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PRoPoeATIoN. OF SoUND.-A locust
may be heard one-sixteenih of a mile
a wren, weighing half an, ounce, and a
middlng-sized man would be as heavy
as four thousand of them, could be
heard about as far. But if the voice of
either bore proportion to the mass of
matter employed in its production a
man could be heard one thousand miles,
favored by brisk wind. A vessel at sea
a few years since, when one hundred
and sixty miles from land, heard dis
tinctly the thrilling music of band
playing on shore. There must have
been peculiar condition of the atmo-
sphere at the time, while the broad sur
face of the sails were equivalent to a
great external ear to arrest and con-
verge the aerial undulations.
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LONGEVITY OF SOME ANIMALS
Among other spoils which Alexander
the Great took from Polls, an Indian
king, was monster elephant. These
animals were then as now, held In the
highest esteem in that country. That
particular elephant fought so bravely
for his master that the admiration
of the conqueror was excited in his
favor. He ordered him to be set free.
and allowed to range at pleasure first
naming him Ajax, and placing medal
securely to his neck, bearing this in
scription Alexander, son of Jupiter,
dedicated Ajax to the SUM-" Three
hundred and fifty-four years after the
old fellow was rediscoved, and probably
in good condition, as nothing was re-
corded to the contrary. Therefore it is
probable that elephants may live centu-
ries before the machinery of life gives
out. Cuvier, the great French natural
ist, saw no reason why whales should
not reach thousand years. An eagle
died at Vienna that was known to be
104 years old. Ravens have been ac-
tive at 100 years A skeleton of swan
is in possession of an English gentle
man that died when 200 years of age.
Tortoises have been repeatedly found
with dates cut into their shells by an
cient hunters, showing they were over
100 and yet were crawling on vigorously
with new markings into second CEN
tury. Scientists can not fathom this
law of vitality. There is a ife-period
to most of the animals very satisfactory
Iy determined, but how long man
might live is still unknown. No death
occurs in which the individual
ialls short of hundred years. that was
lot referrable to a violation of some
aw of nature. HoPeland was fully
persuaded the life limitation of man
vas not less than two hundred years. |
With the progress of sanitary science,
n time, men may again flourish as long
S the patriarches, up to several hun
red wears.
The Hickman courier., 1873-07-26

The cathartics used and approved by
the physicians comprising the various medical
associations of this state are now compounded
and sold under the name of Parsons Purga-
tive Pills
The Hickman courier., 1873-07-26

FoR fifteen years | have suffered
from disordered liver; but since used one
package.of Simmons Liver Regulator, to this
day, which IL now several years, have been
a sound man Maj. A. F. woolley, Kingston,
Pennsylvania
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How to Keep More Cows.

