The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1872-02-16
THE CURRENT SCANDAL.

CASE OF "wHo's BEEN HERE SINCE Use
BEEN GoNE."-FURY OF TIE OUTRAGED
HUsBAND.-PIsToLs AND CopfINs.-
HAsrY DEPARTURE OF THE "BETRAY-
Err.
The city has been somewhat excited du-
ring the past week by the publication Of
n choice bit Of scandal and the probability
that tragedy OF frst-olass proportions
would grow out OF it. Here is the story rs
twas told to us.
About year ago citizen Of Cairo, I'M
ablo to any longer obtain employment at
the business in which he had gained an
enviable reputation, went hence in search
of fortune in moro appreciative COM
munity. He left behind him a wife on
whose constancy he was willing to stake
all his woldly gains, and during his alb
sence, longer continued than at first he
thought it would be, he stead fastly kept in
view the wants Of his family and each
week sent to them all his surplus wages.
But in this case the name of the wife was,
or should have been, Frsilty. She grossly
abused the confidence of her loving
spouse. For y month or two she was as
rm as the rock Of Gibraltar and all as
ssults upon her virtue were repealed and
properly resented. But at last the temp
ter came in irresistible guise-s stall
wart man, not precisely an Addonis, but
all that the heart Of n fastidious admirer
Of male beauty could desire. His hands
had not been worn by hard labor; and,
having been long accustomed to practice
behind the counter OF a store tho science
| OF polteness, he soon ingrntiateu himself
into the weak lady's good opinion. He ad-
vanccd with not too hasty step. He
| was first kind, then aifectonatc lie won
his victims confidence, then practiced on
her weaknesses. Forgetting his duty to
his own wife and child, for he has both },
he deliberately polluted the hearthstone OF
n friend, at whose table he had often brok
en- bread, pSrtaking Of dishes which hi:
entertainers own hands had prepared
with masters skill. lie would not be
repulsed. The song of Not for Joe-no
no, no. - only melted him to fresh assault,
upon the citadel before which
he had established his posi-.
ton. lie trilmphed; and oh, that
that the dreadful truth should he told in
Gath and trumpeted on the streets of As
kalon the faithless wife became as those
who love their lords may without shame
become! Concealment was impossible
No tongue had told the secret, but what
the ear heard not the eye saw.
The grocer-for the gay deceiver is a
grocer-need we say the grocer became
nervous? Those who knew him without
knowing his secret oberved that he began
to look upon the wine when it was red.
to fill himself daily with bad whisky. He
knew the dreadful secret could not long be
concealed from the curious public and the
trusting husband. He had nightly dreams
of the cold grave, and saw visions of infu-
rated husbands rushing with fierce bowie
knives and huge pistols upon the betray-
ers of their pcace-chopping them to
pieces and blowing them into the finest
kind of smithcreens.
Last week the husband returned rus he'd
to his homo to embrace his dear wife, and
horror of horrors, how he swore He
vowed by all the gods at once he would
have vengeance, and fell to quoting san
culinary passages from the tragedy of
"Othello.' He hunted pillow to strsngle
his Desdemona, and compelled her to d.
vulge the name of her ruiner. Then he
cried with loud voice wailing, and arm
ing himself with pistol went in search of
his enemy. lie found him. He shot at
him. He missed him. The Deceiysr
made haste to sock safety in flight and i,
now hiding somewhere in St. Louis, where
he will:remoin until all danger has passed
away and matter. are again calm and se-
rene.