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The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1873-03-08

A RESOLUTION to tho effect that the
state bear the expenses of tho defendants
in the suits brought against tho Chicago
and Alton railroad, was introduced in the
house aud referred to the judiciary com.
mittee with instructions to report imms.
distely.
The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1873-03-08

Gov. BEvERrpoE has approved the bill
relating to collection of taxes and sale Of
real estate for non.payment Of taxes, in
!, cities in counties not under township Or
ganisation.
The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1873-03-08

deleful ditty called "we're a Band Of
Brothers,"
IN IMITATION or THE HuTcH1Nsos
The originals were not among US, bu.
the song and gesticulations with which it
was enhanced were 30 frightfuiIy absurd
that II had a great success. Mak,os
our way through the crowd
and through tho loungers collected
in the red and green drawing room, we
came into the East Room, where my first
glmpSe was the back view Of a little man
being violently shaken hands with. When
my turn cnmc my conductor advanced ana
ssid few words of introduction. The
president Ut was the president, though
his beard was grayer than in his portraits
and he had not cigar in his mouth, as
In his caricaturcs) was polite enough TO
say that he knew me we'll by name, and
gave mo his hand to shake,
HOW the PRESIDENT SHAKES HANDS
They say that President Lincoln used
to grippe the hands of his visitors until
they screamed for mercy. Gen. Grants
haud.shske is Of very different kind.
He places In yours soft yielding hand;
II may be the main de fer ddns ic CANT de
rdteours, but 1t 10 supple and delicate. A
few more pleasant speeches and my inter-
view 10 at an end. With it terminated
tho general audience, and tho president,
with one hard In tho hind pocket OF his
coat and the other on the small of his
back, was merged In the crowd.
The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1873-03-08

PeoRrA Is laboring msnfully h the
work Of getting ready for the state fair.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1873-07-26
Honorary Degrees.

In this annual shower Of college hon
ors, requiring as regularly, brilliantly
and certainly as the meteoric manifesto
tons of November, It IS quite common
for the wits, both secular and clerical, to
make merry over the event. The distrib-
lltion Of these honors has indeed been so
frequently made without regard to merit,
that the ridicule heaped upon the practice
has had too much Justification. The dis
pensationl of college honors has never
sunk to SO low q point in. this country as
in the older countries Of Europe, Where
they weresfornlerly made an article Of
merchandise, and sold. to any one who
wished to pay the moderate fee required.
Perhaps ritiiculess more than argument
suppressed this traffic. s.s. g.4 i
A German divine, who had been decor
ated with title, sent to the University a
request that the same degree might be
conferred upon his. horse; to which he
received the reply that there was no pre-
oedent for. bestowing the honor upon
horse, though the University had in one
case given il 70 an ass. - ''@
Such jests hape served to. bring unle-
served honors into disrepute, and so far
they are well. It IS better to pass hone st
merit without notice than to confer honor
upon mediocrity or dulness. But we do
not subscribe t6 the sentiment now fire.
quently EXPRESSED that these honorary
distinctions are distributed with too great
frequency; we DO not believe It to be a
merit In any ,coalege to be able to say
this year, or years in succession, that no
honorary degrees have been conferred. 1t
is the preroeatiyeof Chartered College
to confer Degrees. THESE, are Of two
kinds: those conferred after the sexami-
nation of the candidate and those called
Honorary. The latter are supposed to
be as really obtained by merit as the for
mer; the only difference being that in the
latter case merit must be. 80 conspicuous
as to become a recognized fact without a
special examination into the qualifications
OF the candidate. Y. Observer. .F's.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1873-07-26

The San Francisco Arizona Mormon
Mission, projected by Brigham Young,
has proved a disastrous failure, and the
colonists are returning to Salt Lake.
The steamer Tigress sailed, on the even
ing of July IA, from the Brooklyn Navy
Yard, on her voyage in search of the Po-
laris.
The State Department is informed by
cable telegram from Gen. Sickles that the
Spanish government has issued decree
repeating all embargoes, and ordering the
immediate restoration of all property
heretofore seized for political offenses in
Cuba.
Two cases of cholera we're reported ut
Cleveland, Ohio, and two at Peoria, ILL.,,
on July ID. ...... ..
Another severe storm has visit. Ohio.
Great damage has been done to crops, and
seve al D rsons have been killed by light
ming The Southern & Ashtabula and
Youngstown & Pittsburgh Railroads have
suffered greatly in the washing away OF
tracks and embankments, and trains On
these roads have ceased running.
A unfic.tion mass me. ting was held in
New Orleans. on the iyht # July Is, at
which the Beauregard resolutions were
! adopted.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1873-07-26
A Fearful Death.

