The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1878-05-05


sounds of saw-mill A subscription,
headed by Capt. Fields, was taken up for
Mr. Browns benefit.
john Pickett, carpenter sixty-tllrec
years old, andfo years resident ofthis city,
metwith an accident yesterday morningabout
eight o'clock which, we regret to say, will
probably end in death. He was engaged
on the building now in course of erection
by Mr.. W. G. Cary on the corner of Fourth
and Walnut streets. In the course Of the
work it fell to his share to set door frame.
This was on the evening before the accident
occurred. Is appears that on rcsuming
work yesterday morning he supposed that
he had completed that particular talk; but,
fatally for him, he neglected mailing the
bottom Of one Of the studding. Outside
and about foot below the door u scaifOld-
ing had been improvised. In attempting
to swing himself upon this he caught at
the studding, which being loose, gave
way, precipiting him head foremost
to the ground. Mr.. Cary, who was present,
Immediately went to his assistance and
found him lying insensible. The injured
man was removed to his residence, and the
services of DR.. Parker secured. 1t is said
his collar-bone was broken, and he sus-
tanned other serious injuries about the head
neck and shoulders. At about s o'clock
last evening we were informed he wa in Il
very critical condition and ere this reaches
our readers he may have passed away. As
has been stated, Mr.. Purkett was an old
man and the father of large family, who
have the sympathy of the community in
their distress.
The souls Of the young "bloods" of
Cairo are thrilled with excitement over the
pending skatorial contest. In the prosper
Gus days of the venerable Roman republic
its patrician youth backed their judgment
contests; the Athenian youth assembled in
the public square of the hub Of the
universe AMI warmed their noble
blood and battered their aristo-
cratic shins in the manly exercises of foot
ball and shiny the young dons Of Cas-
tile sought the excitement so congenial to
high-spirited natures in bull-baiting and in
romantic adventure; their Partisan proto-
types of the present day find their highest
enjoyment in the pleasures of the the Jar
din Mabille and the can-can; but a mystic
rious providence, in its inscrutable way, has
left it to our young men to run to skates
on rollers. This method Of firing the blood
has its advantages, although they may not
be apparent to the nakedeyc at first glance.
There is nothing in it that would tend to
harden the human heart; cruelty to ami
mails (quadrupeds, we mean has no share in
it; the dcmoralzlng elements Of adventure
are not there; the pleasures of the cup are
superseded by cooling draughts of straight
cistern water. 1t is aprudent sport. If nc
cident should happen, it invariably falls to
that part of the human frame which any
student Of human anatomy will tell you is
best endowed with powers of suffering and
endurance. The utter innocence and harm
lcssncss Of the pastimc, aside from its pro-
motion of the intellectual faculties, should
commend itself to the patronage, at least,
of those whose age and limbs forbid par
ticipation in it. BY all means, then,
let us encourage skating-on rollers;
but that feature which involves late
hours should be eliminated. In our cX-
pericnce we have discovered that nine
o'clock is as late IN hour as a youth
should be permitted away from the pater-
nal roof. An intracton of this rule should
invariably be met with sound, but judic-
ious, spanking, and after that the victim
sent to bed. With strict application Of
this rule, we fcarlcssly declare in favor of
skaiing-on rollers.