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The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1871-10-31
joins w. MURPHY,
Octl92wd. Twelfth street, Cairo, Ills.
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BRICK STORE FOR REsT.-The brick
store, No. 7s, Ohio Levee, now occupied
by +. NJ. Stockhe,h, Esq, is offered for
rent, and will be vacant on the 18th inst.
Apply to JSo. b. PILLS.
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The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1871-10-31

MARRIAGE GuIDE.-Interesting work
numerous cngravings, 22i pages. Price
80 cents. Address DIR. Butts Dispensary
No. IL North Eighth Street, St Louis
Mo. See Advertisement. If
The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1871-10-31

WANTED--At the Dslmonico Hotel on
hundred weakly boarders. Five meals
The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1871-10-31

LITTLE Muck CLANS (quahaugs) at
Jorgenson's. II
The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1871-10-31

The family grocery store of Bixby &
hoehier is being fatronized largely by pee
pie VINO iiKe'iine groceries Their location
on the north side of Eighth street, be-
tween Commercial and Washington NV
enues, Is central one, an. their stock has
been selected with discrimination, there
fore this new candidate for public patron
age meets exactly the wants of the peo-
pie. Messrs Koehlcr g. Bixby propose to
keep up their reputation by always selling
the best Of all sorts of groceries to their
patrons and the public, knowing that peo-
pie generally are aware Of the fact that
really good articles of any kind are al
ways the cheapest in the end. If
RELIABLE AND SAFE.-Dr. Henry Root
and Plant Pills are mild and pleasant in
their operation, yet thorough, producing
no nausea or gripping. Being entirely
vegetable, they can be taken without re-
gard TO diet or business. They arouse the
liver and secretivc organs into healthy
action, throwing eff disease without ex-
hausting or facilitating the system. Try
them and you will be satisfied. Price %
cents box. Sold by druggists and deal
ers in medicine everywhere. Prepared by
the Grafton Medicine company, St. Louis,
Missouri. myedm
ID. Lampert has removed his shop
from Ohio Levce to Eigth, between Com
mercial and Levee, and he now invites
his friends to one Of the best fitted shops
in the city. Everything is kept in the
neatest and best manner possible snow
white towels, bright, keen razors, pure
water, fragrant soaps, clear oils and fine
perfumery. Smooth shaves, thorough
shampoos, fashionable hair-cutting, hair
curling or dressing for gentlemen ladies
or children, and polite attention is always
in readiness for those who favor him with
their patronage. octedlm.
STRAYED - slj REwARD.-A black
hcavy-set mare mule, about IA hand:
high, 8 years old, yellow nose, shod al
around, tail and main very bushy. Wher
last seen had a halter on. Strayed from
Cairo on or about October 4th, 1871.
will pay the above to any person or per
sons who will return or give any informa
ton of her whereabouts.
joins w. MURPHY,
Octl92wd. Twelfth street, Cairo, Ills.
SrRAYED-$j BEwARD.-Strayed away
about two months ago, from the Acaderny
of Loretto, one red COW, about years old
end of tail white and white under her
belly. will pay the above reward for her
return to the academy. When she left
Cairo she was on the point Of calving.
MOTHER SoPHRoSIA,
Ioretto Academy.
The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1871-10-31
PITTSBURG AND ILLINOIS
COAL.
INSURANCE,

W. II. MORRIS, III. H. cAkDEe
Notary Public, No. Put. and L. 3. Com.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-04-19
agricultural.
For the Freeman.
Milk Rooms.

