The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-07-15

sion of school teaching, are offered, in this
school, the best means for tho
attainment Of that end, that are
accessible to them. The institution,
though supported by the State, is essen
TALLY an Egyptian establishment, and as
such should have our patronage and good
wishes.
1t is stated that the ajth day Of July,
beng the centennial anniversary Of the
garrisoning of Fort Jefferson, will be duly
celebrated by the residents of the locality,
who propose to invite the peoploof Cairo and
surrounding country to unite with them.
About twenty years ago we collected from
Reynolds Life and Times and other sources
an interesting history Of the old fort, which
we will reproduce in The BULLETIN, if we
can find it. The wife of Capt. Piggot died
while the Indians were besieging the fort,
and her body was buried in the enclosure.
For that reason, and the further fact that
ordnance was never removed much interest
would be given to the proposed demonstra-
ton, if the exact location of the fort
could be determined.
Judge Ray, Of the Memphis criminal
court one of the six yellow fever cases, that
developed themselves in that city, died at
8 o'clock Sunday morning. Before the
breath had left his body, his grave had
been dug, and two hours after death his
body was buried. He was buried by the
Masons. His son. at last accounts, was not
expected to live; and two of the cases that
were reported as intermittent fever, have
since had a fatal termination. This is the
dark side Of the picture. The bright side
is that, notwithstanding the intensity of the
weather, no new cases have been reported
since last Thursday evening; many of the
refugees have returned, and the excitement
has entirely subsidized.
"A white woman, barefooted and poorly
clad, was seen to reel past the corner of
Nineteenth and Washington, yesterday al
ternoon, quite everybody concluding that
she was drunk She Numbered along q
half block, and then tumbled off the side
walk, and went into a horrible spasm.
Her appearance and con,or,ions became
simply frightful. In this fearful condi-
ton she remained perhaps ten minutes,
the neighbOrs doing what they could,
meanwhile, to relieve her When she re-
covered it was ascertained that she occupies
a room in the Wilcox block, and is hard
working, respectable woman. She is said
to be subject to such spasms, but until yes
teriay had escaped them for two or three
months.
If the manner in which the quarantine
resolution of Friday evening was enforced,
is a sample OF the future quarantine the
people of Cairo are to have against the yell
low fever, our citizens will stampede the
city on the first approach Of danger.
Three hours after our Board of Health had
declared that no refugee from Memphis
should stop in the city,a six coach train
load Of that class of people was moved
through the whole length of the city, and
scores of them took supper at our principal
hotels. Itmay be argued that there was no
necessity for the quarantine. Who is to be
the judge Of that factl The Board OF
Health, by vote Of 3 to declared that
such necessity did exist; and when the
people learn, as they are learning, that the
orders of the Board are to be enforced or
not enforced according to somebody else:
notions of the necessities of the situation
then all confidence in the sutiiciency or per
manency Of the safeguards that may be SCI
UP, will be lost, and safety will be sough
in flight from the city. The quarantine
should have been rigidly enforced until thu
board raised It. 1t was not rigidly en-.
forced, however, and as consequence Of
the failure every man OF family in the city
looks to the future with greatly increased
dread-with confidence in the Boards ajil
: ity TO protect the city, greatly impaired, il
not utterly destroyed.
There is, in Cairo, a notable lack o
that sort Of enterprise that manifests ltsel
in the progress Of new buildings and in tn
t investment of capital in new business ant
E manufacturing establishments. Cairo il
now the grand central objective point 0
= two thousand miles of direct lines of rail
D ways. For year or more the promised
: success Of the jetties has given the plac
| prominence as one Of the possible "inlan
: seaports" OF the future-a possibility tina
5 the war sloop Wauchusett might have re
t solved into probability, had the officer
Q Of that craft called the Tom Leathcrs an,
John w. Cannons of the times, into thei
councils. But these considerations seem t