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The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-01-13
KITCHEN ECONOMY.
INTERESTING TESTS MADE by THE GOVERN.
MEET CHEMIST.

MENT CHEMIST.
N Y. Tribune, December II.
Dr. Edward G, Love, the present analy-
teal chemist for the Indian department of
the government, has recently made some
interesting experiments as to the compare
tive value of baking powders. DR.. Loves
tests were made to determine what brands
are the most economical to use. And as
their capacity lies in their leavening power,
tests were directed solely to ascertain the
available gas of each powder. Dr. Loves
report gives the following.
"rhc prices at which baking powders are
sold to consumers find to be usually so
cents per pound. have therefore calcu-
lated their relative commercial values &C.
cording to the volume of gas yielded on
basis Of so cents cost per pound"
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-01-13

EVERY DAY increases the popularity and
sale Of Carriers Little Liver Pills. The
reason is that, when once used, relief is
sure to follow. % cents.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-01-13
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY.
City Oncers.

Mayor--N. II. ThistlewoOd.
Treasurer-Edward DezOnia.
Clerk-Dcnnis. j, Foley.
Counselor WIN. Is. Gilbert.
Marshal--J H. Robinson.
Attorney-Willam Hendricks.
BOARD or ALDERMEN.
First Wnrd--M. j Howley. Peter Saup.
Second Ward-DaWd 7. Lnegar, Jesse Hinkle
Third Ward-Egbert Smith, b. +, Blake.
Fourth Ward-Charles o. Patier, Adolph Swo'
boda.
Fifth Ward-T W. Halliday, Ernest b. Petit.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-01-13
County Officers.

Circuit Judged. j. Baker,
Circuit Clerk--A. II Irwin.
County Judge-R 5. Yocum.
County Clerks. j. liumm
County Attorney. ". DamrOn.
County Treasurer-Miles W. Parker
Sherif-John Hodges,
Coroner---R. Fitzgerald,
County Commissioners W. Halliday, j
NJ Gibbs, Samuel Briley.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-01-13

The Popularity of the Equitable Life Assurance Society,"
indicated by the fact that for Eleyen years its average
nua New Business has been larger than that of any other
Company in the world is due in great measure to its well
known promptness in the payment of Death Claims and its
rule to take advantage of technicaes where an
equitable claim exists.
Asa GUARANTEE of this, and to cOunteract the PERM
cious influence of technical policy adhered to by many
companies the Equitable makes ALL ITS POLICIES old and
new, throughout the United States.
ABSOLUTELY INCONTESTABLE,
After the policy has been in force for three years.
"The Equitable Life has paid since its organ
ization to January 1st, 1880, $51 1892 1876, and
closed its books upon that date without a con-
tested Or past due claim"
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-01-13

BY the late report of the Insurance Commissioner for the
states of Massachusetts and New York. the Equitable Life
Assurance Society shows the following strong points
F1RSTThe Equitable has larger ratio of assets to liza
Utilities than any of the leading companies.
SECONDhe Equitable saved more of its income last wear
than any other company.
TIRDThe Equabes death rate was less last wear than
any other of the leading companies.
FOURTHThe Equitable realizes higher rate of rent or
interest on real estate than any other company.
TeSocey takes pleasure referring the following business
men insured in the society, composing
ADVISORY BOARD OF REFERENCE FOR CAIRO:
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-01-13

bank.
FRANK l.. GALIGHER, Cairo City mills
JIM. PHILLIPS, President Halliday & Phillips
Wharfboat company.
gist. va" '''"' ''"e
Wholesale grocors. VI s''"'''" " D''
"hEloT WRIGHT, Of G. ID. williamson,
"No' po"' "'oros ana Commission merchants
visions and produce. "' p'oe" PRIV
ERNEST. u. PETIT, Groceries. oueenswaro
and notions. 4"''"'""o
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-01-13
PHYSICIANS.
GEORGE II. LEACH, NJ. D.,
Physician and Surgeon.