farmer Of Derby, writes to the Anleri-
can AgTioulfX isl for plan of a good milk
room. lie says he has one now of large size
l5x2O feet, three feet below the surface of
the ground and six feet above it, in which
the ten perature ranges from COO to Gj1 10
warm weather yet he fails to get large
product of cream. What is the reason ?
Itat is the point. We know, It is said
that in the vicinity Of Philadelphia, and in
Orange County, N. ", where the best butter
IL made, that they dig beneath the surface of
the ground, using only the damp air that
comes from subterranean vaults. In these
milk cellars the pans are set in water or over
water, and a large product Of cream is the
result. For aught we know such an ar
rangement may be necessary in the latitude
Of Philadelphia, but in Northern Vermont it
would be the height of folly What dairy
man needs to be told that cream rises better
in clear, fair weather, than in damp and
rainy, even though it may be cooler? Our
opinion Of a Vermont milk room is that it
should be entirely above ground, upou the
cool side Of the house, shaded by trees or
vines to keep off the hot summer sun, but
which Will let in our sweet mountain air
The room should not be less than fifteen or
twenty feet square, finished so stylish and
kept so neat as to make it the most pleasant
room in the house. The milk should be set
upon tables,-not more than three rows Of
pans to tabe-with sufficient space to pass
around each table. Having had some ex-
perience in butter making, we have tried
every plan for setting milk that has been in
vogue, and think this arrangement has ad-
vantages over all others. The empty pans
can all Re set in their places, the milk be
strained as it is brought in, with no putting
up and taking down Of pans of milk, all set
upon level, in the same temperature, con-
venient for inspection and skimming. The
pans may be raised from the tables by the
use of slats to admit of circulation of air
or cold water in extreme hot wea the
Again we say the milk room should be the
most wholesome and attractive room in the
house, away from all kitchen odors, such as
come from the boiling of vegetables, or the
pipe of the inveterate tobacco mongeT.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-04-19
Raising Potatoes.

For few years past there has been much
excitement in the potato line and new va
rieties almost without mum Der, have been
crowded into the market, and with what re-
suit +? Tha the majority raise no more, and
no better potatoes than before. They forget
that high cultivation is the basis Of all good
farming. and in no crop more essential than
with the potato also that it is useless to get
new varieties, expecting great results with
ordinary culture.
There are different methods of preparing
the ground indeed almost every farmer has
a way Of his own Many farmers plant their
potatoes on their poorest ground, and plant
a large piece, as they necessarily must, to
get their supply. 1t costs a great deal to
plant and hoe and dig them, and when they
are finally stored in the cellar they don t
make mu: Of pile after all. The boys get
discouraged and can't bear to work, as their
backs ache trying to dig up the tough, hard,
and perhaps weedy ground, and inwardly re-
solve when they are out from under flther s
thumb, that they will MT be farmers.
The potato Will not thrive a succession Of
years on the same ground as in village gar
dens, etc =, unless much pains is taken to pre-
rare the ground with especial reference to
that crop. Where it is necessary to plant
the same ground each year. early varieties
only should be planted, and as soon as ripe,
say the first of August, should be dug, the
ground plowed, a heavy coat of manure
/ spread on and narrowed lie and sowed with
| buckwheat or clover. If we SOW buckwheat
| it should be turned under before hard frOsts,
and when nearly or quite in the blow. If
we SOW clover, little scattering of oats or
some kind of gram should be sown at the
same time, as it viii need a little shade, and
should not be plowed until the time for
planting the following spring. The ground
| will then be in excellent condition for plant
ing, and almost entirely free from weeds.
The potatoes can be planted in drills very
thick one way, say piece Of potato once in
SIX or eight inches. In this way a large
amount Of potatoes can be taken from small
| piece Of ground and always of good quality
the land can be continually cropped, and yet
grow better and richer every year.
! Where no preparation are made before
| hand and the time draws near for planting,
| it is a good plan to turn over a rich clover
sod, if we have such to spare, and spread on
morse manure, or coarse barnyard manure
and mix well with the soil. We need 20 put
on some kind of manure or we don't get
much of a crop, and it is folly 10 20 over a
large piece of ground and get few small
pota toes. The quality is better if we can
take land that has been highly MANFRED the
previous year, but it is better to prepare il
| late, than not at all.-Nelo England Farmer.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-04-19

