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, 1881-01-08
Captain General.
Gra. Sherman In M Haste 10 Retire.

The following frank letter from General
Sherman in reference to the proposition
- create new army position for Gen
Grant and to the various incidental ques-
tions growing ou. Of an excess of rank IN
our small army has been received by d
gentleman OF this city, who has kindly
allowed the Herald .cpresent ittoits read:
ers:-
WASHINGTON, d. c., Dec. Is, 1880
WN. ScorT, ESQ, No. 10 East Twenty
third street, New York city
DEAR Scorr-fest you and my person
al friends may be disturbed by the stories
nut in circulation in consequence of tho
Recommendation IN the Presidents Mes
sage to make T. 5. Grant Captain Gener-
a, | will explain my case to you
When Gen. Grant was nominated for
President IN the first instance, IN 1865,
he volunteered to me the opinion that
when his term was out he would not de-
sire to regain command OF the army, as 1t
would be unjust to me. | have never
heard him since say word 10 indicate
change IN that opinion, and do not De-
lieve he or his friends suggested to the
President the idea of the Captain Gener-
alley, or Of regaining place on the army
retired list. There is no reason why Presi-
dents may not be retired the same as the
members Of the Supreme Court
General Hancock. when candidate for
President, in June last, used this Ian
guaSe IN private letter To me:-''To sur
render the position OF Senior Major Cen
eral is not light thing to do. | could
not even retire in such contingency with
the benefits ordinarily attached TO such
action. for The. Co,rM,nder-in-Chiet 0,
the Army and Navy could not be "n tho
retired list of any service.
As to my retiring, you know that Will
not be sixty-two years old until 1SS2, and
the rumor Of intending voluntarily to re-
tire grew out my expressed desire to man
age so rs to bring Lieutenant General
Sheridan to Washington, and thus to
leave the tnree military divisions for the
three Major Generals now on the army
register. But as the President has Just
indicated new fourth division for MAJOR
General Schotield that pressure has pass
ed. and | am in no measure committed as
to my future action. The service IS em-
barrassed already with too much ronk for
our small army, and | don't know what
a CAPTAIN General will find to do, There
never Was such an officer IN the United
States, and it viii need legislation to ere
ate and define such an office. Twill take
nv own time and course OF action when
the emergency comes.
As always, your friend.
". L. SHERMAN.
, 1881-01-08
The Weather.

The I,lahu .Statcsman Of December 18th
thus diseours+s # this rerer failing topic
OF the newsIsper mall
What shah We say NJ language
can Il" 1T justice IL has been raining al
most necessarily for the past week The
bn,tDm Is out Of NIL the roads and travel
Is well nigh impossible 1t bea's Old Wei
ton, IL ii, paImiest, rainiest days Never
thcir>s IT is OILY passing incons-ni-nee
and a real good, a, 1t las freed the SIR am
from ice and set rhv mills g"!ns At time
when his state ci things Was much nee';ed-
While .'O.d Prol." was thus dlsp0' ting
himself IN far iii I,laho, We wee r-re-lipg
in the luxury q # the very best s.eighing
with the snow s;iii failing II GeE- Ha-
zer, can : r-rnla'e tie weather het=r than
tha: let Li... urasr runm for these ii" esn-
, 1881-01-08
Eclipses fo- 1881.

During this year there VII be four
eelipses-tro of the Gun and two Of the
InoDn
A partial eclipse OF the sun May 9Th !;
visible in the Northwestern states at sun
ST. VII be mostly visihl. a; the north
poi. -,
:, total eclipse of the moon jane 18th !;
yisitls. IN the United States
An annular eclipse Of the sun Noveni-
ber DIST; visible IN America
A partial eclipse Of the moon December
3th invisible il. the United States
4 transi, Of Mercury November 1tE-
, 1881-01-08
Humbug.

