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The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1874-04-09

A CoAaEsFosDEsr Of a newspaper say,
that The Legislature boasts OF number OF
useful members who occupied bu. little
time In speaking but were always in their
places With cool, clear judg working
effectively, voting correctly. among
sAsss." says the correspondent, sis sens-
Tor Strong, Of Livingston, who drafted
the admirable bill regulating State con.
ssseis. which will save . large sum to the
6tatsp This 10 surprising news. Senator
Strong reported 70 tho Senate the bill Of
she revision COMMITTEES which had been re.
fssrsd % the printing committee, and the
senate passsd Il and referred ii TO the
house. The house referred Il TO ito print
The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1874-04-09

TIE Paducah 'Ksntuskisn' has entered
upon the seventh year Of its existence.
Our nsighbor has travelled on . very
rough road and has encountered many diff
hculties, but has wo hope reached the
smooth part of his journey.
The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1874-04-09

ARs. GRANT and Miss Grant are shop
ping in new Torn o,,y, wmcn l. sisn,
We presume, that the wedding Of the sole
daughter Of the White. House draws on
The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1874-04-09
sRRLY. Editor and Publtshe,
matter ON every page.

ats have defeated the rad
We arenonati, Q fact not at all sur
!, Howlrib liberal.republicans united
'ne o's democrats and swept the platter
The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1874-04-09

killed in a fight At Gslatia, Saline county,
on Monday evening last.
j. M, Wilson, Esq., the well
known hnancier, has returned to this
place, after an absence of month. Ho ia
still working In the interest Of north and
south railroad through this county.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-03-21

as it withdrew. Suddenly recolleeting her
self, she cried out, Eh, may the Count go
too?'
To the devil if he likes,'' answered the
Mayor snappishly as he slammed the door.
Mademoiselle Sainval turned gracefully
to the Count, and said, as sweet smile
illumed her charming face. "And you,
my dear Count, when you have done JUS
tiee to that omelette, perhaps you will give
me your arm and lead me down to the
coach. Oh how / wish that that poor
Queen had indeed left Paris whilst was
enacting her part, which did in the hope
that these people, believing the paste to be
real diamond, would have let the jewel
pass! Poor, poor Queen! AlLons, Sus-
anne let us go. Count, you have served
me as sovereign of France; will you not
still continue to be my Squire as Tragedy
Queen?"
The Count, bowling low, raised the fair
actress hand to his lips. Then, leaning on
his arm, and followed by her faithful maid,
Mademoiselle swept down the staircase to
the carriage, in which the Count took his
seatopposite Susanne. ne.-Lippimeott's Maga-
z;2e
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-03-21
NUMBER %.

The sale of the Conservative Republican
journal, the Steele, has been prohibited in
France, because of an article insulting to Buff
fet, the President of the National Assem-
bly,.
1t is reported that the Chinese Government
has notified foreign ministers at Pekin that it
cannot guarantee the safety of foreigners at
Tientsin, and the naval authorities have been
requested to send war vessels to that port.
News from Chilli is that strong shock of
an earthquake was felt at Copiapo on the 18th
of january. The Chilian volcano had open
ed the crater on its eastern side, and the ther-
mometer had risen as high as % degrees GEN.
tigrade.
The trial of the Tiehborne claimant on
charges Of perjury lasted $50 days, and termi-
mated Feb. %, in his conviction on all the
charges. He was sentenced to fourteen years
penal servitude. After the verdict was an
nounced, the claimant expressed a desire to
address the court, but the judge refused per-
mission and proceeded to pass sentence, the
claimant maintaining his usual composure.
He was at once taken to Newgate.
A disastrous fire occurred in Panama ON the
25th ult., whereby the largest portion of the
DuSlIcSS udFt VI Iu6 JONu Was ueoliOgCUs
The losses are estimated at over one million
dollars.
A Madrid telegram of the 2Sth says dis
patch had been received at the War Office
from General Mariones, stating that ne had
been unable to force the Carlists from their
entertainments before Bilboa and that his own
advanced line had been broken by the insur-
gents. He asks for reinforeements and the
appointment of his successor.
A singular and fatal accident occurred on
the Great Western Railway, Canada, on the
night of the 29th ult. When the Sarnia ac-
commodation train was about seven miles
west of London, a saloon coach took fire in
the forward end, caused by the falling of a
lamp. The flames spread through the car
! almost instantly, and before the train could
be stopped and the passengers extrieated,
eight persons were fatally suffocated and
burned. A number of the passengers leaped
through the windows and from the rear plat
form of the car.
At Blackburn, Lancashire, England, re-
Gently, twenty persons were killed and
thirty seriously injured by boiler explo-
sion.
| A Bayonne telegram of the I'd says that
the Carlist Junta have a dispatch stating that
Bilboa has surrendered to Don Carlos, and
that one church, several banks, and seven
teen private houses were destroyed by the
| bombardment.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-03-21
POETRY.
THE LITTLE NUN.