Special attention paid TO the Homeopathic treat
ment OF surgical diseases. and diseases Of women
and children.
once: No. 10 Eighth street, near Commercial
avenue, Cairo, Ills.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1881-09-03
White Schools. Cord Schools.


The reason for the great difference
in the number Of white and colored
schools is that the negroes live more
compactly than The whites, nearly all
of them being on the farms along
Red river; and larger numbers Of
them attend single school.
All the religious denominations are
represented in the parish, q good
portion of the south western part be-
ing Roman Catholics, while the bal
ance of the parish are Professionals OF
various denominations. The people
are hospitable and clever, and always
ready to lend a helping hand to
their neighbors. Politics of the old
sort have about died out, and men
of all parties mingle friendly togeth-
err. The parish is exceedingly heal
thy, there being less sickness in il
than in almost any other portion Of
the State.
In the language of Scripture, we
can only say to immigrants looking
for homes, "Come with rs, and VIC
viii do you good"
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1881-09-03

President Garfield's condition be-
came very alarming last week, and
on Saturday his life was for a time
despaired of, but he has pulled
through it all, and his doctors are
reported as saying that they consider
his recovery as certain. Our latest
advices, under date of Aug. 30th,
bring word that the President is bet
ter in every sense of the word, and
continues to improve.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1881-09-03

thing and anything that can be grown
anywhere in the central or northern
portion of the State. An ordinary
family, (say five persons, J with two
working hands can safely count on
clearing from $500 to $500 a year
above living expenses, if they are at
all economical or industrious. The
timber of the country consists of
pine, cypress, white and black oak,
hickory, pecan, tuplar gum, sweet
gum. black gum. and a variety of
smaller growths Grapes, Musca-
dimes, and nun Der of palatable ber-
ries are of natural growth, and exist
in bountiful supply. Fruits and all
kinds of melons do we'll The staple
products are corn and cotton, al
though sugar does well, and many of
our farmers make their own syrup.
At one time sugar-making was nm ex-
tensive industry in the parish, and it
probably will be NO again before many
years Potatoes yield enormously
in our soil-both kinds, sweet and
Irish. Rutabagas and carrots, peas,
peanuts, and all the garden vegeta-
bles thrive luxuriantly.
The parish is divided into school
districts, each district being allowed
certain amount of money from the
public school fund, in proportion to
the number of children in the dis
trict. There are seven districts, with
white and colored schools as follows:
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1881-09-03
SESSION OF NINE MONTHS BE
GINS OCTOBER 5, 1881.

Healthy location. Free tuition. Board,
lodging. medical expenses, etc, SIG 90 per
mouth. Cheap uniform. Full corps of
competent Professors Workshop Of Me-
chanical Department. in operation. Mill
tary discipline For further particulars
apply TO PROF. L. w. SEWELL,
su6-3m Baton Rcnge, La
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1881-09-03

Some time since it was announced
that an able gentlemen was to write
up the various parishes of the State,
for publication in the n o. Democrat,
giving o resume of their crops, fertil-
ity of soil, and the Inducements they
offer for the immigrant. This has
been done with q number OF the par
ishes, but in the round Grant seems
to have been passed by. As this
parish ranks equal with most of the
parishes, in point of fertility. and far
suspasses many of them, we are at o
loss to account for the slight. 1t
may be that we are to come in turn
after a while, but, for fear of missing
the opportunity of having the merits
of our parish discussed at q time
when all the others are receiving .
full modicnm of praise, we have this
week attempted is speak in moderate
terms o. our own parish.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1881-09-03
mo. 43.


