The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-10-24

We have, at this writing, when he has;again
been induced to ask the people for their
suffrages, no intmaton of any knowledge,
that would cause US to change our high
| opinion Of him previously expressed Ills
friends all over the county are active and
will give him a long pull, 3 strong pull and
a pull altogether to the end that his election
may be secured by such majority as lie
deserves.
A circular received by Nj Jas. +, Nil
Ter from the genera freight office Of the
Memphis and Charleston railroad contains
information of interest to the shipping
community. 1t states that by mutual con
sent the old toll contract between the
Nashville. Chattanooga and st. Louis Rail
road, aud the Memphis and Charleston
Railroad Company has been abrogated,
and is now void and that the Memphis
and Charleston Railroad Company las pur-
chased from the Nashville, Chattanooga
and St. Louis Railroad Company, the unre.
stricted nsc and joint occupancy OF their
road between Chattanooga and Stevenson.
Under this arrangement the Memphis and
Charleston Railroad Company will operate
the 80 miles between Chattanooga and
Stevenson asa part OF its own line and
from this date disconunues It's requests tor
arbitrarics on account OF tteight-to!ls and
accepts its prorsta proportion cd al com
pettiye business based on actual mileage.
During the years that Mr.. Jack
Hodges has filled the office of sheriff Of
Alexander county no breath OF suspicion
has ever fallen on his good name. Honest,
compctant, faithful, he has performed his
duties TO the satisfaction of all, receiving
encommiums Of praise from every quarter
He is the candidate of no party and We
trust that the people OF the county, ire
spectiye of politics, will retain him in a
position for winch he is so well qualified
| He will not receive the full democratic
vote nor the full republican vote,
but will have the support o, the
legion of thinking men OF both parties who
believe that merit should be rewarded and
politics should be excluded from county
affairs. These men will elect him by a
large majority and so they should. No
public servant ever rendered better &C
count of his stewardship than Jack Hodges,
and none, We might add. was ever more
fairly entitled to the confidence and sup
port of the people.
The News is at its old tricks Of excus-
ing official irregularities which concern the
people of both city and country. By way
of reply to our charge that Mr. John Reeve
had overcharged persons for making out
naturalization papers, it says that "of those
who have been naturalized, not one has
been asked for one cent It tees
more than what he MIR.
Reeve) construed the Law as fixing
them at 1t may be that the News is right
when it says that "Mr. Reeve did not ASK
for ONE CENT of fees more than what HE
construed the law ~ fixing them But he
DID ask aud TAKE oNE HUNDRED AND SIXTY
cents more than what the COURT decided
the law entitled him to. 1t cannot bc said
that Mr.. Reeve did not know what he was
doing, for he is not 4 sim
pleton. The law is plain enough for any
man of average common sense and it does
not require lawyer to understand it
Mr.. Reeve was told by Mr.. Leek that he
was violating the law in respect to hi
charge for naturalization papers, but Mr.
Reeve did not believe Mr. Leek nor ye
needed the law as it was plainly shown
him, and continued to charge
his exhorbitant fee. But more than this
In his apparent desire { o discourage per
sons wishing to take out papers he lett hi
: Office vacant on the day set for ISSUING
them he going out into the county an'
his deputy attending Dan Ricc's show, 81
that applicantscould not be accommodated
He also told John Darmody, who intended
to take out papers, in the presence Of Nj
!, Richard Fitzgerald, that 1t would cos
,, him seven dollars and fifty cents to do &c