The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-10-16

t as many as five or six laborers here, to stay
a whole year or more, or as long, at least as
! single walnut tree could be found that
is capable Of conversion into lumbcr "But
of course" etc., las USUAL ETC., we'll not Sc
, cure this saw mill!
We have the promise Of very vigil
ant officer of the law who has the faculty
of being at all places at all times, and Of
, seeing in all directions at the same instant
OF time, that the next boy caught in the
act of destroying public notices, shall be
prosecuted to the full extent of the law. As
this resolution is equivalent to the turning
over of new leaf in Cairo police affairs
we feel called upon to give the maliciousy
and viciously inclined boys of the city, this
warning. The law provides severe pen
alty-heavy fines and long terms of impris-
onment, but the boy who through pure
cussedness, violates the law, forfeits all
claim upon the mercy of either judge or
jury. He makes his own bed and should
be forced to lie in it.
Capt. Hill and Capt. Dugan joined
hands in the determination, yesterday, that
the intolerable wreck of the barge Thorpe
that inexhaustible source of varied and
well-detined stinks-should "come out of
that" In pursuance of that determination
they put in very effective days work.
Much of the wreck was blasted out of
place and removed to deep water, and the
whole ugly, offensive thing will be put out
OF sight by night-fall this evening. Capt.
Hill who worked in his armor, says the
rotten oats and corn yet in the wreck, are
hip deep in some places, and form mess
that no man, not armored against smells,
can endure any longer than he can hold his
breath. The wreck is being removed at the
instance of Col. Taylor, who wants the
landing relieved Of the obstruction it forms.
A coored individual who answers to
the much-blessed but sadly misappied
name Of Thomas Jefferson Webster, came
in from the country, yesterday, and got
booming drunk. His very respectable
name didn't shield him from arrest, how
ever, and he was pulled into the placid
presence of Squire Comings, who
weighed the case carefully, and
found that the scales of justice balanced
at six dollars. Accordingly that sum was
named as the fine. But Webster was ex-
ceedingly contrite, and pinned much for the
liberty to leave town and hoof it to Os
Greenley's. Yielding to the.telows impor-
tunities the Squire gave him six hours in
which to make his start. He improved the
opportunity and started at once without
standing Il moment or the order of bis
starting
The Board of Health gave expression
to most important truth when it said that
the present privy system is most dangerous
to the future health of the city, and demands
an immediate, thorough and radical change.
More poison is difused through the ground
and atmosphere by the privy vaults of the
city, than by all other causes combined. 1t
is undeniably true that those privy vaults
that leak, Gas ninety-nine out of every hun
bred do pollute the ground those that are
tight poison the air. The more they hold
the worse they are, because the older such
undiluted wet filth is the more dangerously
poison it is. This being true, it becomes
the duty ofevery householder in Cairo to
give the matter his serious attention. We
should make common cause against this
great source ofcontagion and disease, and
come to halt only when we have achieved
the mastery, or exhausted human ingenuity
and effort in the attempt to achieve it.
Although farmer may have his fields
enclosed by fences as high as the Bunker |
Hill monument he is invested with no
right on that account to dog or injurc
trespassing cattle. The. thing for him to
do is TO notify the owner of the offending |
cattle. Then, if he has lawful fence, he
can compel the payment of compromising
damages. If he does not know the owner
he may pen the cattle up, and, in due time,
and after the arrangement Of certain pre-
liminaries, compensate his losses and ex-
pcnses, by selling his captives. But he |
possesses no more right to dog or abuse cat.
tie caught in his comfeld, than he has to
abuse the same cattle when they are iorag-
inc on the commons; and it is held that the |
owner ofcattle that may have been manned |
or killed under such circumstances, has
valid claim for damages to the extent oftha
losses he may prove. This is humane law,
just and sensible; and it might pay some of
our ncighboring corn-ralsers to study its
provisions