The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-08-05
On las, Sunday Mr.. T. e. Clark, late

i"i'oau NJ tnls point, went 10 NlnceDneb
for the purpose of settling up his business
with the road at that end of the line,
preparatory to taking his permanent de-
parture for st. Paul, Minnesota. Upon his
arrival there he found that there was more
to do than he had expected and that very
agreeable surprise awaited him. He was
Immediately taken in charge by
the employees OF the road at Vinccnnes,
escorted to special train, and brought
back to point about seven miles this side
of the city, where, in a beautiful grove,
surrounded by nature, wildly beautiful,
and by the smiling faces of many friends,
he was banquetted in grand style. Long
tables were spread gorgeously with the best
things that the markets, the confcctionaries
and the skilled hands of willing cooks could
furnish and Mr.. Clarke was invited to
partako of farewell meal with his friends.
Before being permitted to do so, however,
he was presented with quantity of gold
coin by the employees of the road as evil
dence of the high esteem in which they
held him. The presentation speech was
made by Congressman Cobb, of Knox coun-
ty, Indiana. During his stay in this city
Mr. Clarke and his estimable wife made
l,,nplo hn mill min h,u han
queters of Vincennes in wishing them eve
ry good Mr. Clarke has now departed
for his new quarters at st. Paul, MINI.
where he occupies the position OF train
master of the Chicago, ST. Paul & Omaha
railroad, which is eight hundred miles in
length. He is succeeded here by Mr. w.
|. Allen, OF Toledo, OHIO until recently
connected with the Texas Pacific railroad.
-Cairo's last rain, not counting the few
drops of yesterday evening, was on Sunday,
June 2Sth, when, it will be remembered,
Thomas Clark's blacksmith shop, on Thir-
teenth street, was struck by lightning.
Since then the people of Cairo have been
compelled to depend upon the rivers and
cisterns for water. The result of this to
streets and gardens that are not sprinkled
and to property generally is known
to those who are here to see
and can easily be guessed by those who are
not. But, being human, the people Of
CAIRO find some consolation in the fact that
they do not alone suffer from what appears
to be and what certain great half
would term "a want of proper management
on the part of the eternal mover of the
heavens" for from every part OF the state
come the cries and prayers for rain. Salem,
Ills, says that it is time to pray for rain ;
that there has not been drop of water
from above for six weeks and that stock and
man alike are suffering At st. Joe the
farmers are becoming uneasy about the
corn crop and if rain does not tall within
very few days, over half the crop will be
lost; Pana, Ills, must have rain within ten
days or there will be neither hay nor corn !;
at Clinton all crops are suffering severely
and at Decatur pasturing is being ruined
by the blazing sun. In Kentucky and
Missouri similar condition of affairs pre-
walls. Such weather suggests forcibly the
necessity of water works for Cairo. The
time has certainly arrived, when this sub
ject merits the serious attention of men
with few thousand dollars which they
would invest probably. Not less than q
thousand families in the city are dependent
upon the rivers for great part of the water
they use, and the greater number of these
would not hesitate to patronize a stand
pipe if one were erected in the city. A
few thousand dollars invested would here
as it does elsewhere, bring the investors
liberal revenue.
Grove, the Peoria manufacturer of the
dynamite medicines which were sent to
Liverpool some time ago has been interview.
cd and he has created quite furror innews-
papers by his utterances. BY the descrip-
ton he gave of the machines in question it
is evident that he is intimately acquainted
with them, and the reporter who interview
cd him is satisfied that he is the man who
made them. He said the machines we're Of
zinc interior, in which the clock. work
and explosives were packed. The clock
work operated with spring, and after six
days running, it liberated hammer some
thing like a gun trigger, which struck a
percussion cap and iguited the charge.
The charge consists OF an ounce and half
of the illuminate of silver and II pound and
h.lfof dynamite, and would destroy the
largest block OF buildings in the world.
The whole thing weighed forty-fve pounds
England, did not conduct an honor
able warfare herself, and could not expect
Others to do 50. It she did not do Justice
to Ireland every English ship would be sent