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The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-12-01
City Ofhcers.


hayof--N. b. nhistlewood.
Ireaeurer--T j. Kerth
Olcrk--Dennle j, Foley.
Counselor--Wm. Is. Gilbert.
Marshall. II. Meyers,
Attorney william Hendricks.
BOARD OF ALDERMEN.
first Wsrd-Peter Saup. T. M. Klmbrough.
Second Ward--Jesse Hinkle, @. N. Hughes.
Third Ward--B. II, Blake, John Wood.
Fourth Ward--Charles o. Patier, Adolph Swo'
bods.
Fifth ward-T. W. Halliday, Ernest b. Petit.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-12-01
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY.
County Officers.

Circuit Judged. ], Baker.
Circuit Clerk-A II. Irwin.
County Judgc--R. y Yocum.
County Clerks. j. Humm.
County Attorney, M. Damron.
County Treasurer--Miles W. Parker.
Sherif-John Hodges.
Coroner--R. Fitzgerald
County Commiseioners-T. W. Halliday, j. A
Gibbs and Peter Saup.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-12-01
Irritation Of the Scalp, an Authentic

Irritation Of the Scalp, an Authentic
Testimony.
Gentlemen For five years have been
greatly troubled with dandrnff, with a severe
itching OF the scalp and my hair falling
out have tried almost every known rem.
edy' all proving worthless. Seeing Bur.
netts Cocoaine and Burnett's KalIston adj.
yertlsed' ] procured bottle Of each, and
am happy to state that the dandrull is com,
pletcly removed, and no itching whatever
remains. J, +, CAvEN
Kansas City, Mo.
Bnrnc'ts Flav0ring Extracts are the best.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-12-07

circle are of the class that never for
get the proprieties Of life.
Already men and women of refine
ment and healthy morals have had
their attention called to the perni-
cious influence of bad literature, and
have made commendable efforts to
counteract the same by causing the
sound literature to be published and
sold at popular prices. These efforts
are working silent but sure revolu-
tiOn. The sickly sentimental story
paper, and wild ranger and pirate
story book, are slowly yielding the
field TO worthier claimants.
To the praise of the decent paper ii
may be said, that where it has a place
in the family, and has been read for
years by the young and old it has de-
veloped such a healthy tone and such
a discriminating taste that the litera-
ture Of the slams has no admirers.
Fortunately, the number Of such fam.
lilies is increasing in the land, and as
they increase, the journal that devotes
itself to siekening revelations of inn
morality will be compelled to find its
supporters solely among those classes
that practice vice or are ambitious to
follow such ways
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-12-07

NEW York, December Z, II am
The stock market opened irregular
changes, however. being merely frac
tional. except in the cases Of the
Memphis & Charleston and Richmond
& Dayton Railroads, which were lC
higher. Speculation in the early
dealings was heavy, as a rule, and quo
tations fell off sasc, but the market
subsequently became frmer, and ar
improvement Of tasc was recorded, in
which the entire list participated.
Bull operators are depressed by the
continued tendency towards tight
money. The pool in Louisville &
Nashville is said to have sold some oI
its stock under stringent pressure fol
money. The decline in governments
yesterday was on the reports con
csFning the Sherman bill, but
the recovery took place on a better
understanding its purposes. The
treatment Of finances in the message
Of the President and Secretary had
reassuring effect.
The common stock Of the Indianap
oils, Decatur & Springfield road vii
be issued this month.
The Herald says; Taking int
consideration the heavy decline ant
the bearish rumors published abOu
the Southern Pacific, it would seen
dangerous to sell the stock short"
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-12-07
The Clean Newspapers.

Boston Hsrald,l
There is a growing feeling in every
healthy community against the journ-
ais who make it their special object to
minister to perverted taste by seeking
out and serving up in seductive form
disgusting scandal and licentious rev.
alations. There is good reason to be-
lieve that the clean newspaper is more
highly priced to-day than it was fouI
years ago. 1t is also safe to predict
that, as the people in all ranks Of life
who wish to protect their own families
from contamination, become more con
scious Of the pernicious influence of
certain class Of journals called "enter
prising," because they are ambition
to serve up dirty scandals, they vii
be careful to see that the journals tha
they permit to bseread in the iamil
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-12-07
Lille in Flats and Hotels.

