The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-10-21

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harness to the shore. These lie offered
for sale for thirty dollars. What DISPOSE.
ton he finally made of them, we didn't
learn. We only know that, with blind.
ness to consequences that seems ,nexplicable,
he made his way to Cairo and stopped here,
loating in public places, the better part of
two days. BY the Fisk yesterday Mr..
Stewart arrived in search of Richard, and
enlisting the aid of officers Schuckers and
Wooten, soon had him in charge. He is
NOW booked for about aten years job, under
state supervision.
MIR. T. J. Roberts is leading the oppo-
sition to the proposed county road, and
claims to have a substantial following. He
will muster his forces, on election day, and
hopes, with the known opposition in the up
per end of the county, to defeat the PROPOSE
ton then to be voted on, and, as a conse-
quence, knock the project itself in the head.
We shall not say that Mr.. Roberts will fail
of this purpose. He is very industrious,
and is the first to try the efficacy of public
meetings. We have talked with no business
man, however, who is opposed to the prof.
ect; but we have noticed an apathy that is
almost as damaging as open opposition.
When it is remembered that during an in
terval of from six weeks to three months
every year, not man, woman or child can
come into Cairo on foot, on horseback or in
wagons-when we remember that during all
that time, not single wagon load OF wood,
corn, straw, country produce or anything
else the farmer may have to SELL can reach
Cairo because all our wagon roads are I'M
| der water-when we remember all this, we
should be surprised indeed to hear that any
merchant or business man of the city stood
in an attitude of hostility to a highwater
road. 1t speaks rather i'll of our enterprise
that this great need was not supplied years
ago; but now that we have city of ten
thousand population; with scores of stores,
factories and industrial establishments rep
resenting every branch of business and in
dustry; now that we have accumulated
property worth more than five millions of
dollars, and valued for purposes of taxation
at nearly half that sum--now that all this
is true, to remain locked in by water for an
interval of weeks and months, every year.
would tell sOry of illlberalty and want of
enterprise thatnone of Us would care to have
repeated in the ears Of our rival neighbors,
or, for that matter, repeated anywhere.
In sinking the well at the corner of
Fourteenth and Poplar, Charley Newland
had some curious experience. At fifty-two
feet he struck an abundance OF water, but
as his tubing was 50 feet he concluded to
drive it all down In doing so he passed
below the waterlnto bed Of quicksand.
This stratum proved to be about IS feet in
depth Passing Trough it he struck bed
Of clay, and after going nine feet in this,
aud luding no signs Of water, he withdrew
the tubing to the SO mark where he let It
remain. Some time ago it was suggested
by a member of the Taxpayers association
that well be sunk in our city, with view
OF determining what this 81 feet drive has
determined only partially, l. G., the charac-
ter OF the strata to depth of two or three
bundled feet. The stratum of clay that
Newl,nd struck seventy-five feet below the
surface anti penetrated to depth Of nine
feet, is doubtless underlaid with rock. To
what depth that rock extends or what un.
derliesit, we shall never know, probably,
unless we find out by boring Centralia
experimental in that way, and at depth
of a hundred feet struck coal oil. Caro-
near the center of the A!eghany and
Rocky mountain dips, may be resting on
grand reservoir Of coal oil. Who knows!
\ couple of thousand dollars would enable
Us to determine all we'd care to know; but
where's the $4,000 to come FROM Two
hundred dollars would enable us to deter
mine pure, palatabe and healthy drinking
water is within reach, and that
matter, at least, ought to be determined; if
not by private individuals, then by the
Board Of Health
Cairo being the termni Of several rail
roads, and the halfway point on the great
railroad and water routes connecting the
North aud the South, it is quite natural that
it should become the temporary rendezvous
Of all the grades and kinds Of people that
bless and curse the earth. 1t is Of the lat
ter class we would speak, and il seems that
we are ncverwithout them, Women, gaunt
and ague.shaken; children in rags and rev.
cling in filth, reach Cairo from the MAS
matte bottoms Of Duck Creek, Tennessee,
and from every other God.forsaken quarter
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