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The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-02-20
For the Sunday Bulletin
THE MOTHERS TASK.

To learn how soon from gold to gray
Will fade the brightest summer ky;
To see the flowers still blooming on,
While in our path the shadows lie,
To feel amidst the warmth Of June,
Midst summers green and summers gold,
The day grow dim, the day grow dark
Shiyering as with winters cold
To fondly smooth our daring's clothes;
To say farewell with trembling lips;
Andyet to shrink from this sad task
our sunshine buricdln eclipse
To stand beside the open door
And watch the form pass down the street,
Thrilld with the touch OF clasping hands
And echoes Of the lingering feet
To cross the threshold walking slow,
An Eden once with fruit of gold;
With plantiye weary moan to cry,
To scnScless walls our grlef'unfod.
To stand within the silent room,
Ycarning the dear form there to see;
From our love post in duty's path
Reach empty arms oh God to thee.
And while we weakly yield to grief
TO breathe to thee silent prayer,
Asking thy care and tender love
To guard our darlingeveYwhere
To pray that all our anxious fears
Thy hand with tenderness dispcl-
And yet with undertone Of pain,
Repeat the name we love so well.
KATE W
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-02-20
FUNERAL NOTICE

Died, Friday afternoon at three o'clock,
Phillip Henry, son Of Michael and Anna
KoblcT, agd two years, A special funeral
train will leave foot of Eighth street tor
Villa Ridge at two o'clock, this Sunday
afternoon. Friends and acquaintances of
the family are invited to attend.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-02-20

Tontine Savings Fund Policies may
be terminated at the close of certain
defined periods, on terms more advan-
tageOus than upon any other plan.
These policies prove more profitable to
the pOlicy-hOlder than any other form
Of insurance.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-02-20

Actual examples can be furnished at
the Society's Office, Of persons bel g in
sured for ten years, and then upon
termin sting their TOntine Policies, re-
ceiying cash in some instances equal to
the whole Of the premiums paid; in
others, nearly all.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-02-20

A New Haven brute saturated cotton
with alcohol, tied it to dogs tail, and
then set fire to it. The dog started ON
the run to 90 under the brute's barn
Then it didn't seem so funny to the
brute. lie madly howIed at the dog
and ran after him, but before he could
oyertake the animal it got under the
barn, bud somehow the cotton went out
and didn't set the barn on tire. This
was poetic justice, Barn was insured
for twice its value.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-02-20

Amount paid to POicy-hOlders and
their representatives during 1880,
S+,792,937.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-02-20

A liberal surrender value in paid-up
insurance is provided for in all Ordina-
ry policies, in case Of forfeiture.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-02-20

NOTICEABLE POINTS IN THE 2lst
ANNUAL STATEMENT OF THE EQUIT-
ABLE LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY ;
NEW YORK. JAN. 1st, 1881.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-02-20

Policies incontestable after having
been in force for three years. All such
incontestable policies will be paid at
maturity, without rebate Of interest.
Immediately after the receipt at the
Society's Office in New York Of satisfac-
tory proofs of death, together with a
valid and satisfactory discharge from
the parties in interest, and without re-
quiring any delay, even for sixty or
ninety days, as has been the custom
heretofore, and is still usual with other
companies.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-02-20

Surplus, S9,228, 294; an increase Of
One and Three-quarter Millions of Dol
lars in 1880.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-02-20

Assets, Sal, l08,602; an increase of
more than Three Million Dollars in
1880.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-02-20

New Business, $50, 170,805: an in
crease Of Eight and a half Million Dol
lars in 1880.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-02-20
THE MAILS.

GENERAL DELIVERY open 80 a. m; closes
VI $50 pm. sunday: TO 9 a. IN.
Money order Department open at sa m; closes
A. ,, m.
Through Express Mails via Illinois Central 40
y. m,
Mississippi Central Railroads close at 9p, m,
Cairo and Poplar BluG Through and Way Mail
.lu-ts nj ?. m.
Way Mail via Illinois Central, Cairo and Vim.
cennes and Mississippi Central Railroads close at
i:45 ?. m.
Way Nail for Narrow Gauge Railroad closes at
$500 m.
Cairo and Evansville River Route closes at 2:SO
p. II. daily except Friday.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-02-20
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY.
City Officers.

