The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1873-09-27
GENERAL ITEM Ms.

Tho financial panic now affecting other
ci,ics, has not reached Cairo. All our
banks arc running under full sails, and
public confidence in them 10 unimpaired
The City National is in % FER cent better
condition than it was a. this lime one year
ago, and tina. is saying 3 great deal, and
the First National lie in At least so per
cent. better condition. We have all con-
hdence in them, and will allow our bal
ance Of fifty cents to remain on deposit
and feel no nervoGsncss whstever. II we
had thousand dollars (prodigious sum,
will we ever see it in our eager grasp p
We would feel o. secure a. we do with our
small, bu. to Us, precious balance in SAT-
fords hand.
| By the way, how is it that some men
can &c. moueyispd others can't Weare
aware Of the fact that We are = repu.ed
millionaire, bu. for all tha. there is no
| church mouse in Cairo, and the
Lord knows Cairo church mice
dou't live high IA poor Il, we,
but ,here i. Davis OF tho sun gathering
in tho dimes by the dray load How dee.
he manage il; Tha. is the question which
aiiiic.s II. more .orely thar yellow fever
does Shreveport. But then Radical edi-
tors are all cu.sed lucky fellows.
We sre reminded tina. this is glorious
weather. j; is delicious, AID is an invi-
ta,ion to yellow fever OF the most press
ing kind. We hope tho dresd.ul Yellow
Boy will not accept it to any great extent
A little Of him goes grea. way. With all
well.regulated communities.
And by the wsy-(now be mindful that
we do no. wish TO alarm any timid soal)-
is it truo that several yellow fever patients
were pu. of u s.esmtont at this port yes
,orday? We are in search OF Informs
tion. We hunger aud thirst after it.
Information 10 our meat and bread. To
US |, is wins, whiskey.is said to DO to an
Iri-hmsn and lager beer to n German.
And .hs. Is the reason We Inquire; Is il
true that yellow fever patients arc put of
steamboats, at this city?
And this reminds us that Jones says
there is n steamboat on tho way from
Memphis TO Cairo loaded down 10 the
| guards, moro or less, with yellow fever.
If Jones ia correct, that boat should be
looked after, and We suggest 10 Mayor
Wood he should not stand upon the order
Of his looking but look at once.
And now comes Capt. Phillips who
declares that no sick persons have boon
put off any boat, and tho city physicians
who say that qusrantining would do no
good Wherefore We are constrained TO
declare that the city authorities havo done
all they could have done under the cir
cumttsnces.
But will we DO blamed for calling at
,en,ou to the fact that sometime ago we re-
marked in our peculiarly casual manner,
that it was probable our authorities would
make an attempt to prevent the approach
of yellow fever TO Cairo after it had
arrived that they had fallen
into the habit of locking the
door after the horse had been stolen. If
our memory is not treacherous, We limited
that the habit Of that kind Of stable
locking was not . habit the cultivation Of
which is desirable.
But why should We dwell upon the
fever 1t is not a.subject to incite to
laughter. In fact 1t 10 Il solemn subject
not to be discussed. We would therefore
call tho attention Of our readers to the de-
Lovee with Cairo and Vincennes gravel,
and to the ordinance amending tho ordin.
ance providing for tho graveling. We
have no hesitation in saying the 9. Il V
gravel is the best we ever saw, and that
that ordinance is tho most bunglingly
drawn ordinance VIC ever read. To the
gsnt!emanly ordinance drawer who wrote
that ordinance, We offer an apology, but
don't retract. He is no doubt a clever
gentleman, but he had better advertise tC
sell at cost, dispose of his stock with OK
petition, and 60 out of the ordinance
business.
Mentioning the council, We are 70
minded that Mayor Wood called meet
ing of the city council last night to con
suit with the physicians Of the city on thu
subject Of yellow fever, and the expedi
ency Of establishing quarantine. Drs
Wsrdner, Evans and Gordon met with tn
full board of aldermen. The unanimou
opinion Of the physicians was that quar-
: antine wss no. necessary, but that house
f. in which the disease has occurred SHOULD
DO fumigsted and disinfsctsd-fhe diseass
/, We say, which may or may not DO yellow
= | toy., Tho ioctora call IL IN alaral favaF