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Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1880-02-05
Maine and New VYOrIK--COunllMg the
Election Returns.


An Ohio correspondent writes to the
Tribune, enclosing slip from Demo-
cratic local newspaper, and asks for an
explanation Of charge therein made.
The explanation has been made dozen
times, but as the charge is Democratic
lie it keeps moving on. The point oft
is that the Hon. CIarkson N. Potter was
counted out as Lieutenant-GovernOr of
New York by obedience to the same
rules which GarCelOn followed in Maine.
In support of IL the assertion Is made
that there were 400 votes for Mr.. Potter
in New York City which were thrown
out on account OfincOrrect spelling of
his name, The number 400 is merely
guesswork, as no official statement has
been made. There were wild assertions
in plenty, but no official statement.
Furthermore, no votes were thrown out
by the State canVassers. They merely
counted the returns as they were made
by the election officers, and refused to
go behind them. This is precisely what
GarCelon did not do. He went behind
the returns and threw out just enough
to elect a Democratic majority in the
Legislature. If he had followed the
rules followed by the New York can
vassers, there weuld have been no trou-
BILE in Maine, for he would not haYe
come in collision with the Constitution.
-Nel0 York Tribune.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1880-02-05

QUIET has been restored in Maine,
and the government is going on smooth
" in the hands Of the Republicans.
The fusion legislature adjourned to
next August, and part of the MEM
bers, who were legally elected, have
taken their seats in the legal legislature.
The remainder have gone home. The
attempted grand Democratic steal has
has ended in q grand izzle.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1880-02-05
A supplementary batch of Presiden.

A supplementary batch of Preslden-
tial interviews printed this morning
swells the total to little over 1000, the
limit intended. The figures given to-
day do not change the relative positions
of the candidates. Sherman comes out
with little less than one-half of the
preferences, Blaine with less than one
fourth, and Grant with about one-sixth,
the dark horses ranging from Garfield
down. This, we undertake to say is a
true presentation of Republican senti-
ment in Cincinnati Gdsette.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1880-02-05

than they have heretofore been OBJ
tanned. His bill for getting the text
books travels around by long route.
A bill was also presented in the
House on Monday by Mr.. Millikan for
the same object. This bill simply
amends the 530th section of the revised
statutes SO as to give to the State Com
missioner of Common Schools the right,
from time to time, to fix the maximum
retail price of text books used in our
common schools. What its fate will
be is difficult to tell at this time. There
is desire in the House to secure books
at lower rates, but the difficulty is to
agree upon plan and work it through
the ordeal Of legislation.
Mr.. Clement, of Lake county, has in-
troduced a bill in the House granting
to women the right to vote for members
of school boards, and to be eligible for
election as members Of school boards.
A majority of the members of this Cen
eral Assembly are Republicans, and of
course arc gallant gentlemen, but
whether their gallantry will control
their votes on this bill so far as to make
it the law Of the State this depOnent
declines to give his opinion; but If the
bill does become law the president of
the Washington G. II. Board of Educa-
tion will be found ready and willing to
surrender his honorable position to any
lady who may, under the law, be elected
a member of the School Board.
A bill passed the House last week
making it criminal Ofense for any
student, professor of medical college
or other person to be found in posses
sion Of, or assisting to disseCt, the dead
body of person that had been taken
from the grave by ghouls or grave
robbers. The bill makes the ghOul and
the persons found in possession of the
corpse equally criminals, and the pun
ishment is fine and imprisonment.
Grave-robbing for the use of the dis
secting room has become fearfully COM
mon.
attended a temperance lecture at
the Opera House in this city on Sunday
evening last, delivered by Rev, A. G.
Hurst. The large assembly filled every
seat in the gallery, the dress circle and
the parquet; even the stairways and
the standing room was all taken up, and
the lecturer was listened to, as he poured
forth his eloquence, with great interest
and profound attention.
Petitions for local option law are
daily coming up from all quarters Of
The State and being referred to the
Temperance Committee, but as yet the
policy Of the Legislature has not been
defined for me to hazard
an opinion as to what will be the re-
suit at this session. We have a good
many ardent local option liquor men in
The Legislature who profess, at least,
to be favorable to such law, but I fear
they lack the backbone necessary to do
right. AS yet no petitions have been
sent here, that l know of, from Fayette.
hope to hear from the friends of the
cause at home. w. M.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1880-02-05
InEIrmarY ORFIcIals.
At the late convention of County In
Urinary officials, held ct Columbus, the
following resolutions were nAssed:

