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The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1878-01-16
n0TICE TO CONTRACTORS,
OFFICE or CITY CLERK,

OFFICE or CITY CLERK, !
Cairo, u.s., Jan. 8, 1873.
Sealed proposals will be received 1t this
office, directed % the city COunCilOf Caro-,
Illinois, until o'COCk Tuesday evening,
February 10Th, a, ID. 1875, Tor the cnustruc-
ton OF one span iron bridge, together
with !be approaches or abulncnts anu
foundation, across Cache river, about one
and one ali miles from Mound City rsi-
road depot, aud four miles north OF the city
Of CGiro, IN the counties Of Alexander and
Pulaski, state OF Illinois, according 10 the
plans Gnd spccifi prepared by John
T.. Hsiy, ESD, &. e., now on tie and sub
ieCt 10 examination IN this office, the speCi.
hGguons Of which are as follows, viz;
Said bridge and trestle work o be made
up Of eighteen (iS) ops nings OF eight en- llSl
feet from centre TO centre OF posts, and one
span OF one hun ired 900 feet across the
river bed.
The one hundred 400 feet span II be OF
iron, and 50 proportoned that load OF ten
90 tons distributed over twep'J (2Ol lineaI
tect at the centre OF the span, shall not
strain the iron over twelve thousand
az 900 pounds per square inch tensile. or
over seven thousand I'VE hundred 4 bNOl
pounds per square inch shearing strain
the strain in compression to he IN at,
least In tho proportion 10 the ratio Of
length 90 diameter, by GordOn's formula.
The span OF said bridge 70 be one hun
deed GOD feet in tho elearand the Roadway
twelve ll2) feet wide.
The floor 10 he oil white OAK plank two
and oue.halt ca inches tnick and not over
twelve tl2J inches wide.
The floor beams to be OF white oak and IN
proportion 10 the balances Of the one hun.
dfel 1C0) feet span structure, and also TO
DO provided with q suitable axle guard
The above 90 rest upon iron columns pro.
portioned TO the structure TO BIO supported,
the columns at each end OF the bent or iron
span to be placed on . mud Ill !2Xl2, TWEEN.
~ ta0J feet long mortified and teBoned 10 n
sufficient number Of white oak plies, trin.
~ driven into the river bank.
1REsTLE WORK,
The bents TO be formed oiiour posts l0X 10
inches square, the Two inner parts TO stand
perpendicular and tha Two outer part. To
be framed and stand a. batter Of one IN
eight. The cap aud sill OF the bents 10 be
l2Nl2 Inch square timber, the caps to bo
twenty l2Ol feet long, and the sills TO pro-
jgc, on each end two feet past the outer
edge OF the outside posts. The posts to he
moiliced aud tenoned into the caps and slls,
and each tenon TO be pinned with two
tbree.quar,er % inch square iron pins, and
each bent 70 DO brsced by two diagonal
braces OF l2S2i inch plank, well fitted and
spiked on caps, posts and sills.
The bents TO rect or stand upon four mud
SINS l2Al2 Inches and eight (t) feet long set
IN the ground and placed on the alignment
cfthc work.
rAs carriage way q the 'trcs'lswork 10
DO sixteen 40 feet wide, the floor p,auh
10 be tbiee 81 inches and not over twelve
u2l inches wide, and to be well spiked on
TO tho sirihgers and floor beams.
i've toor beams " be made up 10 follows,
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READY y0R PEA't,

