kentucky, something So unusual an,
marvellous that the physicians would rrlsl
10 THE BUn.rLlN office in trcnzicd squa,
To learn further particulars. But inquiry
has assured us that Jenkins is not the orig
inal and only case" 4 colorcd man named
Callahan, a resident of Cairo, has, for sew
cral years, been afflicted with worms in hi,
flesh, many of which he had removed
through incisions in the skin. His case is
not quite as aggravated as Jenkins but he
Is, nevertheless, very wormy,
The report that gained currency yes.
terday evening, to the effect that Dr. j..
Sullivan had died during The afternoon,
proved unbound; but, perhaps, only prcma-
turc. At dark, last night, he was lying
very low, the chances seeming to be all
against his recovery. After an indisposi-
ton, more or less severe. Of several DAYS
duration, he took to his bed on Monday
night, last, his disease being pronounced
bilious diarhea, complicated with other
ailments. An attack of bloody fuX
followed, and of this eXhausting and dan
gerons disease was he suffering last evening
Scores, nay hundreds, of northern de-
iaulters, rascals and fugiiives from Justice,
made their way south during the prevalence
! of yellow fever, and sent back word that
the saffron -hued terror had gathered them
| to their fathers. 1t was not difficult mat
ter for such creatures 10 get their names in
the death lists, and not few of them got
there honestly. But scores of the mscals
who, but for the belief existing that they
are dead, would be hunted out and brought
north in handouts, are, with changed
names, laughing over the success of their
ruse, and having bully times, and plenty
of them. But there will be a raking-in of
these shrewd fellows, before the lapse of
many weeks mOre-mark it,
1t is a noticeable and very annoying
fact that nearly everybody who rides or
drives along Commercial avenue from Tenth
to Twelfth streets is beset by a pack of
barking, Swapping, yelping dogs. They
come from all quarters, big bass-yoiccd
hounds and bull dogs, cOntralto mastiffs and
piccalo flee" and poodlcs-a perfect drove
OF them, and each striving to surpass the
other in the volume of his noise and the
pcrsistency of his attacks. II is exceedingly
annoying TO the persons thus attacked. and
may, in case women and children are TINS
beset lead to most serious and smentabe
accidents. Can't our city authorities. who
are supposed to have care for the safety of
our citizens, abate this noisy and most exas-
perating nuisancei
On the 18th day OF November, 1858.
flying the motto "We have come to stay"
the river-splitting little steamer, Charley
Bowen, completed her first trip in the Cairo
and Evansville trade 1t was an expert
ment-the running of the Bowen was, and
grave misgiyings of Capt Dextcr's ability
to support himself were generally entertain
ed and expressed openly. But the old man
persevercd, stuck to his motto, and through
discouragcments and besctments that would
have driven less determined man from the
river, he laid the foundation for q packet
trade that is, to-day, scarcely second to any
on the Ohio river. In the place Of the little
stern-whec' Bowen, VIZ now have paatial
side-wheclcrs, equal in speed, magnticencc
and completeness of appointments, to anyon
or either river; and what is more and better
the character of the trade demands them
We now have it that the epidemic that
created such havoc among the citizens of
Hickman, WAS not yellow fever; but some
nameless disease that owes its origin to the
peculiar composition Of the soil, and the
towns defective drainage The milk sick
ness which claimed 50 many victims there,
about fifteen years ago, IS said to be ascrib-
cd to the same cause. As to the first pruposi-
ton we don't believe a word oft Hickman
has the very best Of natural drainage and
if the soil is chargcabc for all the dreadful
work Of 1873, why is it that the present
is the first visitation Of the kind ever
known The soil has been the same, and
if heat is an essential agency in the produc-
ton Of the disease, why did thecity escape in
1867 and other years, when the tempera-
ture ran up to fever heat, in the shade?
These are stumbling blocks in the way of
the "soil theory" that are insurmountablc.
McCracken and other counties in Ken
lucky, initiating the example of Alexander
county, impoverished themselves by voting
aid to railroads. The first named county
voted three hundred thousand dollars to the
Paducah and Els2abethtown road, and has
regretted it ever since. But this sum, vast
as 1t was, didn't seem to satisfy the cormo-