The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-10-23

] 'Hc Hibhti carry tHclr rcFOlVcrS In nand
| ready for instant use. Between 10 and II
! o'clock, Tuesday night, one of our mer,
! chants, thus provided, met party of whom
he instantly became suspicious, and no,
waiting for an attack, placed his pistol at
the party's head, and told him to proceed
with his contemplated vlllainy at his peril.
Before the halted party had turned his
pockets wrong side out to show his assail.
ant that he had nothing worth shooting a
man for, he discovered that he stood facing
an old acquaintance, and the over-cautious
merchant soon found himself holding his
pistol at the head of an excellent Young
mar whom he had known from boyhood.
1t wasn't very mirthful laugh that sig
nalized the discovery, however
The following is list of the officers
and members of the Cairo Lecture Club
President, W. NJ. Williams; Secretary, Geo.
S. Fisher; Treasurer, I. W. Fitch. Exccu.
tive Committee: c. W. Dunning, Z. A.
Buder, II. H. Candee Members: p. w.
Barclay, r. II. Cunningham NJ. yesterday,
E. W. Green, G. NJ. Alden, John Wood, c.
Pink, John A. Reeve, Wood Rittenhouse, II.
c. Hughes, J. G. Arlington, L. A.
Burnett, II. Leighton, W, L. Bris-
toll, S. d. Ayers, James S. Reardcn,
Jas. F. Miller, W. d. Lifiitt, Geo. w. Chel-
let, Chas Gallagher, Walt f. Mckee. VIM.
Wolf, CD. Williamson, P. f. Powell, Jno.
Antrim, c. Lancaster, W. Hyslop, F. W..
Ward, Jno. S. Aisthorpe, n. B. Thistle
wood, n. W. Hacker, Jno. VI. Lansden, f.
+. Davis, Thos Lewis, w. Stratton, II. C..
Lotlin, I. NJ. Lovett, A. j. Alden & Son,
n. ). Pennington, J. Burger, T. +. Clarke,
W. Z. Gholson, F. Kormeyer, B. F. Parker,
W. P. Halliday, Jacob Goldstine, Miles F.
Gilbert, Rob't S. Lemon, F. S. Kent, W. II.
Axe, j. NJ. Phillip, Louis II. Meyers.
- DR.. J. A. NJ. Gibbs. of Thebes, is a
candidate for the Office OF county commits
sioner. His announcement to that effect,
appears in another column. With those
who are acquainted with the Doctor, the
fact that he has consented to run for the
office will be sufficient to settle the matteras
to how they will vote. But as many of our
Cairo readers are not acquainted with him,
we feel called upon to say that we know
him to be gentleman Of unmpeaceable
integrity, who has added good education
to large store Of sound, practical natural
ability. He was q faithful soldier IN the
late war, and for a long interval Of time en-
dured all the hardships, trials and dangers
of the tented field, coming home at the close
of the struggle, with the consciousness
that his soldier duties had been well per-
formed. He is in every way fitted for the
office he seeks, and we hazard nothing
whatever in saying that if he is elected, he
will ever be found Il close watcher ofcoun-
ty affairs, and stalwart defender of what
he may conceive to be the peoples interests.
Miles W. Parker will be warmly sup
ported in all parts Of the county. The of.
ticc of treasurer and assessor, for which he
Is running, is not bonanza; but the few
hundred dollars it pays, viii be a most wei
come and grateful assistance to him. Fire
and the payment of security debts con-
sumed what might have proved a present
competence, and left Miles, like the major
ity Of us, poor man. But ii is not on that
ground, wholly. that he asks his friends TO
support him. Forty years residence in the
county and city, added to good judgment
and liberal supply Of practical sense, will
enable him to make q Just and an equitable
assessment Of taxable property of the
county; and that he will perform what he
may conceive to be his duty in that regard,
regardless OF any outside influences, no man
WIZ huOHS Ilill' VIII dtltIupL 10 EdillSoN.
Furthermore, Miles has crossed the line
that divides the spring-time OF life from the
autumn and is no longer adapted for en-
ploymcnts that require much physical effort.
All these considerations combined will rem
der Parker very strong candidate, as well
in the country precincts as in the city.
The scoundrels infcsting our city seem
to be of all degrees ages, colors and condi-
tons. We have our "black sharps" as well
as white ones, foreigners as well as natives,
and all of them seem to be on the clay"
Yesterday morning, a negro man, named
Louis Bargcr, and white confederate, vic
tmized ayoung white man. with the tobacco
box trick. The greeny saw the tobacco in the
box, and couldn't be argued out of what
his senses testified was so, and he backed
his conviction with bet of fifty dollars.
He was permitted to open the box, and,
greatly to his establishment, it was empty.