The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-02-09

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stead of being n victim was n victimizer.
1t was him who played the game on the
negro; but why he assumed the role of
victim we are not able to determine,
Shortly afterward the man Ware was arrest
ed, and both are now held for the action Of
the grand jury
The citizens of Xenia, small town on
the Ohio & Mississippi railroad, have way
of their own to deal with human brutes.
During the coolest weather of last month,
heartless ruflian of the town drove his
half clothed and bare,footed little ten year
old girl out on the streets TO hunt up cigar
stumps for his, the brutc's consumption.
The little girls feet we're so badly frozen
that it became necessary to amputate them.
A number of citizens stripped the man,
gave him forty sln-cutting ashes, and
drove him, under the lash, out of the vii
lage. Since then Il wife beater has been
subjected to the same ordeal; and but for
the tact that he provides, in some sort, for
his family, he too would have been run
out of the neighborhood. Mob violence, as
a general thing is to be deprecated; but in
cases like those in question, our laws seem
to be impotent. The man who beats his
wife should be paid in kind" but pub
licly,
The people of Fulton, Ky, know how
to enjoy themselves, and put the knowledge
to a practical test Quite recently the
young folks of that village got up Hard
Times ball, the men wearing apparel indi-
cative of the several avocations in which
they were engaged. Dyas and Tweed
Parker were participants and the Fulton
times makes the following reference 10
them:
Tweed Parker looked awful sweet, hair
scrambled and busted with corn meal, seal
skin overcOat, trimmed with shipstutf and
best grade -four he wore o blooming carrot
soup bunch in his button hole Miss Mat
tie Paschall was careful that none would
modest or make him afraid
"Dyas Parker wore cast iron smile and
a paper collar, hair scrambled Ia mode
and pocket full of mixed candy. The
girls all love cousin Dyas. lie looked SO
miserably disappointed that Mrs Murphy
thought the poor fellow was sick but he
wasn't
A terrific hubbub was raised on Tenth
street, between Poplar and Commercial,
about supper time last night, by woman
who seemed to be in an advanced stage of
intoxlcation. She HAD concluded that her
husband needed thrashing and that it was
her peculiar province to administer it..
Accordingly she gathered broom and
commenced bclaboring her better-half
in q manner that displayed a
will that was entirely out of keep
ing with her ability. In other words,
she seemed exceedingly anxious to crack
the old mans sconce; but could not put
force enough in her blows 10 even stagger
him. She was very persistent, however
being governed, perhaps, by the injunction
of the couplet
III at first You doa't succeed,
Try, try again
She kept on trying during an interval Of
five Or ten minutes or until neighbors in.
terposed and stopped the rumpus. Amorc
disgraccful scene has not been witnessed
in Cairo in many day.
Last August, just six months ago, oul
fellow-citizen, Moses Foss, bought his son
Frank u ticket to Hutchinson, Kansas
stocked him with liberal supply Of cdi
blcs to lunch upon, and one quarter Of
dollar in cash, and started him out
Frank reached his destination safely, AL
fortunately struck situation in a furni
ture house shortly after his arrival. TIL
first intimation as to how he was making
it. reached Mr., Foss, yesterday. 1t came
in the shape Oft local item in the Nutchn.
son Interior, and was to the effect that Frank
Foss had become the proprietor, by. plr'
| IL, T.,