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The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-01-10

CoAI, CoAL--F. NJ Ward has on hand
the best quality Of coal for sale at the mar
ket price, Very low, He will Boon have
a large stock Of wood sc all kinds lie ia
"oit N"o"n 10 oUory body ara w truSr
he viii receive his full share Of pa
trOn8ge.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-03-21

Pittsburgh Commercial Of yesterday.
1t has been officially promulgated that
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company has
decided to reduce the rates on fourth class
freights, between Pittsburgh and the East
The new schedule fixes the rate at eleven
cents from Pittsburghto to Baltimore, twelve
cents from Pittsburgh to Philadelphia and
fourteen cents from Pittsburgh TO New
York. This is general reduction OF two
cents on the rates which have heretofore
prevailed, and to heavy shippers will be,
in the aggregate, quite an agreeable reduc'
ton. The new schedule goes into effect
at once, and the shippers are saying for
this relief much thanks.
The explanation OF this reduction is
offered by the Pittsburgh Leader OF yester'
day evening, received after the above clip
from the Commercial was put into type
The Leader says that the concession is
wholly due to the competition OF the new
Lake Erie road, which is beginning to
pour in eastern freight via the Eric and
Atlantic aud Great Western.
"The new road commenced business on
terms OF such cordially with the P. R. r.
combination, that it fixed its rates, it is
said, in consultation with high officer oil
the Pennsylvania company, and people
began to think that instead OF being a
new outlet for Pittsburgh, it was merely
going to be Il new link in the chain Of rail
road monopoly which had SO long had us
in its grip. But the pressure of business
necessity was, us the more thoughtful fore
saw, too much for any such arrangement
The Lake Erie had 10 strike out for itselI
to live, and it is doing so quite vigorously,
and wo believe successfully. The benefit
OF this competition for Pittsburgh has, We
think, only just begun. The lowering q
rates now commenced will not cease till
the discrimination which Pittsburgh now
suffers, as compared with points further
west, has ceased, and we get our full prt
rata share OF the astonishingly cheap rates
that the railroad wars have given Cincin
natl and Chicago.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-03-21

LITTLE Rock, March lO.--About week
ago, at Fayetteville, John Reed, a Union
man during the civil war, and Of desperate
character, was killed in the county jail.
a friend ofhis, for an.inlnction OF the law,
had been arrested. For some hours Reed
followed the officer in charge OF the man
about, and finally followed him to the Jail
about dark. As he was committing the
prisoner to tho custody OF tho Tailor,
Reed, although able to bail his friend, re.
fused TO do SO. lie entered the Jail with
the officer and prisoner, and Just as the
door was about to be locked on the latter,
Reed struck the jailor with heavy junk
bottle, knocking him senseless. Reed was
armed. The jailor in falling extinguished
the candle, and the guardsknowing Reeds
character, fired upon him in the dark, one
shot penetrating his heart. The Coroner's
jury was unable 10 determine whose shot
killed him, the guards themselves being
unable to tell. The jury found verdict
Of justifiable homicide.
Reeds friends, fifteen or sixteen miles
distant, hogan to organize for the avowed
purpose oI selHlnB Deputy snerllt SeWell,
whom they supposed fired the fatal shot,
and who was under bond to appear at the
next term OF the Circuit Court. Tho citi.
zens Of Fayetteville became much alarmed
ut tho threats, and asked and received per.
mission OF the Governor TO organize com.
pany OF State guards, which In the emer.
gency was supplied with rifles IRON the
State University at Fayetteville, the State
furnishing ammunition, RGed's friends
In the meantime had approached the town,
but finding the militia In arms abandoned
their purpose. They loft their guns out.
side aud came into town and organized a
meeting, at which resolutions were adopt.
cd dcnOunCing the course OF the authori.
ties. An additional resolution, not pre-.
Gpptel ut the meeting, was adopted, rs Mr..
r. A, Caldwell, who handed them to tho
printer, admits in tho Fayetteville pFRG.
crat, denying tho purpose Of the Assem-.
bIage to resist the civil authorities. Nc
political question was involved in the mat.
ter, though the old animosities OF the wa,
were revived. All is now and will probaY
| lly remaln lplpt,
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THE BALDWIN MURDER.
Wholesale Arrest of Suspicious PartI'