The Diamond Spectacles and Eye
Glasses not only claim to be. but are
the best that science has been able
to produce.
They are perfectly colorless, do not
polarize light, have no prismatic col
ors or scattered rays, common to
pebbles and other lenses in use.
The core or centre of the tense
comes directly in front of the eye and
never tires the eye, but prevents the
heated rays from entering; thereby
producing . clear and distinst vision,
as iu the natural healthy sight.
Their durability is pre-eminent,
and while they preserve the sight.
their lasting qualities are such, that
frequent changing is unnecessary.
The Diamond Spectacles have stood
the test of nearly ten years, and
over 1000, 900 of them are now in
use, yet we have never found q pair
that did not give satisfaction. We
have many strong testimonials from
prominent Oculists, Physicians and
Citizens.
Prof Harvey L. Byrd, NJ. D., Wash
ington University, says that the Dia-
mond Spectacles afford more comfort
to the eye and greater clearness and
iformity of vision than any Spec
tacles he ever used.
They are mounted in all styles Of
Gold, Silver, Steel. Rubber and Shell
Frames of the best quality.
For sale only by FERGUsoS &
ScHSAcK, dealers in diamonds, watch
es, jeweIry, silverware, toys, fancy
goods, notions. etc, Alexandria, La.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1881-09-03

Some German writers have long
discussed the evil influence of pub
lie executions, which possess the fas-
cination Of q sensational show to the
ignorant masses, and demoralize with
the brutality of the method of death.
The garrote, the guillotine and many
other improvements have received
due consideration, but the sentiment
talists have at last concluded that
solemn killing by electricity is the
proper thing. The present plan
merely expiates one murder by maxi
ing the executioners do another, but
the electricity can be made to do the
thing conscientiously and Officially"
The wall OF the room shall be draped
in black, and the windows somberly
curtained, in order to exclude all
light. The only article of furniture
in the apartment shall be q judges
desk and an arm chair. In the mid
die of the room shall be an iron 6g-
ure Of Justice, with her scales and
sword. This efigy shall have, in
place Of bowels. as powerful electric
battery as may be necessary. The
battery shall be connected with the
arm chair. and governed by q con-
nection with the scales. The scene
shall be lighted by single torch
burning on the judges desk.
The only persons admitted to the
execution shall be the Judge, jury
and other officials concerned in the
condemnation of the victim. That
person shall be brought in and seat
ed in the chair, to which be shall
be manacled immogable. Then the
Judge shall read the story of his
crime to him and reiterate his sem
tencs. This performed he shall break
q rod of Office and toss it into JUS
tees balance.
The scales shall be weighted down
by this, and the electric current thus
set in circulation. As the balance
descends the Judge shall extinguish
the torch. signifying that he thus
puts ont the victims life.
Thus the criminal will expire in
dreadful darkness, without . chance
of the sort Of sympathy which 30
often adorns the scafford. It will be
as solemn and awful "a the doom OF
implement that the church inflicted
on recusant nuns.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1881-09-03
How to tses ma Of Cece.

Plow the soil as early in the spring
as possible; re-plow in the month Of
April, and SOW the land broadcast in
peas at the rate of one bnshel per
acre. The pea vines viii shade out
the COCO the first year TO such an ex-
tent that scarcely blade win be Wis
IDLE the following season.
Should any make its appearance,
repeat the operation. This is the
only practical method we know OF 70
get rid of COCO.
As the vines may be used for hay.
nothing win be lost; on the contrary,
the land viii be mellowed and en-
riched by the shade and droppings
from the leaves. We have tried this
process. and it never failed.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1881-09-03

Very few persons know what is
the normal temperature Of the body,
the times of respiration in q minute,
or the number of pulse beats in a
minute. The n. Y. Sun gives the
following information: The normal
rate Of the pulse for adults is be-
tween 20 and rs beats to the minute.
In exceptional cases, however, the
pulse sometimes ranges as low as 60
or as high as so in a healthy person.
The normal rate of temperature OF
the body ranges from SO to 100 de-
grees. The normal rate of respira-
ton is Is per minute, although some
persons breathe little more rapidly,
but never more than 20 times a min
ute. unless in great distress or bodi-
ly pain. Every person should be ia
millar with these facts. and parents
shonld especially observe them with
their children.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1881-09-03

The Alexandria papers are lucky
in possessing some most intesting
correspondents, who have been en-
livening their columns with readable
and pleasing articles during the heat
ed term. If our neighbors were sit
mated at the crossroads, as we are,
and had to contend with the dearth
of items that exists hereabouts, they
would know how to appreciate such
able adjuncts to the gaping editors.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1881-09-03

