The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-03-30

the grand, controlling idea that, whoever
may run, we MUST have an incorruptiblc
man, there can be no essential difference OF
purpose or effort. In other words, the next
police magistrate of Cairo MUST BE an hon.
est man.
-Messrs. ID. B. and B. +. Thlstlewood
yesterday received first shipment of new
buggies for use IN their livery stable the
present season. Those received land others
on the road were manufactured at Column
bus, Ohio-are strong made, handsomely
finished, and will prove an excellent add
ton to their stock. This enterpris.
inc firm has determined to
have a livery stable second
to none in this part Of the state. They
keep several match teams as well as
good single drivers and saddle horses, all
well broken, Their harness, bugges, ETC.,
are all new and will undoubtedly attract
the attention and business that the enter
prise of the firm entities them to.
We have on hand, and are undeter
mined whether We shall publish or sup
press it, lengthy communication, touching
sanitary matters The writer assumes that
the sipe-water is an invitation to yellow
fever, and that unless extraordinary eXer-
tons are exercised TO keep that terrible
epidemic at bay, it will find its way among
us next summer, and spread death and de-
struction as it did in 1873. The writer as
sumes that the sipe-water, dtfusing the ex-
cretia OF our privies through the stratum Of
sand that underlies the city will leave de.
posts that can emit only dangerous and
deadly carnations. ASIDE from this fact,
most of our physicians, contemplating the
mildnesS of the winter, admonish us 10
"look out This warning is vague, but it
tells us. nevertheless, of the necessity of
providing at once against contingencies, g
and to remove the essential conditions" to
a yellow fever epidemic--the principal
factor in which is known to be-filth-by
keeping clean.
Many of our people regard the coffee
colored slpe-water that now covers the de-
pressed portions of our city, as a blessing,
because, torsooth, it will carry away the
filth drained by private pipes INTO our sew.
erS. We gainsay this idea solely with the
intention OF inviting discussion. We as.
sumo that the annual accumulation of sipe-
water is one of the most deadly agents with
which we are called upon to contend, that,
permeating the stratum of Quicksand that
underlies the city as the sipe-water does, at
ditluses throughout or lodges in that
stratum, the eXcreta of the thousand priyy
vaults OF the city, and thus, year after
year, aggrayates, instead eff publishing or
modifying, the conditions that bring cpl.
demic and contagious Diseases among our
people. The question thus enforced upon
the attention of the council is one of great
Importance, and we refer to it now in the
hope that our principal tax payers Will give
it the thought it is justly entitled to.
Let us "yentilate the subject"
The contest in the house Thursday last
was Il curious example Of how little it takes
to get up big excitement in a dignifed
legislative body. The day before bill
had been introduced to repeal certain sec
tons OF thcReyised Statutes, without des-
ignating the subject at all. Under such
condition naturally there was no oppos-
tion to referring it to the committee on the
revision of the laws. But it turned out,
upon investigations that the bill contem-
plated sweeping changes in the tariff regu-
lations, and therefore should have gone TO
the committee of ways and means. Gen
eral Garfield so moved, and then the fight
began. TOwnshend Of this state, who IN.
troduced the bill, very earnestly
defended the just action OF the house and
resisted the new motion. The debate got
pretty hot, and General Garfield accused
Townshend of having deceived the house
because he was afraid to have his bill 60 to
the proper committee, whercupon Town.
shend, always fulIof fire, waved wroth, and
accused Garfield OF falschood. Finally the
affair ended just where it began and is LA
bic to recall at any time, The fact that the
committee on ways and means is hostile to
any radical changes in the tariff, at present,
was the reason for the reference made of
the bill, and it was apparent, during the
discussion, that upon square vote the op-
ponents to change would prevail.
Through the courtesy Of Capt. Roswell
Miller, of the G. & Y. railroad and Bob
Forsyth of the Eastern Illinois road, we
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