The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-02-14

the people Of Cairo want it, and The Bull
LETIN wants it. 1t has been good thing
in the past and it will be better thing in
the future, when it once becomes per-
manently settled. Even now, according to
the testimony of one of our prominent citi-
zens, who went over the road day before
yesterday, the road is doing a good bust
ness as far as il Is allowed to do
business by high water, which proves
that, with good management and in good
running condition, it would yield great
revenue to its owners and to the city OF
Cairo. But it has been in bad hands, its
obligations have been abused, and it has
been involved in numerous law suits which
have retarded its prosperity. Its latest
escapade has been to swindle, by an
odroitly accomplished trick, the city
and county out Of their two
hundred thousand dollars stock, together
with twenty per cent. interest on same.
But even this last little trick need not
stand in the way Of an equitable settlement
of the present right-of-way muddle, and
there is no doubt but that, if the company
will respond to the latest notice by the city
clerk, to the effect that the city's committee
is ready to confer with it. an understanding
will be arrived at within an hour.
of a man named s. c. Buckner, who
is general dead.best and is now in Cairo,
thanks to the authorities of the town of
Paducah, the Enterprise of that city has
this to say: "Among the passengers for
Cairo on the Gus Fowler yesterday was one
who has figured conspicuousy in police
circles in Paducah, who has furnished re-
porters with number of items, and who
has defrauded any number of the innocent
and unsuspecting denizens of this moral
burg. We refer to the irrepressible, incom-
parable and unrivaled Colonel Buckner;
| the man with the cheek of triple refined
brass and gall enough to supply whole
army of the run Of dead beats He pre-
ferred liberty ard Cairo to berth in the
bastie, 80 he went away. His choice be-
tween Jail and the Egyptian city was a
hard one to make, but by the counsel of
warm-hesrted friends (the police he de-
cided to flee his ills he knows not of rather
than those which his brief experience in our
county Jail taught him existed there.
lie gave up his intention of suing the city
for damages for incarcerating him as q
'vag," no doub. deciding that the city,
with her knowledge of him, could make
out too good case. His regret at going
was, of course, great but then man cannot
control his own destiny, ond the "Colonel"
had no greater power than any other of the
human sojourners on this mundane sphere.
! The community's loss by his going is small,
be having already played his string, but he
| will leave behind various mementoes in the
way Of unpaid board and bar bills that will
keep his memory green in the minds of
many of our people. Despite the "Colo-
nel's" cussedness we can't help but admire
one or two things in his moral make up.
One of these, and the principle one, is his
cheek, the other the stoid indifference
with which he met the broadsdes poured
into him by the papers of the city, they
seeming to have as little effect on him as SO
many peas thrown against the iron mantled
sides of war ship. In bidding him adieu,
and consigning him to the gentle care Of
the Cairoites, we do it with the hope that
his future days may be as free from care and
guile as those spent in the fair Plain City"
The Enterprise can not repress its JOY over
the fact that the "Colonel" has gone from
Paducah and is not ashamed to acknowl.
edge that the authorities imposed him upon
the people Of Cairo. But it may be
that the Enterprises joy is premature, for
COILS. p. Buckner was spotted by the
officers here as soon as he got from the boat
and on Saturday Chief Myers and Officer
Martin arrested Col. Buckner, jailed him,
took him to Magistrate Comings yesterday,
had HIM fined fifty dollars and costs, and
given him stay of twelve hours in which
to leave the city. And the Chief means to
enforce the order, too, The "Col."
will not be permitted to impose
his presence upon the people of this
city as long as he did upon those of Padu-
cab, and it is very likely that, before he has
had an opportunity to become acquainted
with his new love, he will return to his old
love- Paducah'