The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-10-12

strewn with the CHASTITY fragments of forty
human bodies torn into unrecognizable
fragments; n hundred people stretched upon
mattresses frightfully disfgured and send
ing forth aspnizing groans, but still in the
ring for the next time; seventeen coaches, a
total wreck, and the road-bed torn up for
q mile and quarter. But, on the other
hand, it may have been only train late on
some other connecting line. However, the
public is at liberty to choose.
-'Acivilcase of more than ordinary import
ance has been pending in the court of JUS
tice Robinson for several days and is to be
concluded this forenoon, or to day, at any
rate. Messrs. Smith Bros obtained judg-
ment against Josephine Bertrand for
grocery bill she owed them and, in due
time, they proceeded to evey upon some of
the household goods of defendant. Consta-
bleJno. Sides served the execution and got
possession OF some of the things, after con
siderable trouble The defendant now
comes and claims that the levey was il,eg.
ally made and sues the officer and his
bondsmen, Stephen Brady and George
Robinson, for 800 damages. The latter is
the case on trial before Justice Robinson
and IN 1t Mr.. George Hendricks represents
the officer and his bondsmen, and Mr.. d.
I. Linegar represents Josephine Bertrand.
The evidence is nearly all in and argument
will probably begin this morning
Our dispatches to-day give reliable
figures as to the result of the important
elections held in Ohio and Iowa Tuesday
Ohio is Democratic by handsome majority,
while Iowa is Republican by a very much
reduced majority. The lessons to be drawn
from these results are imported ones. The
Republicans ought to have carried both
states, the former by 10000 majority and the
latter by 10000 or $4,000. That they did
not do so is an agreeable disappointment to
many Democrats, In Iowa, in 1880 the Re
publlcans had majority over the Demo
Gratis of 7S,4Oj, aud a majority over a.. of
over $4,000; IN 1882 the Republican plur.
atty was 1851, on total vote 81 900 less
than in $780, the Democratic vote was
6,4O0 greater in 1882 than 1880, while the
total Republican vote was 35,11j less in
1882 than in 1880. This show that the
Republicans had big advantage to COM
mence on, but it also shows that the Re.
publicans were losing ground even then,
aud the Democrats were gaining. The
Democrats lsbored under great disadvan.
tages this year by reason of their internal
disturbances in Cincinnati and elsewhere.
Ohio has always been Republican state
on full vote, but the Democrats have been
gradually gaining ground. Foster was
elected governor over Bookwalter in 1881
by 24,309 on total vote of ga ,22G; the
total vote in 1880 was 24,O4l, and Garfield
carried the state by nearly 1000; last year
the Democrats carried the state ona total
vote of 632, 1879, by a plurality of 10000.
The Democrats certainly have reason to
congratulate themselves, but should bear
their honors with becoming modcsty.
To some extent the impression prevails
among mechanics, that the high grade !
movement has been the cause of the present
stagnatlon in real estate Improvements, and |
to the same extent there is dissatisfaction at |
the delay in disposing Of the high grade |
ordinance pending in the council commit
tees. These impressions are all mistake |
and this dissatisfaction is directed against an |
innocent matter. The high grade move
ment did not nip in the bud any contem.
plated real estate improvement 1t could |
not have done 50, simply because, when ii
was inaugurated, there were no real estate |
improvements in contemplation not one
At the time the high grade movement was
started nobody wanted to build, nobody |
talked of building, evidently nobody
thought of building anything anywhere in
the city-excepting Mrs. Stafford, and she,
like the noble little woman that she is, has
gone ahead with her promised work in spite
of discouraging circumstances. And even
now, nobody wants to build, 50 far as we
are able to learn, on condition that the
nigh grade movement is abandoned, nobody
would build or begin to build were the
high grade ordinance buried in oblivion
to-day and were the council to rivet the
city grade to ten feet below high water
mark with cast iron oaths sworn with one
hand upon pile ofgilt-edged bibles and
the other grasping glory. The fact is
and it stares every mechanic and every
business man IN the facc--nobody wants
to build upon the present grade and nobody
wants to do so. Men who have money 70
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