IuRgIen PEACE coMMlssIoNERs --Hrsstt
~ 80 HURRY ABOUT AN ARNIs1ICk--
BECENT MILITARY MOVEMENTS.
Special to St Lour Republican,
TUF TURKISH COMMISSIONERS orr rOR
RUSSIAN HEADQUARTERS.
LoYDoS. Jan, Is. a. m.--Server and
Namyk Pashas have started for Kezln>
liz, to which place Ruselsa headquarters
have been advanced. AS 20 thc terms
Russia viii exact, reports FROM Vienna,
Berlin aud 81. Petersburg are so diverse
aid often contradictory that Il Is as yet
Impossible to slit the truth from mer'
speculation.
One hing Is evideHt, Russia Is 10 10
hurry Tor an armistice, and her troops
will push on TO the latest moment al'
lowed by tho terms Of the truce Turk
ish plenipotentiares cannot reach kcl-
anlIk before Wednesday night and may
be detained longer by an accident Oh the
railroad, which has blocked the line.
Russia will thus be Bble 10 keep Ler
terms secret until after the meeting al
the British parliament. W lille on one
hand Russian terms are believed 10 he
very severe, on the other ii is stated thai
the sultan Is resolved on no account TO
consent to any cessation OF territory
Indeed peace prospects viii depend sole
Is on the question whether the Turks
government realizes tie hopelessness OF
continuing the contest.
II truce be not concluded within
week, Russian troops will be before Adrl-
nop!e il not In possession. They have
pushed forward neSrly 10 Phi!lppopolls
both from the west aud north aud the
great bulk OF the army In Bulgaria has
passed through Schipka pass 10 hQuIl~
ella. =,
The Seryians have taken kursehuuh,
and are marching on PrischIiDa in heavy
force. Widin on the Danute has asked
for terms OF surrender, and Eustehuk Is
also ready 20 treat for terms. The IllrN-
ish population in Roumelia have BECOME
panic. stricken, and thousands are hurry>
ing to AdriaDope and Consianinerie,
Sutiering is irichtiul
Tbs feeling in Turkey is very hitter
spai,,,, England, and Il is likely that
Euclahds Interest. will he very little
considered by Turkey il settling terms
OF pescp Ghe British cabinet meeting
Yesterday was held without lord Derby,
and rumor goes that he viii resign n
medIajelv after parliament assemblies.
Speculations ss TO the probable tenor Of
the queens message are plentiful, lHi
contradictory and Inaccurate. II VII u"
read To the cabinet and lce'er> oi ~"
oppo,i,iGn to-day At Osborne castle.
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General Debility

Vital weakness or depression: q weak
exhausted feeling, no energy or courage;
the result OF mental oyer-wOrk, indis,
crelions or excuses, or some drain on The
system, is always cured by Humphreys
Homeopathic Specific No. IS. 1t tones
up and invigOrateS the system, imlarts
strength and cnergy--stop, the drain and
rcjuycnatr> the entire man. Ecun used
twenty years witu perfect success ~
thousands. Sold by dealers, Price 81
per single yial, or 50 per package Of FIVE
vial, and - vial Of powder. Sent by
mail on receipt ot price. Address
llumrbrvy, Homeopathic Medicine
Company, laaFul'on street y. \.
yiEfylN-lA.Vf q
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Underground TELEGRAPH Wires

81 Julia' Vogel in Nihteenh Century
10 Germany the use Of the underground
wires has largely increased. last year
a line was laid from Berlin TO Halle, a
distance of l05 English miles. Great in
terest is felt In this line, as II Is, IN many
respects, of novel construction. have
been supplied with the follow ing descrip.
ton OF il The core consisted OF copper
strand weighing slxty-iive pounds per
mile, covered with gutta-percha Of The
same weight, making the total weight OF
tho core la6 pounds per mile. Seven OF
these wires were twisted together, and
then covered with yarn saturated with
tar, the whole being covered with sixteen
galvanized iron wires, D. lGG inch In dia-
meter. The cable is male n sections
500 meters In length, and each section
was colled on wooden reel, from which
1t was unco led into trench one meter
In depth, cut on one eide Of the public
road. When so laid II WAS covered with
a bitnmInous layer Of condensed coal Tar,
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BIsuor POTTER, OF the diocese Of
New York, has published a letter respect.
Ing Rev, DR., Seymour. bishop elect Of
the Springfield diocese, 10 which be says
he cannot refrain, In fairness to DR..
Seymour. or justice TO the church, after
the attack upon him from bearing teStI.
mony In his behalf Bishop Potter
says
ri have known him (Rcv. DR.. Soy
m0ur) intimately Tor more than twenty
years. have been present at his exams
nations of young men tor the ministry I;
| have heard him converse In private on
theological subjects, and never heard
him make statement ut variance with
the generally received doctrines OF the
church Of which he rs distinguished
member. have seen him IA Giy,ue
worship times without number, taking
st times different parts In the services,
and have never seen In him the least
approach 70 the taste for what is
COMMONLY termed rituallsm He II
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rayorcnt ia hi' dcmeluor IN church, but
he Is no follower Of any OF the cccontrlci'
ties which hhve- si hte years crept into
,lpe ol Unr churches, IN word, he h
q pialu. honest, LOYAL member Of the
church, and lahors in her seryice, sud In
the service Of his Divine Master with 3
devotion aud efficiency which make bin
a worthy examp Tor us all.
The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1878-01-16

