The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1875-07-14

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an ordinance will stand fire.
Three thousand six hundred dollars
for gas In the street lamps. This makes
us think of oil. Oil Ia "a good thing !;
but oil wouldn't do. Gas only Is practi-
cable, but wouldn't It he well to dispense
with some Of the lamps! There are not a
few lamps that we might get along with
out. We know the city has contract
with the citizens who erected lamps to
pay for lighting them, but dispense with
them anyhow and let the citizen who
wishes sue for damages. Gas is too ex-
pensivc a luxury to Dc burned where
light Is not needed.
Our City Council has respectfully
petitioned Judge Treat to not permit his
railroad men to disregard the ordinances
OF the city! When did Judge Treat be-
come the legislative body Of the City OF
Cairo! Who gave him the authority to
put railroad into any mans hands, and
say, do as you please with this, paying no
attention to city ordinances, orders OF
State courts or State laws? A City Coun.
Gil petitioning a United States court,
with bated breath and whispering hum.
bleness, to not permit Its ordinances to
bc trampled upon by railroad is a spec.
tacle we contemplate with Indignation.
The ordinance entitled "an ordinance
to regulate the construction and use of
railroad tracks within the cooperate limits
Of the city," will soon be in
force. Will it be enforced:
Heretofore the railroad ordi-
nances have been a.dead letter but this
one is not to be, so we are informed. 1t
was enacted to be enforced, and will be.
Mayor Winter will see to this and IL in
doing his duty he is called to Springfield
into the awful presence Of Judge Treat
our people will probably back HIM with
the purse of the city. There are one
thousand dollars in the contingent
fund to be used for this purpose. So, let
the work Of compelling obedience to the
ordinance go on.
Reeves, by his clever singing Of
"Old Black joe" made the song popular
in Cairo. After his happy hit with it at
the Atheneum everybody began to sing
it-young and old Of both sexes. The
boys and girls, on the streets, sang
soft and low" as they passed
to and from school, "Old Black
Joe;' maidens howlcd It at pianos,
aud young gentlemen, with voices as
comely as the "beautiful snow" shricked
1t into maidenly ears. 1t went OH until
MIR. Potter, of the Mound City JoUyual
in an elaborate article, attempted to prove
that we had perverted the public mind
| Of Cairo; had wooed 1t from love of al
that was white into affection for "Olt
Black Joe" and other niggers. He ar
gucs from this that We are not a Demo
crat. and that nothing could be more evi
dent than that Halliday and the Cit,
National Bank are using US. Now, w
protest this is all wrong. Reeves is t
blame. not we and, in fact, we would a
soon read an editorial excursion letter
not urlhh a glass OF beer with the Grea
Caucasian OF Mound City. refuse n gam,
| OF chess with Herbert, or sleep with Do.
Wis, - hear that song. We may be. n.
has been charged, a Niger Democrat
but we are ready to stand up with an,
Bourbon in Southern Illinois and lie
nounce 'Old Black Joe" from morn t
noon, from noon to dewy eve-a Sun
mer's day, and Winters day. too, an
also all night.
NOttce-I.umbeP.
Parties building can buy building mat,
rial at the Box Factory, at the followin
| prices
Scantling and joist, "a feet
and under, ( 10 30 per
Common boards, green, 10 80
Common boards, dry, Il 10
Common flooring, matched
and dressed, 20 90
Clear poplar flooring, match.
ed and dressed, 81 % 9"
Clear ash flooring. matched
and dressed, 30 90