The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-10-22
The following facts were communico.

Jennie Colwcll caught skiff, Monday
morning, in the river opposite widow
Dickey's farm. The skiff contained one
trunk, chopping axe, a blanket, coffee
pot, tea pot, stove pot, bucket, lamp,
several other articles not worth mentioning.
The skif was good one, with chain, pad
lock and iron row-locks. AS soon as the
skiff was taken in charge, one Richard
Johnson took the trunk out of il, and car
ried it across the river into Missouri. Mrs.
Anna Rush. who lives in Missouri, says she
saw Johnson assisted by man named Sny-
der, open the trunk, and take thereform
large law-bound book, considerable
quantity of Golden Rule tobacco and other
articles of value; and further our cores
pondent saith not. Now the question
arises, who owns or owned the stiff and
what has become of him9 Did he get
drunk and tumble overheard, or has he been
knocked in the head, and disposed of in
that mannerl The matter is one that
should excite inquiry.
"A greasy looking lndividuaLstopped on
one of the switches that are in active use, in
the Illinois Central yard, yesterday after
noon, and, oblivious of the fact that the
makeup engine had started two or three
empty cars down the track, stood deeply
absorbed with the contents of his pocket
wallet. A bystander called to him. and
then yelled at him, but all to no purpose
lie stood still until the bumper gave him a
punch in the back and nearly knocked him
over. He then realized that he was in the
way of something, and didn't stand very
long on the order of his going, but "got out
of that" with lopes that would have meas
ured about eleven feet. Like narrow cs-
capeS Of both man and beast are Of very
frequent occurrence, in that locality. Hogs,
in passing under or crossing ahead of on
moving cars, are scraped so often by the
phlanges of the wheels, that they begin to
regard the familiarity as an insult to be re-
sented with a whisk of the snout. Next TO
the Cairo youngsters who Chamber on and
| Jump off passenger trains that are making
ten miles an hour, these hogs are the most
reckless creatures that frequent the railroad
yards.
THE individual who docs not frequent
our freight depots and railroad yards, has
no just conception of the magnitude OF the
rchandIing and rcshipping business transac-
ted here. The carrying capacities Of all
the roads seem taxed to their utmost. The
intcrchanging products of the North and
South, meet and pass here in volume that
would seem almost incredible if brought to
the comprehension of the mind by being
reduced to pounds or tons Or bushels Two
or three switch, makeup or utility engines
are constantly on the move in the Illinois
Central yards, pulling and pushing. loaded
and empty cars hithcr and thither, creating
roar, din ana confusion that are utterly
bewildering to those who have not learned
to close their ears to them. Car loads and
an. frain loads of cabbagcs, coal oil and
cotton-sccd OIL cotton and cattle, timber
and merchandise, grain, hay, hardware,
machinery-everything that enters into the
ooo,unrrcn Of tho NIicei1-;nni vallo, IN, Ln
seen awaiting transit, in quantities vast al
most beyond belief. The spectacle
presented is one that cheers, 1t is partial
fslhlment, at least, OF the predictions of
those who through times that tried the
faith of the most hopeful, insisted that man
would sooner or later conspirc with nature,
to render Cairo the great commercial entire
pot and emporium Of the lower Mississippi
valley.
How are we to rid the city Of the high
way robbers, the cracksmen, thieves and
dcad-bcats that are known to iniest the city |
The Glow down" cracksmcn who break into
smoke houses, kitchens and family grocer
les, and carry of meat and flour and such
booty, are domiciled with their families in
our midst, and need excite but little apprc-
hension; but the villains who seize the cit-
zen on the street, choke him into silence or
knock him scnselcss with a sand bag, and
then lcisurcIy rifle his pockets Of all vaIu
ablcs-thcsc and the scientific cracksmcn
who, with saws and files and skeleton keys
essay entrance into stores and the homes Of
wcllto-do citizens, are strangers in the land,
who have been schoocd TO their calling in
the larger cities. These are the fellows to
be feared yet what security from assault
has the citizen whose business takes him
abroad after night-fall! The pair Of po-
licemen in either end Of the city, are utter
y powcrless to prevent such outragcs. All
of the policemen are industrious and watch