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

General Items.
Eight thousand dollars will be taken
from the city pocket book to pay princi-
pal and interest on intcrcst-bearing scrip
outstanding.
The proposition to compel citizens to
labor on the street or pay an exemption
fee wont work. The council has no au-
thority that We know OF to pass such an
ordinance.
That Levce gravel road is pest, but
8, 800 will be taken out OF the treasury
tor the purpose Of paying sums borrowed
for graveling it. How much would be
the cost Of ungraveling il:
The manuscript of the Comptroller
report, as furnished to the printer, con-
tanned some mistakes, or else we are mis-
taken. But we never did understand fig
urcs, and maybe we and not the report
are wrong.
Mr.. &. II. Phillips, Chief Clerk Cen
eral Freight Office, Cairo & Vincennes
railroad. and by the way an exceedingly
clever gentlemen, has been put into tenn
porary charge Of Cairo Station. Mr.. Geo.
B. Spaulding having resigned.
Mrs. Gev. Beveridge appeals to the
women OF Illinois on behalf Of the Cen
tennial blowout at Philadelphia. The
Mrs. Gov. says Illinois expects every wo-
man to do her duty in this matter. Well,
what will our Woman's Club do about it
The officers OF tn. city will this year
draw out of the treasury $4,000. we
will find a man that will run the whole
thing at half the price, and do it well.
Mr.. Justice Cunningham will do it for
| 81, go, 90, and throw in the carrying Of
smallpox patients to the pest house.
Nine thousand eight hundred and
forty dollars will pay the interest on the
Fox. Howard & Co. bonds, and nine
thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars
interest on sundry bonds of the city.
Seven hundred and fifty dollars will pay
bonds of the city due and becoming due,
before April 30, 1876.
-''T.et us arise and give thanks" says
the ST. Louis Republican 1.-THE city coun-
ell has adjourned till cool weather." Let
Us 90 into sack cloth and put ashes upon
our heads. There are indications that
our city council will soon go into perpet-
ual session, and not adjourn even for
meals. beer or sleep.
In his communication rcsigning as
~ slier of tho Alexander County RanL
Mr.. Lewis stated that he retired to give
the institution an opportunity to procure
the services of some other person at a
smaller salary than he could afford to
work for-to permit it to obtain q cheaper
man. Who his successor will ~ has not
yet been determined.
Our remarks about the Trying up
labors Of the sun, made yesterday, were
premature. The rain did not stop falling
at our suggestion. Q mark of disrespect
that even Potter would not be guilty of.
On several occasions when we requested
him to quit falling, he did so, and dried
up as we said the streets OF the city were
doing.
Judge F. Bross having retired from
the business of building railroad, has
gone into the business Of presiding over
a bank We hope he may find the bank
business more profitable and pleasant
than ralroading. lie Is one ofyour hon
est, driving and he must permit us to say
'whole hog or nothing men" who de-
serve success i" all their hnS,9fss enter
prises.
| Several of the sidewalks recon-
mendcd by the Street Committee are not
needed. We can get along without them;
and, since times are hard and taxes al
ready very cumbersome, wouldn't it be
well in the council 10 not order the walks
built at this time Money is scarce. You
might as well try to squeeze blood out Of
a turnip as many dollars out Of anybody
In these dull times of business stagna-
ton.
The San says, with confidence, that
the city and the county have the legal
right to give the Narrow Gauge stock to
the company to secure the location of
workshops at Cairo. We know that
neither the city nor county has any right
to do any such thing. But the devil
might he whipped around the stump. II
the shops are located here the stock
might he sold, to the men who do the To-
eating. at very reasonable figure.
The billiard table ordinance provides
that no person, without first paying to
the city twenty-five dollars, shall keep In
any saloon, restaurant, eating house, ho-
tel or other place Of public resort, bill
lizard table. Indeed! Where did the
council obtain tho authority to say to
Wilcox or Wetzell: "YOu must pay $2h
to the city before you may put mp 4 bill