The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-09-23

civil organization are: Mr.. Richard Eng
fish, president; Mr. Mat Metzger, vice
president; Mr.. Joseph Dugan, secretary,
and Mr.. John f. English, treasurer. The
board of directors are Mcssrs. VIM.
McEwen, Patrick Dugan, Micheal Fitzger-
aid, and Joseph Mack Mr. VIM. Allen
Dewitt was elected sergeant at arms.
Speaking of the foolish critics OF the
late presidents physicians yesterdays st.
Louis Globe Democrat truthfully says: ut
is evident now, after a thorough examina-
ton, that nobody Numbered in the treat.
ment of the presidents case. 1t was we'll
handled from the beginning to the end.
Those "heroic" persons who have insisted
along that the ball ought to have been
sought and found, will be astonished to
learn, first, that the ball was doing no
harm; and, secondly, that it could not have
been extracted without killing the patient in
the process 1t ought to be great mltiga-
ton of the universal sorrow to know that
all that science could do in the case was
done, and that no mistakes were made"
Now that the last struggle is over and
the wounded man is at peace, and post
norton examination ofthe presidents body
has proved beyond doubt that the wound
was fatal from the very moment it was so
rudely made, those men and newspapers
who, without the least knowledge of medi-
cal or surgical science, cast slurs upon the
eminent men through whose patient and
skillful care the valuable life of the presi-
dent was prolonged through many weary
weeks, must feel ashamed of their cruel and
uncalled-for utterances. The latter the
newspapers should, even at this late day,
seek the first opportunity to retract their
slanderous criticisms, and those editors
in whose composition the spark of manhood
and conscientousness have not been vast
ed, will not fail to take the first opportu-
nifty to do this.
Speaking of the vast system of narrow
gauge railroad, which are now IN course of
construction from different directions to
Cairo, the Louisville Courier.J Journal, in its
last issue, says; "Narrow-gauge roads are
extending all over the country. The Pal
mer syndicate hope to have their road from
Waco, Texas, to Cairo, Illinois, in two years.
II is also proposed to build narrow. gauge
from Cincinnati to Cairo, with two branches
into Louisville, one from Scott county and
one from Clarke. With road from Cairo
INTO Texas, as free to Louisville as to st.
Louis, large quantities of Texas freight
would be sent by river to Cairo. Louis
vile is looking anxiously for connection
which will open Texas to her merchants. :"
The Courier-Journal expresses the very idea
that TIE BULLETIN expressed some time
ago, that large quantities of Texas freight
would be sent by river
to Cairo for reshipment by rail
to its ultimate restitution. Likewise large
quantities OF cotton and other merchandise
which can not find an outlet at New Or
leans because of the nations state of the
wharf hands, will seek its way by way of
the river to Cairo to, be distributed from
thence to the north and east Cairo, through
her many superlative advantages, is begin
ming to force itself upon the notice of rep
resentatlve commercial men of the great
south and west.
About fifty men and twenty teams are
at work on the embankment of the Cairo d.
st. Louis railroad above and below the new
levee, on the companys own ground. In
side of the new levee the embank-
ment has already been completed
from point near the edge of New Levee
street to what is known as graveyard ridge.
And outside the new levee, the embank-
ment has been commenced on the COM
pany's own ground at point just above the
extension of Washington avenue. The
petition before the council asks
for the right of way diagonally over this
extension Of Washington avenue outside of
the new levee, then over the new levee and
diagonally across corner of New Levee
street, for distance of about one hundred
and fifty feet. The company proposes to
do enough Of filling above the new levec, in
crossing the extension of Washington
Avenue, to render the passage over the
track by teams easy. Inside of the new
levee, the company will, if 80 required by
the council, fill up Levee street as far as
they purpose to occupy it, which IS for q
distance u one hundred and fifty feet, as
before stated. Leaving Levee street, the
company proposes to run its track on its
own ground along the inside of the Missis-