The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-08-17

within the last few days fifteen
COWS had died in the town Of Harris
burg of this mysterious disease,
There has been no evidence Of any disease
among stock in this or adjoining counties,
but there is no telling what this COMPOUNDED
weather and the comets will yet bring
forth.
There continues to be much talk abou
the action Of Secretary Blaine in refusing
to inform the attorney of the Nihilist Leo
Hartmann what the action of this
government would be in case
the Russian government demand
cd Hartmanns' extradition' Those
who denounce the secretary for his refusal
to give the desired information are mostly
men who would support Hartman in any
devilish act, no matter how atrocious or
how Intellectual in the accomplishment Of
its purpose, if only that purpose were the
destruction Of the car However as there
are two sides to every other
question, so are there to this AS Hartman
admits his completely in the attempted
murder Of the car in 1879, it is hard to see
how Secretary Blaine could refuse the ex-
tradition if demanded on that ground alone.
But the case has its difficulties, for Hart
mann is also political refugee, and twill
be hard TO distinguish between Hartmann,
the assassin, and Hartmann, the Nihilist.
The methods of NIhllism are detestable
and it is, perhaps, not the only shape in
which popular resistance to the worst des-
potlsm the world ever saw, is allowed to
the subjects Of the car; butiwe are sure the
American people will never allow theirgov-
eminent to lend itself to the work Of sup.
pressing an honest instruction, by the ar
rest Of such of its agents as may have found
an ASYLUM in this land. Mr. Blaine would
probably be justified IN giving up the muir
derer, Hartmann, but he ought to improve
the occasion to inform the car, in friend
ly way, that he must not expect us to cap
ture his political criminals, without first al
lowing his subjects some suitable oppor-
tunity for reasonable political agitation.
Such an appeal might properly come from
this country, and the car ought not to take
it unkindly. Such communication might
easily be made one of the noblest state pa
pers" that ever emanated from Washington.
Fourteenth street, from Washington
avenue on, IS in fearful condition. Be-
veen the avenue and Walnut street, where
| &c has been newly filed, it is all out Of
shape, which fact may be attributed to sew
eral causes. First the earth used for the
filling is absolutely worthless for that pur-
pose. 1t is not earth at all; it is sort of
mongrell mixture of sand and some other
vicious substance, which has chronic ha-
bit Of being always one of two mean things
either mud or dust. There is no inter-
mediate state for this miserable stuff, hence
| tits next TO impossible to construct frm
mad bed out of it, even with the latest I'M
proved appliances. The other reason why
il is in its present condition Is, that soon
after it was completed, the street was OBJ
structed for days, and considerably defaced,
by men who moved house over it. Teams
going through the street were
compelled to run down one side,
in order to get by the house and thus the
street was badly cut up and the loose earth
spread all over the cutters before it had
chance to pack down, although it is likely
that, unlike Garfield, it wouldn't have
taken that chance had such been given)
On the whole it is not likely that the new
filing was in good condition, even appar-
emily, for Eve days after 1t had been left
for finished by the contractors and ii has
not yet been accepted by the street com
mltttee 1t ought not TO be. Further on,
beyond Walnut, the street is even in a
worse condition. There the reckless use Of
the public pump by the colored children
Of the neighborhood and the peculiar pro-
pensity Of hogs have played mischief with
the street The BULLETIN called attention
to this nuisance before, but the attention
has not been forthcoming, and in the mean
time the evil has been constantly
growing, until the street is almost entirely
impossible and the pump unapproachable
BY more than one team at time. A rut OF
from one to three feet in depth, two or four
feet in width, filled with mud and water,
extends from the pump to q distance Of not
less than forty or fifty yards disgonally
across the street and there is no liklyhood
that il will ever be permitted to
dry out but remain an unsightly
bad smelling disease breeding, wagon
wrecking, hog wallow, until the street COM