The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-07-22

regulations and all the ordinances Of tbo
city relating to the public health. The
rest OF the proceedings were Of little pub.
lie consequence. Ten saloon bonds were
approved, as were the bonds of Milton
Jenkins for the performance of a sidewalk |
contract, and of P. II. Corcoran for the |
filling Of the Cache bridge approaches. On
motion Of Alderman Halliday tho Street
Committee was directed to have proper cul- |
verts or pipes placed in Cottonwood slough, |
and the proper filling made therein, when,no |
further business appearing, the Council ad-
ourned.
AT the Board of Health meeting, yester-
day morning, the action taken was merely |
auxiliary to that which had preceded it,
DR.. Rauch was present, and made several
suggestions to the board, concluding with
the assurance that the State Board will un-
dertake the payment of two of the police
constables found necessary to an enforce
ment of the rules and regulations Of the
| Board of Health. He alsoinvited the Board
to be present at the meeting Of the State
Board which will be held in this city to-day.
Alderman Halliday then introduced the fol-
lowing resolutions, which were adopted.
"Resolved, That no person whatever
from boats that are under the rules Of the
Board of Health, now forbidden to land at
! this place, be permitted to come ashore
from said boats, but that the quarantine
officer visiting said boats be instructed to
have filled any orders tor supplies wanted
by said boats, and see that such supplies
are delivered aboard the boats, and that no
person from the city be permitted to go
aboard any such boats" And it was fur
Their Resolved, That the Mayor be re-
quested to appoint four special police
constabes under the authority conferred by
resolution of the city council Of this date,
and also to employa competent secretary
for the Board of Health After discus
| sion of other matters, but without taking
further action, the board adjourned.
The demand of the people and of the
OCCASIONS for a rigid quarantine. 1t is
believed that upon the completeness Of our
quarantine depend not only the lives of
many of our citizens; but the future of our
city II is demanded that Memphis refu-
gees be excluded; that they
shall not only not be per-
mitted to land from boats or cars; but that
they be sent out Of the city, If they sue
coed in running the quarantine and obtain
domocie among us. 1t is demanded that
the old game so successfully practiced by
refugees last year, and to some extent
this year, of going beyond the city and re-
turning by rail, on foot or otherwise be
guarded against and prevented. We can
DO and require, all this and more determ-
idly when we reflect that the Memphis ref
ugees have no right, moral
legal or divine to carry their
deadly poison where they know it is liable
to spread in the form Of an epidemic. They
should be compelled to seek those points
where the dreaded germs they carry with
them, can affect nobody but themselves
The present is rapidly assuming struggle
for self preservation, wherein the humane
impulses must not be allowed to control
II will be- from this time forth, every
community for itself" The towns below,
in the interior as well as upon the rivers,
are squaring their action to such a purpose
and Cairo must be equally true to herself,
or suffer the consequence.
The suggestion that the skitfs be jerkcd
out Of the river, so that careless, unprinci-
pied or reckless persons may not, as was
the case last year, ferry refugees into the
city under the cover ofnight, is good one,
and should be acted upon. The people are
anxious to applaud any and every move
ment that is calculated to increase our
security against the ingress of Memphis re-
fugees. To leave the city and support them.
|, selves while absent, cost our people, last
. year, from $4,000 to $4,000 There is
not man in the city who would not now
prefer to see even twice that sum expended,
if by the expenditure, the people are saved
from the experiences of last year In other
words, everybody would prefer to pay out
his money and have security at home, rather
than to make the expenditure for security
abroad. is therefore, hoped and believed
that neither the Mayor nor the Board of
Health will hesitate on account of the cost,
, about adopting any measure that may pre-
mise increased security to the city. If a
line of sentinels around the levce will af.
ford us safety, the people say put out the
sentinels. II the employment Of 100 men