E. Bromley, Guilford, Chenango
county, New York, wants to keep more
COWS, and asks if it will pay best to buy
more land at S75 per acre, or hire more
help at so per month and board, and
| commence soiling as a means of in
creasing his herd on a 130-acre farm.
F. d. Curtis would not advise the pur-
chase of more land. Hewould increase
the farm help and adopt soiling. One
man additional to take care of the
stock would be all that is needed. Had
rather have one additional man and the
soiling system than fifty acres more of
land. More land involves more help.
The product may be doubled on 40
acres by soiling, and the stock doubled
without increasing the labor required
proportionately. Would advise to be-
gin slow, and as experience teaches him
perfect and enlarge his system. If he
secures successive crops of clover,
orchard grass, rye, corn, etc., he can
quickly double the products of his dai
ry, and at same time the productive
NdAuc VI HIS he can eQr1Cn his
soil faster than by any other method.
Mr.. Crane agrees with Mr.. Curtis is
in neAaorhood where this soiling
syster Been developed and is prac-
ticed to large extent Men who have
kept but five and ten COWS, now keep
ten and twenty on the same land men
who kept fifty cows with difficulty, now
keep hundred with ease. There is no
doubt about the profits of soiling. The
crop most depended upon for soiling is
corn not sowed broadcast, but in
drills. These men SOW corn every two
weeks, from the time the ground is in
condition up to the middle or Both of
August. 1t doubles up to the ability of
the farm to keep stock, and the soil is
constantly growing richer. DIR. Sylves-
ter called attention to orchards grass as
an early crop for forage in place of clo-
yer. 1t starts in spring and is ready for
cutting much earlier than clover. His |
was headed out this spring four weeks |
from the time the snow left the ground. |
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An ACT OF JUSTICE castle
was sad stumbling block in the path
of Bunyan's Christian, though it
couldn't bar his way to truth. We can
sympathize with the pilgrim, for doubt
always besets us when we are asked to
believe anything particularly extraor-
binary. Con luently, when we heard,
some eighties Rths ago, that ply
sician in ca had compounded,
from the juic extracts of certain
herbs found Zere, medicine that
cured almost very variety of blood
disease, we eeire incredulous. Since
then we have had opportunities of test
ing the accuracy of the report, and are
free to admit that our doubts have van
ished Seeing what we have seen,
knowing what we know, it is impossible
for us to question the remedial proper
ties of DIR. Walkers Vinegar Bitters.
That this famous vegetable tonic, alter
ative, and antiseptic is a specific for
dyspepsia, liver complaint, chronic con-
stipation, fever and ague, bilious inter
mittents, scrofplous taint in the blood,
incipient copS pSAmption, local and gen.
eral debility heumatism, sick head
ache, and disc (kSf the kidneys, seems
to be a matte ad the pale of con-
troversy, fii 8 in medical history.
The statemd u friends, in whose
veracity andv ~ ligence we have full
confidence, cfroborated by our own
personal observation, compel us to adj
NIT the SURPRISING merits of the prepar-
alton
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ENGLAND raised 16, 600, 900 bushels of
wheat century ago, now 100, 900, 900 a
year. How came the increase is suo-
gested in part by the fact that, since
1887, she has imported over $50, ,OOo.-
600 worth of bones, as fertilizers.
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MLDEw ON VNEs.-From investiga-
tions made at the department of agricul-
ture bX Thomas Taylor, who is con-
ductine hcroscopic investigation on
fungoids,o or mildew, we learn that a
preparation of carbolic acid soap, used
as wash, is means of preventing and
destroying these minute parasites. A
solution of sulphuret of lime or carbolic
soap destroys the seedspores. Mr.. Tay-
lor found that the grapes might be
trimmed ever 30 closely, still enough of
the seed is left TO develop rapidly
wherever heat was applied sufficient to
start them into vegetation. It was found
that dry heat developed the European
mildew (Erysiphe TuckerD very rapi-
dly, and that moist heat was favorable to |
the growth of the American mildew |
'Botrytis vilicola). The trimmings and /
caves of vines in grape-houses should
De gathered up and burned, and it ap-
bears that the vines when trimmed
hould be washed carefully with the
olution of sulphuret of lime and car
'olic acid, and thus the spread of mil
lew may be materially checked.
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DIR. j. Walkers CalifOrIA VIM
egar Bitters are a purely Vegetable
preparation, made chiefly from the ma
tive herbs found on the lower ranges of
the Sierra Nevada mountains of Califor-
MIA, the medicinal properties of which
are extracted therefrom without the use
of Alcohol. The question is almost
daily asked. "What is the cause of the
unparalleled success of VINEGAR BIT
TERs?" Our answer is, that they remove
the cause of disease, and the patient re-
covers his health. They are the great
blood purifier and a life giving principle,
a perfect Renovator and InvigoratOr
of the system. Never before in the
history Of the world has n medicine been
compounded possessing the remarkable
qualities of VINEGAR BITTERs in healing the
sick of every disease man is heir 10. They
are a gentle Purgatiye as well as a Tonic,
relieving Congestion or Inflammation of
h;eol.r the Liver and vI.SSIalu = S2us
The Hickman courier., 1873-07-26

Hoe CHo1ERA-Dissolve thoroughly
one pound of copperas in three gallons
of warm water, and apply the wash
by dipping into the solution or rubbing
upon it until the skin is thoroughly wet.
Whenever the skin of the hog begins to
The Hickman courier., 1873-07-26

4 Ta.oR HAMs.-To preserve
- the summer, make a
go a4bson bags, little larger
/ hams. After the hams are
nhlace them in the bags,
a. best kind of sweet, we'll
made hay cut it with knife, and with
your hands press it well around the
hams in the bags; tie the bag with
strings, put on a card of the year to
show their age, and hang them up in
garret or some dry room, and they will
last five years, and will be better
for boiling than on the day you hung
them up. This method costs but little,
and the bags viii last forty years. No
flies or bugs will trouble the hams if the
hay is well pressed around them the
sweating of the hams will be taken up
by the hay, and it will impart fine fla
vor to the hams. The hams should be
treated in this way before the hot
weather sets in Western Rural.
The Hickman courier., 1873-07-26

