The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-07-20

fore on duty as usual. When the strike oc
CURED three men were at this end of the st
Louis, Chicago and Memphis wires, send
ing or receiving messages, and all three in
struments stopped at once at II 10 O'Clock
sharp. Manager Henry Beard was at the St
Louis wire and had half Of message sem
when he was interrupted with "Good bye
Seventy three-Regards to ALL" and all eff
forts to call st. Louis remained futile unit
about half an hour afterwards, when ar
answer was obtained and the remainder Of
the message was taken, under protest
however. AS is known all messages sent tC
any part of the couatry from here go first
to ST, Louis and are from their sent to their
final destination. The st. Louis office has
now only three operators on duty, instead
of two hundred as before. These three
take their turns at the two hundred instru-
ments and with the assistance of several
messenger boys, manage to give each instru-
ment their attention for few minutes every
hour or two, sending or receiving message
one or two at time; so that the business is
not entirely interrupted, Until last even
ing all messages from here had been re.
ceived and there was no probability that
messages would accumulate, or would have
to be refused, here. Gradually the large
offices will be filled again with non-union
men, or plugs as members of the Broth
erhood call them, and the bushes; Of the
company will 90 on with more dispatch
than now, though very likely not smoothly
by reason of the inexperience of many OF
the new men.
-Calamities never come singly it is said,
and the saying has been proven true in the
experiences of men and of peoples. But
that great calamties, such as ordinarily
mark epochs in the histories of nations,
should cluster three into single period Of
a few hours is an occurrence that must
arouse the gravest apprehensions in the
minds of humanity, as to what the next
hour will bring forth. simultaneously with
the news that General Grant was dead and
that the telegraph operators in all parts OF
the country had deserted their "tickers,'
come the announcement here yesterday that
the Pulaski county coroner's jury, in the
case of the amented Nelson Howard, had
breathed its last-had adjourned sine die.
This result was expected and feared for
several weeks back, and it was clearly only
by the direct irterposltiOn Of divine proyi-
dence, under the direction of the Pulaski
county Republican central committee, that
the poor thing was kept alive as along as il
was. But the jury did its work will. 1t
proved that the Republican authorities of
Pulaski county and Mound City, and every
body else within a hundred miles around,
knew nothing whatever about the mob that
hung poor Howard, either befare or after
the awful deed that the authorities would
have done all that they could have done to
prevent the crime, had they been notified
before hand that it would be attempted;
that certain prominent Republicans did
not utter certain forcible expressions of sat-
isfaction at the manner in which the mob
had done it's work, and that the Republican
party Of Pulaski county was therefore enti-
tied 10 the continued confidence and sup
port Of the colored man or voter; that Ger
tain prominent Democrats bad been guilty
OF such expressions and that therefore the
Democratic party Of Pulaski county merit
ed only the heartest contempt OF the no.
BILE cOlored voter Incidentally the jury
also discovered That colored gentleman
named Nelson Howard had been violently
and unlawfnly put to death and that the
perpetrators OF the crime were unknown
Democrats from Cairo, which little inform
alton the jury impaired finally in its dying
breath to weeping friend, Coroner Graves,
who attended it in its last agonies. Though
advanced in age il was not infrm, and it la
bored hard, steadily and faithfully TO
purge "rhe Grand Old Republican Party"
Of grand old Pulaski county, from the shg-
ma cast upon it by jealous Democrats, Of
having, even 10 thought, endorsed the pun
ishment melted out TO poor Howard and the
consequent reduction Of the Republican
majority. Disease, against which, among
many other things, the jury had con
tended for weeks, finally gained the upper
hand. Last Monday one Of the Jurors, who
bad yentured more boldly into the arduous
(not to say odoroua) work there was 70 do,
and who had thus presented more attrac-
tive and richer subject for infections, etc,
was stricken down, aud the jury had to
bow It's head in humble submission and eY.
pire. But it has not lived in vain; It's no.
BILE work will be its monument, and when,
in years 10 come, gray haired gircs whoss