The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-06-24

his heart out. Smith retreated. and was
about to arm himself with q brick, when
the police arrived and stopped further pro.
ceedings. Yesterday morning Sophie swore
oui warrant for Smiths arrest, protesting
the while that it would be her last proceed.
ing at law, for Smith was q desperate man.
and would surely kill her. The trial has
not TRANSFERRED.
The sale Of CAIRO lots, delinquent for
taxes, is progressing rapidly; and all the
lots offered are sold to responsible buyers.
The sale will be resumed again at 9 o'clock
this afternoon. Quite number of tax
payers have called at the Office within the
past day or two to find out that their lots
had been sold. Hence it bchooves every
body who knows himself to be delinquent
to delay no longer. A single day may cost
him % per cent on the whole amount Of
his taxes, besides the cost. The sale will
now be pushed through to an early con-
clusion.
The report that a colorcd man had
been murdered short distance above
Mound City, Saturday evening, is con.
Grmcd The incoming passenger tiain ran
over the body, which had evidently been
Iacd cnvernI houre nc n wac cnnl and thn
blood in the veins so thoroughly oagulated
that the seveing the head from the trunk
caused no fow The murdered man had
been seen in Mound City Saturday fore
noon and it is believed that he was MUIR
dcred for the few dollars he had received
for bis weeks labor This, by the way, is
mere conjecture.
The CAIRO BULLETIN says that the
threat of the Argus-Journal to run Craw-
ford for congress in the 18th district n
1880, is all bosh; that after being defeated
by Harker for Circuit Judge, he could not
hope to win the congressional race against
any good Republican that might be put
forward DuQuoin Tribune.
By oil the furies of Tartarus, that's more
than we propose to patiently endure! The
editor Of THE CAIRO BULLETIN never said,
intimated or thought anything Of the kind,
On the contrary, he believes and has de-
| clared that if fudge Crawford is the Demo
cratic nominee in 1880, he will "sweep the
congressional platter" "Them's our senti-
ments," now, and always have been, since
the determination Of the late judicial con-
test.
Our police received notice from Fred
erickstown, Missouri, some time ago, to
look out for colored cattle-thicf, that had
eluded the officers Of that portion of MIS-
souri,. The name furnished was that OF
George Fisher While on his rounds yes
terday, officer Sheehan came across a
strange negro, who seemed to fit the
description of the cattle-thef, and took
him under arrest. He protested his limo
cence, and gave his name as Jim johnson.
There were found about his person revol-
yer, and that ugliest of all weapons in the
hands of an enraged black man, razor
Hence, it was thought, whether guilty or
innocent Of the cattle-stealing charge, Mr.
Johnson was very proper man to put in
the calaboose. He was, therefore, confined
in the city Jail, and the fact Of his arrest
telcgraphed to the Frederckstown autholi
| ties. In the event that he is not the man the
Missouri officers are after, he will be held
under our ordinances to answer the charge
of carrying deadly weapons. There is q
chance, therefore that in almost any event
Cairo will be spared the infliction of his
continued presence.
Up to the conclusion of his harvest
work Joe Dupoyster at the mouth of May.
field creek, had in his employment, a man
named Sam Kilgour and his son. Having
no further use for the pair he paid them of
and they left the neighborhood. A few
days afterwards a couple Of officers visited
Mayiield in search of the Kilgours. They
were wanted in one Of the counties of the
"Purchase' to answer the charge of muir
der. One of them was captured in south
Ballard but the other succeed in making
his escape, and is said to have passed
through Cairo yesterday. The details of
the charge against them is that during the
harvest Of 1878, they had some words with
the farmer, for whom they were working,
and announcing their determination to
quit demanded tlioir money The farmer,
also high tempered, perhaps, refused to re-
spond to the demand, whereupon the Xii.
gours set upon him with their knives, left
him horribly mutillated and dead in his
own field and then fled the country. Much
excitement prevailed in the neighborhood
but all search for the iusitives failed to dis