The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-09-06

llonendonnerwetter," its power is such as to
render entirely impotent, such expressions
as Observation-Disclosures" or Potz-
schnallenbhtz,n which are the tamest, most
tritlng balderdash by the side of it, The
individual against whom "Moses" directed
this awful oath, is doomed man and our
advice to MIN is to pick up his "duds" and
flee to some foreign cline, say Paducah,
or hide his identity and bury himself for
ever in the rocky Businesses of the Arabs
farm
1t appears, after all, that to charge our
merchants with lack of enterprise in that
they do not get more of the business along
the Texas & St. Louis and other railroads
south is unjust to great extent. 1t ap-
pears that our merchants are not so much
to blame for this as the railroads are.
Cairo is being most outrageously disCrim-
mated against in the establishment of
freight rates, which brings her merchants
in direct competition with the merchants
of ST, Louis and Chicago, while at the
same time giving these unfair advantages
over the Cairo merchant. In the matter OF
freight rates Cairo is treated by the rail-
roads centering here exactly as way sta
ton, as Mound City or Birds Point or East
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much, for instance, to ship a carload OF
flour from Cairo to any point on the Texas
& st. Louis road, as it does to ship car
from st. Louis, Mo, to the same point.
Thus the car Of flour would, in effect, be
brought from St. Louis to Cairo for nothing
and then sent from Cairo on TO its destina-
ton for the same sum asked for taking 1t
originally from Cairo. In this way
the st. Louis merchant is enabled
to compete with the Cairo
merchant at Cairo, and can invariably
down" the Cairo merchant, simply because
the latter lives in city of ten thousand
people and he himself lives in a city OF three
hundred and fifty thousand-for no other
reason in the world. There are few retail
merchants who would not prefer to buy
from large commercial city, even if they
ha to pay more for their goods than they
would in smaller city; but when the goods
are placed at their doors as cheaply from a
large city as from a small one, they will
always avoid the latter This state Of things
Is not true alone of the Cairo Short Line
and the Texas and ST. Louis, but also of
the Illinois Central and the whiom Missis-
sippi Central, of the Wabash and the Iron
Mountain, and the Mobile and Ohio.
And even the little ST. Louis and Caro-
naTrow-gauge has given cheaper rates from
st, Louis than from Cairo, to points nearer
to this city than to that But what are our
merchants going to do about it1 They
say they are HELPLESS. The railroad com
panes always seek to protect their through
business at the expense, not only Of their
way business, but often at
loss to themselves, If
a merchant protests against the unjust dis
elimination, hei told that he needn't ship
unless he wants to. If the goods are want
ed below, they will 60; If not from here
then from St. Louis or Chicago. Thus
the matter stands. The merchants of this
city are at the mercy of the railroads and
are being bound hands and feet by them.
Unless the state board of railroad and
warehouse commissioner, can come to the
rescue, the only answer that can be made
to the question asked above is, Nothing"
In ennumerating the evils that would
constantly attend the moderate filling
proposed by the Argus, we tailed to note
yesterday one very important point, namely,
that the principal inlets of sipe-water dur
IN high water periods are the natural
sewers the sand ridges, which run diago-
nally across the city and which are even
now as high as Commercial avenue is, and
higher in places, Experience Of years has
proven that sipe.water does not enter the
city in any considerable quantity, until
after the rivers reach point above forty.
two feet on the government gauge. AT this
stage it reaches the tops Of these sand
ridges IN the city and the sipe.water begins
to percoate through the surface and run
down into the low places. AS the river rises
above TINS point the Inflow of sipe-water
becomes stronger, and finally great streams
are seen to bubbleup like fountains, through
the tops of the highest ridges in the city.
AS now conditioned all this water runs down
the sides Of these ridges into the basins, and
there, together with the rain water, forms
veritable little lakes of from four to fifteen
feet deep according to the length Of
time the rivers remain up and