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The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-08-05
For the Cairo Bulletin
PECULIAR PEOPLE.

Probably no class of men have a better
opportunity of studying and seeing human
nature in all its forms and phrases than
doctors. The sick bed is a ready mirror for
the exposition of the temper of a patient,
man or woman. And probably no one has
his patience more severely tried than those
same unfortunate NJ. DIS, whose possible
faults and failings we will probably en-
deavor to set forth in some future number
of the good BULLETIN The number of
imaginary complaints he is called on to
treat, the number Of fancies and notions he
has to contend with, the amount of supersti-
ton and prejudice he has to overcome;
the amount of fretful, nervous, soul.trying
persons he daily meets, whose only mission
in life feems to be to relate complaints of
shadowy sickness, is simply beyond the
ken of an ordinary mortal One man ex-
poets his doctor to exist for his convenience
and family alone, and to wait for his pay
with becoming modesty and patience until
il suits his convenience to oblige him.
Anothernever pays his doctor bills if he can
help it. What under heaven doctor
needs of money is beyond his computation
and comprehension. The audacity Of the
thing is without parallel, and the presen-
tation of a bill is absolutely shocking to
their pecuniary nerves. 1t matters not how
i'll, how near deaths door they have trod
den, and how skillfully the patient NJ. ID.
has guided their footsteps back to health
once we'll
God and his doctor alike forgot
and the physician must live on-what 7
Credit and reputation His wife is clothed
In the renown Of her husband, and the
children shod with his success-the thinnest
sort Of wear for every day life.
There is another class who patronize
young doctors for their ailments, and ex
pect them TO do, in day, what they would
grant an experienced practitioner week or
month to do. Nothing undermines the
enthusiasm Of young doctor SO much as a
feeling that his patient is simply tolerating
him. IT saps his best energies, and makes
him careless Of his own name and reputa-
tion as practitioner. Then there are
those who are continually comparing
doctors, and the rapidity with which
Diseases azasysFcd BY individual rractition-
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NEW SERIES---NO. "a.

And then the old women! God help
young doctors and old ones too, from the
clutches Of garrulous old woman! They
are the bugbears of all sick rooms.
Mother-in-laws are but a feeble circum-
stance. Many doctor owes his want OF
success to meddling, gossiping, interfering
old women, whose tongues out-reach their
wisdom. Pathology, physiology and Their
apeutics sink into obscurity beside their
experience, and the doctor who attempts
to cater to the good opinion of these sick
room harpies, will soon find that he has
made great mistake.
Let us resolve to pay our doctors and
pay promptly. 1t will keep their minds
free from anxiety for the welfare of their
families, and their prescriptions will be
surer, and we will reap the benefit in the
long run. An honest doctor earns every
dollar of his money and let us not keep
HIM ouAof it one day longer than we can
help. BEATRICE.
Cairo, August 4th, 1870.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-08-05
Latest News.
YELLOW FEVER.
TWELVE NEW CASES AND TWO
DEATHS AT MEMPHIS.
MEMPHIS.

MEMPHIS, Tenn, Aug, 3.-Another mis-
cradle Sunday-not more dreary than any
other day in the week-but miserable be-
cause Of the absence of the usual parapher-
MALTA of Christian Sabbath, not less con.
spicuous in Memphis than any other city
on the continent. But one church, st. Pc.
ter's Catholic, was open at the usual
hour for services to-day, and twenty
persons was the maximum number in
attend once. Many Of the business houses,
mainly groceries stores, were open serving
customers, and what there is left in Mem
phis to make any appearance at all gave
the principal thoroughfares but little
change from what IS seen every day in the
week. The weather has changed but little
except it is perhaps degree warmer.
Thundershowers were threatened this af.
tertoon, but did not come, and tonight the
atmosphere is quite comfortable.
NEW CASES.
The board of health reports twelve new
cases to-day, of which six are white and
six colored.
THE H0wARDs
Make official report of their operations up
to last night. Up to the S0th of July they
had in charge ffty-six patients, OF which
number eleven died and five have GONZALES
ced, leaving at that date forty under treat
ment Up to last night the total number
of sick were seventy-three, an increase of
seventeen during the past two days. OF
the total number fifty-six are whites and
seventeen colored people. They have sixty
five nurses on duty. In addition to the
above, they furnished to-day fifteen nurses.
The Howard association have many sick in
charge outside the city limits, whose names
do not appear on the books Of
the board of health Among those of to-
day are two children of DR.. George Jones
on the fernando road. Robert L. Webb
of the house of w. II. Horton g. Co., on
Front street was
STRICKEN WITH THE FEVER
To-day, but his physicians did not report
the case to the board Of health. Webl
has been nursing his brother couple o
weeks. The Masonic relief committee re
port eight cases in charge, all doing well
The intention of the Memphis and Louis
vile railroad to discontinue daily mails and
run only trl-weekly engines, has created
much discussion ard the scheme is gener-
ally condemned. The department at Wash
ington will, 1t is intimated, be urged to
have regular daily mail communication
kept up.
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yEGETIyE

