The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-08-06


attached to the snake, drew the fearful rep
tile after her! The shrieks and commo.
ton that followed, until the true character
OF the reptile monster was disclosed, admit
of no adequate description. Ten minutes
later there were not more than three persons
in the crowd, who didn't know it was a
"sell' from the very beginning.
The residents of Elco and the country
round about, recently enjoyed the novelty
of religious services in Goods temple
the grand old forests of that locality. Hun
dreds of men, women and children were
there, many from points fifteen and twenty
miles distant. They came with baskets
well filled with baked chicken and black
berry pie; built their fires, made hot coffee,
and there, in the shade of the forest mon
archs, fed the body bounteously, while par
sons Clifford Baxter, Jamison and others
administered plenteously to their spiritual
needs. The affair was very pleasant some
what novel, and is quite likelyt to DC follow
ed up by others of like nature elsewhere.
Amanda Fletcher appeared before
Squire Robinson and related story of i'll
usage that is the more exasperatng because
the law provides no remedy. Amanda had
fried and roasted over her kitchen stove for
many days that Ed Crofton and other ne
groes might eat and grow fat-the inspra-
ton to Amanda being the promise Of abun-
dant pay. Payday arrived; but no money
coming in sight, Amanda hoped to hasten
payment by asking for it. But alas the
day she did sol ed Crotton and the other
negroes became MORALLY offended If
they couldn't pay their debts without being
dunned, they'd never pay them at all; and
saying this they betook themselves from
Amandas generous board and sheltering
domicile. They are many points ahead Of
Amanda now, the law is impotent, and but
Tor the hope of future vengeance, she would
feel crushed and discomftteG
1t is fact that all humanitarians note
with pleasure, that our Cairo draymen and
teamsters are not as rule, cruel to their
horses, mules and oxen. II is but rarely
indeed that, by beating his horse or mule,
| the man becomes the brute. The dumb
animal that willingly devotes the labor of
its life to our service, working until it falls
exhausted in its yoke or traces, is certainly
entitled not only to the food it eats, but to
kind, humane treatment. And the General
Assembly of 1877, and that of 70 also we
believe, recognized these rights in our
domestic animals, and enacted laws whereby
they might be indicated. 1t is now
Unable offence to cruelty beat to starve or
neglect our animals, and anybody who
may feel SO inclined can enforce the inhic-
ton of the penalty. The law is a most
humane one. Good men will never subject
themselves to its penalties. 1t will hit
only those at whom it is aimed, and who
would shield them3
The retusual of the ten thousand ne
groes now in Memphis to 60 into camp,
that the authorities may have chance to
stamp out the yellow fever, calls for more
than mere words of condemnation. Nearly
or quite one-half the new cases are develop
ed among the blacks, and as not one-ffth
of that class finds employment, the refusal
to 90 into camp where they will be COM
paratively safe, and where they will be fed
and cared for at public expense,
is absolutely unaccountable. That
city with its many millions of
property, its fine homes and immense bust
ness structures, should be compelled to ex-
ist in the shadow of great desolation; that
thirty thousand Of its best people, refugees
among strangers, should be kept from
their homes that business should remain
paralyzed for weeks, perhaps for months,
unnecessarily, all simply because a lot of
stubborn black men refuse to do that
which is manifestly for their own good, is
a matter that calls for acts Of compulsion,
and not of words OF condemnation. Let the
authorities of Memphis assert themselves.
They are dealing with great scourge-a
monster that has its fangs in the city's
throat If the removal of the remaining
blacks and whites will enable them to
achieve mastery, right thinking men
everywhere say force the removal-without
bloodshed if possible, with bloodshed if
nothing but that will prove efiectuaI.
The men who have access to the Fed
eral treasury vaults, the men who bought
government bonds at gold value of 40
cents on the dollar, and were made indie
pendently rich by the Republican fiat that
their forty cents in gold should command u
return of 100 cents in gold--these
men, and the protected manufactur-