The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-07-31

made escapes that were quite miraculous
This being true, we have no patience with
those people who object to the riding and
driving of horses wherever the crowd is
depsest. The crowd wouldn't be dense if
there wasn't an attraction OF some kind,
and the idea that anybody ought to be de-
MED the privilege of seeing all that is 60
inc on, because that body happens to be
riding or driving horse, is absurd, abso-
lutey preposterous. If fathers and moth
ers are so solicitous about their children,
and babies, let them keep their children
and babies at home,
We have but slender thread upon
which to hang the hope, now, that New
Orleans is not doomed to another visitation
of the grim scourgc that seized upon that
city last year with such relentless fury
There is cause, and good cause for belicv.
ing, that the epidemic will take on mod
flied form but it will prove severe enough
to send 100000 people flying from their
homes; severe enough to PROSTATE the city's
business and to thus make itself directly
felt drought the whole Mississippi valley,
Reports received yesterday were to the eff
feet that eight cases were under treatment,
and that, despite the thorough disinfection
of the whole neighborhood wherein the
Italian fruit girl died, three more cases
have developed themselves directly in that
locality Every steamboat and outgoing
train is crowded with persons going. abroad
for safety and many Of the river and in
terror towns have established quarantine
to keep the refugees out OF course a
large per cent of these will come north,
and must, in due season, be looked
after
Our correspondent "John" is right
There is nothing in our ordinances to com
pei the woodman to spare that tree; and
save in the strength of the citizens good
right arm, or his more effective shot gun,
he has no protection at all Tor his shade
trees. The suggestion that we bestow less
attention to police matters, and, if driven
thereto, fill up on "scissorings," would
doubtless be popular one if ali our peo-
pie were Johns" The adoption Of the
suggestion would relieve US of the most
disagreeable portion of our labor, and of
responsibilities which, at times, imperil the
symmetry Of our features. But while it
would afford us this relief it would also
relieve us of not few OF our subscribers
who value the paper solely on account Of
its local page; ,and the local page, chiefly
| because il contains the matter to which
John objects. The taste that relishes pro-
vender of that character may be vitiated;
but this we know. that such matter has
become an essential element Of the daily
papcr-so essential, indeed, that no pub
Usher can safely exclude ii. So, thanking
John" for the fattering terms in which he
speaks of The BULLETIN, we must (accom.
modating as we are known to be- decline
to act upon his suggestion.
Our Ballard county friends are both
alarmed and indignant because of the pur-
pose expressed to establish a yellow fever
hospital at Island No. 1. In petition and
protest touching the matter, addressed to
the county judge Of Ballard county, they
say: "lf Cairo wants hospital let her
have one on the point below town, where
she can watch the patients" etc. We are
not aware that Cairo is at all anxious for a
hospital at Island No. or elsewhere. 1t
would subject her to all the dangers that
Ballard county fears. Patients, whether
cured or discharged for other cause, togeth-
er with such as might escape would make
a "bee line" for Cairo, well knowing that
they would find some means of transporta-
ton here, and also Knowing that they
would be cared for in case of relapse. For
these and other reasons many of our citi-
zcns are opposed to the hospital project.
But be that as it may, our Ballard friends
are, to use an expressive phrase, "barking
up the wrong tree" The proposed hospital
will be established, maintained and control
led by the Illinois Board of Health, aided
and counseled by the National Board.
Furthermore, it was and is our understand.
ing that the barge is to be moorcd and kept
in the middle OF the stream, and that the
island would be made to serve certain
quarantine uses. There is bare possibil-
ity that the breaking up Of SUCH an ostab-
lishment by q use Of shot guns, would
involve rather serious consequences.
The two hundred and eighty five
Memphis refugees that came up on the
Ouchita Belle have conceived q mortal hat
rcd of Cairo, because, forsooth, the boat
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