The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-04-08

that we shall no longer consider ourself
responsible for what the telephone may be
heard to utter at the other end when a CON
nection is made with number sixty-two.
The thing is too treacherous;
there is something radically wrong which
should be corrected at once, before it is too
late. 1t may be too late, although we do
not wish TO be understood as making any
threats just yet In order to guide those
who may be delegated to institute an in g.
vestigation Of the evil, We would say that
1t is the most virulent at night, 1t seems to
be nearly all right during the day-it talks
sober enough as long as, according TO the
almanac, the sun ought to shine; but as
sadly droops the dying day, and night
springs from the glen, the moaning twi-
light seems to say; "The telephones drunk
| again
"A source of much annoyance to the
people Of the Second Third and Fourth
wards, and also a probable source of dan.
gerous diseases, are the slaughter houses,
back of the Mississippi levee. Every sum
mer they become odorous, the filthy water,
| and gore, and intestines, and all manner of
otal that has been thrown out
all through the winter months,
saturating the buildings and
the ground around them, and the pens for
cows'hogs and live stock generally, begin
to send forth stencil as soon as the warm
weather sets in good Whit of which
would almost paralyze person accustomed
only to pure air. The men who own those
houses, no doubt, do what they can to keep
their premises clean they seek TO
remove, as much as possible, all
matter that is likely 10 create stencil under
the influence Of heat; but they cannot
remove the ground which, through the
winter months, has absorbed everything
thrown upon it they cannot, or at least
they do not, remove their pens, which, in
the changeful weather-from dry to wet
aud with the stock that wallows around
in them, feeding upon ofal of the
slaughter houses, (Which sometimes be-
comes putrid), are seldom free from a
strong and exceedingly unpleasant odor.
The men who work there have their
being there naturally become accustomed
to the violated atmospheric their olfactory
organs become dulled, and they
fail to perceive the stencil
that arises from their premises
The foul, unhealthy breath OF these institu-
tons Is not confined to It's place Of origin,
but is waited over the city by constant
breeze coming from the west. II is
generally known fact that, even through |
the hottest months Of the year, there is
constant draught Of air over the city from
the Mississippi TO the Ohio rivers, and this
carries the nausiating slaughter house air
in continuous pestilential current through |
every street and every open door or window
standing in direct line with the said
slaughter houses. This is an evil of no
small proportions-on which is not only
extremely unpleasant to great many
citizens and great drawback to the
city IN general, in SO far rs it
decreases ITS healthfulncss but it can not
fail to be fruitful cause Of disease and
death. We do not wish to be understood
as rebuking the owners of the houses for a
failure TO keep them as clean as possible,
for we presume that they do all that can be
done to prevent the formation
OF these disease breeding gases
The TACT is that it is impossible to keep
slaughter houses, such as are kept by our
butchers entirely free from stencil and,
therefore, if the city is to be relieved of this
evil, the houses must be removed. In
view OF all the circumstances no worse
place that their present sites
could have been selected for them;
they belong, by right, below
the city, near the Point, There they would
not be in the way and would not be intol.
cradle nuisances as they now are. We un-
derstand that the owners of the houses
nave been offered land free of charge at the
Point, so that the only expense they would
be put to would be the removal OF their
houses and this would be but little. We
nope that this matter, which is by no
means an unimportant one, will have the
attention OF those whom it concerns.
MIR. WIN. HEsING. Fifth Avenue, Chica-