The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-04-09

and will I'LL the office he seeks in an &C.
ceptable manner, If elected, will be Ques-
toned by no one who knows him. We
ask, therefore, that his claims receive a
fair consideration from the voters of the
city.
AT the meeting of the Hibernian fire
company night before last it was deter
mined to give ball at the engine house on
the evening of Wednesday, after Easter.
An election of officers to fill vancies was
also held as follows Mcssrs. Mike O'Don-
nell, director; Chas. Mason, assistant fore
man; James Greaney, foreman; Mr.. Mason
holds also the Office of secretary Mr.. AL.
Smith was installed as treasurer The
meeting was largely attended and the pro-
ceedings spirited.
While the street committee, or city en-
gineer, or the street superintendent, seper-
ately or collectively, is or are engaged in
the good work Of repairing the grsveled
streets with some of the gravel brought
down recently, some attention should be
given to Fourteenth street. between Ohio
levce and Commercial avenue The rains
have worn deep ruts In the south side Of
the street, extending nearly to the middle
of it and endangering teams, etc, that use
it after dark. Prompt attention to this
street is necessary in order to prevent it
from becoming entirely impossible, as the
washing and caving continues day after
day.
The Burnside, ILL.,, matchmaker, who
made watches as the pickpocket makes mon.
ey,has been captured. 1t will perhaps be re.
membered by our readers that we some
time ago reproduced an item from an ex-
change IN which it was said that man
from Cairo, who had established himself at
Burnside, Ill.,, as matchmaker, had left
the city after having obtained a number of
watches to repair from the citizens of the
place. He left no trail behind by which
his whereabouts might be discovered and,
perhaps, he gloried in the success of his
swinding scheme. But if he did, he
gloried too soon, for he was being looked |
for and he has been found. Mr.. Lon
Etherly, a deputy officer from Burnside,
caught up with the scoundrel at Elco |
yesterday and arrested him. He brought |
him down here yesterday evening to take |
him to the scene of his dishonest deeds
per Cairo & Vincennes railroad, where he
will be given fair trial.
Among the eighty.seven decisions rem
dered on the 7th inst IN the appellate court
of the Fourth district, convened at Mount
Vernon, there are three of some of interest
to the people of Cairo. In the matter of
the estate of Scofeld, the judgment OF the
lower court was affirmed; in the case of
the city of Cairo VS.. James Summerwell
the judgment of the lower court was also
affirmed, and in the case Of
the city of Cairo VS.. +. Bross,
the appeal was dismissed The
Judgment of the lower court in the sec
ond case gave Mr.. James Summerwel two
hundred dollars as damages against the
,ity for an injury he received by falling
through the sidewalk; and the case of Mr.
F. Bross involved the right of the city to
collect merchants license, the judgment in
the lower court sustaining Mr.. Bross in his
denial Of the city's right to do so. Wheth-
,r these cases will be allowed to rest here
remains to be seen. The latter case is a
very important one for it strikes at the root
Of municipal power by which the city has
collected large amount of revenue yearly.
X-About week ago woman, who had
lived with her husband on Commercial
avenue, between Tenth and Eleventh |
streets, where she was keeping
Doarders, while her husband was
LONG all manner of work, concluded that
some other mana painter-was better
ooking than her spouse and proceeded to
make arrangements tor clandestine de-
)arture with him. Her husband had sold |
large tract of land up in
his county somewhere for three
thousand dollars, had paid sever
II hundred dollars in settlement of old
lebts and, keeping about three or four
hundred dollars for himself deposited
about seventeen hundred dollars
n the bank in his wlfc's name.
The fathess wife and the enamored dob.
Der, having perfected all preliminary ar
rangements and decided upon the day,
manner and destiny OF their elopement,
they waited impatiently for the day to ar
rive. When it finally came the woman
went to the bank, drew out the seventeen