The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-07-20


work will be done in such manner as to
render any fear of future cutting or danger
groundless. The work will commence
Immediately. Captain Cole yesterday sent
his men and barges and towboat around
to the point to commence work to-day. The
work as at present laid off will amount to
about $4,000 but will be added to and con.
tnued to twenty or forty thousand If found
necessary. Willow mattresses will be
weighted down to low water mark and
mattresses built up from these and the
whole covered and riprapped with stone up
and down the bank.
The Hon. j. H. 0glesby near rela-
tive of gallant old Dick" of Illinois, and
former resident OF St. Louis, has just res.
cued the City of New Orleans from beggary
and the stigma Of reputation by advancing
$4,000 Of his own funds to pay interest
that the municipal corporation was unable
to meet. Mr.. Oglesby is one OF those
northern capitalists who placed share of
his purse at the service of the impoverished
business interests Of the Crescent city. AS
president of the Louisiana National Bank
he has been of much assistance to the com
mercial interests of his adopted home.
In the court OF Justice 0. A. Osborne
Wednesday civil case Of some importance
was tried and occupied nearly all day. A
New Orleans lime dealer named Gex, had
sued Mr.. F. Vincent, of this city, 20 recover
1880, for quantity of lime sold defend
ant which the latter had refused to pay on
the ground that the lime was spoiled. Mr.
NJ. F, Gilbert represented the defendant and
Messrs. Warder and Smyth the plaintiff.
Attorneys for the plaintiff made the point
that ste lime had not been guaranteed and
was not proven to have been spoiled at the
time of sale, aud the court decided In favor
of plaintiff.
The sources of petroleum are found in
almost every part Of the globe, and the use
of the article would seem well nigh coeyal
with civilization. There is spring in one
of the Ionian islands, which has yielded
petroleum more than 1000 years. The city
of Genoa was formerly lighted by oil from
the wells Of Armenia, on the banks of the
Zaro. In Persian, also, near the Caspian
Sea, at Baku, numerous springs OF petro-
leum have been known from the earliest |
time; and those of Ringoon, on the Ira.
waddy, are said to have yielded, before the
general introduction OF petroleum, some
100000 hogshesds of oil a year.
Mr.. H. c. Brsdsby has now nearly
finished his lsbors upon the history Of this
city and county. He returned here after a
few weeks absence to write up, in cOnclu,
sion, the courts aud lawyers of the county,
AMI with this he is now about through. |
Elsewhere we publish short sketch of Hon.
d. T. Linegar, taken from advance sheets !
of the work upon which Mr.. Bradsby and |
associates were engaged, which is fair sam
pie Of the very attractive style Of the whole
work and will be read with interest Mr..
Bradsby left yesterday for Metropolis, but
will return and leave next week for Wayne
county to begin his sbors there.
Alderman McHale is still at work with
a force Of from forty to fifty men, filling up |
the abrasion made in the Mississippi bank |
by the river. Up TO yesterday about six |
thousand sacks of dirt had been used, three
thousand five hundred Of which had been
obtained from the city, being some that
had been used during the late food, and |
washed and dled. Another force Of men
will be employed in day or two, IN cut
ting brush wood in Missouri, TO be brought |
over for use in the construction Of mat
tress that Capt. Mark Cole is to sink into |
the cavity, for the Trust Property Com
pany, and thus stop all future washing at
that point.
Some people have an ugly habit of
throwing dead rats out into the street 10 |
front Of their premises. Yesterday, within |
radious Of hundred feet, three were
found in very tender state, filling the air
with their rich perfume to the disgust of |
all who came within half square OF them.
One gentleman who was enjoying the sight
and offensive fragrance OF two huge speci-
mems Of the rodent qusdrupeds, right at
his front door, being told by the chief that
he was enjoying himself at the expense OF
public comfort and health, remarked in all
earnestness that rats were public property
and it was therefore the duty OF the author
tiles to take charge Of them dead or alive.
This reasoning will hardly bear the test Of
law, but 1t seems to be the manner IN
which many citizens dispose Of the sub.
ject. II is an easy enough matter for any
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