The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-03-02

that company is being organized in ST.
Louis and New Orleans for the purpose of
building standard gauge railroad from
st. Louis via Chester, Murphysboro, Vienna
and Metropolis to Paducah."
The Paducah Enterprise says; "The
heartless murder Of FMr. j. w, Biggs, by
Mink Mayfield at Cairo, Saturday night,
was most heinous crime and shows how
quickly the lawless element Of commu-
nifty will assert supremacy in times of dan
gel. In all cities, in times of danger, cpl
dcmic, flood or confagration, these human
fends delight to revel IN crime and out
lawry, and carry death and pluniering
with high hand The vllainous assault
of the rutfian, Pat Lally, on the city editor
of The BULLETIN, a few days ago, is anoth-
er of those crimes which deserve quick
punishment. A man, big or little, who
will strike another from behind and then
trample him after he is down, is coward
of the lowest, meanest kind, sneaking
eyena.like wretch and should be given a
coward punishment. The Cairo Vigilance
committee should have organized to some
purpose, and we hope that they will leave
no stone inturned to give the lawless ele.
ment their just es.-The rapidity with
which ''the lawess element of this com
munity was quelled, is a credit to Cairo and
shows that the better element in Cato was
on the alert and fully able and willing to
maintain the supremacy at all hazards.
Though the fellow Mayfeld has not
yet been captured, it is probably, but a
question of time that he will be, and as
for the fellow Lally, he is in the hands of
the law and will doubtless receive his due.
He is the representative of a very small ee.
ment of thugs who have more love for mis-
chief than for law and who take advantage
of every opportunity to give their craven
nature fulls play. He is VIGOROUSLY proud
of his fighting abilities, but when he breaks
out in an assault his victim is
usually weak, helpless woman,
as in the case of his wife, or some man much
his physical inferior; and his mode of attack
is usually that of the skulking midnight
assassin. Cairo is fortunate in having but
very few wretches so utterly base, SO en-.
tirely devoid of all manly instincts. AT the
present time the best of order prevails
throughout the city, thanks to the activity
of the officers and the Vigilants end the
whole influence of the great law abiding
portion of the people Of the city.
"A fellow who seeks to swindle the city,
and succeeds to the extent Of eight or ten
dollars is brought into a police court and
held to bail in the sum of two hundred
dollars to answer the charge Of fraud in
the circuit court, and falling to give the
same, goes to Jail A notorious cowardly,
thug, who, like skulking assassin, steals
up behind peaceable citizen in broad
daylight and, without the slightest warning,
knocks him down and stamps him with
his feet to within an inch Of his life and
leaves him on the pavement bleeding,
reason at all--this cowardly wretch is al
SO brought into police court and also held
to bail in the sum of two hundred dollars
to answer the charge Of assaulting with in
tent to murder; he gives the bail and goes
free. There may be no difference in these
two cases; = bold, brutal, dastardly, I'M
provoked, nearly fatal assault upon hu-
man life may be no greater an oiFcnse than
to swindle corporation out Of eight or
ten dollars; it may be that the
life assaulted is, in the estimation Of
tie justice, worth no more 10 the pOssessor
than eight dollars would be to The city, and
said justice may be right in this belief but
there are some people who believe other.
wise, there are some men and women who
are sensible enough generally and have
t0lerably correct opinions upon most sub.
iectS, but who believe that m ordinary
human life ia worth more than eight or ten
dollars and that nearly fatal assault upon
thelife even Of a newspaper man is an Of.
Tense somewhat more serious than
the indirect theft Of eight or
ten dollars from corporation. These
good people commented considerably upon
the hypothetical cases above stated, and,
criticised rather severely the justice who
figured in them. 1t maybe however
that these good people have an exaggerated
estimate Of the value of human life. espec.
; tally newspaper mems lives, aud will incline
their opinions more in favor Of the Il :
mighty dollar after maturer deliberation
, "A most remarkable case of insanity re-.