General Hancock possesses great
delicacy OF feeling and 6ne sense
of propriety. In declining to be
present at . public dinner recently. be
expressed the opinion that it would
be msnifestly improper for him to
accept invitations 70 festive enter
tainments while the President. ex-
of6cio bis comman der-in-chief, was
lowering between life and death.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1881-09-03

The Superintendent Ut the Census
has placed us under obligations for .
report relating to cotton culture in
Louisiana, and giving much valuable
information abont the character and
contents OF the different parishes.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1881-09-03

If q little more honesty was used by
our officers in tie enforcement of the
laws, and little more ,cork was
done by our people. we do not think
there would be 90 much complaint
about the ineffiicency of the consti-
tuition.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1881-09-03
PAINE, cRAFToM q IApp,

Aftoraeys-af-Law and Solicitors Of american
and Foreign PatcHfs.
412 Firth STREET. WAsHISGTos, ID. c.
Practice Patent Law in all its branches
in the Patent Office and in the Supreme
and Circuit Courts of the United States.
Pamphlet sent free IN rensipt Of stamp
for postage.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1881-09-03

Two bran new sewing machines
for sale at this Office. One Singer.
and one Wilson
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-05-08

Republican Senator. The President
will not withdraw Robertson, and the
Senator will resist his confirmation
to the bitter end.
The situation is one regretted by
all Republicans, but if it must come
to this, now is the time to settle it.
If the President is going to be sus-
tanned by the Senate, and thus be
allowed to carry out his own policy
on public questions without being
muzzled, he ought to know it, and
the country ought to know it. If
he is to be hand-cuffed and remain
helpless, then that fact should be
known. If he is going to be forced
to appoint men to office in
the greatest State in the
Union, who will antagonize bis
Administration the sooner it is
known the better. If he is forced to
submit to such a state of affairs ii
will not be his fault. He will assert
his legal and Constitutional rights
and leave the Senate to act as the
members of that honorable body
may think best. The President will
relieve himself and the Senators
will assume the responsibility OF
sustaining him or if binding him
hand and foot and giving him over
to his antagonists. We will see
which is the winning side.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-05-08

SAID prominent citizen of Knox
vile yesterday, and one of the most
active friends of education in the
city, speaking to the editor of the
CHRONICLE d" I'VE must have a school
of high grade for girls, and the
newspapers can aid us in getting
such an institution" We agreed
with him that such an institution is
badly needed, and it is hardly nee
essary for US to say that the CHRoNI-
Gle will do whatever it can to bring
it about. The CHRONICLE takes some
pride in it's record on the subject of
education generally and does not
propose to go back on that record.
But while the newspapers may aid
in the Inauguration of a movement
looking to such an institution,
they alone cannot make it O success.
That we have no school of high
grade for females, in Knoxville is
not to our credit. We should have
female college with good faculty
and it ought to be made prosperous
and selfesupporting. We have every
thing necessary to establish such a
school, except the will and enter
prise. We have the location, the
climate, the wealth and all the facili
ties for it, and we ought to have in g
few years an institution rivaline
Vassar, Wellesley and the best col.
leges in the land. We can have i
if we will. But will we? That il
the question. Who will immort aliz
himself or herself by giving it
start?
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-05-08

It is fortunate that the exact nature of
Mr.. Conkling's grievance has been con-
fessed. 1t is we'll that the country should
understand that for some reason of his own,
he has determined that the New York
Custom House shall be surrendered to his
control, and that he will be satisfied with
no other terms. When the situation shall
be properly understood, the President will
be sustained in his refusal to capitulste
with a unanimity that will starlle MIR.
Conkling, and will warn the Senators from
other States, whether Republican or Demo
cratic, that they, cannot with impunity
enter into any conspiracy with Cor king or
any body else to trade off the New York
Custom House for private monopoly.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-05-08
Murder Will Out.

