The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-08-09

Hh"hS"e, un'i thc sihuilcst cnap In the
groupe came to the rescue, and proposed
that they all 60 in swimming! Before
the "hard-shell" could round off his topic
"5thly," every urchin on the ground was
head downward, Hopping over the park
fence, on his way to the Mississippi.
Our colored population are much given
to barbecues of late, knowing, as they do,
that the carcasses of hogs, sheep, bullocks
and calves, roasted entire, over great bin
OF glowing Goals, form an attraction that it
is quite difficult for relishers of meats, to
resist And it is undeniable, too, that in
no other way known to the science of
cookery, can meats be rendered so tooth
some. Our attention is called to this mat
ter by the appearance OF lot of hand bills
from the BULLETIN presses, announcing
grand barbecue at Elm grove on the west
side of the city, Saturday next. 1t will be
engineered by the members of one of the
social and charitable organizations among
our coored people, and provision will be
made to feed two thousand people.
AT the annual meeting Of the Widows
and Orphans Mutual Aid Society, held Au-
gust 9TH, 1879, the following named per-
sons were elected managers for the ensuing
year William Stratton, Mrs. p. A. Tay-
lor, j, A. Goldstine, DR.. J. j. Gordon, n
B. Tlistlewood, S. d. Ayers, Thomas Lewis,
G. NJ. Alden, j. S. Rearden, c. r. Stuart,
E. A. Buder, Charles Lancaster, C. 0. Patier,
Rev. B, Y George, j. c. White, G, W.
McKeaig, S. p. Wheeler, Mrs. Fishback,
Oscar Haythorn, A. ], Bird, William
Klugc, P. G. Schulz, J. T. Rennie, Albert
Lewis, Mrs L. A. Howard. w. f. Pitcher,
A, HALEY, E. Green, Mrs. S. A. Ayers, Villa
Ridge; II. F. Potter, Mound City; A. j.
French, Birds Point, Mo. The managers
met Thursday night and elected the follow
ing officers: William Stratton, President
Mrs. p. A. Taylor, Vice President; J. A.
Goldstme, Treasurer; J. j. Gordon, Medical
Adviser; Thomas Lewis, Secretary.
Three or four youngsters discovered a
good sized hog in an old cstern, yesterday,
and impelled partly by sympathy for the
brute, and partly by the thought. that if
they rescued it, it would be their pork,
they at once commenced to devise ways and
means to release the animal from its con-
inement The plans were quite ingenious.
Securing long wide board, they run it
down into the cistcrn and formed slide
that stood at an angle of probably thirty
degrees They then procured a strong
rope, and fixed slipping moose on one end,
dropped it to the bottom, as trap for the
hog to step into, it was some time before
the moose took hold, and when it did fasten
itself. II was about the hogs neck. And
now came the tug Of war. 1t required all
the united strength of the lads to move the
porker, and several times he wriggled off
the board and hung suspended by the neck
but the heroic determination to have him
out of that remained ummpaired.
Again and again the attempt
was renewed, and finally his
SwineShip was safely landed on upper terra
firma 1t was big achievement for the
boys, and a shout of triumph would have
signalized it, but for the i'll doings of that
ungrateful hog. The moment he reached
the upper plane, with open-mouthcd Zero
city he dashed at the groupe Of boys,
knocked one Of them down and ran over
him, entangled his rope about the legs of
two other boys, turning them both COM
plete somersault, and dragging one of them
twenty feet or more, doubled up like a
ball, and then with a "woosh! swoosh y
dashed away with the rope, across the adj
iacent bottoms. 1t was several minutes
before word was spoken.
At last, half tcarfully, half resentfully one
of the groupc exclaimed "of all the things
that ever lived, hog is the only thing that
would have done that" and then with a
stout resolve that all the hogs in creation
might starve to death on the bottoms of old
cisterns before they'd help another one out,
they started for the foot of Dickey's Island
to cool off in the waters of the Mississippi.
The editor of the New Orleans Times
asserts, as THE BULLETIN has otter asserted,
that it is the sheerest nonsense to contend
that a majority Of the tramps that now
curse the country want work. They do not
want work, and would not accept employ
mcnt if rendered to them. This fact has
been illustrated in Cairo time and time
again--and conspicuously in the case where
thrty-six tramps agreed to work for the G.
u V. railroad at % cents an hour, and only
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