London Times.l
1t can hardly be matter for regret in
this country that no great determina-
ton has occurred toward the semi
gregarious life Of fats, or the wholly
gregarious one of fats and boarding
houses. Where incomes are small, as
in France, and servants are almost i'm
possible to be obtained, as in the
United States, one Of these modes of
existence may arise out of sheer ne
cessity. French life is largely leav-
ened by numerous and poorly paid
bureaucracy. Until the recent intro
duction of tramways into such cities as
Paris, it would have been impossible
for the clerk to live so far from his
work as Englishmen OF the same
station find convenient. Nor would
the French employe care to carry home
parcels from the city, and otherwise
assist in carrying out the scheme of ex-
istence, as an Englishman does; but be
this as it may, he has hitherto been
accustomed to live near his bureau,
and thus has become used to au
apartment" in place of a house. In
the United States the management Of
small household is made very diff
cult by exacting servants, who COM
pletely command the situation. In
England communications are easy, and
good servants may still be obtained.
So far as they go, these appear to be
matters for congratulation, at least so
far as regards the bringing up Of
children. Privacy may or may not be
achieved in fats, according to the con-
struction OF the building and customs
Of its inmates, but in hotel and board
ing house life it is nearly impossible.
To transient dwellers in hotels, this
matters little, but the gregarious life
when persisted in is found to have no
favorable effect on children. They
are taught, if not by word, yet by
practice, to be always, as it were,
under arms. They are always likely
to be seen, and must
thus always be neatly dressed
| and preSentaDle' hence lhey
become self conscious to an almost
painful degree, and acquire the art Of
living perpetually before an audience
at perhaps too tender age. Self
possession is to most English minds
dearly bought by the sacrifice of the
bloom and ingenuousness ofchildhood
and the majority of our pracnts and
guardians would, we apprehend, be
very loath to exchange the care Of
children for that of the little men and
women who grow under the boarding
house system. 1t is not little re-
markable that in New England, the
most intellectual section oil the United
States, the same fondness for family
| housekeeping and good housewifery
exists as in this country. Perhaps the
most agreeable feature in the expan-
sion of London is the increased facility
it gives for the indulgence Of the
healthy instincts which prefer a cot
tage and patch of green to far more
commodious lodgings in gigantic bar
racks nearer the center OF the town,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-12-07

How is this, and what is the m4ttor
with Hannah? The American is now,
and has been since he 9th of April
last, the testamentary guardian Of The
100 8, nominated and appointed in the
will of its deceased father. Roderick
Random Butler. And yet, this same
American opened its mouth and spoke
as follows when this coupon
infamy was under discussion: The
American has again and again dc.
clared itself opposed to making cou-
pons receivable for taxes = II
is the credit Of Tennessee for which
we are battling-not to have the State
tied up like a criminal who can't be
trusted at large or allowed liberty oi
action. Forced pay ment would be nc
honest act, and reflect NJ credit on
the State compelled to make it. Then
on both these propositions there are
just 10000 Democrats, by careful
estimate, standing with the Ameri
can" We say: Hannah, what haI
happened to you, and where do tn,
10000 Democrats stand to-day?
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-12-07
BY CABLE.

LONDON, December 1.-THE striking
potters at Hanley agreed to the arbi-
tration, provided the report on actual
State trade be made.
The Marquis Of Lorne sails for
Canada January 1lth.
At yesterdays sale Of the Sunder.
land Library, a Latin bible, being the
first bible printed, with date Of l462,
was sold for the sum of e16OO.
The Irish Home Manufacturers
Association have elected Parnell Pres
ident, A resolution was offered pro-
testing against the proposed motion
that at the next meeting Of the Asso-
citation the Queen be asked to patron
ize the Exhibition. A declaration is
being widely signed throughout Ire
land stating that the signers will moi
visit the Exhibition if any member o.
the royal family, or any agent Of the
government, bo invited to open the
Exhibition or have any connection
with it.
PARIS, December 7.-Abbe Bick.
cry, late chaplain to Pere Hyacinthe,
has been received into membership BY
the American Protestant congregation
at Rome.
HAVANA, December 7.-The enthu-
siastic farewell to General BlancO was
made particularly noteworthy by the
demonstrations of the Conservatives
who displayed many flags inscribed
with their political motto. 1t wa'
apparent that the Conservatives in
tended thus to celebrate the alleged
death blow of Autonomy received dur
ing the administration Of Blanco. The
Autonomist organ has not one word
OF farewell for blanco, nor were. there
any Autonomists present at his de-
parture.
DURHAM, December 7.-Umzeilu,
the powerful chief in tie countr!
north of the Delgon, has granted th'
request OF the American Board o
Foreign Missions to be permitted t,
establish a mission in his country. A
section of the people here are disposed
to resent an interference of the Amer
leans in South African affairs. Th
general public, however, clearly per
ceive that the Americans can have n
interest here beyond convertin
heathens.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-12-07
Railroad MnItera.