Monroe Democrat The young man Sam.
Forester who was murdered last December
at the Hiwassee Gap, on the Tennessee
River, in Polk county, whose body was
found last Saturday week, reported to the
United States revenue officials moonshiner
named Jenkins living in the same neighbor-
hood This made Jenkins very angry.
Soon after Forester and two men were seen
riding along the road, and then his horse
came running home without a rider. Parties
instantly started on the hunt for him, and
saw the footprints of the horse as he had
suddenly wheeled. While the crowd were
dragging the river, Jenkins rode by but did
not stop. He afterward left the country,
but the two men with Forester were ar
rested and are Jail. 1t is thought they were
accomphces, and Jenkins did the deed.
The body when found was in an advanced
state of decay-one foot and arm were gone,
and the flesh had sloughed off.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-05-08

Not long since we had view of the moon
through a fine telescope. She was in what
is called her gibbous phase; that is, more
than half enlightened, between the first
quarter ank the full.
The telescope had a power of 5O0-or
magnifed 500 times-which so increased
the size of our little satellite that only q
small portion could be seen at once. She
was brought so near that it seemed as if we
could almost touch her.
Her surface looks more like chalk than
like anything else. The scene was one of
utter desolation. Deep indentations with
immense cones rising in the center; huge
assures and crevices black as night; stu
pendous civities, and every conceivable form
of shapeless excrescence, are all that now
remain to show where verdure-covered val
leys once reigned, mountain tops lifted their
heads covered with eternal snow, volcanic
! craters sent forth hidden flames, and basins
and river beds were covered with surglng
seas and running streams.
The moons atmosphere has long since
been absorbed, and therefore no clouds dl-
versify her sky, no sound breaks the eternal
silence, no twilight prolongs the day, and
no SIGN of life can be traced in the chaos
that reigns on the dead planet.
Doubtless, before her internal heat was
exhausted, she was the abode of habitable
life, but, being only one-fourth of the sizt
of the EARTH she must cool much faster
and her mission be more quickly fulfilled.
There is, however, some variety In thu
view of the moon as different portions O.
the disk come into the field. Now We have
a comparatively placid scene, known as thu
Sea of tranquility, for in old times waite
was supposed to exist there. Now come
the famous crater Linnaus, which, few
years since, was thought to give signs o
volcanic action. Then other we1-knowl
localities are glanced at, for astronomer
know the prominent features of the moon a
well as those of our own globe.
The most interesting view was that of tn
terminator or boundary line between tn
bright and shaded portions of the moon, In
stead of theline ofIight that marks its appea,
ance to the naked eye, the rough edge wa
J formed of golden branches like huge forms
tons of coral
These were the SUBMITS of the mountain
in the moon, just rising on this portion c
the satellite.
The bright mountain tops were grand
beautiful as they were touched by the SUI
. beams The scene was still more subim
and awe inspiring when it was remembers
, that the eyes that looked upon were 240, 90
miles away, Youths Companion.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-05-08
THE PRESIDENT AND SENATOR
CONKLING.

AS every one expected and knew,
the withdrawal of the important New
York nominations by the President
has given great offense to Senator
Conkling and his partisans. The
President hesitated a long time be-
fore taking aggressive steps against
the Senator from New York. He
hoped to maintain harmony, and that
some way would be found to do it,
consistent with honor and dignity
He has at all times been anxious to
do full justice to both factions of
the Republican party in that State.
In common with all other Republic
ans, he fully recognized and appre>
ciated Mr.. Conkling's great ability
and his distinguished public services
The President has, with great reluc-
lance, taken a step antagonistic tc
Senator Conkling, but feels that he
has been forced into it.
Of all the important nominations
made in the State, including abou
eight, Judge Robertson was the onl,
one who was not pronounced Conk
ling man. This, it appears, ough
to have been reasonably satisfactor,
to the Senator, but it was not, ant
from the time Robertson's name wa
sent into the Senate, he is reported
to have been laboring to embarras
and thwart the plans of the Admins
tration. If one half reported in thu
public prints be true, his position
has been one of defiant antagonist
to the President. Efforts have bee
made to reconcile the difference
between the President and Senate
Conkling, but nothing would satlsf
the latter but the absolute with
drawal of Judge Robertsons name
This the President refused to d.
and the result is an open ruptur
between the President and leadin