The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1873-01-22

employed by even more scrupuous rail.
way managers than he,) supplied
by his corporation, in transportation
and control Vt market, rs the Erie was the
great thoroughiare to the oil regions. a
compact was struck. Fisk entered the re-
hnery company, reinforced its capital, and
with change of name and heavy draw
backs on the Erie freight bill, the Hunt
cr's Point refinery sailed strongly into
successful competition. Stokes was Sec
rotary as we'll as partner. At one timo
his profits from the refinery gave him
! 900 per week.
In 1864, Stokes married the daughter OF
j. w. SOuthwick, u prominent furniture
dealer IN New York, one of the oldest ia
his line in that city. A short time since
one OF oar oldest residents showed us u set
of furniture, wedding outfit brought to
Chicago in 1886, bought of MIR. South
WICK, who Is now man of immense
wealth, and still in active business in u
great Broadway establishment The we'd
ding OF Stokes with Miss Southwiok
seemed TO lack nothing that wealth, posi-
tions, and social surroundings could bring
TO insure happiness. They made their
sumptuous home in tho Hoffman house,
of the metropolis.
The next scene in the drama brings tho
infamous woman Mansfield into the plot.
solomon described her many centuries
ago, and we fear Solomon knew what he
was writing about But this painting has
never been surpassed, and If somebody
could have slipped into Stokes mind this
little pen portrait, made two thousand
years ago, of Josephine Mansfield and her
infamous sisters, 1t might have spared
community the fruits of the new acqant-
ance. Here are some of the wise mans
colorings of his subject
She lieth in wait ~ for a prey, and in
creaseth the transglessions among men.
Her feet 20 down to dca Ia; her steps take
hold on hell.
Her house inclincth into death, and her
paths into the dead. None that 20 in unto
her return again.
lie goeth alter her straithwav. as an. OK
gOcth TO the slaughter.
She hath east down many wounded. yea
many strong men have been slain by her.
Her house l. the way 10 he'll, going down
10 the chambers OF death.
The dead are there. Her guests are in the
depth, Ot hell.
And just precisely that happened which
the Son David predicted; from the house
OF the harloi the path turned downward.
n quarrel between Fisk and stokes fol-
lowed. l. was carried into affairs of busi-
ness. Fisk refused - allow the Hunters
Point concern to make n dividend, and
thus cut oG Stokes supplies. The dis
graceful relation with Mansfield became
more shameless, and this faIher-in-law,
SouthwlcS, cent his daughter aud her
child - Europe early in ISL, to remove
her from the scene OF the scandal Stokes.
at Fisk, used bis position ~ secro-
isry 10 collect $50, 600 irOu peyOe an OIL ,
merchant, which sum be held openly snl !
tetantiy AS his share Of the profits. Fisk Z
caused ms arrest on = criminal charge I
Stoke. turned - his wealthy relatives.
No one would hail MIN. sna he Was forced .
10 make terms and submit. sad refund .re I
money. His relations - Fisk were bitter. /
and out of the intensity of the evil passion, .
and crimIualltivs oi his position With I
Mansfield grew murder Turn 10 Solo I
mon again, and there Is no mystery in the /
chain Of sequences, Il j, sad that the same ,
steamer that took out 20 Europe the muir .
der Of Fisk BY Stokes carried a divorce
procured by her family for bis wife who /
SAL remains abroad.
The story Of famiy grief and rever.es i, /
not all told. The senior Stokes. after
thirty years Of retirement and enjoyment
OF a llNlrious nOme,is bankrupt sui nome- I.
less IN his otd aye. Oue Of the daughters
died two weeks after marriage The I
second daughter, the wife OF 4 Mr. sutton, .
attached herself so strongly 70 the for. |
tunes Of Der brother .na. her husband
discarded G.r. and sac IS in refuge with
ner aged ant Fenni.e.s parents. The
second son, u young man OI great prom
is-, died Two months agJ, Of grief and
shame az the family reyer.es and the
whole tale Of the innocent and suffering
victims by this implication of crime anu
shame Is not - be fully tod without in
GLIDING some Of the best known aud es-
teemed Of New York families.
II young men in our communities could /
ride on express trains 10 the devil, Gud I
take no one with them, there would be |
less TO be said, since aside from these con-
sderatlons, it is every mans individual
right to barter away his life and fortune.
and sacred honor ut his own price. Satan
buys great many of these poor fellows
very cheap, and ut short option for seller
But every car is part of u part of family |
train. The shock and crush of shame and |
disgrace must fall on innocent as we'll rs
guilty, In behalf Of the fathers aud mothers |
and sisters of community, let genera |
warning be made Of the case of Edward |
Stokes. Where has romance woven any
thing so sad Where in modern commu- |
Mite. have been given more abrupt and |
startling variations ofx light and shade |
from the brightest point Of promise and |
assured happiness to the depths of dark |
ness and misery, than those on which the |
curtain falls.