BEST ASD OLDEST FAMILY MEDIcISE-Sun-
J0rd's Liper InUiGordtoT-a purely vegetable Ca
thartc and Tonic-for dyspepsia, constipation,
debility. sick headache, billions attacks. and all
arrangements OF liver. stomach and bowels. Ask
your druggist for 1t. Beware Of limitations
THE annoyance and disagreea bleness of pimpIes
and blotches on the skin. may be gotten rid of by
using DR.. Jayne's Alternative. safe and rational
for all skin diseases, eruptions, letter, salt
heum, etc.
DIR. SHALLENBERGER's Pills purgative.
They cure every form of fever and ague immedI-
atsly, without sickness or discomfort.
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VTTHEN writing TO advertisers please mention
Wv the name Of this paper. No. 80, =. N. U.
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-four feet high. Then take other laths,
picket one eneh End ehamfer the other
like chisel blade, and interweave
among the Kop wires; then shove the
chamfered edge down beside the top of
the bottom 4aths, tapping under wires
two inches. This makes cheap, dura-
BILE, pretty fence, that is seven feet and
ten inches high, and fowl-tight Wires
should be left some what slack, as in
terweaving the laths will take it up.
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JUDsON FEMALE INSTITUTE.
Marion, Alabama.

TNHIRTY-SIXTH ANNUAL Sl-sSION begins
y Ist OF october. with fun faculty. This is the
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sancy we could be
ne to act we find
provoking word
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10 perSOD can faEHTnpSp

10 II u ffVHa Ns1El tt31AO t1lOl5O HBHOtCI' >
according to directions, and remain long
unwell, provided their bones are not de-
stroyed by. mineral poison or other
means, and vital organs wasted beyond
reDair
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look roughkand,.2 " or of a dark red
color, k{wash Immediately.
Don't pfthe more alarming
symptoms, ring and purging set
in. App9 ,sfe ash every day until the
scales are reno ed. A correspondent
states that th.x lemedy has been tried
repeaedly, = kthout single failure
when the di gre properly fol-
lowed. - CT is worthy of
AN inteH SIX, ON the bursting
of the ski sls1ts exposed to per-
sistent rain recently read before
the Paris y of sciences by M.
Joseph Bo Allt, who finds that
this occurz ne to the diffusion
of water in The absorp-
ton of wats ced by exposure
to to tns the ny kinds Of fruit
wHEa pncy We could be
martyrs s-1shs ne to act we find
we cannot bea provoking word
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Serofula. or Kings Evil, White

N0O1O1O4SJ UI 4A4A1s5 . IF44J
Swellings, Ulcers, Erysipelas, Swelled
Neck, Goitre, Scrofulous Infammations,
1ndoIent Infammations, Mercur;al At
fections, Old Sores, Eruptions of the
Skin. Sore Eyes, etc. In these, as in all
other constitutional Diseases, Walkers
VINEGAR BTrTERs have shown their great
curative powers III the most obstinate
and intracfa hla easez
The Hickman courier., 1873-07-26
For TnfiammatOry and Chronic
Pin, Tape, and other Worms

lurking in the system of so many thousands,
are efectually destroyed and removed. Ne
system Of medicine, no verlnifuges, no an
thelminitics will free the system from worms
lie fhnsn RiffnI.s
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DySnensia or IndipeStiOn n

ache, Pain in the Shoulders, Coughs,
Tightness of the Chest, Dizziness, Sou
Eructations of the Stomach, Bad Taste
in the Mouth, Bilious Attacks, Palpita-
tation of the Heart, Inflammation of the
Lungs, Pain in the region of the Kid
neys, and hundred other painful synp
toms. are the offsprings of Dyspepsia.
The Hickman courier., 1873-07-26

Fever and Ague Cured for 30 Gents.
There IS not a remedial agent IN this world that
will cure fever aud ague and all other maierioas
billions, scarlet. typhoid yellow and other fevers
WAYS READY RELIEF. Flfty Cts per bottle
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FOrtify the body against disease
by purifying all its fluids with VINEG AR
BTrTERs. No epidemic can take hold
of d, ox-c+ar, +t,,,c fora arp,ad
The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1873-06-26