The parent ofiGsomDia or wakefuness
Is In nine cases ont Of ten q dyspeptc
stomach. good digestion gives sound
slech Indigestion inter!eres with L. The
brain and stomach sympatli2e, One Of
tho prominent symptoms Of weak state
OF the @u,trlr organs is a disturbance Of
the great nerve tu'7cpot, the BRAIN. In,
yigoratc the stomach, and you restore
equilibrium 10 the great centre, \ most
reliable medicine tor the purpose Is Hos.
letters stomach bittcrs, which is far
preferable TO mineral sedatives and
powerful narcotics which, though they
may for time exert s0pOFitc Influence
upon the brain, soon cease 10 act, and
invariably rjure the tone Of the stomach
The Bilters, on the contrary, restore
activity 10 tie operations OF that all im>
portant orgaG, and their beneficent inilu>
eucc is reelected in sound sleep aud a
tranquil stale Of the nervous system. A
wholesome Impetus il likewise given to
the action Of the liver and bowels by It's
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BsNKRUprcIEs 10 Eyansrliif oH the
llth were; Apple & Manufacturer, whole
sale fancy grocerS; liabilities SOS, coo; as
ses 5000, will compromise. +. q.
johnson, glass dealer; liabilities $4,000;
assets $1,000, Michael Robinson, farmer;
liabilities Sl.50O.
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A WAsnNGrON dispatch OF the lz,h
SAYS q meeting OF tobacco manufacturers
was held there on that day. They tn
cored reduction Of taxes to twelve
c MS per pound, and drawback on lic
old stock in the hands Of manufacturers,
thrIr agents and jobbcrS, At the tmo tie
reduction becomes law. Cnaicr.
euces were had with coDgres ,mcn, Win"
were urged 10 favor reduction. The
manufacturers claim that such rate "'
taxation will bring over thirty mi,ii"r
dollars Into III" trrg, ury, 'h"'
is will generally Increase tie
consumption, thereby Increasing The
p.lce VI farmers and planters Leaf that
the price of the leaf has steadily iucreas'
cd since thc present high rate Of s&a'loD
went into effect, until Il raus.s on an sY'
craze In tho eastern and western markets
to lGi Gents per pound, a pojut uurfmnn'
eralivo to both farmer and plaDler. The
Baltimore delegation Insisted upon the
drawback a set forth IN Representative
Cahell : Ulii, Icp,vso",i-s ,ii"v ,uu ucHlVrs
and lobbors oi the north are unanimously
in favor OF it, also the to,acco manutac'
turers and cigar manufacturer.
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Washington Special 10 the Gin. Enquirer
senator Bayard, who is the hardest
OF all the imrd>mOney senators, IN con
versstion with your correspondent TO day
conceded the impossibility OF defeating
tie passage OF the silver bill IN The
senate. Al that he expects is that the
senate viii sustain the committees
amendment striking cut the tree Coinage
clause, aud giving the government the
profits OF coinage. lie is sanguinc that
the senate viii not agree 10 tree coinage,
and has reasOn for his h0poiulucs:.
Beck, who is one OF the most ardent
SILVER men, in his speech yesterday de-
clsred himself opposed 10 tree coinage,
Wallace another silver man. Is also ops
posed TO 1t; aud Lamar and Ben Hill are
counted among lis opponents. Senator
Eustls, who hns been claimed by the
hard,moncy men, told your correspon-
den, this afternoon that he Was in favor
OF the reconciliation Of silver, Gnd
thought me capitalists are not only
wrong, but impolitic In opposing ils re-
monelyation. because II this much Il not
conceded to the debtor class the proba.
bilitie; are that the debtors will soon have
to psy their debts 10 discharges from
bankruptcy, which he fancies the credi.
tors will lind LEES valuable circulating
medium than even the silver for which
they profess 10 have so great loaihng,
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ms stock entirely New and Fresh Special attention given to Country trade
Oar embraces
Goods Please call examine
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LIABILITIES.

