The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-07-21

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stepped aside to allow passenger train to
pass and in doing so stepped right in front
OF freight train which approached from
behind, knocked him down and cut off
some OF his fingers and injured one of his
legs. He was in the hospital at the city's
expense for twenty-three days The for.
| ward car of the train which run over him
bore no signal light and no brakeman was
upon it, nor ahead of it, as the ordinances
require, to see that no citizen would be in
iured. The Illinois Central railroad yards are
rapidly gaining the reputation of being a
regular man-trap and the company has long
had the name Of being anything but mind
ru of the human suffering il causes.
In the light of truth these selfcongrat-
ulatory lines from the Springfield journal,
concerning the feeling towards each other
of the Republican factions in this district,
sound humorous: "The only sharp con
| hict has been in the XXth district, where
the nominating convention held two days
| sessions, resulting, on tho ninth ballot, in
| the nomination of Hon. J. r. Thomas, the
present representative from the old XVIlllh
| district. We are assured, however, that
this has left no division in the Republican
ranks, but that the PARTY will give 10 Capt.
Thomas united and harmonious support
and will elect him by the usual vote. Tile
desperate efforts Of Thomas, Logan and
Raum to establish harmony in the pariy
here by accceding to the demands Of the
! army of office seekers and Offering them
Col. Willis official head On tray, and ap-
pointing 10 the Coils stead one of the
| ultra kiCkers, certainly does not look rs
though the defeat Of Damron and the sue
cess of Thomas had left no division in the
Republican ranks" of this district. And
even now, since this great concession has
been made, the anti Thomas or Damron
faction here is far from satisfied They
want more blood; nothing less than the
decapitation of Col. McKeaig and the defeat
of Captain Thomas will satisfy them. On
| ly last Wednesday near relative of Judge
Damron was heard to say that "if the Judge
says he will defeat man he will do it no
matter what OBSTACLES may present them
selves The Judge has openly, in the pres
ence of mixed crowd, sworn to do all he
can to defeat Thomas, saying that he had
plenty of money and about three hundred
men in his employ-all Of which would be
used" to accomplish his fell purpose But
besides this the friends of Col Willis aud
the former friends of Captain Thomas, who,
as the result of the convention showed, are
in the majority in this dis
srict, are very justly indignant at the shame
full manner in which Captain Thomas has
treated those who did so much for him
After having used them to hi:
personal advancement he casts them
from him and takes to his bosom
the snake which saught to bury its fang in
his heel. Thus it appears that there is
anything but harmony among the Republi-
cans Of the Twentieth district and that the
probability of establishing it between now
and November is very remote.
Says the Peoria Transcript "The
woman educators are coming to the front
in this state. The Republicans Of Bureau
county have nominated Miss Emma Y
White, of Princeton, for school superin'en.
dent; Miss Ella Parker has been similarly
nominated in Richmond county; Miss Sarah
j. Gray in Coles county; Miss Ella Sher
man is the Grecnback candidate for The
same Office in Marion county, and it ia to be
hoped that Mrs. Mary Whitesides Emery
will be put on both tickets for superjn-
tendent in this county" And what is th'
matter with Alexander county, This coun
ty has for years had lady superintendent
Of schools, and its schools have been mos
satisfactorily managed. The education d
the young is very properly the work of NO
men, who possess, in much greater dcgrec
than men, the patience, gentIeness and tact
so essential to successful educator. For wo
men as superintendent Of schools AleXan
der county can bear strong testimony bascC
upon experience. 1t is to be hoped tina
the old notion that II man is necessary a
principal of school will also soon giv'
way, and that woman, one of the many
scholarly women who live in comparativ,
seclu'ion in every community, particularly
in this community, will be soon prevailed
upon to assume the important
) post of principal Of the schools
here This movement in the sevcra
, counties in the state to conserve the bes
/ educational interests of the community b.
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