The Cairo evening bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1868-1870, 1869-12-24
A. RECORD or WHAT FOUR
DAYS EEvEALED.
DEsTrI UTIOs, MISERY, DEATH.

no just conception Of how The other hall
! lives" Our peculiar relations with the
public subject US TO more talesof suffer
ing and restitution than we ould find
space to repeat, should wei d,vote our
columns to no other use. We have noted
down, for the eye Of the .reader,a few of
the stories OF misfortune and wnt that
have been repeated incur heariig since
tho commencement of.the preset week.
First, is that ola sallow.faced ragged,
sickly, married man. Has thre child.
rem; all of them down with the measles !;
he was unable to work, had no money,
and absolutely feared starvation
Secondly, Is that OF. a man abut fifty
years of age; live, in Hamilton ounty,
Ohio; everything he had was swept
away by the war he being resient Of
Virginia during that interval Of" I'M
pleasantness.n He had just retrned
from Missouri, where he hoped to calect
debt due him was disappointed; had
just recovered from protracted spell of
! sickness; was pepniless; almost mated,
weary in body and distressed in mind.
lie shed tears copiously, and avoved,
with an alarming earnestness, "a purpose
to end his MUSCLES by blowing his brains
out.
The third APPLICANT was an infiim, old
, man from Tennessee. His son, with
whom he had een living, and his sons
wife, had driva him from their hone;
had maltreated him, even to the inhic
ton OF blows. Firmly believing that
they entertaind designs upon bis lie,
he was begginshis way to Ironton, No.,
where he has daughter, whom he
hoped would frnish him food and shell
ter for the brhf interval yet allotted TO
him. He hal been three weeks on the
way, sleeping in barns and out-houses,
and subslstiy on such morsels as he
could beg from families.on his route.
A young bit married man, had been
brought TO wait by sickness. His wife
aud children Lad, for many weeks, been
prostrate; he had not a cent wherewith
to buy me dlcines or nourishment for
them, nor c)uld he leave them while
he worked for money. One ofhis child
rem was lying a corpse In his house, and
he could not bury 1t FOR want OF means.
He was discouraged, griefstricken, and
as miserable generally rs want and sor.
row could make him.
Ayoung pfnter, ragged aud dirty,
landed In Caiio pen liless. He had been
drunk, and while In that condition a
deck hand Eel upon him and beat him
severely, brush ng and lascerating his
face, smashing his nose, and almost
closing both eyes. In such a condition Inc
could secure admission into no board.
ing house I, town, and nc was prompt
ly driven even from tie saloons into
which he entered 20 warn aud rest. He
lad asked or food aud money, and in
every singls Iinstance hac been refused
and generally denounced as a "worth.
less, drunken vagabond.n He had not
tasted food for more than sixty hours
during Tuesday nigh! slept, or 'ather
stayed, in the entrance of one OF our
sewers. His bruised and Ilackered face
had closed all hearts as w,ll as all doors
against him, and when We saw him he
was "more dead than alive"
The sixth case Of destitu,ionwas that
ola cadaverous,: poorly dtesseC country
girl, from Dunklin county. Missouri.
Her father had been killed by.he BUSH
whackers; her mother by the
fall OF tree during storm.
SheIhad been an invalid durig her en-
tire womsnhood, and at iteryals Of
months was unable TO leave her bed
Her brother and his wife, withvhom she
had lived since the death OF he mother,
treated her with great cruelty and al
though penniless, she was maiing her
way TO stephensport, Ky, whereshe ex-
pected 10 find an uncle who soud take
care OF her. She had nothing tolive for,
she said, and would welcome death as
happy termination Of her miseries.
The seventh, ard last individual to
whom we shall refer, carried under his
arm small, a very small, plain poplar
coffin. He occupies one of the many
huts that environ our city, and was, in
appearance, but short remove from a
skeleton. His wife had died but recent
ly, leaving IN his charge an infant only
two months old, He himself had just
recovered from a severe attack OF bilious
fever, in time to put away with its moth
or, the little child, which he felt had died
OF cold, starvation and neglect. He had
no means when he was taken sick, and
but for the kindness Of negro neighbors,
would have died, He expected to bury
the child with his own hands, and didn't