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The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1876-05-16
TIE o0esai call Of che National Dem
ScraSic O0nveaeA0a.

Oepasee OO0ve0oAoo.
Tia National Democratic Committee. TO
whom Is delegated the power Of fixing the
time and place Of holding the National Den
ocratic convention Of 1879. have appointed
Tussdsy, the twenty seventh day Of June
next, noon, rs the time. and selected ST.
Louis - the place Of holiine such CONVEX
ton.
Each state will be entitled TO . represen'
tssion equal to double the number ct lis
senators and Representatives in the con-
gree. Of the United States: and the terri.
tory Of { dorado, whose admission in July
- . State will give IL vote In the next
electoral college, 10 also invited TO send del.
sgates TO the convention.
Democratic, Conservative and other ELI.
zsns OF the United states, irrespective Of
past political associations. desiring 10 co.
opsrats with the Democratic party in its
present efforts and objects. are cordially in
vited to join 10 sending delegates TO the
national convention. Cooperation 10 de'
sired from oil persons who would change
an administration that has suffered the
public credit TO become and remain inferior
to other and less favored nations has per.
United commerce 10 be taken away by for
eige powers has stifed trade by unjust,
unequal and pernicious legislation; has
imposed unusual taxation and rendered it
most buroensome has changed growing
prosperity into widespread suffering and
want has squandered the public moneys
rscklssly and defsntly, aud shamelessly
usedhe power that should have been swift
10 pnish crime, TO protect it.
n these and other reasons the national
pepcratic party deem the public danger
tmlnent. and earnestly denrous Of secur.
ing o our country the blessings of an
scomical, pure and free government
sordly invite the cooperation Of their
fsnocitzens In the effort to attain thi.
obje,
ThoI A. Walker. Alabama.
3. .ckrill, Arkansas.
franic Csppin, Californ~.
Willing. Bsrnum. Connecticut
Chariseasten, Delaware.
Charis. Dyke, FLORIDA.
4. II. vton, OSUsia
Cyrus Met ormick, Illinois.
Thomsowling, lsdians.
y. N. m, Iowa.
fsaac Eaton. k.nsas.
Henry McHery, keLtucky.
Henry Ogde.. Louisins.
L. d. swea Maine.
A. LeSnotth Maryland
wiIlisrA. pore. Michigan.
WiiIisrLocen, Minnesors.
J. ii Sarr Mississippi.
Jno. &. PIT, Missouri.
Geo. /. MT, Nebraska.
Tbos n. 1llisns, Nevada.
N. v. Il. igeriy, New Hampshire.
Theo. r, Andolph. New Jersey.
NV, psom, North Carolina.
John {; thompson, Ohio.
J smee. Kelley, Oregon.
Jsmes. Barr. Penusylvanis.
Nichos Van >iyck, Rhode Island,
Thos.l. simons, South Carolina.
Will q b. Bate, Tennessee.
p. Sytockdale. TeXss.
b. Bjmaliey, Vermont.
JohI Geode, jr., Virginia.
JOIN Rieir Hoge. West virginia.
Gesrgs II. Paul, Wisconsin.
"nouss N. Patterson. Colorado,
AUGUSTUS sCHELL, New York.
Chairman.
fIEDnicK o. PRINCE, Massachusetts,
Secretary National Democratic Com.
WASHINGTON. February ~. 1876.
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governor

CALVIN FARLEY. one Of the proprietors
OF the Joliet Signal, died on the nth inst,
in the iiftieth year Of his age. lie had
maintained connection with the Signal
during period OF thirty years.
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The I'ubllc Printer.

NNis LOUIS hfllhhlitausl
II the congressional printer at Wash
ington is not the biggest toad in the
puddle. it j, at least to be said to his
credit that he managed to keep up with
the rest OF them. No wonder he stood Oh
his dignity in the master of answering
questions about the management of his
office. His Office seems TO have been a
cavern for swallowing the public moneys.
This public printer has been in the habit
OF charging 20 to l2i per cent. over the
regular rates for the printing OF the de-
partments; he ha, bought hi. supplies
through miJdlcmcn, iayoritcs, no doubt.
so as TO give them profit on his pur-
chase: and beside thi., the house COM
mIttec's report say. hc j. unfit for his
position. and his subordinates are no
better. The report recommends that the
public printing be let ont on contract,
that the present printer be indicted by
the grand-jury, and that the government,
printing office be abolished.
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Political
FOR MORTON.

