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

as rule and often insulting, evidently
suspecting every white man they met to be
an ex-mobber and in duty bound to prove
his innocense or stand convicted and be in
danger of summary punishment. But this
feeling is gradually dying out now and be-
fore long everything will be just as it used
to was"
Two negroes named Cal Roper and
Jordon were caught by Constable Haz
Martin yesterday evening, in the act Of
"hoo' ioolng" verdant country negro from
Pulaski county out of $40. They had
"surrounded' the stranger and We're telling
him glowing tales about certain spot in
the south where fried 'possum and sweet
taters fioated about in the air like gnats
locking for open mouths TO crawl into. One
Of them uttered some kind of gibberish
which he said was the language spoken by
the people in this land that flowed with
'possums, etc. The stranger "took it all
in" and handed over two IS bills to pay for
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.la6le 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 60 on
down town about his business.
The Argus, or any one, could find am
pie evidence that the negro, Howard, was
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 a saloon and held
the proprietor and the officers and people
at bay with cooked revolver which he
fourished in the air about him that was
heavy with his curses and threats. y
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
be 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 upa hypocritlcal wall for ra-
lions from the government during the
irouth, and few honest white men pro
.ested 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
hey were furnished rations, at the same
lime refusing an offer Of steady work at 81
per day, made by the owner Of saw mill
only few miles away. And again: less
han year ago, Howard made his mark in
his city and introduced himself to the po-
ice officers, by attempting to repeat his
Grand Chain msneuver in the store then of
Mr., Ernest Petit, we believe, up town; but
he Cairo officers were not Grain Chain Of
icers, as he learned pretty quick to his
orrow. His weapon was taken away from
lin and he was made to pay for his fun.
We are Of opinion that upon the "Golden
stair" they sing about, Howard stands sew
,ra good long flights below the man who
vas the unwarned and inoffensive victim
If bis bloOd-thirsty nature, and that he will
rave to 60 through an eternity Of proba-
ion before he will Hstand on the same step
with him, However, this is only our be-
lef we don't profess to know much about
he arrangements and the regulations gov.
,rning the future state. If Howard had
been duly found guilty by jury of his
peers and hung by Sheriff Crane with all
he ceremony usual to such occasions, he
would, of course, have dropped through the
rap door directly into everlasting bliss,
while his victim might be suffering the
.orments of the unrepentant. But even as
/ is, we will admit, for the sake of peace,
hat Howard is now after all an angel OF
some kind,