The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-08-16

as had arrived in the city, yesterday morn
ing TO Island No. /, to inspect the hospital
boat. The party went down on the tug
Ariadnc, and, returning, they received on
hoard A member who had arrived by the
Illinois Central, and then made second
trip. There was general preliminary dis.
cussion of quarantine and sanitary mat
tiers, but up to that time, no formal action.
Col, Lowery, being in the city, enter,
tanned the crowd at Reform hall, last night.
in short, ringing address. There were
sixty or eighty persons present despite the
inclemency of the night, and what is rather
remarkable fact, fully one-half Of them
were strangers -Four names were added
to the pledge Rev. Mr.. Maxwell, the re-
formed Baptist preacher, to whom we al
luded in Thursdays paper. did not speak
last night, not being prepared as fully as he
could wish. He will address the club next
Friday night
A stranger, a large old-fashioned look
ing man, was in Cairo, yesterday, having
arrived two or three days previously, pro-
badly from some point south. There was
nothing strikingly peculiar about the man.
except that he was accompanied by very
small, ill-clad, barc-footed and bare-headed
boy, not more than five or six years old,
The little fellow was burdcned VIII a
bundle, all he could close his arms over,
and manifcstly too big load for such a
little boy. The pair excited considerable
remark; but the query: "Who are they"
remains unanswered.
Every now and then snail droyes OF
Texas cattle, crossing the Mississippi at
Cape Girardcau or Wizards landing, are
driven through Union county. To this
fact is ascnbcd the outbreak Of deadly
disease that RACES with singular viruenoe
among the Union county cattle of higher
grade. Several drovcs passed through last
month and the month before, and the
Jonesboro Gazette says the cattle all along
the route pursued, have become affected
with the disease. The Gazette demands a
rigid enforcement of the law.
The fearful inroads the yellow fever is
making among the colored people, who in
defiance of all suggestions and persuasoB,
persist in remaining IN Memphis, will serve
the good purpose, we hope, of assuring tie
obstinate creatures that their only safely
depends upon their early removal from tie
city. Thursdays report is apt to be repea-
ed, over and over again, un''l the 1900
blacks now in the city seek refuge in tie
ncighboring camps. Forty new cases, and
thirty of EN- among the negroes, is the r.
port and there is now no reason tor BE-
lieving that any Of the negroes will escape
who persist in remaining in the p'stsmt-
ten city.
The facts communicated to Walt by a
gentleman COLLECTED with tho eso--.--.',o"t
works here. serve to show that the work is
not only being performed in thorough
manner, but is making very satisfactory
progress. Since April last six thousand,s Six
hundred feet of foundation mattresses, Two
feet thick and seventy feet wide, have Dfen
nut down, at a cost not to exceed one dollar
per lineal foot Within another month the
reyetment Of the bank with stone, to the
length of the foundation, will he brought
to a point that would mark abuot SIXTEEN
feet on the gauge here in the OHIO. ''hc
section of mattress that broke away the
other day, and which our informant nag
nifcd into big thing, was in fact lpt a
trihc. 1t involved loss of less thM
hundred dollars.
The following named gentlemen con-
nectcd with the sanitary system of the
country were in consultation in this city,
and at Island No I, all day, yesterday. We
were unable yesterday evening, to obtain
full minutes OF the action taken, but Shall
cndeavor to do so to-day: Drs. }. ID.
Plunket, Tennessee; J. H. Rauch, Illinois;
Pinllncy Thompson, kentucky, Executive
Committee Sanitary Counsel of the MiSsis-
sippi Valley. DR.. II. Wa,dncr, President
of the Illinois Board Of Health; Dsr f. Il,
Duvol and A. A. Horror, Arkansas Board
of health; DR.. Daniel Gobcr, Hickman, Ky;
DR.. c. W. Francis, Health Officer st.
Louis; Drs. c. IT, Billings, Washington
City; r, W. Mitchell, Memphis; S. NJ.
Bemss, New Orleans; II. A, Johnson, Chi.
cago, of the National Board of Health
Alderman Linegar would have tho
council designate one of our justices of the
peace as the officer before whom all our
ordinance breakers should be taken for
trial lie would not, rs now, leave the