The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-07-11

as a rule and often insulting, evidently
suspecting every white man they met to bc
an ex-mobbor and in duty bound to prov,
his innocence or stand convicted and be il
danger of summary punishment. But THU
feeling is gradually dying out now and be
fore long everything will be Just as it uset
to Was"
Two negroes named Cal Roper anc
Jordon were caught by Constable Ha2
Martin yesterday evening, in the act Of
"hoo- iooing" verdant country negro from
Pulaski county out of 80 They hac
surrounded" the stranger and were telling
him glowing tales about a certain spot il
the south where fried possum and swee
taters hoatcd about in the air like gnats
locking for open mouths TO crawl into. On,
of them uttered some kind of gibberish
which he said WAS the language spoken by
the people in this land that flowed will
possums, etc. The stranger stock it all
in" and handed over two So bills to pay fol
being directed to this paradise and to be
taught the strange language, which the
chatterer had promised to do by merely
passing his hands over the gu.lable pupils
face. Officer Martin came upon them
just as the money changed hands and
knowing the two tricksters, suspected
crookedness, made them return the money
to its owner and told the victim to 90 on
down town about his business.
The Argus, or any one, could find am
pie evidence that the negro, Howard, was
a dangerous character and an undesirable
citizen on general principles. The cir
cumstance related by The BULLETIN,
which occurred at Grand Chain, his home,
is first in point of importance. Howard
had taken possession of saloon and held
the proprietor and the officers and people
at bay with cooked revolver which he
hourished in the air about him that was
heavy with his curses and threats. A
telegraph man offered to arrest the despera'
do if the officers would give him authority
to do so. The authority was given and
Howard was downed and turned over
to the authorities, while he vowed that he
would at some future time in some way get
even with the man who had "downed' him.
Howard accused Kane of being the man
who had overcome him at Grand Chain and
he persisted in accusing Kane Of being the
man, in spite of the latter's equally EN-.
phatic denials There is evidence even that
he went so far as to say that he would kill
Kane, on the very day that he committed
the crime. But this is not all. When Pu
laski county's office.seeking politicians
were sending up hypocritlcal wall for ra-
tons from the government during the
drouth, and few honest white men pro
tested against the outrage, Howard was
among the leaders of mob OF negroes who
went over the county threatening violence
against the men who set up the protest, and
at Villa Ridge threatened to take posses
sion of the goods in the stores there, unless
they were furnished rations, at the same
time refusing an offer of steady work at 81
per day, made by the owner of saw mill
only few miles away. And again: less
than year ago, Howard made his mark in
this city and introduced himself to the po-
lice officers, by attempting to repeat his
Grand Chain maneuver in the store then Of
Mr., Ernest Petit, we believe, up town; but
the Cairo officers were not Grain Chain Of
ficers, as he learned pretty quick to his
sorrow. His weapon was taken away from
him and he was made to pay for his fun.
We are of opinion that upon the Golden
Stair" they sing about, Howard stands sew.
eral good long flights below the man who
was the unwarned and inoffensive victim
of his blood-thirsty nature,and that he will
have to 60 through an eternity of proba-
ton before he will lstand on the same step
with him. However, this is only our be.
llef we don't profess to know much about
the arrangements and the regulations gov.
erning the future state. If Howard had
been duly found guilty by a jury of his
peers and hung by Sheriff Crane with all
the ceremony usual to such occasions, he
would, of course, have dropped through the
trap door directly into everlasting bliss,
while his victim might be suffering the
torments of the unrepentant. But even as
It is, we will admit, for the sake of peace,
that Howard is now after all an angel OF
some kind.
COITNCIJ MEETING