"VEGETINE,"
Says Boston physician, 'has no equal as n blood
pnrlnsi Hearing OF Its many wonderful cures at.
yer all DINER remedies had failed visited the lab.
Tatofy, ana convinced myself Of its genuine merit.
IL ~ prepared from barks roots and herbs eacb OF
when Is highly effective, and they are compounded
In such manner as to produce astonishing results.
VEGETINE
IL the great blood purifier,
VEGETINE
WIN cure the worst case OF Scrogula.
VEGETINE
lie recommended by physicians and apothecarles.
VEGETINE
Has effected some marvellous cures in cases Of
Cancer.
YEGETINE
Cures the worst cases of Canker.
VEGETINE
Meets with wonderful success in Mercurlal diseases
VEGETINE'
viii eradicate Salt Rheum from the system
VEGETINE
Removes pimples and Humors from the face
VEGETINE
Cures Constipation and regulates the bowels.
VEGETINE
Is a valuable remedy for Headache
VEGETINE
viii cure Dyspepsia.
VEGETINE
Restores the entire system to healthy condition.
VEGETINE
Removes the cause of Dizziness
VEGETINE
Relieve Faiatness at the stomach
VEGETINE
Cures Pains in the Back
VEGETINE
EfectuaTy cures Kidney Complaint
VEGETINE
Il effective in its cure Of Female Weaknesses.
VEGETINE.
Is the great remeny for General Debility
VEGETINE
is THE BEST
SPRING MEDICINE.
VEGETINE.
PREPARED By
II. R. STEVENS, BOSTON, MASS.
Vegetine is Sold By all Druggists,
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-08-05

You MUsT CURE THAT CoUGH.--With
Shiloh's Consumption Cure you can cure
yourself. II has established the tact that
Consumption can be cured. while for Coughs
Bronchitis, Whooping Cough, Asthma, and
all diseases of Throat and Lungs, it is abso-
lutely without an equal, Two doses will re
lievc your child of Group, it is pleasant to
take and perfectly harmless to the youngest
child, and no mother can efford to be with
out it.. You can use two thirds of bottle
and if what we say is not true VIC will re
fund the price paid. Price 10 cts. 50cts.
and s1,0O per bottle. If your Lungs arc
sore or chest or back lame use Shiloh's Por
Gus Plaster Sold by Barclay Brothers.
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Cairo, August 4th, 1870.

A SEARCH WARRANT allows an officer to
go through your house from cellar to gar
ret, and Liadsey's Blood Searcher is war
ranted to go through your system from top
to toes and drive out all blood diseases. Its
cures are wonderful and certified to by doc
tors, preachers and people Scrofula, Mer-
curial Diseases, Eryslpelas, letter, Ulcers in
the Lungs or on the Skin, Boils, Pimples,
&C., we warrant it to cure. 1t is purely
Vegetable Compound and Powerful Tonic.
For sale by all Druggists. See that our
name is on the bottom of the wrapper.
r. E. SELLERS s. Co., Prop'rs, Pittsburgh,
Pa Barclay Bros Agents.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-08-05

WELLS Persian Perfume "Hackmetack"
is rich and fragrant try it. Sold by Barclay
Brothers.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-08-05

Is IT TRuE.--Is it true that remedy has
been compounded which will do away with
the mineral and drastic purgatives Of the
past centuries, and which, while entirely
efficient will leave the system in Its former
healthy condition. Yes, the remedy is
Tablers Portaline, or Vegetable Liver Pow
der; cure for all the disorders arising
from torpid liver, and as innocent as spring
water. Give 1T q trial II will do what Il
promises. Price 80 cents bottle. For
sale by Barclay Bros.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-08-05

