The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-04-18

invest few hundred dollars more sensibly
or prohtably, That the party will do as
we'll remains to be seen. Should II buy
MN new Office, out and out, It will only
DC paying debt It has owed him for years.
We shall note such movements az may he
made In this behalf, and chcerfully accord
credit to whomsoever it may fall due,
What kind of horrors are those the poo.
pie of the Kentucky purchase" are fleeing
fromf Theymustbe maddening indeed -else
the numerous suicides there are unaccounta.
ble' Scarcely a week goes by without leaving
the memory of self-murder. The Paducah
News, received yesterday, tells how Hon.
Mat Mckinney, of Trigg county, put pc
Rod to his earthly existence by swallowing
a deadly dose of laudanum. A genial, So
ciable gentlcman-a lawyer by profession,
and at one time member Of the Kentucky
legislature friends were as numerous
as his acquaintance. To the world he
seemed happy man; but in his own mind
there seems to have been hell from which
he sought refuge in the realm we know
nought Of He was financially embarrassed,
it is said. If this be true, great and good
as he may have been otherwise, he acted
the part of q moral coward in placing
load too heavy for his own shoulders, on
the weaker shoulders Of his wife and chill.
dren.
For several days past a woman OF
rather slouchy appearance, probably forty
five years Of age, has been seen in all parts
Of the city, and very frequently lodging
hlthcr and yon among the cars IN the vicin-
ity of the round house She says she is in
search of her husband, who is wild
young teller" who ran away from her bed
and board without any cause or provocation
of any kind whatever, She claims to be
the owner Of small farm in Pulaski
county; that Its gospel truth" that q
year or two ago that young Teller Of a hus-
band Of hers fell IN love with her pedal ex-
tremities, only one of which he had seen
and that afterwards he worried her nearly
to death TO marry him; that she did marry
him, and had him on hand until few days
ago, when he ran away-why he went
OF whittier he is gone she doesn't know; but
will never be happy until she finds him.
If the "young Teller" of husband has
ordinarily we'll cultivated tastes, anybody
after seeing the bride Of a year" can de-
eide WHY he left, and why he will be likely
leave again if she succeeds in capturing
hlm. AS coarse, uncouth, il-grs,ned, re-
pulslve specimen of feminine humanity,
this creature is probably matchlcss. We
heartily congratulate the young Teller" of
a husband, on the score of his escape; and
although not much given to the habit Of
hiding fugitives, he can always have free
pass over every foot of the underground
railway under our control.
About 10 o'clock Yesterday, officer Ilo.
gan was seen hurrying his horse in the di-
rection Of the stone depot, and our reporter
at once concluded that the apparent haste
bctokened something worth looking after
In this conclusion he was not at fault, for,
repairing TO the mammoth steamer James
Howard then lying at the Illinois Central
car hoist, he learned that negro deck hand
had just been shot by fellow deck hand,
and MORALLY wounded, The facts as e!ic.
tied are, substantially, as follows While
the Howard was steaming along in front of
the city negro man named Lum Neal was
trying to move barrel, and being unable
! to handle the barrel without help, called
upon Walter Harper, also negro, to ''lend
him hand" Harper refused but with
out be,raying any i'll humor, merely remark
ing that he could get steady employment
at thank ye' work the whole year round,
but he didn't see any money in it. To this
Lum rejolned, with some asperity, that
Harper was lazy negro, and that if he 20,
nothing but what he earned it would be
nothing from nobody. Harper still refusing
to "end hand" Lum told him he'd give
him whipping before he reached New
Orleans. Harper questioned, even denied,
Lums ability to whip HIM, and turning on
his heel started aft. Calling to him, Lum
remarked: "It's good thing you left, az
am getting in good humor to give you
the licking right here and now" A Ger
man named Charley Smith was listener
to the wordy passage, and viewed it more
in the light Of jocular bantering than angry
controversy, and was, therefore, utterly as,
founded at the results that followed. Over.
hearing Lum's threat to lick him right
then and there, Harper turned around, and
with both hands in his pockets, walked to