The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-07-03

vile, Tenn, SO; Omaha, Neb., S5; Pitts
burg, Pa, SO; Shreveport, La, 81 st.
LOUIS, Mo-, 81 st. Paul, Mimi, 81; Vicks-
burg, Miss, 10; North Platte, Neb, S5;
Bismarck, OAK, ; Dodge City, Kan, SO.
For some time past 1t has been ru-
mored about town that the Cairo Temper
ance Betorm Club, having failed to prevent
the sale of liquor at the park Tomorrow,
by petitioning the committee having the
matter in charge not to do so, would resort
to legal means to accomplish this purpose.
1t was said that the park had been donated
to the city on condition that no intoxicants
of any kind were to be sold within its limits,
and that, therefore, the council had no
right to grant to the committee the right
to sell liquors. and it was further
said that the ordinances of the city require
that liquor shall be sold nowhere within
the limits OF the corporation, except under
license, at the rate of one hundred and
fifty dollars per year, and that such license
shall not be issued for a less period than
six months. The city council had, there
fore, no right to grant to the committee
the privilege to sell liquors without that
committee first obtaining license to sell it.
The council, it was said disregarded both
these points and granted the right to sell
liquors in the park both against the condi
tons under which the city holds the park
and against its own ordinances. Whether
or not these two points would serve as
sufficient ground for an injunction it is
difficult to say, but it Is doubtful. At any
rate, the club has removed all cause for ap-
prehension in the matter by resolving not to
interfere in legal way with this celebra-
ton, chiefly because the fire department of
the city is so prominently concerned in 1t.
The resolution is commendabe.
The telephone company has deter
mined that there shall be no more occasion
for dissatisfaction when they are done with
the work Of overhauling the system, which
they have now begun. One hundred new
poles are on the way here and will be
placed in the stead of the ones now in use.
They are fifty-tive feet high, twenty feet
higher than the old ones, and are, in every
respect, better. The new switch board is
also great improvement, which will
Tighten the duties of Miss Pitcher some
what--duties that grow to be very tire
some at times, because of the unvarying
samencss, and disagrecablc at others,
because of the coarse utterances OF
angered subscribers. Themanager, Mr.. +.
5. Kent, has given the matter close atten-
ton and he is satisfied that when the pro-
posed improvements have been completed
there will be no more occasion for dlssatis-
faction from subscribers. The company
having the system in charge is the best in
the United States, and has given entire sat-
isfaction wherever it has full control. The
chief cause of the disorder here, as THE
BULLETIN and others have suggested, lies
in the manner in which the wires are
stretched and with this work the present
owners had nothing to do. They bought
the wire system from another company,
not knowing that it was in such bad
condition. Now, however, there is to be a
reconstruction Of the entire system, which
will involve the expenditure of several
thousand dollars, and, when this work Is
done, all will be we'll The company de-
sires to maintain the system here and make
it a profitable investment to itself; It KNOWS
that, In order to accomplish this, II must
remove all cause for complaint from sub
scribers, and this it has determined TO do'
Let us wait patiently and see what the near
future will bring forth. !