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The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1874-09-18

The following State committee was
appointed by the Democratic. Opposi.
ton convention, at Springfield, August
&c, 1874
let District, Egbert Jsmesou. Chicsgo
"a Dtsirlct VIM. j OnahAn Cnic,g.
o. District / II o. WiItgn, Chicago
40 D,strict A. 81 Harringt Geneva
6ih District, WIN Wright Preepor,
9th District, j. ). Drske, Rock Inland
7ih Di.,rict, Geo ". Raven. Ottawa
o'h District, Washington T. Cook.
Lacon. '"'
gsb District Chas. p King. Po,,io
lOth District, David l. Head, Cnrthape.
llth District, J. ~ Bush, Pitnnold.
18th District, l. Merritt, Springfield
18Th District John A. Mallory, Havana
( M l4th District j Ii. Busby. Cismpsign.
10th District, N: o. Robinson. Eding.
ham.
lcth District, @ D HOLES, Greenynls
vile.
18Th District, W IL Green, Cairo.
ls!h District, james i Robinson. Olpev
~ Large, n. Is. Miller, Chicago
town, SNa"nee-
At Large, VIM. Brown, Jacksonville
Mr.. Brown was elected Chairman &c
the committee.
= The following Central Committee
was appointed by the Democratic con.
yention Of Alexander county, at Cairo
August %, 1874.
Gear Creek, Thomas j. Mcclure
Gooss leland, o Greenley.
Dog Tooth, N. Hunsscker
msLle"oodi james 4. McCrite
Thebes, q. Rolwing.
Santa fe j, W Renfrow.
Unity, w J. Milford
~ North Cslro j Il MetcalfM u Hsr,ou |
w Halliday and jane C.rrnIl '"''o'' |
south CSiro John Il. Go,tmnn, ], I'M |
"0"'''' ''nn hogan aud DR.. d. Arte,.
The following Central Committee
was appointed BY the Democratic. ljb.
The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1874-09-18

At the Democratic congressional
soavsntion, held at Anaa, September
3, 1874, the following Central Com.
ni,,ee for the Eighteenth d...ric. vs7
appointed
HsSdo.ph, Bevsr!y WILTSHIRE.
Perry, Y. z. R1aner;
WiAsnson, q w. GodGAfi.
jackson, q. " Andrews;
nIon, Hggh a ncrens;
johnson, /. y Pierce;
h.s.sc. J ". Thrift;
Pope, ID. q n ID;
Pulaski, Oosd ki.on;
Alexander, John Il Oner'v.
At Large, Judge Blo.., Cairo.
The following executive committee
FOR Union county was appointed by
the Democratic county convention tina,
met in Ioneseoro, August p, 1874:
Judge N. Z. Crawford;
o II Kroh;
y. II. Hill,
The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1874-09-18

focp every thing pertaining 10
,,ge gf staple and Fancy Grocer
" o9aenware, Ne-etobic., Fruits. {
&c.
The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1874-09-18

The following Central Committee
was appointed By the Democratic. lib.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-07-25
Taking a Lion Alive.

J. B. Baker. of this place, has two boys,
aged about IS and 20 years, living on the
old Chenoworth. ranch on the Ross Noun
tain, five miles above the mouth of Russian
River and about twenty miles on an air
line westerly from Heraldsburg. Some
weeks ago the boys killed large female
panther or California lion thai measured
nine feet from tip TO tip. The week be-
fore last their dogs treed young male
lion, supposed to be one of the cubs. The
boys had heard that Woodward would pay
a good price fer a young California lion,
and they determined to capture the animal
alive. One climbed the tree and threw a
moose over the lions head. After tying
the moose securely, they got another rope
around his hind legs and then lashed him
to pole, lowered him to the ground, and
carried him home alive and unhurt. The
feat was not performed without some risk,
for the lion is about year old and nearly
six feet from tip to tip; but the boys man
aged the capture so well that neither got
hurt except that one had finger slit by
the sharp claw of the BEAST Russian River
Flag.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-07-25
Col. Jerusalem R. Freese's Courtship

