The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-06-13
THE DAILY CAIRO BULLETIN; MORNING JUNE 49, 1882

impossible to convict negro gamblers,
sometimes caught in the very act, because,
not only would they themselves fatty deny
under oath all that was affirmed against
them, but would, bya mere beck, gather
around them horde OF constituencies
scoundrels who would swear to anything
they might be told to. Under these cir
cumstances both officers and courts have
been, in measure, powerlcss to enforce
the laws against gamblers. But yesterday,
IN the trials of Ellis and jenkins, Officer
Haz. Martin determined that he would make
an example of the first one of the witnesses
who should give any evidence of reckless
ness in giving his testimony and he saw fit to
arrest one of the witnesses for the defense
upon charge of perjury, who will be tried
by Justice Robinson this morning.
Perhaps the strongest proof of Grand
mother Argus sex is that she is confound-
eddy hard to please and painfully inconist-
ent, Some time ago she objected to fire
limits because it prevented building, now
she is on both sides and astraddle of the
question all at the same time. persons
who know the old lady's habits will not
think this an uncomfortable position for
her to be in,) In her little harangue last
evening she starts out with "The council
should act upon the amendment proposed
TO the fire limit ordinance. We under
stood there are numerous people DESTROYS
to build as soon as the fire limits are prop.
erly reduced She wants the fire limits |
reduced in order to encourage the building |
of frame houses on lots now enclosed in |
said limits This is The BULLETINS un-
Outstanding of TINT part of the item. But
further on the old lady objects to the ex
cepuons to tins tyrannical ordinance which |
the council has seen fit to
grant, and which resulted in the
erection Of respectable frame structures.
The neat little domcle for tagless orphans
OF the canine tribe, in the construction Of
which Chief Myers and Mayor Thistewood
taxed to its fullest capacity the mechanical
and architectural skill with which kind ma
ture has endowed them, in which they very
Justly take special pride, and which is to
be but temporary affair, is an object of
special dispeasure to the old lady, and she
calls il "a gross violation of law The city
was wrong in establishing the fire
limits, because thereby building was dis
Outraged; it was wrong in granting eXcep.
tons to the ordinance because thereby the |
fire risk" on other property was added |
O;it was wrong in not granting exceptions
because the applicants were more meritor-
ous than those which were granted 1t
was wrong when it did, wrong when 1t
didn't, it will be wrong if it does and
wrong if it don't. If to grant exceptions
was gross violation of law" and therefore
Objectionable, then to refuse to do so must
have been praiseworthy enforcement of
the law and the reverse. To blame the coun-
Gil for doing both is certainly the part of
an acrimonious Pathfinder. As may be
seen from the council proceedings in this
issue ofTHE BULLETIN, there are pending
before the council two ordinances which
considerably reduce the present fire limits,
one of which will probably be passed at to-
nights meeting of the council,