The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-03-07

m.--TheJa has been very little lawlessncss
in the city within the last few weeks. The
police buckets show less number Of cases
than Al some periods nj time. when there
was less reason 10 expect violations Of law.
There have been no cascs Of petty larceny
as might have been expected, which fact 10
due, inn great measure, to the wstch'M-
ness of the police force and tothe energetic
action Of the gentlemen composing the
vigilance committee. Those chronic Grim
inas who sought Cairo In the hope Of
having an opportunity to plumber were
sorely disappointed.
Sunday morning, about four o'clock,
the remains of Frank Toll, IL whose sad
death mention was made in Sundays
BULLETIN, arrived here in care 'of his
brother Charley They were taken home,
but we're too near the point Of decomposi
ion to permit keeping over until yesterday
md we're conveyed to Beech Grove aud
buried Sun lay afternoon. The cause of
death was severe crushing Of the groin
by the bumpers Of two cars who deceased
was in net Of coupling. The wounds were
rghtful and necessarily fatal from the star.
The tracks of both the Mobile and
he Chicago, ST, Louis and News Orleans
railroads nearly from East Cairo 10 Wick
g., are under water and total wreck.
The cmb4nkment is washed away and in
msny places the track has been completely
armed over. AS q result all transfers Of
freight and passengers 10 or tr"m Cairo on
these roads must be nude at Wicklifc. A
temporary incline has deem built there and
the transfer steamers Morgan and McComb
make regular trips there, 1t will he sew.
nral weeks, perhaps months, before the
tracks will be sufficiently restored to yer.
init the use Of the former incline.
About one hundred aud twenty-five
people, ladies and gentlemen nesrly equal
| " proporlioned, formed the excursion party
10 the Mississippi levee and to Wickliffe
Ky., on the steamer Three Ststes last Sun
day afternoon. The boat went to, and
landed at, the new evee, giving all aboard
good view of the embsnkuent which
WAS the subject OF so much tn usht and
action within the last two weeks. From
here the boat went TO Wickliift, where the
rxcursionists got ashore, climbed the hills
and went through the live little town, AL
miring its situation and the evident enter.
prise of its citizens The b)s, returned 10
Cairo about five O'Clock and while the rain
came down 10 torrents the excurs:oui.t
wendell their several ways home.
The S.. Louis Republican says: at is
scarcely whispered around the inner Offices
of the navy department. but the Republic
can is justified in giving it confdentially to
the people of this city, that there is fair
chance that the United States man of-war
Kearsarge will drop anchor in the neigh
borhood of the 81. Louis bridge me time
between this and summer. Secretary Hunt
has made no puzzle announcement of this
programme. but the rumor that he 10 going
t, order thr Kearsage On voyage up the
Mississippi prevails in navy circles. The
Kearsarge wintered at New Orleans and
The unusual high water of this season
seems to fl it better chance for trip
to the heart of the continent than the
Wa hsett had" 1t is more probable that
the Kearsarge will come to Cairo and stop,
because of her inability to reach St. L)us
for too low water.
The five men who were induced by the
, young scoundrel Jack Lally to assist in dc
Iraudiug the city on, of money by present.
ing false orders for work on the levee, were
brought out for preliminary hearing be
fore Magistrate Comings yesterday after
NOON. Ell. Harmon, John Reynolds, Steph
EN- Beech and Charles Myers were found
guilty and were held to bail in the ,um o
two hundred dollars each to answer The
charge of"conspirng to defraud the city,
before the circuit court at its next term
y They were unable to give the bail ant
were therefore taken back to the count,
jail for safe keeping. James Shrr
r, also one Of the sam
gang of men, WAS found L
= be innocent of the charges preferred
= sganst him and was discharged. Their
are two others of the same lot still to b.
u tried, who will probably be brought out to
day or tomorrow. % fN
-Cranks have ordinarily very littcjudg
nent and less tact, but the crank who fire.
n sfot ut the harmless old queen Of Engian'
v seems to have been especially weak minded
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