OuT AT LAST -"Gooa morning, friend
A., am surprised to sec you out, and look.
ing SO well, heard you were confined 10
your room, and bed by that pest Of human
ity, Piles "Yes, Mr.. b, had been long
sufferer when heard Of Tabler's Buckeye
Pile Ointment II proved blessing to me
indeed one bottle having SO far restored me
as to enable me to be about my business
again with ease and comfort. You can rec
ommend il as genuine remedy Price
so cents a bottle. For sale by Barclay
Bros.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-08-05

SAVE YOUR CHILDREN.-For expelling
worms from the system, Sellers Vermifugc
has no equal in this or any other country.
One teaspoonful given to child of Mr..
Bradbery's, expelled 234 worms in four
hours after taking the medicine. Benz Ly-
tie, Union township, Pa. Also expelled 400
worms from my child two years old.-Wm
sarver, st. Louis, Mo- Sold by all drug
gists. Price 25 cts. r. Il. Sellers & Co.,
proprietors, Pittsburgh, Pa. Send for cir
cular. Barclay Bros, Agents
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-08-05

THE TRUTH is MIGHTY and will prevail.
Thousands who have used and been cured
are living witnesses to the truth Of our
statement, that Sellers Liver Pills will cure
the worst cases of liver complaint, bilious
ness, headache arising thcrefrom, costiye
ness, constipation, dizziness and all disor
ders resulting from diseased liver. For
sale by all druggists. Price 25 cents. r.
Z. Sellers g. Co., Proprietors, Pittsburgh,
Pa. Barclay Bros, agents.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-08-05

HAVE you Dyspepsia, are you Constipa-
ted, have you Yellow skin, Loss of Appe-
tite, Head Ache, if so don't fail to use Shi-
loh's System Vitalizer 1t guaranteed to
relieve you, and will you continue to suffer
when you can be cured on such terms as
these. Price 10 cents, and rs cents. Sold by
Barclay Brothers.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-08-05

Our OF WoRK.-There be those who say
that there need be none unemployed--that
there is work for all, if they will but do ii.
What we say, is, let every one who has
cough or cold take Halls Balsam at once.
1t is the only reliable remedy, that never
fails to cure.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-08-05

AN OLD DocToR's ADvcE.--It was this i;
"Trust in God and keep your bowels open"
For this purpose many an old doctor has
advised the habitually costivc to take Kid
ney, Wort---for no other remedy 80 effect.
ually ovcromcs this condition, and that
without tlle distreas and gripping whIch
other nlccicincs cause. II Is 4 radical
cure or nilcs. " Nv.
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CHURCHES.


A FRICAN VI E.--Poufteen,h street, between
N Walnut and Cedar streets services sabbath ii
a. N. and i:D p. m; Sunday School l;D p. IN.
CHRISTIAN Eighteenth street; meeting Sab.
~ bath 1879 .. m: preaching occasionally
IHURCH OF THE REDEEMER-t EpiscopaD
" Fourteenth street: Morning prayers tsabbath)
1850 q. IN; evening prayers 7;3O ?. m. Sabbath
school 2 a. m
L'iRST MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH.
j Preaching at 1920 a. m, =. M, and 15D p m.
sabbath school at $50 D. IN. Rev. T. j. Shores,
pastor.
I UrHHRAN-Th Thirteenth street services Sab
- bath 30 a. m Sunday schOol2p m. Rev
kngppc, pastor
AJETHODlST-Co Eighth and Walnut stress;
vi Preaching sabbath 1879 q. IN. and p. m;
prayer meeting, "wednesday 100 p. m, sunday
School, 9 a. m. Rev Whitaker, pastor
DRESBYTERLAN- Eighth street; preaching on
] sabbath at II 90 u. N. and 7:D p. m; prayer
meeting Wednesday at 80 p. m; sunday school
at .. m Rev. Is. !. George pastor.
g ICoSD FREE.wILL BAPTIST 49, Fineerih
- street between Walnut and Cedar streets, ser
vices Sabbath at aud 800 p. m
CT. JOSEPH S-(Roman CatholcJ Corner Cross
- and Walnut streets: services Sabbnih l03Ja
N Sunday school at ? p. M, Ncspers p. m; ser
vice. every day o. p. m.
OF PATRICK S--iRnman Catholic) Corner Ninth
- street ard Washington avenue; service. SAB.
nath and ~ a. m; Nespers 3 p. m. sunday school
2p %. services every day q; p m Kew. r label
priest
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TINE TABLE.
r. r. TINE CARD AT CAIRO.
THE MAILS.
ILLINOIS CENTRALR.R.

