The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-05-26
THE DAILY BULLETIN SATURDAY MORNING. MAY 90 1888

some slack-handed attention had been Civ
On to these bars from the earliest times
Even in 1871, NJ. de Pauger, a French en-
gineer, had recommended a system fol
securing them away, by combining the cur
rent, not materially different from that
which proved 80 successful one hundred
and fifty years later"
MIR. Peter Neif has now positively de-
termined upon rebuilding the Planters
house property. He has already one hun.
dred and twenty-five barrels of lime and
one hundred barrels of cement ready for
use in the building, and be will have work
commenced in little while now, 80 as to
have the houses ready for occupancy before
the close of the summer. He will have the
houses built by day labor, furnishing all
the material himself, which he believes to
be the more economical plan. The new
houses will be Of the samewidth and length
as before, twenty-five feet wide each and
one hundred and twenty feet long; but
they will DO two stories high above the
evee only to the depth Of fifty feet from
the front, the remainder to be- only one
story above the levee.
The particulars of the tragedy at
at Hodges Park Thursday forenoon, of
which brief mention was made in yester-
days paper, are about as follows: The negro
had agreed to do a job of work for Messrs.
George and Edward Hodges, brothers of
Sheriff Hodges, in consideration of which
he was to receive steer. But he obtained
a loan of the steer before he had commenced
the work aud then paid no attention TO his
agreement. The work remained undone
and on Thursday Messrs. Hodges and a
third white man went to the negro, to eth
or insist upon the performance Of the work
agreed upon or to take back the steer. The
negro talked saucily at first, but finally
consented to give up the steer. The steer
was In the Negroes yard and one of the
white men opened the gate while the other
went in to drive the animal out, but was
met by the negro with club, who, with
the remark "I've got you just where | want
you now and guess I'll settle you right
here" came toward him with upl lifted club
to strike. Hodges retreated, but was fol.
lowed up, when he drew his revolver and
fired. Immediately after the shot was
tired, the negro, who is great, stout fellow,
dropped his club and made rush at
Hodges, grappled with him, wrepched the
pistol from his hand as from child's, and
was making desperate efforts to discharge it
It Hodges head, when the latter's brother
,ame to his assistance and shot the negro
'nce with such effort that he released his
lold upon Hodges and is believed to be in
LANCER OF death. These are the facts as
,iven by witnesses and they proved the
ction OF Messrs. Hodges to have been so
learly case of self-defense that 40 arrests
we're made. The negro has the reputation
# being desperate fellow and the neigh
'orhood in which he has lived would con-
ider itself blessed in his removal.
"A correspondent of st. Louis paper
rites concerning the condition Of gulf at
louth of the Atchafalaya as follows: "The
ulf is very shallow for many miles from
he mouth of the Atchalsya, while it is
cry deep at very little distance from any
ne of the mouths of the Mississippi.
is perhaps not far from the truth TO say
nat if the Mississippi should change its
curse OF 60 down the Atchafalaya, the
louth of the Atchafalays in 100 years and
erhaps in so years would be 100 miles
lIther out in the gulf then it is at present.
he vasts deposits of the Mississippi pass
ng into the gulf through the Atchafalaya
'ould fill up the gulf in the neighborhood
the river in comparatively short time"
nd commenting upon this paragraph, Mr..
|. 3. Elliott, member of the Mississippi |
liver commission, makes the following
.rong points: "These facts may disturb
he serenity with which Col. Miles contem-
lates the entire destruction of New Or
,ans as seaport-serenity extremely |
'othing in the rush of our daily struggle
'r bread things, but we can't be happy all
yer. The sage in the story of Rasselas |
'as often purplexed with the difficulty of
'gulating the weather, and the sage Of
lelena will, l trust, endure patiently the
rouble he will have to get his 'largest |
cean steamers" into or out of the Atchafa-
lya. While the Commercial Gazette of |
cincinnati, edited by Mr.. Halstead, is COM
lenting the friendly relations between
hat city and the people Of the great valley, |
nd irresistably attracting their patronage
its home readers by insane hostility to