The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1871-07-26
THE LAST OF THE CHRISTIANS,

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Old man Christian had two sons-Wil.
liam and Albert. He died, bequoathing
about SOCIAL his wealth to William,
the elder son. A month after the old
mans death, William, also, went tho way
Of oil flesh, and Albert becprre pc: essed
of the $500. But in month after Will
liam's death, Albert likewise took his Jour-
ney to that land from whose bourne no
no traveller returns. And thus ended the
race of all the Christians. Thomas Mar
tain was in rapid succession the admins
TRAITOR of the estate of the elder Christian
and Of each Of the two boys and after the
death Of Albert had in his hands about
5000, which, since there was no Christian
to receive ii, he concluded to expend in
tombstones to mark the place Of the Chris
tians who had gone before. His inten-
tions in this regard were somewhat
shocked by the service Of citation from
Judge Bross, who, we fear, will pine and
die when he has no more administrators
and guardians to "cite," ordering him to
show cause why he should not make a frAl
settlement of the Christian estate. But,
knowing the tenderness of the judges
heart, his susceptibility to poetry, Mar
tain resolved to assault Bross in his tender
place, and SO submitted TO his considera.
ton the following
UNIQUE REPORT:
Said administrator would report, that
no claims have ever been allowed against
said estate, that said Albert II. Christaian
died leaving no known heir at law or le-
gal representative; that the graves wherein
rep ose the ashes Of the dead Albert, and
of his father Samuel l.. Christian, who
devised the same to said William, remain
unprotected or unmarked by stone or
monument, with nothing to perpe.uste the
memory or mark the resting place Of ia
ther and son, the last of all the Christians,
who lived and died and left money for the
Golfers ofth county but not cent 10 pro-
tect their own hallowed dust or proclaim
to Christianity in a Christian land the
spot where these Christians sleep, except
by permission of this honorable court
Oh sad Estate
oh human wre.chednes So weak is man,
So ignorant and blind, that did not God
Sometimes withhold in mercy what we ask
We should be ruined by our own 'bequest."
Said administrator, in consideration Of
the premises, and in order that these three
Christians may not, while funds
that we're theirs remain, sink into their
graves "unknelled, uncofiined and
unknown" would respectfully ask Of this
honorable court that he be permitted, as q
part of the burial expenses and expenses
Of administration, to invest the said sum
Of money, now in his hands, in inclosing
the said graves and erecting over them =
suitable marble slab sacred to the men,
DRY" Of these men; that
Remnant Of things that have passed away,
Fragments Of stones reared by creatures Of
clay"
and also 20 the grave Of the sold Samuel's
wife and daughter, and that this cause
may be continued until said :iministra-
tion can make final report of his action
in this pemises
But if this honorable court shall no, in
its wisdom grant what seems to be meet
and proper TO said administrator, viz
that the funds Of the dead when unclaim-
ed by justice and uncaled for by the liv-
ing, should be appropriated towards giving
honorable sepulture to its owner, then,
and in that case, said administrator res
pecttully asks that this be approved as his
final report, and that he be discharged as
sucn administrator upon his paying into
the county treasury the said sum no in
his hands, and filing with the clerk Of this
court his receipt therefor.
yet l beseech you
Wrench once the law to your authority,
To do a great right, do little wrong
and give the money to the dead and not
to the state. THOMAS MARIAN,
Administrator Of Albert II. Christian, de-
ceased.
Need we say that Judge Bross, who is as
adamant to prosaic eloquence, melted be.
fore this poe.ical assault and gracously per-
mitted the graves of the last Of the Chris
tians to be marked by marble slabs?
DR.. r. v. Price, of Buffalo, N. Y, in his
book on Chronic Diseases, says in regard
TO his Golden Medical Discovery, with
which our readers are familiar, from its
wonderful power over Consumption of the
Lungs had tn ought strongly Of calling it
my Consumptive Cure; but from the fact
that it is a perfect specific for the sore
throat and hoarsness to which ministers
and public speakers and singers arc subject,
and also for Bronchitis and all serere
coughs and is an invaluable remedy for
diseases of the Liver, and also as Blood
purifier. | decided not to apply to it a
name which might mislead and prevent its
use in other diseases for which it is 80 ad-
mirably adapted.
II will cure a cough in one half the time
necessary to cure it with any other medi-
cine, and it does it not by drying it up but
by removing the cause-subduing the irr-
taton and healing the affected parts
This valuable medicine is sold by all first
class druggists.
OUR RAILROAD lSTEREsT.-The present
encouraging evidences of railroad pros
perity should induce every citizen of Cairo
to patronize Fred. Theobold, who has re-
turned to the city and taken charge of his
popular tonsorial palace, on Sixth street,
between Ohio levee and Commercial ay-
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