The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-06-05

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LETrN we deem it proper not to repeat them
during the tendency of the trial
The work at the car.hoist, for the
month of May foots up even fifteen hun
dred freight cars, about two-thlrds OF
which were loaded, and one hundred and
fifteen passenger coaches. This is the
heaviest months work that has been per-
formed since the hoist has been in operation
and was accomplished by an average force
of only five and half men.
The result of the election shows quite
clearly that the friends of the gentlemen
who failed of nomination in the Demo-
cratic convention, permitted their feelings
of resentment to tell its story in the ballot
box. We only hope the showing will not
be remembered, in the years to come, to
their disadvantage. .
The Mystic Krew has decided to hold
no celebration this year-a conclusion that
our citizens will not applaud, as the Knew
is a pronounced success as celebrater of
national holidays. The Krew has obtain
ed the use of the Park for the Fourth, and
is ready to transfer the privilege to any
other organization that may desire to use
it.
1t was clearly established yesterday,
that the prosecution OF George Hopkins
for stealing negro woman's watch, was
instigated by malice, highly seasoned with
jealousy on the part of the female prosecu-
tor, and desire for revenge. George was
discharged of course. The time he spent
in Jail, previous to examination, can be ac-
cepted by him as proper punishment for
numbering among his associates, the prose-
cutting witness.
Judge Dougherty's declining years seem
to be filled with sorrows. Twice during
his brief service on our circuit bench has
he been called home on account of death
in his family. First his son Alexander,
and yesterday his granddaughter, who,
living in his family, was cndeared to him
as one of his own children. We truly and
sincerely sympathize with the old gentle
man, as will all who know him, and hear
of the measure of his Affections.
The council should, at its next meet
ing, prohibit the use of the tin squirt guns
that are now in use byhalf the boys in Cairo
between the ages of five and thirteen years.
The squirts hoist a stream of water forty or
fifty feet, and it is safe to say that one hun
dred boys in the city are kept dripping wet
from morning till night, as the result Of
water.throwing jousts. That an equal mum
Der of men and women are not in the same
fix is due their constant watchfulness, per-
haps, and adroitncss as dodgers.
The old rip, Sarah Williams, was re-
leased from the calaboose by the Mayor un-
der the expectation that she had secured a
home and would behave herself. She
hadn't been free twenty-four hours before
she got on the most disreputable and
shameless drunken spree in which she eyer
INDUCED. She was finally taken in for in
decent exposure Of her person, and Squire
Robinson fined her $25, and gave her six
hours in which to leave the cay. How she
observed her troth with the 'Squire,we can't
say.
1t doesn't always pay to be good fel-
low, and to be known to everybody. A
number of witnesses called, and now in at
tendance on the circuit court, from abroad,
seem to be fully impressed with the idea
that the sheriff is bound by his bond and
oath of Office to feed them while they are
detained about the court house. The sheriff
knowing them to be without money, hasn't
the heart to undeceive them, and the conse-
quence is they feed at his table with all the
assurance and sharp appctites Of men who
pay well for every mouthful they swallow.
The candidates who failed to bring
down the Circuit Court persimmon did not
expend their money and labor in vain. All
of them are lawyers; and while tho
newspapers Of the parties to which they re-
spectivey belong introduced them to tho
public in terms Of high eulogy, the op
position papers INDUCED in no words o
personal defamation. Their names are nov
l "household words" in every home in thu
l eleven counties that form the circuit. Thi
is result that could not have been brough
about, scarcely in life-time's practice a
/. the bar.
: The petition submitted to the council
by the advance agent Of Robinson's circus
was quite unique and effective as an adver
l tisement, although not a success as pcti
ton. 1t assured the Honorable Mayor an,
o CITY Council that the circus WAS first r. n c