The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1878-11-08
NEW SERIES---NO. l2O
THE IMAGINARY BRAVE.
DARE-Dhvu DEEDS PERFORMED Ky THE
pEACEADLE RESoITEs.
Reno Gnzetta1

fEhSfSbiht NENOlTEs.
Reno Gazette.l
The fall fights being in fierce progress.
the mind Of man is turned 10 pugiism.
Quite crowd Of prominent citizens were
comfortably gathered around the stove in
Il Commercial Row saloon last Scvening,
and in the course Of of the general beliger-
cnt conycrsation--rcminiscenty bciigercnt,
mcraly-a small tobacco dealer with &
sqneaky voice and weighing, perhaps $50
pounds spoke up; II amt no iigltin man.
he admitted graciousIy, IAN ! don't blow
about what kin do in the way OF lickin,
an | amt had black eye since ] lett
school Once six-iooter that could have
lifted me up with one hand came into my
store an called for Boquet Special an
then tried to hang me up for il. tod
him it wouldn't do, an he began to buster
an call tough names See here my FRIEND
says iXin' my eyes on him hard Il always
do that when have trouble with man,
an tell You what, one OF my docks gcnor-
ally tetches 'cn,) | says, See here NY
friend, don't want no tooishncss. don't
know you, and you can't have no trust at
wig p'''P' wv ~ ~ oIih. ul"t Nilul y'n
are Well, sir, he just reached
over an slapped my face, don't know
what happened for the next five minutes.
When ! ito get mad my brain seems towtz
round an can't see. When cone 20
myself, was out on the sidewalk on top u
that siX-iooter, an beat his face till i;
looked like II raw beetSteak. How done
it don't know, for don't pretend to be
fighter. 1t took five men TO haul INC eli,
and the siS-tooter was laid up in bed tor six
weeks. To avoid trouble, paid the doc
tors bill
ave often noticed the same thing with
myself, said consumptive dry goods man.
Its terrible to get into one Of them RACES.
I've only been mad three or four times IN
my life, and then ] foam at my mouth.
Now, Pm not ashamed to say that I'm
rather cowardy. Couragcis mere matter
of nerves, but I've often wondered that
haven't killed somebody or done something
awful in one of my RACES. Dye see this
scar-r!ght over my eye here? Well, per
haps it's growed up, but it looked like q
Niger minslrcl'S mouth once. got .iat
over in French Corral. was kecpcn q.
saloon there in 'jj, and done big Dizziness.
There was Il fellow lived next door 10 me,
named MuIligan-Patsy Mulligan, or Mike
| Muliigan, don't remember which. Wei,
he was pretty good fellow when he was
sober but perfect taTor when in liquor.
and he had the name Of being TIC
toughest fighter in the Corral. WIS.,
always civil to him, and when he came int
the saloon, which he did pretty frequent.
amt ashamed TO say that was afraid q
Muliigan, for wasn't a fighter then any
morn am now, and if had a good chance
I'd rather run than fight, any time. BIT
when I'm comered-cornered close up, WHY
then I'll sail IN as any other man wou.d,
and when | do fight fight to win, you bet
your life. Well, one morning when ! was
scttin' my bar to rights, in comes Mulligan.
He weighed about three times as much as
did, and the moment he come in see he'd
been on il all night, and wasn't teclin' in
good humor. The first thing he done was
to kick over three or four chairs and spit
mouthtul of tobacco on the billiard table
| didn't say nothin', for he was good GUS
toner, and | didn't want no trouble Bat
when he up and with one good solid kick
brought down the cue-rack | thought he'd
gone far enough, and says to him: NM
| ligan, won't You have something to drink 7
i don't care if do says he, walking up
to the bar. There were only two OF is
in the saloon, and it was too carly fer
anybody much to be on the streets. What'll
you have 2 says /. Gimme u cocktail
says he, and be dam lively about il,
too thought Ina, scein' it was NY
treat that this was pretty fresh, but l
didn't say nothin', for didn't want no
trouble. ] built him Il big drins,
and then boys what dyethink the big husky
did! Why he just took the whisky bottle
out of my hand and takin' up the quad o
tobacco he'd laid down on the counter 10
| begun crammin' it down the neck OF the
bottle, Then got mad and made "a grab
for my whisky, and the brute struck me
over the eye with it, maxim that scar
Then we went at it, | hit him with walrUs'
tusk that hung by the bar mirror, and ne
began to gather up the glasses, but hu,.
him on the head with decantcr Jhu;
hoorcd him and just jumped over the
counter and was giyin' him the heel in he
face when Constable Flanagan rushed in
and dragged me oil. Both Of us wcrl laid
up for God knows how long, bu, We never
had no more trouble"
"When was young fellow over in Ms
souri, began Il toothless old man, Il had
one Of The durndest scrapes you ever heard
tell on. There was n fellow that
At that momcut Il tremendous row or the
street caused Il general rush of the sanguir-
AIRY citizens to the door, A fight between
two printers was in progress, and they stood
round and enjoyed it unti one Of the typos
sat down on u rock and positively refused
to fight any more Then the citizens went
back into the warm saloon, and told one
another what desperate characters they were
when they once got started.