The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-11-11

night, in each of which he assessed fine of
IS and costs.
The river commission that was to have left
St. Louis on the 7th instant for trip down
the Mississippi in the wake of the special con-
gressiona committee, postponed its depar-
ture until the 14th because of the non ar
rival of some of the members, and for other
good reasons.
The government steamer Mississippi
left here Friday for Chester to bring down
several barge loads of rock for Plum Point
She is to be back and at st. Louis by the
14th in order to carry the Mississippi river
commission down the river. She will have
to fly in order to make it.
Misses McGrath and Gordon and Mrs.
George Parsons, left yesterday morning by
steamer for New Orleans, to be gone a
week or two. They we're accompanied part
OF the way by Capt T. W. Shields and Mr..
George O'Hara, who will return on the
next boat up-if the ladies will permit
them.
The funeral of the late Jno. Lally
occurred yesterday afternoon. The remains
were taken from the residence on Eighth
street to St. Patrick's church, where services
were held, and from thence to the special
train at the foot of Eighth street, which CON
veyed them to Villa Ridge for interment.
A large number of friends accompanied
them to the grave
Some one unlocked the door of Justice
o. A. Osborne's Office Friday night, and
took from the desk the Justices docket
and carried it off, leaving legal papers scat
tered all over the floor. Officer bunker
found the door open early in the morning,
and promptly notified the justice. Who
ever took the docket must have been IN
some way deeply interested in its disap-
pearance. No trace of the thief was dis
covered yesterday.
Mr.. Michael Hear, an old citizen Of
Cairo and for many years connected with
the Illinois Central railroad company here,
died yesterday morning about 7 O'Clock, at
st. Mary's lnfrmaay, where he had been
for but a few days. He was about fifty
five vears of age. He leaves wife and sew
eral more distant relatives. He was a
most faithful employe and an exemplary
citizen, whose sudden demise will be gener-
ally regretted here.
Reports from different parts of South
ern Illinois are to the effect that the rain of
the last few days has been quite general
in this section of country. Mr.. B. F. Will
bourn came down from his country home
yesterday, and says he had to wade through
water about foot and half deep in the
bottoms for distance of six or seven miles.
Col. Wood was in Vienna, Johnson county,
Friday, and there also it rained heavily
nearly all day.
Yesterday the valves for the Tenth and
Thirty eighth street sewers arrived. The
river is still about thirteen feet below the
mouths of the sewers, though it is rising
The valves therefore arrived in ample time,
and those gentlemen who looked wise and
talked with an air of mysterious knowledge
that was painful to listeners, about the GER
tainty of the rivers rising over the sewers
before the valves would even arrive, will be
sadly disappointed In the course of the
next few days the Tenth street valve will be
put in place.
From those who ought to know here
we learn that the Cairo custom office has
paid about double Its expenses for mum.
Der of years back. Though the collections
are not large they have not been less on an
average than about twice the amount OF the
cost of maintaining the office-that is the
customs office proper. 1t rs matter OF
record that some years ago the customs
office of Paducah was abolished, as we're
also those of Alton and Quincy, because
these Offices were not pay ing expenses. The
custom business Of the two last named
points was transferred to st. Louis, and that
OF Paducah was all transferred to Cairo.
Recently, for some untenable reason, the
office at Paducah was re-estabished and as
there is less business at that point now than
there was at any time before, the natural
conclusion is, that the government has made
another opening for wasting the public
money.
"A boiler explosion occurred yesterday
morning about 10: 80 o'clock, at the freight
depot of the st. Louis & Cairo railroad, al
the point. The boiler was a small one,
about nine feet long and thirty inches in
diameter, 1t stood upright in small
building at the front end and adjoining the
freight depot. 1t was used to run an en-
CINE of about ten horse power, and pump
| supplyinp water to a large tank for the