BY MILLIE W. CARPENTER.
My window overlooks the street,
And, drifting ever down,
hear the hundred passing feet,
The idlers of the town.
Gay traders in from foreign ports.
And sailors from the main,
With soldiers from sea-gtrded forts,
Loiter aud pass again.
Sometimes an airy form fits by
And firgs backward glance;
know the proud, alluring eye,
The daring grace of France.
But daily through the checkered street,
Where vice and virtue stray,
One tender girl 's-face, fresh and sweet,
Passes and fades away.
With dove,like eyes whose glance shuns mine
And modest braided hair,
No lily cohld so WHITLEY shine,
No rose bloom half SO fair.
She comes and goes, and no one knows
Whither her footsteps tend;
No prickly thorns protect my rose
From lover, foe, or friend.
i think that down some pictured aisle,
Some vast dim church within,
She kneels, ard. with her nunlike smile,
Prays fer the souls In sin.
She comesi lose her in the throng;
But still my pulses thrill
As echoes of a sweet loVe-song
Touch when the keys are still.
And ali! .he senseless blocks, sweet nun,
On which your light feet tread,
Should spring like gardens overrun
-Wsekly Graphic.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-03-21
Illinois Law on Planting Forest Trees

A law has been passed in Illinois to en-
courage the planting and growing of tim
Der as follows:
Sec. /. That it shall be lawful for the
Board of Supervisors or County Commits
sioners' Court in any county in this State
to offer bounty to any person in said
county who shall hereafter plant one or
more acres of land with forest trees, and
properly cultivate the same for three years,
any sum not to exceed ten dollars per an
mum for three years for each acre SO plant
ed provided, that trees so planted shall not
be at a greater distance than ten feet apart
each way.
SEC. 2. Any person claiming the bounty
under this act shall make proof before the
County Clerk that he has complied with
section of this act, and that the trees
planted by him are in hearty and grow
ing condition.
Sec. 3. Upon proofofa compliance with
this act the County Clerk shall issue his
certificate to the person entitled to the same,
setting forth that the provisions of this act
have been complied with and the number
of acres so planted.
Sec. 4. The Board of Supervisors or
County Commissioners Court, desiring to
offer the bounty herein provided for, shall
do so by resolution, to be made of record,
and giving notice in some newspaper pub
lished In the county three weeks prior to
the lst day of April of each year; said res
olution and notice to state the amount of
bounty offered for each acre planted and
cultivated.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-03-21
MISCELLANEOUS,