City Officers.
MsyOr-N b Thistlewood.
Troasurer-Edwsrd Dez0nis.
Cerk--DcuAis, j. Foley
Counselor WIN. B. Gilbert.
Marshall II, Robinson
Attorney William Hendricks.
BOARD oP ALDERMEN,
First Wsrd-M. Howley Peter Saup.
Second Wsrd-Dayid I. Lineear. Jesse Hinkle
Third ward gbert Smith, Il. F. Blake.
Fourth Wsrd-Chsres O. Pster, Adoph Swo.
bods
Fuh Ward-T " Halliday, Ernest B Petit
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-02-20
ASSURANCE.
THE TWENTYFIRST ANNUAL STATEMENT OF THE
EQUITABLE LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY
oFTHE UNITED STATES 19O BROADWAY, NEW YORK
HENRY B. HYDE, President.
FOR THE YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 81, 1880.


From the undivided surplus reyer aionary diyi
dcnds will be declared, available on settlement OF
next annual premium TO ordinary partlcipatlnp
policies
The valuation of the policies outstanding has
been ade on the American experience table the
legal standard Of the state ofNGw York.
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BENSSlSGTQN !, RANDOLPH,
TIlGWASA V ruWN Tg
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Special Committee Of the Board of Directors,
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RoARno nIpvrrops
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H eH = s spspsog n n,@yn NJ w RGEgw
William Il. Fogg Henry NJ Alexander,
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The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-02-20
County Officers.

GREAT Judged. J. Baker.
Crcuit Cicfk--A. II Irwin.
County Judge-R ; IOcum.
County Clerks j Humm
County Attorney. NJ Damron.
County Treasurer Miles W. Parker
Sherf-John Hodges
Corouer-R Fitzgerald.
County COMMANDMENT W. Halliday, J A
VI. Gibbs, Samuel Briley.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-02-20

No technicalities nor arduous condi
tons in policy contracts.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-01-01

This business is reported by all dealers as
rapidly extending, and this shipping point
growing constantly in Importance.
WOOL GROWING.
Wool-growing in all the Sacramento trade
district is hourishing industry. and is in
creasipg with reasonable rapidity. The
prices paid for wool in 1880 were sufficient
to insure fair profit to the producer, and
were in excess of tine prices secured year
ago last fall. Sacramento is found an excel.
lent point at which to gather much of the
wool product of the State. Formerly and
up to 1880 it was baled here, but facilities for
baling were not at hand in 1880, and most of
the product went from Sacramento to San
Francisco to be baled and shipped, water car
rage at prevailing rates making it seek that
line largely. For this year, and probably
for all the future, the baling will be done
hree. One of the largest wool houses
on the continent has its headquarters for in
terror California here aud makes this its chief
gathering point. The 1880 spring product
to be credited to Sacramentos trade was
/, 250, 900 pounds. with prices varying from
% cents to 80 cents. and averaging 274 cents.
aud represents, with freight added, about
$3.50. 600 The fall clip amounted to about
|. $50. 600, with prices ranging from IA cents
to q cents, an average of III cents, and rep
resents, with freight added, about 1926, 600,
an aggregate for that year Of $4,000.
SACRAMENTO HOP GROWING AND EXPORT.
Hop growing in the immediate and the
commercial vicinity of Sacramento is one of
the very prominent industries Of the section.
1t has been prosecuted for number of years
with general good success, and such steady
advance in volume that it has now become
one of the principal exports. The vicinity of
Sacramento and its legitimate hop market
area constitutes the largest single hop pro-
ducing section on the entire coast. There
was no single section that last year produced
as much as 1900 bales, as did that Of Sacra-
mento. In 1879 the product was
one-fourth less The bottom lands here
are found to bel especially adapted
to hop growing, And cases are pre-
sented in 1850 of single acres producing
5000 pounds tcursd weisht) No place in the
world can snow such yield. The average
Weld IN New York Stste is from 200 to 500
pounds here it is LOO pounds The quality
OF the California hops, with few exceptions,
is superior. As the hop growing business in
California becomes more know in the East,
the Eastern demand increases because Of the
acknowledged heavier body Of our product
Most of the hop export for 1880 from Sacra-
mento was to Western cities, as Milwaukee,
Chicago and Cincinnati, and with there points
a regular hop trade is now firmly established.
One leading Sacramento house recently
shipped ten carloads of hops to .
single buyer in Milwaukee alone. The hop
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-01-01

