The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-02-23

against Mr.. Ii uis Cahey. The negro came
to Mr.. Cahey's home and said he had beer
sent there by Mr.. Smith, with load o.
wood. To repeated protests that he mus
be mis- aiken, he replied that he WAS sure h,
was right aud insisted upon bringing the
wood to Mr.. Galley. He was finally pre-
vailed upon, however, and left. Shortly
after he returned, saying that he had sold
the wood to Mrs. Parsons across the way
for 81, but, Mr.. Parsons not being at home
and Mrs. Parsons not having the * .ct
change, the latter had requested him ia
come to Mrs. Cahcy and ask her to advance
half dollar, the balance due him, and
that Mrs. Parsons would pay her as soon as
Mr. Parsons came home. Mrs. Cahey gave
the scounire half dollar and discovered
soon after how nicely she had been duped,
for the negro had no wood, of course sod
none to Mrs. Parsons, ETC., etc. THIS was
the story az told by the witnesses for the
prosecution, and the rascal Was found
guilty and given eighteen months in the
"pen." The next case taken up was that
of a negro named Young, one of trio who
had burglarizd the cornmeal mill of
Messrs. Wood & Bonnet, and stolen guam
tity of flour. The pros cu,ion presented
Its case and had concluded the examination
of Col. Wood when court adj urned unti
this morning. Young's partners in the
crime were Jerry Cox, who pleaded guilty
some days ago, and one Lee, who is out on
bail.
This fact should be strongly impressed
upon the minds of orr neighbors who are
victims of the present flood: There's no
luck about Calro's escape from similar
fate; but twas work-timely, well-directed
and expensive work, and good deal of it,
performed long before AS well as just be-
fore the water again reached the tops Of
our levees that saved Cairo from the same
dire calamities in which her many sister
cities above, below and around her are in
VOWED. During the last two ye RS not less
than fifty thousand dollars VS. spent on
the levees around this city, by the city
government, the Cairo Trust company and
the Illinois Central railroad company.
Cairo did not, like some other communities
better (O situated than she
with respect to the rvers,
let her energies subside with the fl 'od of
'S2, nor yet with that of 'S3; she did not
follow the example of the man in the leaky
cabin, made famous in "The Arkansas
Traveller" But she acted upon the theory
that what was is likely to be again and,
after defending herself in true Spartan sty lie
against these two overwhelming q Ods
coming out victorious in both, though lit
tie disfgured 10 the first set-to, she set i'm
medately to work f'rtiiying herself against
the next onslaught anticipating even more
powerful attack than ever, by preparing
bulworks that would effectually withstand
much greater force than that exer!ed by
the floods of the two previous years. The
anticipations were jus,ii ID at points above
her, but not here for while the fl ,o1 Of "a
will be the "high. water mark" at all points
above here, at least for year to come,
here the fl ,ol of 83 continues to bear
that distinct IN; and hence Cairo's forthca-
tons were not tested to the extent it was
expected they would be, and not near to
the extent of their real, standing strength
The result 50 far is It u;h better than was
expected, and our people may rejoice over
their third victory IN a contest with the
elements, more signal than either IF the
others. While the waters have not yet sub
sided, the levee5 have been tested all they
are likely to be on this occasion, for the
river has stood at over forty feet for nearly
three weeks now, and at over forty five feet
for ten days.
A Kentucky girl gIorltcs in head OF
hair which is seventy inches long and very