New ORLEANS, May li.-Quite num-
Der of leading Radical politicians of this
State, including Kellogg. hold a confer.
ence at Washington Tomorrow. when
they will doubtless declare tor Morton
az their choice for next president. Lead.
ing negro politicians have already been
instructed to use every effort for Morton
an! are doing It with but little success, as
Bristow's course has won for him hun.
dreds OF votes Ia the negro ranks.
col. CREBs wITHDRAws.
McLEANsBoEo, May H.--Col. Crebs,
OF 'armi, has withdrawn his name as a
candidate tor congress in the Nineteenth
district, leaving all to Hon. II. W. Towns
bend.
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bsp. The largest block of coal ever
mined In America passed over the Ma.
hanoy plane last week consigned to Phil.
adelphiai, to be place on Exhibition at
the Centennial. II was mined at the Ora.
per colliery. near Gilberton. As shipped
II weighed l4a tons. Its dimensions are
feet by 81. II was, when first cut
much larger. but could not be taken from
the mine.
The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1876-05-16

Hon. JOHN II. ADAMS OF Stephenson
county, aspires to q place on the Repub-
ilcan ticket. as candidate for lieutenant
governor.
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colored and vanished, for sale at hal
price ls2'5o) at the BULLETIN Office.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1876-10-05
INTIMIDATION IN ALABAMA.

A speech made by negro named
Speed, candidate for the legislature in
Bullock county, Ala, will perhaps illus
trate the manner in which political in
timidation was recently practised in that
state. He said:
81 was passing by house not long
ago, and saw two turkeys, gobbler and
hen, setting on the fence close long.
side the big road. Before I got a hun
bred yards t'0ther side turned around,
rode back to that house and hailed. No
body come the first time, and I hailed
again. Presently white lady come to
the door, and says l, There's two
turkeys down yonder on the fence close
to the road. Made you'd better have
'em drove up, or somebody will steal
EN- Lord bless your soul she sent a
little gal down thar quick and drove 'em
up to the house. Now, fellow-citizens,
Jest by riding back to that house and
telling 'em to drive them turkeys off
that road, saved two republican votes.
You say, How is thatN Well, I'll tell
you: If them turkeys had of staid thar,
the first niger that come along would
q took one, and the next one that come
along would a took t'Other. And you
know white ladies will go their death on
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1876-10-05

take refuge in accusations of much
vaguer sort. And this we find to be the
case. The intimidation " of negroes,
the general disloyalty" Of the party,
the "identity" of the present demo-
cratic party with the democratic party
which drought on the war" the COM
plicity of its present leaders in the frauds
of Tammany hall, and, finally, the gen
eral " cussedneae OF all democrats, their
moral degradation, liking for liquor, an
tipathy to "good men," and fondness for
brawling, fighting, and general deviltry,
are the charges now generally employed;
and it must be confessed that they are
rather stale when compared with those
on the other side.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1876-10-05
CAMPAIGN CHARG ES.


