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


titled to the salary Of both positions and
drew it. Being scrupulously honest man,
he was very anxious to settle when suit was
commenced, but was persuaded not to do
so by his attorneys. Judgment was finally
rendered against him and his bondsmen
for Sj,0S6.52 in 1876. The cases were
appealed and Judge Drummond heard
the arguments last March. he sustains
Judge Frees decision and directs the
collection of the judgments The sum
originally involved was only about $4,000
the increase being an accumulation of
interest. Arrangements always have eX-
listed for the prompt payment Of the amount,
when ,iudicially determined, and exist still.
Late Saturday night gang of young
men, some Of them instigated by the whisky
they had taken, and others by their natur-
ally wicked impulses, went OUT upon what
is denominated in the FOUNDERS parlance,
rampage" 1t Is said that the gang in
augurated their "fun" by knocking violent
ly at closed DOORS and then running off to
cover from which they could watch results.
As the night grey oldr this pastime be-
came monstrous, and reaching Poplar street
above Fifteenth, they aroused the inmates
of certain houses, and awaiting the appear
ance of the party disturbed, fired off their
revoyers. While il is scarcely probable
that any Of the party intended to infict
serious harm upon any one, we hear it said
agirl named Belle Langdon declares that
three shots were fired at her. and that Bill
Parker, the next door neighbor declares
that he was fired, upon twice, and ''thst
there was no fodin.' One Of tho parties
was arrested Sunday and thrown in the
county jail, warrants were sworn out yester-
day morning for apprehension Of the 9th
ers. and with single exception, we be-
lieve, were served. The party committed
to the county Jail was held in the sum of
5000; and others plead guilty to charge
of disordcrly conducted and were fined
Rather serious fun" for the boys.
Tile IMMUNITY that has hitherto attend
ed the taking OF human life; the sympa-
thy manifested for murderers and assassins
when probability exists that they will be
held accountable for their atrocities; the
success that has attended the plea
that 81 shot him or stabbed him because
didn't know what was doing. or because |
heard he had threatened me. or because
was afraid of him"-all these things have
brought upon us an epidemic Of murder
and assassination, well calculated to spread |
general alarm among all OF our well dis
posed and law-abiding people. We scarce
" recover from the shock of one assassiuS-
ton. wherein the victim was given no
earthly chance to save his life, until We are
appalled, by another, equally shocking and
atrocious. Sunday, night Mr.. James Mea-
chem, living on the AFTER farm, near the
Junction, seven miles from the city, retired |
to his bed, as was his custom, not dreaming !
that anybody in the world harbored designs
against his life He fell asleep. The re-
port of pistol was heard, the wife awaken !
ed thereby, found her husband in his
death throcs,--a bullet having been sped |
through his brain. At the time we write
we are without details. The bloody decd |
appalled, the whole neighborhood, and al.
though conjecture WAS rife, yesterday morn.
ing, no clue had been gained that fastened
suspicion upon any one. Meachem was
not quarrelsomc or a disSipated man,
and was one Of the last men in Pulaski |
county that any one would have pitched
npon, as the probable victim Of HE assas.
sins bullet. He leaves wife and several |
children, and as his whole life was devoted
to hard manual labor, he was enabled to
provide enough for the present, but nothing
for the future. His family, therefore, is
left in very Strengthened circumstances.
Work upon the enclosure III which
Glass is to be hanged next Tuesday, will
be commenced tomorrow or mex, dry.
The sheriff determined, and very scugbiy,
we think, to use the Oil platform and drop.
He is sure Of his rope, and fall OF four or
five feet is more likely to dislocate the
neck, than falling weight would be,
although Sheriff Irwin used the falling
weight with entire success in the execution
of the negro who killed the steamboat
mate. 1t is perhaps well enough to state
in advance, that the execution will take
place in a high enclosure, and that not
more than dozen persons, besides the
sheriff's deputies, will be allowed inside.
This is not an arbitrary rule established by
the sheriff, but q provision OF the law.