The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-02-25
LOCAL MATTER.

| NH'y tWo lump posts nave 50 IhT Dccn
spoken for on Ohio Levec, where there
should be not less than six between Second
to Fourteenth streets. The merchants
along the street have certainly some IN
terest in having their premises well lighted.
Most of them live down in town and at
night are away from their stores with no
one in particular to watch them. It would
be desirable and certainly increase
the safety Of their property to
have street lamps at regular distances
Leyce street needs to be lighted as much
if not more than any other street in
the city, because first, it is the most fire.
quented at night by strangers and citizens
leay 81 or coming on boats or trains, whose
comfor. safety demands hight. Sec
ondly, it is the first and only sight OF the
city obtained by passengers on boats lying
at our wharves, or passing by, upon whom
Leyee street, we'll lighted, with its many
grand buildings, would make very fayora
BILE impression, which all friends Of Cairo
must regard with some degree of satisfac-
ton. Taking this view of il, all will admit
that it is very much to the general interest
Of Cairo and its citizens that the requisite
number Of lamp posts be erected along the
levee in accordance with the Specifications in
the ordinance upon this subject and We
hope that, by the first of March, the posts
will be ready for lighting,
"A week or ten days ago the newspa.
pers and people Of Alton were very much
exercised over great squable between the
mayor and the council of that city, who
used some very strong language towards
one another, and now the "Aton Democrat
has stirred up another hornets nest in its
attempt to compel the board of school
directors to comply with the law of the
state requiring them to publish their pro-
ceedings in one or two of the newspapers
of the county. There are, we believe, but
comparatively few school boards in the
state that comply with the laws OF Illinois
in this respect, the Cairo board not except
ed and why this is so we cannot under
stand. Why school boards should consider
themselves privileged bodies and persist in
a wiful violation of plain law; and that,
too, in the face of popular demand that
they should comply with it, We admit is
something that we cannot comprehend
Our school board has, so long as we cur
recollcct, held its sessions in secret anC
never attempted to inform the people Of
the character of their proceedings, or tht
state of public education in this city. Tha'
they have been honest and competent anG
attentive to their duties is questioned by nc
one, and when it is considered that they
receive no compensation for their services
no one will say that they do not deserve
credit for their devotion to the public
schools But all these things do not justify
item in a glaring violation OF a state law
which requires them to publish an annual
reports IN a newspaper of the city. For the
benefit Of those who have doubts on thi,
point we quote the following from the Hi
nos statute oflS1i Section eighty, chap
ter l22, page 01G, under the head of "An-
nual Report" says, "the board ofeducation
shall annually prepare and publish in som,
newspaper or in pamphlet form a report OF
the number of pupils instructed in the yea
preceding, the several branches Of
education pursued by them, OF the
number of persons between the years O
twelve and twenty-one unable to read and
write, and the receipts and expenditure
ofeach school, specifying the source of ,hC
receipts and the objects of each expendi
lures"