The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-02-12

made the river ct its flood study for year,
is that We will probably have fifty-one feel
Though at points above the flood exceed
that of last year It is noteworthy fact tha
the smaller streams below Cincinnati, fror
which the food of last year received al
immense quantity of water, are this yea
comparatively low and quiet. Some O
them are from ten to thirteen feet belov
what were last year when the Ohio wa
about at its present stage here. This fact
il is firmly believed, will have the effect o
holding the food down, for the Cincinnati
rise alone will not make an inch here t
= foot there. In former years the smalle
streams below Cincinnati gave US the mos
of our water and these sources are this yea
comparatively dry.
-Paducah has gone hellitysplit. AS a
town she lies buried in one of the darl
chambers of eternal oblivion, forty feet DO
meath heap of dsfunct raj road aud man.
utscturlng schemes. She will live only
in the memories of her creditors and hol
demise will be regretted most by them. A
few Of her people who have not availed
themselves of the hospitallties and security
offered by Cairo and her people, are still
there, hanging painfully upon the ragged
edge of despair and clinging tenacieusly
to the grim phantom Of departed hope
which linger tantalizingly on the margin
of seducsive expectation. Their condition,
mental and physical is deplorable indeed
and it would be but an act of common hu.
mainly if the civil authorities of the com.
monwealth invoked the military power to
compel the poor, deluded people to leave
the dssolate spot they once called home,
and seek permanent refuge and comfort in
Cairo, or upon some of the few other emf,
nences that stand forth like so many Ara.
rats along the shores OF the mighty Mlssls.
sppi and Ohio. The people of Cairo will
not remember the insults hesped upon them
by the representative paper of the Inflated
town, believing that the people Of Psducsh
were not responsible for the insults, nor in
sympathy with the author of them. The
people Of Cairo tssl kindly towards the
people Of Paducah, which is amply proven
by the treatment accorded the many unfor.
Inmates goa in all, including the one res.
cued about Q o'clock last night from a di.
lapidated shingle), who were picked up
during the last few days, as they foated
and despairingly by here, cling
ing to fragments of their wrecked homes
that were being hurried in the rapid, re.
leutless current passed this city toward the
the gulf-the gulf of everlasting bliss, or
that which burns with fire and birthstone,
Is they were saints or sinners.
In spite of the fact that the situation of
those who still cling to the site where once
The city stood is most wrstched, and would
cause the heart of any spectator to bleed
with pity and long for an opportunity
70 give relief, yet, after gazing . while as
did citizen of Cairo who was up there
Sunday, one can not help having his sense
Of the grotesque, the ridiculous, strongly
excited. Pherhaps no where and never in
The history OF the world has the saying that
necessity is the mother of invention been
more wildly and humorously illustrated.
Families living in trees that once lined the
principal thoroughfare of a town, sur
rounded by wilderness of household
Effects of every description, hanging in con-
usion from limbs above, below and all
round; the little one, resting in swings of
curious construction, the mother fishing,
While the lord and master is floating
around astraddle of q plank taking
and wishing for pie--this is
from the ludicrous side of the direful
situation and it is but
ona picture of thousand similar ones that
might be drawn, but they are 50 few as
with the horror-inspiring Incl
dents that continue to occur daily, that We
refrain from enlargng upon this side Of the
subject now.