Wholesale Arrest Of Suspicious Parties
CINCINNATI, March 2O.-The excitement
over tho murder Of Harry Baldwin las
Saturday night is undated. The Coroner
has not yet finished his inquest, and Tho
entire detective force OF the city have beer
at work, although with scarcely thread
OF evidence on which TO base their opera
tions. This afternoon wholesale arrests
were made, and the excitemement tonight
is intense. The first parties taken were
two sisters, Mollie and Birdie Danton,
notorious characters, residents OF the
neighborhool where the tragedy occurred.
Another sister is missing, and the police
are industriOusly searching for her.
Later in the afternoon Kittie Bennett,
keeper OF place on Elm street, known as
the "Little Club House." with Blanche
Rawley, Martha BuCkner and George
Shepard, inmates Of her house, were lock.
ed up at the Central Station with the un.
bailable charge OF suspicion against them.
In one Of the rooms OF Madame Benefits
house spot in the carpet was discovered
saturated with substance supposed to be
blood this was removed and placed in the
hands OF chemist. A boy states that he
used to carry notes between Baldwin and
q girl named Lille, who was an occupant
OF Benefits house, and who has disap.
peared. Madame Bennett says that she
has been gone two weeks.
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ToONtXY OF our people are leaving for
The West, Washington county is n good
placc to remain in.-lINIii0giOm, Pa, Re-
lOtG.
A large number Of people seem to be
leaving Washington county for all parts
dhe West, especially Kansas & Iowa.
Ttsaw some time since thut meeting OF
bEa citizens, who had cmigrated from
Washington county, was held at a town in
Western Iowa, and ii we mistake not the
letter said that there were some fifty per-
IONS living in the vicinity Of the town who
hal once lived in Washington county.
The explanation Of this large emigration
kthat many Washington county farmers
have been more or less embarrassed since
the panic, and have moved away to rid
themselves Of old associations, grown dis.
tasteful by reason Of their emharrass-
Ments, AMI in the hope that leads many
man 10 imagine that he can start life
anew to better advantage in q
aew Country. \ desire for new
scenes aud associations is very aptto slim
uIatc emigration when life has lost lis
charm hy reason of misfortune. This is
the secret Of many removals to the West,
Farmers WHO got in debt in the flush
times, or who from some misfortune OF
neglect ran behind, have sold out in order
ost9p interest and save something from
ihewNvk wNerewith to begin anew in the
West
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Unprovokcd Assault and Murder.

NEw ORLEANS, March 2O.-A Times
special from Marshall, Texas saYsi After
tho Ward and barrymore Combination
had finished the play, tho company went
to the depot to await the arrival Of the
train, and Maurice Barrymore, b. G. Por-
ter and female attache OF the company
went into the lunch room, when John
Currie a detective entered and made
sighting remarks about the Indy, ta which
Porter. After some words Currie drew a
pistol and shot Porter in the abdomen,
killing him almost instantly, then turning
he shot Barrymore through the elbow, the
ball coming out under his left shoulder,
making severeif not a dangerous wound.
Porter ana Barrymore wore unaEmed.
Currie has been arrested.
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ST. Louis, March 2O.-At meeting Of
the sonthweNer Railroad Association
here to-day the committee appointed 10
rearrange the pool percentages failed 10
agree, and the meeting adjourned to meet
In Chicago on April s, when the question
will again be discussed.
1t is thought likely superintendent 10
operate the road under the general man
agement Of Clarke, General Superintend-
ent OF the Union Pacific will be selected
from among the general officers Of the
Kansas Pacific.
The point at issue is a demand on the
part OF the Chicago 4 Alton Company for
increased per centage, on the ground of
now having an independent line to Kan
sas City. The Western Transportation
Association, composed OF roads in the
Southwestern pool, held q meeting
this evening, and learning that the East,
era roads will not acquiese in the anti. pass
agreement, they concluded 10 exclude
from the arrangement all the territory east
Of the eastern lines OF Illinois and In.
diana. The Executive Committee of seven
was reduced to five by dropping from il
Newell, OF the Lake Shore; Mccullough,
Of the Pennsylvania, and Thomas, OF the
Y. =. y. 4 l., and substituting Kimball, Of
the Northwestern.
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PAREERspURo, March 90 News from
Calhoun county, from reliable source,
disclosss sensational scene not often on
the bills Of Calhoun. A few days since
the news was received that citizen OF
Leather creek, that county, whose name
your reporter conld not get correctly, had
beaten his wife in such terrible manner
as to bringabout miscarriage and ieopnr-
die her life. The fend was arrested and
taken before Justice OF the Peace, where
he was admitted to hail in the sum Of $500
to answer indictment, and allowed to de-
part. lie just got home when COM
mlttee Of citizensarrived, who took him 10
the woods, where they stripped him and
gave him coat OF tar and weathers. To
was then allowed to depart, which he i'm
mediately did, and has not been seen
since.
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from city to city, lanterns in hand, to dis.
cover an opening for the new enterprise.

