The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-07-28

| 1851, ..,...,... 1859, 754, 0OO
| 1881 ...........,,,..... .308, 1893, DOC
| Iotal. observation-disclosures. 1000 ,330O0O
The total value OF the cards thus issued
has been $15,553, $3.50, and the value for the
last year $3,0S9,060. The increase from
year to year has been constant and steady
Alexander Sweeney, the negro who set
the county Jail a6re some time ago and
who was indicted for the offense by the
grand jury but escaped because the indict-
ment against him was improperly drawn up
and was quashed, was again indicted for
| the same offense at the last session of the
grand jury. In the meantime he had
left town and no one knew
where he went, but last evening he was
again lodged in the county Jail by Deputy
Sheriff Guy Morse, who arrested him at
Chester. The meeting between the officer
and Sweeney was quite accidental. The
former together with Deputy Richard Fltz-
gerald had deposited their eleven prisoners
from this county in the penitentiary and
were about to step onto the boat on their
way home, when they come face to face
with Sweeney, who was also going on the
boat for the purpose of coming to CAIRO.
The officers did not interfere with the man 9
trip, but persuaded him that he had better
travel in their company.
"A pigeon shooting match comes off In
St. Louis to-day and for several days past it
was rumored that number of humane per-
sons had inaugurated movement by which
the match is to be prevented on the ground
that it is an exhibition of brutality. The
sportsmen have made arrangements with
several of the restaurants in the city to take
all the killed and wounded birds and pre-
pare them for the tables, and reply to the
argument of the injunctionists that it is no
more cruel to kill pigeons for pot pie than
it is to kill steer for beef soup. The fact
that some or, perhaps, most of the manged
birds will be utilized after having served
the diabolical natures of the shootlsts for
sport can hardly be said to Justify the
shooting. In their plausible argument the
sportsmen make mistake. They confound
the real reason for killing the birds with
pretended one. 1t must be acknowledged
that the cruelty in the act of killing the
birds consists in the manner and motive.
this case are not what
they usually are, or should be, in the killing
of steers to furnish food for men, with the
least possible torture to the victim; but the
primary motive is to satisfy in an inhuman
manner the unnatural craving for sport, 1t
is administering to the brutal, blood
thirsty part of human nature,
which finds entertainment only in the tact
that the object aimed 1t is living thing
that can feel, bleed, struggle, and die an
unacceptable mass of tiney bones and
quiverng flesh. If this were not the case
If an automatic bird or any other dead
object were sent into the air, would these
sportsmen find equal or any pleasure in
shooting at theml Certainly not, Their
natures demand living targets and the
shooting is none the less wanton, cruel
destruction of living things because
some Of the dead bodies are,
perchance, utilized Cairo sportsmen have
so far satisfied themselves with shooting
at glass balls and may they never aspire to
the advanced state of civilization in which
the st. Louis sportsmen live and have their
being.
Election for county officers will be
held in several of the counties in the state
this year, not withstanding the law repeal
ing the sections Of the election law requir.
ing an election to be held this year In
Greene county the primary elections of the
democratic party will be held within few
weeks and a full ticket will be nominated.
An election will also be held in Jackson
county. Out Of this mudde much trouble
will come; but sufficient unto the day is the
eyi! thereof,'-- Bloomington Bulletin
The evils that will arise from holding
elections next November can be easily fore.
seen and just as easily prevented. In the
first place there will DO no election called,
for the incumbents whose duty 1t would be
to call an election, believe as does the gov
ernor, that none should be held Then, il an
election is called by other authority, (Which
it is claimed by some can be done) and
men are chosen to ill the offices of Judge,
county clerk, treasurer and school superin-
tendent, then will commence fight in the
courts between the present incumbents and
the newly elected as to who shall hold the
Offices for onp WAR Such Erbt ,,,;tL thn