Like all other political arts, that of
making "charges' is liable to great
abuse, and there are some signs already
of disposition to cultivate the manufac-
ture, very much like that of outrages"
in cold blood. The only interest in the
matter which the general public has, is
in knowing whether the accusations are
true or not; but to the political mana
gers it makes less difference whether
they are true than whether they are diff
cult to answer, For their purpose a
vague charge, which it is difficult to re-
duce to specifications, and therefore diff
cult to answer up and down, and which
eau, on this very account, be kept afoat
for long time, is often better than a
charge which can be met and disposed of
out of hand. 1t is obvious, too, that in
the present campaign this sort of charge
is a weapon now more likely to be found
in the hands of the republicans than of
the democrats. The latter have no need
to manufacture capital OF this kind, be-
cause the recent history of the republic
cans has furnished them with a series of
scandals of which the proof is always
easily attainable and the facts undenia-
BILE. If the democrats were to merely
publish list of the republican politi-
clans, north and south, cabinet officers,
internal revenue collectors, pOstmasters,
gaugers, weighers, and tide.waiters, who,
during the past eight years, have been
either impeached, indicted investigated,
removed, reprimanded, or so thoroughly
"exposed as to be obliged to retire
from public life, the list would consti-
tute rogues' gallery whose length
would startle the rogues themselves
The republicans, however, have little or
no ammunition of this kind. The dem
ocrats have been outof powder for nearly
twenty yeats, and have consequently
been deprived OF all these means OF cor,
ruption of which the republicans have
made such good use. For this reason
the republicans are rather at their wits
end to know how to meet the charges
brought against them by their enemies;
and 1t is to be expected that they will
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1876-10-05
SOUTHERN DEMOCRATS AND THE
NEGROES.
New York World.

Our democratic brethren in the south
will be neglectful of their opportunity
if they allow their colored fellow-citiZen
to receive and retain a erroneous impress
sion concerning the troops to be literally
scattered over the states Of South Caro-
lima, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana
Let the negroes everywhere understand
the truth. There are many localities
where the colored men, who wish to vote
the democratic ticket are ostracised and
treated with violence by negroes stirred
up to such deeds by disreputable white
men who pocket the profit and leave
their dupes to be killed. The troops are
sent south to protect these colored demo-
cratic voters in the exercise of the right
of suffrage. Let them understand this.
If there is any place where there is
probability that COlOred democrats will
be interfered with, let the local demo-
cratic committee confer publicly with
the United States marshal on the sub
.ect. If he then applies for troops, well
and good; if he declines to do SO, let his
answer be made public; it may be of use
later. If any republican orator under
takes to deny that these troops are sent
south to afford protection to colored
democratic voters, ascertain why they
are sent and make his statement public,
Every republican declaration that the
army is to be prOstituted to party neces-
stiles is worth a thousand votes in New
York and New England.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1876-10-05
OUTDOOR EXERCISE FOR MOTHERS

Consider it your religious duty to take
outdoor exercise without fail each day.
Sweeping and trotting around the house
will not take its place; the exhilaration
of the open air and change of scene is
absolutely necessary. O, I know all
about "Lucy' grown that isnot finished"
and "Tommy's jacket" and even "his''
coat, his buttOnless coat, thrown in your
lap, as if to add the last ounce to the
camels back still l say, up and out
Is it not more important that your chill
dreD, in their tender years, should not be
left motherless, and that they should not
be born to that feeble constitution of body
which will blight every early blessing
Let buttons and strings go; you will take
hold of them with more vigor and
patience when you do return bright and
refreshed; and if every stitch be not
finished at just ouch a moment (and it is
discouragingnOt to be able to systematic
in your labor, even with your best Efforts,
still remember that "she who hath done
what she could" is entitled to no mean
praise. Your husband is undoubtedly
"the best of men," though there are some
malicious people who might say that
that is not saying much for him. Still
he would never, to the end of time, dream
what you are dying of; so accept my
advice, and take the matter in hand
Burial,
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1876-10-05
Ttp PARENTS.

If your child is suffering from worms
use DIR, WIsHART's WORM SUGAR DROPS
an old and reliable remedy that "s''
fails in thoroughly exterminating the''
pests of childhood. Being made in the
form of Sugar Drops, having neither 'n'
taae or smell of medicine, no trouble
experienced in inducing children to take
them. Sold by all Druggists at % cts d
box, or sent by mail ON receipt of PTlce,
at the Principal Depot, 9l6 tlIoe''
Street, Philadelphia, Pa.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1876-10-05
THE HOPPER WHAT KIND or
4 FIGURE HE MIKES IN MIN
NESOTA.
NESOTA.
Fergus Falls Journal.