A LETTER from IOnia, Mich, gives the
following details of the death OF LA Noun
tain. the aeronaut, who made an ascension
mt that place on the Fourth: When fully
half mile from the earth, and when the
whole structure looked no larger than
hogshead, the balloon slipped between the
ropes and was instantly inverted. The
car and its occupant dropped like shot,
with most terrific velocity, the unfortu-
nate man clinging o the basket. That ne
was conscious, was evident from his strug-
gles. He struggled to raise the basket
above him. evidently intending to use IL
as o parachute. He succeeded in his OBJ
iect. but when about one hundred feet
hioh he loosed his hold folded his hands
and arms before his face, and hlsfeet first
struck the ground with dull, heavy
,hud. Then ensued panic and uproar
ia the crowded multitude. Women faint
ed. strong men wept, and the canvas came
tlyins over the crowd like huge bird.
some one cried out to. get out Of the way,
as Fl would fall with crushing force.
Then the cry was taken up, and a general
rush made for safety, in which many were
more or less injured. La Noun ain was
crushed into a literal pulp. Medical ex-
animation discovered the fact that hardly
whole bone was left. Many were ground
and splintered to powder. His jaws fell
on his arms, and were pulveri7ed. ine
corpse was laid out and placed IN the putt
lie square. where it was viewed by thou
sands during the afternoon, and sent 70
his home at Brooklyn, Mich, the follow
inp 1av
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1873-07-26
The Shakers.

THE spirit of revolution has seized upon
the gentle Shaa ers. and threatens to make
havoc of their precept and practice: Dur
ing and after the war they recruited their
numbers from widows and orphans, and
those whom battle had Impoverished, but
now theirareso,irces are at an end and
some of their colonies are threatened with
extinction. AS rule, new converts do
not stay with them longer than four OF
five years. Then the iron hand OF re
straint grows too severe, and they hy
back to the world and it's temptations.
How can it be otherwisef In their 'sfam-
ilies'' the domestic ties are unknown,
marriage is banished, and little children
are made to ape the gravity of their eld-
ers. There are no toys and picture books
in Shaker land, no fireside games and
frolies, no courtship ana alarriag age--notf1-
ing but the grim, severe doctrine OF self
abnegation. Hence it has come to pass
that some of the colonies are think
ing seriously of introducing marriage as
a new element Of union in their warfare
with the world OF course 1t will pro
duce charge in their line Of doctrinal
defense. but they will not be the first re-
ligious body that has accommodated It
self 10 circumstances. And other limo
vations may follow. A married Shaker
ess may even rebel against coal-scutt1e
bonnets and white caps, and mav compel
her husband to accept the situation and
surrender at discretionary Y. Graphic.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1873-07-26
Tribute to Water.

PAUL DENTON, Methodist preacher IN
Texas, advertised barbecue, with better
linuor than is usually furnished. When
tho neople were assembled, desperado IN
the crowd walked up to him and crieo
out: g.-tA 1a ,;oa
Mr.. Denton, your reverence mas lled.
Won promised not only good barbecue,
Init better liquor. Where's the liquor =
& There answered the preacher, IN
tones Of thunder = and .pointlng ms n'v, -,
tionless finger at. spring gushing up m
two strong columns, with q sound nke M a
shout Of 10y. from the bosom OF the EARN.
There . he repeated. 'there is the
1inuor which God the. Eternal brews Tor
ali his children. Not ip the slmmerlng
still. M over the smoky fires: choked Win
nniso,fo1ts gases, surrounded with stench
pf s;ckening odors and corruptions, doth
vour Father in Heaven prepare ene p,ec-
ious essence ofiife-pnre. coh' wSter, oaa
in the green glaae and grassy dell, wht n
the red deer Wanders and the chiid ,oVes
fo,play. There God breWs IT,; and DOWN
low down in the deepest valleys, WAIT
the fountain murmurs and the rllis7 s,hg
md h on upon The mountain tops, "hsr'
M rhe naked granite glitters like gold Il tht
s,n where the stUrm.ctoud bfOods aht
rbe thunder-storrns crash; and tar ou' OH
,h.. wide, wild ,ea. where the hurficaLe
howls music. and the big waves rolls tnt
chorus. sweeping the march Il Gn'
there he breWs !, the beverage u nie-
health-giving water.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1873-07-26
The Paper Collar.