ST. LOUIS, December TIT is
stated that the Texas & St. Louis
Narrow Gauge Railroad Company, Of
which Colonel j. W. Paramore, ol
this city, is ex. President, has leased
the Cairo & St. Louis Narrow Gauge
aud that the latter road will become q
link in the great chain of narrow
guage roads from the East to the Ric
Grande via st. Louis. 1t is reported
here that the indianapolis, Blooming
ton & Western road is arranging Il
lease the indianapolis, Springfield &
Decatur road. The directors Of thl
Joplin & Galena railroad and tn
Kansas railway met at Girard, KS,
and consolidated the two roads. Tb
consolidated rosds we're then conyeye,
to the St. Louis & San Francisco road
This action adds sixty miles Of line +
latter road.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-12-07

DR.. Stephen 9. McGavock formerly
Of franklin, Tenn, but for four years
past medical practitioner and mer
chant at Sunnyside, on the river 275
miles south Of this city, was killed by
Samuel Cole, colored, last Saturday
night. The darky was a shiftless
fellow, and had left his crop ungalh-
cred in the fields willie he caroOsed
about the eroggerits. Doctor Nc
Gayock employed a squad of hands
and set them to gathering Coles cot
ton, so as to protect a debt the latter
owed him for supplies. Cole became
enraged, loaded a shot gun and turned
it loose at the Doctor while the latter
was waiting on customers in his store.
The load lodged in DR.. Ms breast,
and he fell, dying shortly after The
murderer was arrested, and the feelin Z
against him was so strong among his
own race that fears were entertained
Of his being lynched.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-12-07
Death on the Ocean.

New York Tribune, 3.
A sad scene was presented at Castle
Garden yesterday afternoon when the
passengers from the Rhein, from Bre-
men, were landed. Franz Holul, who
came here several months ago and OBJ
tanned employment at cigar making in
the city, had sent to his home in Bo-
hemia for his wife Maria and his little
boy aged seven years. They took pas.
sage on the Rhein, and the happy Ho-
lul went to Castle Garden to meet
them. but he was soon overwhelmed
in grief with his child clasped tightly
in his arms, as if fearing that if he
should release his hold it would be
taken from him. His wife was dead.
The Rhein sailed from Bremen Nov.
13, and from Southampton three days
afterward, in command Of che senior
officer Of the line, Commodore Neyna-
Der. Throughout the voyage the
weather was tempestuous, and to in
sure safety to the vessel and greater
comfort to the passengers the captain
reduced the speed of the engines. The
vessel was headed up to the gale, con-
sequently did not sail on the usual
course. She arrived without having
met with any apparent damage to the
vessel. One day she only made sixty
nine miles. Saturday last was the
worst day Of the entire voyage, and the
ship gave several heavy lurches. Mrs
Holul was about descending the
steerage stairway, leading her child,
waen she was thrown from her feet by
a pitch Of the vessel and thrown to the
deck below. Her forehead struck
against a chest and she received fatal
fracture of the skull. She was picked
up and the best Of surgical care was
given to her, but she failed until last
Tuesday, when she died; she was
buried at sea the following night. The
child was taken care ei by the other
passengers. As the little fellow was
led into the International Bureau at
Castle Garden yesterday he recognized
his father and ran to him, breaking
the sad intelligence Of his mothers
death. The passengers related the
circumstances to the iather, who with
his little boy tightly elasped to his
breast wept bitterly.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-12-07
THE American and Appeal

THE American and Appeal are
startled at the assertion Of Judge
Sneed that there is no organized re-
pudiation party in Tennessee. Well
perhaps It's better to say that there
is-as such epithets are calculated tC
reunite the discordant elements Of
the fierce Democracy-aud also to in
vite immigration. People like to GO
where public debts are likely to be
rcpudiated. 1t is so nice to live in an
honest community, where the taxes
are light.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-12-07
Ocean Gale.