following resolutions were passed:
RESOLVED. That it is the sense of this confer
ence that within three years from January |,
$780, all counties be required to erect suitable
buildings for homeless and destitute children,
separate from infrmaries, and the children be
removed thereto, and II not so provided the
children shall be sent to the nearest home, and
their expenses at such home shall be borne by
the counties sending them.
RESOLVED, That suitable buildings be pro-
vided by the State for lunatcs, idiots and epi-
leptics, and that they be removed from our In
nrmaFies.
RESOLVED, That tho Legislature be requested
to legislate more power to inilrmary directors,
empowering them to assess taxes for the neCes-
sary comfort Of inmates and to disburse the
same Independent Of commissioners of cOun-
ties.
RESOLVED, Believing the fact that 1t will cost
no more TO provide for the epileptics, insane and
imbecile under State care, and as their treat
ment and comfort can be greatly enhanced, we
earnestly recommend that the Recommendation
Of the Board Of State Charities be adopted by
this conference.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1880-02-05
The Successful One Thousand Dol
lar Prize Musical Composition


lar Prize Musical Composition
About a year ago the Musical Festi-
val Association of Cincinnati offered a
prize of 81 900 for the best musical com
position by native born citizen Of the
United States. The authors were at
liberty to select any subject they pleased,
which should include the chorus and
orchestra. Over twenty compositions
were offered for competition, and, while
the terms utterly prevented the iden-
tlty of the author, there is intrinsic
evidence for believing that all the best
composers of this country have con-
tributed for the honor of the prize.
The title of the chosen work is "Soenes
from LOngfellow's Golden Legend" "
The name Of the author of this Sompo-
sitlOn will not, according to the Condi-
tions of the prize, be known until the
sealed envelope containing his name is
opened on the night of the perform
anCe.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1880-02-05
WnpNEspAY MoRNINa, Feb. 4

w WEDNESDAY mORNlNG, F6Ds T.
Mr., Young introduced bill in the
House few days since, which requires
that all persons whose business is in
whole or in part the sale Of lntOxicat-
Ing liquors, beer, ale and wine, shall
give bond with two or more good
sureties, In any sum of not more than
81 800 nor less than $500. If the per-
son executing such bond sells In viola
tion Of laws relative to the sale Of in
toxlcating liquors, ETC., the fines, costs,
damages, ETC., are to be paid by the
violatOr, Or by the sureties If the per-
son so selling cannot or will not pay.
The bill gives no liberties to sell that
the law does not now admit, but it does
not prohibit the sale in quantities of
five gallons or upward, or to druggists.
In Its details the bill seems to be well
guarded, but what favor it will receive
at the hands Of this Legislature is among
the uncertainties.
Judge Walker, of Logan county, has
introduced an amendment to section
004l of the revised code. This section
reads as follows:
whoever sells intoxicating liquors
to be drank in, upon or about the build
ing or premises where sold, or In any
adjoining room, building or premises,
or other place Of public resort con-
neCted Herewith, or sells intoxicating
liquor to minor, except upon the writ
ten order of his parent or guardian, or
family physician, or to person intoxl-
Gated or in the habit of getting intoxi-
Gated, shall be fined not more than fifty
nor less than five dollars, or imprisoned
not more than thirty nor less than ten
days"
Mr.. Walkers amendment to this sec
tion provides that the fine shall not be
more than 500 nor less than IS, or inn
prlsonment not more than 80 days nor
less than 10 days, or both.
Both of these bills are sleeping in the
box Of the Committee on Temperance.
/ would have preferred that Mr.. Walk
er's bill had read "flned and imprls-
oned, /" instead Of "llned or imprisoned,
or both" WIN.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1880-02-05
FROM THE STATE CAPITAL.
Editorial Correspondence.
REPRESENTATIVES HALL,
COLUMBUS, o., February 2, 1880.

