The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-02-09

past week has been one of heavy disasters
Mr.. William Lemen, who has for some
time been connected with THE BULLETIN
as assistant business manager, left last
night for St. Louis, where he will remain
| for a week or two and then return to Green
vile, Bond county, TO his old home. He
has severed his connection with THE Bull
| LETIN, which was not to his taste, he being
accustomed to the free and easy life at a
large, well-furnished farm, and will again
assume the management Of his farm in
Bond county.
The father aud mother of the late
Theophalus Hall, who resided 10 Kentucky
and was killed in the bad accident on the
Texas and St. Louis railroad some time
ago, have brought suit against the road
for five thousand dollars damages. The
suit is brought 10 the circuit court here by
Mr.. Angus Leek, complaints attorney. 1t
is brought under law guaranteeing to the
survivors of a person killed in railroad
accident resulting from neglect or careless
ness Of the company or its agents, five thou
sand dollars, payable by such company.
There are thirty.four prisoners in our
county Jail, about twenty-five of whom are
negroes. And lest some of our country
exchanges, notably the jackson County
Era and Paducsh News, should fall upon
this speck of information, magnify it into
huge cloud of black dishopor and cast 1t
over Cairo as a warning TO strangers, etc,
ETC., we will state that not one of the
thirty.four is, or ever was, citizen OF this
city or county; every one OF them halls
from one of cur neigbboring towns, per
chance neighbors to the very gentlemen
who delight in venting their bad humor
and ugly spleen upon Cairo's innocent
head. About twenty-five of the prisoners
are charged with crimes for which the
penalty is term of years in the peniten-
tisry, aud their capture by the officers here
was so well managed that it is not likely
that a single one of the prisoners will es-
cape the penalty.
Some time ago petition signed by a
number of the leading citizens OF Hodges
Park was sent to the county court, Judge
Robinson presiding, asking that au election
be ordered to decide upon adopting a viii.
lsge government for the town. Judge
Robinson granted the petition and ordered
that such election be held on the 18th inst,
next Tuesday. The law governing such
cases requires that certain number of no.
tees announcing that such election will be
held, shall be posted up in the place where
such erection Is to be held fifteen days be-
fore the day for the election. This part of
the law was not complied with by the
Hodges Park people, the notices OF election
not having been put up even yet. The
result is that there will be no election on
next Tuesday and the attempt to create
village out OF the town Of Hodges Park
will be deferred while longer. 1t is
likely, too that upon second thought, the
people have concluded that the advantages
afforded by village government are not
commensurate with the greatly increased
cost of such government over that OF
town, and have abandoned their intention
to change.
The new local of the Paducsh News
shows his "freshness" in every issue OF that
paper. lie Isl good writer and makes the
paper interesting it ia true; but he does
this often at the expense of truth
prudence, good sense and good Eng.
fish, In Wednesdays issue Of the News
he makes frantic thrust at Chief
Myers, of this city, because he took
the young negro Harris to Frankfort, in
stead of turning the prisoner over TO the
Paducah officers to take back lie thinks
the Paducah officers ought to have had the
honor of returning Harris to Frankfort, and
the fifty dollar reward for doing so, be-
cause they made the arrest, an d because the
chief did not do this very uncalled.for
thing, the young ranter rants violently and
commits some outrageous assaults upon the
English language, Had the young man
repressed his fiery nature a little and given
his reason a chance, he would probably
have found it advisable to enquire into the
whole truth Of the matter concerning
which he had determined to rants and had
he made due enquiry, lie would have dis.
covered that the true inwardness of the
Harris case had better not out of consid.
GRAFTON for the Paducah police force, be
made the subject matter Of fiery discus.
sion In the public prints. lie would have
discovered, for instance, that Harris had
been In Paducah three or four times since
his escape, aud that he had passed the
| pAducab officer on tho stroo,a ,i,,,a and