The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-03-15

their left arms for week or more, lest you
be made to feel the proves of their right.
"A negro man was drowned in the back
water at Beech Ridge, this county, about
week ago and all efforts to iiud his body
proved futile. But yesterday morning
Coroner r. Fitzgerald was notified that the
mans body was found, and he lett to hold
an inquest and have the remains decently
inferred.
The river man, Patrick Hughes, who
saved the lives of five little boys, who had
been "swampedn in skiff in pond back
of the Infrmary some days ago, has beer
discharged from tie hospitala cured man.
He was suffering somewhat from pleurisy
caused in part by slight cold resulting
from his long swim through theiwater after
the boys and subsequent exposure.
Chief Myers is on the lookout for per
sons who, in rowing skitis from pond tC
pond, break up the intervening sidewalk:
in the lower portions of the city. In sey'
eral places these walks have been con
structed by citizens and lead to their resi-
dences, and some Of them are almost daily
put to the trouble of rebuilding theft
walks. The miscreants must beware.
The republican editor of the Argus
intimates that rather than print his paper
on the press of the colored republican
"Three States" he would let it succumb to
the overdose of water He does not say
so in SO many words but is bis meaning.
Had the Argus and BULLETINS situation
been reversed at the beginning Of the flood
there would be no Argus now, and no sor-
row among its readers on that account.
A general rise of the temperature was
reported from the several signal stations Of
the northwest yesterday afternoon-in fact
at not one Of the seventeen stations
from which reports were receiv-
ed was there fall of
temperature. This may be looked upon
as q condition favorable to rain. Very light
rains were reported from Cairo, Dubuque,
Memphis, Pittsburgh aud st. Louis; but it
was not heavy enough at either place to
permit measurement.
Three men were seen crossing the Ohio
river in a skiff from the Kentucky side
yesterday afternoon, about three o'clock.
They were watched attentively by several
gentlemen standing on the levee until they
were nearly half way across when they aud
theirskiffsuddenly disappeared and were not
seen again. One of the observers claims to
have subsequently gotten glimpse of the
overturned skiff as it sped on its way down
the stream. The river was quite rough,
and it is very probable that the gentlemen
on shore saw correctly.
A young negro about seventeen years
OF age, named Henry Houston, living in
the old "Bumbgard house" near the corner
of Seventeenth and Poplar streets was ia
ken sick on Sunday and yesterday was
found to be afflicted with well defined
case of varioloid. Dir. Sullivan
was called Monday, and informed the fam
lily of the nature Of the boys ailment, and
yesterday DR.. Wood was notified of the ex-
istence of the case. He obeyed the sum-
mons and found the case as stated. The
old barrack in which Houston lays is oc-
cupied by number Of other negrofamilies
and its sanitary condition is such as would
offer contagious disease every facility for
spreading If the premises has not yet
been isolated it should be at once; but it is
likely that DIR. Wood has already given it
this attention.
Yesterdays news from the various
rivers, as found in Sergeant Rays one
o'clock report, was most favorable. Falls
were reported as follows: Chattanooga
eight inches; Cincinnati, one foot five
inches Louisville, one foot four inches;
Nashville, five inches, and
st. Louis, five inches. AT the lattor place
the rate of decline was increased by two
inches over that of the day before. At this
point the river was reported to have risen
two hours during the previous twenty
four inches. But this rise took place
between yesterday morning and one
o'clock Monday afternoon, because it is
known that the river stood at about forty
seven nine and half tenths feet all
day yesterday, and was standing there at six
o'clock last night It is likely that it be-
gan to fall during last night and that the
decline here will now continue steadily
and more rapidly than before.
In the United States senate Monday