The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-08-09

"uo 'no sentiment IN favor OF gradually
raising the city beyond the flood line is
slowly but surely gaining ground among
the property owners of the city and the
preparations for giving the matter final
boost that will inaugurate active measures
lor carrying out the plan of the authors
and supporters of Mr.. Linegars bills, will
soon be perfected.
Here are several things we could not
see until last evening We could not see
anything very Objectionable in the attempt
OF any man to run newspaper and a
country hotel" at the same time. We
| could not see, in a mere assumption that
any man was guilty OF such an attempt, any
lustliication, nor yet an excuse, for an i'm
pertinent manifestation OF concern in such
mans business-a concern that showed it.
self in unkind, uncalled.fo aud untruthful
publications regarding the said country
hotel But last evening our mental pow
eTs and our sense of right and wrong were
qulckened, and we now see very plainly
where before We were blind. We see that
we are devlnely constituted keeper of any
nelghbor who is running daily newspa-
per, and "who we Judge also, by the inter-
est he manitests ia one, is also trying to run
a country hoel,' We see the utter wicked.
ness OF an attempt to run newspaper and
a country hotel' at the same time; we see
that any neighbOr Of ours cannot give the
requisite attention to each to make both
pays we see our great responsibility in
such neighbours affairs, and we admit that we
would be dlreect in duty if, believing any
nelgh5or to be engaged in such sinful prac.
tees, we failed to use adequate means, IN.
lair means If necessary, to induce such
nelghboT to return to the straight and mar
row path OF journalism without a "coun-
try-hOtel' attachment.
The council committee, appointed some
time ago to select and recommend new
council chamber and city offices, did not
report at the last meeting of the council,
because one member WAS not yet satisfied
that the conclusion arrived at by the other |
members was al for the best, and refused |
to sign the report, The committee there
fore holds over until the next meeting of |
the council, All but one of the committee |
are IN favor OF recommending the old bull
LETIS building as the most convenient and |
10 every way the best building for the pur.
poses intended, and the committee has some |
very strong points to support its judgment
in the premises. The strongest point is
perhaps one OF economy At present the
city pays monthly $40 for the use of the
council chamber; $3.50 for the use of
police headquarters; 81 for store room;
IS tor two telephones--a total Of $3l per
month, or 1872 per year. 1.-THE council
rents the first floor of The BULLETIN build.
ing, or, rather the south side OF il, and a
portion Of the lower floor Of the building
in the rear Of 1t, it will save the rent of a
store-oom and can dispense with one tele.
phone. It's expenses will then be, for the
same purposes as enumerated above SEQ
per month for rent Of house aud 300 per
month for rent Of one telephone -S2SS per
annum or a saving Of sS4 Besides this
there might be saving in fuel and gas
during the winter months But the new
location has other points in its favor. The
council would have comfortable room,
centrally situated aud easily accessible;
the clerk would have a cool, pleasant office,
where he could be reached by those having
business with him, without climbing up a
pile Of lumber twenty or thirty feet high
a cosy little office, from which he could see
everybody and in which everybody could
see him. Furthermore, the neighborhood
is very moral neghborhood, to which fact
we can confidently testify, and which is not
nearly 80 much the case where the council
now holds forth This latter is very i'm.
portant consideration lit is important that
the city fathers, but particularly the city
clerk, should be far removed from SIN and
its alurements, and there are few places in
the city where this noble object would be
more completely attained than in the
whiom abode Of The BULLETIN and its
force Of moral prodigies.