The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-02-09
THAT PROTEST.

lne following ~ COrrect copy OF tue
protest recently circulated and signed by
the people along the line Of the Cairo and
st. Louis railroad in this county, together
with the names Of the signers
"The undersigned merchants and business
men, residing and doug business in Alex
ander county, on the line of the Cairo s. st.
Louis railroad, pledge themselves each
one for bimselt, and severally, to trade with
some city other than Cairo, and to discon-
tinue doing business with the people Of
Cairo, so long as they maintain their pres
ent attitude towards the Cairo & st. Louis
railroad, in its efforts to secure safe and
convenient right of way into the city of
Cairo
Jonesboro, Ills: Ed Holman, Willis
Angel, B. f. Sauer, G. F. Willard, T. B.
Williams, Fl. G. Macbeth, o. L. Storm, r.
Duen.
Mill Creek: H. Brown, G. 9. Bankston,
Joseph Mayer, W. w. Simmerman, Sims &
Whitlach, f. hurry, Webster & Burkstat-
ler, w. j. Dugan Thos. Lawrence, NJ. d.,
G. w. Waldorf.
Elco: Putnam & Standard, T. H..
Douglass, s. BrileY, w. A. Rails, st. Leger
& Durham, ]. W. Bingham.
Kaolin: W. G. Crowell.
Alto Pass: a. ], Rendleman, p. NJ
Hagler, A. B. Galatin, Harreld & Rendle-
man, J. E. Henderson, Stattan & Lamerau,
S. W. Manginn, NJ. D., Frank P. James.
Hodges Park: B. F. Curtis, Minton g.
Bros, W. J. F'inck, w. W. ireland, Brown
& Stewart. J NJ. Bowles, 3. F. Wilbourn,
J. P. Coil, VIM. Ireland, j. M Craig, A. G.
Anterior.
Sandusky: C. A. Merrill, H. Hunsaker,
@. Harmon, Pollock & Huner, Pat Sulli-
van.
Bernard's MIL: John r. Palmer, Lu-
elleyn Barnard,
Jonesboro: W. NJ. Anderson, B. II. An
derson, A. II .Browell Mezor & Buuehauser
T. F. Bouton, S. D, Hurst, Avian Cook, W.
II. Richardson, s. B. Minton, Walter Try,
] G. Soergel & Co., Nelson Lingle, Joseph
II. Sampson, G. Barringer, Thomas ]. Wat
kins, B. Bexleber, J. p. McLain.
The gentlemen whose names appear upon
the circular, as given above, evidently
believe that the city Of Cairo has, without
any reason whatever, placed legal barrier
across the right Of way of the Cairo and
st. Louis railroad company, preventing the
company from entering the city by route
safe against overflow, and thus cutting off
communication between Cairo and the
country towns along the line Of the road.
That the council of the city of Cairo did
order an injunction gotten Out against the
railroad company is true, but that it did
so without good reason is not
true. The circumstances, which provoked
the council to enjoin the railroad company
from entering the city, entirely justified the
step. The railroad company had been
newly organized The old company, of
which the city was member, holding
stock to the amount of one hundred thou
sand dollars, seventy-fve thousand dollars
of which had been paid up, had dissolved
and the new company had been organized
independent of the city. The old
company had agreed, in consideration of a
right of way into the city and various other
considerations, to keep the old Mississippi
levee, over which it ran in repair. But it
failed to do this. The river came up and,
little by little, the great embankment was
permitted to fall into the water. The rail-
road company could have stopped it with
one carload of rock, and thus kept it's
solemn contract; but it did not move a
wheel or shovel or pick. Instead of
this, it moved its track further inward as
the river encroached, and finally the city,
in self-protection, was compelled to build
a new levee at cost Of upwards Of twenty
thousand dollars. SO that the city
of Cairo had paid out of its treasury, on
account of the Cairo and 81. Louis railroad
company, the sum Of ninety-hve thousand
dollars in cash. Then came the organiza-
ton Of the new company. That legal
notice of the intended reorganization was
given to all concerned is not denied
but the notice was the shortest allowed by
law and did not reach Cairo in time to per.
init representative Of the city to DO in