There is evil:ntly 4 strong etf1rJ being
made To bear the money market ii our
exchanges are any cri1erirn Common
sensc repuliates the idea # 4 crisis when
money is plenty and cheap; financial PAN
les are caused by stringent money mar
ket-nhen money commands higher
rate of interest than it is worth To the
borrower \ few months AGO there was
complain; Of hard times, and general
grOwl went up from the press because
American capitalists kept their riches in
vaults; it WAS noticeable that foreign capt.
talIs:s had more confidence III American
securities and American railroad ventures
than Americans themselves; capital is al
ways conservative and American capital
peculiarly 81; it looks before it leaps;
Is seldom IncautiouS, and If investors put
money into railroads, it Is because they
see mere speedy remuneration than can
be obtained IN any other enterprise.
The talk Of panic is humbug. Every
European steamer is bringing more or
less bullion to this country The hoard
ed treasures of our own capitalists are
being distributed over the continent
Europe is orerstocked with capital seek
ing investment: it buys in government Sc
curities and assists in building and equip
ping our railroads and developing manu-
factories. European capital responds to the
call for money to build the Panama Canal.
1t seeks this continent for investment
naturally, and for the next FIVE years at
least th;re Is 10 probability of a crash,
for all the enterprises now on hand are
bona fide investments. Jay Gould has
evidently been more Jealous than tem-
prrare in his observance Of the Christmas
festivities, or we may assume inferential-
ly that his own basis is less secure than
formerly and that he is good enough to
give a warning cry of stand from un-
der" in his grand tumble Stranger
things than that have happened.
, 1881-01-08
Settled.

That vexiEg Iuestlvn aiming poor mar
RED people as to who shall get up first en-
on i cold winters morning and li.ht the
kitchen fire, has AZ last heen satIsfactori-
" solved 10y Bloom field, New Jersey
IMAM Neither husband nor wife need
t-uuh.e themselves about the matter any
more, provided they get hold Of the
Bloomfield mans Invention. which oon-
sists of clock conn-cfesi with an appara-
us, at one end Of which .here is kind!in.-
wood, matches and sandpaper, 50 that
when the hour arriv.s the blaze is started
the water begins 20 boil, and, when 1t is
hot enough for the tea or coffee to be
poured IN, shriil whistle sounds,
whereat the conjugal pair start up and
ind everything nicely warm and ready.
To think that the world has waited all
these Years for this great, ST of blessings
to the domestic man
, 1881-01-08

EvERy room in dwelling shonld have
the windows SO arranged that soInetime
during the day food Of sunlight will
force itself into the apartments Bstdsr
and IPoodrorlyr
We don't pretend to knew all the nar.
yels Of this wicked world. but We should
like t. See, Just for the fun Of it. room
ON the north side Of house in this lati-
tude arranged that way The architect
who can do il, withou. a skylight. should
have had tie job Of putting mp Solomon
Temple, the north side OF whic',, the ma
sons say. Was a place Of daTkDess-
, 1881-01-08
John Bright Speaks.

II is very evident that the feelings Of
John Bright are warmly enlisted with
the Irish Land Leaguers. He speaks but
seldom lately but always to the point
Said he recently; What the Land LeaS-
uers want is this that when a man has
a house over his head, when he has built
it himself, and when he has his little farm
around him, he shall not be necessarily
tortured with the notion that any day he
may have notice to quit, and be turned
out of his farm and home; and tha: the
rent shall not he constantly added to and
added te until even going out of hls farm
is preferable to remaining npon it. D"
, 1881-01-08
CHtLLS- Probably the worst hiun

CHtLL>. Probably the worst hlunder
ever made by the telegraphists vas one
that occurred IN The case of St Louis
merchant. WIN, while in New York,
received a telegram informing him that
MS w.fe yas i'll. He sent a message To
his family doctor asking the nature "t the
sickness. and if there was any dancer, ana
received promptly the answer, No daa-
ger. Your wife has had child 1t "e
can keep her firm having another '"-nt.h,
she viii do well. The mys,Iici'i''n 81
the agi:ated husband vas MT 'em''vs'i
uat.l a secund inquiry reveaiei the tact
.ha, his indispr sed l.Ay hal had 4 'eh IL
, 1881-01-08
sL,yErr uould seem still to exist ir

SLAVERY would seem still 10 exist IL
Virginia Under an old vasrsnt law three
negroes were lately sid at auction IN LIB
erty, oddly. .ineongruous name } Bradford
county. for 81 each, absolute ownership
TO last for three months. If this Is not
plain violation Of the Fourteenth Amend
mcnt, it looks very much like it. Even
if white men are ever sold in similar
fashion, which we doubt, such Law would
seem to have become unconstitutional and
imperative the moment the amendment
abolishing slavery went into effect The
attorney-general would do well TO inquire
into the validity Of such proceedings.
, 1881-01-08

An irrepressible Yankee has been eaus
ing commotion among London publish
ers end booksellers by selling an Ameri-
can reprint of Beaconsfeld's 'Endymion''
at the very small price Of ten pence, or
twenty cents. The Price charged by the
English publisher for their editions Is
thirty-one shillings, or seven dollars and
forty-four cents of our money, and they
are not prepared TO meet a competition Of
the sort which the American has intro
duced. The English publishers must cease
to publish every new novel IN the old and
cumbrous 5 vol. style.
, 1881-01-08
TIE English have been in the habit

