The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-07-14


ly two months ago the man who was en-
ployed by Mr.. Pat. Fitzgerald in his livery
stable, shot at him with the intention OF
killing him. He had bis trial in the cir
cult court yesterday and in the evening the
Jury retired. The supposition is that a YER
dict will not be agreed upon until this
morning.
We learn from last nights Argus that
Officer John Sheehan, arrested by Officer
John Hogan, appeared before Squire Com
ings and was fined the usual amount" for
fighting and that the charge grew out of
his attack on US. We did not appear
against Mr. Sheehan and 1t
is matter of indifference
to us how much he was fined or whether
he was fined at all or not, but we will bet
Squire Comings new hat that he assessed
the lowest possible fine against the officer
and that he knocked off his costs in the
case besides. When shall these three meet
againl
Pete Kukyendall and his brother-in-
law,who,we believe, lives in East Cairo, and
whose name we don't know and don't par
ticularly care about knowing, yesterday
created quite little excitement on the
levee and this is the way it occurred
Pete and his relative were walking peace
ably along the levee, bound for a
skiff which had been fastened above
wharf boat No. 2 and which was the prop.
erty of his brother-in-law. The latter gen.
tleman united the skif, got into it and
after showing it from the bank, pulled
pistol and shot at Pete, without hitting
him, however. Pete, not relishing such
proceedings commenced throwing rocks at
the shootist and, so he says, actually made
him beg for mercy, after which he was per-
mitted to continue on his way across the
river unmolested.
Jack Hodges announces himself, in
this mornings issue of THE BULLETIN, as
an independent candidate for Sheriff of
Alexander county. 1t seems almost unnec-
sary to say anything about him, for nearly
every man, woman and child in the county,
know Jack Hodges. He has, through his
affable manner, his natural good sense and
unimpeachable character, made friend of
everybody with whom he has come in con-
tact, excepting criminals. He has been
one of the best sheriffs this county has ever
had, having collected closer and given
better satisfaction generally to the taxpay-
ers, than most any other Sheriff we have
had. He does not run upon any party
ticket for he knows that the people Of the
county can and will not divide upon him.
His election can not fail 70 come to
pass, and the voters will have no reason to
regret their work if they reinstate him.
Many people who heard or who read
Mr.. Beecher's Fourth of July sermon, no
doubt came TO the conclusion that the
great preacher is little, if any, better
Christian than Bob Ingersoll. In the
course of that sermon he is reported to
have said sit is gigattic lie, told with
much circumstantiality, that men were
created perfect and then fell; that in
Adam and Eve the human race fell all
around. God did not make bad job and
then paint it pretty and plaster it up"
1t appears from this that Mr.. Beecher re-
jects the story on which the Christian re-
ligion is based. If recognized teachers of
the Christian religion continue their as
saults on the Bible, Christians will hardly
know what to believe after awhile. Beech
er and Ingersoll and the rest of them are
doing their best to knock the props from
under what the world has been taught to
believe to be divine truth. If the story of
the fall is a gigantic lie, what portions
are we to believed
The BULLETIN always takes pleasure
in saying a kind word for the library. II
would be better pleased, however, if the in
stitution were more generally patronized
by the public, especially by the young men
and women who are growing up in our
midst. We believe in young people enjoy
ing themselves by attending picnics, parties,
etc, but if these same young ladies and
gentlemen would take as much interest in
the welfare Of the library as they do in
attending these same social gatherings,
what a change, what a grand institution it
would be. What source of pleasure it
would be to those whose every effort is to
further the interests of the library and how
gladly would they purchase new volumes
had they the means to do so. The library
is fairly patronizel now, but not as it
should be. While there is quite large
number Of excellent books on the shelves.
there is still room for more and they could