The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1874-12-13
pQNGOLA.


The growing wheat crop In this vi
cinity looks well, and the farmers are
elated with the prospect of another
bountiful harvest.
John Holshouser has hung ont big,
fancy sign over his store door, so that he
that runneth may read. 1t Is new store,
new sign. and new goods. Business lively.
Another car load of sweet potatoes
went hence to Chicago on the 9Th inst.
The car was lined with straw, and pro-
vided with a stove, fuel, and a stoker.
This was the third car load that has gone
forward with heating attachment.
Joshua Wright killed two hogs, half
breed Poland-China, a little over a year
old, and weighing respectively 35l and
1853; worth, at market price, about 500.
The strangeness of the matter Is, that
they cost him less than ten dollars for
feed. Who, in the hog-raising business,
can beat these profits?
Since the transit OF venus and the
change Of the moon, the roads are becom-
ing good again, and grain hauling, wood
hauling. tie hauling, and hauling in gen.
eral, Is the order of the day. Several
pieces Of timber, forty-two feet long and
a foot square, have been brought I'm for
shipment to Chicago; and lot Of black
walnut knots, for st. Louis.
| -Lontz & Benton distributed some
strychnine In their warehouse for the
benefit Of the rats. a dog found some OF
1t and became very sick. An Irishman
undertook to dose him with oil, but the
patient died on his hands about as sud.
denly as the snakes and toads disappeared
from Ireland under the magical wand o.
lSt. Patrick. "Begorra, be went
lquickly," was the Irishman's verdict.
The railroad company have yer,
generously made large reduction on thu
rate for tlour barrels hence to Cairo; ant
: the coopers appreciate tive favor. They
will 90 to work with renewed energy AN,
increase the production ina correspond
ing ratio. Cairo will buy all that on
five shops can turn out, and they ca
turn out great many Of them. Tn
dulcet notes OF the adze and driver ar
henceforth TO be our music.
g "A longing for the old home of thel
z younger days, induced Jacob Smoot an
!. his sons, John and Aleck, to return wit
s their families TO North Carolina. The
n had been living in the Karaker neighbo
v hood, about three miles east Of here, fo
y several years, but this fall they sold o
/ their loose chattels, excepting team an
o wagon each to carry them back to ii
is land Of the ''Sand Lappers" They mac
r. the journey without accident, but III
4 hopes ola better country than the one the
K had just left were not realized. Thin,
h had changed; ii was not like the countr
n that their imaginations had pictured, an
l. the cry of the hard times was ragin
throughout the land. Their disappoin
ment waxed strong, and they found u
rest till they started on the return tril
N They sold their teams and returned
a rail, reaching here on last Saturda,
4 or the persons who emigrate frol
& Southern Illinois, about nineteenth
sooner or later, find their way back. Tn
" should be a lesson that the dissatisfie
E mortals should learn, and be able /
e profit by the dearly-bought exper
e ence of those who have tried the EN-
C grating experiment. The Shoots ar
r good, honest, hark-working men, an
: we welcome them back to a land {
S plenty. Howard.