The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-09-05


naTow'gauge road be a new one and 1t
trains jump the track on an average of onc'
in two weeks, the cost Of keeping up tn
rolling stock is greatly in excess OF that o
the old-establshed broad gauge road, which
has comparatively few wrecks. Mr., Churcf
and Agent Milburn concur in the opinion
that the Iron Mountain is now, in every
branch, more than holding its own agalns
the little narrow-gauge and will continue
TO do so.
--Balsau, the French diver who came tC
this country to swim the Niagara rapids
has now fully decided to make the attempt
Before his departure for New York he said
that he believed that he could float to the
Canadian side, and also that he would be
able to 90 ahead feet first If so, it was
only question of his ability to maintain
his breath during five minutes at the wild
est part of the chasm and he was willing to
take his chance for life in getting five
chances for securing fresh breathing space
of second or more during each Of those
five minutes.
The Argus has been talking in q vague,
very indefinite sort Of way about the great
cost OF raising the streets of the city as
proposed, and by representing every cent as
a dollar, has succeeded in magnifylng the
mole hill of cents into mountain Of dol.
lars We can not help but feel a cold
chill coursing through our veins at the bare
thought of what ponderous, incalculable,
overwhelming pile the cost of NOT doing
this work would be to Cairo, if the Argus
mans Munchausen brain were to compute
it by the same rules which have governed
him in finding the cost of doing the work
We consider it very MODESTO fix the amount
that Cairo has lost, by reason OF being ten
feet or more below high-water mark, at
much more than it would have taken to
fill the entire city up to sixty feet above
low-water mark by the government gauge.
The Lambert g. Richardson Dramatic
company, who open the theatrical season
at the Opera House Monday night next,
will be remembered in the Bankers
Daughter" and I'D mites last year, and
who were pronounced then the best COM
binshon which visited US during the sea-
son. 1t has been determined that the open
ing night shall witness the presentation Of
that sterling comedy, "The Honey Moon
with Miss Julia Blake in the charming
role of Juliana, in which she displays sew
eral most exquisite costumes productivity
Worth, and which were made for this de-
lightfull character. The inimitable Harry
r ,binson, whom we all remember, is one
of the main attractions of the entertainment
Let the opening night be a rouser. Tues
day night "Batchelors' will be presented,
one of the funniest OF all comedies, in which
the entire company will appear,
The Cairo Iron and Machine works, Of
this place, are now being crowded with or
ders for their machine tools, which are Civ
ING the very best satisfaction wherever in
troduced. Mr.. Reed has Just returned from
St. Louis, where he received orders for four
lathes of different sizes from Messrs. Hill,
Clark & Co., Of that city lie has just ship
ped two lathes to parties in New Orleans,
and is now in receipt of orders for two more
from the same firm. His lathes have re.
Gently been purchased by the Western Nail
works, two by the City Foundry and
Machine works, and one large size by the
Beleviile Skeim and Pump works, that is
to be shipped this week, All three firms Of
BeleviIle, Ill, lie will also ship one 90 in
lathe this week to firm in Union City,
Tenn. He has recently added one new
drill press, and is about putting in two
new plauers and four new lathes to increase
his capacity. Considering the dulness of
times, and that most eastern manufacturers
in this line of machinery are complaining
Of slackness Of orders speaks well well for
90 h;s ,,,l,
1t is just as we expected and pre-
dcted. The Argus does not like the opin-
ion given by Mr., Cregier the eminent civil
engineer Of Chicago, concerning street Ill.
ing in Caro- 1t prefers that of its own en-.
gineer, Mr., Charles Thrupp, on the ground
that he is better posted with regard to
Cairo's condition, etc, than Mr.. Cregier is.
1t is evident thar the Argus demand for the
opinion Of some eminent foreign civil en-.
gineer" was hypocritical one-was made
upon the understood condition that such
"emnent foreign civil engineer must ex-
press an opinion that would agree entirely
with that Of the Argus, or it was mo co."
1t is needless, OF course, to tell the Argus
Al.