The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-02-22

twenty four honors ending at 2;l1 p. m.
At but two places Keokuk, Iowa, and Pitts
burg, the weather was threatening, at all
other places il was cold, clear, fair, or sleet-
ing.
During the twenty-four hours ending
at III yesterday afternoon the Ohio river
rose one foot nine inches at this point, and
from this hour up to last night at six o'clock
it rose at the rate of one inch per hour. 1t
stood forty eight feet one inch on the
guage.
-Appropos of the Gainsborough hat at
the theaters, John Broughman used to tell
story about going to the Olympic Theater
in London on one occasion when Bateman,
who sat in front of them, kept his hat on
because of the draft coming in from the
door. Presently man behind him touch
ed him on the shoulder, saying: Il beg
your pardon, sir, but will you take Off your
hate | cannot see the stage" "Certainly,
certainly" said Bateman. Ye took his hat
off and ran his fingers through his busby
hair-you remember what lot he had-so
that it stood up about six inches. A mo-
ment later the stranger touched him again
81 beg pardon, sir; but pray be so good as
to keep your hat on"
Grandmother Argus "toes the mark"
at last. She admits that the people were
syindled in the narrow guage. road, but
takes refuge in the charge that the former
editor of THE BULLETIN played an impor'
tant part in the matter. THE BULLETIN is
nearly happy now; it lisa little happy be-
cause, once more, it has succeeded,
after much effort, in bringing
the simple old lady of the
Argus to an acknowledgment of her error
in matter Of public importance. If she
will now do two steps more, first, acknowl-
edge that she has wronged The BULLETIN
and the city council and the joint commit
tee, in charging them with intending TO
drive the little road out OF the
city-with having any other motive
but that of the city's good; and sec
ondly, acknowledge that it would be a
benefit to the city at large if the Amster-
dam paupers, in running the Narrow
Gauge road into the city, could be induced
to build their embankment outside Of the
eity's new levee-if the old lady will make
these further acknowledgements, then
THE BULLETINS happiness would be com
plete.
A dispatch to parties here from the
secretary of the Anchor line company at St.
Louis, stated yesterday forenoon, about
eleven o'clock, that, since Saturday, the
river had risen seventeen feet at that point,
that it was stationary now, and that the
weather was cold and showing. 1t is prob
able that the heavy rains have all empticd
into the rivers by this time and that there
will be general stand at all points above
Cairo soon. The seventeen foot rise at 81.
Louis is not so very wonderful, when it is
considered that the river was very narrow
and very low there--only ten AID half
feet above low water mark. BY the time
this rise reaches Cape Girardeau it will
have been considerably diminished, and
just below there, it will spread out over
vast area of country, covering the black
bottoms of Missouri. Large quantities of
it will reach Little river and San Francis
river, which drain these bottom lands, and
will not pass by Cairo at all, but, running
down these and other little streams, will
again pour into the Mississippi many miles
below here, near Memphis. This will the
81. Louis rise be scattered before it reaches
Cairo and what touched the gauge at that
point away in the tens, will be away down
in the units at this points.
The high winds, which prevailed du-
ring all Monday night, blowing the great
waves Of the Mississippi river squarely
against the new portion Of the Mississippi
levee, caused some washing on the embank-
ment at points above and below the old
grave yard ridge The washing is only on
the surface, shout seven feet from the top,
and there is but little caving anywhere Yes
teriay morning Mayor Thistlewood for the
city, and Mr.. VIM. McIIalc for the Cairo
property company, sent shout fifty men,
with sacks and shovels, out to the levee,
who filled the nbrasious with bags Of earth.
The men were increased in numbers during
the day, and were kept constantly at work
under the immediate supervision Of Mr..
Robert Beard, WIN has had experience in
work of this kind. The waves we're, of
course, fearful all night, and it would have