The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-03-26


in the arrival and departure of mails. The
latter cause is, perhaps, the most important
} one, Instead Of arriving only once or
twice each day, they now come at three
and four different times, from different di-
rectlons, which causes people to call at
the Office that much Ottener
and naturally increases the work OF distrib-
utlng them. II will be but few years
longer now before Cairo will be entitled to
mail carriers, which will be relief to
both the postoillce officials and the people.
Missouri is no longer a "Gretna Green"
for minors from other states who desire to
leave the state of single wretchedness"
without the consent of their parents The
marriage license law has been passed by
both houses of the legislature, and provides
that no license shall issue authorizing the
marriage Of male under 81 or female
under q without the consent of their par.
ents or guardians, Any person solemnizlng
a marriage where the parties have not oh.
tanned a license is guilty of msdemeanor
and may be fined a sum not exceeding
500, and in addition be subjected to civil
action by the parents or guardian. All
marriages are to be recorded in the record
er's office and the recorder is subject to
fine not exceeding 800 nor less than S.
Tor refusing license 10 persons entitled
thereto He is entitled to fee of 81 for
Issuing the license. The person solemn
izlng marriage is requested to make a
return within 80 days of the issue, a failure
to do so or the making of false return is
punishable as a msdemeanor.
Many Of our citizens and some of our
merchants have fallen into the habit of |
sweeping all manner of trash into the gut. |
tiers OF the street, emptyng their ash pans |
IN them and throwing old barrel slaves and |
suspenders, etc, out df their front door
into the street. All will acknowledge that
this is bad habit that is liable to draw
forth disparagng remarks from strangers,
which must cause sensitive citizens to
blush with shame. Now that our streets
are being repaired and newly paved, and our
sidewalks ditto, everybody should have
some pride in their good appearance; mer
chants should not stop up the cutters and
thus interrupt drainage by throwing ashes
into the cutters; people should not pitch
their broken kitchen utensils and cast-ofI
articles OF winter apparel into the street to be-
Haunted about by the breezes and finally
washed into to the cutters to lay there,
drawing curses from the lips OF the street
superintendent and gances of dispIeasurc
from the public eye. 1t is 70 be hoped
that our people will heed this gentle hint.
given with the greatest respect to their feel.
lngs, and thus avoid a resort u the course
laid out TO the officers by the municipal
code.
Eighth street will undoubtedly always
be one Of the best paved streets in the city,
but it is being well paid for and therefore
ought to be. The second layer of stone
costs more than the other two layers to- j
sether because of the work of breaking q
into such small fragments. 1t will cost h
lot less than dollar and a quarter per f.
ard, the work being all done by hired v
men. This cost might be reduced a little h
~ employing the Jail birds on a rock pile. c
since work on the street begun there has I,
'ot been a single prisoner from the city Il
all at work upon it, which is not exactly
IS 1t should be. 1t is not advisable. of ~
curse, to put criminals to work upon the -
anne rock pile with honest and honorable 81
aborcrs, for that would be eneroaching 81
pon the sensiblities Of the latter; but ),
ock pile might be put in
ONE other place. away from
where the city employees are at work V
which might be broken by the vioators of -
ne city's laws who are either too poor or -
unwilling to pay their fines. We do not =
oppose that there are many prisoners in ;"
he city Jail, or that there have been MANY W
uring the time that the work on our streets
as been going on, but this is not to the Gu
oint. However little work may be done az
y the prisoners it will reduce the price of q
he Eighth street pavement somewhat and ~
his Is all that we contend for.
The Cairo Temperance Reform club
onycned at Reform hall last night in an "
Important business meeting, it being the m
ight on which the regular annual PI
lection of the officers of the club took
lace. The attendance was good, though
he weather was very much the reverse, and p,
here were several other attractions in the o.
ity Nearly all the evening was taken up XII
n cecting the new officers, of which thc an