The English have been in the habit 1t
saying that the strongest reason sgains.
granting home rule to ireland Was that
the Irish could not govern themselves.
But il the news firm ireland is true the
irish are governing themselves in a very
creditabie manner, and are displayingquAl.
tiles Of remarkable merit in the way Of
administrative, legislative and judicial
functions They have set up for them
selves government Of their OSn-empe-
ri''-. J.. .mperio-and seem TO be coodIes-
ino IL very veil.
, 1881-01-08

4 MANLY SENTIMENT Ha-
good, of South Carolina, said in his inau-
gural address in the discharge Of my
ofbciAl duties, l viii know no white or
eo.ored man, but regard both As South
Carolinisns. alike aInenable to the Law and
entitled to Its protection
, 1881-01-08
BROTHER NAYS, of the Pon,eroy I~de-

BgOrHER MAys, Of the Pomer"y I"de-
psadent, contempla-es the issue ii rslb
gions newspaper to be called The C"!s"o'H
Girisfiaa .4Grocute and GpTei EyPos'fof:
Ii the name itself does not Kill it the Pnre.
ly Christian sentiments IA abe Last ISSUE "
the Iadependeat surely vii May, "a
9 od representative # - Holy Chr'stiAni-
"" but Wa suggest ,l.at a better nai''s
would be G'sp-i EJ,errninstor.
, 1881-01-08

The. i.-a-u ny rec ads show TIA. G-;l.
Gran: ha- b.--n r,:,i xbout SJt0, ,0oJ . nee
he entered West Punt as Cadet.
, 1881-01-08

GEN FKASz GurrEsErkG Is Nerf 10"
o, SEATTLE with rheunsts Of the heart
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-06-04
Rest for Headache.

Dr. Day says, in late lecture, what
ever be the plan of treatment decided
upon, rest is the first principle to incul-
cate in every severe headache. Rest,
which the busy man and anxious moth
er cannot obtain so long as they can
manage to keep about, is one of the first
remedies for every headache, and We
should never cease to enforce IL. The
brain, When excited, us much needs
quiet and repose as fractured limb OF
an inflamed eye, and it is obvious that
the chances of shortening the seizure
and arresting the pain will depend on
our power to have this carried out eff
fectually. 1t is practical lesson to
keep steadily in view, in that there may
Turk behind simple headache some le-
sion of unknown magnitude which may
remain stationary if quietude cannot be
maintained. There is point worth at
tending to in the treatment of head
aches. See that the head is elevated at
night, and the pillow hard; for, if it be
soft, the head sinks into it and becomes
hot, which with some people is enough
to provoke an attack in the morning il
sleep has been long and heavy.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-06-04
Piles! Piles!! Piles!!!

ASSURE CURE FOUND AT LAST. NO ONE MEET
SUFFER.
A sure cure for the Blind, Bleeding,
Itching and liberated Piles has been dis.
covered by DR.. Williams Gan Indian rem
edy), called DIR. Williams Indian ONT
ment. A single box has cured tile worst
chronic cases Of rs and 30 years standing.
No one need suffer five minutes after apply
ing this wonderful soothing medicine
Lotions, Instruments and Electuanes dc
more harm than good. Williams Oint
ment absorbs the tumors, allays the intense
itching particularly at night after getting
warm in bed), acts as poultice; gives
instant and painless relief and is prepared
only for Piles, itching Of the private parts
and nothing else
Read what the Hon j. M. CofliDberry, OF
Cleveland, says about DR.. Williams Indian
Pile Ointment: 81 have used scores OF
pile cures, and it affords me pleasure to say
that have never found anything which
gave such immediate and permanent relief
as DR.. Williams Indian Pile Ointment"
For sale by all druggists, or mailed on
receipt Of price $l00.
FRANK s. HENRY e Co.,
Sole Props, Cleveland, o.
For sale by GEO. Il. O'HARA, Druggis.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-06-04
Old Fruit Trees,

