The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-08-14
. The ouichita Belle Ia portion of whose

| crew g0t asnoie Nv Diei'P"io, NeeiaiihS th"'
they'd rather face the yellow foyer in Mem
phis than starvation in st. Louis is lying
at the bank above the city, opposite the
trussel work of the c. & V. A report got
abroad yesterday morning that she had
three cases of yellow fever on board, and
as some of our citizens had began to regard
the Belle as a very Porter, the report found
quite number that gave it crcdence. To
determine the matter Officer Schuckers
mounted a horse, repaired to the boat made
search and found the mate, the cook and
one SLOUGH These were all the persons
on board, and they were at work, hearty
and hardy Outof this same report grew a
second report that the fever had made its
appearance in the Fifth ward.
The railroad strip, from Fourteenth to
Fourth street, is and always has been an
| eye-sorc and an abomination. 1t has been
depository for all the boxes, crates,
rubbish and debris Of the buildings that
skirt it on either side, Ito say nothing of
the stables, hog and calf pens, piles of sta
bic refuse, etc., for many years. AS the
city has $1,000 in the treasury, derived
from the sale Of portion Of the strip to
the c, &V. railroad company, the propo-
sition submitted by the Finance Commit
tee to the last meeting of the council,
| that the 81 900 be used in the improve
mcnt, of the strip, is one that should be
adopted and carried out. Use sixty feet
of it as a street, and sell twenty feet on
either side, or forty feet on one side, to the
owners of the abutting property, and but a
short time will elapse before it will be
changed from the nuisance that it is, to
| thrifty business Avenue.
We received call, yesterday, from j.
Taylor Brent, au enterprising representative
Of the widely known ST. Louis provision
house of +. Tiedman q Co. Mr.. Brent had
Just completed two months tour through
out the nelghborng portions Of Illinois,
Kentucky, Missouri and Tennessee, and
gives it as his opinion that such crops as
have blessed and will bless the labors of
the husbandmen this year, were never be-
fore known in this country. The wheat
crop has been success everywhere, and
such corn can be found nowhere else in the
world. The farmers of Southeast Missouri
calculate upon an average of seventy
bushels to the acre, and Southern Illinois
is scarcely behind Missouri. The tobacco
looks fine, and the success of
the potato onion and other veget-
able crops is a marvel to everybody but the
cultivators themselves. Mr.. Brent sees no
reason why the coming year may not be
one of great abundance, and Of unusual |
business prosperity among all classes.
The rivalry between the steamers
Champion and Fisk has passed beyond the
point of business competition, and reached
that ofill-natured contention and Litigation. |
The attempts at bullying have been few,
and always, as they should have done,
operated to the disadvantage of the party
making the attempts. How the issue joined
before the United States commissioner will
terminate, remains, of course for future
determination. The Champion complains,
we hear, that the Fisk, on one or more oc-
casions, had backed out across her bows,
without giving the required signal, and had
been guilty of other violations of the nayi-
CATION laws. The Champions testimony
was taken, in part, at least, on Tuesday,
The Fisk was expected to come in with her
showing of the matter yesterday, What
that showing is we have not been advised;
but can well imagine, as result of both
showings, budget Of very bewlldering
complications But let the matter
tclIllllulc us IL HluN, ScuSlDlc |
people will commend the means of settle.
ment the Champion has invoked. A resort
to siXshooters and bludgeons would meet
universal condemnation and, as we have
already intimatcd, would deservedly damn
the guilty party The law is equal to the
adjustment OF every difficulty that can arise,
Acts Of violence can adjust nothing
Since the only hope of mastery over
the yellow fever IN Memphis, is hinged |
with the ability of the authorities to depop-
uatc the city, the refusal of the 10000
negroes now there to go into camp where
they will oe fed and cared for at public eX-
pcnse, presents problem that can be solved
only in two ways. One, Of these is to with
hold Northern charity, and starvc them
out; the other is resort to compulsory
measures a. d. Langstaf, President of
the Howard Association, in recent dis,