Mn. CRAwFORD II. BoorH OF this city
will leave next Tuesday for Texas, where
he, has perfected arrangements to settle
with his family. lie has purchased 5000
acres Of land at onodolar per acre, which
he expects to stock with sheep from the
Panhandle here, branch OF industry
that in his judgment pays better than
cotton growing or almost any other kind
OF farming in Texas. For instance, Cur
ran Mendel sold his wool clip last sea
son for 90 cents, unwashed, equivalent to
S3to 80 cents for washed wool here. It is
comparatively inexpensive to keep sheep
in Texas, and not at oil troublesome.
From the amount OF sheep that arc going
to that State we should apprehend that
the business would 10 rather overdone at
an early day. 1t looks as II prices
must rule low there and elsewhere. This
probability, however, has It's compensa.
ton in the fact that woolen goods in that
event will DO more and more extensively
manufactured in this country for home
and foreign consumption. With the faCil-
ties presented by Texas, Kansas and Cal.
ifornia for wool growing, we ought to
raise enough wool to supply all the mar.
kets OF this continent with woolen goods
ut lower prices than they Gun be supplied
by the Europeans. American woolens
are growing in excellence and popularity
every year, and our people are wearing
woolen goods to an extent, even in sum.
mer time, unusual in the past. With such
immense crops OF cotton as we are now
raising, and with the rapid increase Of
wool growing in the South and West,
enough raw material will soon be crowd.
ing the markets to supply the world with
cheaper clothing than was ever dreamed
Of in the past.
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Thurman's Impending Bankruptcy as .
Presidential Candidate.

Thnrman's Impending bankruptcy as
Presidential Candidate.
Cincinnati Gazette Of yesterday.
Mr.. Thurman's venture on the Speaker
was of the same character as all his DEM
onstrations on the Presidential nomlna-
ton, and met the same failure. Randall
was in every way the best man for Speak
or, both as to capacity and as to its bear
ing on tho respectabiity OF the party, and
on its gaining The confidence Of the coun-
try. But Thurman thought that by trad
ing the Speakership to the ultra COnteder-
ate secessionists, and II tho great jobs
which had hitched to Blackburn, be
could buy the support OF that side
for his nomination. In this. as in
his Jump down to irredeemab!e and
unlimited legal tender notes, he sold char
acter, conviction and country for selfish
purpose, aud in this, rs ip the other, he
Jailed. He rolled in the dirt for nothing.
10 the same personal end he wants to
turn Congress into revolutionary body
and to get up conflict which shall keep
the business OF the country in state oi
alarm, And in this, as in the rest, while
he may work much evil, It will not help
his nomination, In all the history OF seek
ers OF the Presidency there is no instance
OF such q playing out ol q pretty iall
chance by the sacrifice Of character N
tho pursuit. When Thurman shall have
failed Of tho nomination he will he utterly
bankrupt in political charaetaF,
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Mrs. Oliver Continues TO DISrobe and
shows All the Wealth OF Her Naked
DeformIty,


Mrs. oliver Continues 10 DlSrobe and
shows All the Wealth OF Her Naked
DeformIty.
WASHINGTON, March 20.-In the Oliver.
Cameron case to-day the cross.examina'
ton Of Mrs. Oliver was continued. A
number Of letters were introduced which
the witness acknowledged as having been
written by her. She admitted signing
areceipt for $1,000 from Simon Cameron,
in full for all claims which she made on
him. She had passed under the names Of
Croper, Hafner, Stuart, Buker and Oliver.
She introduced herself as Mrs. Gen. Sher.
man in the parlor OF tho Congressional
Hotel. She went there to see Cameron,
and when the waiter asked who called
she thoughtlessly said that 1t was Mrs.
Gen. Sherman. 1t happened but once. The
servant at the hotel did not refuse her
admission to Cameron's room until she
told him she was Mrs. General Sherman.
When she took the money from Cameron,
the last instalment, and signed the paper,
she intended to use the money while she
was sick, but so much deception had been
praCtiCed OH her that she decided to keep
back something to prosecute her suit.
Her counsel was TO receive one-third OF
the amount that might be received. She
testified that she went to Cameron's room
at his request nearly every time. She
took medicine at his request, and the pur-
pose was understood between them, and
it was for getting rid Of her trouble. The
money he gave her was for taking care OF
her while she was sick and had nothing
to do with the breach OF promise suit.
Adjourned,
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Bishop Purcell Reviews the SItuatIor
and Calls for Helm,


