The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-10-09
AN INTERESTING LETTER FROM TIMoUR RE.
FERRTNG TO THE PUSH AND ENTER.
PRISE OF CAIRO.
CAIRn. Ill. October G. 1881.


Its an old song that "Away down in
Cairo this darky's bound to die" yet this is
not so far off or is this the most direful
and miserable a city of which the old song
was sung long, long ago. Amid all the
paraphasing Of SANDER, and hard words of
the passerby, Cairo il on the boom, and
when once one gets acquainted with its
worthy hospitable citizens, its position,
commanding as it does already and will do,
more SO as a place in the business world, as
center of commerce and manufactures,
all is not Just that has been said. 1t might
be asked wherein does this presumption
rest for truth we say take its railroads,
whose iron arms are reaching out to all
parts Of this great land of ours Already
they have three direct routes 10 tht
south and new one, the Texas narrow
gauge, now building, reaching far into the
sunny south, with its grand route and con-
nections to Chicago, to lakes and the east,
the Cairo & st. Louis and the Iron Noun
tain leading to the west, while with the
great Mississippi on the one side and the
placid and beautiful Ohio on the other
bearing upon their flowing waters steamers
grand and noble, why should not Cairo
stand forth, and not only vretend, but
claim position among the busy cities of
the Union? Cairo, to-day, with all the en-
comums of criticism an, h.rd tauDts pushed
upon it, is steadily on the progressive, and
is fast dissipating the hard and unjust de-
rsions so often given it. We have here
one of the finest and most complete hotels
in the country, 1.-THE Halliday" hotelried
by L, r. Parker, Esq, one OF the most ener-
getic and competent of landlords, just the
gentleman to give ecat and reputation to
so grand place of rest for the weary tray
elcr as we'll as the permanent boarder The
Halliday, owned and built by the enter
prisng firm of Halliday Brothers, fills the
want that so long has been one Of the mis-
erabIe features of Cairo. Your citizens
feel proud Of your ST. George, and Cairo
feels Justly the same in regard TO this ele.
giant hotel.
There has been, in the last three months
street railroad built, reaching from
Twenty-eight street to the depots in tn,
lower part OF the city, and already the sew
eral cars procured by the company are un
able to meet the demands Of the public
not beng able to transport the travel Il
will be a paying institution
Tue new elevator one Of the largest and
most complete of the kind in the west, will
be formally opened for business in few
weeks, and is another monument 10 the
credit of the ontcrprising capitalists that
arc seeking Cairo. With the branch man
ufactory of the Singer sewing machine com
many, the new oil mill now erecting, and q
| first class cotton press in running ORDER it
is no wonder that the rapid increase of
population is on the rush, and Cairo on the
grand wave of prosperity.
Evansville srcproscnted by several of its
old citizens, who have taken up their resi-
dence here. Captain c. T. Rudd, who is
agent for the Mississippi Central railroad,
has been here for a number of years, and is
a representative of one Of your Oldest and
most worthy families. II commands the
respect of all, as he has with energy ant
perseverance, worked his way to his presen
responsible position. In his employ ar,
several Evansville people, among whom |
Charlie Il. Phillips, whose great and worth
ambition Is shown by the talent in portal
paint. The other day in visit to his studi
your correspondent saw apicture of Judg
Fowler from his easel which was true