New YORK, December 7.-The
steamer Lake Winnepeg, from Liver
pool, reports a heavy gale and high
sea on November 2lst, and on the
23d a hurricane, the vessel shipping
large quantities Of water and doing
much damage, James Blair, chief
engineer, was washed overheard and
lost. Patrick COoney, fireman, was
thrown down the stokehold and killed.
John Reynolds, fireman, died from
the effects OF drinking carbolic acid
mistaking it for vinegar.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-12-07

WAsHINGToE, December Il For
the Tennessee and Ohio valley
colder, fair weather, with north
westerly winds and higher barometer.
Lower lake region, colder and clear
ing with nortbwesterly winds becom-
ing variable, stationary or lower tenn
pcraturc and rising, followed in the
west portion by falling barometer.
For Upper Mississippi and Missouri
valleys, warmer, fair weather, with
westerly backing to Southerly winds
falling, preceded in south aud casl
portion by rising barometer.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-12-07

APhiladelphia theatrical wig maker
says that Clara Louise Kellogg wears a
prolusion Of blonde hair a yard long as
Marguerite, at cost of 800; but, as a
rule, wigs worn on the stage are cheap
limitations. The curly brown wig worn
by Jefferson as Rip Van Winkle
weighs less than an ounce, and is con-
sidered a marvel of good workmanship,
while the gray one cost, with the
beard, $3.50. Rose Wood lately paid
ninety dollars for blonde wig. Ada
Gilman Sl25, Marian Booth Sl00, and
Fanny Davenport $225.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-12-07
sunset Cox win ss Funny Again:

New u Ork Trlbune,l
The return Of the Hon. Samuel
Saint Cox 20 his native land and the
fond welcome extended him by his ad-
mirers on his arrival, remind us that
this gentleman will presently reappear
on the floor Of the Congress of which
he is a distinguished member in his
old character Of humorist. This is
the character that suits him. and in
which he is best known. For many
years he filled it admirably with great
satisfaction to the public and consid-
cradle comfort to himself. But upon
the accession Of the Democratic party
to the control of the House in the
Forty-fourth Congress, he became
oppressed with the responsibilities Of
power, and, to the great wonder Of his
| friends, began to assume the role Of
statesman. He developed mood Of
seriousness and presently announced
himself a candidate for Speaker. Not
withstanding his solemnity people
looked upon it as joke, and many Of
those whose mirth he had failed to
arouse by his pungent witticisms,
lively sallies and clever repartees now
laughed inordinately at what they
considered his supreme effort at
humor. OF course he was not elected.
he had been making jokes so long that
when he switched off so abruptly into
the seriousness of craftsmanship, men
thought he was only making another
and as it had in very large degree
the essential element of humor, which
is unexpectedness. they laughed in
spite of themselves, Undismayed by
defeat, however, he continued to be
solemn. Instead of discussing ques-
tions in his old easy going, light.
hearted way, he brousht to the con-
sideration of the ordinary topics of
debate the ponderosity Of a statesman
and the gravity OF an owl. Demo-
cratic success oppressed him with a
feeling of tremendous responsibility,
crushing out utterly his sense of
humor. But now all that is past
The election of a Republican Con-
gress a year ago loosened his fetters
and relieved him of the vast response
bilities of a leader Of the majority.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-12-07
Lucky Days.