The House Committee on Appropriations
will report bill setting apart S4,S00,000 for
the Indians. This is $4,000, 900 less than the
estimate of the Department of the Interior.
The Modocs get $4,000.
Two attempts have been recently made in
Buffafo, ". z, to burn public school bfIilsa4
ings while the schools were in session, but
both were fortunately discovered and frus-
trated.
The Senate Committee on Post-offces and
Post-roads have agreed to amend the Postal
telegraph bill in various minor particulars,
suggested by arguments of Orton and Hub
bard The committee voted to report adj
versely on Senator Hancock's bill proposing
to vest in the Postmaster-G General the power
of establishing post-roads. The committee
are of the opinion that this power cannot con-
stitutionally be delegated by Congress to any
other power.
The House Committee on Appropriations
are preparing bill, it is stated, making ap-
preparations of money to provide for the pay
ment of bounties to colored soldiers, the ap-
preparations for which service are nearly ex-
hausted. 1t costs the Government about
$500 monthly to meet this class of claims.
The women's temperance movement was
inaugurated at Philadelphia on the 9th. A
number of saloons were visited, the proprie-
tors of which closed their doors and the la
dies kneIt and prayed outside the buildings.
The proprietors called upon the police for
aid, but the officers refused to interfere.
A dispatch from Cheyenne, 2Sth, says that
the settlers in the Loup Valley, Nebraska,
- nrJ
against the Indians, who are becoming very
troublesome. Unless they are protected they
will be compelled to leave their homes, some
already having left. Further advices from the
Red Cloud Agency show that the number of
heretofore reported good Indians is growing
less day by day, and that the search for the
bad ones by the troops leaving Fort Laramie
early next week will be successful.
A summing up of the results of the
women's temperance war in Ohio, up to the
1st inst, is given as follows: Forty-four
towns and cities in the State report 214 saloons
closed, IA druggists pledged not to sell liquor,
4S9 saloons still open, and 15 druggists refls-
ing to sign. Probably 10000 people have
signed the pledge. 1t ought, however, to be
stated that these figures include SEINE large
places, such as Springfield, with LIS saloons,
where none have been closed at all. At
smaller places, where work has been begun,
it is safe to say two-thirds of the saloons have
surrendered.
Dispatches from the upper lake ports, re-
ceived at Detroit on the 2Sth ult. indicated an
early opening of navigation. The ice in the
Mackinaw straits is said to be lighter than for
many previous years.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-03-21
CR1MEs AND CASUALTIES.

A San Francisco dispatch of the 28th says
that Vasquez and his gang of robbers and
murderers were raiding the southern eoun-
ties of that State. On Wednesday they
robbed the Los Angeles stage and got 5000
and eight horses. One man resisted, shot at
Vasquez and missed him. Vasquez returned
the fire, shooting him through the legs, then
told him his name and granted him mercy.
The banditti Travelled southerly after the rob-
berry.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-03-21
FORETGN.

A dispatch was received at the War Office
in London, on the 26tn, from Gen. Wolseley,
commander of the Ashantee expedition, dat
ed at Coomassie, which says: :" We reached
here yesterday, after five days hard fighting.
The troops behaved admirably. Our casual
ties are under 300. The King is in the neigh
borhood of the town. He promises to meet
me to-day and sign treaty of peace. We
hope to start on our return to the coast to-
morrow. The wounded are recovering, and
the health Of the remainder of the army is
good.v
Professor Huxley has been installed as
rector of the University of Aberdeen.
1t is officially announced that the Duke of
Edinburgh and his bride, accompanied by the
Queen, viii enter London on the 18th of
March.
A ABayonne dispatch of the 2eth says that the
Spanish army under General Mariones has
made three attacks on the Carlist forces be-
fore Bilboa, and was repulsed each time.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-03-21

THE son of the Fire Superintendent of
Troy, N, Y, set his fathers house on fire
the other day, and then gave the alarm.
He subsequently explained that he wanted
to ''see how the 0sgood machine worked. !"
Being but six years old his punishment,
since the fire was failure, was left to the
Superintendent, and was a forcible IL
lustration of parental influence.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-03-21
COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY.

Gold closed in New York, on the ID, at
112 SO.
The freight brakemen on the Erie Railway
struck for back pay due on the 22d. The
movement of trains over the road was almost
entirely suspended.
The Secretary of War asks appropriations
for improvement of the mouth of the Missis-
sippi for the next fiscal year, and for improve
ment of the banks of the Rio Grande at Fort
Brown, $4,000.
The National Crop Reporter publishes es-
Inmates from reports of its correspondents in
the States of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas,
Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio and Wisconsin, of
the prospective supply of hogs for summer
packing in those States. These estimates
place the number at 80 per cent. less than the
number fattened last year for summer pack
ing. Wisconsin returns eighty per cent. as
compared with last year, and Minnesota for
ty-two per cent, being prospectively the
highest and lowest averages of the several
States.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-03-21
NEWS SUMMARY.
PERsONAL AND POLITICAL.

