The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1878-09-05
THE TOPIC.

THE HICKMAN SCARE GROWING BEAUTIFULLY
LESS AND SMALLER BY DEGREEs-THE
COLUMBUS STORY A LIE MANUFACTURED
OUT OF THE WHOLE CLOTH-A DAY OF
SENSATIONAL REPORTS.
The story that there were three cases
at the hospital yesterday is without the
slightest foundation in fact. and it was
throttled before it had time to travel far.
Nothing that can be said will entirely
undo the work of the sensation mongers,
for it is said that lie will travel league
while truth is putting its boots on, but we
repeat what every man, woman and child in
this community ought to know to be a fact
there is no fever here of any kind to speak
of-ycIow, bilious or otherwise. Our
country friends can rely on this as being
absolutely true.
A gentleman who came TO town yester-
day, says that along the line of the Narrow
Gauge road it is currently reported that six
and seven deaths occur daily in Cairo, and
that the citizens keep itquiet by going out
masque, n the solemn stiffness of the
night, just as the moon is paying its last
devoirs to earth, and planting whatever of
its departed worth is ready for the services
of an undertaken 1t is strange, that such
silly stuff as this finds credence among
sensible people, but it is unfortunately too
true.
The reports concerning the fever at
Columbus created a lively breeze for a
while, until it was found that they were Ut
tcrly destitute of truth The Sun gave cur
rency to these reports, although denial
Of them was being freely
circulated at the time. But
it probably had expended all its enterprise
in snatchng up every groundless rumor,
and had none left for the other side Of the
question. A half dozen kilograms from
Columbus are alike in saying that not only
was there no fever there, but the town was
never known to be healthier.
In all probability the rumor will be on
the street to-day that the fever has broken
out at Birds Point and it is as well per-
haps to take time by the forelock and ex
pose the canard in advance. There has
been one death across the river, but it was
from exposure superinduced by a congestive
chill. There is another case of chills
in the neighborhood and that
is all the sickness known
to exist there. 1t was seriously asserted
over there by an alarmed person yesterday
that when the doctors run across case Of
yellow fever they administer a dose that
settles both the patient and the disease, and
that this was done to get the case under
ground and out Of the way as soon as posi-
bic. That fellow ought 10 come over here
and secure a position on the twilight organ
of the bulld9zers--the fellows who will
have the fever here whether it comes or not.
Mr. Matt. Fulton told us last night
that he had tecgraphed to his father at
Hickman yesterday morning about 10
o'clock and had waited anxiously for a
reply all day, but IN vain. His experience
was the experience Of all Others who at
tempted to get information from there over
the wires and the stories published and
current on the streets to the effect that news
had been received from thcre-any news of
any kind---werc pure inventions to brighten
the weak and timid. There was absolutely
no reliable information received in this city
from Hickman yesterday, and the silence
there is unaccountable. Some attributed
il to desire on the part Of the authorities
TO await decision from DR.. Blackburn
before hcralding to the world the
nature of the disease, while others con-
tended that the whole thing was the result
Of fright produced by u sickness that under
ordinary circumstances would have excited