ONE Of the satldest cOmings home is
when the husband and father comes home
to put on a paper collar. The last collar
has resolvedinto pulpy rolls and come up
back of his ears Or disappeared within the
recesses of his hair. The shirt band is
moist and helpless and inclined to roll un-
der. carrying the back button with it.
His neck is wet and slippery, and all the
windows are down, and the door is drawn
to. BY the time he has found the back
button aud got the collar hitched to it, it
seems as II the air was about to stifle him,
and as if he would suddenly melt and
spoil the carpet. q. He sends up the win
dows with snap, and kicks the blinds
open with his foot, and brings that door
back with a velocity that almost scares It.
Then he goes to work to fasten one OF the
ends. and while he Is at it the back button
hole suddenly melts and dissolves. He
fries another collar. Gets the back and
one end fastened, com mences work at the
other end, and is almost intoxicated with
his success, when the first end couapses.
He sits down a few moments before try
ing the third collar, and wishes he really
knew if there is future punishment, and
wonders where his wife IS. Then he
makes another trixl with similar results,
and finally dashes ou5 of the house, say
ing that If he had nothing more to DO than
gaa'dine with the neighhors he would
make col !ars that his hu band could wear.
Fortunately his wife is next door learn
ing A new crochet stitch, and does ut
hear him.-Danbury Nesos. -.,gr,. tf
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1873-07-26
& A ndggaassgr gl.,, j Il M asaEt T. !;

"And ~ evsry'thefs ssr.'kh S It iss isath thing Of life
and beauty-gleahihfg gsin the dew-srop |;
i iingtisbg gtssg I jss taRRfr N rel 5s!n trs shIpiag
seem turned W living Jewels; spread
ing a sgoldenrteil over the sun, or
a white ganAssa around the - mid.
night moons aportsng in the glacier :;
folding its bright snow curtain softly
many -co1ored, boww. whose warp is the
rain-drops Of earth, whose woof is the
sunbeam of Heaven, oil checked over with
the tfy ystic haffd ofrefraetion. }}
a'.Still 1t is 't1eautifuI--that t blessed life
waterl No poisonous bubbles are on its
brink tits foam brings not madness and
mprder; no blood stains its liquid glass;
pale Widowsand starving orphans weep
not burning tears IN its depths; no drunk
ards shrinking ghost from the grave,
cursesit in the world Of eternal despair
Speak out my effiendsls Would you ex-
change it for the. demons drink, alco-
hOl Tf' '*s5 p 3sss@7s'Sss'5 s8 2if *f=
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1873-07-26
Milk as Medicine.

The London Milk Journal says, on the
authority of DR.. Benjamin Clarke, that
in the East Indies warm milk fs used to
great extent as specific for diarrh9a.
A pint every ,ur hours will check the
most violent diarrhpa, stOmach-ache, In
cipient cholera, and dyentery. l'he
milk should never be boiled, but only
heated sufficiently to be agreeably warm,
not too hot to drink. Milk which has
been boiled is unfit for use. This writer
gives several instances to show the value
of this substance in arressing this diseare,
among which is the following. The writ
er says: cit has never failed 10 curing in
six or twelve hours, and / have tried it,
l should think, fifty times. 1 have Also
given it to dying man who had been
subject to dysentery eight months, latterly
accompanied by one continual diarrhtPa,
and it acted on him like CHARM In
two days his diarrhea was gone, in three
now nothing that may hereafter occur
will ever shake his faith in hot milk. A
writer also communicates to the Medical
Times and Gazette statement Of the val
ue Of milk in twenty-s six cases of typhoid
fever, in every one Of which the great val
ue was apparent. It checks diarrhna,
and nourishes and cools the body. Peo-
pie suffering from disease require food
quite as much as those in health, and
much more so in certain diseases where
there is rapid waste Of the system. Ere
quently all ordinary food in certain dis
eases is rejected by the stomach, and even
loathed by the patient, but nature, ever
benefcent, has furnished food that in
all diseases is beneficial-in some directly
curative. Such food is milk. The
writer in. the journal last quoted, DR..
Alexander Yale, after giving particular
observations upon the points above men-
toned, viz: its action in checking diar-
rhea, its nourishing properties, and its
action in cooling the body, says: "We
believe that milk nourishes in fever, pro-
notes sleep, wards off delirium, soothes
the intesrines. and, in fine, is the sine qua
non in typhoid fever.' We have also late
ly tested the value of milk in scarlet fever,
AMI learn that it is now recommended by
| the medical faculty in al Cases of this
often very distressing childrsn's disease.
Give all the milk patient win taxi, even
during the period OF ereatess fever; i,
keeps up the strength of The patient, acts
well upon the stomac", ID is in every
| way a blessed thi g in This sickness.
|
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1873-07-26
Miscellaneous Selections.
RARsov t,AEDwEtt11.. !. e09F 3 spR1Ne-
-..u FIELD. ". J.. .,.3. .,'t 3...+.,...s,.
mAUE sFA.t=@N
By BRET HARTE.


