The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-10-10

sent TO Mrs. tease AZ 81. LOUIS, Mr.. Hughes
is acquiring quite reputation as raiser
of fine chickens.
"A notice Of the dissolution of the
Eighth street tobacco firm Of Morse Il
Redburn appears elsewhere in this issue
The new firm is Redburn & White, Mr.,
Ed II. White having purchased the inter
est of Mr.. Morse.
II pound Royal;G and 7 pound Packet;
3 and pound Commercial, and pound
DENY note heads; 10 and IL pound letter
heads, also afull stock of pure Irish linen
letter and note.heads and ruled paper of
all kinds, at THE BULLETIN job office,
Ohio Levee; the only round hole perforating
machine in Southern Illinois. st
General Green B. Raum was in the
city at The Halliday Sunday, in close con-
fab with Revenue Collector w. c. Pavey.
General Raum registered from Golconda.
When stopping at Chicago or New York
hotel he registers from washington, ID.
c." The general believes that circum-
stances alter cases. His visit here was
made to learn the state OF the political
canvass and to do whatever might seem
necessary to further his own chances. This
beinp the case, he has doubtless left in
structions with General Pavey to see that
Scurock, the Republican Prohibition can
didate for the legislature, and Logan, the
Prohibition Republican candidate for the
Legislature, are duly elected.
Yesterday the trench made at the
outer base of the city's levee, to test the
practicability Of pudding, was, at one
place about seventeen feet deep and the
work of deepening it had stopped. A
meeting of the street committee will prob
ably be held to-day, to determine what the
next step shall be. The water in the trench
stands at level of about 10 feet above the
river TIE river has been at its present
level, or considerably below the level OF
this inland pond for some time, more
than long enough to compel this, or any
body of water, underground, or overground
having connection from below, either direct
or indirect, with the river, to find its level
with the river by the natural law govera-
ing such cases. The fact that this
body of water has remained
until now so far above the level OF the
river, proves, or, certainly, gives good
ground for the supposition, that com
munication through its bottom with the
river is cut off by some waterproof sub
stance, at level considerably above that of
the river now. 1t would seem, to reasona-
bic mind, that, were this not the case, this
underground water would have gone down
as rapidly as the river did; for 1t could
certainly have passed through sandy bot
tom as readily as through seive. The
other fact, that along the river bank di-
rectly opposite this inland pond, water
springs forth and runs in many tiny
streams down toward the river, indicates
that this underground water does find its
way to the river by passing
through the entire length of the
sand strata, or, very properly speaking,
through the entire length of this natural
sewer, an pour out Of its mouths into the
river. The fact that these tiny streamets
spring from the bank at points several feet
above the level of the river, indicates that
the bottom of this sand strata, or
natural sewer, through which it runs, is an
equal number Of feet above the present level
of the river, and therefore only few feet
below the level Of the pond in the trench,
which, as stated, is about two feet above the
rivers level All these facts indicate, that if
the trench is dug but few feet deeper,
solid soil will be found, which will serve
as a firm, waterproof basis for an under
ground levee Of clay, and that pudding, so
far as it has been authorized by the coun-
Gil, will prove entirely successful. twill
be said that much all of this IS theory; but
it is theory founded upon facts, and it par
takes much more of the character Of a
series of unavoidable conclusions from in
disputable premises The street committee
will doubtless consider the subject tho
roughly and will continue the work until a
satisfactory test has been made.
pRORARI MITRDER