The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-02-21

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business is uninterrupted.
A telegram to Rector F. P. Davenport
yesterday morning, from his wife at Me-
tropolis, made brief mention Of the destruc-
tien of property there and announced that
her father, Col. Willis, who was in one Of
the houses wrecked, had his right leg
broken.
Everybody in Cairo is happy over the
present situation of affairs, and the outlook
for the future brlghtens. The only enc
thing necessary to add the drop that will
fill your cup of pleasure to overlooking Isl:
"Attend the phantom balls of the Mystic
Krew on Mardi Gras night, Feb. 20. 1t
One hundred men were at work on the
old Mississippi levee all day yesterday, for
Col. Taylor, repairing what little damage
had been done by the wind storm and
waves during the night before. The dam
age consisted principally of abrasions on
the water line and bags of dirt were freely
used to repair them.
Owing to the flood which prevented
trains from making connections at several
southern points, the Ferguson Dude"
combination did not arrive here Yesterday
and there was no show at the Opera House
last night. But the "Monte Cristo" troupe
comes from the north where trains are run.
ming on schedule time; hence no dlsap-
pontment is probable with regard to this
troupe, which is to appear here next Friday.
Now that it is thoroughly demons
trated to our most tim)rous citizens that
our levecs are capable of outstanding the
greatest pressure that can be brought to
bear against them, We can afford to turn
our thoughts to lighter and less gloomy
subjects. Laughter should temper our
seriousness, and nowhere can we better
forget our cares and troubles than vt the
phantom dances of the Mystic Krew at
Temperance and Krew's Halls on Mardi
Gras night, Feb'y 26. DON'T forget the
date. 1t
-Bulkheading was begun on Ohio levee
yesterday about noon, by direction of the
mayor, ana by six o'clock last night the
whole stretch between Fourteenth street
and the St. Louis and Cairo depot was
fenced up, and dirt sufficient thrown along
the inner side to keep out eighteen inches
more water than tie gauge then marked.
The work was not really necessary at the
time; it was done more as precautionary
measure and it Was thought best to antic-
pate even an impossible rise during the
night.
The high grade ghost has materialized
again and is stalking through the streets,
as in the full vigor of life, from early morn
till long after the shades of night have en-
veopsd the city in gloom. To those who
espoused his cause less than year ago,
his shadowy presence gives no uneaslness,
but those few others, who, but q few
months since, gloried)in having assasslnated
the monster, fancyins that they had buried
his carcas deep in the forgotten past, are
surprised now and trsmble with fear at
sight Of the spectre, striving hard to escape
the memory of bad job badly done.
Tuesday afternoon Hiram Hill went
over to Kentucky to look after his house,
: He found the storm had st three of them
adrift, sending two down the river, the
third he caught aud anchored out in the
woods. Going to neighboring house In
his sklif, he found 1t just falling to pieces,
: and some twenty-five men, women and chill
dren huidled up exposed to the storm on
corn pen that stood on higher ground.
BY making three skilf loads, he got them
all to safe place, but without scrap of
provisions. Yesterday he got a tug and
took to the starving refugees enough to last
them until something can be one for them.
Mr.. Hill loses his houses and all his fences.
Arrangements were made yesterday be-
tween the city authorities and Capt. Gray,
OF Gray's Iron Line, and Capt. knight, Of
the Mississippi river commissions corps,
to have the barges belonging to them and
under their control at this point anchored
! in single and double file all along the city's
leVee where there is .most liable to be
danger from the action of strong waves
Capt, Gray's huge barGes were strung along
Ohio levee from the stone depot down to
the whartboats, and Capt. Knight had five
OF the large government barges taken from
the fleet at East Cairo around to the Mis-
: sissppi side of the city to be anchored
II along the city's new levee, to be followed
n by more if it should prove necessary. This
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