Here's The SPOT. Look x, around, you, Above on
Lay The Hessans encahped. Bythat church on
s'ood n s''e saant Jersey farmers. And here u, .
as snyySsss rns.es ana .ye yen turn see
Pretty much rs they did ninetv-threee vears
Nothing, , more g. ns.ra ,sd say Say one moment;
OF Caldwell, the parson. who once preached the
Down as sprineatld9 ? What, yo7 con,s1 shst, s
bad; why, he hal -
All t,e. Jerseys af'ame! And they gave him the
Of the a. rebel high priest . He stuck in their
For ne loveathe Lord eod-ana he hatet, X ling
George! -
He had cause, you might say, when the Hes
wi Win TX they stopped On
Alta . Farms, :" where his wife with, i child in
Sat alone in the house. How 1T happened none
Wh3 fired the shot! Enough There she Law -
And Caldwell, the chaplain, her husband, away
stand tf4t-5E&SE s-s}EE =
By the old church to-day; think of him and that
band
Of militant plowboys' see the smoke and the
Of that reckless atlvsnce-of that struggling re-
Keep the ghost of that wife, foul,y slain in your
view -...fses -IE :, H.
And what could .yeu-what should you, what
would you do? st -.s.,g = -
Why, inst what he did They were left in the
For the want Of more walding. He ran to the
church, EEfFffAa 80 '777t 20 ~
Broke t the i, d9or e stripped the pews, ana daasd
with his arms fun Of hymn-b books, and threw
At their feet! Then, above oil the shouting and
shots.
Rang his voice. Put Watts into 'em-Boys
.HsEFsSS = sESEEs s-1's g~sF.
And they did. That is all. Grasses spring. 1ow-
Pretty much as they did ninety.three wears ago
fon may dig anywhere and you'll turn up
But not always hero like this-and that's all.
N. 7. Tribune.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1873-07-26
NUMBER A., :

An injunction was served on the Attain
tic & Pacific Railroad Co. on July IA,
at New York, restraaing.it It from paying
the dividends due on July 15, On thest0ck
Of the Pacific Railroad of Missouri, which
road it has leased in perpetuity. -
News from, Abroad.
The Carlists have captured the town Of
San Goess, in Maverra, Spain, and shot
the tax collector. Gen. Nouvillas has re-
signed as Commander in Chief Of the
army, Gen. Cordova succeeds. ssn
A dispatch from Breslau says violent
type Of cholera has appeared in that city.
There have been eighteen cases, Of which
fourteen proved fatal. The disease has
also appeared in neiehboring cities, and
fears are expressed that It may become
epidemic in Prussia.
The second installment OF the last mil
lard Of war indemnity having been paid,
the Germans are retiring from the depart
ments of the Vosges, Ardennes, Me1se
and Neurthe, and the fortress and arron-
disement Of Be1fort, France: sss. -
O'Kelley is said to have arrived at Mad
rid, Spain, and obtained his liberty under
guarantee of the British Legation.
A marriage has been arranged between
the Duke of Edinburgh and the Grand
Duchess Maria, onlydaughter Of the En-
peror of Russia. .rs6. i'-st"I tsi"z
Reports have reached Bayonne, Spain,
that the Carlist Chief, Saballos, with 8, 900
men, surprised 1000 Republicans under
Gen. Cabrinety, near Ripoll that Cabrin-
ETY. was killed, one half his command
taken prisoners, and all his artillery cap
tured. @i.1 .t'a t~'S+ = .hf5
The Madrid Imparcial says: The inter
/ the authorities, shot the Mayor, burned
sixty houses, and are now besieging the
civil guards and volunteers, who had TAX
en- refuge in the town-hall.. They hold
number of prominent citizens as host
ages, and threaten to shoot them It troops
attack the town from outside.
A Berlin dispatch, of July II, says:
The permanent retirement of Bismarck
from the Rrussian Cabinet, announced
some months ago, is ON the eve OF ac-
complishment. He will retain the Ger
man Charcellorship. Won Balen, it is
reported, will be Minister of Foreign At
fairs.
At Lindsay, Ont, on the morning of
July IL, carpenter named Carpenter,
shot and instantly killed q Mrs. Hopewood,
because she objected to his accompanying
her niece to neighboring village.
+ A Havana letter states that two entire
Spanish reginants are in revolt against
the Captain General. .e@9fs
A heavy rain storm, accompanied by
lightning swept over Y yorkshire, England,
on July IA. The crops were greatly dam
aged and several persons were killed.
Twelve thousand rifles for the Carlists
have been landed near Requieto, Spain: 1t
is said that Don Carlos will soon re-enter
Spain and take personal command of his
forces in the field. .7s.5.gg sI
The rinderpest is so general and de-
structive among the herds Of Russia that
the German authorities have deemed it
necessary to prohibit all importations' OF
cattle from Russian ports. -.
Il A disastrous accident occurred on the
! Caledonian Railroad, England; on july
q Is, by which two persons were kiiledout'
right and thirty injured, some OF them ia
: tally, ...-
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1873-07-26

