The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-06-06

votes Mulkey received S43 votes, Glecn 96
Crawford TAO; Browning $40; Lansden ~
Baker received 1896; Harker 97s; McCar
ney $50. The vote by precincts will L
published tomorrow. U
The several appropriations made to tn
several county funds being now well mig
exhausted, no county orders will be issue
for claims allowed during the June session
of the Board, until some time in July, whel
it Is thought, the Treasurer will be il
funds.
Tho country precincts in Alexander
county rolled up an unexpected Republi
can majority, last Monday. Last year the
average majority was about 100; the year
before about so. This year, the average
majority for the Republican candidates for
Circuit Judge, is over 200. About one
thousand four hundred voters stayed away
from the polls.
Six cars loaded with lumber and pig
iron became detached from the engine on
the East Cairo incline, yesterday, and
dashing across the steamer McComb, at the
end of the cradles, three Of them plunged
into the river, and the fourth hung suspend
cd over the stern of the boat. Two men
were on the cars. One jumped off and the
other remained on one of the cars that was
stopped on the boat. Both men escaped
unhurt.
Some five or six weeks ago one Pleas
Burton fell upon Josiah Smith, both par
ties then residing in the Fifth ward, and
cut him quite severely with knife, and
then fled the country. The recent grand
jury found true bill against Burton for an
assault with intent to kill. Sheriff Hodges
hearing that the fugitive was in Golden,
set out tor that point Wednesday evening,
and yesterday morning returned to Cairo,
bringing Burton with him. The prisoner
is now in Jail awaiting trial.
We are accused OF making malicious
attack upon hand car. Denying and re
senting the charge of malice, we hasten t.
make the AMESDE HONORABLE. Of thu
'velocipede hand-car" in use on the &. 4
", we spoke disparagingly, but anon!
the men of the G. g. ", stalwar
champions were not wanting to "cros
: blades with u.s." and now we find our rapie
"hurtling in air." A gentleman who ough
to know, declares that, instead of bein!
cumbersome, the hand car weighs only o.
lbs; that ten-year old boy-power moves
it with ease, and that it can be run will
safety at a speed of from fifteen to eighteel
miles an hour. And now, having set tho
hand-car right, we ask for Withdrawal Of
the imputation of righteousness"
The Argus asserts, with much positive.
ness, that THE BULLETIN, in giving returns
from the Supreme court district, overlook.
ed Alexander county entirely. In this the
Argus innocently errs. From the scattering
returns in hand we estimated Green's ma
jority in Alexander county at so votes, and
so stated it; but all the returns from the
country precincts were not received at the
court house until yesterday evening. 1t is
uniformly the case that full returns from
every voting precinct in the State are made
public several days before the result in our
own county can be obtained. At a late hour
last night three days after the close Of the
polls) we were furnished with the official
figures ofthe county. As they must be
published in tabular form, we defer their
publication until tomorrow.
Not for the wealth of the Ind, nor
all the diamonds of Brazil would we put
the great criminal lawyer, Justus Cunning
ham, wrong upon the record. His argu-
ment Of intent" applied to the burglary
case of Nathan Perry, which argument was
so potent that the jury acquitted Perry of
burgarious intent, and convicted him OF
larceny, only. In the McKayKelly rob
berry case, he did not argue the absence Of
intent. In this behalf the G. C. L. ad
dressed us the following note: "In the
Mckay and George Kelly cause You will
find that you have misconcepted the fact:
in regard to intention of robbery. The in
: tention was in regard to the burglary cas-,
of Nathan Perry on yesterday, is what 20,
should have said, in all burglary cases tn
intention must follow at the time Of enter
ing the building Which, we assume, i
a principle worthy of incorporation il
either Chitty or Blackstone,
0 The marriage Of Mr.. Ambrose Pyat
, and Miss Jennie Susanka, was celebrated
as heretofore announced, in St. Patrick
church, last Tuesday. A large crowd wa
in attendance to bid the young couple Go,
speed, and all manner of connubial felicity