COLUMBUS, O,, FEBRUARY z, IsoO')
Business is accumulating in the com.
mittee boxes, and if bills come in al
the rate they have for the past week We
will have to adjourn leaving a great
amount of unfinished business on hand
or we will have rather a long session
which is not desirable by the members
especially as they are now paid a salary
instead of per diem, as heretofore
The greater portion Of the bills that
have passed the House are of local
character, and perhaps half Of the
local legislation has been introduced
by the Hamilton county members.
The Senate bill to reOrganize the
State into the old Congressional dis
tricts, as they were made by the law of
1879, has not yet been reported upon
by the select committee Of five, OF
which DR.. Scott, of Warren county, Is
chairman. This bill came over from
the Senate to the House for Its action
before DR.. ScOtt's House bill had passed
the House, and by courtesy, at least,
was entitled to priority. The House
redlstricting bill, which passed several
days since and went over to the Senate,
has fallen into the hands Of tGrdv COM
mittee In that branch of the law-mak-
ing power; SO you see there is, for the
present, at least, deadlock, and it
will require little legislative strategy
to relieve these bills from the grip Of
ambitious statesmen. May it not be
that aspirations for Congressional hon
ors have finger in this pleP think
that one or the other Of these bills
probably Senator Creamer's-will be-
come law before the adjournment,
and II the select committee would re-
port it back to the House 1t would pass
in three days.
The House bill authorizing the Com
missioners Of Fayette county to refund
money to certain individuals who had
paid money to the fund for the relief
of the destitute families of soldiers in
the army has passed the House, The
money that constituted fund to re-
fund to them what they had paid for
the relief of the families had been
transferred to the old railroad fund.
They were entitled to their money, but
the Commissioners had no fund to draw
upon for that purpose, and no authority
to draw upon any other fund for that
purpose; hence this enabling act.
The Judicial Committee hus large
amount Of business in It's box, and will
undoubtedly leave great many bills
In 1t when we adjourn that ought to be
thrown into the waste basket, as 1t
were. If all the sections of the revised
code should be amended as provided
for in the numerous bills already in
troduced, and all the sections repealed
that Is demanded, another cOdihca-
tlOn OF the laws will be required in
year Or two to enable a tolsrably good
lawyer to understand exactly what the
law Is.
The Finance Committee Is at work
on the general appropriation bill, but
when they will be able to report it to
the House Is something do not know,
and when 1t is reported 1t may require
three or four weeks for 1t to find its
way through the two houses. w. M.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1880-02-05

As our reporter came along Water
street last night, sbivering with the
chill night air, and drawing bis over
coat tightly about him, he thought,
''nOw Is the time for colds and coughs, ("
but If poor mortals only knew what a
certain cure DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup is,
how few would long suffer, and then it
costs only twenty-five oents.-Sdndusky
(0hiO) Register.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1880-02-05

TUESDAY, February 8, 1851.
Not much business was done In the
House yesterday. There were, as is
too common, great many absentees,
and II q member had bill he wished
to get through he dare not put It upon
It's third reading, as It requires So votes
In the affirmative to pass bill. Some
Of the standing committees are junk.
citing around the State among the pub
lie Institutions at a distance from the
State Capital, and this adds to the ABB
senteelsm.
A bin was introduced yesterday to
adjourn sine die on the 2lst of March,
but can hardly believe the member
who introduced It was In earnest about
It. Il smacks more Of buncomb than
sincerity. A motion was made to dis
cugs, and when such a motion is made,
under the rule Of the House, a resOlu-
ton has to lie over one day.
Mr.. Brown, Of Butler county, intro
duced a bill IN the House a few days
since for the purpose Of obtaining text
books Tor our schools at lower rates
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-12-03
Man'S Age.