One of the celebrities of New Jersey is
Col. Jerusalem RI Freese of Trenaon,
banker, ex-editor, and patron of literature,
the fine arts. fine horses, and finances. A
widow lady lately moved to Trenton, who
had a fine horse, which the Colonel saw
and became desirous of possessing. He
visited the fair ewner, but she would not
part with the valuable animal. The Colonel
being widower, after short reflection,
determined to possess both the fine horse
and the fine lady. He epushed his suit with
such ardor, that in three weeks from the
date of his first visit to see the horse he
and the widow were engaged to be mar
ried. Two days before the time fixed for
the wedding, the Colonel had a carriage
filled with flowers of the choi lest varieties,
and accompanied by his intended, he visit
ed his former wife's grave and decorated
the grounds and the handsome monument
he had erected to her memory, in the most
tasteful manner. The next day the loving
couple in like manner visited another GEM
etery, where they handsomely decked the
grave of the lady'sd dead husband, and after
making these appropriate peace offerings
to the names of their departed loves, the
Colonel and the widow were next day
married, and started on their happy we'd
ding tour. Who but Col. Freeze could do
up thing in style like this ?-Hackensaek
ReDub LicdH.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-07-25

drives the engine used in running the
machine, furnishes the superheated steam,
and dries the peat in its pass age, etc.
The latent heat of the superheated steam
which puts the peat in motion is utilized
in the steam.jaeket around the vat. One
of these machines with a two inch aper-
ture, has been in successful operation dur
ing an entire season. A fragment of its
product has been analyZed by chemists
and found to be an ideal fuel. Practical
men, like the managers of the New York
Central and Hudson River Railroad Com.
pany and the New York and New Haven
Railroad, stand ready to take it at the rate
OF $1,000 tons year, or more, at the rate
of $5 ton. A fuel for locomotives which
has no Stag or cinder and handles easily
is simply invaluable. One of the
largest blast furnaces in the country has
also made an attempt to obtain the use of
this new fuel. AS to the practical work
ing OF the process on large scale, the
plans and drawings for large machines
have been extensively examined by Mr..
Bromley, of the Quintard Iron works. and
he pronounces it s. theoretically and prac-
tically perfect. in written opinion which
he prepared after a long conference with
the inventor. Those familiar with the
product of the ordinary peat machine are
aware that it is a light or dark brown pro-
duct, shading almost to black, spongy,
lighter than water and apt to crumble, and
almost invariably requiring an exposure to
the air or furnace heat before it is suffi-
GENTLY dry for fuel. A fragment of the
new peat fuel is a jet black cylinder, not
easily cut with knife, hard enough to
take polish, showing a clearly defined
cleavage, weighing seVenty-five pounds to
the cubic foot. and containing less than 5
per cent. of water. The best Irish peat
charcoal has 20 per cent. more heating
power than the best Newcastle coal and
100 per cent. more than German coal and
it is the opinion of experts that the new
fuel, from its weight and the preservation
of the volatile compounds in peat, will be
OF equal value, infiammable gases playing
an important part in the reduction of re-
fractory ores. The use of peat in the man.
ufacture of gas has been limited by the
same difficulties which have prevented its
use as fuel. There seems to be no reason
why the new product should not furnish
cheap Illuminating gas.
Geographically peat is one of the most
widely extended ofmodern deposits. Ev-
cry State in the Union has more or less ex-
tensive peat beds. The manufacture of the
new fuel can be carried on at rate which
permits its supply at large profit at So
ton. The new invention has been patent
ed in this country as well as in France,
Germany and Great Britain, and a COM
pany has been formed in this city to begin
manufacturing during the ensuing sum-
mer.-N. Y. World.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-07-25

was thrown from the track, and three of the
cars were turned bottom side up.
A special dispatch to the st. Paul Press
from Pembina. 9Th, says: A party of Sioux
Indians attacked the settlement of St. Joseph
yesterday and killed four persons. Several
children are missing. A company of soldiers
have started for the scene of the massacre,
and volunteer company is organizing.
Indian Agent John D. Miles telegraphed to
Indian Commissioner Smith from Usage City,
Kansas, on the 7th, stating that he had just
arrived from the Cheyenne and Arapahoe
Agency, on the North Fork of the Indian
River, and that hostile Cheyennes, Conan
ches and Kiowas were on the war path, de-
termined, he believed, to clean out all the
white inhabitants. One man, William Wat
kins, had been killed and scalped. thirty miles
south of the Agency, and four miles north of
Bakers rancho four others had been found
lying in the road murdered and scalped, one
of the bodies being badly burned. Mr.. Miles
thought that there were five war parties
moving in the direction of the trail from the
Agency to Caldwell, Kansas. Troops had
been sent from Fort Sill to protect the Agen-
ey, and Mr.. Miles asks that two or three com
panies of cavalry be dispatched Immediately
to protect the inhabitants. The request was
promptly referred to the War Department,
and it was thought that the troops would be
forwarded at once.
A special to the st. Louis Globe, from Kan
sas City, Mo-, states that rancho belonging
to A. C. Myers, of Dodge City, Kansas, loca-
ted on Canadian River, had been attacked by
the Indians and three of their men killed.
The fight lasted three hours, when the Indi-
ans retired, leaving eleven dead on the field.
All of their wounded, and, it was thought,
some of their dead ,were carried away in their
retreat.
Carrie Ostrander died at Syracuse, N. Y,
on the 7th, from injuries received by the fall
ing of the Baptist Church, on June 23d. She
is the fourteenth victim of the disaster.
DIR. ]. r. Jennings, a prominent physician
of Nashville, Tenn, committed suicide at a
hotel at Narragansett Pier, r. l., on the 7th.
Cause not stated.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-07-25
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

