The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-12-13
Local News.
Mrs. W. f. Pitcher has been seriously
sick for several weeks.

sick for several weeks.
, Judge J. Il, Robinson returned yester-
day morning from Carbonate where he
had been sent as delegate by the Cairo
lodge of Odd Fellows, to attend a short ses-
sion Of the Southern Illinois District Ami.
versary association, 1. O. o. f. The 1850
citation 10 composed Of fourteen lodges in
southern Illinois, and representatives from
most of them were present. The object of
the meeting was to elect officers for the
ensuing year and to select place for hold
ing the next meeting Of the association for
the celebration of the ami
versary of Odd Fellowship. The
election resulted as follows: President,
Hon. Geo. W. Young, Of Marion vics-presi.
dent, Judge J. H. Robinson, of Cairo; secre-
tary, Nh. Geo. NJ. O'Hsrs, of Carbonate;
treasurer, Mr.. George Kennedy, OF Murphys-
boro. The last named place was decided
upon as the place for holding the anniver
sary meeting aud the date fixed upon is the
26th OF April next. A vote OF thanks to
the press of southern Illinois. for fsvors vol.
unfairly given, was also unanimously car
RED.
Jim Clavin, one of the six young hood.
lums who amused themselves Monday
night BY unmercifuly beating three inof.
fsnsive men, on Commercial avenue, ard
who, with the others, was fined $40 and
costs, giving an order on the Wabash road
for the Ane, and was thereupon permitted
TO 60 free, attempted Yesterday to skip"
the town without paying his fine. He
drew what money was due him from the
company and prepared 10 leave. Officer
McTigue was in search of him all afternoon,
but had not found him at night. 1t is
argued that Clavins absence from the city
10 better than his presence even in jail
This argument will hold good in the cases
Of strangers who, if they leave under fear of
punishment for some deviltry committed, will
remain away, but not in the cases of young
fellows who live here, who have been known
10 several instances to leave the city to
avoid an execution for an unpaid fine, re.
main sway for several months and then re-
turn, only to commit come other outrage
against law and order. Of the six offenders
referred to only two have given security for
the payment of their fines; yet all of them
are at large, when four At least ought to be
in jail. This state Of things indicates q
looseness in the administration of punish.
ment that 10 to be deplored, and that must
prove pernicious in its effects upon society
if permitted to prevail to any great extent.
The prisoners should have been required
either to make immediate payment of the
fines, or give security at once, or go to Jail
It does not need the application of any deep
logic to satisfy most any one that such
leniency shown BY conservators of the public
peace toward young men who are guilty Of
repeated, outrageous infractions of the
criminal code, must produce in the minds
OF such young men hearty contempt for
the Law and its minions, and make them
holder and more defiant in the future. The
heroic treatment in such cases is always the
best, and when youths have outgrown the
influences OF home and become offensive or
dangerous to the society in which they live,
then the civil authorities MUST step forward
and, with stern, steady hand, mete out to
them the punishment that heads of fami
lies are unable or unwilling to infict.
"Hoodlumism." when once permitted to get
q foot hold 10 . community is a constant
disturbing element, difficult to suppress
Certainly, it is much easier to nip it in the
hud