The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-11-28

And good 1t must be,
For its enemies re in the minority.
For five its the best
Create and behest,
Our patrons cry with stentorty.
This piece of poetry was written by our
special poet. He has since died.
IN. Bit wasn't the cigar, but the pc,
etry, that killed him. If
Over car load of the terra Gotta work
Intended to be used in ornamenting the ex-
terror walls of the Stafford Memorial Library
Building, arrived yesterday from Chicago
Is is very fine work and requires careful
handling. Mr.. Candee was himself present
nearly all day yesterday, while twas being
transferred from the cars to place of safe
ty. MessTs. Lancaster s. Rice are pushing
the building forward as rapidly as possible,
and IN spite of the many severe changes in
the weather detrimental to building enter.
prises, the walls are rising steadily and rap
idly. They hope to have the building en-.
closed before spring.
The Mobile & Ohio road and the Hi
nois Central are engaged jointly in building
a transfer shed at East Cairo, and they will
also set up car hoist there before long.
The former is about one hundred feet long,
and will be used to transfer freight brought
down on the Illinois Central for points
along the Mobile road, into Mobile and
Ohio cars. The hoist will be used to
change trucks under sleepers, and freight
cars containing through freight destined
either way, so that passengers, etc., may
continue on their way without change of
cars. AT present this transfer OF freight ia
made at Jackson, Tenn, and the Mobile &
Ohio road loses the charges on freight in
tended for it, from this point to that and
vice versa. The change will add still
little more to the lite of East Cairo.
About $50 o'clock yesterday smoke
was seeu to issue from the roof of one of
two frame cottages standing back of Mr..
N. Feith's coffin shop, at the corner of
Eleventh street and Washington avenue,
The alarm was given as soon as possible,
and it was not long before all five of the
fire companies in the city we're on hand
with engines, ETC., and hard at work. The
two cottages adjoined each other and we're
connected with the main building by
long one-story structure. The fire spread
rapidly and soon enveloped the two cot.
tages. From these it caught the long build
ing in spite of the efforts of the fire com.
panies, and these three little buildings we're
totally destroyed, as was also barn stand
ing near them on the north side. The
main building was saved after much work.
and after everything it contained, including
doors and windows, had been removed.
The contents of the other buildings we're
also saved The two cottages also belonged
to Mr.. Feth and were occupied by fami.
lies. In the middle building Mr.. Feith
had his workshop, dining and kitchen,
while in the main building down stairs was
the coffin store and up stairs the residence.
The loss will probably fall between two
and three thousand dollars, while the in.
surance is $4,000, held in companies repre-
sented here by Messrs. Wells & Kerth.
The Arabs brought their steamer out and
got II to working in good fashion, so as to
be prepared in case the fire should spread
to the other frame buildings standing all
around the burning ones.
The committee on police, Jail and fire
department met day or two ago and final
ly settled the question of procuring hose
for the Hibernian and Arab fire companies,
which has for several months engaged the
attention of the city council. 1t was high
time that the matter was being settled, for
the companies named are really in need of
the house asked for The principal point
in dispute has always been, whether the
hose should be two inches in diameter or
two and-a-half Those who acknowledge
that, in times of many great fires, the city
fire department might be aided very mater.
tally by the several transfer and ferry |
steamers constantly lying in port, but which
are often unable to render that aid by rea.
son OF lack of hose, the twoinch city hose
being too small for their pumps, have adj
vocated procuring two-and-a. half.inch hose
IN order that, in case of necessity, the
steamers pumping apparatus may beutilized.
Others IN the council have opposed this,
principally, no doubt, because the hose
already on hand was nearly all OF the two
inch size. The committee has finally end.
ed the dispute by ordering five hundred feet
Of two.and-a-half.inch hose, from the B. F.
Goodrich Rubber company, of Akron, Ohio
Before ordering the hose. however, Comp.
troler Howley telegraphed to Peoria and