By the explosion of two boilers in the saw
mill of Thomas Saylor e Co., at Carrolton,
Mich, on the Both, three men were instantly
killed and several others badly injured.
P. P. Wintermute has been sentenced to
ten years Imprisonment in the Iowa State
Penitentiary at Fort Madison, for the murder
of Gen. McCook, at Yankton, D. T.
Major George Daniels, wife and grandson,
were killed by passing train at Milford,
New Hampshire, on the I'd.
Two servant girls at East Cleveland, Ohio,
were fatally burned few days ago while en-
gagged in replenishing the tank of a gasoline
stove. They lived only few hours.
A Salt Lake dispatch of the Sd says that the
Montana stage was robbed on the previous
night at Big Dry Greek, twenty-four miles
south of Pleasant Valley, by four masked men
armed with shot-guns. The South coach was
stopped first and run into the brush and held
until the North coach came. The passengers
were robbed of their valuables, and Wells,
Fargo g. Co.'s treasure-box was rifed of its
contents.
Over one hundred houses were burned at
Allegheny City, Pa. ,on the 4th, leaving many
families homeless. Supposed to have been
caused by fire-craekers.
A passenger train on the Shore Line Rail-
road ran off the track just after leaving Stony
Creek Station, Ct, on the 9th, causing more
or less injury to lot passengers and instantly
killing Mr.. w. NJ. Wilcox, Superintendent of
the road. The accident was caused, as is al
legged, by the earelessness of the station mas
ter in regulating the switches. The whole
train, with the exception of the locomotive,
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-07-25
COmMERCE ANn INDUSTRY.

The closing price of gold in New York, on
the 9th, was 110.
The Secretary of the Treasury has issued
the following circular, which is of interest to
all bond-holders: Hereafter the books of the
registered five per cent bonds authorized by
acts of Congress, approved July IA, 1870, and
Jan. 20, 1871, will be closed for the prepare
ton of interest schedules as follows: The
books embracing registered stock of the loan
of July II, 1870, and Jan. so, 1871, held in the
United States, viii be closed on the evenings
of the 18th of January, April, JHly and Octo-
Der, and reopened fer the transfer and ex-
change of stock on the mornings of the first of
February, May, August and November fol-
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-07-25
AN Eastern railroad company has a ne.

AN Eastern railroad company has a pc
culiar way of reforming conductors who
may be suspected of practieing Addition,
Division and Silence. It was discovered
recently that one had purchased some real
estate in New Haven, and was having plans
drawn for fine residence. The President
of the road sent for him, complimented
him on his excellent service as conduc-
tor. and told him in fiattering terms that
he had been promoted to the position of
ticket agent, with an increase Of $25
month in salary. The conductor could
not, of course, refuse, and has since faith
fully filled the position of ticket agent.
But he has had no use for those plans.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-07-25
An English writer reports that dive

AN English writer reports that divers
residents at Cambridge University have
been making experiments with a singu-
larly inappropriate sort of food. So far
from sharing Miss Betsey Trotwood's
prejudice against donkeys, they have dis
covered those amiable animals TO be every
thing an epicure could desire. Their
vefiict is that roast donkey looms up
loftily, even above beet, that there is a
slight suggestion of venison about 1t, and
that the under-cut is simply superb. Al
together he is pronounced delicious. An
other strange contribution to the dinner
tables of the race is recorded in the cutie
fish. brother of Victor Hugo's monster,
which is quite marvel when it is steWed
into gelatinous mass spicily favored by
Roman cook.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-07-25

A NEW air machine was lately put into
operation in the British House of Com
mons. By means of this apparatus con-
slant supply of air, cooled to any required
dogree, even in the warmest weather. can
be supplied at the rate of from $4,000 TO
10000 gallons per minute. The house
contains about 100000 gallons of air, so
that when the apparatus is working at its
maximum, it is possible to renew the air
" thout sensible draught every ten min
utes,
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-07-25
POETRY.
BABY OR BIRD?

