The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-03-20


p Fitzgerald's saloon. Magistrate Coming
was duly impressed with the gravity of tn
case aud held each of the culprits to bal
in the sum of one thousand dollars, anC
they went to the county Jail.
The entrance to THE BULLETIN news
and job rooms is from Ohio evee No. rs
and is open day ard night. If
Magistrate Comings had days heavy
business yesterday Saturday and Sunday
were evidently charged with all the deviltry
of several weeks back and let it all fly inIa
bunch. James Eagen was generally mean
and disordery; he was fined five dollars
and costs; Patrick Ryan, r. Barrett, Frank
Burke, r. Mcdonald and Patrick O'Kiefe,
beng carried away with PATRIOTISM, had
each and all INDUCED too copiously in the
article which yields to the government the
bulk of its revenue, and they were there
fore fined one dollar and costs each,
Mr.. Jno. A. Reeve, clerk of the Illinois
house of representatives, was down on a
short vacation Sunday and yesterday. The
rapid passage of Mr.. Linegar's leyee bill
was due in part to the fact that Mr. Reeve
placed it at the head of the docket. Mr..
r. thinks the legislature will be in session
for over two months yet, or until about the
lst Of June. During this ten weeks it will
be in session four days each week, or forty
days in all; but it will draw pay for SIX
days each week, or sixty days IN all, thus
cheating the people but of twenty days
service. At $1,000 per day, this will make
100000 that will be taken from the state
treasury by the Springfield solons during
the remainder Of the session, for duties I'M
performed unless, of course, they change
the course hitherto pursued
Mrs. s. Williamson will treat the pub
lic,-the adies-to grand exhibition of
notions and millinery at her emporium of
fashion on Seventh street, next Thursday,
Friday and Saturday. None should fail to
attend. All are invited. ct
Capt. Jno. G. D. Knight, of the United
States engineer corpse, in charge of the
government works between this point and
Island No 40, returned Sunday from Plum
Point, the scene of his activity to where he
had accompanied the Mississippi river
which passed through here
last week ona tour of inspection down the
river. The commission made thorough
examination OF the works at Plum Point
and were satisfied with the general condi-
ton of things. "The greatest flood ever
known" affected the improvement in pro-
gress there very little. Only ten piles, or
thirty-fve feet of the work, were displaced.
In dollars and cents the damage is merely
nominal. This, in view of the new and in
complete condition of the work and the I'M
precented food, is very fatterng indeed,
AT meeting OF the school board last
Saturday, Mr.. Baily, one of the teachers in
the colored school, was dismissed, for the
reason, it is understood, that the attendance
in his room is not large enough to justify
the board in keeping him employed. Yes
terday about thirty scholars who came to
his room were sent upstairs to Mr.. Parker'S
room, to be taken in charge by him. Com
parstively, the attendance at the colored
school was very meagre all last week, and
unless there is an increase in attendance
soon 1t is likely that the force of teachers
will be further reduced, until it shall be in
reasonable proportion to the number of
children who attend regularly. If the
final result IS the closing Of the coored
school, only the parents Of colored children
will be to blame; for it would be foolish
and inexcusable extravaganza to pay out
the peoples money to force of educators
whose only employment would be to stare
at empty seats all day long, five days in
every week.
Mr.. A. G. Leonard has withdrawn
from the part proprietorship of the Cairo
Gazette and will soon sever his connection
with that paper entirely. Mr.. Leonard is
an experienced newspaper man; he is a
young man OF more intelligence than the
average colored man; IA protege OF Mr.. Ober-
ly, under whom he took his first lesson in
the printing business, in TIE BULLETIN
office, and proved an apt scholar He made q
good paper Of the Gazette, both mechani-
cally and otherwise, and he therefore de-
serves a comp limentary obituary, He will
be with the Gazette, for little while yet,
at the end Of which time Mr.. W.T.. Scott,
the colored Republican leader, and pro-
pretor Of the Gazette, will probably take
charge of the paper himself. Mr. Leonard
will remain among US, In spite Of some
strong efforts to induce him to emigrate,
and ma he la a live intnllnctuol nrnoral.