The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-10-06

ally subject to these crazy fits, but when
they do come upon her, she is entirely IN
conscious of what she does and apt to dc
serious injury to property and life. She
should be sent to the asylum for the
insane.
The News persists in laying upon the
shoulders of Providence all the blame that
Mr.. Nellis has incurred through his wilfull
failure to carry out his engagements with
the city. 1t attempts to deceive the people
by shifting the responsibility for the pres
ent incomplete state of Eighth street, from
Mr.. Nellis onto the governor of all, and
by drawing the public displeasure that
rests Justly upon the head of the man who
signed the contract with the city council,
upon that OF the Supreme Being This is very
convenient, and has ever been rcsorted to by
persons who could not justify their actions
before the bar of public opinion. But in
this case, as in most all other, this dodge
will not work. Providence does not shield
Mr.. Nellis against the accusations Of his
own conscience and of the stern facts. 1t
is known that, at u certain season OF the
year the Ohio river is too low at the chain
to permit the largest boats to pass over it,
and it is also known that when the OHIO
river falls above here il is bound to fall
here in the course of a certain time. This is
established by experience, and it is all that
we need consider in this discussion Pro-
violence has done this season only what 1t
does every season, and what Mr. NeIlls
must have foreseen it would do as did
others, who urged him to bring down the
gravel that his contract with the city dc.
handed he should bring down. The News is
mistaken when it says that I'VE are troubled
because Providence has seen fit not 10 favor
our CITY," We are not, like the editor OF the
News, complaining against Providence, but
we place the responsibility where it nightly
belongs. The fact is Providence has
thrown no barrier whatever in the way oil
Mr.. Nellis; for the water has been, and
is even now, high enough to permit Mr.
Nellis to bring good-sized barge, loaded
with gravel, over the chain and land it at
our wharf Hence it is not only ridicu-
lous but grossly unjust to charge Mr..
Nellis' wilfull neglect to supernatural pow
er, and our neighbor with the quill may
rest assured that the people know whom
to blame for the existing state Of affairs and
will not be mislead by his sopListry. The
News admits that Eighth street is in bad
condition and needs repairing, but says
that it was no better before the hard crus.
was taken off; that other streets need
gravel as much as it does, and that if the
council had decided to place gravel on
Ninth street, the merchants on Eighth
would have had to be satisfied. Strange
reasoning this for man of good com
mon sense. Does the fact that
the street was bad before
the city council decided to improve it, or
that other streets need gravel so much as
it does, OF that IF the council had decided
to have Ninth instead of Eighth street
erayeled-ioes any of these things, or all
of them together absolve Mr.. Nellis from
the obligations to the city incurred by him
when he placed his signature upon the
legal document known as his contract with
the city, What if the street WAS in bad
condition before Mr.. Nellis signed the con-
tract to furnish material Tor its improve
mentl What if other streets DO need
gravel as much as does Eighsh street,
What if the council COULD have decided to
improve Ninth or any other street instead
of Eighth street, What has all this to do
with the FACT the stern. immutlble fact
that the city council DID decide 20 gravel
Eighth street; that Mr.. Ncllis DID bind
himself to furnish the necessary gravel;
that he COULD have furnished il long ago
and can furnish it now, but that he FAILED
to perform his duty, and that in consc-
quence of such failure the residents along
Eighth street must suffer pecuniarily and
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