The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-02-29
MORNING, FEBRUARY 1884

only be To furnish an argument that could
be urged with equal force against most any
other point in the county, for when the
river is as high as it was ten days ago, it
will surround many farm premises and
cut off many road and thus prevent travel.
There is considerable talk these days
of changing the gauge Of all the southern
railways from their standard of five feet to
the northern standard of four feet eight
and one-h.lf inches. This would involve
great expense, an enormous one in the
| aggregate, and one which it seems the
ingenuity of this country should be able to
obviate. The present plan of changing
trucks which was done here before the
Illinois Central changed the gauge of the
southern division aud which is still being
done in making connections between the
Illinois Central and Texas and St. Louis,
accomplishes the object, but at too great
loss OF time. Here's an opportunity for a
handsome fortune to some enterprising in
ven tor.
The theory that the large quantity of
accumulated water in the low places of the
city In former years was due very much to
imperfect closing OF the sewers, promises to
be exploded and sent in fragments to the
marines. Those who feared that Cairo
would this year have to deny herself the
pleasurable sensation of a sipewater bath,
and anticipated consequent boomlet for
the doctors, will be very agreeably disap-
pointed; for It is probible that by time the
river shall have stood above forty.tSo feet
as long as it did in former years we shall
have all the water We want to give the city
good securing out when the sewers are
opened-and that, too, with every artificial
connection with the rivers closed as tight
as bottle-a saltwater bottle, We mean,
of course.
The Anna Farmer aud Fruit Grower
gives the Illinois Central railroad company
managers the following we'll deserved com
pliment: "The Illinois Central railroad,
for several weeks past, has been the only
railroad between Pittsburg and New Or
leans which was not entirely disabled by
the high water. 1t has run its regular land
many extra trains right along. This is
quite triumph for this old reliable road,
which is every day improving in its bust
ness, both passenger and freight, and be-
coming more and more popular with the
masses. All this is in great measure pue
to the effcic Management of President
Clark, Traffic Manager Tucker, Supern-
tendent Jeffreys, General Passenger Agent
Hanson and General Freight Agent II.
Tucker-a corps of the officers unexcellei
for enterprise and energy
Up to last evening only two or three
people bad been Turn shed with ratiOns
from the lot left here by the Caldwell
Tney were from the bottoms in Kentucky |
and had by the meerest chance learned that |
there were any rations within fifty miles of
them. Those two or three people were
furnished with about three hundred rations
in all leaving four thousand seven hundred
still on understanding, of course, that the
original number left here was five thousand.
These rstions, it should be understood,
were left here for those in need Of them in
the Kentucky aud Missouri bottoms, and
not for any one here, m a therefore not in
the hands OF the local authorities who re-
fused to receive them. But 1t seems now
that they are destined to waste their frag-
rance in obscurity, unless SONG effort be
made to discover those for whom they are
intended.