The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-02-21

| .0Opeu WIN Grape, the lines oi Jet upon
the daily press; the, Ole and new world in
each oeher's arms, wiping each others
tears; and scattering flowers together on
new-made grave. This was the answer to
the Christians prayer"
Before Justice Robinson yesterday,
one James Coil was accused of vagrancy,
found guilty, and fined twenty-five dollars
and costs. Several cases of plain drunken
ness completed the police business of the
city.
"A very heavy frost is reported to be on
its way to this part of the country from the
far northwest. The temperature at various
places there has experienced n heavy fall,
at Bismarck to eleven degrees below
zero. It is thought that
this blizzord will entirely neutralize the
effect Of the late refreshing showers in the
valleys of the great rivers, which would be
matter for regret. The Mississippi river
is SO low at this point that several steam
boats have recently run aground, just OPP
posite the city, and sustained more or less
serious injury; a man in n skiif
attempted to cross to Missouri
the other day, but touched bottom
before the got half way across and turned
back and several ladies in the city are ac-
tually put to much trouble and expense to
keep their canary birds well supplied
with water,
For the benefit OF those of our read
era who are not aware of the fact, we will
say that it rained yesterday trained right
out in the street, too. The rain was n per-
feet God-send--it was nothing short Of a
positive proof of the efficacy of prayer.
For weeks past the dust in the city has
been almost complete obstruction to
driving in the bouIeyards, it has certainly
interfered very much with the
pleasure thereof, At every gust of wind
great clouds of siftei earth deluged the city,
blinded and chokei people snd soied ev-
ery,hing in and our Of doors Praying for
rsln has been the almost constant
occupation OF the pious, and
the result was what might have
been expected, gentle shower, which acted
Ike m.gic upon the dropping spirits 0. cur
ci,ile1s caused them to unfold like rose
buds and smile IS they placed their tubs
sad barrels under tue dripping awnings in
anticipation Of another drouth.
The latest sdyices from down the river
are that the break in tie leyee which &C.
Cured JUS, .bove Austin, Miss, Friday
night, extends nearly all the way up to Ma
homes landing, distance Of about three
miles The levee which protects L8co is
circle broke Tuesday night sud all the
circle is nos under water. The break &C.
Cured in the rear AMI is about fifty yards
wide. Thereare eighteen large plantations
in the circle. several being owned by Gov.
Luke Blackburn, of Kentucky, and his re-
lstives Planters are all busy st work try
ing to save their stock, which, whenever
able, are being boatcd away TO the ridges
Great fear exists that the rise now coming
down the Ohio viii check the decline that
has set in and add to the disaster that over
whelms the inundated sections. At Helena,
Ark, the water has backed up into the city
until the largest portion is covered to the
depth Of four feet and it is rising at a rate
Of a foot day. Her citizens are conveyed
to their dwellings by means of skifs
Planting throughout the section OF country
from Memphis as far down as Vicksburg
must necessarily be delayed this season.
During his late visit here and while in
consultation with the council committee,
Col. Hamilton, Of the ST. Louis and Cairo
railroad company formerly the Cairo and
st. Louis railroad company, said, in sub
stonce, that the company had expected as a
matter of course, that it would be permit
ted to lay its track over the city's streets
without any qnestion--that it could push
| right into Cairo unhindered, just as rail-
road companies are in the habit of doing
in ittIe country towns where the people do
not know how 10 help themselves or how
to guard their own interests-but that the
company had "made mistake in the char
acta Of the town here" 1t is evident that
as the company had ridden over Cairo so
often, aud had seen other company's do
likewise, it had come to the conclusion
that Cairo was inhabited by lot Of simple
tons, with neither energy nor sense enough
to impose any conditions upon the cam.
pany for an important privilege, and the
manifestation of a manly spirit of self in
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