The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-12-05
Local News.

quantity Of household goods that we're be.
ing unlawfully withheld from her by some
one In the country. The law requires that
in cases of this kind the applicant must
give bond in a sum equal to twice the
value of the goods sought to be taken. The
woman 10 question was poor woman; she
had not even the money to pay for issuing
the writ, and could not havo given any
bond. Assuming now that her claim to
the property was valid and we have the
spectacle of justice defeated because of
lack OF money --of poor woman deprived
OF her little worldly possessions in spite of
the law and left without the protection of
the law. An amendment of the law re-
lating to cases of replevin, doing away with
the necessity for a bond and turning the
goods over to the custody OF the court as
in cases of attachment, would seem to be
advisable.
AT meeting of the Rough and Ready
fire company held Monday night, set of
resolutions were adopted the purport of
which was that an effort be made to raise
money with which to buy a steam engine.
A committee was appointed, which will
call upon our citizens with subscription
paper in a few days. The company will
head the paper with 81 900, and the remain.
der of s., 300 will have to be subscribed by
our citizens. The advantages of steam en-
gines are apparent to all, of course. In the
first place, they do away yith the necessity
for enlisting idle lockers on at fire to as
sist at the engines, which is always unpleas-
ant to both the company and the idlers,
and nearly always fails to bring the desired
assistance. And secondly, one steamer will
throw two or more:stresms of water, and
throw them higher and heavier than hand
engine could. Our citizens will all agree in
giving our fire department, which is one of
the finest of its kind in this section of the
country, hearty support in ell matters
looking to its perfection, and the Rough 5
committee should meet with liberal contri-
buttons.
In the catalogue of prosecutions of
Irish subjects by the British government,
there has been none, perhaps, that has
caused a. much comment as that of mick
Fallon," poor fellow with wife and
three or four children. Contributions have
been sent him from all over this country, as
far west as California, and in letter &C
knovledging contribution from James
Barrett Chicago, he thus briefly enumerates
some OF the indignitles and outrsges of
which he was the victim: II shall not
harrow your feelings with any description
of my sufferings, save to tell you that for
daring to try to save the lives Of my family
have been sent to prison nearly twenty
times since was cruelty evicted from my
home some two or more years ago. Each
term of imprisonment extended over one
month. I am denied the shelter of the
ditch and sent to jail for the crime of ly
ing beside the wall with my family. Twice
has the cruel landlord set fire to and
burned down the little shed erected to
shelter my family from the rains and
winds Of heaven. The burning Of the little
shed did not satisfy the landlorI-he
burned every particle of clothing my chill
dren had to cover their nakedness, and
even the few stone Of potatoes charitable
public gave Us. Not content with sending
me to prison nearly twenty times, immedi
ately after I was imprisoned last July, thu
governments hirelings came at the instiga
ton Of the landlord, and dragged away m!
wife from the ditch side at Moneen, wher
she was trying to shelter and save her off
spring. Before lawn tennis party she wa
dragged, and, in the most illegal manner
sent to prison--where at this moment sh
lies, for what offence know not, save tina
the sending Of her there a'.used the lawr
tennis party, who gathered in front of thu
landlords hall door. No one will tell m,
why she has been kidnapped away from
her children, the youngest 1.-TWO and hal
years. of which would have persisted o
neglect only for the timely aid of the parish
priests sister,"
The object the st. Louis & Cairo rail
road company could have in AcTUALL,
BUILDING an incline below it's freight depo
on the Ohio river, is as yet clouded in thu
darkest mystery. Even the Representatives
| Of the road here are not posted 10 this re
gard, nor yet ss to any Of the details Of tn
arrangement; hence We are left to presum
what may seem reasonable in the light o