The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-03-31

six at Vicksburg. Rain was reported IRON
Pittsburgh, but it was too slight TO DC
measured.
The tracks on the Iron Mountain rail-
way, submerged by the overflow on the
Cairo and Belmont branch since the 2lst oil
February, are repaired and trains Nos.
and 8 commenced running through We'd
nesday night, the former leaving the Union
depot and the latter leaving Belmont for
ST. Louis Freight trains left Belmont for
St. Louis over the late overhowed track
Yesterday afternoon at o'clock.
The fair grounds at DIT. Vernon hsve
been secured vhe -ein to hold the next an-
nual tournament of the Southern Illinois
Sportsmens Association, and everything in
dictates one Of The pleasaniest meetings the
association has ever had. The citizens OF
Mt. Vernon are extending liberal aid to the
Gun Club there in their work of prepara.
ton, and if the tournament doesn't prove n
decided success, it will not be the fault of
Mt Vernon or the members of the associa-
ton who reside in that city.
"A rise of two and half inches marked
the Ohio at this point during the twenty
four hours ending at one O'clock yesterday
afternoon, at which hour it stood at forty
one fee. eight and half inches.
At points above here the
movements were as follows: Chattanooga
rise of two inches; Nashville not reported ;
Cincinnati, fall of three feet ten inches {;
Louisville, fall of too feet two inches; St.
Louis, fall of one inch. The river seemed
to be stationary here yesterday evening at
five o'clock.
The steamer Lady Lee sunk at 6
o'clock Wednesday morning at the mouth
Of Fisher creek in the Missouri river, near
Lexington. The boat was valued at 500,
00J and the insurance upon her amounted
to $l2, 200. The boat is in shallow water,
the boiler deck not even being covered.
She belonged to the Missouri river packet
company, which is identical with. the Ill.
nois river camyany, and for several years
was in the st. Louis and Peoria trade when
the water would permit, but lately has
been in the Missouri river. The boat was
on her way from Kansas City to.St. Louis.
In the United States supreme court at
Springfield, Wednesday, Htfis Rendle
man, Of Union county, indicted for the I'm
lawful removal of distilled spirits and
illicit distilling, was tried by jury, found
guilty, and fned 5000 and-coSts. The
same party, for evading payment of tax on
and drawing off distilled spirits without
effacing stamps, &C., was fired 5000 and
costs. Daniel Harper, of Golden, Union
county, was found guilty of obstructing
Justice by running off witness in the
Rendleman case, and was fined s25 and
costs.
The ways and means committee of
the lower house Of the federal congress has
agreed upon a revision Of the internal rev.
enue laws by which the revenue is reduced
s23 ,390,2S6. AS the total surplus collected
last year was nearly one hundred and fifty
mill ons and in view Of the further fact
that the people in the south and west are
just recovering from the ravsges of war,
pestilence, drouth and flood, the committee
might well have made reduction tour or
five times as great as it did, or equal to the
entire amount of the surplus. THE Bull
LETIN for one asks it to try again.
The Paducah Enterprise will not
change to an evening paper as at first in
tended by the new proprietors; but will
continue, like TIE BULLETIN,to give every
morning all the news of the previous day
1t is true, 1t takes more money, more in
dustry and more brains to run a morning
than it does an evening paper, but Messrs
Thomas & Boone, the new proprietors, have
an ample supply Of all these, and TnF
BULLETIN predicts for them prosperous
future, especially in Paducah, where tht
people are liberal patrons Of newspapers
establishments.
The Anna Fruit Grower throws on
tho following timely suggestion, which
should be acted upon: "'rhe overflowet
lowlands along the Mississippi and cthe
rivers have for years past been the principa
garden spots for our large cities, and hav
furnished the greater portion Of the early
potatoes and other vegetables sent to mark
ct, but their present condition preclude
any such use this year. The great cit,
markets will have to be supplied this seas
on from the highlands, and the gardener
upon the hills Of Southern Illinois have tn
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