wss fixed that Conviction was inevita-
| ble;" that the "old man instead 81 TAX
ing charge of the King Bridge Works,
would probably take n suit Of rooms in =
large and commodious boarding-hous a
short distance from Lesvenworth, etc. A
contest enacted by such dramatic charsc-
ters AS Butler, Gushing, York and Pome-
roy, with such possible results promised
. rare treat Tor the reporter. Accord.
ingly l directed my course toward the
capital, but my chsgrin can only be i'm
| agined when, on nearing Topeka, dis
covered the ex-senator headed eastward on
q passing train. The case was called,
when Pomeroys attorney asked contin-
uance on the ground that he had been re-
Gently engaged in the case, and bad not
had lime to post himself on the law and
facts. lie stated that tor good and cuff
cent reasons Mr.. Pomeroy mad been COM
PEELED 10 change attorneys. He therefore
begged on the ground Of professional
courtesy that he he allowed further time to
prepare his case. The attorneys for the
state, Messrs. Ryan and Williams, insisted
on an Immediate trial. After an clsbor-
ate ar gument the case was continued, Mr..
Pomeroy being bound in the sum Of
$4,000 Tor his appearance, and the wit
nesses Tor the state in $1,000 each. Thus
ended what might have given a rich re-
por. to the lovers Of the sensational. Be-
fore the decree Of continuance WAS dry
| the ex-senator rusbsd off in haste, not
even giving his friends an opportunity to
congratulate him. II is positively stated
by those who are in close communion with
Pomeroy that he will be q candidate for
the place made vacant by Caldwell. Po-
liticsl under.currents indicate such .
course. Senator York says that Pomeroy
can 60 into the canvass with more posi-
Tive strength this fall than he did last, for
| the reason that q great number OF pr mi
nent and able politicians who were idenii-
| fed with him ct the time of his memors-
able and tragic defeat would now labor
for him with an unwoDted zeal, as an
only means OF restoring them 10 their lost
estate. IL Kansas, which has occupied
the attention of the country from the in
cipiency OF its settlements 10 the present
time, does not propose TO sink into obscur-
ity. She has had her border-ruilians, her
drouth and her famine. She has had her
Iusntrell and her Lawrence massacre.
She has had Jim Lane, Pomeroy, York
and the Blenders and now the forces are
organizing for another grand political
tournament next winter The comba.ant,
in the fray will be the Pomeroy and the
anti-Pomoroy elements. Both parties
will coquette with the Grangers, and the
handful Of Liberals will do little bush.
whacking on both aides.
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80 -777@777-7T--------
JUSTICE TO MIR. CRRDS

lie Chicago Times, in an editorial ar.
ticis reviewing the list Of senator. and
representatives. IN congress who refused
the esck pay, classes the Hon. John NJ.
Crsbs ~ one of the "repentant" Illinois
men. The Times does Mr.. Crebs mani.
fest injustice. He voted agains, the retro
active salary bill cOn,inualiy; at the tim,
OF u" frat introduction he house OF
she tenth Of February onEthe twenty
eighth OF March when a6unotion wa
made in the house TO smend ons Of IN,
clauses OF the appropriation bill, BY in
ssrting provision for increase OF tn,
salary Of members; on the first of Marcel
when three separate votes were taken. tn,
last one OF which WAS final, and whic,
nIsd the salary Of memb ers at 81, thou
sand five hundred dollars a year and re
tsinsd the back pay feature Of tho bill
MIR. Crsbs' record 10 clcsr Oh all the,
votes and he preserved 1t untarnished b,
returning his "back pay at the Garlic.
possible moment after be received i,
We make these statements becsus
simply due to Mr.. Crsbs, aud be
cause the number OF congressman who's
course on the back salary bill 10 equal,
clear and deiensible, 10 lamentably small
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Gov. AusTIS of Minnesota, declines q
gubernstorisl third term on the ground
that il costs him three thousand dollars
more per Annum than his salary to live.
He ought to be able to manage things so
that he could sign back salary bill, and
double hi, own wages. This wonld make
it all right.
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POMEROY.
PULLING WIRES FOR CALD-
WELLS PLACE.

Especial correspondence Of the II. L0uis
Globe.l
TOPEKA, June II, 1879.
disappointment, which is said TO be the
''lot OF man." seems doubly 10 With news.
paper men. Yesterday came here sx-
pscting 70 get . frst-clAss sensation ia the
trial Of Senator Pomeroy on the charge OF
the York bribery. Ithsd been announced
(unotacially) that Ben. Butler and Caleb
Cmhiug would be here TO defend the &C
cussd. u Was also whispered by knowing
opss--fsispds Of York-ibst 'tbs thing
The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1873-06-26

LARoE fires are reported in the prsiries
Of Michigan. Telegraph poles have been
burned, railroad tracks destroyed. Unles.
soon checked by rain, i. i. feared tina, a
repetition Of the distressing and disastrous
scenes Of 1871 will be witnessed.
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neadi.g matter on every psg..