CINCINNATI, March 20.-A letter TO the
public from Archbishop Purcell is pub.
lished this morning. After reviewing the
struggles of his early life, his removal to
this diocese, the necessity of going into
debt 10 provide for the wants OF the dio.
cese, etc., he dwells on the present finan.
cial troubles. He states that it can be
safely said that not more than S5OO,OOO
was money deposited; the rest Is the re.
suit OF compound interest. As proof he
cites an instance which occurred yester.
day, where creditor called with claim
OF 81, 100. In presenting it he admitted
that $500 OF 1t was interest and expressed
u willingness to accept $500, tho amount
OF the original deposit. The claims OF
hundreds are OF the same nature. The
Indebtedness OF the diocese in equity does
not amount to more than Sl,0O0,000, to
place it at its highest figure.
He says further that for twenty years no
general collection has been taken up for
support Of the Diocesan Seminary, the
entire burden OF educating priests falling
upon the Archbishop. He paid the sal.
aries Of the professors and fed, clothed
and educated the seminarlans. He also
paid the expenses during the same period
for tho ecclesiastical students at Mount St.
Marys, Emmittsburg, in France and in
Rome. In twenty years these expenses,
which in justice the whole diocese
should have borne, amounted TO a
vast sum. While in Europe he bought
library Of sixteen thousand volumes with
philosophic apparatus, etc., which re.
quired large expenditure, which, with
the sum spent on the building Of an or
phan Asylum, Cathedral and other build.
ings, finally swamped him.
The Archbishop then rehearses the sit
uation declaring that but for the generous
sympathy OF the Catholics and Protestants
alike, lie would have sunk under the
weight OF his troubles. lie then appeals
to all Catholics and others who feel for
others woes to help him out OF his EN-.
DarTaSSmentS,
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Tnr social evil question was probably
se;ea for the whole country, as far as Ii
crn,ing llouscsof ill fame is concerned, by
h,, week election at st. Louis. That city
kas competent Us anyin the United States
to decide the question, for it had three
sears trial Of license ut the beginning ol
thelecaac, and for scme time past has had
the subject vigorously discussed in oil its
hearings. DutSt. Louis refused to license
the cyilagain last week, burying the prop
osi,ion, with thirty.iivG other amend
mcpts tothc city charter, and giving a hcav'
Ter vote against license than against any
other amendment. A few Areat work to get
another vote Oh the charter amendments
next month"; but the Legislature will prob
ably dispose Of the social evil question be-
lore then, by passing n bill now before it,
prohibiting ,hc licensing or regulation oI
PROSTITUTION.
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River 12 feet 0inches.
Weather cloudy and cold, with heavy
rain in the evening. =
The Buckeye State passed I'M at7A,u.
at 10! o'clock. '"0 h
IN The local packets were all on hand.
me lagon will leave for Parkcrsbnrg Mt
l03 this morning. '' ~
The hudson will be due at noon.
The Buckeye State will pass down To-
lBY Telegraph
MEMPHIS, March 2O.-River risen eight
inches. DIV
NEw ORLEANS, LIZ March 20. O.-clear; ther-
mometer 70o.
NASHVILLE, March 9O.-River rising
with feet on the shoals.
LOUISVILLE, March 2o.-Rainy. River
stationary; II feet in canal.
ST. LOUIS, March 90. River Il feet and
rising slowly. Weather cloudy.
VlcKsnuno, March 2O.-Cloudy; ther-
mometer 14'. River risen 4 inch.
plTTsBuRGn, March 2O.-Rivor s feet and
falling, Weather cloudy end cool.
:EvASsvILlE, March 20. : River falling,
Sllh w SSs feet Weather rairy; mercury
CAlRo, March 9O.-River 20 feet c inches
and sa .ns rising Weather cloudy; thcrmome.
ter 62'.
CISctXNATl. March 2O.-Riyer % feet G;
inches and falling. Light rain. Arrived
Cons Miller, Memphis; Andes. Wheniinr
Departed-KatiO Stocklale, Pittsburgh, b
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The Plot Against The American Cattle
Trade ThIckenS-

