The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-07-15

Of about five dollars. An attempt to burst
the safe open with powder was also made
but without avail 1t appears that the
thieves were scared off before they had
time to accomplish their work There was
about two hundred dollars in the safe
in notes and money.
The maximum temperature for six
teen hours preceding three o'clock p. M,
yesterday, washington time) were as fol-
lows: Chattanooga, Tenn, 90; Cincinnati,
Ohio, Of; Davenport, Iowa, So; Dubuque,
Iowa, So; Keokuk, Iowa, SO; Lacrosse,
Wis, So; Leavcnworth, Kas., 90; Louis
vile, KY, 90; Memphis, Tenn, 95; Nash
vile, Tenn, 95; Omaha, Neb,, 90; Pitts
burg, Pa, 7S; Shreveport, La, 90; St.
LOUIS, Mo-, "a; st. Paul, Mimi, SO; Vicks-
burg, Miss, 90; North Platte, Neb., 90;
Bismarck, OAK, "a; Dodge City, Kan, 81;
Nhw Orleans, La, SO.
Papers have much to say regarding the
dangers attending the use of toy pistols,
etc, and all agree that their sale ought to
be prohibited. Same reasoning applies to
large pistols. Pistols are utterly useless in
war, and are never employed IN hunting
and their chief mission is to minister to the
prevailing mania Cor murder. 1t would
seem, therefore, that their manufacture and
sale should be absolutely forbidden. Pro-
badly this is going unnecessarily far but
there is no question that very much
more stringent restrictions on their sale and
use would be attended with salutary re-
suits.
MIR. H. A. Harmon has of late been
making very extensive Improvements on
property in different parts Of the city. His
two frame houses on Washington avenue
near the Hlbernian engine house, have of
late, under his directions, assumed q
positively handsome appearance. lie has
also bought the frame house on
the south side of Thirteenth street, former
ly occupied by Mr. Conners, and will re-
move it to vacant lot on Poplar street,
where he will repair it and place it in first
class condition for residence. He has
also purchased and improved a number of
other residences and contemplates COM
mencing several more enterprises of this
kind in the near future. One of which is
the erection of a two.story brick business
house on the lots next to Mr.. GeroulG's gas
fitting store on Commercial avenue. This
he will commence in the fall. Mr. Harmon
is one of Cairos enterprising end success
i'ul business men who has the greatest con-
fidence in Cairo's future and who is not
afraid to manifest his confidence by invest
ing the results Of his industry in the i'm
provement Of real estate.
Before the police courts yesterday
business was dull as it has been every day
since the circuit court and grand jury con-
vened. This is positive proof that il is fear
of punishment aud nothing else, which
keeps men from violating the laws. It
also proves that the punishment inflicted
by the city ordinances alone is not severe
enough to strike terror to the heart of any
man that lusts TO commit petty
crime, and that it is necessary to invent
means by which criminals may be made to
feel less inclined to incur the penalties of
the laws. Unless the police business is to be
regarded as a profitable one to the city
unless the city receives more money during
given period in the form Of fines than it
pays out in an endcavor to maintain the
police force and courts land nearly every
body knows that it is not the case, then
| there can be no consideration which would,
even in the mind of the most mercenary,
Justify a failure to decrease the
criminal business of the city in
any way possible and to the greatest posi-.
BILE extent II is evident that the mere
prospect of even short term in the peni-
Tertiary at hard work has mos. salutary
effect in restraining the strongest proclivi.
ties of criminals OF every description.
This fact should be taken into considera-
ton by the authorities of the city and they
should, without unnecessary delay, have
arrangements consummated whereby
every person who violates the city
ord nances is compelled to do work-rea-
sonably hard work, not only occasionally
when the sun shines not too hot-but W ork
continually, every day, just as honest, in.
dustrious men do, until their fines shall
have been paid. The sentence Of the 20.
lice court should be changed. The Erase
"four, six, ten or thirty days in the city
calaboose" has lost all force with the aver.
age criminal. II should be "four, six, ten