The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-09-08

The body of a colored child in cigar
box was found by negro named George
Washington under the sidewalk on Twelfth
street, near Railroad street. Washington
was assisting City Engineer Charles Thrupp
in making survey and while clearing the
ground to drive stake the box was dis
covered. Apparently the child had been
dead about three days and was therefore
in state of decomposition. The body
bore no marks of having been foully dealt
with yet there is some ground for the belief
that an investigation by the officers will re-
veal some ugly facts.
The number OF deaths which have oc.
CURED in Paducah within the last week or
ten days ought to have the tendency to
alarm the people thereabouts; for while it
may not prove a natural unhealthiness ofthe
city, it may be the result of neglect on the
part of the health officer. Five persons
died there on the first two days of this
week-two on Sunday morning and three
on Monday morning, and of three cases in
which the "News" assigns the cause OF
death two of them were fever. 1t is proba-
bly, safe to assume that one OF the other
two cases, in which the cause OF death is
not given it was also tever, so that out OF
five deaths in two days three resulted from
fevers. Strict sanitary regulations is what
Paducah seems to lack.
Tuesday morning Chief Myers received
dispatch from Vienna, Ills, sent by a
man signing himself "deputy marshal"
asking him to arrest party consisting of a
man, a woman, and young girl, who had
arrived here from Vienna the same morn
ing. The marshal found the
party after a short hunt, but,
suspecting that the dispatch was not author
ltative, telegraphed back to Vienna, asking
for official orders. A reply in the form of
Geographic order from Sheriff Allen, of
Vienna, to make the arrest was soon re-
ceived, and thereupon Chief Myers took the
party in question into custody, and notified
the sheriff from Vienna to call and get
them. The sheriff and posse Of four or
five deputies came down on the train on
Tuesday night, took charge
of the prisoners and lett with them yester-
day morning. The names Of the prisoners
are R. II. Kinney, Matte Hostetter, and
Alice Bowman. The two former are said
to be Of not the best repute and are charged
with having abducted the latter, who is
tolerably good looking girl of about four
teen years of age.
1t will require heavy work on nearly
all the streets in the city TO repair the dam
ages done to them by the teams which
haul dirt to fill up Railroad street, aud
it is urgent that the work of general re-
pairs commence very soon. The dirt
teams themselves find il difficult now
to drive through many OF the
streets because of the almost impossible
of the crossings. For this reason
they have gotten to using one cross street
after another, until nearly all of those in
the lower portion of the city are ia very
bad condition generally, and present some
obstruction somewhere that renders them
absolutely impossible. Deep ruts in the
middle Of the streets are entirely too com.
mon. They are 10 be seen in nearly every
unpaved principal street in the city and
serve to make driving in buggies and hacks
a positive torture. The planks of many Of
the crossings have been torn up and the
earth on either side OF the crossings has
been cut away until ruts from one to two
feet deep have been formed, into which
vehicles suddenly drop, endangering the
springs, wheels, etc and giving the occupants
a severe shaking up. Several teams should
at once be put to work by the street com
mittee to repair some Of the streets.
The city council Of Nashville, Tenn,
has passed an ordinance, requiring "drum-
mers" to pay 800 a year license, and a
penalty Of $50 is to be imposed for viola
ton of the ordinance. That's what may be
called protection run mad in the heart of
free trade country Suppose the city coun-
Gil Of Cairo were to pass a similar ordinance.
The result woud be, first, that many Of the
drummers who now come here would re-
main away and thus lessen the competition
in trade; second, that those who did come
here would be compelled to charge more
for theirgoods in order to make up for hay
ing TO pay the license would come indirect
ly out Of the pockets of our merchants
would be compelled to trade at home
with few who could afford to
buy large stocks, but who could not afford
a.