Venerable authority informs us that
before the era of states and blacktoards
men developed the mathematical instinct
by multiplying-upon the face of the
earth. The mode il popular to this day.
But the grasshopper as a champion null
tiplyist has no equal. He lays (speak-
ing generally and not to put too fine a
point upon it) an egg which is about the
size and shape of long primer 0. In fact
he lays several of them. From August
LIST until winter he is actuated by reck-
less ambition tOsbore holes in thegrOund,
of the size of pipe stem, and then to fill
these holes with cream-cOlOred 90. And
though he is small he attends to his biz
and is a triumphant success. In stature
he is about match for sixpenny stub
nail, in form he is like unto a lynch-pin,
and he wears a green sealing-wax head
on him and a pair Of glass eyes, so that
with his loDg-tailed buster on, he looks
like an unsophisticated and near-sig hted
schoolmaster. But unsophisticated isn't
what's the matter with him. And num-
Grafton is his best mathematical hold.
He will stand himself bold upright like
pig in one of those holes aforesaid, and
view the heavens with an air Of sublime
serenity and wooden-hoaded unconscious
ness.
Don't you fool yourself-he knows just
what he is about. He prefxes himself
like a figure l in the business, and,
adapting the decimal system Of notatiOn,
calmly places 40 where it will do the
most good That stands for ten, and be-
fore you can dot and carry one he has
added another cipher to that, and he now
reads 100. About this time you begin
to discover what sort of a rooster he is,
and you entertain degree of awe for
him not inspired by front view Of his
green goggles. Reasoning a posterjori
you discover that he is a dangerous
neighbor. But while you stand amazed
he rapidly sufixes ffteenor twenty more
900, carrying his problem into the million
millions, and has sealed and cemented it
up ready to be fred off at you next
spring. In two minutes and quarter
he has given you problem that with all
your manly powers Of multiplication can
not be solved or equated. Hecompounds
his interest at 100 per cent. every five
seconds, puts a snap judgment on your
cornfeId, and forecloses before you can
say Jack Robinson.
And when you observe that every
square inch Of your ground is occupied
by one of those impassive figure rs, each
putting down a row of
ciphers, you will admit with me that the
is the lightning calculator of
the west, and that for multiplying-on
the earth-he has no equal. P. GREEN.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1876-10-05
IN ADROIT sW7YDLE.

The following appears in arecent psri,
paper:
Last week a ragged man, having T..
appearance of an itinerant musician o~9
carrying fiddle under his arm, eDts,.d 1
the shop of a pork butcher and caIIoJ
or a sausage. When he came tn ~
for it, however, he discovered that /,
had no money with him, and Ieavins
his fiddle as pledge hurried awav u
obtain some. Hardly had he left than
well-to-do stranger entered the sbor
to make some inquiries as to his wa
He perceives the fiddle on the COUNT,
looks at it, takes it up and cries excit
edly:
"Why, it is a genuine Stradivariusl
will give you 500 francs for it!'
81 can't sell it," replied the po,k
butcher; it does not belong to rue. bnt
has been left here for few moments bv
the owner"
"I'll give you 1000 rrancs."
Same reply. The stranger slowly and
reluctantly lays down the precious instr.
ment, gives the pork-butcher his cad
and saying that he will be found at tho
Grand Hotel, and give 1000 francs hr
the fiddle if it is brought there, retirs
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1876-10-05
war rHE COUN3 RrIs rOOR.
naltlmnra Qaketle.

A3EEIlOHFW NWHEIENs
One reason why the country is poor is
that there are too many consumers and
not enough producers. Gen. Grant, for
instance, has an array of Office holders
who are eating up the substance of the
people. This army is ON the increase
every year Here are the official fig
urcs:
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1876-10-05

In ether words, we have sixty thou
sand more oficeholdors now than in
1859 under democratic rule, and nearly
iity thousand more than in 1869, when
Gen. Grant became president,
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1876-10-05

turkey; them two niggers would l.,
been caught and tried, and been c 90
victed, and ther'd ha' been two repnbr p
can votes lost"
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1876-10-05

AT our request, Cragin & Co., of Phil,
adelphia, Pa, have promised to send any
Of our readers gratis (on receipt of Is
cents to pay pOstage), sample of Dob,
bins Electric Soap to try. Send at once
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1876-10-05

For eruptive diseases of the skin, pin.
Piles and blotches, Vegetine is the great rem.
edy, as it removes from the system the Do,
ducino canse
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1876-10-05
TILDEN AND REFORM.