: But is he a Baby or a Bird 90
Sometimes fancy do not know;
HIS voice is as sweet as ever heard
Far up where the light leaves blow.
Then his lovely eyes, l think, would see
AS clear as Birds in the upper air;
And his red-brown head, il seems to me,
Would do for BIRD to bear
- II he were Bird, - you wisely say,
He would have some wings to know him by y:''
An, ne has wings, that are flying away
Forevtr-how fast they iyi
They are flying with him, by day, by night;
Under suns and stars, over storm and snow,
These fair, fine wings, that elude the sight,
In softest silence they CO.
Come, kiss him as often as you may
hush, never talk of this time next year,
For the same small Bird that we net To dsy
Tomorrow is never here!
Mrs. PIATT.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-07-25

lowing. All stock issued on exchanges and
transfers between the 10Th of January, April,
July and October and the first days of the
succeeding months will bear interest from
February 1, May 1, August or November l,
as the case may be-"
The Comptroller of the Currency has called
upon the national banks for report, exhib-
iting their condition at the close of business
on Friday, the 25th of June.
The Freedmen's Bank of Memphis has sus-
pended.
The UniorPacifc and Central Pacific Rail-
roads have re-established the second-class
fares that were taken off two years ago. The
price by second-class express train from Oma-
ha to San Francisco, Sacramento, Stockton,
Marysyille and Lathrop is $75; to Cheyenne,
$25: to Ogden, $50; to Salt Lake, $62.
The New Orleans, Jackson and Great
Northern, and the Mississippi Central Rail-
roads have been consolidated, and will here
after be known as the New Orleans, st. Louis
and Chicago Railroad.
Baltimore celebrated the opening of the
ship channel between that city and Chesa-
peake Bay, on the I'd.
1uC EI6cuAlcIS Dduh dL w dSuAuSUOu HAS
finally gone into liquidation.
The Minnesota Railroad Commissioners
appointed under the recent legislative act of
that State have prepared schedule for
freight and passenger tariff. The usual
local passenger fare has been 5 cents per
mile. This rate the commissioners reduce to
or 4 IL cents per mile on the Iowa and
Minnesota division of the Milwaukee
and st. Paul Railroad and to 1-2 cents
on the river division of the same road. The
general manager of the Sioux City and St.
Paul Road, alluding to the official schedules
says: "We cannot run cheaper the trains
which have been run, nor have we any reserve
to pay expenses not earned. If the people on
the line of the road are unwilling to pay old
prices for transportation, first-class passenger
trains will be discontinued and such accom-
modations will be given to passengers as can
be given at four cents mile"
Following is recapitulation of the public
debt statement, July l.:
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-07-25
POREIGy.

A Halifax dispatch of the Both says there
was heavy fall of snow on Cape Breton
Island the day previous.
A letter from the coast of Sunatra, under
date of April 10, recently received In New
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-07-25

IT is a criminal offense in France for
young lady to have in her possession q
photograph of the Prince Imperial,
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-07-25

A national convention of book publishers
and sellers is to be held at Put-in-Bay OF July
2I-23.
The freight agents of the Erie, New York
Central, and Pennsylvania railways, have
adopted new schedule Of freight rates, on
the basis of 80 cents per hundred pounds from
Chicago to New York, being an increase on
the present schedule.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-07-25

Peat Turned into Camel Coal i'm
Thirty Minutes A LOng-VexedP Prob
lem Solved at Last--If is Promised
I'm Abundance at So Ton.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-07-25
The Iowa Republican Platform.

We, the representatives of the Republi-
can party of the State of Iowa, in conven-
ton assembled, do adopt the following
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1874-08-04

Laura Fan has gone to Japan to
shoot the Nlikado.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1874-08-04
PiTH0lE.
A City that Grew Fast and Died Quickly
lBosion Paper j

