The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-01-09

vent, by injunction or Otherwise, the extern
sion Of the tax. As Nj G.. never neglccts
or unnecessarily postpoles business, the re-
quircd measures will nj once be set on foot,
The lIibcrnian Fir company want Il
new public cistcm constructed somewhere
on Washington aycnIr between Twelfth
and Fourteenth streets, and asked the City
Council u order its construction. The
Council, instead of complying with the re-
quest referred the mater back to the com
pany, coupled with the intimatOn that il
the residents of the righborhood would
raise the 5000 require by section - Of
chapter of the Revised Ordinances, the
city would not he backward in the perform.
ancc OF its part, As only poor folks
live in the immediate ncighborhood, the
necessary 5000 will scarcely be forthcoming.
AT the Council meeting Tuesday night,
! Aldcrmap Paticr moved that the price Of
liquor license for the ycar 1879, be fixed at
800, his motion cmbodying instructions to
the Ordinance committee to prepare the
! bill for an ordinance to that effect. A lively
discussion ensucd, but upon call of the
ayes and nays, the ayes, assisted by the de-
csive vote Of the Mayor, mustered four
votes and the nay, three. Contemplating
the composition of the Council, however VIC
see but little chance for the adoption Of
such an ordinance. There seems To be
very strong disposition in the Council to
ignore the complaint, Of mo business, etc.
that come up from the saloon keepers, and
to let the license question severely alone
The saloon keepers Of Cairo and sun
dry persons who are not saloon keepers
have joined in petition to our powers
that be" praying that, because OF the great
loss Of business occasioncd by the late
epidemic, the price OF saloon license be re-
duced for the period of siXmonths, to 500.
Upon the motion Of Col. Wood to table the
petition, Messrs. Rttcnhousc, Wood and
Yocum voted aye, and Foley, Paticr and
O'Callahan voted nay. The Mayor voted
nay, because, as hs said, the petition was
numerously signed, and was entitled to
reference to the proper quarter Where
upon, on motion Of Alderman locum, it
was referred TO the Corporation Counsel
coupled with the request that he return it,
with his opinion, to the next meeting Of the
City Council.
We make note, in another place, Of the
seventh burglary that has been committed
in Cairo during the past ten days. Most of
the members of the police are old residents
and old policemen who know at sight
nearly all the thieves and cmcksmcn that
visit Cairo; but tn chap, now in the city
battle them completely. The police have not
been able to gam even Il satisfactory scent
Of the scoundrels. They have concluded
therefore, that new butnot unskilcd hands
are at work, whose faces and conduct dur
ing the day tell 20 stories. Again we urge
our citizens to oi! up their old blundcr-
buSses, load them up with lid-litlrrS, rail
road spikes, cgg.bcater, and broken bottles
and whenever they can drawa bead on an
undoubted burglar, let him have the Whole
cargo. Shoot with the view Of doing mi,
chict-to the burglar,
-NIcssrs. p. b. Frach Il Co.. own the
"show-boat' that lies grounded at our
wharf, and desiring to employ their time as
best the may, they applied 10 the City
Council, Tuesday evening" for a special per-
mt to give exhibitions. On motion Of
Alderman O'Callahan permission was given,
Mcssrs French 4 Co., to pay for the same
at the rate Of $? for each performance. 1t
! seems to us that, in granting this pcrms.
| sion, the Council disposed of the ordinance
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a very summary manner. We have not
/ learned whether the Mayor sanctioned til"
proceeding or proposes to veto it. Certain il
is that an ordinance can neither be super
coded or set aside by Il mere resolution.
1t would be an unstable form of govern
mcnt where regular ordinances could be
upset or suspended by means Of Il nature 50
/ summary as those OF Tuesday evening.
Judge Green returned home yesterday
morning to discover that, an hour or two
! previous to his arrival, his residence had
been burglarzcd. The villain or villains
had effected an entrance into the basement
and from thence gained the dining room
and the sleeping apartment Of the Judges
boys. From the dining room II quantity of
silverware Of an undetermined value, was
carried away, and from the room of the
boys, (who had just been supplied with
elaborate outfits with view Of going away
to SCHOOL, clothing of the value of one hun
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