Great heavens, what riot
Cant any one 10 qutetg
Whats the matter, Mrs GTundy what's the rea-
son for the stOfmg
Say, IL Sitting Bull la town?
Il che capitol burnt downr
What means this mighty ClamuT OF 1tldan and re-
i0FmH
cry Of no eoFFapti0ni
OF wageb~n0 reduction
0ound oi angry voices, like tue mutterlngs Of q
Etoual
Down With trailer, crooked wuysl
HurFah ioF pr8sp F0ua days
with Tllden for oar eaier, shout loud boys, IoT re-
toTml
Through pwarv hugY street
Comes the rush ii many teat
STEPS II honest men, Determined al their duty 10
perform.
They have sufEred and are strong,
They viii have right not wrong,
Their rhEeitun stall be Itlden aud their wRtChWDFd
IrWe Reform,
THE most remarkable speech ever
made by presiding officer has just been
delivered In Florida. The man who
made il was a member OF the legislature,
and he was called 10 the chair unex-
peetedly at a convention Of his oonstitu-
ents. Here Ii IL In full: "You know /
can't make a speech We came here for
something else hope you viii not
make asses 81 yourselves and break up the
party." II II sate to say that more good
advice was never crowded into 70 short a
space.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1876-10-05

A piece of New York uptown proD.
erty, valued at 100000 three years ago, sold
for $4,000 cash the other day.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1876-10-05

very successful canvass in Indiana. The
farmers and laboring men of the state
are delighted with him. The austere,
cold .bIooded aristocratic Mr.. Harrison,
seems to be out of his element in In
diana.
THE Brooklyn Eagle is caustic: Mr..
Blaine is put down fer sixty speeches.
He is now entirely able to defend the
republican party, but the slightest allu-
sions to his own bribery and marketed
ruling will bring on an attack of sun
stroke, though the thermometer should
be ten degrees below zero.
NEW YOYK TRIBUNE: Federal in
reference at the south appears now to
be the order of the day at Washington.
If carried out in the spirit in which it is
begun, it must prove serious issue in
the campaign. A renewed attempt to
coerce the south is most evidently fore
showed; it will be a godsend to demo-
cratic orators and organs at the north.
If this, from the Christian Union, had
been uttered by southern paper there
would have been a howl; The hope
of the south lies not in military govern
ment from Washington, but in the awak-
ening spirit of chivalry and couragei0 the
too-lOng overawed citizens Of the south,
asserting itself and protecting its own
community by popular uprising against
the murderers, and their speedy and
condgn punishment"
REDFILD," after carefully looking
over the whole southern field, is of opin-
ion that 1.-The democrats will, in all
probability, make a gain o. four senators
this winter. These will be from the
states Of Mississippi, Arkansas, Texas
and Louisiana. see no reasonable
chance for the republicans to make a
gain in any of the southern territory.
They vii! hold their Own.i South Caro-.
lima, and when that is said all is said
that reasonably can be-"
MORTON, Butler. Chandler, Logan,
Packard, Grant and Spencer are for APP
plying the sword to every white mans
throat and the torch to every white
mans roof who declines to vote the re-
publican ticket. And wherefore? That
the republican party may continue
to rule the country at a cost of eight
hundred millisns Of dollars, and that the
republican leaders may be protected from
the yawning doors Of fifty penitentia-
ries.-LOuisvids Courier Journal.
THE nomination of Edwin NJ. Morgan,
the New York millionaire, for governor,
and Sherman s. Rogers, the Buffalo mil
lionaire, for acknowledgement, is gem
orally satisfactory to the republicans
here. The nominations are accept.
ed by all to mean lavish money cam
paign, the report being that governor
Morgan Is TO spend four hundred thou.
sand dollars, and senator Rogers half as
much to carry the state.--Mw York
Herald.