The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-05-29

and you will adjudge them "beyond com
pare" more dclectable than anything in
all the realms of earth, or air, or fairy land
Yesterday afternoon quite pitable
sight presented itself to those who hap
pened to pass down Ohio Levee from
Eighth to Sixth streets. An old negro was
lying on the sidewalk in front Of Mr.. t.
M. Alden's commission store and was SUI
iering with terrible fit, which seemed to
wrench every muscle in his body and
caused him to troth at the mouth.
The man lay there for about three hours,
during which time he never once became
conscious, or ceased to groan and shake.
Some coored men standing by were loud
in their denunciations of "de white folks"
for not taking care OF the poor fellow; but
none of them offered to assist him, though
he was one of their own race. DR.. Wood
had been notified and he finally made his
appearance and consented upon the urgent
request of Mr.. Alden to take the invalid to
the hospital The man came here about
two weeks ago on the steamer Belle Mem
phis.
Yesterday fornoon, at eight o'clock,
there were filed for record in the office of
Circuit Clerk Alex. II. Iryin, under date OF
May 2Sth, 1881, the papers Incorporating
the st. Louis and Cairo railroad company
This company to 60 into legal existence on
the first day of June, with capital stock
of six million five thousand dollars, divid-
ed into sixty.fve thousand shares OF one
hundred dolarseach. The principal office is
to be at Chicago The object of the cor
poration is to construct or purchase and
maintain line of railroad between East
st. Louis, st. Clair county, Ills, and Cairo,
Alexander county, Ills The real object is,
of course, the purchase of the Narrow
Gauge railroad, when it is sold under the
mortgage recently foreclosed at Springfield,
Ills which will be about the fifteenth day
of June) The lncorporators are nine
IN number, to wit: VIM. F. Whitehouse,
Chicago, Ill.,; Casper VIM. Schaap, Louis
vile, KY; Lorenzo NJ. Johnson, Chicago,
H.; S. Corning Judd, Chicago, ILL.,; John
B. Lexington, East st. Louis, ILL.,. Edwin
B. Sheldon, Chicago, ILL.,; Henry B. White.
house, Chicago, H.; James NJ. Hills, CHI
cago, H.. Eugene A. Flshburn, Chicago,
Ill. The board of directors is composed of
the same gentlemen above named.
English managers of races prove as
stubborn and thick-headed as usual IN the
matter of admitting the Cornell university
boat crew to the Henly regatta. The crew
had made no formal entry for the contest,
but expected to start for England yesterday,
when the reflection occurred that some
time ago, the Henly stewards met IN SOL
emn conclave and decided that from and
after January 1, 1881, all foreign entries
must be made on or before March 1, each
year. As the intended visit of Cornell to
Henly was announced in all the English
sporting papers many times before March
/, it seemed probable that the stewards
would accept this extended public notice
as to all intent and purpose genuine entry
and not demand their pound of flesh in &C.
cordance with the strict letter of the law. To
avoid fruitlessj journey Cornell telegraphed
the facts last Wednesday to the Henly
stewards who held meeting Thursday,
only to learn that the entry would not be
accepted. 1t begins to look as il English
men, beaten by American ritlemen, yacht.
men, and oarsmen, seek to funk contest
with such dangerous opponents whenever
possible. For nation prating so much OF
pluck and fearlessness, and fair play, the
islanders have done some queer things Of
late.
Owing to an unforeseen delay on the
road Col. Pepper was unable to arrive here
in time to address the convention of
temperance people at Reform hall
yesterday afternoon. Hence no
meeting was held in the afternoon. But
IN the evening Reform hall was occupied
by a very select and good sized audience
to hear the colonel, (who Is reputed to be
an orator of more than ordinary power
discuss the great question of temperance.
The meeting was presided over by Mr..
Geo. s. Fisher, the president Of the club.
The colonel was promptly on hand and
spoke tor over an hour to the delight of all
present He IS not flowery
speaker. HIS style is more Of
the argumentatve kind, which
appeals to the reason, rather than to the pas
sions and while it might leave one con-
vinced of the correctness OF his views and
with desire to work in the cause, he does