HINTS on DRAUGHT HORSES AND HARNESSES.
Whenever horse is employed for the pur-
pose Of drawing any vehicle or load, it Is OF
the utmost importance that he should be
able to employ all his strength to advantage
Every one who considers Mt all must ac-
knowledge that if a horse do his work in a
cramped and confined condition, or when be
is incOnvenently placed as regards the load
he cannot exert his full power. which Is 50
much loss to master: or, if forced to per
form a certain amount, then he Is obliged to
waste great deal more of his strength than
is required, to his own great pain and
injury,
The act Of pulling is performed by lean
ing forward with the weight of the body
against the resistance Of the opposing force,
and then by strong movements of the limbs,
keeping up and increasing the pressure, the
weight Of the body being Of the utmost i'm
pOrtance. Muscular movements exhaust the
strength, whereas the body weight is easily
employed without consuming the vital ener-
ges.
First, and unfortunately in too many cases,
the collar is, we are sorry to say, frequently
looked upon merely as a ring for the neck
to which the traces are to be affixed whereas
there is no part Of the harness which is SC
important, and which ought to fit 80 accur-
atey.
Second. The horse is often prevented
from throwing his weight into the collar by
a check-rein-a useless and painful encum-
brance, introduced by ,anity and entertained
by thoughtlessness amounting to cruelty.
Ask horse-keepers why they use it, and
hardly any two will give the same answer,
although It Is generally supposed by them
to be great safeguard in case of stumbling.
The real object with which it was intro
duced. was to make every horse to which il
was applied, however weak, or old. or p Dor
assume the lofty carriage Of the thorough
bred horse. Fortunately, vitiated taste Is
going out Of fashion as better information
is diffused-Rural Caro7iaian.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-04-19

SPRING CARE OF SHEEP AND LAMBs. Though
our sheep are wintered, the worst time is
yet to follow this is the changeable weather
Of the spring, the cold storms and the slushv,
bad condition of the yard and places the
sheep inhahit Unless the shed is we'll
drained or otherwise secured, there will be
more or less water soaking the straw and
manure. And once made wet in this wav.
it is apt to be more or less damp till the end
of the spring. We need not say that such
is not the place for sheep Keep the water
out on the start by all IN cans, and let there
be elevation enough to keep dry bottom.
Ewes now become heavy, and unless well
KEEP during the winter, Will be weak, easily
hurt, either by cattle or stronger sheep, or
fright from dogs or rude boys. The way to
avoid all this is to secure place by them
selves. Not only secure the ewes a place bv
t emselves, with plenty of room if possible.
and good ventilation, but separate the weaker
from the stronger.
When the lambs come weak, then is your
time to bestir Yourself an hour at once is
worth day afterward, for the weak lamb.
unless 1t get aid at once, will get weaker
rapidly, unlike the strong lambs. See that
they get milk if possible, from the ewes a
little nOurIshment IN the start is a great helm
often the saving of the lamb. If chilled too
much ~ Huob bt tdktu 10 quarters.
where there will also be chance to feed it.
Let the milk (if cows milky be warm and
little diluted. Thus, in few hours from
the start, lamb can be much helped and
strengthened.
See to your sheep at night Many fiocks
have been lessened IN consequence of this
neglect. weak lamb will come in the
night, cold and shivsring, and in the morning
be dead or beyond recovery. We cannot
afford such loss; lamb is too value BILE.
The mothers also must have good care.
Continue good hay to them. We prefer
clover cut IN due season and well cured A
little grain, almost of any kind, say pint
day. is of material help. A few roots, for
variety are greatly relished. Do not fatten.
jut feed so as to strengthen and flesh up well.
and prepare for the spring pasture. We
should say summer pasture, for we are apt
to let our sheep have the range of the fields
too early, when the season is yet uncertain
and damp, the ground soft and moist, and
the feed too tender and innutrltious for
much benefit. The hay and the grain should
not be cut off till pasture is fully established
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-04-19

and tore hole in her pink sunboDnet, but
Caddie didn't care wasn't she going to pic
mic? The woods were SO much arther off
than she thought, and it was very likely they
had eaten all the frosted cake before that
time. Then her shoes began to hurt her, one
of them came off easy enough, but she couldn't
unite the string of the other, SO she was
obliged to follow g my son Johns - fashion
and limp slowly along one shoe, off and the
other shoe on. The tender feet grew sore
very soon, and she thought, perhaps mamma
wasn't in the woods at all. So the poor baby
wandered on and on, SO tired and so, thirsty,
and nobody answered her, though she kept
calling mamma all the time. Caddie never
was so sorry in all her life. She hadn't obeyed
her mamma, and she had told the teacher
lie, and perhaps she should never see mamma
or the teacher again. She thought she was
as many as a hundred miles from home, and
how could she ever get back again. Caddie
didn t know but she should die out there all
alone and nobody would ever find her. By
and by she thought she heard some one call
ing, not her, but the COWS out IN the pasture
beyond Oh how sic did run when she heard
the voice, she didn't stop till she reached the
fence, where boy stood waiting for the cows
to come. Why Cadde, :" was all he could
say. And such a Caddie her white hair
was stringing through the hole in her bonnet,
and her round fat face looked like SORROW
ful full moon.
Tae little maiden suffered herself to be led
over the same path she had gone, back to the
old dusty road again. 1t was a weary,
weary journey for the little feet before she
came in sight of home. When she did reach
home at last, there was nobody there but
Grandma, they were all out looking for her,
50 anxious and frightened at the babys alb
sence. When mamma pat poor naughty
Caddie to bed that night, the little thing told
her all about her bad tricks at school, and
was so sorry and SO much in earnest to be
good, that mamma did not scold her at all.
SD E said the little heart had learned very
bitter lesson.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-04-19

