The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-04-06

ALLOWED TO GO 10 RUIN INTERNAL IN
PRoyEMENTs AT A COMPLETE sTAYD.sTlLL
For twcnty.days back the city has had
from seventy.fve toa hundred men, and
from thirty to fifty teams at work on the
new levee, strengthening 1t by widening
its base on the inner side. To-day at noon
the work will be finished and the slope
which was formerly about one foot In one
and half will be one foot in three the en-
tire length of the levee. This work alone
has cost about four thousand dollars. II
isprobable that work on the outer slope
of the levee will be begun next week and
continue until the whole embankment shall
have been put in a condition that, instead of
being the weakest, will be the strongest
part of the great levces which surround
our city.
In accordance with resolution
introduced in the city coun-
Gil at meeting last Tuesday
night, the street committee, headed by Al.
derman B. f. Blake, will Immediately
place from twenty-five to fifty men and
teams and scrapers at work on the streets
Of the city under the direction Street Com
missioner German, and as the energetic
Mr.. Blake puts it, "every street in the city
shall be as clean aud as smooth as look
lng-glass within two weeks from the COM
mencement of the work" The force of
men, already employed in repairing the
sidewalks, will be increased as soon as
practicableand the walks in the city will
be generally repaired and built new
wherever necessary.
HER CITIZENS ARE ALL DIsHEARTEN Ed AND
ENTERPRISE Is CRUSHED.
Besides the ground recently bought
from the city by the Singer Manufacturing
company, that company has secured six.
teen lots more near by from citizens, SO that
its entire ground now covers nearly three
squares. The plans for the additional
buildings to be erected upon this newly
acquired ground have already been made
and will be executed as soon IS the ground
can be worked.
The new school board will soon take
steps to begin the erection Of an additional
public school building, as the present three
have proven to be entirely inadequate to
accommodate the army of young people in
search OF knowledge. 1t is the intention
to erect three story brick something sims
liar to the high school building. The cx.
act locstion has not yet been decided upon
but the money is ready and the ground will
be selected in tine to erect the house be-
fore the present building season passes
away.
GENERAL DEPRESSION II ALL DEPARTMENTS
OF INDUSTRY, COMMERCIAL sTAGSATIoN
AND ULTIMATE UTTER ASNlHILATloS
STARE HER BRAzESLY IN THE FACE.
Mr.. Jacob Kline yesterday commenced
the brick making season at his yard in up
per Cairo. He made fifteen thousand yes
terday, and will make on an average twenty
thousand per day right along. He has or
ders ahead and will be unable to meet the
demand during the coming building season.
A more hopeful feeling than pervades the
business men, both large and small also
the mechanics and laborers of Cairo, at the
present time, was, perhaps, never noticeable
before, and the prospects for unequaled
prosperity in every way were never bright
er than they are now. The sidewalks in
the business portion OF our city are crowd
ed with hardware, stoves, with great cases,
boxes and barrels filed, with dry
goods, clothings, groceries, stationery, con-
fectionery, liquors-all being goods which
have newly arrived, and are being I'M
packed and stored away in the various
business houses in anticipation Of the
coming summer trade.-The Cairo City Oil
mills, one of the city's lately acqeued great
institutions, will begin operations next
Monday, giving steady employment to
about forty men, and rs soon as the stock
can be obtained the mills will run
day and night, employing two
sets Of en.-The back-water has nearly
all left the ground above Cairo and yester-
day several of our Alexander county citi-
zens, Mr.. Itch Hundraker among them,
came into town on horses and in wagons.
Our country brothers from Kentucky and
Missouri and Illin@ will soon be in the
city in full force to lasj in supplies of which
they ran short during their enforced stay
at home, and our merchants will receive
them with smiling faces and full stores
For several weeks back five or six citizens
have been making plans for number of
nice frame residences, to be erected on now
vacant lots in different parts of the civ: