The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-03-23


fires put out and probably eight hundred
men were thrown out Of employment for
three weeks. Colonel Willis, collector Of
| internal revenue, Colonel W. II. Brown, ex.
Representative b. o. Jones, and Others esii-
mate that about $500 acres are overiloweG
| in that county, about half Of which is pnder
fair cultivation, so that all the fences will
be lost. No relief committee Las been or
| ganized, und the citizens say the county
is able to take care OF its own sufferers.
SUFFERING snAwSEETowY.
Shawneetown has levce, but it is no
uncommon thing for the Wabash to come
out end over end, and, when ii strikes full
Ohio it cuts across lots and comes in be.
hind Shawnectown and fairly makes the
people "clim5 the cypress" This time
Shawneetown has had more than the usual
ill.luck, and her people deserve sympathy.
| Governor Cullom sent them 100 tents aud
local relief committees supplied their ur'
gent wants. do not hear that any appeal
has been made to Washington; but certain.
ly the poor farmers of the Wabash and
Saline bottoms are as deserving as those Of
Pulaski county Perhaps the pride OF such
wealthy gentlemen as OK State Treasurer
Ridgway, Charles Carol, Marshall NJ.
Pool Richardson, Judge bowman and
others rcvolte1 at being advertised as
being unable to take care Of their poor.
The equalized value of all the taxable
property IN Gallatin county in 1880 WAS
| $l,554,7 07. Il is not very poor county
after all What Shawneetown needs is
filling up, as nearly all of the south side
of Chicago has been filled up. Shawnee
town is splendid commercial centre, has
two railroads, aud unlimited river trans.
por.ation"
The correspondent also refers TO Cairo;
but he draws such an exaggerated picture
that one cannot recognize even o sim larity
between it and the city itself. Some idea
Of the monstrous character Of this cores
pondcnt's imaginary picture - carrica.
lures, more properly called, can be gained
from the following quotations from his ar
ticle: "By comparison I may say that if
all the south side of Chicago, between the
river and Canal street, Twelfth street and
the Illinois Central railroad tracks on the
Lake Front, was from three to ten feet un-
der water, one could imagine something Of
how Cairo has been. Since the
erection of the levee the highest water till
now was in 1867, which fell seventeen
inches short of the present food, so that
every wave washed over the levee and
threaten a break The lumber
yards were stripped to make boxing, the
coal yards were emptied for material, and
worse than all, the yellow fever graveyard,
the only ground out of water anywhere
near Cairo, was compelled to yield up the
mold that covered the dead that the living
might be spared yet a little longer. Rows
and rows of collins in that graveyard, /
am told, lie bare to-day. Com
mercial avenue and one or two other streets
were filed up some years ago. as it was
supposed above any danger from spe wa
ter, but this time they were several feet
overflow"
1t is not probable that q denial of the
untruths contained in the above effusion,
from any interested, though well informed,
party, will have much effect upon the minds
of those whose belief in Cairo's liability to
overflow and uncomfortably aqueous con-
dition amounts to an inheritance. But even
in the face of this discouraging fact THE
BULLETIN cannot fail in its mission to cor
rect error and promulgate the truth, and
therefore 1t takes occasion to say that Com
mercial avenue, so far from being covered
with water to the depth of several feet IS.
and has been for several
days so dusty that merchants and
citizens have longed for a sprinkling
cart; there IRE not "rows and rows" of vel.
low fever patients collins lying bare near
new levce street, there could not be because
no yellow fever dead we're buried there
there ore no and there were no rows OF cof-
fins living bare anywhere; lumber yards
were not stripped to make boxing no coal
was used ON the evecs, it Is difficult to
sec why coal yards should have been
'emptled for material;" every wave did not
wosh ovrr the leyrcs, and in short Cairo