The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-06-13

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disciplinarians; but their general average
was 50 good, that we feel constrained to ex-
tend to them The BULLETINS hearty COM
mendation.
The Cairo and st, Louis railroad COM
pany is substituting new ties for the old
ones, and getting the track in very good
condition, along the whole route. The
present management promises to work out
the complete success of the Narrow gauge,
despite the difficulties it has had to con
tend with. The road is economically
managed, and the steady increase of pat
ronage indicates friendly feeling on the
part of the people along the route, as we'll
as a healthy development of the country.
The wind performed rather a queer
prank in Buder's jewelry store. Finding
its way into the front door it formed an eddy
or whirl-wind in the show window, and hus.
tied the contents of the window about in q
manner that betrayed an utter attempt for
consequences. The various articles, some of
them broken and otherwise damaged, were
finally collected in corner, where the
playful breeze, as if irritated at its inabil-
ity to further move them, gave them a
splteful diff and then subsidized. The dam
age sustained by Mr.. Builder was not seri-
Gus.
From Mr.. Sam Steele whose hermitage
is In the shady interior of Pulaski county,
we learned, yesterday, that the storm of the
night previous played havoc with the
wheat crops Some fields have been COM
pletely fattened, and the heads being full
there is no probability that the grain will
regain a perpendicular. AS one of the
consequences it will be impossible to intro
duce reaper. and even a hand-cradle will
be used to great disadvantage, if it can be
used at all, Mr.. Steele says the crop OF
wheat is certainly the finest ever grown in
Pulaski county.
Last fall one of our physicians pre-
dicted that we would have no yellow
fever in Cairo, this year; but that there
| would be considerable sickness in the way
of bilious fevers, bilious diarrhea, and
probably cholera. The prevalence of dlar-
rhea at this time is undeniable, and to that
extent the prediction has been verified
There is also considerable bilious fever
Should the cholera come, by and by, we
will then have full veritication of the
prediction. But better all the ailments
named, although of double their present
vlrulcncc. than half dozen cases of yell
| low fever.
Five or six small boys assailed Ger
man teamster yesterday. and pelted him
quite vigorously with clods and every other
sort of missile that was conveniently &C
cessible As this was the second or third
time the German had been attacked in like
manner he leaped from the wagon and made
after the boys. Young Whitaker was
among the boys, but as he had thrown no
clods, he didn't feel called upon to run
with the others, and stood his ground. The
irate German believing Whitaker guilty,
jumped upon him and thumped him quite
severely. The real culprits escaped punish
ment altogether.
The Fisk and Champion left Paducah,
yesterday morning, and both of them are
credited with vary respectable running
ability. The Champion proved herself the
swifter boat however, as she made more
landings than the Fisk, and is credited
with from twenty to twenty-five minutes
the advantage on her arrival at Cairo. We
hope the commanders of both boats will
soon appreciate the necessity for getting
along with the least possible amount of
racing. If they manage to get along with
out any they will hear no remonstrances
IRON their patrons.
The wind and storm of Wednesday
night seems to have swept over a large
scope of country, causing more or less dam
age everywhere. AT Mound City the TIN
roof of the Union block was turned up like
a scroll-at least Sam Steele says So and
the woods and orchards in every direction
tell OF fierce brcezes. In the leveing of
the uncut wheat the farmers Of the county
suffered the most serious injury. A portion
of the roof Of Leo Kleb's building, in the
block ut the corner of Twelfth and Com
mercial in this city, was torn off; one Of
the wharf-boats was blown quite tightly on
the bank the NJ. G. transfer towboat was
blown aground and had to be tugged off,
and considerable commotion was created
among the shipping generally but owing tc
the direction of the wind there were no Sc.
rious mishaps at the landing.
We have watched the st. Louis papers