The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-08-25

employed, IN order, it Is supposed, to see
how TO place the muzzle Of the Smith s.
Wesson revolver he had taken from the
showcase for the purpose. He fingered
several hours alter he was shot.
AT the council meeting, Tuesday night,
a committee consisting Of Aldermen Pater,
Halliday and Blake, and Messrs. Pine and
Howley, was appointed to confer with Mr..
Daniels, who represents water workscorl
pany, of GAINESVILLE, Tenn, as to the terms
upon which water works could be establish
ed In this city. Mr.. Daniels proposes to
build and maintain water works in this city,
II the council will take so double hydrants
at 800 each, for the first year, and $50 a
year for each additional hydrant, and grant
him free right of way to lay water mains
throughout the city for thirty years. The
committee will take this proposition under
consideration and report TO the council at
its next meeting
The signal service department at Wash
ington has sent circulars out among all the
agents of the department in the country
requiring them to ascertain and report to
the department what practical
benefit is being derived from
the daily reports by the communities
in which the agents respectively reside,
1t is safe to affirm that while, in Cairo, the
reports are consulted by most people merely
to satisfy their curiosity, there are many
who put the information conveyed to them
to practical use. To river men and ship
pers the stage of the river at different
points for instance, is of practical benefit.
The weather reports, while not made so far
in advance Of the occurrence Of the changes
they predict as the reports of Vennor and
others, are more reliable and, if regularly
consulted, would and doubtless do, often
influence the movements of those who con
suit them. That this is the case in Cairo
will doubtless appear from the report that
Sergeant w. II. Ray will make to the de-
partment after diligent inquiry
The smartest railroad scheme ever
worked In the south has just come to light.
For months past Gen. John B. Cor
don, and his brother, Maj. Eugene c. Cor
don, and Walter S. Gordon, with Governor
Colquitt, have been projecting railroad
from Atlanta to Greenville on the Missis-
sippi river, and possibly to Texarkana In
consideration of promise on the part of
these gentlemen to build the road via Col
umbus and Aberdeen, Mississippi, Colum-
bus donated to them 100000 in bonds
Aberdeen 100000 in bonds, and Monroe
county, in which Aberdeen is, $4,000 in
bonds. In addition to this owners of rich
coal lands IN Alabama, through which the
road was to pass, donated to them 100000
acres. Not dollar Of capital has been
put in by the fortunate, but they have sim
ply punched these heavy donations with
the charter Of the Georgia Western Rail-
road owned by Ger. Gordon, and transfer
ed the whole to the Georgia Pacific Rail-
Dad Company, and will receive in return
S750000 and twenty-nine seventies OF the
100000 of subscription taken in the
Georgia Pacific. The subscription books
If the company will be opened at once, and
work upon the Georgia Pacific will be COM
nenced by the Richmond and Danville
Construction Company Immediately. Cen
,ral Gordon still remains president, but to
Major Eugene Gordon mainly belongs the
,redit Of working up the donation part of
he scheme. This master stroke has made
Governor Colquitt and the Gordons I'M
mensely rich men. The contract was let to
the construction company yesterday, and
Vic iOhN' Which VIII run iIou htlduld w
Texarkana, will pass through Bennington,
Ala, at Texarkana it will connect with the
Texas and Cairo narrow guage.
Many people seem to be under the i'm
preston that the city marshal and
the police Officers are in duty
bound to take care of such
as may come to the city IN a sick and help.
less condition. Those who think so are
mistaken. The ordinances of the city i'm
pose no such duty upon the police officers
But suppoSing that they did, what would
the officers do with such men as Montgom-
cry, who died in the hospital night before
LAST How could they care for any one, in
fact, who might need shelter when there is
not even such thing as police head
quarters in the cityG The little corner
which has been occupied in the Arab fire
company's engine house for several years as
police headquarters can not be turned into
hospital for the care of sick strangers
Besides, the officers are about to be de-