The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-02-09

son and others concerning the forthcoming
work. Tho book 10 nearly ready for dis
tribution. Major Barber had few speci-
men pages of the work, which indicated
what the whole would be like, and judging
from them we do not hesitate to say that
the book will be in every respect up to the
high standard anticipated by the press and
public. Besides seven thousand copies
which will be distributed in the cities along
the road and its branches, five thousand
copies will be sent to England to be
distributed among the club rooms and read
ing rooms and public houses there. The
books are so attractvely gotten up that
they will be extensively perused and not
passed over as ordinary railroad posters
and timetables usually are.
Thursday Receiver Woodward, of the
Texas & St. Louis railroad, filed petition
With the clerk of the U. 8. Court at
Springfield, in which he. prsys for assist
sncs to enable him to properly manage and
sxtricats the road from its present embar-
rassed condition. The receiver states that
although he has made all due diligence in
preparing an inventory, he has not yet COM
plsted 1t, the road property being in such
scattered condition that he will not be able
to file it for some days. When he took
possession of the property it was charged
with liens for taxes already due to the
States of Missouri and Arkansas, and to
the various counties, cities and towns in
the above states, and they still remain due
and unpaid. By the revenue laws of the
state Of Arkansas, the 10th inst. is the last
day within which said taxes can be paid
without paying in addition to said taxes
severe penalhes-25 per cent. of the face
value of the taxes assessed on real property
and 100 per cent. Of the face value Of
taxes assessed on personal property being
added to the said bills. The income and
profits of the road, the receiver sets forth,
are not sufficient to pay the actual running
expenses. He AYERS that money sufficient
to pay of and discharge the taxes due and
q lien on said property to the state of Ar
kansas il about $4,000, and the amount
necessary to pay the same in Missouri
about $4,000. This the petitioner prays
for. Judge Treat, in answer, ordered that
the receiver be permitted to issue deben-
lures for sum net exceeding $4,000 at q
rate OF interest not exceeding 7 per cent,
the proceeds thereof to be by him applied
to the payment of taxes due by said rail-
road corporation-th tax bills when so
paid to be returned to the court, together
with other vouchers by him received in the
course of his administration.
-Paducah carpenters are busy making
fats for citizens who can't swim. The
town is being rapidly depopulatsd. About
Q dozen of its best families arrived here by
the Fowler yesterday and took rooms in
the Clark abomination and in "Pinch."
Those who remain are panic.stricken, and
fierce contests over the possession of half
finished fats before they leave the shop are
of almost hourly occurrence. Thursday
one of the pslatial Ohio river steamers ly-
ing thers was boarded by mob and
stripped of every life preserver in the cabin
and on deck, and she had to lay over to
await the arrival of new supply, which
were brought by the next boat down and
conveyed on board at midnight in mid
stream. Others are engaged in cslking the
floors and sides of their houses so that they
will float. In their utter desperation the
authorities have contracted for feet of
ten barge loads Of sponges, which are to be
dumped in heap some distance above the
town, so that they may absorb and hold
back some of the flood before it reaches
Paducah. The fire engine and company
have also been ordered out to a point on
the river at the upper end OF the city, and
the hose laid through the streets to the
lower end and by keeping the engine and
company constantly hard at work, pressing
in new hands when the old ones tire, it is
hoped to cause very considerable quantity
OF water to pass the city without touching
it. The mayor has also, by proclamation,
ordered out all the boys with their syringes
nasal syringes-to aid the fire depart
ment in their noble work of squirting the
food harmlessly past the town, and the
very few boys who didn't have these very
useful and amusing instruments were fur
nishsd with them by special act of the city
council. With all these agencies and pro-
cautions, and many Others too numerous to
mention now, the few who remain 10 the
doomed little settlement vainly hope to es-
cape complete humiliation by the rushing
torrent that is now almost upon them. 1t
would be useless to point out to the poor,