Capital stock paid in. INN. 100000 90
Surplus nd......".......... $4,000 90
Undivided profits ,....,......, 1864 OF
National Bank notes out.
standng..................... 5000 90
Individual deposits
subject to check, 230, 2S6 0j
Due TO other M
tiOnal Banks. 5,774 S.
Due to State Banks
and bankers,..~. 3,299 1928, 800 66
lOlal,.'"'',,''''..'''' '''''''''''''S4'o'oSf 90
State of Illinois, county Of Alexander, ss.
/, W. HyslOp. cashier OF the above
named bank, do solemnly swear that the
above statement is true 10 the best of my
knowledge and belief.
W, HYsLoP, cashier.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this
10th day OF January, 1878.
II, II. CAypEg, notary public.
Correct--Attest:
Il. II. CUSSISGBAh,
ZIP !; %l LIAM Directors;
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'DD !. !. listillericsat Peoria, used during
$500 1877. 9co,7as bushels d grain,
~ LOhg ll6,22O barrels Of spirits, con-
nEA nj. 045,l75 7e>l0O PROOF gallons.
ousand seven hundred barrels Of
o. the 81. were shipped for expof, In
d 40 nc -.
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BANK STATEMENT.

Report OF the condition of the City
National Bank, at Cairo, in the State of
Illinois, st the close OF business, Dec. 2s.
1877.
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PRINTS, DONlESTICS, BLEACHED MUSLlNS, SHIRT
INGS, FLANNELS, TICKINGS, DRESS GOODS SILKS.
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yos Of this country that: at Is an
ejver 10 making In all respects most honoras
|nd al othei your government and TO the men
h lhsi MI lnce who have been their agents 10
igitout In truth il Is, believe,
Dec. 81, MY really sclehunc survey OF q
-ountry ever entered upon" The
}. NoI has issued nine large publications
(oirg Susin the past year aud several impor.
ely given t,,ls ,y,, u,arl- r.,dv 20 .n,a,,,.
! the lQ,h if'nN ~ ' '''"S '" s"o'kc
F'e ordoa,eee press. BgSToS.
The daily gazette., 1878-02-06
General News.

Jacobs M. Jacobs, aged one hundred
years and two months, died at Oswego,
n. T., Monday evening. He was in the
United States Naval service during the
war of 1872.
In the Ohio House, yesterday, the
House joint resolution asking Congress
TO repeal the resumption act was adopted
by party vote-the democrats voting
IN the affirmative and the republicans in
the negative.
The National Bank of Commerce of
New York has entered suit against the
National Bank of the State of Missouri.
at st. Louis, for 81 100000 loaned and
paid on account since 1862. The Missouri
institution is in the hands of re-
ceiver.
The public school board imbroplio in
Anegany county, Nd, has been definitely
settled by the resignation of Judge Bu-
ehanan, which places the newly-ap-
pointed board in power, that board hay
ing also the official recognition of the
comptroller of the treasury.
DIR. Clemence s. Lozier, of Now York,
has failed, with $4,000 liabilities, of
which $4,000 are secured by bond and
mortgage on city property; nolainal as
sets 1000, real S452. Downer, st. John
Co, drug broke.s, New York, have
failed with S172,000 assets S66,OO0.
The daily gazette., 1878-02-06

The BOND PowER.-It is ridiculous to
suppose the people Of this country are to
submit to the bonds power, numbering
less than one-third of the people and
That third occupying one small corner of
the Republic, laboring under the haluci-
nation that gold coin has in the four years
succeeding 1873 acquired value unheard
OF practically in America before.
Ialk of the "slave power;" why the
deleterlous consequence of the old "slaye
power" had no comparison with the evils
that have attended the attempt to force
the control of the government into the
hands of the bonds power. The "slaye
power was local and its consequences
were encompassed and could be curtailed.
But the bonds power assumed to become
the controlling influence, and rule the
country per Sc. Why talk about central
ism? Why boast of freedom and indie
pendence if all our freedom and indepen-
dence is to emanate from the wealthy
few who hold the purse strings, in an age
like this, in which we daily see the sword
submissive to the same corrupting evil
that caused the money-changers nearly
two thousand years ago to be scourged
from the Temple? 1t is true that the
negroes have obtained liberty to starve
and go naked at the expense of thousands
OF precious lives of white men. But it
Will be dear bargain if in exchange
with the four millions of negroes who
have been freed from the 'slave power"
forty millions of white people shall sub
init to be enslaved to the bonds power !;
and about half of that influence in Ger
many, Holland and England. Away
with such nonsense. Let the people con-
troll their monetary system, and re-estab-
The daily gazette., 1878-02-06