Few men die OF age Almost all die
of disappointment. passion, mental or
bodily toll, or accidents. The passions
kill men sometimes, even suddenly
The common expression choked with
passion has little cXaggeration in il, for
even though not suddenly fatal, strong
passions shorten life. Strong-bodied
men often die young; weak men live
longer than the strong, for the strong use
their strength and the weak have none
TO use. The latter take care of them.
selves. the former do not. As it is with
the body, so it is with the mind and
temper. The strong are apt to break,
or, like the candle, to run, the weak TO
burn out, The inferior animals. which
live temperate lives, have generally their
prescribed number of years. The horse
lives twenty-five; the OK fifteen or twer.
"; the dog ten or twelve; the rabbit
eight; the guinea pig six or seven
These numbers all bear a similar pro.
portion to the time the animal takes to
grow TO its full size. But man, OF the
animals, is one that seldom lives this
average. He ought to live a hundred
years, according to the physical law,
for five times twenty are one hundred
but instead of that he scarcely reaches
on an average four times his growing
period: the cat six times; the rabbit
even eight times the standard of meas.
urement. The reason is obvious-man
is not only the most irregular and the
most Incorporate, but the most labori-
Gus and hard worked of all the animals.
He is also the most irritable of all an
imals; and there is no reason to be.
lieve, though we can not tell what an
animal secretly feels, that, more than
any other ANIMAL man cherishes wrath
to keep il warm, and consumes him
self with the fire of his own secret re-
Election.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-12-03
The Market.
THURSDAY, EVENING, Dec. 2, 1880.

THURSDAY, EVENING, Dec. 2, 1880.
The weather is warm and the atmosphere
clear. In place of the snow and ice of last
week, our streets are now sea of mud.
The river is clear of ice to st. Louis, but
the water is so low and navigation so un-
certain and dangerous, that large boats will
hardly attempts run above Cairo.
We note ahadvance in freight rates that
took place last week.
FLOUR-The market is steady, but very
quiet The bulk of transactions is in fill
ing orders for the south.
HAY Receipts have increased, and the
market is fairly supplied with all grades.
The demand continues good and prices
firm.
CORN The market is bare; not enough
white comes in to keep the mills supplied.
Prices are steady and firm.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-12-03

According to the Lyons (France) Med
tcale, the manageable age in Austria
is IA for both sexes; in Germany Is for
men and IA for women; in Belgium, IS
for men and Is for women; in Spain,
IA for men and u for women; in France,
Is for men and Is for women; in Greece,
IA for men and u for women; in Cath
Ole Hungary, IA for men and y for
women; in Protestant Hungary, Is for
men and Is for women; in Italy, Is for
men and 10 for women; in Portugal, IA
for men and u for women; in Russia,
Romania and Saxony, Is for men and
l6 for women.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-12-03
GENERAL NEWS

hENEhAb NENH
The Commonwealth had good trip for
Vicksburg.
The Golden City will be here to-day for
New Orleans.
The War Eagle and Joe Kinney started
for st. Louis yesterday.
Commodore Kountz was in town Monday
on his way to St. Louis.
The W. p. Halliday will probably get
away some time tonight for New Orleans.
She is rapidly filing out.
Anchor line shipments by rail from st.
Louis have been suspended for the present,
the opening of navigation rendering it un-
necessary.
The Golden Crown had a fair trip for
New Orleans, and would fill out IN Madrid
bend She was aground thirty-six hours at
Henderson.
River at pm. yesterday, 10 feet inch
rise of 3S inches in the past twenty-tour
hours. Rivers running into the Ohio are
rapidly rising
Dipatches received here yesterday even
ing, state that the river is gorged at Rush
Tower, forty miles below st. Louis, with
but three feet at Cape Girardeau. The
Annie p. Silver had not reached the gorge
at noon yesterday, but the Rucker had been
forced back to Chester. As the river is
rising rapidly at St. Louis, the obstruction
will be temporary only.
The great Golden City came in from New
Orleans at o'clock am, and follows the
Golden Crown back. Captain Hegler says
the Anchor Line is great school. Every
thing is done on shore except carrying a
cargo, and all the captain has to do is to
pull the bell-rope, in the performance of
which duty he has had time to study a
number of new and graceful positions, some
of which he expects to have photographed
for the benefit of the craft on the Ohio
river Cincinnati Times-Star. Captain
Hegler has few of the above photos on
hand, which he will have on sale at the
wharf5cat to-day. Applicants should put
in an early appearance, as the demand is
very active.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-12-03
The Cairo Prices Current.
Office Washington Avenue,
(CornerTwelfth Street.)

