The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-04-03
The Daily Bulletin.
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GENERAL LOCAL ITEMS.

night resolution was passed,
at the instance of Alderman Ian
caster, requiring the railroad company to
repair the damage done. The resolution
was amended at the suggestion of Alder
man Patier, SO as to authorize the street
committee tohIve the easterly side of the
avenue filed also.
General Superintendent Hamilton, of
the St Louis g. Cairo Narow-gauge, issued
Tuesday the following circular: "Mr. Geo.
II. Smith having resigned the position of
General Freight and Passenger Agent of
this company, the Office is for the present
abolished, Mr.. Robert Bell is to-day ap-
pointed Assistant General Freight and
Passenger Agent. All communications re.
lating to the business Of these departments
should be addressed to him. Mr.. Smith
has gone TO Chicago to assume the posi-
ton of General Agent of the Red Line in
that city.
-Messrs. Louis DeMontcourt & Co., now
have charge of Capt. W. P. Halliday. Box
and Basket Factory and Sawmills in this
city. Mr.. De Mouicourt is an experienced
lumber worker, from Hickman, KY, who
has made fortune in the sawmill bust
ness. 10 other words, he has been success
ful, and success always implies a knowl-
edge OF details and good judgment in the
management of that wherein it is attained.
Capt. Halliday was probably induced to
turn this important institution over TO the
new management in order that he might
| give his attention more TO his other multi
tarous branches of business.
Judge VIM II. Green, Chairman of the
Congyession Al Democratic Central Com
mittee, has called meeting OF the
| committee for the l7th day of April,
at 2 O'Clock p. IN, at parlor A at The Halli-
| day in this city. The OF ject OF the meet
| Ing will be to select the time and place for
| holding the Congressional Democratic Con-
vention, which is to nominate the next
| Congressman for this district, to fix the
ratio of representation in said convention,
"snd do any other business that NAV prop
ery come before them" as Chairman
Hughes would put it. 1t is thought that
Hon Jno. H. Oberly, of Bloomington,
| Chairman of the State Central Committee,
| will be in attendance at the meeting of our
| Congressional Committee and address
those present upon matters Of vital impor-
lance to the party.
The permanent departure of Mr.. J. Fl.
Mucahey and family from this county,
spoken Of in yesterdays BULLETIN, has not
| yet been positively decided upon, though il
is likely to be soon. MIR. NJ. has bought out
a large and prosperous business in Hot
| Springs, left it in charge of competent
hands, Mr.. G. I. Whitlock, for one, and
has returned home. He will send Mrs.
| Mulcahey down there awhile to see how
the climate and surroundings agree with
| her, and if this experiment shall prove sat-
isfsctory, he will dispose Of his possessions
here and leave 'for good" Mr.. Mulcahey
came to this county in 1858, settling in
Sandusky upon a small tract of land. By
industry and good judgment he soon be-
came one of the prosperous farmers of our
county, and his public spirit made him
leader among his neighbors in matters per-
tanning to the public welfare. He became
finest bottoms In the county, two hundred
acres of which was afterwards included in
the little town of Sandusky and laid off in
lots. He has also for number of years
now been engaged in merchandising in
Sandusky, and was elected to the Board of
County Commissioners several years ago, in
which position he has rendered good SER
vice to the county. No county can lose
such citizens with indifference, aud Alex.
ander county certainly has none to spare.
There are several thousand acres of fine
farming land, all under cultivation, in this
county, which is overlooked every time the
river reaches about forty feet on the gauge
here, and which could be kept perfectly dry
by the expenditure of paltry sum Of
money for levee. These are the farms of
Messrs. Mulcahey, Bradshaw, Fenon, Nav,
Fitzgerald and Greenly-all fine farms and
profitable to the owners when the high
water does not interfere with their cultiva-
ton toe much. The water that floods this
large tract Of land comes in from the river
through little slough probably two hun
bred feet wide, until the river here reaches
height of about fortY.eight feet, when, or
dinarily, the back water comes up from the
inland side of this tract of bottom farms.
It is estimated that levee six or eight feet