The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1874-12-27
CHRISTMAS FESTIVITIES.
How People Rejoiced because Jesus
Was Horn.
Doubled Their FISTS and Cursed In
Drunken wrath.
Proving this 20 be n Very wicLe'
World.

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They will do 1.-THE wicked people o
the world; they will get drunk and fight
on Christmas day. IL they did not re-
joicc in this way. how could they r'ioirr
| Would they not BE- p"ri'ails, u on ihl'
noted dav u. should silently sil
down, AMI neither dt,pL q uran nor
strike a blow! OF course they would;
and our citizens. unwilling to be charged
with the bcinous crimeof Purtanisln. not
only drank but INDUCED In blows, on
Christmas day. In particular, did our
colored citizens give way to anti-pGritan-
ical habits, and raise the devil. They
danced aud sung. aud cursed and fought.
and acted a. they ought to not.
Everett Parks. Of Little kentuckian mo-
toriety. and Frank Convey, becoming
tired Of the mOnotonous quiet that pre-
vailed in the cooper shop at the corner OF
Eighteenth street and Commercial ave
nue.. raised quite an excitement by get
ting into fight, in which Parks seized
coopcr's adzc and threw itat Coycy. who
was in the opposite side Of the shop,
grazing his ear aud taking the skin off
Of that member. Convey then thought
II was his turn. made for Parks, knocked
him down and bruised him up pretty
badly. after which ihoy h"ih io"l-a dri"v
and shook hand. "acro-s the bloody
chasm."
Tom Fields, n cOlord man. who !.
perfect gentleman when he j. .Ober. but
whcI drunk amt>es himself by pummcl-
Ing everybody who chances to eros hi
path. 90 into a row With another colorcd
man Of hi, own disposition at the corner
Of sixth stree and Commercial avenue.
After bling Ich o,hcr in the face for
.omc tim. Ids bc,7,mc tired of the
sport. drew q Knife and tickled hi. antag-
oni-t In the lib until he gave up, and the
victorious Ton went on hi. way rcjoic-
ing.
yellow scory'' friend aud companion,
Billy smith, Tor some reason unknown
to scOtty. insjhtsd him. by calling him
naughty names. whici did not sound like
music to thccar. Of >coJty. who forthwith
proceeded to knock the offender OIL his
Dack. Smith gJtup and made an attempt
to ayengc himself. hut again he was re-
ceivcd 10y Scot,y ready fiat, and again
lac dropped into the gutter. This was
enough for him, and hc gave It up az a
bad job. and here the fight ended.
4 party Ct negro men amused them |
,elye, by plaguing an intoxicated colored |
woman on Commercial avenue, just for /
the fun of the thing The woman stood |
the sport Tor some time, but when one of |
he party chucked her under the chin |
with little stick, she got angry. brought
out pocket knife and ran il into the i'm
petite fellows breast. inflcring painful |
but not dangerous wound.
Jim Orange was full of bcnzinc. and
was making things lively for the Eighth
stree. people. He was stopped short in
his career, however, by having half inch
pine board split over hi Uranium. which
had the required effect, that of quieting
him in hi playfulncss.
Two colored men named BOYD and
Charley, were playing with revolver In
John Bcdfords saloon on Commercial
venue, and by some means or other. the
jistol went of, the ball hitting Charley
II the shoulder, passing through It and
odging in the wall. The wound Is
;ery painful one, but not serious. and
harley Is tot going to fool with loaded
revolver any more.
Atress RoS-, a colored boy about twelve
years of age, was loading revolver,
when was accidentally discharged, the
ball striking him on the tn umb. nearly
tearing Ia from his hand. lie was taken
to Dr. Snrh'S office, and had il dressed.
but the doc'r does not know yet whether
he will have amputate il or not.
The mce'ihgf the African Methodist
Church was mac somewhat more inter-
esting by little - that was kicked up
by Dick Smith and Iie,v Wisdom Dict |
went to church withscigsr in his mouth.
and forgot to throw av,o,. ,.,,,.,,.,. ,,,o-
lS tii' ho" Lord, VIII ich fact
ihhp'e i'v,"s n very strongly
that ne had bought that ,,o. 30 sn,oI,c
and lie was going 10 do it he ALL, ,a,
up cent. Henry is one ,ho o,roors
of the church, and therefore - ,,no,
it a. his duty to stop Dick fro Lii,
and seeing no other way, he Ii III ~.
offensive cherotc out of Dick ,.a,,h
with his fist This rilcd Dick. NJ ha
went for Henry, who was ready
ccive him; they clinched, bet were p;,,a |
before they had done muc' damag, toll
each other. Not being satisfied with de
way the matter terminatedone of tle
partie, had a warrant issued hr the ar
rest Of the other, had him take, before
Judge Bird, tried and fined five dollars
and cost.
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