GENERAL DELIVERY open 80 a. IN. closes
" $50 pm; Sunday: 4 to . a. m,
Money Order Department open at So. M; closes
hL5p. m.
Through Express Mails via Illinois Central and
Mississippi Central Railroads close at 1890 p. m.
Cairo and Poplar Bluff Through and Way Mall
closos NJ lgaD p IN.
Way Mall Via illinois Central, Cairo and Vim
cennes aud Mississippi Central Railroads close at
gb p. m.
Way NAL FOR Narrow Gauge Railroad closes at 8
q, NJ.
Cairo gId Evansville River Route closes OF $50
? NJ daily except Friday
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-08-30
Burdette Sees the Sea-serpent.

In letter from Nova Scotia to the
Burlington Hawkeye, Burdette says:
As long rs l am up here, l want to see
every thing there is to be seen. SO l
have looked upon the sea-serpent. A
few weeks ago you published a st. John
dispatch describing the serpent as seen
in the Gulf of st. Lawrence. Since then
it has been bathing in the Bay of Fundy.
1t was as long as clothes-line, and had
head like a flour barrel, and when it
came into the harbor at st. John, it had
Il place on its back for band stand and
a reporters gallery. 1t came here the
day of the vice-regal reception, and
wanted to hire itself out for triumphal
arch, but there were no takers. 1t pro-
PEELED itself along through the waves
with two sets of paddles which it used
with great dexterity. 1t would have
swallowed man who was bathing in
the bay, only the man was not there,
having gone home several hours before.
1t pursued one of the International line
steamers for several miles, and seeing the
barkeeper standing on deck, recognized
him and called him by his first name,
which leads to the belief that this sea-
serpent had wintered off the coast of
Texas. 1t finally gave up the pursuit of
the steamer, but afterward stopped a
tug, and asked the names of the daily
papers in st. John, and if they had said
any thing about him. 1t stood up in the
bay to look at the procession, and cheer
fully accosted the Kings County caval-
~, addressing those much-decorated
warriors as the Bushmen," which
familiarity with local customs rather
confiicted with the Texas theory, and
proclaimed the S. S. a provincial. But
then the serpent sails around so much
that he acquires the habits and speech
of all countries. The serpent disappear
ed after this, and was seen but once
more in the harbor of st. John. About
5 O'Clock in the afternoon, the monster
rose to the surface up near the boat
yards in Courtenay Bay, and with a
strong Arkansas accent, asked a group
of workmen if IS any gentleman had any
soft eating tobacco about his clothesP'
And with this pleasant request for 6 fine
cut the serpent disappeared, and was
seen no more
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-08-30
A Queer Idea of Pets.

Yesterday morning Il reporter was sit
ting on a bench in Jackson Square, Won
dering where the deuce all the news had
got to, when an item presented itself III
the shape of an Englishman with Il box
under his arm. He sat on the same
bench with the scribe and was CONVERSE
tionally disposed; had lately come from
India; liked America very well-what
he had seen of it; was going to st. Louis,
and from there to California, and so
back to India. And would the reporter
like to see a curiosity? The reporter
would. The Englishman carefully re
moved the cover of his boX-a tin one
about foot square and six inches deep,
with perforated top-disclosing net
ting of brass wire, beneath which lay a
genuine cobra di capello! Now, the
Briton had been munching a g russell, ="
and the reporter had a confused recol-
lection of an account of a man getting
into trouble through a snake and an ap-
pie in a park, or garden. or something;
but he checked his rising apprehension,
and boldly gazed upon the ugly var
mint
81 take him out every morning when
1 am ASHORE observed the Englishman,
ssand set the box in the highest and
thickest grass can find. 1t seems to
freshen him up and do him good
What does he eat?''
"Any thing alive that he can swallow.
Any thing, that is, except beetles; for
he won't touch any kind of a beetle. He
likes a mouse better than any thing else,
and give him one whenever / can get
it. OF course, you know, l have to lift
the netting to get in a mouse, and it's
not easy to get one in alive and keep the
snake in too. See where he is swollen
out there in the middle? That's mouse
1 gave him yesterday. 1t will last him
three weeks, and he can do a great deal
longer than that without any thing at
all
This deadliest of serpents, for whose
bite there is no known remedy, and
which causes the death of thousands of
persons each year in India, is a dirty,
blackish color and very closely resem-
bles our common "spreading adder. :"
The specimen seen by the reporter was
about sixteen inches in length and an
inch in diameter. As its owner shook it
about in the box to excite it, it expanded
the hood-like membrane from which it
derives its name, and was as vicious
looking a creature as can well be inn
agined-Ne,D Orleans Times.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-08-30
A Smattering of French.

