The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-08-31

tentlon, However it may be, better here.
after.
Men are engaged in hauling logs to
the Ohio river on the Kentucky shore, just
below the upper incline of the Chicago
St. Louis, and New Orleans railroad for
the purpose of rafting them and then trans.
ferrng them to the new Saw mill of Cap
tain w, p, Halliday, which will soon be in
operation.
Mayor N. b. Thistlewooc has engaged
a force of men TO lay the necessary sewer
pipe to drain the pool under and around
the livery stable on Commercial avenue
Just above Eighth street. The water will
be drained into the Railroad street sewer
which will be tapped at a convenient point
opposite the premises.
The thermometer was still quite low
in the northwest according to yesterday
afternoons weather report. 1t stood be-
tween 81 at Lacrosse, and 81 at Shreveport.
The heavy falls were 81 at Lacrosse, 90 at
Leavenworth, 10 at Dubuque. The great
est rise was Is at Yankton. Rain was re-
ported from Chattanooga, Davenport, La
Crosse, Leavenworth, Nashville, st. Louis,
and Vcksburg. The strongest wind was
10 miles per hour, at st. Louis.
An old negro named Mlnton Smith
went to small pond about three miles up
the Illinois Central railroad on Monday last
for the purpose of catching fish. Yesterday
morning he had not returned and his
friends became alarmed and went up the
road in search of him. When last heard
from the party of searchers they had not
found the man; but they found his clothes
| lying on the bank of the pond. Nothing
could be seen of the man. The conclu-
sion at once arrived at was that his hook
and line had become entangled in some
| brush in the pond and that, shedding
his clothes, he went into the water to olsen
tangle the tackle, and found the water two
deep and WAS drowned Whether this sup
position was true or not is probably known
by this time as thorough search was made
in the pond TOR the body. The old man
was well known in this city.
The Mississippi river commission
met in New York Monday and adopted the
following resolutions Resolved that it is
the judgement OF the Mississippi river
commission that the repairing and building
of levees IS set fourth in the resolutions of
the Mississippi river commission adopted
at their session held in the city of New
York on the 18th should be done as part
Of the plan of commission to afford ease
and safety of navigation and commerce
of the Mississippi river and to deepen the
channels, and that the secretary of war be
informed that the allotment of funds and
plans proposed at said session were made in
Pursuance of such judgement of the commits
sion then existing. The commission then
discussed the subject of expanding part Of
the money allotted to levee building above
the mouth If Red river in levee building
below that point. A resolution to that
effect was lost The commission adjourned
to meet in ST. LOUIS, September s.
William G. Coup, the well-known
Snowman, is still in Detroit, and appeared
Monday morning in the circuit court, where
he confessed judgement on five suits in
attachment, the claims aggregating nearly
| 100000. The largest claim was that Of
the Buffalo Courier Company for 80, ZOO,
Cheap exhibitions Of the menagerie were
given Sunday and Monday for the benefit
of the destitute canvassmen. The animals
include the hyppopotimus, valued at $4,000
and two lions, three elephants, one tiger,
three hyenas, wagon load of monkeys,
and varied assortment of goats, horned
hotses, sacred bulls leopards porcupines,
bears, wolves, kangaroos, deer, birds, etc,
etc. Yesterday Sheriff Cllppert appointed
two competent and disinterested men to
examine the property and appraise it at a
fair value. He will get an order Of sale
from the court, and, ADVERTISING the same
ten days, he will sell everything pertain
ing to tue circus and managerie at public
auction.
Street Commissioner Robert Baird
has had force of men at work for several
days laying an earthen sewer pipe on the
westerly side OF Commercial avenue be-
tween Third and Fifth streets. The work
is progressing rapidly, being nearly halt
done yesterday. 1t will be entirely done
in day or two. The sewer is twelve
inches IN diameter, is being laid nine feet
deep, and will connect With the Fifth street
sewer which IN turn connects with pipe