The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-07-20

stand five witnesses may swear that the
slaughter houses are o nuisance, while five
Others may swear directly TO the contrary.
With an ordinance requiring the observance
of certain rules. II would only be necessary
to prove their non.obseryance. The guilty
butcher would thus be singled out and
punished, and suspicion would not, as now,
fall upon all Of the butchers who maintain
slaughter houses in the same locality.
= If the city council were disposed to
look, just little, after the comfort and en-
joyment Of the people, it would expend the
the few hundred dollars necessary to sink o
couple OF drive-wells in the park, and to
erect there summer house. or some kind
of cheap open building, On the occa-
sion of gatherings the crowd is driven TO
use of river water, and to such scattered
spots Of shade as the old trees afford-the
young trees, after two years growth, throw
ing just about enough of shade for mod
crate sized dog The cool. clean, delicious
water reached by drive wells at the depth
Of about sixty feet might interfere, some
what, with the sale of pink lemonade; but
the people would enjoy 1t, nevertheless, and
thank the council for the sensible provision.
If we can't have both the building and
water, surely the council. will not deny us
both man and beast--the supply Of water.
"A man and woman, whose names we
choose to withhold, came into the city, yes
terday, and visited the office of one Of our
justices, in the expectation that he could
divorce them from their respective partners.
The man declared tina he "fanced" the wo-
man in his company more than he did his
lawful wife, and the woman entertained the
same fondness tor the man. They had
been living neighbors for some time, and
thought that il they could steal the propes-
ed march" on the other husband and wife
at home-get divorce and follow it up i'm
mediately by marriage--that it was
likely that the other couple would
"hitch, and the whole thing be thus adj
justed without any trouble. They were
sadly discounted when the squire told
them that lie couldn't dissolve the old
marriage bans; and the discontinue
amounted TO despair when he further as.
sured them that they couldn't accomplish
their aims in any court without giving the
other parties notice. Gloomily bidding the
squire goodbye" they put out for home,
and future misery.
We find that our people are
"fcanully in earnest in their
demands for rigid, un5end-
ing quarantine. They are determined not
to be driven from their homes again, if any
thing they can DO will prevent it, This
earnestness is intensified greatly BY the fact
that at least one thousand of them have not
yet recovered from the dram upon their
means occasioncd by last years fight, and
could not leave town again this year. how.
ever great the necessity might become.
But, quite EVERYBODY is in earnest, and
will insist that the lives of our people lie
considered first and business afterwards.
Memphis refugees must be kept out of the
city, and il, 10y sharp practice any Of them
gain admission, they must be sent out
How much it will cos, this railroad or that
steamboat to enforce such a rule, must not
be considered. The health Of the ci;y.-the
lives of our peope-should be protected
without DIES roying business, if possible;
but business or robustness the city Of Cairo
must not repass the ordeal of 1878. The
epidemic can be kept out. The people, as
with one voice. demand that il shall be.