The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-12-04

The appearance Of Eighth street, be-
tween the avenues, isl disgrace to the city.
This street is an exceedingly narrow one,
but Notwithstanding the merchants and
others persist in piling thercupon cord
wood chicken coops boxes, boards, barrels,
ETC., anything in fact, to make it still mar.
rover and dirter. This should not Ia. The
Inhabitants of the street should take pride
enough therein to keep ii clean, and ifthey
do not, the officers should not be blamed
for using little compulsion.
Mr.. Thomas Horn, clerk for Goldstino
and Rosenwater, unthinkingly put pair Of
large, pointed scissors in his vest pocket,
instead Of his pocket scissors, and went
home. The next morning, in putting on
his vest, he struck his wrist violently upon
the point of the scissors, making a deep
cash and severing a vein. The wound was
dressed by Mr.. Krauth, at Barclays Drug
store, and although it will disable Mr..
Horn for about week, he will be all right
again.
In conversation with one of our citi-
zens IN regard to the many bad characters
in the city, we were told that some of
our officers stood in" with them That
there were thieves in Cairo who had prac.
ticed their profession here and these men
and their characters were known better
to nobody than the officers themselves.
That they were, undisturbed and without
being ordered TO leave the city, permitted
to remain here,-and why! Because, said
he, they shared the plumbers Of the thieves
Such talk as this has been poured into our
ears more than once and we have but To
say, that if our informants' talk is founded
on facts, they should specify the facts,
but if only on belief, they ought to
use their GIFT of CAB" 10 some better
purpose,
Some of our families have a habit Of
picking up colored or other boys, and men
too, for that matter, and placing implicit
confidence in them, allow them TO do e.
rands, giving chem the necessary money,
and keep them about the house to perform
little duties, without harboring the least
suspicion against their honesty. To regard
all persons as honest until they are proven
to be otherwise, is = good, but not always
the safest policy. To this, We know, several
Of our ladies will say; amen"
One of our prominent citizens related to
US little incident yesterday and requested
us to give it to the public, that it nigh:
serve as a warning 10 Others. He had been
furnishing a nelohbor. across the way, with
milk for some time, delivering the same to
9 co!ored woman who was sent for It, but
who never paid for it. When settlement
was asked for the noighbor was surprised
and told him that the money had been
sent every time. Of course the woman
claimed to have delivered the money and
thus left "bone" between the two neigh.
bors. This is only another case OF trust.
ing untrusty servants
We stated some time ago that if a.lre.
ports were true, the young man Pillow, who
was raised in Goose Island, had developed
into one Of the worst desperadoes with
which the people of that or any other por-
ton Of the country has had to deal Three
or four years ago,and before this young man
was OF age, his mother, being widow,
married a young man named Ice. The son,
indignant at the match, secured shot gun
and ran Ice off the premises. At later
date he shot a young man Of the neigh
borhood, and his broilS and difficulties,
since then, have been Of frequent occur
renee. On aThuTsleyln October Eve have
forgotten the date, there was ball in the
vicinity Of the Island and Pillow was one
of the participants. Heated from his
nj yht's dcbauch, he repaired to the house Of
old Mr.. HICKS and, drawing his revolver,
opened fire upon the old man
and his son, The old man was
shot through the hcshy part Of his thigh,
While the son received two balls through
| his ankle. The IIicEgps fred upon p1lIuw