The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-12-05


fierce denunciations at the people of Cairo
because some one or two jolly fellows
among them deprived an innocent celestne
OF his locks-all of which was q myth, If
any further proof were needed that the
Times man did the people of Cairo great
wrong, and that the gods always defend
their own and destroy those who offend
them, it would be furnished in the sudden
collapse of the Times even before it had
an opportunity to apologize. A more sure :,
more sudden visitation of wrath from the
inhabitants of the clouds upon the head OF
a rash mortal is probably not on record !;
and we hasten to warn the Vienna papers
and all others who have made, or who in
tend to make, asses of themselves, and I'M
pore them to pause and consider, 10 hum
iliate themselves before those they have,
or would have, wronged and ask pardon for
the act or the intention. We implore
them to do this noble thing, lest they, too,
find themselves entangled in the lasso of f.
nanca difficulties hurled from the clouds.
But, seriously, while we see in the failure
OF the Times a fearful example Of the GER
tain, speedy consequences of abusing Cairo
aud her people, we regret that il should
have been the Times that aroused the d.
vine anger, II it had been the Chicago
Tribune with its special.river-committee
correspondent we should not have been 80
exqusitely grieved and but few people
would have found it out, but the Paducah
Times, the leading Republican paper OF
Paducah and one of the delightful fixtures
of our exchange table i is too bad
entirely too bad We might quote, with
slight variations, some of the gushing pol
itical headlines published by the Times,
in comment upon the results of the late
elections, particularly the line which read,
| Pull down the curtain and toll the bell,
for all the country has gone to hades." We
might, we say, with some propriety, quote
this beautiful sentiment, substituting "the
Ppducah Tines for "all the country; but
that would be cruel and would not express
our feelings toward the Times at all. We
desist,
Col. J. w. Parsmore, president OF the
Texas and St. Louis railway, has returned
from a trip over bis line as far down as the
White river, in the state of Arkansas, and,
speaking of the progress of construction,
he said to reporter he found everything
quite satisfactory, considering the fact that
there have been some drawbacks the great
est of which has been bad weather from
time to time. He found the bridge over
White river completed, with the exception
Of the draw span, which will undoubtedly
be in position by the 10th of the month.
The draw span is 800 feet long, and in the
same bridge are two fixed spans of about
eco feet each The bridge over the Arkan-
| sas river, he says, is the longest structure of
the kind south Of St. Louis and despite
the fact that it has been both costly and
difficult in its construction, will be finished
by January lst, and possibly sooner. This
bridge is LOO feet long The bridge
across Red river will be finished between
the 18th and 18th Instant. The grading on
the entire line in Arkansas has been finish
ed and the contractors are pulling up
stakes to leave the field. There remain
| only about 30 or 80 miles of track to be
laid, and two large forces are engaged on
this work. The whole line in Arkansas
has heen laid with steel rails, weighing IS
pounds to the yard. The track is being
baLlasted with sand and gravel, and is
gradually being put in good condition
but the material being used for ballast
makes a solid bed, which IN case of floods
does not wash out, but remains, as it &C.
ments and solidfes. The passenger equip
ment is now arriving. Two trains have
just been shipped from the Detroit shops
Of the Pullman company. There have been
finished also six elegant sleeping cars
which are at Chicago awaiting orders for
shipment There are ten sections in each
of the sleepers, a state.Toom, smoking
room, toilets, and two extra berths in the
smoking.room, the same as in the regular
sleeper These cars are very little
narrower than the sleepers used Oh
the standard gauge roads. Freight
cars are arriving daily for the Arkansas
division, The last of the eight hundred,
contracted for with the United States Roll.
ing Stock company, will be received during
! the month.
Sunday and yesterday the committee,
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