The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-02-26
The Daily Bulletin.
Local News.

iticians, expresses the belief that the Dem
ocrats vii nominate the old ticket.
Something will soon be done with the
trade dollar. A day has been set apart for
considering bill designed to retire it in
some manner by making it legal, with
drawing it from circulation or re-coining it
into standard dollars. 1t is nuisance at
present and congress should lose no time
in doing away with it.
The Courier-J Journal has put legal
blood-hounds upon the track of persons
who stole kilograms intended only tor
itself. kilograms to the Courier-Journal
have been repeatedly stolen by some one at
Lexington, and beside being used in the
home papers as specials" have been sent
to daily papers outside of the state. But,
then, such tricks of telsgraphy were proba-
bly, not confined at Lexington.
-"It is rumored" says the Voice of
Randolph, "that a prohibition journal is to
be started in Sparta within the next fifteen
or twenty days, and that Captain Dan K.
Shields will make this city his home at
salary of 81, 900 per annum, and take in the
counties of Randolph, Perry and Washing
ton as his field Of labors during the cam
paign. This is the rumor, and that COM
mttee has been appointed and are at work
to perfect the scheme"
The superintendent of public instruc-
ton at Milwaukee is of the opinion, after
the experience and observation of years,
that the practice of having the pupils study
at home does more harm than good, and in
some cases results in positive injury. He
contends that it is unnecessary unless in ex-
ceptional cases. In his judgment six hours
day is as much as any child ought to give
to books and study, and that if they are
properly instructed they will require no
more than that to make reasonable and sat
isfactory progress.
-Wicklitfe, Ky, in spite Of the disasters
she has met with of late, and the trouble
in which she is involved respecting the
county seat, is in prosperous state right
now aud presents all the life of q city.
While several important houses were de-
stroyed by fire within the last few months,
others have been put up, some Of them very
substantial buildings. One residence,
brick, would do credit to a city ten times
the size of Wickliffe. Another important
feature is gravel road which runs through
the city straight out from the river. Of
course, the railroads are making things
lively there now because they can't come
to East Cairo, but even aside from this,
Wickltfe is quite a cityfed little village.
Yesterday morning the men who had
been at work on the Mississippi levso un-
der Mr.. VIM. McHale for the Trust Proper
ty company were discharged. There were
one hundred'and ten in all and they had
labored almost steadily by turns for six
days and nights. The work consisted prln-
cipallY of filling and placing dirt sacks,
and the outer slope of the entire levss
from where It joins with the new leves to
the gas works was covered with sacks laid
three or four feet deep along the water
line. Over ten thousand sacks were used
in the work. That this portion of the
levee was we'll protected and in fine condi-
ton to the end of the siege suggests itself
to the intelligent reader.
The Illinois Central company has done
some good work on its tracks at and below
East Cairo during the last ten days, and
even yet it has q construction train and q
large force of men at work on the track!
between East Cairo and Wickliffe, building
rock and bag revetments on either side Of
| the road bed. The company's track there
is above water several feet and seems GER
tain to Withstand even the severe test it will
be put to when the water in the river begins
to fall rapidly, and that from the bottoms
in Kentucky seeks an outlet. Trains could
we'll run to East Cairo now, instead oil
stopping at Wickliffe, we're it not for the
fact that the extremely high water interfsres
with the incline at East Cairo. The Mobile
and Ohio track between Wickliffe and
East Cairo is submerged for a considerable
distance and only held In place by stakes
driven in the ground along the sides a
regular distances. But the damage to the
road bed will probably not be more thar
can be repaired in few days when thu
water shall have fallen sufficiently. Boil
roads are provided with temporary incline
at Wickliffe but as the distance to be rur
| by the transfer boats is very much greater
than it was before, trains are not always
here on schedule time, though there are nc
breaks in the traffic. The Illinois Central,
due here from the north at II o'clock YES.