The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-01-21

Dut LOT tlc cHoIts VIZ WV va $3.50 '"i"""'
boys who happened to be near by, have
soon extended to the Elevator That stu.
pcndous finder box once ablszc, all the fire
engines in the city could not have saved it
from complete destruction. While oil of
US would have sympathizcd with the own.
ers on the score of their loss, we could have
boosted, nevertheless, OF having seen one of
the biggest "bonilrcs' ever lighted on the
banks of the Ohio river.
The Taxpayers ASSOCIATION of Cairo
will, next summer, inauguratc its third raid
against the tax levied upon the property OF
its members to pay the interest on the city
and county railroad bonds. The tax for
the present year is the heaviest that has ever
been levied for that purpose, and forms
fully two-iifths Of the total levy. 1t was
hoped that the City Council would inaugu-
rate measures to cnjoin the clerk from ex-
tending the tax on the Collectors Book
but the city not being party in interest,
having no pecuniary interests involved,
could not successfully prosecute such a
proceeding. We publish this item for the
benefit, chiefly, OF those taxpayers who
have indicated purpose to forfeit their
membership in the Taxpayers association
From all quarters they came, on Sun
day afternoon with sticks and brick
bats, little boys and large ones, black boys
and white ones--sOmc of them hatless,
some of them coatlcss, and all of them in q
state of excitement. The cause of the COM
motion was Il scrcech owl in the vicinity of
Loretto academy. One boy, with rapid,
eager gesture and galloping utterancc, AS
servated upon his sacred honor that the
owl had IA head as big as piller." and that
he got "eeny most to it and it hodc." And
following this boy, who at once took rank
as eader, the whole troupe dashed away on a
run, in the direction of the feathered mon
ster from nights plutonian shore had
betaken itself. But where the man who at
the age of twelve, wouldn't have done the
same thlngi
The Ohio river was an object of cspe-
cial interest among our river and steamboat
men, for an interval Of twenty-four hours or
more after receiving intelligence from Pa
duCah Of the breaking up of one of the
heavy ice gorges above that city. The
landing here showed a notable absence of
water craft. No permanently moored boat
or barge could be seen anywhere along the
city front. But for the occasional landing
Of one of the local steamers or tugs, the
wharf would have been as innocent of any
signs of life, on the Ohio as the Mississippi
side. Nobody could contemplate the spec
tacle without feeling that it was indeed a
fortunate happening that great rivers al
most always flow by great cities. That
such is the case, betrays wisdom in the
ordering Of nature that is quite match ess.
Well, WE'LL Who'd have thought III
A Cairo saloon keeper has ordered us to
stop his paper" because the temperance
doses we administer to him in our reports
of DR.. Reynolds meetings, are nauseating.
Our first impulse was to administer to him
dose compared with which his "temper-
ance emetic" is iced shcrbct; but the sober
second thought soon came to his rescue.
Such little attcmps at prescription are not
worthy of contempt; they are simply pita-
bic, especially as in giving full accounts of
what is said and done during the pending
temperance revival, we publish no more
than reasonable men xepect Of US as an or
dinarily enterprising journalist. But that
is neither here nor there" If we have
any more subscribers OF the same sort We
want to hear from them right away. We
want to have done with the matter.
We are apprehensive that some Of the
temperance zealots of the neighborine
town of Anna are entering into move
mcnt that will tear their organization int
discordant factions. 1.-THE temperate,
people" (says the Anna editor of the Jones
boro Gazette propose to elect mayo
with backbone, this spring, and we'll then
see if "blind tigers" are run in spite o
law and ordinances" If we could call t
mind single instance where efforts llk'
that contemplated in Anna, had not re
suited disastrously, we might hopd tina
the ardent wishes Of the Anna edito
would be realized; but the almost invaria
bic result Of mixing temperance with poll
tics, or using temperance organizations t
forward the aims of this man or that on,
who seeks an official position, has been t,
the temperance cause a serious setback
Temperance societies should confnt
their labors to the well defined, Legitimate
line of duty, and avoid, as destructive O
their harmony, and power for good, all en-