The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-03-16


BULLETIN that as soon as the water shall
have recedcd sufficiently, a large force Of
men will be put to work and kept at 1t un-
iii the works shall be finished He has
found some difficulty in making contracts
for the piping and machinery with the
large foundrics and machine shops of the
east because all OF them had orders ahead
but he has succeeded in concluding con-
tracts with several Of the principal estab-
lishments in New York and Boston, which
are busiy engaged in preparing the piping,
machinery, etc.
The committee Of Eve citizens, APP.
pointed by the committee Of twenty-five
citizens, appointed by the taxpayers at the
Tenth street hall on Monday night one
week ago, met in the Office Of Mr. Wood
Rittcnhouse yesterday forenoon and pro-
ceeded to prepare for the duties imposed
upon it. The duty Of the committee is "to
confer with the various roads on the ltyee
question" and as the committee is promised
conference with Col. Hamilton and Re,
ceivcr Smthcrs, of the Cairo and st. Louis
railroad to-day, and was warned
in advance that these gentlemen
'came to hear, not to make, propositions"
the committee determined upon series of
propositions which it viii submit to the
gentlemen named at the conference this af-
ternoon. The conference will probably
take place at the council chamber this af-
ternoon.
Henry Houston, the young negro who
was taken with varioloid in the old "Bnm
gard" rookery at the corner Of Seventeenth
and Poplar streets on Monday, was remov-
ed to the st. Mary's hospital by order Of
Chief Myers, and is now isolated there
with the three other cases and doing well.
The origin of his case is not positively
known, but it is certain that it did not orig
mate in this city. He could not have got
ten the disease from any Of the marine
cases previously in the hospital, because tle
time between the coming Of the prescntin-
cumbents and IIOuston's case is too short,
and between any previous cases and Hous-
tons is too long, to justify such a conclu'
sion. 1t necessarily follows, therefore, that
Houston must have come in contact with
the germs of the disease outside of this
city. This is the more probable since he
is sort of bohemian, running of on shcrt
trips on the several roads and steamboats,
every now and then.
He was also son Of the proprietor Of
the Gilsie house, one of the principal hotels
Of New York city, was the silk skull-caped
young man, named G. W. Wallacc(0 who
was given orders out Of town by Chief
Myers on Tuesday; 50 he told NJ. j. W.
Hill, of the Planters house, TO whom he op-
lied for lodging. He entered the hotel
office with the air of a young Vanderbilt,
and when he was refused the courtesy Of
free board and lodging on account
of his distinguished descent, he
became indignant and left the
office, declaring that Cairo was "thc d-dst
id town he had ever struck" But he
returned little while afterward, boldly
strutted to the dressing room, prepared his
toilet. cast longing glance into the dining
room, fingered about the Office and posted
himself as to the route to the sleeping
rooms up stairs. But when he had done
| all this his meditatioas were suddenly
broken in upon by Clerk Hill,
who informed the young gentleman
that he, Hill, believed that he, the young
gentleman, was cOntounGed scoundreI
| and that lac must leave the house never t.
return. The order was promptly and
strictly obeyed.
THE BULLETIN has been consistent in
the assertion that Cairo has suffered con
paratively little from high water this season
and her people have little reason to be dis
Outraged on that account. Cairo suffer-
more in an indirect way than she does in &
direct way, just rs the eastern wholesaler
suffers indirectly because of the destruction
ofthe property and the trade Of his western
customer. Cairo merchants suffer part
culary in this way. The country arounc
Us is submerged, the people aud their LITTLE
all is promiscuously huddled together upor
little knobs of ground surrounded by al
unbroken sea Of w0ter. Their crops arr
ruined, their homes are swept away, the
stock is drowning, and they are starving
or spending their savings for the absolute
necessaries Of life. Many of these suffer
ing people are tributary to Cairo; they ar
customers Of Cairo merchants; in prosper
Gus times they contribute largely to Cairo
commerce, to the prosperity of Cairo's mer