The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-05-14

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Circuit court convened again at the
court house yesterday, but no criminal
cases we're taken up for trial. Two divorce
cases were settled. Francis j. Baray was
granted a divorce from Bette Baray, and
Mrs. Scott was relieved of all obligations
toward Mr.. Scott. Some time was con-
sumed in calling over the docket and ar
ranging cases for trial this week. Court
adjourned about noon to convene again to.
morrow morning. o
ALI persons are notified that from this
day ali mules, horses and boar hogs found
running at large in the cityicontrary to law,
will be impounded and the owners prospcu-
ted. Saloon keepers and business men gen.
orally, are notified that they must not place
any beer kegs, barrels, ETC., on the sidewalks
and streets hereafter Dog owners are also
notified that the war on dogs upon which
taxes have not been paid has begun. L. H.
| Myers, City Marshal.
The fashionable shoe for ladies sum
mer wear is made Of Mat Kid and Cur Kid
fixed with pointed toe, and perforated toe
caps of patent leather OF the Deawood tip
pattern. This Shoe is made to lace in front,
the lacing piece being of patent leather,
fastening with eyes and patent hooks on
top, making in all very handsome and
stylish shoe. This shoe is known as the
GroSorno or Bulmoral, and will be on sale at
the City Shoe Store Monday morning. La
dies wishing to keep up with the prevailing
styles, should not fail to examine these
shoes A. Black, 140 Commercial ave- If
About tive weeks ago Mr. Michael
Glenn, the dray man, boughta mule from
some one passing thorugh the city, paying
one hundred dollars for the animal. Yes
terday stranger arrived in the city, pro-
fessedly from Arkansaw, who complained
to the chief Of police that some one had sto.
len horse and mule from him and that he
had traced the animals to this city. Learn
ing that Mr.. Glenn had bought mule, the
stranger paid him visit and identified
the mule as his own. Mr.. Glenn will very
likely lose the mule and the money as the
stranger affirms positively that the animal
is his, and the seller hes disappeared.
Yesterday the river was within very
little of again covering the track of the St.
Louis and Cairo railroad above the city, and
it seems probable that the road will again
be compelled to suspend operations with
Cairo before many days. AT the rate of
three thousand and five hundred dollars per
week, which, according to the company's
own showing, is the rate Of loss whenever
its traffic with Cairo is cut Off what the
company would lose in two weeks and what
it has spent in repairing its present tracks
near the city, would enable it to build more
than it's share of the embankment propos-
| ed by the citizens committee, and would
have given it permanent and undisputed
entrance into the city
The case of the People vs.. Jack Lally
for couspiring to swindle the city out Of
money, was called in the circuit court Mon.
day; but the defendant didn't appear for
trial and his bond turns out to have been
''sraw," The result ia that the young
| criminal goes free to become the scourge Of
some other community as he has been that
of this. There is certainly something gain.
ed to this community by having such char.
acters run out and kept out by suspending
indictments and warrants over their heads,
but the object of all law and government
is the punishment Of criminals in accord.
ance with the enormity Of their crimes. In
this alone lies the safety Of society.
East st. Louis Gazette: "Of the / 800
convicts in the Joliet penitentiary, 10 ore
BARRIERS, 81 bakers, barkeepers (ots of
their customers), II butchers, 81 clerks, 81
cooks, 25 farmers, 3lS Mborers, / lawyer, /
clergyman (who killed his Wife, doctors,
and 107 Of no occupations, There are 553
teetotalers, ass Incorporate, and 372
moderate drinkers" OF Roman Catholics
there are S76; Methodists, 81 ;Presbyterians,
81; Luthersns, 10; Baptists, 49, Episcopal
ians, 5; Jews, 8 Christians, g. There are
175 who cannot either read or write, and
none who have LIBERAL educations. "--"553
teetotalersY" Isn't the Gazette mistaken
about thstl Less than one-tbird 'intem-
perate" and more than one-third total
abstainers2 The Gazette is certainly mis-
taken, or else Illinois teetotalism is less
eifectual as q cure for crime than Arkansav
teetotalsm is,
| To-day we give the finishing chapters
Of "The Gypsy's Curse" and next week will
commence new story, "Mona Scully, the