The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-08-20

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gan sinking rapidly and was soon dead.
Tanner was rot quite of age, but was an
industrious and worthy colorcd man.
The wisdom Of placing graveupon the
south side OF Eighth street during this ex-
tremely dry weather is questionable, upon
the ground that there is not sufficient
moisture to enable the gravel to
pack down and thus form firm road bed.
The little moisture that the gravel contains
when first spread over the stone pavement
will be absorbed within an hour afterwards
leaving only pebbles and dry yellow dust,
or sad, which work through the layer Of
small stone as through seive and disap-
pear from sight almost entirely. This is
the process by which the thin layer of
gravel placed upon the same side of the
street, on the Commercial avenue end, dis
appeared, until not pebble was visible.
Soon after the gravel had been placed upon
the north side Of the street heavy rain
fell upon it and the result is that the street
on that side is in an excellent condition
However, now that the work has been done,
it is well to make the best of it, If, in the
| absence of prospects for immediate rain,
the merchants on the south side will have
the newly graveled portion OF their street
well sprinkled, it is more than likely that
the work done and the material used will
| not be total loss as was the case with that
previously DONE
The disposition to criticise the physi-
aians who have given their best attention to
President Garfield since his prostratlon, is
not a very commendable one, to say the
least. Those who indulge in these criti-
cisms most, know least about the needs OF
the patient and have not the slightest
knowledge OF surgery or pharmacy They
are of the "smart Aleck" species, whose
chief occupation consists in the vain en-
deavor to impress the world with their own
profundity. Even many of the newspapers
have said some smart" things about one, or
another, or all of this distinguished corps
of professional gentlemen; and what the
newspapers have done has been done in a
more limited sphere by private people. II
the case of the President results fatally,
this carping end criticising is certain to in
crease. This is unfair. The physicians arc
all men of age, varied experience and high
professional skill and standing. They have
worked in concert and apparently in exact
harmony. They have had distinguished
patient. The eyes of the world have been
continually upoL their. Every motive has
contributed to induce them to do the very
best possible. If the President dies, it will
not be for lack of the very best treatment
human knowledge and skill could afford,
but in spite of these, We have yet to hear
physician who has kept himself acquainted
with the presidents case from the time he
was shot up to the present, and who has
watched closely the mode of treatment pur-
sued by DR.. Bliss and his associates,
express himself as dissatisfied Herewith
and speak in denuncistory terms of the
men in whose care the president has suf
fered so much. Some of the best physi-
clans in this city pronounced the wound
a necessarily fatal one on the second
day after it had been inflicted and they
have adhered to this opinion in spite of all
the hopeful kilograms that were sent from
the presidents bedside. If the president
dies even at this late day, their predictions
will be verified and 1t will be
only matter for wonder that he was kept
alive az lonu nc ha waa