We notice occasionally reference
made in our agricultural exchanges to
the great ago that both apple and pear
trees sometimes attain. AS rule, the
pear tree is much longer lived than the
apple. We have seldom known an APP
Pile tree to live much longer than from
thirty TO seventy years, the latter age
being about the limit. But certain va
rieties of the pear sometimes live to q
great age. The former does not get to
bearing before it reaches from ten TO lif-
teen years old On an old homestead
in Montgomery county, Pa, there is n
Catharine pear tree that must be sixty
five TO seventy years old, but does not
seem much more than half grown. And
here upon our present premises there
are two Catillac, two Windsor and one
Catharine tree, which are estimated TO
be one hundred and fifty years old Fiji
ty years ago they seemed TO be very
nearly as large as now; and we were
told by previous owner of the ground
An old man when we purchased it
that his grandfather, who came from
Germany, planted the trees, with others
OF the same name-which we removed
when he was by no means an old
man. Hence, by getting at the ages of
the mans ancestors we pretty closely
approximate the ages of the trees
Germantown Telegraph.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-06-04
An Incident Of the Blockade.

A correspondent of the Boston Adver-
tiser, discussing the subject of color
blindness, relates the following as COM
ing under his own experience when en-
ployed in the blockade of the port of
Wilmington, North Carolina, during
the war of the rebelion: 1.-THE ships
on blockade duty got under way at sun
set, and at dark moved to their regular
stations, some going well in toward Fort
Caswell and others further of, keeping
under low steam and in special beat.
To prevent as far as possible our own
ships from installing and firing into
each other, each supposing the other
blockade runner, as did happen more
than once, my own ship getting three
"a pound shells from one of our own
vessels, system of challenging and an
swering signals by showing or flashing
red or white light was established.
AS we all knew the station OF beat of
each ship, we could usually tell with
tolerable certainty what vessel was sight
ed. But, to prevent accidents, it was
the rule for any ship doubling to chal-
lenge by showing the challenging signal
for that particular night. II no answer
ing light was shown, or an incorrect
one, the challenger had right to fire.
One night my own ship was challenged.
We we're so near that all hands on my
vessel knew well what ship made the
challenge. We answered by showing
red light for three or four seconds.
Again we were challenged and again
we answered as before. All hands were
at quarters. Almost Immediately after
our second answer the lock-string of
the 100-pounder rifle on board the chal-
lenger was pulled, the gun, pointed di-
rectly at my ship, happily missing fire.
Before the gun could be reprinted we
were made out and no harm done. The
next day an interview was had with the
commander of the challenging ship, and
he was informed by me that his chal-
lenges were correctly answered, l my
self seeing it done. Why our answers
were not seen by his ship could not be
made out. He informed me, however,
that he had been many months in COM
mand of his ship, and never before had
that gun missed fire.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-06-04
A Standard Article EVERYWHERE.

1t is a long way from the Atlantic to the
Pacific and from Maine to the Gulf OF
Mexico, but in all the vast area lying with
in those boundaries there is not a city
town, village settlement or camp where
Hostetters Stomach Bitters is not well
known and in great demand. 1t is the
great household medicine of the American
people, and is taken everywhere as a safe.
guard against epidemics and endemics, as a
remedy for dyspepsia, biliousness and If.
Irregularities of the bowels, as a cure for
chills and fever and rheumatic ailments, as
a sedative In nervous cases, as wholesome
cxhilarant in hypochondria, and as a gen.
,eral invIgorant and restorative. To the
weak and dropping itimparts strength and
vitality, br2cing the relaxed nerves and
rousing all the latent energies of the system
For years it has been the standard tonic
and corrective of the western world.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-06-04
A Baptist Minister'S Experience.

am Baptist minister, and before |
even thought of being clergyman, |
graduated in medicine, but left lucrative
practice for my present profession, 40 years
ago Twas for many years a sufferer from
4uinsy; "rhomas Electric Oil cured me,
! was also troubled with hoarseness. and
Thomas Echctric Oil always relieve me
My wife and child had diphtheria and
"Thomas' Eclectric Oil cured them, " and If
taken in time it will cure seven times ont
of ten. am confident it is cure for the
most obstinate cold and cough, and if any
one will take small teaspoon and half fiji
it with the Oil, and then place the end Of
the spoon in one nostril and draw the oil
out OF the spoon into the head by shifting
as hard as they can, until the Oil falls over
in the throat, and practice that twice a
week, don't care how offensive their head
may be, II will clean II out and cure Their
catnrrh. For deafness and earache it has
done wonders to my certain knowledge. II
ia the only medicine dubbed patent medi.
cine that I have ever felt like recommend.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-06-04
Stop That Cough.

