The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-03-19

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given those who are employed but half
the regular time.
"A late planting does not necessarily
mean short cotton crop. There is hope
that an average crop may still be raised
though the losses caused by the flood will
have to come out of 1t.
The ferry-bost Three States will
make an excursion trip to Wicklilfe, KY
to-day, leaving at 3 p, IN. Twenty-Five
cents round trip. A brass band will en-
liven the occasion. 1t.
The Odd Fellows of Murphysboro' pro
pose to have on Wednesday, the 20th OF
April, grand annual celebration. A brill
liant street parade is promised, and many
Odd Fellows are expected to be there.
"A dispatch from Capt. Lee, announc-
ing the break in the leyee at Miliikens
bend, also states that the suffering IN the
back counties was greater than any one had
supposed The secretary of war estimates
the victims of the overflow at $4,000.
The wrecking boat Hiram Hill was
engaged yesterday in raising boiler
from Ohio levee near Fourteenth street
preparatory to loading it on the
steamer Gus Fowler, which was to transport
it to Metropolis.
Owners of real estate who may desire
to have needed changes in the description
of titles of their property made in the tax
books, should visit county clerk S. j..
Humm's office soon, as he is now engaged
in preparing the books for the assessor.
Commissioner Robert Wilson, who has
in charge the distribution of the govern
ment rations to the food sufferers of South
ern Illinois had, up to yesterday, issued
them to two thousand one hundred people
in both Pulaski and Alexander counties.
"A man named Joseph Parkins, citi-
zen of Carrsvill, KY, committed suicide at
Paducah Friday, by Jumping into the
Ohio 1ver. The circumstances surround
ing the case point strongly to the conclu'
sion that the man was laboring under emo
tional insanity when he committed the act
,--Barton's Free Press Superintendent
Hamilton, of the Narrow-guaSe, was in
Chester last week making arrangements at
the S. l. p, for burning of bricks for the
new railroad shops. He says that he will
not want less than 100000 bricks, and
wants to get them as soon as possible
"A meeting of some interest was held
by the young temperance people at Reform
hall last Friday night. The attendance
was not large, but met the expectations OF
all. The principal business transacted was
the adoption of the new constitution and
by-laws,and the exercises consisted of rec
itation by Miss Alice Henderson, of an
essay by Miss Annie Wilson and of songs
| and music.
Richard X. Fox, of New York, has
commissioned William III. Borst to go to
England, look over the prise-fghters, and
select one or two of the following heavy
weight fighters to match against Sullivan
for 81, 500, or $4,000 a side and the heavy
weight championship of America; Alfred
Greenfield, "Tugn Wilson, alias Joe Col
Inns William Sheciff, known as the Prus-
sian.
Some farmers in the flooded districts
below here are anticipating an early and
sufficient fall of the waters to permit the
amaking of good crops" Several Alexan-
der county farmers who were in Cairo q
| few days ago have q contrary opinion, and
| they are probably right. However, il is to
be hoped and it is reasonable to
believe that the waters will subsidc at
least in time to permit the planting of corn
etc. As the bottom lands produce better
crops than the average hill lands, the for
lmer'hvc bee& liI6fd sausht after than the
l1atier and as a result the destruction Of
farms by the water Is the greater.
| -AAnoAsctfai1 Of Ave inches characterized
the Ohio river at this point during the
twenty-four hours ending at one O'Clock
Yesterday afternoon at which hour it stood
at even forty seven feet. AT six o'clock II
had fallen another tenth Of q foot. Dur
inc the period of time above mentioned
the rivers fell one foot eight inches at Gin
cinnati, four inches at Louisville, seven fee
four inches at Nashville, one inch at St
Louis. and rose two inches at Chattanooga
This check in the decline IS due no doub
10 the rain reported from different points
, in the bulletin of Friday. In Yesterdays
bulletin rain was reported from four dlt
fcrent places, namely, Chattanooga, Gin
cinnat Davenport and Pittsburg; but i