The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-09-01

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The maximum temperature for six
teen hours preceding three o'clock p. m.
yesterday, Washington .ime) were as fol-
lows, Chattanooga, Tenn, 81; Cincinnati,
Ohio, 81; Davenport, Iowa, SO; Dubuque.
Iowa, SO; Keokuk, Iowa, OF; Lacrosse,
Wis, 80; Leavenworth, Kas., o.; Louis
vile, KY, 80; Memphis, Tenn, 93; Nash
80; Omaha, Neb, 90; Pitts
burg, Pa, -; Shreveport, La, 90; st.
LOUIS, Mo-, So; st. Paul, Mimi, 80; Vicks-
burg Miss, 93 North Platte, Neb, IS;
Yankton, OAK, SO; Bismarck, Oak, -;
Dodge City, Kan, 90.
A Berlin engineer is said to have con.
stractcd an apparatus for train conductors
which, hung around the neck, completely |
manufacturers passenger tickets. They are
made before the eyas Of the wondering
public, and though the apparatus is said to
be of somewhat complicated construction,
its manipulation is as simple and easy as its
working is correct, for, should the operation
not proceed in the way required by the
mechanism, it will not print all the figures
and words wanted, but the word "Falsch"
(wrong) in the place where the faull was
committed. AT the same time this portable
printer checks the number of tickets is
sued, so that any gwen moment the money
in the hands of the conductor can be com.
pared with the value of tickets taken and
printed
The consolidation by Jay Gould of all
the elevators of st. Louis and East st.
Louis has been talked up informally among
the leading capitalists OF st. Louis, and
they all seem to possess but one opinion,
and that was in support Of tile proposition.
Jay Gould is known to possess a large ele-
vator interest held by his agents. Recently
he commenced the erection of 100000
bushel elevator at Carondelet at the side of
the Iron Mountain railroad, which is re-
ferred to as the "Gould elevator" The
movement will not take effect until the
building is completed, ready for operation,
When a meeting of the various presidents
will be called and, if possible, an organz-
alton perfected that will put the whole
elevator system under one management,
with capital of 100000. BY uniting
under one corporation, it is declared that
shippers will be better served, and the stor-
age room increased to more adequate pro-
portions than now exist. One or two new
elevators will be erected at East st. Louis,
30 that at no season of the year will ship
pers suffer any apprehension from over
crowding. In the meantime the
Illinois Central Railroad Company's
Caro- elevator will be completed and put In
operation to assist materially in preventing
the usual blockade Of grain between here
and the granor.es of the north, unless next
fall turns out t. be an exception in this
respect to former falls because of short
crops.
1t appears that the agitation going on
in New Orleans over the condition of the
jetties in the South Pass of the mouth of
the Mississippi river, is the work of the enc.
mics of Captain Fades, who are not as
scrupulous as they might be, and who mag
nifty little things, in order to
create prejudice against the jetties.
In reply to the article of Captain Cowdcn
from which extracts were published in The
BULLETIN and which was published in full
with editorial comments in the Cincinnati
Commercial the New Orleans Democrat
says; ut is a pity the Commercial will
steadfastly close its eyes to the fact that by
means OF the jetties shallow bar, where
formerly there were but eight and half
feet OF water, has been deepened, until now
there is a maximum central depth of 30
feet, and that through this superb channel
ships that heretofore were shut out from the
Mississippi river, drawing 30, "a and 25
ieet Of water, enter and depart without diff.
tculty or detention. We all remember the
fleets Of ships that were almost always
aground at Southwest Pass, even when the
government was spending large sums an
nualy to dredge the channel to the depth
OF twenty and twenty-one foot, and 1t would
be impossible to estimate the loss entailed
upon shipowners, insurance companies, this
city and the producers of the west by the
continual interruption to commerce, caused
by the grounding of ships on the bars, and
in some instances by their destruction,
Despite the best efforts of the Essayons, the
bar filed up rapidly, mud Jumps, blocking
the channel, sprung up like huge mush-
rooms in single night, and the result was
that ships of heavy draft abandoned the
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