The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-09-29


that active but quiet work that insures VIC
tory. Our majority must be increased, and
In order to do this, will you not as a Repub-
lican and patriot appoint yourself com
mittee of one and work--work until the
polls close the I'd of November! The party
looks to you for aid and assistance. Every
Republican has a duty to perform, and in
view of the misfortunes of Hon. John r..
Thomas, we know that you will cheerfully
devote your attention to his interests,
which, indeed, are the interests of the Re-
publican party" The necessity Of sending
out circulars OF the above character argues
that the leaders of the party are fearful that
the Democrats will carry this district
Although the sale of intoxicants are
strictly forbidden in Carbondalc, cider
DRINKS have flourishcd there luxuriantly of
late. In fact, so numerous have these
DRINKS become that the good people have
been aroused from their stupor thereby,
and have put down their foot upon it by
forcing the authorities to pass an ordinance
forbidding the sale of cider. In this con-
nection we desire to mention but one fact,
1t is this. that while the Democratic Con-
gressional convention was in session in that
city, intoxicants of any kind-not even
strong tea or coffee could be obtained for
love or steamboat. The fact is that the
good influence the grand patriots exerted,
who were there assembled, prevented even
the most ungodly of Carbondale's Republi-
cans from selling or "giving away" that
fluid which Brother Reynolds terms "the
devils kindling wood" This being so, it
stands to reason that what the good people
of that burg need, as remedy, is not
an ordinance torbldding the sale of "the
kindling wood" aforesaid, but more album
ant crop of God-fearing and temperance
loving Democrats, which may be procured
| from anywhere on short notice.
Since the results of the Maine election
have become detinitively known Republi-
can office holders in Cairo and elsewhere
seem to have collapsed in the apathy of
despair, realizing that the four years that
they have eaten the dishonest bread of
fraud are nearly ended, and that the great
majority that elected Tilden will now
stearnly demand vacation, under the man
agement of Hancock, of all their
places. Then we may hope for civil service
reform, tor no matter how great may be the
rapacity for place and Office among the
Democrats, it will be impossible for them,
lacking as they are in experience, to fill
the departments with as many useless in
competent superndmerarieS as have held
place and drawn pay in every depar tme9t
of the government since the war. If the
people Of this country could only know the
immense sums they are paying to thousands
Of elegant loaters," who do not work thir-
ty minutes per day, civil service reform
would be forced into prominence over all
other issues. II, when the Democrats come
in, they shall show the same ingenuity as
Republicans have shown in making useless
offices and bureaus appointing incompetent
men to fill them, and appointing stats of
incompetent assistants, male and female, to
help the chiefs do nothing, The BULLETIN
will join the opposition with joy.
AT about two o'clock yesterday after
noon negro rouster named Andrew Young,
who has or and on made Cairo his stop.
ping place for sometime was shot through
the right lung by the second clerk of the
Paris C. Brown, while she was
at our wharf. From reliable parties
who saw the entire affair we learn
that the clerk was chasing
negro-one of the crew of his boat
across the wharf when Young, who was
sitting on the railing of the stage with his
hands in his pockets, addressed the clerk
saying. "You id white $500 Of a - YOU
can't run me as you did that other fellow
The clerk replied: II don't want to have
anything to do with you, but you must moi
fool with me or | will run you the same
way" upon this the darkey arose and with
knife in his hand advanced upon the clerk
who then reached towards his back pocket
and warned him to come no further
or he would shoot him
but the negroc continued tC
advance, when the clerk drew his pisto
and fired upon him three times, the las
shot only taking effect. The negro wa'
then assisted to the house of an old colorec
woman on Washington avenue, below Sixtl
street, where DR.. Leach probed the wound
but failed to find the ball. Shortly afte