The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-07-27

w. WV A~NS~, "nu cxCeptlOnH
TAKEN AT the present rate Of progress, the
contest now on hand and that of Foley and
Nott,will consume the whole of next week
1t stands our quarantine officers in
hand to determine the truth of the MANY
stories in circulation concerning the steamer
City Of Helena. tits very positively stated
that the G. 81 V. railroad sold Louisville
tickets to as many as fifteen or twenty Mem
phis refugees who arrived here on the Hell.
ena. Deck passengers stated that the boat
landed few miles below and few miles
above Memphis. taking on Memphis people
at both places. If these reports prove true,
our Board of Health, should declare abso-
Lutte quarantine against the line of packets
to which the Helena belongs
Country people visiting the city with
teams ought to know that shade trees in
front of city residences were not grown
merely to provide shade in which they may
halt their wagons for feeding purposes. If
they feel disinclined to drive into the wag-
yards of the city to feed their teams, they
should drive to the commons, and not mon
opolize city shade trees that were grown
for an entirely different use, A span of
horses on Washington avenue, yesterday,
abandoned by their driver, kicked up a
fight over their feed, and not only fright
ened group of children that were playing
on the sidewalk, but seriously imperiled
their lives.
The subsistence of the yellow fever ex-
element in our midst has gone on until
but few OF our people are disturbed by the
thought of it. The confinement of the ep-
idemic to Memphis for a period of two
weeks or more after her people had found
domicile in all parts of the North and
South, is fact so encouraging that alarm,
almost everywhere, has subsidized. 1t is I'M
doubleday true that all danger is not over;
but there is abundant cause for hoping and
believing that continued vigilance, careful
attention to the laws of health will secure
to us complete exemption from its ravages.
In this work every citizen can bear part.
While much responsibility rests upon our
authorities, the individual citizen has duties
to look after, in his own home and. about
his own premises, which cannot be neglect
ed without peril both to his own and the
public safety. These duties suggest them
selves and need not be recounted.
Mr.. Pierce, of the New Orleans Times
(now in St. Louis was passenger on the
City of Helena. He declares that he was
not only surprised, but "dumb- founded" at
the looseness of our Cairo quarantine. He
had witnessed the quarantine processes at
New CLEANS. Had seen the quarantine Of
fcers take NOTHING for granted; but board
every boat, search every nook and Granny;
inquire and investigate; fumigate every
body and everything, and then, after day
or two's detention, let the vessel pass, pro-
vided nothing suspicious had been detected
Here at Cairo he saw the tug approach the
City of Helena, and then heard the follow
ing colloquy:
'Any sickness aboard"
"None."
Did you land at Memphis coming up2n
'No."
"All right, then; come in"
This was the beginning and end, Mr..
Pierce protests, of the quarantine to which
the City of Helena was subjected, before
entering The port of Cairo.
Is Mr.. Pierce romancerl
The impression seems to prevail among
large number Of persons that the back
county taxes being collected by Sheriff
Hodges, from payments, and sales of real
estate, are available for use by tie County
Board. That is not 50. All such taxes are
paid in Old orders and bring no available
revenue whatever into the county treasury.
The net county revenue for the current ifs.
cal year will fall short of $4,000, less than
it has been since 1860, and but little, if any
over one-tllird what it has been some years
since that date. AS levy has been made
each year, to the full legal limit, this fall
ing oil in county revenue is brought about
by the continual reduction, for the past few
years, Of the equalzed assessed valuation
Of property within the county, the amount
of taxes levied thereon, being reduced
correspondingly with the assessment. It
takes very close management on the part of
the County Board to spread this limited
revenue over the expenditures required to be
made for running the ordinary county gov
ernmcnt, leaving scarcely dollar to use IN
building much-needed roads and bridges
throughout the county.