NEAR Sacramento, at the base of GER
tain hill, there lay for years an immense
bowlder proyokingly in the way of every
team that assembled. 1t was almost i'm
possible to avoid 1t, and frequent collisions
with 1t awoke many profane ejaculation.
At last teamster, more angry than usual.
undertook to turn it over and out of the
way. This cost him much labor. but 10
when overturned, just beneath it was a
large nugget of gold Many = trial and
hiHdrance in life, if we would take the
pains to overcome it, would leave US all
the richer for the effort We must slay
the lion if we would afterward find the
nest of honey there Every temptation is
but one more opportunity to triumph.
Cares and troubles are but clouds and storms
that may lend 4 richer hue to the serene
ness that will follow. Out of the alembic
should always be distilled purity. 1t is
possible to extort some good from every
evil, some JOY from all our woes, some gain
from every loss, and to make flowers of
Immortality bloom upon the grave itself.
Pity 1t is, then, to have it otherwise.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-04-19

The REPosE OF FLowERs.-Almost all
flowers sleep during the night. The mari
gold goes to bed with the sun, and with
him rises weeping. Many plants are so
sensitive that their leaves close during the
passage of cloud. The dandelion opens
at five or six in the morning, and shuts at
nine in the evening. The common daisy
shuts It's days eye to meet the early
beams of the morning sun. The crocus,
tulip, and many others, close their bios
SONS at different hours toward evening.
The ivy-leaved lettuce opens at eight in the
morning, and closes at four in the after
noon. 1t begins to expand its magnificent,
sweet-scented blossom in twilight, it is full
blown al midnight, and never to open again
with the dawn of day. In clover field
not leaf opens until after sunrise. So
says celebrated English author who has
devoted much time to the study of plants.
and often watched them during their quiet
slumber. Those plants which seem to be
awake all night, he styles the bats and
owls of the vegetable kingdom
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-04-19
Poetry.
ADril Day.

AL day the low hung clouds have dropped
Their garnered hnllness down.
All day that soft gray mist has wrapped
Hill, valley, grove and town;
There has not been sound to-day
To break the calm of nature,
Or motion, one might almost say,
Oflife or living creature.
or waving bOugh warbling bird,
Or cattle family lowing.
1 could have hat believed heard
The leaves and blossoms growing.
I stood to hear, love well,
The rains continuous sound;
Small drops, but thick and fast they fell,
Down straight into the ground;
For leafy thickness is not yet
Earth's naked breast to screen,
Though every dripping branch is set
With shoots of tender green.
sure, since l looked az early morn, those honey
sucke buds
Have swelled TO double growth; that thorn has pu
forth larger studs;
The liIacs cleaving cones have burst,
The milk white flowers revealing;
Fen now upon my senses first
Methink> their sweets are stealing
Down, down they come, those fruitful stores,
Those earth rejoicing drops.
a momentary deluge yours
Then thins, decreases, stops;
And ere the dimples in the stream
Have circled out Of ight
10 from the west parting CLEAN
Breaks forth Of amber light
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-04-19

