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

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close TO the residence and will reach tina
before many days, unless 1t is moved fur'
ther inward.
Mr.. G. g. Davidson, s0n-in law OF Mr.
d. Hurd, is in the city, visiting hi
brother Mr.. w. NJ. Davidson. He has beer
to Washington and other places, perfectiDe
plans and specifications for mining ma
chinery, which he intends using at MS
mines at Silver Cliff, near Denver.
"A more general and more unexpected
and a seyerer flood than the Mississippi anti
Ohio river basins are at present subjected
TO was never known. From all parts of the
valleys comes the cry of danger, mingled
in some localities with that OF actual SUI
fering. All of which is due to the mild
weather, which brought US rain instead OF
snow, and sudden flood in
all rivers at once, instead of gradual rise
in few OF them at a time
The memorial committee of the MIS-
sissippi river convention, held at St. LOUIS
last October, will visit Washington in
few days. and on the first Tuesday in
March will present their case to the house
committee on commerce, the chairman OF
that committee having designated that day
to hear what they have to say.
Massachusetts has climate that
amounts to something. One of her citizens
has tunneled a snow.drift which is sixteen
feet deep, and drives his horse and COW
through the tunnel to water. If all the
rain Cairo has had, had been snow instead,
we, too, might enjoy the novelty of tun-
mel, against which that of Massachusetts,
would be Lilliputian.
A gentleman who came over the Iron
Mountain road from Charleston, Mo-, yes.
terday, says that from Birds Point to sew
cral miles back of Charleston, is one solid
sheet of water. st. Louis seventeen feet
perpendicular of water, spread over all this
territory. would fiatten out like pan cake
and hardly make that many inches here.
Tho census shows that in Utah, in
of l43,963, the Americans
number 9s,969 and the foreigners 43,994
II is evident from this that Americans are
in a majority in the Mormon church. A
Vermont man invented Mormonism, and
the early promulgators were all Americans
So much the more disgraceful. "Out,
damned spotw
"A horse, attached to a delivery wagon,
attempted to run away at the corner OF Sew
enteenth and Poplar streets yesterday fore
noon; but he gave only few leaps in the
muddy street, threw the driver out Of the
wagon, and then stopped. The driver was
not hurt. A barrel, rolled along the side
walk and over the crossing by boy, was
the primary cause ofthe attempted runaway.
Capt Eads does not find rosy path
way for the Tehuantepcc ship railway bill
through congress, although his project is
more practicable than the construction of
canal through Costa RIGA and Nicaragua.
Eads says if congress declines to pass his
bill he will 60 to England and get all the
money he wants from capitalists who appre-
ciate the importance and profitable nature
of the railway.
The city authorities and the property
company, and also number of prominent
citizens, are watching the lcvees closely
and will do all that il may be necessary to
do in order to counterGct the work of
wind and waves on the Mississippi side Of
the city. A barge load of rock, about four
hundred cubic yards, brought down from
Rose Clare by the property company some
days ago, was sunk at the base of the levee
at point, where it was intended to be put
near the juncture Of the new and old levees
The strong wind Of Monday night was
very destructive Of sidewalks, fences and
out.houses in the lower portions Of the city,
The walk leading from Washington avenue
to Walnut street, on Fifteenth street, was
blown away some Of the fences around
the vegetable gardens up town were also
blown down, and not less than half a
dozen out houses may be seen lying in va
rious positions and places on Fourteenth
street, back Of Washington avenue. Great
quantities Of loose wood, mostly sidewalk
planks, are also strewn in much disorder
along the streets On the whole the wind
has been very injurious to Cairo in various
ways.
Constable Guy Morse, j. p. Smith ant