The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1856-01-22
Cairo Items.
RY NOSE.
CAIRO. Ill. Jan. 16. 1856

The holidays passed off quietly in Cairo! ]
Not over hundred "plug muses." occurred, .
and several sober men were found attending to 1
their own business. Some of them Obstinate
ly refused to deviate from such a disagree&bie !
course, and were exhibited as curiosltles, '
while others, conscious of the unenviable mi
nority to which they were attached, fell IN
with the fashion, and ere the small hours of
night rolled around were most gloriously Per-
kenisea Nothing remarkable. however, oc-
curred-particulars of fights would be tedious
so I'll offer no Christmas items.
ls-The Journal, sometime since, Gin the
absence of Nose" gave few Cairo items,
which the Times and Delta of this city took /
occasion to pronounce incorrect Those items
were, nevertheless, substantially true. The
difficulty between Keen and Watson did not
result in the death of the former, as was gene
rally expected, al the time, but Watson fed, !
as the Journal stated. He afterward surrcn
dered himself to the authorities, and was held
to bail in the sum of five hundred dollars for
his appearance at the next session of the Cir
cult Court. Keens wound was frightful
one-the knife having passed entirely through
his body.
The man who was saturated with turpen-
tine and then fired, has recovered, and this
too contrary to what was expected at the time
you penned your items.
l. MURDER A deck hand attached to one of
the steamers now detained here by the ice was
last Tuesday night, bya slung-shot He died
Immediately without uttering a word after re
ceiving the blow. Two persons were arrested
on suspicion of having committed the act, but
as nothing tending to implicate them was
elected on the trial, they were discharged.
0TThere are thirty-two steamboats, now
lying at Caro-many of them engaged receiv-
ing and discharging freight
6TCurtis, the great pedestrian, or making
pedestrian as he styles himself, is now in Cairo
: performing the remarkable feat of walking thir-
ty-six consecutive hours on q single plank
without stopping. IfMr. Curtis had lived in
the days of the revolution he might have heard
OF persons walking three consecutive days
barefoot over frozen ground, without stopping
: How our race has degeneratedl 1t is now Gu
rious-a matter ofsurprise, in fact, that some
l people are not capable Of enduring one-hal
what the Revolutionary her IS endured--sC
very curious that people here cheerfully pay
twenty-five cents to see the man who has the
1 hardihood to undertake the task!
Every day developes something to confirm
me in the belief that the world is humbug
RoCKPoRT-Yo our readers no doubt are bet
t ter acquainted with this locality than your cor
respondent, yet this fact need not forbid no
tice of it in my Cairo Items" F
Had Rockport nothing more than the hospi
t tality of her people to recommend her to tn,
/ world, she would certainly on this alone, stand
Ipre-eminent / speak from experience. Blu
{ she has more; whilst she possesses the same
commercial advantages of most of the towns
on the Ohio river she possesses in an eminen
degree the stimulus to greatness, an unrivall
ed agricultural richness affords. presume
will not be disputed by any intelligent reader 0
the journal when / remark, that more pro
: ductiye agricultural district than that sur
rounding Rockport cannot be found in South
r ern Indiana Every necessary effort to insur
: a proper development of the wealth of the sol
r is being made, and if in few years, Spence
n county, from her agricultural productions, i
a init termed the "Scioto valley" of Indiana
y Nose will be mistaken in his calculations
e The townis improving on par with the coun
), try. The growth of the one is abundant,
n justified by the growth of the other; and i
S Rockport never is large commercial or manu-
featuring city, she must be at least granc
centre for the wealth of a prosperous agricul
. tural country of no mean dimensions. Iva
Z forcibly impressed with this idea during m,
: recent visit to the place, and whilst making
brief tonr through the county. Corn crib
met me at almost every turn with an Alps
like hugeness. l never saw the like HaC
d it all been manufactured into whisky (withou
J. wasting any in bread) and the liquid poured
5 upon Rockport, such disaster as an inunda
8 ton of Cairo would be small shakes in com
parison
formed many valuable acquaintance il
: the place, and among other, that of Hicks, o
+ the Democrat. and Lenegar, of the Republican
If More urbane, joyial fellows, I never found
II connected with the unfortunate craft. They
both publish the best papers that's ''in 'em,
and seem in prosperous circumstances.