CisciSsATI has comfortable and 70.
assuring way of making up its cholera re-
port. Thus, Tuesdays; Three deaths
from cholera to-day Ten or twelve deaths
from cholera morbus and cholera infAn-
tum to-day.
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Stokes is depressed again, the verdict
in the case Of VIM l.. Sharkey. convicted
OF murder on Saturday last, having had q
bad effect on him He complains that
the close confinement and impure air Of
the prison 10 weakening him. Stokes
misery is certainly long drswnout hang
ing could not be much worse.
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MISCELLANEOUS.

Bt.~ c. Hanny wishes the
public to be informed that he
has on hand a Stock of Dry
Goods and Carpets as cyten.
sivc as any in the Southwest,
and that he is determined to
sell every article at prices
lower than the lowest. Cal
on him to-day and examine
goods and prices. lie will
satisfy you both as TO quality
and cost
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THE CITY NATIONAL
e a N f.
CAIRO. ILLINOIS
CAPITAL, 500, 900
ossicsns:
w.P. HALLIDAY, President:
HENRY l.. HALLIDAY, Vice. President
4. 4. SANFORD, Cashier;
WALTER HYsLoP. A,.l.,tu Cashier.
bTAArs TAYLOR, Rossar X. CuksrNoBAs
HssEr L. HALLiDef. W. p. HALLIDAY,
ESQ. d. Williamson, srsrHES BiRp
A. b. BAsvosp.
Exchange, Coin and United States
BOnds Bought and sold.
POSTS received, and . general baukipg
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Our Home Advertisers.

OuT IlOIIlc huNCitlSciS
HANKS
ENTERPRISE SAVINGS
BANK.
Chartered Msr en- ~. 1855.
CITY NATION L BANK, CAIRO
OFFICERS:
A. b. Stafford, President:
s. TAYLOR, tice.President;
Il. HfSLOP, Secretary and IRE ssurei
P. n. BaAoLAy. CuAs. GAlionsn,
z. u. srockvLsrH, Pau q. scBrB,
X, Il CuSSiSaHAn, N. p, HAILIpA,
J. n. PBiLLips.
Deposits Of any Ameuns Received iron
Tea Cent? Upwards.
INTEREST paid Oh deposits At the rate OF sii
l. per cent. per Annum, Nj arch lat and Septem-
dtately 70 the principal Of the deposits, thereb,
giving them compound interest.
hARRlRD woMRN AND CHILDREN MAY
DEPOSIT MONEY
90 THAT 40 oss RlAa CAN pRAwIY
Open every business day from sam. TO pm,
| and saturday eye .ng tor SAVING Deposit
| oni, RON 70 3 o clock.
suou ". HYsLoP. Treasurer.
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IhE st. Louis Democrat says that St..
LOUIS 10 the hesl,hies, city in the Union
to-day. This is a mistake; according TO
1" population, Cairo is the heAl,hiest
pace IN he Cnli~d States; in coIstsn,
aSnger OF having contagious disease,
Drought to her shores from ST. Louis
above US and Memphis below a sor, o.
way s'A''on for all the pes,ilence.afllc tsd
psaper' OF the Ohio, and Upper and
Lower Mississippi rivers, i; still es
cAPes the visitation of all epidsmics
ana shows uniformly healthy resident
population, unaffected by disease or tn,
fear Of disease.
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An accoun: of the stationery account
OF Mr.. Lowe, member OF congress
from Kansas, 10 going the rounds of the
newspaper press. The account includes
tea, sugar, CASTLE soap, stay laces, lemons
and sal soda, from which it is fair to infer
that Mr. Lowe is high liver. We find
twenty-five hundred pounds Of sugar
among the items Of this stationery ac-
count. There is no getting round the fac,
that Kansas statesmen, Congressman a.
well rs senators, are peculiar.
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Poor BErcHER he has been the vic
tim instead Of the victimizer has been
more sinned against than sinning--he Ia.
been the tempted instead OF the temper.
The over.fond women Of his congregation
have been TO blame for it all, and tina. be
has not fallen long ago, has been due, no,
TO their virtue, but TO his. He 10 hero
and If he will now 60 forward, with John
Wesley's advice to his preachers TO "con-
verse sparingly with women inscribed
on his helmet. lguIatively speaking he
will deserve an sntemor;em statue.
oS last Saturday a week, Frank p
Martin, aged twenty years, was drowned.
IN the Little Wabash river, near Csrmi,'
where be had gone to battle He selected
place near the dam of = mill and when
near the fall, wa. suddenly drawn in and
sank to rise no more. Eight years ago
Two sons OF the same family we're drowned
10 The same stream near Grsyville, tie
elder OF whom sacrificed his own life in an
attempt to save that OF hi. younger
brother, VINO had gone beyond his depth
IL the water.