In wonder all philosophy began; in
won.4er it ends; aud admiration ii ls up
the interspace But the first wonder is
The offspring Of ignorance; the last is the
narent OF alteration.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1873-07-26

IT ia not until the flower has fallen II
th It tht. fruit begins to ripen. SO III l r..
il i, when the romance Is past that the
practical usefulness begins.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1873-07-26

How to kill Old ilme-Tsk- him by the
forelock, and, as he has no other, you've
got him sure,
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1873-07-26

An injunction was served on the Attain
tic & Pacific Railroad Co. on July IA.
at New York, restraiaing-it from paying
the dividends due on July 15, On aest0ck
of the Pacific Railroad of Missouri, which
road it has leased in perpetuity.
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1873-09-18

Cousin SALLY DILLARD.-Many have
heard the story Of Cousin Sally billiard
and Captain Rice he gin treat. Here
is the upshot,of it:
Yes, gentlemen. Well, Captain Rice,
he gin treat, and Cousin Sally billiard
came over to our house and axed me if
my wife she moutn't go! 1 told cousin
Sally. billiard that my wife she was
poorly, being as how she had the rheu-
mates in her hip; and the big swamp
was up; however, as. it was she, cousin
Sally billiard, my wife she mout go. |
told cousin Sally Dillard as how Nose
was the foreman OF the crap, and the
crap was smartlyin the grass, however,
Is it was she, cousin Sally billiard,
Nose he mout go. So they goes on to-
gether, Nose, my wife and cousin Sally
Dillard,~ and they came to the big
swamp, and. it was up as l was telling
you; but being as how there was a big
log across the big swamp, cousin Sally
billiard and Nose like .genteel folks,
they walked the log, but my wife like
a burned old fool, she hoisted her coats
and waded through
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1873-09-18

/HoRRIFIED.-A Sacramento editor re.
ceived an invitation to a fashionable
party, having on the bottom of the card
the customary Il. S V. p (Respondez
s'U uous plnaj. He sent back his card
with the initials, d. S. c. G., chuckling
to himself, 81 am not educated, but
when it comes to tone am there" The
recipient of this note was Mortified to
learn that the initials of regret, trans
lated, were: I'D sorry can't come"
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1873-09-18

A BERRY SroRY.-A celebrated com
edian arranged with his green grocer
one Berry, to pay him quarterly; but
Berry once sent in his account before
the quarter was due. Thereupon the
comedian, in great wrath, called upon
the grocer and said to him: 81 say,
here's pretty muN, Berry; you have
sent in your bill, Berry, before it is due,
Berry. Your father, the elder Berry,
would not have been such a goose,
Berry; but you needn't look SO Nue,
Berry, for | don't care st,a,r Berry;
and if you come again before June,
Berry, I'll kick your ,usp Berry, until
it is black, Berry.
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1873-09-18

WIRE NEcErtrs Stephen Girards
will prohibited tclergymen from ever
entering the doors Of Girard College.
Ala recent visit of the Knights Tenn
plar of Boston to the institution, one of
the knights, well.known physician,
who, wears q necktie, was passing in,
when the janitor accosted him, saying,
'"You can'tpass in here, sir, the rules
forbid it., .The h-l 4 can't!n replied
the physician. "Ah right, sir. fejoined
the janitor, "pass right in"
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1873-09-18

AN Allegheny lumberman started out
travelling with trunk made Of halfinch
boiler iron, and inscribed upon " the
foliaWi1g touching lines to the baggage
snasher: Throw and lie damned. -. -