Saturday Reyiew,l
1t is curious to note that in India a
rainy day is considered unlueky for a
wedding. and that Scandinavian
Thursday, the day of Thor, or thun
der, was also bad omen. st Elfroy
in sermon, warns his flock from keep
ing Thursday as a holy day, and Dean
Swift, in letter to Sheridan, rhymes
Thursday to cursed day" The Es-
thonians consider it unlucky, and in
Devonshire it has but one lucky hour.
Mr.. Jones, who, by the way, makes no
mention of Thursday as the fatal day
Of the Tudors, does not attempt to
generalize from these curious facts,
which, indeed we have picked out
from different parts of the book
Unlucky days in Cochin Chiua
perhaps among the Mohammedan
Aalays, but we are not told-are the
third day OF the new moou. being that
on which Adam was expelled from
Paradise; the fifth, when the whale
swallowed Jonah; the sixteenth, when
Joseph was put into the we'll; the
twenty fourth, when Zachariah was
murdered; and the twenty-ffth, when
Mohammed lost his front teeth.
The ancient Egyptians we're like Il {
Chinese in their csreiul observance 0.
lucky and unlucky days, and Mr.
Jones may turn with profit for hi,
next edition to Mr. Mitchell's amusing
calendar, in which they are detailed
at length Mr.. Jones says that from
ancient Egypt the evil or unlucky
days have received the name of Egypt.
ian days, given them in "a Saxon Ms
| (Cott. MS. Vitel, C. viii. 10. 2O).'
They are the last Monday in April
the first in August and the first
Monday Of going out Of the month o.
December" which leaves US some
what in doubt as to ell the Mondays in
that month.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-12-07

On Monday last the case Of Henry
j. Lynn and others against Marsh I.
Polk and others, better known as the
1908 act, was called in the Supreme
Court at Nashville and a motion was
made on behalf Of tho defendants, by
Thomas B. Malone, to advance the
case on the docket. The court agreed
to hear a three hour argument on the
motion next Monday.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-12-07
Nitro.Gl1cerine Exnlosiou.

WINNIPEG, December GA nitre-
glycerine explosion at Eagle Lake, on
the Thunder Bay division of the Can
ada Pacific railway, yesterday killed
Foreman Duncan Mcmillan and one
of his men, VIM. Conncll. They went
into the magazine to prepare explo.
sions for blasting and had only been
inside the building about five minutes
when the explosion took place, blow
ing them to atoms. Mcmillan leave!
a wife in London, Ont.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-12-07

THIS question 1.-THE 100 81 is now
pending in the courts as a legal ques-
tioD, and discussion may well-and in
decenoy should-await the decision. -
[ [American, Dec 3.
Why, then, respected contemporary,
have you been bowling for the coupons
all summer And why, on the very
next day after you preached the fore.
going sermon, did you lecture the Su-
preme Court as to their duty in
advancing the case, and cite the case
Of Stewart VS.. Foute, and etherauthor-
tiles, to sustain your position?
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-12-07
Anxious tOLynch.

GREENFIELD, MASS, December Z.
Daniel McMillen, who shot Father
Mccarthy, reached here last evening
and was driven rapidly to prisen. The
Jail yard was crowded with peo-
pie anxious to lynch the prisoner, but
display of revolvers by the officers
prevented any violence. Father
MCCARTHY died about midnight, but
before death made dying declaration
as to the circumstances of the assault,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-12-07
Probate Court Sale of Real Estate.
No. 4S2. X DIN the Probate Court Of Shelby
comfy. Tennessee--9eorge W hutland, sd-

No. 49, r DIN the Probate Court Of Shelby
comfy. Tennessee-9eorRe W hutland. ad-
mi istralor Of u 0 Buntyn, deceased vs.
fuZelia NJ Rutland ct al
D1 virtue Of decree for ale, entered in
ID in this eause, on December 3, 1881, in
minute b0 * 81, pages 5l3-sl5. / Will sell at
public auction to the highest bidder in front
Of the courthouse doo on Main street, Men,
phis. Tenn, on SATURDAY, December 3lst,
1881, within legal hours, tho following oe-
scribed real estate:
A tract Of land Of fthrty-iye acres, lying in
Sixteenth Civil District of Shelby county,
Tennessee, bounded on the east 0y urs. Lizzie
Rogers home tract; on the vest and north by
the Iugsle tract, said tract being known as
the SeatoH place
Also the olloWing lots Of Buntyn sub0iyi-
sion of the Bg.tyn labds near the late resi-
dence ofthe said g 0 buniyn. at Buntyn Sta
tion. in the Eighteenth Civil District of id
county to-Wit: Lots Nos 81, 28 and 20 OF l3
Is 100 acres; lot No. 26 Of l6 10 acre;
lot 20. II Of 800 acres. Is Nos. 92
3 and 81 Of 200 acres; a d lot No
81, and part Of IS of 6l-lOO acres. Terms Of
sale Cash.
This December 6, 1881
GWEN DWYER. Clerk.
IS So 95 1Ol