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

after it Immediately and bring Mr.. Heb
sacker his six dollars within half an hour.
Mr.. Hebsackcr returned to his store and
waited. An hour, two hours, three hours
passed, but Micka Mocka came not, and 1t
was then that Mr.. Hebsacker suspected
treachery. He went to Magistrate Com
ings and swore out warrant; an officer ar
rested Micka Mocka at his "hotel,' and
brought him before the court; but Micka
Mocka would not be examined; he waived
an examination and was held to bail in the
sum of two hundred dollars, to appear
before the county court and
answer the charge Of obtaining
money under false rretenccs. Mick Mock
didn't have the change and he was taken
to the county Jail for ssfe-keeping until the
county court takes cognizance and disposes
Of his case.
Slowly but surely the spirit of enter
prise and activity which gave Cairo an en-
viable name throughout this part of the
country during the last two years, is re-
covering from the shock received by the late
threatened overflow and is again manifest
ing itself in hundred different ways. The
confidence Of our substantial citizens and
business men in the city's entire safety
from overflow; their firm belief that her
prosperity will steadily increase and make
Cairo oil that nature and force of CONNER
cial circumstances intend her to be, namely,
a great metropolis, is not only mistaken,
but is strengthened by the fact that the
greatest fool known to history passed US
by and left US unframed. Cairo stands to-
day living and prosperous example Of
| the efficiency of the levee system
as a means of protection
against the Mississippi floods; she
offers the strongest possible argument in
support of the plan of the Mississippi river
commission for the improvement Of that
great stream, and also rebukes most point
eddy those who have delighted to croak
sneeringiy about her liability to inunda-
ton. Confidence at home will cngender
confidence abroad, and as proof that the
former exists in unimpaired vigur it needs
only be mentioned that all our merchants
have received, or will soon receive, OF are
even now east in order to purchase, their
usual large stocks of goods for the spring
and summer trade; our stores arc doing a
healthy business; our streets are alive with
busy peoples new brick corn meal mill,
with capacity Of four hundred and fifty
barrels per day, has been established, prep
arations for several new brick residences
and additions to existing manufacturing
establishment, have been in progress
right in the face of the great food
our manufacturing establishments, with the
exception of two or three are in full blast
our hotels arc full day and night; our
wharves are daily throngcd with water
crafts; our warehouses and elevators are
packed with grain, cotton and merchandise,
awaiting shipment TO all points of the
compass; and our six railroads are one af.
ter another repairing their damaged tracks
and are crowded with freight and passen-
ger traffic. When the water round about
us, in Missouri and Kentucky, where it
submerged and destroyed three Of our prin
cipal railroads, shall have gone down, and II
is steadily receding, there will be employ
mcnt for thousand or two of men to re.
pair the wrecked tracks and embankments
and depots and telegraph lines and fences
and farm houses, and the people Of the
flooded district, at least in this neighbor,
hood, will snatch unprecedented prosperity
from this general destruction and distress
Like every other town Cairo is afflicted
with few chronic grumb.ers who improve
every opportunity to bewal their fate, who
paint the present dark gray aud the fu
tnre jat black and then move about the
streets in "melancholc" way, with long
faces and fearful eyes, signing for some
one who will lend q patient car to their
| dolcful tale and examine with interest
they gloomy old picture. But these
creatures are few and their waiings are be.
ing effectually drowned by the hum of
business, theIwhirr Of machinery, the clat,er
of wagon wheels, the sound Of the carpcn-
ter's hammer aud the mason's trowel, aid
by the music of happy voices everywhere
The floods may come and the foods MAJ
90, but Cairo stands secure; her only incon
venience is an occasional supply of sipe
water and this, as Capt. Halliday says
and as the people have also unanimously
declared, shall and will be exterminated
before another year rolls around. The
Capt has unbounded confidence in the eff
cacy of his .plan to banishi the city's oc
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