The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-03-28

not cold. The thermometer ranging from
thirty eight to seventy.six above zero. Rains
were reported from Cairo, Memphis, Vicks-
burg, Little Rock and Shreveport, south OF
Cairo. and Chattanooga, Cincinnati, Nash
Vile, Pittsbure, Louisville and st. Louis
north. The rain was not heavy at either
of these placts, the heaviest being less than
half an inch.
A collision between two freight trains
took place on the Illinois Central railroad
at Mounds Junction Sunday morning. They
were both heavy trains aud came together
with considerable force. The fireman on
the south bound engine was slightly bruis'
ed, otherwise no one was hurt. That the
wreck caused delay of nine hours to all
otherItrains may be taken as evidence that
much property was destroyed. An inves-
tgation OF the cause ;of the collision will
probably result in the suspension or dis
missal of some of the employees having
charge of the trains.
Last Friday daughter of Mr.. VIM.
Lonergan accidentally fell into the sipe
water near Walnut and Eighteenth streets
and would very likely have drowned but
for the presence of mind and prompt action
of Miss Eta Foss. The water was not
deep, but it seems that in falling Miss
Lonergan's head came in contact with
some hard substance causing insensibllity.
At any rate she was under the water and
made noeffort to get out aud when Miss Foss
let herself into the water and. drew her out
she was unconscious. She was taken home
and given medical attention, and was near
ly all right again yesterday.
A letter from Belmont, to the Charles
ton (Mo.) Courier. says: "The disastrous
flood now subsiding will leave one.fourth
of the cleared land in Mississippi county
without fences to protect crops, even if it
we're possible for those in the overnowed
region to get assistance to make crops.
There is no legal remedy whereby owners
of stock can be compelled to keep their
stock up until we can make crop. No
voluntary agreement, take it, could be
enforced. Then let US have an extra session
of the legislature and have stock law by
all means
The new comets approaching the earth
at the rate of 100000 miles per day and
now 1875, 100000 miles from the sun which
it will continue to approach until the
middle of June. II will probably pass
within s0,O00,0OO miles Of the earth and
will make fine display early in June. It
will pass much nearer the lsun than comets
generally do. 1t is not yet visible to the
naked eye but may be seen in the constella.
ton Lyra with good telescope. The
new conner is not yet identified and is prob
ly stranger. A couple of weeks further
observation will be required to determine
that however.
--Forty.one feet four inches WAS what
the Ohio river marked at this point at one
o'clock yesterday afternoon, which was a
decline during the previous twenty-fonr
hours of one inch. The fall at other points
during the same period of time WAS as
follows: Chattanooga, two feet; Nash.
Vile, one foot three inches; Cincinnati,
three feet eight inches; Louisville, two feet
FIVE inches. The total rise at Cincinnati,
according to the signal reports here, was
about twenty feet, at Louisville about one
hundred and fifty miles below, it was but
eleven feet eight inches, having lost over
eight feet; by the time the full
force of the rise reaches Cairo
which is about four hundred miles further
down, it cannot possibly have much force
left, and Captain Sol Silver predicts that,
if it rises at all here, it will notreach over
four inches. He is undoubtedly right and
can safely "gamblc" on his conviction.
Some time during last week Mr..
Michael Powers, who keeps a saloon at the
corner of Tenth street and Washington
avenue, left the city apparently without
the knowledge of his family. A day or two
afterwards man was killed on the Hi
nois Central track who was stranger to
all who saw him as Mr.. Powers did not
return home or give any evidence Of his
whereabouts his wife became very much
| alarmed, and finally concluded that the
man killed was her husband. Although
men who had seen the dead man, and who
knew Mr.. Powers well, sought to convince
Mrs. Powers that the dead man was not
Mr.. Powers, she would not be comforted
and persisted in her belief. But subsc-
quent Developments have dispelled oil
mystery; several letters have been received
which give news OF the missing man. The