In preventing this its first annual report,
the Board of Trade, on behalf of the business
community of Sacramento, desires TO convey
its grateful acknowledgment of the generous
confidence and liberal patronage that has In
the past been extended to the trade of Sacra-
mento. We recognize as fundamental law
Of prosperity in trade the mutuality of inter
est between purchaser and seller. We have
expressed the sanguine confidence we feel
in the future commercial greatness Of our city
but that confidence is based solely upon the
belief that the advantages this market affords
are subseryient to the highest interests of our
patrons. As representatives of the mer-
chants, manufacturers and business men of
we will welcome caPisai, -cSS-
courage enterprise and emulate energy. Our
association in Board of Trade proceeds
from that broader view which recognizes In
the general prosperity OF our business COM
munity the highest interest of each indi-
vidual. In this unity of effort il viii be our
further aim to promote that reciprocity of
interest which is the foundation of all COM
mercial prosperity With congratulations upon
the prosperity of the year GUST closing, and
with the hope that the bright prospect Of the
future, now affording such gratifying encour-
agement, may find realization, this report is
respectfully submitted,
ALBERT GALLATIN. President.
JOHN McNEILL Vice-President.
G.. E. BATES, Secretary and At
torney.
II. G. SMITH, Treasurer.
Jos. STFFFENs,
c.. 81. HUBBARD,
w. A. HoUGHToN, D;r,o.o-g
CHAs. McCREARY, { 11ii'''0is'
WIN. NJ. LYON,
II. g. SMITH,
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product to be credited to the business
Of Sacramento amounted in 1880 to sum in
excess of 100000. The average rate was 10
cents, and the market showed less fiuctuation
than in former years. A few years ago all
Sacramentos hop product went to San Fran.
cisco, and little thought was given to this
place as shipping point; but the situation
is now very different, and this past year hops
were even brought from San Francisco to fill
Sacramento orders, and not over 800 bales
found their way from here there. Orders are
already filed for part of the crop OF the sea-
son of 1881. As these all come fron the
East. it is to be taken as a square commercial
Endorsement of the quality of our product.
The stock on hand now is about 800 bales.
The cost of production ready for market is
about II cents. In all this region neither
lice, mildew nor other pests attack the hop.
and such is the perfection of growth here
that the hop-grower can go out into his fields
month or more before picking time and cal
culate accurately upon the yield to come, and
safely rely upon its being verified
FLOUR AND WHEAT.
The wheat rate, selling at the mills for
-four production, averaged in Sacramento
during 1880 as follows per cwt.:
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-01-01
The Total Trade.

In ascertaining the aggregate OF the trade
of Sacramento it will be observed tina. bank
ing, insurance agencies, outside real estate
transactions engaging local capital, and many
other matters, have been omitted, the con.
sideiation being confined to purely trade
matters. By a careful calculation made on
the basis indicated, the trade OF Sacramento
is found to aggregate at the very lowest,
THIRTY ONE MILLIONS, ONE HUNDRED AND
TWELVE THOUSAND AND FIFTY DOLLARS,
As against 500 273, 800 for the year 1879. A
summary for 1880 is 1iven herewith:
Hay and grain so 900
Wool .................... 775, eco
Hops. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. $50 900
Mil products ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 2803 900
agricultural implements ard hardware. 22slDo1
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Detailed Business Review for 1880.


THE BUSINESS ADVANTAGES OF SACRAMENTO.
The business and climatic advantages of
the city, in addition to those already out
lined, are specific, and may be briefly stated !:
First-The centrality of location, enabling
the business men of the city to dispatch goods
sold in all directions with greater rapidity
and at less cost than can be done in any other
marketupon the coast. Thegreat bulk import
merchandise and manufactured articles come
to Sacramento by rail, while the remainder
is brought from the seaboard by water at
comparatively lew cost.
Second-Ihe ease of storage OF goods and
the fixed capital locked up in property and
rentals. are so small as to enable business to
be conducted here in all its lines at cost
very far below that which must be incurred
in the metropolis. The margin thereby
saved, the merchant is enabled to extend to
his customers.
Third-The saving of freight between the
metropolis and Sacramento is an item of
much Importance, and the advantage is al
ways enjoyed by the purchaser.
Eourth-The question of time is one which
contributes largely to the interest of the Sac
ramento merchant. Orders received from the
DgrJlOnS
mountain regiors are in most cases filed
mon the same day. and the goods are started
men their tourney within "a hours after the
receint, Of tbe order.
Ffth-There is no charge for hacking or
cases cartage OF wharfaee And these adj
vantsoes # i obvio,s also aecrue to the BEN
eft of the purchaser.
Sixth-The climatic advantages of the city
are pronounced Ali articles made of wood
ali lumber, all liquors, all carriages and
wagons, and large description of other goods
that might be mentioned, are benefited by
storage in this climate. In the matter of
lumber alone it may be stated that it is now
being largely shipped from Sacramento TO
distant Arizona, because there is saving
upon every carload of ten tons of about 1S95
per cent in feet, by reason of the dryne-s of the
lumber, as compared with that shipped from
more humid atmospheres. So, also, in the
matter of boxes for the packing of fruits.
Those made from mountain lumber and in
this dry climate, are largely sought after In
ell sections of the State, in preference to
those manufactured where fogs and moisture
prevail. These considerations enter generally
.nsI sa' 9s ..,"h y. Is. anu
up in this market wear better and endure
longer in all ether climates.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-01-01
Hay-Ton. Grain-Cwt

This business is reported by all dealers as
rapidly extending, and this shipping point
growing constantly in Importance.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-01-01

From a great number Of full articles in
the interior press the following extracts are
taken as fairly rejecting the verdict of the
country press regarding Sso.amento:
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-01-01
rHE POLICE Departures.

