The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-04-20

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arc kept under strict quarantine no further
cases will occur except by introduction
from the river or one of the railroads.
The authorities have the cases now known
under strict control and are watching them
closely.
Mayor ~Thstewood and Capt. w. p.
Halliday inspected the Mississippi lcvee
sipe,watcr outlets yesterday afternoon and
fouad them still doing good work. The
canal connecting the upper and lower
ponds was allowing a constant flow of a
stream about four feet wide by eight or ten
inches deep, and the levee gap was still
emitting good sized stream, though less
rapidly, MS the water inside has gone down
considerably" Luke Edwards having been
reduced not less than five feet, and the up.
per pond about two feet.
Again, after an interval of more than
two months, the festive whistle OF THE
BULLETIN steam engine is above water and
its voice is heard in the land welcome mu.
sic to the ears of THE BULLETIN force and
especially to those of the pressman, and of
the "deyil." The storm is over; the waves
have receded, as it were; and fires are once
more burning in the furnace where, for so
long "Lake Oberly" has held high carnival.
Through all its troubles aud trials and
tribuations THE BULLETIN congratulates
itself that it has neither missed On issue
nor reduced the Of its reading matter.
-Four or five sections of hose belonging
to the Hibernian fire company bursted at
the fire of Monday night, leaving that COM
pany with but few sections of hose fit for
use While the pressure to which the hose
was subjected by the pumping apparatus
of the transfer steamer McComb was great
er than that to which it is usually subjected,
it was not near as great as the hose was
guaranteed TO stand by the rubber company
which sold it to the city. 1t seems that if
the bose had been properly tested when
bought it would have succombed then, and
the boys would have been spared sore dis
appointment and the city. the expense of
purchasing new hose so soon.
The real origin of the grea, fire of
Monday night remains MYSTERY. The
Waterman knows only that after having
set the fires in the boiler room, and re-
turned there after having attended TO other
duties, the fire had enveloped the room and
was beyond his control. He rushed TO the
telephone and requested the CEN
trail office to give the alarm down town,
which WAS done. In the meantime the
flames spread TO other parts of the estab-
lishment, which were filed with lumber
cut inIo shape for fruit baskets and boxes,
all as dry as tinder,- which burned like oil
and spread with marvellous rapidity. What
more than any other one thing
to the rapid spread Of the fire, were proba-
bly, the shavings which were conveyed by
an endless chain from the great planning
machine to the furnaces. II is probable
that the fire first reached from the brick
boiler room to the main building by means
Of the shavings conveyor.
Under the head Of "Cairo March 49,
the Chicago Times of the 18th says:
$50 far as known at the present writing the
fiuit Of this and adjoining counties has es-
capped the frost, and the prospect is there
fore gobd for large and early yield.
Strawberry picking should begin not later
than the 25th. Wheat is heading out and
promises fine crop. Business is improv-
ing here. The water in the low places Of
the city is now fast leaving, and will soon
be thing of the past. 1t is taking its
flight by five sewers through the Ohio levee
and by an opening made for its especial
benefit through the Mississippi levee close
to the junction Of the new with the old
levce. This opening is four feet wide at
the bottom, and the stream that passes
through it is eighteen inches deep. A sew
er will probably be placed in the opening
for future use, though it is held by some
that recurrence Of the present difficulty
from sipe water will be obviated in the fu
ture by the plan already published in the
Times, of digging ditch across certain
sand ridges, and pudding the same with
clay. The experiment will certainly be
tried this ycar."-The correspondent gives
tolcrably correct statement, the only er.
ro- being with regard to the dimensions
of the Mississippi levee gap, which was
nearly three times as wide as he says.