Very amusing are the affectations of
some of our American ladies, who come
to Paris with smattering of French,
and address even English-speaking peo-
pie in a sort of pigeon French, not very
different from the tongue in which
F" john tells you !" Me washee shirtee,"
/" me likee you muchee." 1t recalls to
one the incident in the life of Mr. Poti-
phar so whimsically related by Mr.. Cur
tbs. When MIR. Potiphar came to Paris
his wife attempted to teach him French
He got as far as bong joor, Mong-
sheer" and was able to ask the serv-
ants the way to numero kattery wang
sank" but was ambitious to shine as Il
French scholar in public places. He
used to go into the reading rooms of his
bankers and take up paper. Then,
suddenly laying it down, he would OBJ
serve to his next neighbor, I" Bung joor,
But perhaps you do not
speak French He tried this once too
often, for one day, on saying it to a dig
nified gentleman, the other promptly
replied, Z" 1t is evident that you do not
and refused to talk any more. 1t GER
tainly is absurd for an American to adj
dress other Americans i'm French, unless
they speak it so well as not to be IL
for Frenchmen who may
be listening Causeur, IN Paris Register.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-08-30
An Important Geological Fact.

Geology has shown us that Nature accom-.
plishes her greatest revolutions in the earth's
surface conformation s1o,cly. Every year the
river makes its channel deeper, The glacier
wears deeper gorge in the Alpine rock and
the ocean tide deposits the sand it has crum-
bled from the rocks upon which it breaks.
We note the earthquake and the devastating
hurricane; but these changes are so gradual
man seldom ob.erves them until the channel
has become overhanging cliffs, or noun tain
has disappeared before the icy stream, or the
ocean has given us Florida. Thus it is in
disease. Our attention is attracted by acute
diseases, as fevers, cholera, etc, while chronic
diseases (often the most dangerous in result),
being slow in their development, are seldom
noticed until they have male an almost inef-
faceable impression upon the system. Per-
sons believing themselves comparatively
healthful are ofttimes the victims of these
diseases, and only become aware of their
presence when relief is almost impossible.
Diseases of the liver and stomach are the
commonest of these chronic affections. DR..
Pierce's Golden Me iicai Discovery and Pleas
and Pursative Pellets are never-failing rem
edies for these diseases They produce q
healthful secretion OF the bile, prevent indi-
gestion by regulating the bowels, and impart
q vigorous tone to the whole sy stem.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-08-30
Coddling a Streak of Lightning.

An American lady writes: "At night
hangs his hat upon the floor, throws his
coat upon the first chair, sends his boots
flying in another direction, works his
feet into his slippers while unfolding his
paper, reads, eats, reads again until bed
time, throws his paper down for some
one else to pick up, and rushes off to
bed. This is the programme, with ex-
ceptions, until Saturday night. Sunday
morning he bolts his breakfast and tears
around while getting into his Sunday
best, and rllshes off to church; comes
home and bolts his dinner (never eats),
reads little, sleeps a little, and away
he goes again. When he tries to keep
quiet he is sure to make the more noise;
if he starts to go around a mud-puddle
he is sure to step fiat into it; if he cross
es the room carefully he is sure to kick
the table-leg or fall over II chair;
and let him go to a table where a spare,
clean cloth has been spread, and you
will see more of decorative art in five
minutes than you ever dreamed could be
accomplished in so short IL time. He is
temperate, naturally kind-hearted, at
tends strictly to business and pays his
debts like a man; was once chatty and
domestic, fond of his family and home,
but has allowed himself to drift with this
rushing, reading habit, until now moth
ing could break it up short of breaking
his neck. Fancy a wife trying to coddle
such streak of lightning