The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1878-12-10

| about il, were at sea when it come to de-
tails. We shall not put ourselves on record
as pronouncing it, SELL" but there were
divers and sundry phases about II that
looked very peculiar.
1t was hard ON horses and rough on RI
ders but countryman came to the city
yesterday, thought he had horse that
could "tiam OUT anything IN Cairo; which
impression he avowcd he would support with
unreasonable amount Of filthy lucrc. ltwould
be somewhat surprising, if, in town as
large as Cairo, bantering stranger OF that
kind were permitted to leave the city unac-
commoda,ed This stranger was not, At all
events, His proifered wager was covered,
Rynaston put horse on the track that
dashed away from the cXulprant stranger
in manner that compelled him to give
voice to the exclamation; "D--n me, if |
ever seen the like" Just how far the
strange animal was diStanced or how
much money was staked on him, we cant
| say. The weather was little too severe to
encourage walk of mile to obtain the
details, hence We are without them
"A young man named Henry Bedford
was killed, a few days ago, by being
crushed under the cars between Birds
Point and Charleston, at point near
Adams planning MILL on the Cairo dead
track. He was in the act Of stepping from
one platform car TO another, when, losing
his footing, he fell TO the ground, three
cars and the tender passing over his legs,
and leaving has body so wedged under the
engine that II would have been instant
death to have moved it, even foot, either
way. In this horrible predicament the I'M
fortunate young man remained until jack
screws could be obtained. and the engine
lifted from his body He begged most
pi,eously for the parties present to shoot
him, and put him out of his misery. He
was released at the end of q half hours la
Dor, and died about an hour later. He had
many relatives and friends in Charleston,
and was well acquainted in Cairo.
John @. Hartman has definitely fixed
upon tomorrow as the time for his final de-
parturc from Cairo. Quite everybody will
miss him, for during period OF twenty-five
years he has successfully played the role of
a liberal, intelligent, public.spirited citizen
ia man who, though at no time wealthy
has built houses in every portion Of the
city, always bearing his full share Of the
public burdens, and never standing aloof
from any enterprise or undertaking that
had in view the material wcl-being of the
city or country. His departure will seem
( to effect the removal OF feature of the
city He has for so many years held official
! positions among Us, and has been so init
mately connected with the law and public
business Of the place, that thought Of one
naturally suggests a thought OF the other
But Of this enough To the good graces
and friendship Of the people Of Mt. Vernon,
THE BULLETIN commcnds him as an honest,
straight forward, intelligent gentleman,
worthy Of their entire confidence, whether
measured as citizen OF Democrat
Good. bye, old John, goodbye
Old Bill Lee complains Of the severity
Of the weather III clad and half fed, he
says he feels the cold more keenly than ever
before in his life. When Bill complains,
there is some cause for it. We have seen
him emerge from beneath covering Of
/ snow, under which he had slept all night;
have assisted in removing hlm out of the
/ frozen ground, to which the frosts of
cold night had attached him as with rivets
of steel; but never before have we heard
| him complain Of the effects ofcold weather
These complaints are chargeabe in a meas
ure to his inability fill up AS
beautifully as formerly on bad
whisky. For period Of nearly or
quite thirty-fye years he has been continu-
ally under the influence Of liquor, his
greatest stretch OF total abstinence running
from the time of falling asleep at night
until awakened by the terrible longings OF
the morning. With system shattered by
such terrible abuse, of course any diminu-
ton Of the supply of liquid fire, would tell
upon him most icarully, Then, it is not
50 much the want of clothing or food, that
makes William feel the cold blasts Of De-
cember so sensibly, as it is the absence Of
the wonted stimulants that so successfully
fortified him, in the halcyon days Of free
whisky and plenty OF it.
We heard, yesterdy, that old "aun
Han Lee the mother Of Bill Lee, had be
come so heavily laden with the burdens o
age and extreme poverty that she must soor
drop by the way-side. The old woman wal
child when our federal constitution wa
adopted; young woman when Washing
ton died, and mother when the war of 1871:
was fought. Upon what ground she bases
her relationship to Richard Henry Lee, o
Independence fame, we do not know, bu