Is governed by Board of Police Commits
siuners. consisting of the Mayor, Police Judge
and Chief of Police, the last two, like the
first, being chosen by popular vote. The po-
lice arrangements are superior, and the OH
GERS, under the conduct of an experienced
Chief, are so efficient that Sacramento bears
the reputation of being one of the best
policed cities on the coast. Disorder is less
known here than in any other community OF
like size, and general order is better main
tanned here than anywhere elss-and this is
not fulsome praise. This is contributed to
largely by the character of the population,
the city being essentially one of homes and
there being less incentive to disturbances,
riot, nightly unlawful sssemblages CT daily
commotion than in communities where there
is larger transient population and greater
of the criminsl element. In ad-
dition to the regular police force, the citizens
maintain at their own private expense force
equally as large of private watchmen and
patrolnen, but who, by law, are required TO
report to and act under the orders of the
Chief Of Police and Commissioners, and
thereby become in fact part of the police
system of the city.
THE WATER WORKS
Are located upon the water front of the CITY,
and Holly pumps and the Stevens pump Is
powerful distributing engine constructed by
a citize n of SACRAMENTO draw the water used
direct from the river and distribute it by
direct pressure through mains to every sec
tiun of the city. The pressure is constant,
but when fra alarm Is given it may be sud-
denly increased to any required extent. This
alarm is operated by an open Geographic cir
cult and there are twenty-five of the signal
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-01-01


The chief park of the city is that surround
ing the State Capitol buildings, and extend
ing from Tenth street on the west to Fit.
teenth street on the east and from L street
on the north to n street on the south.
Around this park Is centering very large
residence population, and is erected, and
being erected, many elegant structures.
Within the park itself, in addition
to its terraced grounds, and hundreds OF
shade trees, ornamental shrubs and plants,
is q special drive one.third of mile In ex-
tent of an eliptical form, and opening di-
rectly into the main avenue Of the city, pop.
ularly known as NJ street, and leading thence
to the roads eastward from the city. East
Park, upon the extreme easterly limits, has
large acreage highly cultivated, inclosed in
which is circular drive of about one mile,
which for fine roadway, shade and picturesque
attractiveness, Is unsurpassed in this State.
Agricultural Park, the property of the State
Agricultural Society, has within it's bounds a
mile of admirably graded and very speedy
roadway, and another track on the inside
exceeding two-thirds OF mile in extent.
THE HOMES OF SACRAMENTO.
Sacramento Is essentially city of homes,
and in the beauty and extent of private
grounds, lawns and parks is unsurpassed by
any municipality or town government on the
Pacific coast. 1t would be invidious here to
specify from among the large number of ele-
CANT mansions of the citizens, and to cata.
fogue all worthy of mention for attractive
ness would too greatly extend this report.
But it will be proper to refer TO one structure
in connection with private rssidence-the
Art Gallery of Mrs E B. Croker for the
preservation of the art c1llectian belonging
10 that lady. The building is the most ele-
CANT, costly and spacious allotted to any pri-
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-01-01

Many interior dellers have already discovered
that Sacramento offers superior advantages in sup
plying the articles of their trade and have trans
ferred their custom TO it, as is shown by the re-
markable increase in the wholes le trade of that
city III the past two or three years Others Will
continue to foil W their example, until Sac amento
will become what its location, business energy and
capital combine to make it, great trading center.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-01-01
Nevada weekly Gnzette.l

A fair portion OF the goods now sold in Nevada
City are from the wholesale dealers OF Sacramento,
who are driving their competitors to the wall. With
low rents no wharfage, reduced cost of Transports
ton, the goods being shipped directly from TIE
East to their DOORS the reascnableness of the ad-
vantages which they possess can be discovered at
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-01-01

In hardware the year was early marked by
return to staying rates, from the sudden
advance in iron goods at the close Of 1879,
manufacturers discovering that the advanced
rates invited EUROPEAN competition. In all
lines of hardware trade help up better than
for several years past. We aggregate the
sales with coal, cordsge, ship chaudlsry aud
portion of baIbed wire sales. Cutlery is in
clnded, as represented by exclusive dealers
6Iha total is carried into the paragraph headed
nltural Implements," Of necessity. The
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-01-01

The wheat rate, selling at the mills for
-four production, averaged ID Sacramento
during 1880 as follows per cwt.: