The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-11-23

on the St. Louis & Cairo road was the cav
ing in of the tunnel about FIVE miles above
Jonesboro. The tunnel is about four hun
bred feet long, and about fifty feet of it is
filled with earth that fell from the ceiling
and sides. A large force of men was imme'
diately put to work, and trains will be run
ming again, 1t is thought, to-day. The To-
cation of the Wabash, the Iron Mountain
the Mississippi Central and the Texas Il
St. Louis papers we did not learn.
An item headed Cairo" taken from
the Anna Talk, is worthy of careful pc
rusal by every Cairoite. The item is well
written and tells some important truths
about Cairo. The writer attributes the
fact that Cairo has not grown more rapidly
to the correct cause; failure on the part
of her citizens, as a rule, to TRY to develope
her resources. The writer of the article
certainly has correct conception of what
may be done here by well-directed energy
and active enterprise; and if our people
generally could be made to understand the
matter in the same way and then to act
persistenily upon that understanding,
Cairos grand possibilities would soon be
made to msterislize
Two suits have been filed IN the Cir
cult Court by Mr.. Angus Leek, for Louis j,
koehler, against Jacob Waiter, the Eighth
street butcher. One of them is an action
for trespsss, the damage being fixed at ST.
600; the other an action for SANDER, asking
$4,000 as damages. The acts which
prompted these suits were perpetrated sew
eral days ago, Tuesday we believe. Mr..
Walter, while under the influence of liquor,
abused young Koehler, calling him, among
other things, COW thief. The latter re-
sented the abuse by knocking Walter down
and kicking him. Subsequently Walter,
armed with large butcher knife, went to
Koehler's shop, and finding the doors
closed and no one inside, broke a number
of the window panes in the door and cut
out the sashes with his knife. This is the
ground for the actions brought There are
also two city cases pending against Mr..
Walter, which have not yet come to trial.
Young Koehler was fined for assaulting
Walter Tuesday,
The New York Sun has been looking
into the matter of appropriations by con-
gre.s for furnishing the Presidents man
sion at Washington, and reveals the follow
ing interesting facts for the consideration
of the taxpayers of the nation. II appears
that before the late civil war congress
usually appropriated every fourth year
sum Of $4,000 or $4,000 to refurnish the
White House for an incoming president.
Such parts Of the old furniture as had been
injured we're sold, and the proceeds of the
sale were added to the fund for the new
equipment. But since the accession of
| Grant the appropriations have increased
enormously as the following shows; 1870,
$4,000; 1871, $4,000; 1872, $1,000; 1878,
$4,000; 1874, $4,000; 1875, 10000;
1875, 10000; 1877, $4,000; 1878, S9O,-
900; 1879, $4,000; 1880, $4,000; 1881,
100000; 1892 $4,000; 1883, $4,000;
1884, 5000 total, $272,000. 1t will be
noticed that $4,000 we're voted for furni.
ture during the term of President Hayes,
and more than half of this total in the
years 1879 and 1880. If this money was
honestly applied to the objects for which it
was granted, the White House must have
been thoroughly equipped in every respect
when General Garfield entered it as Pres.
dent But it is an open secret that scarcely
any of the articles of ordinary household
use were found in the executive mansion
on the 4th Of March, 1881. They had mys-
teriously disappeared with the exodus.
Now that Col. Taylor has taken a
hand in the work of raising and strengthen.
ing the Mississippi levee from New Levee
street down, it will move forward with
greater dispatch than it has done. The St
Louis and Cairo road began the work OF
raising Its tracks on top of the levee some
time ago. under agreement with Col. Tay.
lor. 1t proceeded with the work steadily
but with less energy than it might have
done, and it confined itself exclusively tc
raising its tracks and widening the top Of
the evee two feet, making it fourteen instead
Of twelve feet wide. But the company made
no attempt at restoring the old slopes, per
haps intending to do this after it had finish
ed raising the tracks; and Col. Taylor
believing this to be the most impcrtan
part of the work, and seeing that the com
pany, If it continued the work at all. would
not be able to finish the slopes by the time
water came up and prevented the work, I'm