lnoston teFctsl
II is not only individuals who have
suddenly increased in prosperity
and rs suddenly gone down into moth
ingness; there are arc cities OF which
the same can be said. such n one is
Pithole City, Pa. Within one month
from the completion Of 'he first house
this city had telegraph office and a
hotel. costing the owners $4,000. In
one month more there was daily paper
established. and in the next theater;
in another month another theater. and
then an academy OF music. In six
months there were seyenty-four houses
and boarding-houses; in the seventh
month the city had reached its highest
prosperity. Il had then about $1,000
inhabitants, elaborate water works, u
city hall and an expensive city govern
ment. Then occurred the completion Of
labor saving enterprise, the so-called
Miller Farm Pipe Line. by which the
petroleum was sent OF independenden'
Of the laboring population. At once
1000 persons were thrown out OF en-
ploymsnt. while 1900 houses became
useless; this was the death blow to Pit
hole City. At once the hotels. the
theatres and the telegraph Office were
closed. and the daily paper gave mp its
ghost, while almost every one packed his
trunk and moved out. Only nine fam
lilies remain out Of a population Of To-
900 souls while the railroad from Pithole
and oieopolis runs only one train day.
consisting Of locomotive and single
car. which usually is empty; but the
company il obliged to keep running.
otherwise the charter for the road would
be lost. They still hope against hope
for better times for that unfortunate
city, which, in only soven months, was
born. full grown. got sick and died. Un-
doubtedly this is case unparalleled in
history, modern or ancient, and neither
Egypt nor Greece can give examples OF
such rapid changes.
Laura FAN has gone to Japan to
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1874-08-04
PLIGHrED.


aTvo souls with bat q single thousht,
To hearts that beat a. on~."
60 ,..t,.
NhlA, '"qai'a''
Blsss my hearth feu'rs come at last.
Awful glad 10 go you. dear
Thought yoa'd died or sonsthing. belle
such an ags sinoe ysn We been hers'
N sngAssmsntl 0acisas f~
Rnfnors hi the marx this tine.
And the victimf charisy Gay.
Know him, don't yos Well. he's prime
Such mustAehiosi Splendid style!
Then he's rot % horrid fAst.
waltres like q ssrAph. toe,
Has some f0rtuns-best and hst.
Love hlmt Nonsenss. Don't "son.
Pretty mneh as love now goes;
He's devoted, and In time
IN get ussd To him. .'poss.
First lovsl Humbu., Don't lax STUN
Belle Brown. dsn't BE . fool
Next you'll rave Of asme- ans dsts'
Like chit At bosrding,-SnooL
Dou't be miffes, | talked Jut 50
ssme two ysars hack. ract. my asAri
But i've seasons XIII rsmanes,
Lave ones visws of life cutie clear.
Why. IN VIII LAtrobe had Asked
Whsn he lsft. two ysAfs ago.
I'd have thrown up All ans gone
Out 10 kansAs, do yeu knowf
Fancy me . ssttlsrs wusil
Blsst escape. dear, rn u net'
Yes, it's hardly In my hne a
To snaet Lave ~ Acot
The New York herald., 1874-11-11
HELP wANTED-FEMALEs.

A GREAT REDUCTION IN TELEGRAPHY- -
IN Chance for men, women. boys, girls TO earn tcie.
graphy at half rates. reduced to so tor few days;
taught practically, with instruments, day or evening
THoMPsoN's College, 20 ith av., opposite Cooper nsf-
The New York herald., 1874-11-11

hOE "A BUSINESS LADY WITH THIS AMOUNT
pLsJ. Of capital $50 weekly all winter at
home, In a respectable light business. Apply at lH
Second avenue basement belly.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1874-12-24

The WEEK OF PRAYER.-The Evanreli-
cal Alliance of the United States has ia
sued the following programme for the
annual week OF prayer. beginning Monday.
Jan. 4th:
Monday. Thanksgiving and confession.
Review of the past: Thanksgiving for H..
varied mercics. humiliation for personal
and national sins. Prayer for Gods bless
ing in the future.
Tuesday. National objects for PRAYER
For civil government and all its authority :;
tor the increase of intelligence. the pnrili-
Gallon OF public opinion. and the spread of
free Institutions throue hout the world.
Wednesday. Home objects for PRAYER.
-For parents and children. teachers and
guardians, for schools and colleges: for
the Christian ministry; for the Young
Mem Christian Associations and SUNDAY
schools.
Thursday. Foreign objects OF PRAYER
The extension OF religious liberty through.
out the world; the prevalence Of peace
among nations; the increase of unity
among Christians of all lands; the subor-
dlnation OF international intercourse. cam.
merce and science, TO the spread of Christ's
Kingdom.
Friday. Prayer for religious revival
For the churches throughout the world
for their increase in zeal. spirituality and
devotedness, and for a clearer witness for
the truth among them.
SATURDAY. Missionary objects for pray
er.-For the conversion of the Jews; for
the deliverence of nations from super-
sttion, and for the conversion OF the world
10 Christ.
Sunday. A general meeting in the even
ing. Addresses by ministers OF various
denominations. Closing exercises.