The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-03-22

William Ballou, New York; John McNal
Q Gl6vervile, N. Y; Theodore Adams, Phi
! adelphia; G. G. Moses, Bath Me-. and job
(, Felt Osgood, Boston. A little over $i25
/ 900 shares of stock were voted out of $3.50
00O The board of directors meet in Bos
: ton April ed for the election of officers.
. The largest, most variel and finest dis
play OF notions and millinery goods may b
+. seen at Mrs. Williamsons place Of business
on Seventh street to-day. 1t
The late high water intcrfered some
what with the running of the machinery il
the Cairo elevator and il Is likely that be
fore the next high water comes upon us
some important changes will be made il
the way of raising some of the machinery
several feet higher than it now is.
The fine, new steamer, City ofSt. Louis
will arrive here Friday, tomorrow, from
St. Louis, on her first trip south. She will
have large party of distinguished plea
sure seekers aboard. Captain Shields ex-
tends an invitation to all friends OF the
Anchor Line company here to pay the ele-
CANT craft visit on her arrival here.
A meeting of the street committee last
Tuesday it was decided to remove the OBJ
struction in the sewer leading from what is
known as the Singer pond to the pond be-
low opposite the postofice. Commissioner
Baird carried out the decision of the com.
mittee Wednesday morning, and the water
from above ran in a rapid current through
the sewer to the pond below, out of which
it has more ready outlet TO the river,
In anticipation of the raising of Ohio
leyee to IS feet, the Illinois Central COM
psny Is preparing to also raise its depots
and freight sheds and platforms so as to
conform with the new condition OF things.
These will all have to be raised about three
feet and we understand that an order to be-
gin this work on the stone depot has
already been issued.
The Beleville and Carondelet branch
of the Cairo Short Line, extending from
Belleville to East Carondelet, will be com
pleted aud open for traffic in few days.
Work on the branch has been in progress
for several years, but its completion was
retarded by high water, which prevented
piles from being driven near Its eastern
terminus The road was built for the SC
commodation of the coal business, its length
being about IS miles.
The New Orleans newspapers express
alarm at the probability that the Misssis-
sipi river will, at an early date, be diver
ted into the Atchafslaya, and that New Or
leans will be left on shallow pool medi-
tating sadly over her lost grandeur. BY
examining map, II can readily be per-
ceived that if the DETECTION Of the Missis
sippi, at its junction with Red river, into
the Atchafslsya is not promptly arrested,
the Mississippi from Red river down will
become phantom stream. The Atchsfs.
lava channel, which is wooing the old
father of waters from his accustomed path,
runs directly to the Gulf Of Mexico at 3
pointy seventy or eighty miles west OF New
Orleans.
of late there has been very little
switching on the Wabash tracks, on the
lower end of Commercial avenue, during
the day time; but residents down there say
that during much Of the night time their
slumbers are much disturbed by the run
ming back and forth Of engines aud trains
1, is evident that the company is trying to
do as little switching there as it possibly
can without Gripping its business too
much until such time as it shall be able TO
complete arrangements for doing It al
elsewhere but, Of course, in order to give
the residents there complete relief now the
company would have to stop business en-
tirely.
Cairo elected her first mayor in 1859
and he was Col. Taylor who was elected
seven consecutive times in as many years,
elections being then held every year FL.
Watson Webb succeeded Col. Taylor in
1862; Col. Taylor was again
elected in 1853, then came
Judge D. j, Baker, then Capt. Thomas
Wilson, Jno. W. 1'rover, DR.. Holden, Hon.
Jno. II. Oberly, Captain Thomas Wilson
again, Hon. j. NJ. Lansden, Col. Jno. Wood,
Hon. Henry Winter, and lastly Capt N.
B. Thistlewood. The term was changed to
two years with the election of Mr.. Lansden.
All but one of these gentlemen are yet
alive, the exception being DR.. Holden who
died but few years ago.
Yesterday afternoon the mayor called a