CULTIVATION OF ONIoNs.-W hen grown as
a feld-crop, the land should be level, com
paratively free from stones, or other Obstruc-
tions, deep and mellow. The onion will
grow best on such soil when well drained
either naturally or by artificial means. Fall
ploughing, throwing the land into twelve
feet ridges, is advisable. In the spring an
app ication of twenty to thirty two-horse
loads Of well-rOtted yard or hog-pe manure,
are spaead broadcast and ploughed under.
TIE ground Is then ploughed, narrowed and
sometimes levelled with wooden roller be-
fore sowing the seed. Au application o.
two or three hundred pounds Of ground
bones to the acre will benefit the crop
The seed is sown in drills, one foot apart,
either for field or garden, by a IN chine, US
ing four pounds of fresh seeds to an acre.
To insure the seeds being well covered, a
light roller is drawn by hand over the
ground, in the directions OF the rows
The early running of the hand-hoe5 be-
tween the TONS. is the only way to do in
growing onions for profit If the weeds gain
Roadway, the cultivation will cost ten times
what it otherwise would. As soon as the
rows are designated by the young plants,
keep the scuffle and Onion-h hoes active unit il
the tops are large enough to give shade.
Weeds appearing in the lines of the rows
must be removed, before they attain any
size, by hand-the boy carrying knife with
a curved point, made for the purpose. The
seed sown early in April, the crop Will be
ready to harvest in the latter part Of August
or the beginning Of September The onions
are pulled out by hand, throwing three or
four rows together and leaving them in this
way tor a few weeks, until they are dry
enough to be stored-when they are gath
cred, earted and placed on barn floor or
loft until market. Ii kept over winter they,
should be protected by covering Of straw
or salt hay, before cold weather sets in.
Onions keep better with the tops left on .
therefore they are not trimmed till few
days before sending them to market
Quinn Money IN the Garden.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-04-19

A HINDoo SToRY-A tiger, providing in
the forest, was attracted by a bleating
calf 1t proved to be a bait, and the tiger
found himself trapped in a spring cage.
There he lay for two days, when Bramin
happened that way.
o, Bramin piteously cried the beast,
Have mercy on me and let me out Of this
cage
All but you will eat me.
Eat you Devour my benetactor
Never could be guilty Of such a deed
responded the tiger.
The Bramin, being benevolently in
clined, was moved by these entreates, and
opened the door of the cage.
The tiger walked up to him, waved his
tail, and said Bramin, prepare to die
l shall now eat you.
Oh how ungrateful, how wicked >
Am | not your savior protested the
trembling priest.
True, said the tiger, very true but it
is the custom Of my race to eat men when
we get the chance, and | cannot afford to let
you 20.
Let Us submit the case to an arbitra-
tor replied the Bramin Here comes a
fox. The fox is wise let US abide his
Judgment
Very we'll replied the tiger.
The fox assuming judicial aspect, sat
on his launches with all the dignity he
could muster, and, looking at the dispu-
tants, said
Good friends, l am somewhat confused
by the different accounts which YOU give
of this matter my mind is not clear
enough to render equitable Judgment but
1 if you will be good enough to act the whole
transaction before my 6yes, | shall attain
unto a more definite conception Of the case.
20 you, Mr. Tiger, show me Just how you
approached and entered that cage and
then do you, Mr. Bramin, show me pre-
cisely how you liberated him and l shall
be able to render a proper decision.
/ They assented, for the fox was solemn
and oraeular. The tiger walked INTO the
cage, the spring door fell and shut him in.
lie was prisoner inside
The Judicial expression faded from the
fox's countenance. aud, turning to the Rra-
min, he said Now YOU are safe, YOU
silly Bramin. l advise you to 70 home as
fast as you can, aud abstain in future from
doing favors to raseally tigers Good morn
ing, Bramin ; good morning, Tiger
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-04-19
gnetru.
A Doubling Heart.
BY ADELAIDE ANNIE PROCTOR.

BY ADELAIDE ANNIE PROCTOR.
Where are the swallows ned?
Frozen and dead.
Perchance upon some bleak and stormy shore,
doubling heart
Far over the purple seas
They walt, in sunny ease
The balmy southern breeze
To bring them to their northern homes once NOR
Why must the flowers die?
Prisoners they lie
In the cold tomb, needless of tears or rain.
doubling heart
They only sleep below
The soft, white ermine snow,
While winter winds shall blow,
To breathe and smile upon you soon again.
The sun has hid its rays
These many days;
VIII dreary hours never leave the earth?
doubling hearth
The stormy clouds on high
Veil the same sunny sky
That soon for spring is nigh,
Shall wake the summer into mirth.
Fair hope is dead and light
Is quenched in night;
What sound can break the silence Of despair:
doubling hearti
The sky is overcast,
Yet stars shall rise at last,
Brighter for darkness past,
And angels voices stir the air.