The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-02-25

enjoyable reunion Of the
kind ever held in Cairo.
officer, and that conviction beng general
among the voters, it is hazardmg nothing to
to say that he will be warmly and earnestly
supported, from the commencement of his
campaign to its close,
Sunday night, while officers Cain and
OImstcad were making their accustomed
rounds, thcy discovered rope stretched
across the sidewalk on Commercial avenue,
near the New York store, and Il telegraph
wire across the sidewalk on Twentieth
street. The object, of course, was the up.
trip pedestrians boys who set the traps
being hidden somewhere in the ncighbor-
hood to enjoy "the fun Of seeing the pass
ers-by tumble. 1t is probably
due to the fact that the
the officers named were the first to pass
that way, that we, are called upon to record
serious accident Had any Of the neigh
bors had CccassiC1i 10 run for doctor, they
would probably have dashed their brains out
on the sidewalks. The boys guilty of such
deycmcnt SHOULD be hcd up, and given at
least one hundred honestly applied lashcS.
The police are on the look cut for the young
rascals, and if they are caught, they will DC
punished TO the full extent of the law.
John II. Carter more generally known
as Commodore Rollingpin, reached Cairo
yesterday; and will deliver his lecture in
Reform hall, this evening, Carter has
many friends among the older settlers Of
Caro- who were glad to meet him, and
glad to hear that he is comfortably situated
on the editorial staff Of the ST. Louis
Times journal, filling the position of
river editor Starting in life
as a frcndless ncws-boy, and coming up
to the estate Of manhood through the de-
vious ways Of river life, without days
schooling he certainly deserves credit,
should he never move a peg higher in the
esteem Of the public. He fills his position
on the IT.. well, and to the entire salts
faction Of his employers, who lend him IA
most fattering and uncquivocal endorse
mcnt. He repeats his lecture the first time,
before an audience, tonight hence, should
it confer distinction upon him, the people Of
Cairo will have the honor of being the first
to hear it.
A German laborcr named Jacob
Scheppz, sickencd last week, and on Tues
day evening he died lie had been de-
pendent upon occasional Jobs in and about
the elevator, for his means Of subsistence,
and was entirely destitute when taken sick,
Nobody felt any particular interest in the
poor fellow, and the surviving members of
the family failed. for some reason, TO make
their extreme destitution known. As a
consequence, The dead body remained
uncarcd for from Tuesday until
Thursday full days This fact com
ing to the ears of one of the ncighbors, he
applied to the Ovcrscer of the Poor for help
to bury the body The Ovcrseer promptly res
pended to this appeal, with the-!acctiOus
suggestion that they "tie rope around the
dead mans neck and fling him into The
Ohio Finding that neither the county
nor the city would take care Of the body,
the ncighbors provided a rough coffin, and
taking the body beyond the levcc, put
it under ground. Scheppz was not
a paup"r, in the eyes Of the law, but he
left his family utterly destitute, 1t seems
to Us that our system Of county charities
should be 80 enlarged rs to cover cases o!
this character. Had the Oycrsccr ordered
the burial Of the body at the countys ca
pcnse he would have ovcrsteppcd the linn
its Of his authority; but he certainly would
have been guilty Of no excess had he turned
away the applicant with a humane answer
The feelings Of the living can be wounded
through their dead more readily and acutcly
than in any other manner. In tins case
VIC happen to know that a soft answer
would have turned away Il great deal OF
wrath-not Of the dcmonstrativc kind but
the wrankling wrath that grows stronger
as it grows older.
The RCMoR, yesterday that, the X. NJ. X
c. had failed to get the st. Charles, is false
and the originators are aiming at injuring
the Knew. The committee have had the
hall engaged for two weeks and have
spared no expense in decorating the car
niy,l Tbos. vhn nronoen tO attend will IA,