The nomination of William A. Simmons as
Collector at Boston has been confirmed by the
Senate. He was strongly opposed by many
Massachusetts men, and Messrs. Sumner and
Boutwell, spoke in opposition to his confrma-
ton. The fight was really between the
friends and opponents of General Butler, who
stood as sponsor for the nominee. The vote
stood, ayes, 81; noes, 17-all the Democrats.
it is stated, voting aye.
Senator Chandler has brought suit against
the DetroitFree Press for libel, claiming $780,
900 damages. The alleged libel is in a special
dispatch from Washington dated February 90,
charging Chandler with intoxication and dis
graceful conduct in the Senate chamber.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-01-06

left the parson and the palsy to fight it
out. New upholstry. painting and gliding
have also made this chamber and the
ante chamber look bright and comfortable;
but there is one change which ! must dis
approve OF as undemocratic and invidious.
Choice seats have been set apart for the
wives and daughters Of Senators and
Members, from which seats we, the com
mon people, arc sternly excluded as from
the diplomatic gallery, This is unjust to
the strangers visiting the Capitol. who are
often uncomfortably crowded in the other
galleries while these aristocratic reserva-
lions are almost empty. 1t is my impress
sion that of all the ladies in Washington,
those for whom these galleries are. set
aside, dedicated, tabooed, are the least
given to debates. Perhaps they have pol
tiles enough at home. The wife ola Con-
gresham seldom goes to the Capitol UNI
less her husband is the hero of the hour;
she goes to see him arranged for high
crimes and misdemeanor, or 10 hear him
arraign some other woman's husband.
55Er7l- Grace Greenwood
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-01-06

The Bosten Journal in commenting up
on the Concord Savings Bank defalcation
says: zone feature of this affair enforces
a suggestion which we have made sew
eral times before, and which, apparently,
we cannot make too often-that the offices
of treasurer in savings bank and cashier
in national bank should never be vested
in the same person. 1t would seem that
we had already had enough instances of
this fatal folly and its results. Under the
best regulated systems and in the institu-
tons which are reputed TO be under the
most careful management and subjected
to the most rigid and conscientious inspec-
ton of directors. there seem to be plenty
Of avenues for official dishonesty But
when the same individual has under his
control the funds of two banks, and is able
to make good from one whatever he may
choose to abstract from the other, the
temptation to be false to his duty is great
ly increased, and the chance of his detec-
ton in wrong-doing is proportionately
lessened." -H#
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-01-06
UNITED STATES MAIL.
Nj AIM e.
POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT,

POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT,
WASHINGTON, Dec. LIST, 1873.
PROPOSALS will be received at the Contract
l. Office of this Department until O'Clock p.
of March ?, 1874 Ito be decided by the 20th), for
carrying the mails Of the United States fromJuly l.
State of Maine, and by the schedule OF departures
and arrivals herein specified, viz.
222 From Union to Appleton, miles and back,
three times week.
Leave Union Tuesday, Thursday. and Satur
day at IL m;
Arrive at Appleton by $50 pm;
Leave Appleton Tuesday, Thursday, and Sat
Arrive at Union by 4.SOpm.
Proposals for sixtmes.a.week service invited.
and back once week.
Leave Danforth Saturday at m;
Arrive at Forest City by Gam;
Leave Forest City Saturday at IL IN;
Arrive at Danforth by pm.
22i From Columbia to North Columbia, miles and
back, three times a week
Leave Columbia Tuesday, Thursday, and Sat
Arrive at North Columbia y2pm;
Leave North Columbia Tuesday, Thursday, and
Saturday at 2 80 p M
Arrive at Columbia by $50 IN.
225 From Pressure Isle to Salmon Brook, ii miles
and back, twice "A week.
Leave Presque Isle Wednesday and Saturday
at9am;
Arrive at Salmon Brook by I'm;
Leave Salmon Brook Wednesday and Saturday
Arrive at Presque Isle by pm.
226 From North Milford to Greenfield, ten miles and
back, twice week.
Leave North Milford Monday and Friday at a
M
Arrive at Greenfield BIZ 10 am;
Leave Greenfield Monday and Friday at II m
Arrive at North Milford by pm.
227 From Marlborough, by East Jefferson, to
Jefferson, II miles and back, three times q
week.
Leave Marlborough Monday, Wednesday,
and Friday at pm;
Arrive at Jefferson by s.3Opm;
Leave Jefferson Tuesday, Thursday, and Sat.
urday at SAM
Arrive at Marlborough by 1880 m.
Proposals for siX-times-a-week service invited.
22S From East Blue Hill to Surry. six miles and
back, once week.
Leave East Blue Hill Saturday at I'M;
Arrive at Surry by Gam;
Leave SuIry Saturday at IL m;
Arrive at East Blue Hill by 2pm.
The contracts are to be erecutsa and returned to
the Department by before the lst day June 1874,
otherwise the accepted bidder ,ciH be considered as
harfng failed and the Postmaster General may pro-
coed to contract for the serrice h other parties,
cording to lac.
For forms of proposal, guarantee, and certificate,
and also for instructions as to the conditions to be
embraced in the contract, &c, see advertisement
of Aug. 81 1872 and Dec. l. 1873, inviting proposals
for mail service in Maine and New Hampshire to
be found at the principal post offices.
Bids should be sent IN sealed envelopes super
scrbei, 'Mail proposals, State of Maine" and ad-
dressed to the Second Assistant Postmaster Gen.
ersl. j. A. j. CRESWELL
Gwl Postmaster General.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-01-06
SPAIN.

