The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-09-04

aloof from the negro men on the tram who
were prepared, and quite willing to shoot
their heads off, Our informant says, firing
their revolvers at lamp, in the car, was
sample Of the "fun and pastimen in which
they INDUCED. The smashed windows and
generally demolished condition of the car
in which they rode, show that their "fun'
was not restricted to the lamps,
The dull proceedings of our City
Council are cnlvened, now and then, by a
humor. Even an attempt on the part of a
member to say something witty, though
failure attend the attempt, is accepted at
the full value of the intention. Davis, in a
letter to that dignified body, represented
that he couldn't carry out his agreement to
publish the proceedings at "a per month
without losing money; and that he would
not publish any more unless the Council
paid him $3.50 a month. The quandary,
or more properly the silence that followed,
was finally disturbed by member who
moved that "the resignation of the Cairo
sun be accepted" The laugh that fol-
lowed, was succeeded bya hearter one
when Throckmorton's bill for ten mattresses
was read. A member who closely watches
the outgoes, asked to be informed for what
service the mattresses were intendedI The
| apparently honest reply that they were for
the mounted guardsmen," excited a "ha
haw!" that aroused every sleeper in the
chamber.
The collector is held personally res
ponsible for all taxes on personal property
that he might have collected by destraint,
or otherwise, but failed to collect. His
collections have been very close, yet quite a
number of persons are delinquent who
might have paid, had they strained a
point to do 50. On the 10th of the present
month he will publish his "Black List" in
which the names Of all the above described
delinquents will be included. He is not
unmindtul of the fact that he will give Of
fence to some; but he feels quite sure that
he can stand the racket If any man 5
name is omitted from the list, the public
may rest assured that the man is no. charged
with any taxes, or has paid up. Fine
clothes, high social position, respectable
connections etc, will cut no figure in the
case. The name that stands on the tax
book opposite to a sum of unpaid personal
taxes, will be published the collector says,
let it belong to whom it may We make
this second reference to the matter at the
instance of the collector, as he desires every
delinquent in the county to be appraised of
his purpose.
Speaking Of horse races, so frequent
and numerous, nowadays, the most re-
markable of which we have read, was that
which came off at Evansville, the other
day. The conditions were that John
James, an athlete and circus rider, using
ten horses, should ride twenty miles, dis
mounting and remounting every half mile ;
while Bedford of Bedford's park, with ten
horses and two riders. should make the
same distance, having both Of his riders
mounted at the start, and requiring them
to remount only as they changed horses.
Bedford's riders weighed ninety-six and
one hundred and twenty-five pounds re-
spectively, while James weighed lGl
pounds. The race was intensely exciting,
and exceedingly close the whole distance
to the last half of the 10Th mile, when
James horse flew the track, and threw him
heavily to the ground. He was on his feet
and in his saddle almost instantly; but the
advantage gained by his opponent was
more than he could overcome. The race
that was clearly his at the moment Of the
mishap, was won by Bedford by about fifty
yards. The twenty miles was covered in
forty minutes (which was equivalent to
9 minutes IS seconds TO the mile. That
James should make this time. and mount
and dismount forty times, is most eXtraor-
binary.