The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-08-27

is now impossible to get the barge to Ne.
tropolis- another craft is employed
to do the job.
--Cairos attraction and town talk now
is the celebrated Saltwater beer which Chas.
Pffferling has but lately introduced in
our midst. 1t IS meeting with sale equalled
by none other, and has we'll maintained its
excellent reputation as a superior beverage
with the hundreds who daily visit Char
ley's resort To the responding it gives
new hope and from his heart drives out
dull sorrow, and inspires new arts. Even
the oppressive grasp of poverty, it doth
enlarge and bid the soul be free. And It's it
that makes glowing fancles glld the soul
and life an endless treasure. Surely
It's "hard to beat"
The periodical mania which prompts
certain St. Louis men to terminate the
earthly existence of such female relatives
as incur their displeasure by bringing their
craniums in contact with the business egd
of the murderer's AK, should be e51nmiser-
ated, not condemned by the inhabitants of
more enlightened and less unfortunate
cities. The AK is the inevitable and indis.
pensable weapon of destruction up there.
Whenever wife is to be killed, the ST..
Louis man invariably disdains the use of
the more polite means of human annihila-
ton such as the revolver and the razor
Nothing short OF big awkward, unwieldy
ak will satisfy his sanguinary propensities.
The mind of the intelligent public has not
as yet been favored with any very lucid ey-
PLANTATION of this little idiosyncrasy of the
murderously inclined male inhabitants of
the future great, and perhaps II never will
be. II may be in the air they breathe or
in the peculiar density Of the ST. Louis
woman's head. We give it up.
When Silas P. Lowman, OF Clark
county, Indiana, committed self.destruc.
ton few days ago he didn't bungle the
job, but performed it in manner which re-
fleets the highest credit upon himself and
which for true beauty of methodical in
genuity of arrangement has never been
equalled by any other self-murderer Of this
or any previous age. For the benefit Of
those who may at present be contemplat-
ing suicide, we append brief account Of
Silas P. Lewman's operations. He first,
with remarkable forethought, for man Of
seventy-fve, and with an unprecedented re-
gard for the convenience of his relatives
and friends, went to Charleston, In.
diana, and made all necessary
arrangements for his funeral.
He had his measure taken and his coffin
made Then he enlightened them as to
where, when and how he desired to be in
tered. Returning home, he loaded an OH
gun very heavily, went out into the road
about one hundred yards from his house,
stood squarely up before the gun, placed
his forehead upon the barrel and touched
the trigger with the ramrod. Then if q
man had been around there and had listened
very carefully, he might have heard some
thing that would have Strongly reminded
him of a noise in the midst Of which Silas
P. Lowman's soul went home to glory, and
what remained Of Silas P. Lowman's body
that is to say remains-remained. No
man can shoot his own head off more con.
clusively than that man did. Somebody
ought to put maidstone on him.
We have called the attention Of our
generous citizens, upon several occasions, to
the sufferings Of a family named Scot,
which has for some time, and does now, re-
side in building on the corner Of Twen-
tieth street and Commercial avenue. II
consists of husband, wife and one or two
children, we believe. They are deserving
of pecuniary assistance and stand greatly
In need of it. When IN health they were
known to labor hard from early till late for
the necessaries of life and succeeded in
wrenching an honest existence from fate
and gained the respect and good will Of
the neighborhood in which they
lived. But sickness entered their
home and laid the head Of
the family upon the bed of extreme physi-
cal suffering and probable death. He has
been afflicted with congestion Of the
bowels for months now and has been at
the point OF death several times. DR..
Carter has attended him free Of charge all
this time, and kind neighbors have fur
nished the means for medicine, the food,
and other necessaries. That it has been
quite task TO them must be admitted, for
many Of them are'not in condition them.
selves to contribute continually to the
maintainence of others. We would there
fore repeat the call upon some person,