The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-02-26

alloW hlniseli w W VhCClnuteu, lie was
vaccinated long ago. he is not afraid he is
smallpox proof. Thus he talks and thus
he boasts. He comes home; is taken ill at
his hotel or house; his friends call on him
shake hands with him; sit by his bedside
1t is nothing. But the doctors Gomez they
look grave; they shake their heads; they
pronounce his disease small .pox! The
community is alarmed, and the smallpox
begins its work In this way smallpox is
being slowly bet surely spread over all the
land. The unyaccinated tramp and the
unVaccinated commercial traveller, careless
OF their own health, come into a healty
community, and are taken down with the
disease. The tramp is hustled off to the
pest-house, after he has been in contact
with many people; and the commercial
! traveller industriousY spreads the disease al
Cairo, nor increase the IN house.
coming out of the two grea-ITTEE OR.
but the danger to the city is still 4 1882
will continue as long as the water coUotel
ues to mark within several feet Of its pre-, A
ent stage. The Mississippi is falling at al,
points above Cairo and would be falling
here if the back water from the Ohio did
not prevent l.. The fall at Cape Grardeau,
rs told in dispatch from Mr..
Steudevant to r. W. Halliday, was six
inches up to yesterday morning, which is
large fall at this stage of river and
shows that the accumulated waters are
running out fast A despatch from Pa
ducah to Capt. G. D. Williamson dated at
noon yesterday brings the cheering intel
ligence that the rise in the river was be.
coming very slow, only 81 inches in IA
hours and was then rising only at the rate
of "a inch per hour. A five or six inch
rise at Paducah would make but about one
or two here, 50 that it is not surprising
that the river came to stand here at noon
and was declining little, scarcely notice.
able, last night. The same despatch says
that Shawncetown is submerged, the water
having reached the summit and overlooked
the levee Friday afternoon Our latest
news from below we obtain from the
Beacon, published at Columbus, twenty
miles below Cairo, as follows: THE rivers
are in booming condition, and various |
reports are reaching here hourly as to the
rise and fall at other places. 1t is higher
now than in 81, when the town was under
water, and, at this writing, is still rising,
at the rate of an inch or hafnch an hour.
Every available man is at work on our
levee, and there is a strong hope that we
may escape flood Men were at work
yesterday and all night last night, throw
ing up higher levees, and the water is in
some places nearly over the last thrown up.
Hope Of saving our town is very faint with
some, though we believe by unceasing cx-
ertion it maybe done. Sipe water is COM
ing in pretty rapidly in several places, but
no danger is anticipated from this, if we
can hold the levee
Belmont is gone clean under, and her |
people are all in Columbus. Devastation |
and ruin, is the cry that comes from coun-
try adjacent to the swollen rivers. The |
recent heavy rains all over the land, caused |
this second rise. The river has been rising
about an inch an hour here since Monday |
morning. No trains from st. Louis, and |
late newspapers cannot be had for love or
mony"
Supcrhuman efforts are being made OF
strengthen the levec on the north side of |
the town. A thousand men are kept
constantly at work night and day to stave
off any danger at weak spots caused by |
softening of the soil from the waters that
have been standing against them for near
ly six weeks, making bullying out or land |
slide from pressure the greatest danger to
be apprehended That this can be guarded !
against is shown from the fact that the slide |
that occurred Friday has been repaired and
is now the best part OF the levee.
Too much cannot be said in praise of the
conduct Of the firm of Halliday Brothers in
this emergency They have not only fur
nished the "sinews of war" but also a large
share Of the muscle. Their entire bushes
has been stopped and their small army of
employees, with new gangs Of men employed,
their teams, steam boats, barges, mills, mer.
chandse and money placed at the cities dis
posal. The members of the firm reout inner
son night and day. directing and encouraging
citizens and laborng men and working with |
their hands where work is needed. Capt. w. |
Pts interchangeable, leading the men in person
and like nm experienced general has never for
amoment faltercd in his faith that the bat