The overturn in the affairs of the Span
ish government has serious look The
vote against CASTELAR, in the Cortes, fol-
lowed by the movements of the military,
indicate rather a military despotism than
republic as the end OF the present struggle.
Whether the Virginius affair led to the I'M
favorable expression against CASTELAR, we
are unable to say, for late reports previ-
Gus to the events of Saturday stated that
his strength and popularity were not inn
paired by the result in the virginius case,
while general opinion had come to a diff
ferent conclusion. Ii there be ambition
at the head of the army to seize and hold
the government, and skill to accomplish
it, the part Of Napoleon the First and the
French Republic is very likely to be enact
ed over again. The soil of Europe is not
favorable in its present state for the growth
of republics. There are too many mon
archs and aristocratic interests opposed to
republicanism, to allow the spread of free
institutions on the continent, and, besides.
the people themselves who undertake the
experiment are poorly qualified to assume
the duties and privileges Of sclf-govern-
ment The time will come, no doubt,
when free governments will be established
in Europe. Every struggle, though it end
in failure. is an educator and tends to
bring about the time when the people
will rule.
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GENERAL NEWS.

The Comanches have been punished by
United States troops in Texas for recent
murders and robberies.
The Canadian parliament will be dis
solved at once, and writs are out Tor new
election on the 22d inst.
The Prohbitionists of Connecticut have
called mass convention in New Haven,
on Thursday, Jan 10, to nominate can
didates for State officers.
Anew England Congressman proposes
to lead an attack on the Civil Service
system, which he pronounces as illegal
and unconstitutional.
John IL. Reagan, who was the Post
master General of the Southern Confed-
eracy, is a candidate for the United States
Senate from Texas.
On the 9th inst, the first anniversary of
his DEATH the remains of the late ex-Em-
peror Napoleon will be removed to the
memorial chapel erected by Eugene at
ChiselhurSt.
Gov. Booth, of California, will not re-
sign his Office in consequence OF his cleo
ton to the United States Senate, as he
will not take his seat at Washington until
1875.
Most of the mills in the northeastern
section of Philadelphia, which stopped
operations or were run on reduced time,
are now running with full complement
of hands, and on full time.
Chicago claims to have sold $3.50, 0OO,-
900 worth of goods in 1873 at wholesale
alone. This is gain of eighteen per
cent. over the same business OF 1872, and
a gain OF thirty-one per cent. over that OF
1870.
The firemen of Morrisania acted in 4
disgraceful manner few nights since.
Not favoring annexation to New York
city, they smashed their apparatus to pre-
vent the city department from taking
possession of the machines.
Marshal MacMahon, President Of the
French Republic, was only left an old
family sword, half eaten with rust, by his
uncle, Count MacMahon, who bequeathed
to another nephew his domains, and to a
third his personal property.
The tower of the centennial exposition
building in Philadelphia is to be 1000 feet
high, according to the plans, and will be
of iron, in circular form. The diameter
will be $50 feet at the base and 80 at the
top. A spiral staircase and elevator will
take visitors up.
A Sing Sing convict named Eli Brown
has inherited $4,000, This, with accrued
interest, will give him nice start in life
when his five years of seclusion are ended:
Carbonite is new article of fuel found
only in the James River. Va. 1t is a sub
stitutc for camel coal, and costs two
thirds as much, burns freely, but without
smoke, sulphur or bituminous odor, and
so nearly consumes itself that but IA per
cent. of ashes is left. 1t burns stronger
than anthracite or camel. and affords n
beautiful and pure flame.