The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-03-30

oarsmen all labored with will, but severa
of the skiffs pulled out before the end was
reached. The Grey Hound was declared
the winner.
The average thermometer at twenty
points in the northwest, as reported in yes
terday afternoons weather bulletin, was
ffty.fiv degrees above zero, being a decline
of one degree from the day before. The
lowest was twenty.three, at Bismarck; the
highest was sevcnty-eight, at Shreveport.
AT this point it stood at sixty seven, being
a rise of fourteen degrees over the day be-
fore. No rain was reported from any
where and the sky was mostly clear and
fair.
The committee on contingent expenses
reported that the Ills. house would require
during the special session, nine janitors, for
| the halls, corridors, committee rooms, etc,
one lanitor for the clerks room, one jantor
for the cngrossing and enrolling room, to
be appointed by tina secretary of state. Two
| ianitors, one for each cloak room, one janitor
for the speakers room, three policemen, one
mail carrier, one night Waterman and ten
pages, to DO appointed by the speaker.
Yesterdays river record was sim
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iliar to that of the day before. At this
point the Ohio marked torty-one feet ak
inches at one O'clock in the afternoon,
showing a rise of two inches during the
previous twenty-four hours AT points
above the record for the same period was
as follows: Chattanooga, rise of two feet
eleven inches; Nashville, tall of eleven
inches; Cincinnati, fall of four feet eight
inches; Louisville fall of three feet nine
inches; st. Louis, fall Of two inches. 1t
appears that the rise has passed Nashville,
and it is probable that it will not affec,
Chattanooga after to day.
in compliance with request from
County Commissioner T. w. Halliday the
secretary Of war ordered another supply OF
rations to this and Pulaski countines to be
attributed among the poor people of these
two counties. The request was made after
a thorough investigation which proved con-
clusiyey that further aid was needed to re.
lievethe sufferingIin this county. The steam
er General Barnard, which was at our wharf
yesterday, left forty casks of picked pork
and sixty barrels of meal, portion of
which was yesterday placed at the disposal
of Commissioner Guy Morse for distribu-
ton among those who might apply at the
Teenth street commisary. Az large num-
Der, mostly colored people, applied and
were supplied.
-Mayos Thistlewood and Chief Myera
were notified yesterday that little six
yearold negro child living in the old
Bumgard rookery, at the corner of Seven
tenth and Poplar streets, was afflicted
with smallpox. The chief Immediately
investigated the case and found it as re-
ported, the child being entirely broken out
with the disease. Prompt action was taken
to prevent any further spread Of the dis
ease. The house was fenced off and pla-
Gated, and the inmates given orders not
TO leave the premises at any time for any
purpose. Rations will be issued to them
and they will be furnished by the city with
oil necessaries,i INCLUDING medical attention,
during the prevalence Of the disease, aud
il is not likely that other cases will result
from it. The building is the same in which
the young negro Henry Houston, who died
at the hospital recently was
confined with the disease before he was
discovered by the authorities.
The two smallpox patients now re-
naming in the marine hospital station are
doiag well and will both be discharged
this week. Altogether there have been
thirteen cases Of small pox and varioloid
in the city, four Of which have proved ia
tai. All but A SINGLE oyE Of these we're NON
RESIDENT RIyERMEN and this one exception
was young negro who caught the disease
on some steamboat at the wharf. Outside
Of this case not citizen Of Cairo was
afflicted with the first symptoms Of the
dreadful disease. In view OF the fact that
other communities, which claim great su.
periorlty over Cairo as regards healthful.
ness, had less number Of cases and were
less liable to exposure to the disease, YET
scored from two to q dozen cases among
their own citizens, Cairo has good reason
to congratulate herself and can afford "a
ignore any taunts on account of her sani.
tary condition which may come from Chi.
cago, St. Louis, Paducab, or any of heI
other jealous rivals, both big and little.
---PinckDeyville Democrat: zone of the