TnB CAIRO PRICES CURRENT is published every
Tuesday and Friday from the office of The CAIRO
BULLETIN, and lie intended to give true report of
the condition of the market day of publication,
and the publisher trusts that full and complete
quotations will be given by the business men of the
city.
TERMs.-onc cent per copy On all orders Of
Is or more, of same date, the subscribers name
will be printed without extra charge, Orders for
extra copies must be received by 10 O'Clock A. M,
on dav of publication.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-12-03

During an excursion to the White
Mountains, made in July, 1879, Mr.. w.
II. Pickering visited moving mass of
snow in Tuckerman ravine, which he
describes as presenting many of the
phenomena of an Alpine glacier, only
on greatly reduced scale, The sur
face of the snow was convex, being
highest at the middle; where not expos
ed to the sun it was very hard, and diff
fereed from ice only in color. Stones
previously placed upon the surface of
the patch showed that the middle had
amotion of about eight inches per day,
the sides moving more slowly. In Mr.
chickering's opinion it corresponds with
the upper portion of glacier, and
might, perhaps, be called an incipient
glacier.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-12-03

The latest stories told Of the King Of
Bavaria do not indicate that he is no
longer eccentric. Ills present idea is
to resemble Louis XIV, and he is hav-
ing palace built copied after that of
Versailles, and which will cost 10000
600 marks. Some time since he caused
a certain General Of his suite to be
aroused at clock in the morning to
play a game Of billiards. The General
was sleepy, and was unable to keep
from yawning during the game. The
King said nothing, but the next day the
General was placed on the retired list,
"for having been wanting in respect TO
his Majesty
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-12-03


A free-lunch iend was fatally pois-
oned in Boston by eating some cheese
on the bar which he afterward learned
had been compounded with some rat
poison. Neither the mans name nor
the saloon are known, he having died
in drug store before an antidote could
be given.
When tribe of Bedouins goes out to
fight it is their custom to place one or
two young maidens on the best horses
at the front. These dusky Amazons
encourage the desert cavaliers by their
cries and gestures, and plunge into the
thick Of the fight. Wherever the dam
sells lead the Arab chivalry follows, but
If they are killed or captured their fol.
lowers lose heart and retreat.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-12-03
A Daughter Rescued.

A Frankfort (Ky) physician writes:
Some months ago the daughter OF one of
our prominent citizens was pronounced
hopeless consumpuye. She was very much
reduced in flesh; terrible cough, her life
gradually wasting away. recommended
her to use ''Dr. Swayne's Compound Syrup
Of Wild Cherry" which she did. In
short time she was free from all cough and
other symptoms, and is now rosy and
healthy. Price 25 cents and 81 bottle or
6 bottles S.. The large size is the most
economical. Prepared only by DR.. Swayne
& Son, Philadelphia. Sold by druggists.
An occasional dose of "Swayne's Pills"
should be taken to keep the bowels free.
They are excellent for torpid liver and bill
ious complaints. Sold by all the Cairo
druggists. (2)
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-12-03

More money! is spent in two months
for political purposes on each Presiden-
tial campaign than is actually collected
for religious purposes in two years.
The Lord stands no show by the side of
q Presidential candidate.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-12-03

In Tallahassee and other southern
cities, it is usual, during the Matching
season of the mocking-bird, to steal
young birds from the nest, TO be train
ed FOR singers. As only about two in a
hundred live, an early determination
of these birds is probable. a Florida
paper suggests that a .aw be enacted
forbidding the capture of young mock
inc birds.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-12-03

At Newport dinner-party lady
guest was so unfortunate as to break
plate belonging to a rare set of French
china. The lady insisted upon either
mending or replacing it, but finding
both impossible she was obliged TO send
abroad and duplicate the entire dinner
set Of over 200 pieces.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-12-03

LYDIA E. PINKHAM's Vegetable Com
pound is remarkable remedy for all those
painful complaints and weakness so COM
mon to our best female population. Send
to Mrs. Lydia E. Pinkham, 233 Western
avenue, Lynn, Mass, for pamphlets.