Our FRIEND DEAN devotes more
attention to the GAZETTE than that
"faithless and fearful" journal is worth.
The GAZETTE does not care one third
as much about Democracy rs it does
about the price of town lots. Democracy
is nothing to it but a lever to pry adver-
tisements out of Democratic officials and
lawyers.-E. e. and Com.
The GAZETTE is ''fearful" of slandering
any man or woman. But jenkins old
Commercial has hesitated not to put the
women of Delaware ON par with such
as Theo. Tilton had in view when in his
madness for Negro women suffrage he
published the letter in which he declared
that he hoped to see the day when a
negress would be President of the United
States. And Tilton is a very dear friend
of the editors and owners of all that is
left of jenkins old Commercial and
Eoery EDeaing, and which now claims
Mr.. Dean to be dear friend also. II
In that journal Mr.. Dean emulates its
editor in allying himself closely to Sena-
tor Bayard just at the time he aims his
piON "o 81 DchiooAdtlS tduuludtt. line
GAZETTE may be ''fearful," but Mr..
Dean does not seem to have found it
so.
1t is susceptableproof that the publishers
of EUery Eoo,ing did have man atDover
under pay who was expected TO get the
bill for the Sheriff7s advertising through
TO suit its own purposes.W have bought
some town lots at sacrificeit is true, but
they We're sold to us by those who had
read the puffs of T.. +. and Jenkens' old
Commercial and been 'caught," and are
now heartily disgusted with the paper
that laughs at them and those who have
paid high prices, in the day of their CAL
amity. The paper is a heartless snare.
y The question as to the legal right of the
Erery Ece'aing to charge for publishing
sheriff's sales sir times ,oeek under the
same law that the GAZETTE, Republican
and Commercial were each only paid for
two insertions a week has not been
answered Was that done by the direc-
uons of the lawyers who were stockhol-
ders? 4
But the Euery Euening killed the goose
that laid the golden egg, by its outrage
Gus assumption of charges. Have care.
That tided you over. But there may be
in it boomerang" or petard that will
not be all smoke,
The daily gazette., 1878-02-06

One of the most interesting factors in
the Eastern problem is the Turkish fleet.
hussia mas not made formal demand for
it, but the advantage to her cannot
escape observation. 1t might be demand
ed and taken by Russia as part of the
war indemnity or as guarantee of the
freedom of the straits, or ON any other
preteXt which the conqueror knows how
to put forward. Turkey will try to escape
TINS, and hand her fleets over to England;
but Russia holds such mortgage upon
the land that it may compel settIeme mt
ON its own terms.
The daily gazette., 1878-02-06

THE LETTER FROM THURLow WEED,
the veteran editor, former Whig and
now Republican, which we publish else
where, shows up the rascality of demon
etization very clearly. Mr.. Weed ap-
plies the term 'usance," we believe, just
ly, nor do we think that any bond or
mortgage obtained in Delaware as the
the bondholders' wereIthrough Congress
would be legalized by the Courts of Della
ware
The daily gazette., 1878-02-06
WEDNESDAY,
The 9th Day Of February, 1873.

At 2 O'Clock, p. M, the following described
Real Estate, viz:
All that certain lot or parcel of land with
SIX two-story frame houses thereon erected,
situate In the city of Wilmington aforesaid.
bounded and described as follows, to-Wit:
Beginning at point on the northerly side
OF A street al 70 feet wide, at the distance of
2S ieet easterly from the easterly side of
townsend street, a corner for lands of John
p. edwards, thence along said Edwards
line through the middle OF the partition
wall between this house and the house on
the west adjoining northerly and parallel
wlthIownsend street 60 feet to the southerly
sue OF feet wide alley leading into
townsend street, thence along said Side of
SAID alley easterly ~ feet 10 "a stake in a
line OF land of p. II. Mitchell, thence
soutcerly along said Mitchell's line and
parallel with Townsend street 60 feet To- the
aforesaid northerly side of A street. and
thence thereby westerly ~ feet to the place
M OF beginning, be the contents thereof what
Seized and taken in execution as the rro
perty OF George r. Townsend and Mary e.
M his vile, but now the property of Gus
tavns Nelson, grantee of the said George
II. townsend and Mary e. NJ. his wife. and
terre tenants, and to be sold by
SAAC GRUBB, Sheriff,
sheriff's Office, New Castle, January.
zist a. D.. 1878 jan21-3tawts