The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-08-29

Ing TO considerable extent In brains, and IS
not the proper man to call the colored vot-
ers to account for their scratching propcnsi-
ties. The Republicans of Alexander county
had as well keep an eye on their new ally.
He helped to break down Republican as
cendancy in Jackson county, and will be
found boil on the nose OF the party in Al
exander, if permitted to run things"
In the course of speech at Horse
Shoe, in this county, Mr.. Damron, the Re-
publican candidate for states attorney said,
while addressing a negro audience, that
the Democrats were in the habit of accus-
ing the negro of stealing; he could, how.
ever, tell them that he had lived among
black people as we'll as white peo-
pie and that he knew from
observation that the colored people would
not steal, but that the white people would.
This announcement-insi made
was received with loud shouts of approval
by the colored listeners, and with murmurs
of disapproval by the few white Republi-
cans present. Intelligent colored men will
regard this statement of our would-be-
states-attorney with contempt, knowing
that it was merely made TO catch their
votes, aud white Republicans will not be
apt to entertain better opinion OF him on
account of it.
"A porker of fine proportions, who for
many years has made himself familiar with
the back yards in the vicinity of Nineteenth
and Poplar, and whose popularity among
the dogs was matter Of daily comment
among the good people thereabouts, about
a week ago paid visit to the brick build
ing situated on the corner of Nine
tenth and Poplar and, had
hardly crawled half under it when
the hand of death was laid upon it like
the untimely frost upon the sweetest flower
OF all the field, and gave up It's ghost.
The female members of the dozen families
who inhabit the building, gathered about
it and expressing their disapproval OF the
porker's proceedings demand of each other
that the burial of the hog be effected with
out their assistance The argument was
able, loud and long and it was final
ly decided by each of the
women that, come what would, the
matter would be"none of their funeral" and
at the present writing, the porker
still perfumes the neighborhood to the in
finite disgust of all the respectable neigh
bors who sport fine nostrils, The worms,
however, have taken pity on the carcass
and have carried off portion Of it and if
the health officer will take pity on the
remaining portion and dispose Of it as
the law directs, the people
in the vicinity will ever pray, etc.
We republish below our answer to the
question asked by "a subscriber" in yester-
day Issue, regarding tontine policies. We
do this because of a typographical error
made by the printer who set it-changing
the balance due on life annuity from S5J 90
to $500 A little too good, this, to be
true:
EDITOR BULLETIN: Please tell a mum.
Der of interested readers what you know
about Tontine Life Policies, and why they
are more preferable than other kinds of
insurance policies. Please give US facts
not estimates. SUBSCRIBER.
To answer this we will take the
results Of the Equitable Life Tontines
as that is the company that first
introduced that plan Of life insurance
in the United States. Take for instance a
policy Of $1,000 fifteen-year tontine at the
age offorty--annual premium sl5G,5O. The
insured agrees to let his profits accumulate
to the end OF term of Is years. II he
dies before the end Of the term his heirs
get 5000 no more, no less and his accu-
INFLATED profits are divi.ed among the
policies of those in the same class who
pay TO the end of the term. The
same rule regarding the prof
its governs in cases where policy
is permitted to lapse. The total amount
paid In fifteen years on the $4,000 tsljG5C
per anuum is s2,34T,j0. At the end Of the
tontine term the policy holder has his
choice; either to surrender his policy and
receive its total value in cash, which would
be S3,O05O0, after having had life in
surance of $4,000 for fifteen years; or he
could take paid up policy the amount OF
which would be $4,000 payable a
death with no further payments to make
or he could take his profits in cash
amounting to Sl,74L50, and continue hi
policy Of $4,000 by paying annually 1856.
80 less the dividend each year; or he coulc
purchase lite annuity with his surplus
, the amount of which would be $l57.5'