The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-01-17

| trlps uaIly' Leaving mere at . !oU u. m.
and $50 p. IN. every day except Sundays
when she makes but one trip in the after
noon. The river being very high she can
not land at her usual place on the Kentucky
shore and Is compelled to run to Fort JEFF
terson. The trip is very pleasant one, the
scenery beautiful, and the round trip fare
only twenty-five cents. 1t is splendid OPP
portunity for persons who wish to spend q
few hours pleasantly to do So Messrs,
Hacker, the pilot and Devore, the collector,
are gentleman in every particular and will
do all in their power to make the trip an
agreeable one to everybody. The fare will
agian be rs Of old as soon as the river falls.
If our city fathers think that the treas
| ury will not bear the drain necessary to gravel
our streets one by one, perhaps it would al
low the appropriation Of little money to
keep them properly drained. We notice
that Washington avenue from Tenth to
Eighteenth streets is almost dry, while
above and below these points it is perfect
river Of mud. The reason is, so far as we
can see, that the avenue between the
streets named is better drained. It slopes
both ways from the center, allowing the
water to run of into the low places and
cutters, which are in better condition along
there than anywhere else. We believe that
were little more attention paid to the
drainage Of our streets they would cease to
be an eye sore to pedestrians and an almost
impossible barrier to trffic in general
"A collection for the relief Of the peo-
pie of Ireland will be taken up in st. Pat
rick church on Sunday next and forward
ed to the suffering people. This together
with that which was realized by Mr.. Rus
sells lecture in the Atheneum last night
will, in all probability, constitute the pile"
which will be sent from this city and will
doubtless be fully as much as other cities,
of the size of Cairo, have sent More or
less of an effort for the relief of these suf-
fering people continues to be made by the
priests in the smaller cities of this country
while Mr.. Parnel continues his able as
Saults upon the sympathies and purses of
the people in the large ones and is appar-
emily reaplng a more abundant harvest of
resolutions and dollars than he could have
anticipated. Outside the press of New
York city, whose isolated position on the
subject of Irish land reform gives ground
for suspicion as to it, motives, the senti-
inent of the people appears to be practi-
cally unanimous. The people Of this coun-
try, who are devoted to the theory of small
farms, owned by the men who till them, can
see nothing revolutionary or communistic
in the scheme OF the Irish Land league.
The sentiment Of the community in general
Wa. probably correctly expressed by Mr.,
! Beecher-a brilliant champion OF the re.
form, even if not one desirable for other
reasons-when he said that q government
which could offer nothing better than emf
grafton to its people was not fit to exist.
The clerk Of Randolph county lin this
congressional district is now in Springfield
to answer to the charge of contempt Of the
writ of the United States court. Under the
damnable railroad act Of 1862 Randolph
county issued 100000 bonds in aid of the
Chester and Tamaroa railroad, aud the Issue
had hardly been made before the people
began to discover they had made tools 81
themselves by mortgaging their property
tor the benefit Of other parties. They paid
the interest on the bonds for some time, and
then fell in default Suit was brough. N
the United States court. in Springfield, upon
the coupons. and though divers Irregular.
ties as to the issue of the bonds were urged,
judgment was taken against the county.
Then q wit of mandamus was issued to
compel the county board to pay the iudg-
ment or to levy q tax to pay it, and still
later another writ to compel the clerk 10 ex-
tend a sufficient tax to pay the judgment
Before he had obeyed this writ some of the
taxpayers got out an injunction from the
circuit court Of Randolph restraining him
from extending the tax, SO he did not obey
the writ of mandamus The people who
got out the injunction and the officer who
served It were then summoned for contempt,
but they have all made satisfactory answer
except the clerk, who is yet to be dealt
with. Hon. J. Perry johnson is his sttor.
ney, and will, 1t is understood, plead that
the clerk was al officer Of the state. and
could not obey the writ without violating
the state law: but whether this will save
him from q heavy scnteuce is o question.
The case is really one OF conflict between
state law and federal law, and OF course,
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