If you are suffering with a cough, cold
asthma, bronchitis, hay fever, consumption
loss of voice, tickling in the throat, or any
affection of the throat or lungs, use DR.
Kings New Discovery for consumption
This is the great remedy that is causing so
much excitement by its wonderful cures,
curing thousands of hopeless cases. Over
one million bottles of DR.. Kings New Dis
covcry have been used within the last year,
and have given perfect satisfaction in every
instance. We can unhesitatingly say that
this is really the only sure cure for throat
and lung affections, and can cheerfully
recommend it to all. Call and get a trial
bottle free of cost, or regular size for 81.
For sale by George E. O'Hara, Druggist,
Cairo, Ill. 81
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-06-04
Sheep That Dive From Cliffs.

scrlbner for May.
John Muir, the naturalist of the Sier-
IN, writing of the wild sheep of the
Sierra and of their we'll authenticated
habit of diving from precipices and
alighting on their horns, relates the fol-
lowing anecdote.
"At the base Of Sheep Rock, one of
the winter strongholds of the Shasta
flocks, there lives stock-raiser who has
the advantage of observing the move
ments of wild sheep every winter; and,
in the course Of conversation with him
on the subject of their diving habits, he
pointed TO tho front of lava headland
about n hundred and fifty feet high,
which is only eight or ten degrees out
of the perpendicular. There, said he,
Il followed q band of them fellows to
the back of that rock yonder, and ex-
pected TO capture them all, for / thought
had dead thing on them. got be-
hind them on narrow bench that runs
along the face of the wall near the top
and comes to an end where they could
not get away without falling and being
killed; but they jumped of, and landed
all right. as if that were the regular
thing with them"
"Whatp said l, jumped hundred
and fifty feet!' Did you see them do
itp'
Ono he replied, Il didn't see them
going down, for Twas behind them; but
saw them 60 off over the brink, and
then / went below and found their
tracks wLere they struck on the loose
debris on the bottom. They sailed right
eli, and landed on their feet right side
up. That's the kind of animal hey is
beats anything else that goes on four
legs"
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-06-04
WOman'S Wisdom.

"She insists that it Is more Importance,
that her family shall be kept in full health
than that she should have all the fashion
able dresses and styles of the times. She
therefore sees to it, that each member of
her family is supplied with enough Hop
Bltters, at the first appearance of any symp-
toms OF ill health, to prevent fit of sick
ness with its attendant expense, care and
anxiety. All women should exercise their
wisdom in this way."-New Haven Palla-
dunn,
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-06-04
INSURANCE.
GOOD NEWS.
CLAIM YOUR MONEY.

A General Onlcc of the Life Policy Holders Col
lection Agency of the United States, for the States
of Illinois Wisconsin, Minnesota and Iowa has
been established In the city of Chicago. There Is
Cash value In all Life insurance Policies, whether
lapsed or In force. For further Information re-
epeciingt the same, apply ta Local Agent, II there
IL one in your place, otherwise by letter TO
CHARLES g. QUIVEY CO., General Agents,
"a Portland Block, Chicago, Illinois.
n BIO insure attention TO yonr letter inclose
q cent In Postage and we viii give II our time and
attention,
Parties DESTROYS of obtaining Local Agencies
please address M at once aud ENCLOSE REFER
ENCEs.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-06-04
THE DAILY BULLETIN.
Drinking In Oregon,

To take drink IL Oregon costs man
80 INDUCING SIS. The rum is not worth
that money, but the city requires IL
ceuse costing that sum beforea man can
get any bitters at any hotel or saloon
1t is penal ofiense for the proprietors
OF these establishments 10 sell TO any
person who is not armed with such IL
ccnse. Every six months the local pa
pers publish the names of all who have
applied for such document, and the
public thereby know who are the drink
ers.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-06-04
Virtue Acknowledged.

Mrs. Ira Mulholland, Albany, N. Y,
writes "For several years ! have suffered
from oit-recurring bilious headaches, dys-
pe.psia' and complaints peculiar to my sex.
Since using your Burdock Blood Bitters
am entirely relieved" Price $100, trial
size 10 cents.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-06-04

ing, and / am very anxious to see 1t In
every place, for tell you that would not
be without 1t in my house tor my consid-
Grafton. am now suffering with a pain
like rheumatism in my right limb, and
nothing relieves me like Thomas Electric
Oil. DIR. +. f, GRAND,
Cory, Pa.
Paul G. Schulz, Agent.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-06-04
A Good SGuare Meal

is too often followed by disordered stom-
ach, symptoms of dyspepsia or indigestion.
Every miserable dyspeptic In the land
should know that he can be cured by a
timely use of Burdock Blood Bitters.
Price, 81 90, trial size 10 cents.