The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-02-28
VlCTORY!
The Battle Nearly Over.
The River Falling Fast.
THE LEvEE IN GOOD CONDITION
ORGANIZATION PERFECT.

portion Of the citizens of Cairo rs blue
day in its history. Even the most hopeful
felt that they were fighting a power that
the best efforts of man could not withstand,
but the leaders never faltered. Citizens,
business men and laborers gathered in
force at the point Of danger, and worked
Increasingly to strengthen the narrow strip
of soaked earth and sand that stood be-
tween the city and its enemy, the water
that pressed merciessly for an entrance.
Hundreds Of men with shovels aud wheel
barrows gathered upon the new railroad
embankment, near the gas house, Sunday
forenoon, and worked as men never worked
before. In the short space of three hours
THREE THOUSAND SACKS
were filed with clay and sand, loaded upon
barges and towed by Halliday Bros tug
around to the new levee, and moored ready
for immediate use should break occur.
The evee itself has been "rip.rapped" with
stone and sand bags wherever weak spot
showed itself Saturday nights land slide,
not as great as that of Friday, occurred,
but the alarm was scarcely given
before hundreds Of bags Of sand
were off the barge and into the breach and
the spot made stronger than before A
representative of THE BULLETIN passed
AROUND THE LEvEE
Yesterday and took survey Of the
| works. He believes that the organization
is now perfect aud the inequality OF the
fight between man and the elements les
sened in a great degree thereby. The rain
of yesterday for a time caused many faint
heart to hutter, but its character is of that
gentle kind that only renders working in it
unpleasant without any damage. The little
| wlndbowing came, also from n direction
thatwould be harmless
THE RIVERS ARE FALLING FAST
for this present stage and will go down
faster every day. At Paducah and Me-
tropolis the fall was rapid. Here the de-
cline of the Mississippi is fully 7 inches,
that of the Ohio five inches, and, although
the danger is not yet over, we have reach.
ed that stage where self congratulation and
| rejoicing is in order where men can say to
each other, awe have foughta good fight"
and at the end of the next forty-elght hours
be able to add "The victory is ours"
As.usual, petty thieves, rogues and ex
tortionsts, have taken advantage of the op.
portunity to plunder. Fraudulent tickets
for labor have been presented by men who
claimed to have either worked certain
number Of hours, or were in conspiracy with
the boss, Jack Lally, who issued the tickets,
these men were all taken, and will be pun.
ished. L.lly had an examination yester.
Cay and under the evidence against him
vas bound over for trial. Several teamsters
have reason to quake in their boots over
prices extorted for hauling. The driver of
Valentine Resche's wagon, who workes on
the shares, for presenting bill for two dol
lars and titty.cents for hauling two barrels
Of crackers to new cvee wa.
arrested found guilty of ex-
tortion aud fined. The evidence went ia
show that Resch was equally guilty witt
the driver. The fine and cost on each "a
mounted to $GS0,-a rather bad specula
ton for an ordinarily sharp business man
| A large party came down from Metrop-
oils on Sunday to view Cairo under wate
aud were greatly surprised to find oil dr.,
land. The panic of Friday caused great
many premature dispatches to @ over the
wires and now one half the people in the
whole country cannot be made to believe
that we are not ten feet under
water. The st. Louis Evening
Chronicle of Saturday for instance, had one
dispatch that Cairo was inundated and loss
life and property enormous, and in an
other column, anothergiving correct state
ment of the situation, both under flaming
head lines.
Gov. Cullom has named the 2lst Of
March as the time in which to hold speca
elections to I'll the vacancies occasoned by
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