The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-10-28

Last Sunday week ago, two young
men, aged about 81 and 22 respectively,
whom we shall call Bluff and Bouncer had
fstc encounter that resulted unsatisfac-
tory to both parties AS consequence OF
this result, an arrangement was made for
regular prize fight according to the rules of
the English prize ring: Time, Sunday
morning, Goth instant; place, near Cache
river Accordingly, on Sunday morning
last, Bluff, Bouncer, their respective Sec
onds and batte-holders boarded a switch
engine of the c. & V. and soon gained a
point couple of miles above the city,
where ring was marked out and all the
preliminarics settled for the engagement.
Bluff, young man with well-knitted mus
Giles, was first to enter the ring. Bouncer,
. trim-built and wiry, soon followed, and III
an instant both men were at guard. Bouncer
made pass that was well caught
BY Bluff on the check, just below the left
eye. Quick as thought Bluff let fly his
right, which, landing on Bouncer's knob,
knocked him down. Bouncer was pulled
to his corner, and sponged off. First knock
down conceded to Bluff, whose bottle
holder Immediately offered to bet his
pocket knife against pair of suspenders
that Bluff would win the battle. In the
second round both boys spared, for wind !;
but soon passed to active business. Bluff
struck out hard, and punched hole in the
air directly oyer Bounce's head. Before he
recovered, Bounce "handed him one in the
temple that disclosed the 'claret.' First
blood" conceded TO Bounccr whose bottle
holder now stripped off his suspenders and
staked them against the knife. Mean
while the principals were lying utterly ex-
hausted in the arms Of their respective
seconds. At the end of IN hour and a
quarter slime was called again, but both
| BMif and Bouncer were found TO be sound
asleep. When they were aroused il was
dinner time, and both Of them being
hungry, and abhorriDg the idea Of fight
ing on an emty stomach, returned to the
city, first agreeing that the fight should be
resumed on Sunday next on the sacred
soil Of Kentucky.
The circus has, and always will have,
an irresistible attraction for the little boys
The little uufortunates who fail 10 raise the
quarter" necessary to win admission TO
the wonders within, gather about the can
vass without, and lying prone upon the
ground, and gazing under the bottom Of
the cloth walls, often catch thrilling
glance at the horses hoofs as the animals
lope around the ring. O;hcr youngsters
find small rents in the canvass, not larger
perhaps than a finger would fill and these
are the fortunate ones. They tell to the
eager companions gathered about that they
can almost see the clown; that they did
see man in spanglcs, that the bass drum
stands in full view, and that they believe
they can see the man--greater than Alex
ander, in their estimaton-th that pounds il.
What heart that has any Of the human in
it, but sympathizes with these eager, long
| inc little ones-Who that recalls his own
boyish anxiety on such occasions, is not
sorry that the rents are not larger, and that
there are not more OF them, SO that all the
eager little ones could see, not only the won
dertul bass drum, but the clown
and all his funny antics! But there
are some crcaturcs-(and We almost
blush for our kind when we say ito
who do not share in these wishes and
sympathies; and portion Of them are cir
Gus men. In st. Louis the other day, one
of them seeing the shape Of little face
and forehead pressed into the canvass wall
from the outside, gathered a sharp trag-
ment Of paving rock, and threw it, with
great force, at the impressed spot on the
canvass The rough rock Int the mark
q scream followed; the canvass Strengthened
the little face was no longer there An
hour Mter distracted mother was nursing
her deirious little boy, who had reached
home-his temple crushed in by a sharp
pointed rock-thrown by the circus fend.
The little boy died. No one could learn
who threw the rock: and with Robinson's
circus, perhaps to this day. is the human
fiend that murdered little Willie Webbc-.
1t was cruel, fendsh, devlish deed, and
since the law never will reach the perpetra-
tor, we trust that the shrek of the little vic.
tim, and his bleeding temple may vex the
ear and eye of the murderer until they
drive him to the mad house or to self.
destruction.
BY misconceptions Of the character of
,he matter. the article addressed "To the