CHICAGO, March 2O.-Some excitement
was created here by the publication Of a
special from Toronto's Cable news, said to
be in the Globe of that city, to the effect
that the cattle exported on the steamer
Brazilian had, on arrival at Liverpool,
been found to be suffering from pleuro-
pneumonia, and had been slaughtered. It
is said also that most OF the shipment was
from Chicago. The truth OF the report is
doubted, and certainly as to the assertion
that the cattle exported from Chicago had
plenro.pneumonia, as there has never
been trace OF that disease found within
this cattle district. 1t is thought that this
is a part of the Canadian administration
scheme to destroy the trade between Great
Britain and the United States, and estab.
lish the protective policy. The collection
OF customs at this port does not show that
any diseased cattle have been exported
from here.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-03-21

I,sspity that some member OF our en-
,,,a,i,irr delegation in Congressional moi
%'s, S,,s stepped up to the White House and
,.ase.teI the President to locate J. Kelley
Weaver properly before sending in his
,,mr second time 10 the Senate as Con-
al General to Vienna. There is no OBJ
i.,ioo whatever on the part OF the peo'
SIeolthis State to Mr.. Weaver's repre-
,eu,in, the government us Consul ai
yieOn,. for no doubt he is very credi'
table representative, but il the State is
considered worthy to furnish the govern
neat with candidate for such u position,
,ri,i,en Of Pennsylvania ought not to be
svIllel on to her simply because Pennsyl'
apia may have exhausted her quot" in
the way OF appointments
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IT is really becoming Il matter OF solicit
Mle to know where that Grcenback
organ Of Uncle Ioe's .:pd editor Allison's
shHalIy going to be locat%d. Tie Steu-
OenyIlle Go:dtc pitched its tent il positive
'e'm'at WclI,bnrs, in its issue ofTueS'lay,
adeven domiciiatcd in the office Of the
FanhandIr Nrm', and spoke SO infinitely
AMI knowingly on TIE subject that we sup
PsNI Uncle Joe and his travelling COM
@n'On hal thoroughly unbosomcd them.
SlTrS TO the writer. But now comes
Was with q denial OF the Gaiclle's story,
mathew story to the effect that he has
u'e "most undoubted authority for
"a''AS that W. L. Allison, Esq, will,
N soon as the requisite number of
subscribers are procured, start a strictly
%S'Penarnt weekly newspaper in the
S'yo' Wheeling" Once again therefore
nempSr islocatcl at Wheeling, and here
AN'I' sce the light Of day rs soon rs q con.
S''ach'y can beprocUrCd. Now, however,
~a' hr'wo Bcns and Kenna have turned
SploFhanI moncyat Washington, and gone
OacE on their campaign speeches, and
~ rU0 That the Ohio idce" looks so much
r.,, TsG a "Is'oIving view, in prospect o
','"rNS nomination, it is hard to tel
N0e'e"eonsIiIuency fora Gireenbuck orgar
Ian be found hercabouts. The Rcgiacl
S' S@ GF'ed up on the subject, and even III,
S%aOe"yiI'c y, Ga:dIr, Il paper That had III,
"ce on the brain the worst way a few
~ I"a''' ago now roars very gently indeed
~. ~ Ias vision Of Tilden once again W
" Tp'ne' and means to be in line this time
'ue'e'o%' in view of all these discour
1's sns symptoms, We do not wonder the
'H''e Joe anl E'Iitor Allison arc trayelin
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rn, Springfield &pu1licon objects to
..l.,o, ..S IIcnry's chairmanship OF the
ss,nmi,er S,n''n on Appropriations and re-
V"9,,', n, ,%s, with their usual tacile blum
Hl;as .;a, T ,bc Democrats have put at the
aS,'"s ,Iot ,br Committee on Appropriations
',s, :.oslor a, from State which pays next to
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rr, has been ordered to its second
dino :, in the Pennsylvania Legislature
.DriSinr 'sa.iSI for the transfer Of the MorganSa
pI,.' !, W., School at Canonsburg to the
S,,D ss,o'~ Thi, is about the sort Of a bill that
.',''' s'A'', ,,,n,y would have been obliged to
u'' '.,.,,n,s In in the West Virginia Legisla-
.,,", ,a','I %,I tbe Work House project got
hi,v started i'll our midst.
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The long pending case Of the Receiver
Of the old 81. Louis Mutual Lilo INSURANCE
Company against tho Receiver OF the Col.
umbia Life Insurance Company to put
aside transfer OF about s. 900, 900 worth
OF property by the Mutual Life to the Col
unibIa lille, on tho ground OF illegality
was decided to-day 10 iaVaf pt lGQ Re
ceiver OF the latter company. This, it !.
understood, finally closes tho litigation
between these two companies.