The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-04-25

vo,tod ,hc Cairo church from being repre-.
sontcd At the fall meeting Of the Presby-
terry.
If Louis Koehler had not been Injured
to runaways he would likely have been
dashed to pieces yesterday. The animal he
drives became frightened, yesterday after
noon, dashed down Nineteenth from Com
meYcial at furious rate, and striking the
sidewalk near Poplar, threw Louis with
great force from the wagon. In his pro
gress his foot caught in some manner,
and had the sole of his shoe
not given way, it is likely that his ankle
would have been badly broken, Being 4
hardy, active hoy, he escaped injury, rs
did the horse and wagon.
A very substantial smooth and certain,
ymuch needed plank sidewalk has been
laid down on the west side of Washington
avenue from the Ninth street down to
Buders .ewelry establishment. As the
ground there admitted of the construction
Of cindcr or brick sidewalk, it is to he reg
retted somewhat that that character ofmatcr.
ialwas not used, Plank walks furnish har,
Dor for vermin and all sorts of ugly things,
animate and inanimatc, and the givingS-out
of decaying timbers, which finally come are
certainly not conducive to health For
these and other reasons that might be as,
signed we hope the council will not permit
the construction of any more timber side.
walks in localities where brick or cinderS
can be substituted.
We heard lady declare, n few
days ago, in vein Of sincerity that amazed
us, that the masculine portion Of this COM
munity is made up OF the toughest. the
most slovenly and unceuth, the worst dres.
sed and the illest-looking lot of men she
ever saw collected together in single city
Take out continued she. "a half hun
dred OF the best clothed, the neatest ant
most intelligent, and the balance of EN-
would figure as tobacco-chewing pipe
smoking, dirty-handcd, ill.mannered ami
mails" When the lady informed us thai
she had never visited Paducah, we felt a
once that she didn't know what it took tC
constitute rough, uncouth and ill-manncret
Doors. 1t is only fair 10 add that the re
mark was made after the lady had passct
through the crowd gathered about the
Third ward polls Or. Smiths ward on
election day.
A young man, much given to fast
ness, stepped into saloon, yesterday, aud
with an air of pompousness that i'll became
his eighteen years, called for glass of beer
ii schooner. The barkcepcr, leaning over
the counter, told the youth in tone OF
manifest commsscration, that he couldn't
let him have the beer. Its great hard
Ship that gentlemen should be deprived Of
their beer" continued the barkeepcr; land
it is an especial hardship, an. actual cruelty
to deny anybody glass of Ny beer, for it is
the clearest, crcamiest, liveliest and mos.
delicious article that ever moistencd hu.
man diaphragm-.iust see-Ill drink a
glass Now that's beer that would make a
man love even the ways of his mother-in-
law; but you can't have any, my son. Its
hard know; but the new administration is
in. and the law must be respected. And now,
sonny, though | can't let you have any, III
not be piggish; but will let you see me drink
another glass There's not man in this
town but says that of all the beer that ever
came to Cairo" "Oh, you get out, you
id blow.hard' You shant make game Of
Inc any longer and the perspiring young
man, flushed with anger dashed ont to hunt
up saloon where they were not $50 id
particular II every saloon keeper in the
city would initiate the example Of the one
in question the slate hours" OF the young
men Of thu city, would bring infinitely less
suspense and anxiety to parents, and infinite.
ly less danger to hcyoung men themselves.
A Col Lowe, rebel Greenbacker,
from Alabama, has aroused the sleeping
lion Gagged in the corporal body" Of Sena-
tor John Logan. Col. Lowe informed a
correspondent OF the Pittsburg Post that he
fought in division in the c. $. army with
which two regiments CT Illinois soldiers
that had been enlisted by Logan, was con-
nected. He, Lowe, had talked with the
soldiers, and did not, therefore. speak
from hearsay. In the Washington Re.
publican dor copy Of which we are
indebted to Logan Col. Loves statement
is reproduced, with Logan's comments, the
conclusion of which is quite emphatic. "Thc
statement is maIiciously and UNANIMOUSLY
false, says Logan. "Col. Lowe informs me
that he is not correctly reported by the cor.