The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-09-14

ment she afforded. and most heartily in
wife her to come again, that all may share
the enjoyment. Our amateurs and the stu
dents of the university should not tail t.
secure so drawing card when the fall anC
winter entertainments are inaugurated,"
The examination of Mr.. b. O. Jones
Of the Metropolis Journal, for over-charg-
ing United States pensioners, which was to
have TRANSFERRED IN this city, before Com
missioner Candee, last week, did not tran
spire; and the reason why it did not tran.
spire Is q very suspicious mystery A Mr..
Paine, special pension examiner, was sent
here from Washington, for the especial pur-
pose Of inquirng into the facts of Mr.
Jones case, He arrived about Monday OF
last week. Mr., Smith, of Metropolis,
who is the gentleman that holds the
twenty damaging atiidavits from twenty
men and women who were over charged
by Jones, came to this city several days
after Mr.. Paine had arrived, and then he
| and Mr.. Paine went before Commissioner
Candee and made their presence
known, after having held consultation
between themselves alone at The Halliday.
For some reason Mr.. Jones, the defendant,
who was to be examined, was not in the
city, and it turned out that his presence was
not necessary, Instead of proceeding with
the examination before Mr., Candee, Messrs.
Paine and Smith gave the commissioner to
understand that they preferred that there
should be no examination; Mr.. Smith said
that the quarrel between himself and Mr..
Jones, the defendant which had induced
him Smith to procure the twenty damag
ing sttiavlts, was thing Of the past; that
now only the kindest feelings prevailed he.
tween himselfand Mr.. Jones, and that,
though he had the atfiiavts aforesaid then
in his possession, he preferred not to give
them up, but to bury them out of sight
forever, or words to that effect. Nj Paine
seemed to be entirely willing to submit to
any arrangement by which the matter could
be smicably "settled'-in fact Mr.. Pane
was, during the greater part ofhis stay here,
in what we will, for his own sake aud for
the sake of the great God and morality and
sobriety party he represents, mildly and
evasively term "cstamousc' state, in which
he would have been comparatively helpless
in the hands Of a generous and forgving
gentleman like Mr. Smith They told
Commissioner Candee that they would re.
turn to The Halliday and have "consuta
ton, and politely declined thecommission.
er's company down there, They left and
were gone several hours when they again
appeared before Commissioner Candee, say
Ing that the matter had been settled and re.
luesting him to sign vouchers calling upon
the government 10 pay Smiths expenses
for coming down here as q
witness for the government in
the case of the Government ys. B. o. |
Jones but the Commissioner very properly
refused to sign these vouchers, on the
ground that there had been no proceedings
before him in the case aforesaid and that
the said Smith had not appeared before |
him as witness in this or any other
case, With this Messrs Paine and Smith
left the office of the Commissioner
with unkind feelings toward
that gentleman, and after drowning their
grief and disappointment in another ICON
they went each his separate way.
And thus so far as we know, cndeth the
Ease Of the L. 5. Government vs. B. O.
Jones.