The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-08-22

or thelr use one hunurcd onu mr. POUNDS
of fine bacon and them IN the light of the
full moon took himself or themselves to
some safe retreat. Although some effort
has been made by the ever ,.g.lent officer,
Lally and others, to discover the where
abouts of the thief or thieves no clue has
been found to him or them and it is our
private opinion, publicly expressed the
prospect for never bringing him or them to
justice is very fne and large.
Some time ago Mr.. A. j. Carle placed
q fine booded horse into Mr.. Joe Clark s
pasture in Missouri. The animal made
its escape soon after and was lost. Upon
dilligent search and inquiry it was found
that farmer had captured the horse, used
it in the pillow and killed it, or, at least,
the horse died while in his possession. Mr..
earle sued the farmer for the value of
the horse end received judgment from
Judge Harker in this county The other
party was dissatisfied with the decision
and appealed to Missouri law. The suit
was accordingly taken there end has re-
Gently come off. The court there sustain
ing Judge Harker's decision. Mr..
earle received judgment for S3lS.G0 which
together with all the costs will make the
sum that the defendant will have to fork
over, about five hundred dollars.
The follow '1g dispatch to the ST.
Louis Republican, dated at Springfield, is
of interest to our Democratic and Repub-
lican readers alike: III n. D. Gillhom
Gen. Lewis Parsons, A. Orendortf, c. c..
Brown, Chas. Ridgely and Hon. j. H..
Oberly members of the Democrat, C state
executive committee, have been engaged all
day in making out campaign route for
speakers from home and abroad, commenc-
ing September /, The design IS to open
with grand mass meeting at some cen
trail point in each congressional district,
and follow these meetings with coun,y
mass-meetings at every county seat end
principal town, The assignment is not
complete, but your correspondent is adj
vised that the committee have arranged for
the most thorough canvass ever made by
the Democratic parry in Illinois. Among
other prominent speakers who have signi-
fed their intention to assist in the canvass
are Hon. Thos. Bayard, John Kelly, John
W. Forney, and Wade Hampton"
The News of last evening publishes an
item intended to justify the broad and un-
truthful assertion always made by ignor
ant and boastful Republicans that the Re
publican party saved the Union. In order
to gain its point it proceeds
in this case, as it has done
in others, to grossly misrepreSent facts
1t seems to be the highest ambition of the
editor Of the News to serve the Republican
party, and this, too, without any regard to
the character Of the means used in the
accomplishment Of his purpose. We had
pictured him as man Of brains and prin-
ciple who would not condescend to
a falsehood, not even to serve
his own personal interest, much less
to further the interests Of any
political organization, or to ruin another.
But we fear that we must abandon our
| ideal as fraud-spurn our sweet dream as
Authorization, and relight our little Ian
tern to continue our painful search for an
honest man among Republican newspaper
men and ofice-holders. Would that We
could believe him to be only mistaken, we
would then still rejoice at his
innocence but he Is (or ought to
beg too intelligent for that But
enough OF this. The item to which we
refer gives the soldier vote Of Ohio, Penn,
Iowa, Wisconsin, Michigan and Califor-
MIA. 1t gives the total number of soldier
votes" of these states cast in 1864 as l29,-
j72 and says that only 2j,347 of this num-
Der were Democratic votes. The editor
comments upon these figures as follows
These figures would seem to indicate that
for every Democrat in the army there were
about four Republicans The News man
appears to be, to say the least, either natur-
ally obtuse or willfully obtuse. But we
we believe that he is neither.
1t is bad enough to take it for giented
that all those who cast their votes in those
states at that time for the Republican
were Republicans; for msny Democrats
voted with them because they were for tie
war and the Union, which were the chief
issues before the people in that campaign
it is bad enough to name the vote in only
six states, all of which are, and have
been overwhelmingly Republican and
which must therefore Of necessity have
furnished more Republican than Demo.
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