The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-02-10

bIoa'VI part OF the crop HAS Deen SOFA, ana
generally at prices from one dollar to one
and half higher than better quality of
tobacco brought last season. Early in the
season 1t could have been bought much
cheaper than now. At one time the i'm
preston prevailed that the crop was 80 ut
terly worthless that il would sell below the
current prices of last year; but this idea
has entirely given place to an
entirely new one, and the meaner tobac-
co fellow has the bigger the price asked.
1t requires more laber to buy $4,000 pounds
of tabacco now than it took to buy 100000
pounds last year. The prospect for an ad-
vance must be good, or else dealers are
doomed to meet heavy losses. Few things,
however are yelled in greater mystery than
tobacco, and few things are more liable to
bring disaster to spectators But, taking
everything into consideration, it would APP
pear that the present crop is selling pretty
high 1t has but little to recommend it, and
if it were not that tobacco occupies stron-
get position than it does sometimes, the
crop now on hand would command d small
Ter figure than usual But with high prices
it cannot bring much relief to the people,
because there is not enough of it,"
-Four thousand feet Of lumber were
furnished the city by Mr. j. II. McGahey
yesterday, to be used in raising certain
sidewalks, over which the sipe water is
washing. These walks are all in the lower
portions of the city, back of Washington
avenue and Walnut street. The walks
which have received and will receive atten-
ton, are on Seventh, Twelfth and Fifteenth
streets The sipe water is higher this year
than it has been for the last seven or eight
years, and some easements, which
were formerly never touched by it,
are now threatened 1t is likely that
it will continue to rise slowly until the river
falls to about forty feet, when the outside
pressure will have become too light to force
it further up If nothing causes check in
the rate of speed at which the river is
going down, 1t is likely that the savers can
be opened within the next ten or twelve
days, and within that time the sipe water
could not rise more than four or five inches
unless heavy rains fall. At the stage of the
sipe water at the end Of week or ten days,
sewers could be opened and water would
run out if the river stood forty feet upon
the guage.
The council met at the chamber last
nightias announced in yesterdays BULLs.
TIN. Every member and the mayor, also
several other city officers were present.
After some business of routine character
had been disposed Of, Alderman
Patier offered resolution to discharge the
joint committee which has charge Of the
matters at issue between the city council
and the Cairo and St. Louis railway com
pany. The resolution was debated at length
by Aldermen Patier, Wood and Halliday,
and was finally lost by vote of seven to
three. The mayor nominated Anthony Nc
Tigue as night police constable in place
of Officer Omsted resigned. The nomina-
ton was confirmed city clerk was
instructed, on motion of Alderman Wood,
to notify the Cairo g. st. Louis railroad
company, under the seal Of the city, that
committee Of the city council was ready to
confer with any authorized representative
of the company concerning the matters in
dispute between the city and the company.
Mayor Thistewood stated that, in view
of the fact that the Anchor line company
had named its latest steamer in honor of
the city of Cairo, some action on the part
of the council in recognition of the COM
pliment would seem to be called for.
Alderman Swoboda moved that commit
tee of three and the mayor be appointed
to take suitable action in the
premises. The mayor appointed Aldermen
Swobodo, Blake and Halliday as such COM
mittee. Council then adjourned.
THE BULLETIN is given to understand
that, in its little history of the little fight
between the council of the city of Cairo
and the little Cairo & st. Louis railroad, it
made several statements which were not en-
tirely correct. 1t is objected first, that the
railroad company did, by its agent here,
apply to the city council of the city of
Cairo for right of way over Washington
avenue and Cross levee long before the in
junction was asked for by the city and
granted by the circuit court. The objec-
ton is sustained and The BULLETIN stands
corrected. 1t istrue that the railroad compa-
ny obtained the signatures of the owners of |
the majority of the nronertv abuttin1 tbo