The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-03-17

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begin to murder those they do not like IN
this country. Mr.. Justus Schwab should
restrain himself Americans have free
and easy way of settling nasty matters, and
few communist murders would result in
the elimination, with ease and dispatch, OF
an unreasoning and blood,thirsty foreign
element OF which particular type we are
getting too much.
In the several trials of gamblers and
keepers OF gambling houses which have
come up before Judge Olmsted within the
last few days, some of the important wit
nesses for the prosecution failed to
appear, and the Judge was compelled
to issue attachments for them.
This has, of course, had much to do with
the failure to convict the men, and has ma
turally caused some i'll feeling among the
officers who went to the trouble Of feIreting
out ard arrcsting the gamblers. The dire
lect witnesses were fined for contempt Of
court, and it is likely that they have learnt
lesson by which they will profit in the
future.
Officer Frank Schuckers has been
offered the position of foreman of the news
room on the Bloomington Bulletin by Mr..
Oberly and he has accepted the offer. He
is making preparations to leave for that
city with his family next Saturday. There
is no doubt but that Mr.. Schuckers will
improve his condition in life by making the
change, but it is equally true that in his
departure Cairo looses one of the best Off.
GERS it ever had on the force. During his
service on our police force not whisper OF
wrong has been heard against him
He has been honest and energetic in the
discharge of his duties, having never been
touched by dark insinuations and being al
ways generally acknowledged to be one OF
the most efficient officers on the force.
Rev Thayer, formerly Of the Presbyte'
rian church of this city, now connected
with the First Presbyterian church OF
Bloomington, discussed the subject of tenn
perancc in his pulpit last Sunday and at-
ter commenting at length upon all the dit
ferent phases Of the subject, he declared
himself opposed to temperance legislation
and concluded AS follows: Gospel tenn
perance work is what we want; and the
same amount Of zeal expended IN this dl-
recton which is lost in attempting to Sc
cure legislation, would bring about hoped
for victory. We have hunted every way,
and worked for every bill, except Gods
way, and Gods bill; and the result is, we
have suffered defeat. The gospel of Jesus
Christ can save the state of Illinois from
drunkenness, and nothing else can. 1t is
not Gods way to do as they have done in
the Springfield legislature; and so he
frowns upon them"
An important question that remains
to be settled by the city council is the cx-
tenton of the fire limits as recommended
by the committee on streets, to which the
matter was referred. That there
is some necessity for contining
the erection of frame buildings to certain
portions of the city most everybody will
acknowledge. There are portions of the
city which ought to be protected in some
way against persons who have only
few dollars and who wish
to lease lot with that and build shanty
with mechanics lien upon it to be used
for anything that it can be used Tor, which
generally turns out to be only a trusting place
for low characters. Ii does not look well
10 have a fifteen cent shanty thrown up
against a fine brick business house, or n
rudey tackled together scrub Of building
set up on stills upon one OF our two or
three thousand dollar lots, as is the case on
Ohio eyee, between Twelfth and Four
teenth streets, The shanties situated on
these lots are glazing disgrace to the city
Right in one Of the best parts of the city
and exposed to general view, their eXls-
tence can not help but be greatly prciudi-
cial to the citys reputation. They are all
rickety, patched up, dirty, pestilence-breed-
ing little old structures, all more or less
crooked but not enough so to tumble down,
which is to be regretted. They are all in
habited by negroes who keep restaurants"
there; but it is probable that some Of
them are the trysting places for
all classes of black law-brcakers from the
fugitive murderer down to the midnight
garrotcr. aud thatthes shabby signs across the
sidewalks and over the doors and smeared
on the yindQw-panes, and the old crippled
benches and table with NAVIGATING cata.
bles on it, are only the visible cover for
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