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The daily Cairo bulletin., 1882-08-24
DEATH OLA STRANGER.

Tuesday afternoon man came to this
city on the Iron Mountain railroad and put
up at the Planters house where he regis
tered as j. L. Lamb, of Chicago. About
4 O'Clock in the afternoon he said he was
not we'll and asked to he shown TO his room,
which was done. About o'clock at
night one Of the bell boys who had been
waiting on him reported to the clerk that
the man was in very bad condition and
the clerk visited him and found HIN in
cramps and unable to speak. a physician
was Immediately sent for and the man
wife and daughter, at Chicago, were tele-
graphed tor, The physician pronounced to
sick man afflicted with congestive chill',h
and beyond hope of recovery and at five
o'clock yesterday morning the man died
in his room at the hotel.
Mr. Lamb was travelling agent tor
Mathews e. Co., commission firm of Chi
cago, and had been in Kentucky and Mis-
souri, drummlngup the watermelon trade
for the house. He had been for some time
afflicted with an intestinal disorder and
had not taken proper care OF himself.
There is not particle ftruth in the ru-
NOR in circulation yesterday forenoon, that
the man had committed suicide by taking
laudanum. A reply to the dispatch sent
to Mrs. Lamb was received yesterday after
noon, and it requested that her husbands
remains be placed in the morgue until fur
ther orders. 1t was expected that she would
arrive on the afternoon train yesterday,
but she did not.
LATTER A dispatch was received last
night from Chicago by the officers of the
Planters house, req Nesting that the corpse
of Mr. Lamb be sent by express 10 that
city. A fine coffin was therefore purchased,
the remains properly dressed aud placed in
the coffin, aud sent to Chicago early this
morning.
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unit on the question of substitution that he
claimed that the motion was carried.
Most assuredly it was. But when and
how did the Doctor break the unit rule2
BY permitting the secretaries or debating
chem to record the vote AS cast. BY con.
ceeding the very point we contended for
the right ofdelegates to vote as they pleased.
This is all we claimed should have been
done in the first instance; and then there
would have been no tnrbulance, no occasion
for scenes Of disorder and denuncIation in
the convention. II he was right in his last
ruling ne was certainly wrong in his first.
That he reversed his own ruling there is no
question. II the Doctor had adhered to
his first ruling Judge Damron would Ger
talnly have been nominated; and if the
vote was properly taken and counted
In the first instance why reverse it when it
was seen that il would make Judge Dam.
ron the nominee Of that convention?
According to the doctors own statement
he Is responsible for his defeat.
But the doctor says the chairman of tho
johnson county delegation was carrying
out instructions in good faith.
Now deny that the Johnson county del
egation ever instructed at all as to how
they should vote on the preliminary oues-
tons in that convention.
N one pretended To claim that they
were, aud yet the doctor enforced the unit
rule upon questions when they were not
instructed, aud broke il upon the very ques
tion upon which they were.
But have already occupied more space
than | intended, should certainly have
payed no attention to the communication if
the county which | have the honor in part
to represent, had not been unjus,y as be-
lieve, deprived, by the partisan rulings
OF the chair, Of any representation in that
coRven ton.
Very Respectfully,
n, g. THIsrlEwoop.
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DEMOCRATS OF THE 51st.

The conversation of Democrats OF the
ffty-frst senatorial district of Ills, met at
Mound City yesterday afternoon, Full
delegations from the four counties compos-
ing the district were present. The meeting
was harmonious throughout, the nomina-
tons beng all made unanimous. There were
but three candidates before the convention,
Hon, f. M. Youngblood for the senate and
DR.. Lodge and August Spann for the
lower house of the Legislature, and they
were all nominated. The district was Re
publican by 76i votes Mt the election of
1880, and the Democracy Of the fifty first
district was, according to that vote entitled
to only one member, the minority reprercns
tation in the lower house of the state leg
slature; but the convention was OF the
opinion that, owing to the dissatisfaction
in the Republican ranks in the district,
they could elect two members TO the Re-
publcan's one, and after calm deliberatlon
and the best of feeling on all sides. DR..
Lodge and Mr. Spann were nominated, 1t
ia to be hoped that the action of the con-
vontion will prove wise, and thar the elec'
ton in November will prove its calcua-
tons TO have been correct.
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THE REPUBLICAN CONVENTION,
\ REPLY TO DR.. DYER IN THE DUQUoN TRT.
BUNE.

\ REPLY TO DIR. DYER IN THE DUQUoIN TRG'
BUNE.
Editor Cairo Bulletin.
My attention has been called to com
munication in your issue Of the 18th over the
signature of DR.. L. Dyer, in which he makes
a statement or rather attempts defense of
his action as chairman Of the Republican
convention which was recently held in this
city.
have no desire to enter into any conro-
versy relative to the action of that conven-
tion, but there are some statements in the
communication referred to which cannot
let pass without offering comments.
1t makes very little difference whether
the doctor had one hour or one weeks no.
ticc of the intention of the convention to
make him it's presiding officer, unless he
wishes to offer that as an excuse for his un.
fairness, and for changing his own rulings
during the sitting of the convention. The
doctor asserts in the beginning Of his letter
that he knew when he was elected, "that we
were going to have warm times" which as
sertiou would seem to indicate that it was
bis intention to rule unfairly and to subvert
the will of the majority Of the convention
| assert what think will not be called in
question by any one familiar with parlia-
mentary law, that one of the most impera.
tive duties of n presiding officer is to rep.
resent and stand for the assembly, over
which he may preside, declaring its will,
and in all things obeying implicitlyits com
mands. lie should remember that the great
purpose OF all rules and forms il to sub
serve the will of the assembly that Is, the
will of majority composing that assem-
bly,, rather than to restrain it, to facilitate
and not to obstruct the expressions of their
deiberste sense. Is this the position the
doctor occupied when he refused the right
Of delegates to have their votes recorded as
to them seemed best9 Did the doctor oc-.
cupy the position of presiding officer,
who desired to obtain the will of the
assembly, when he ordered that the entire
vote of Johnson county to be recorded yea
on the question to substitute the minority
report Of the committee on credentials,
Notwithstanding six delegates arose in their
places protesting and demanding that their
votes be recorded "noa" think it is well
established rule in all conventions that
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A GOOD BARGAIN

viii be given some enterpriscing man
in TUE BULLETIN Building, which is now
offered for sale on easy terms, fong time
and low rate of interest. The building
has rented for the past year for
fifty to sixty-two dollars per month.
The property consists Of lots, and two
brick buildings "a three story 4OS6O and a
two story l6x As. Has a frontage of 50
feet on Washington avenue and l5O feet on
18th street. IL desired the machinery, en-.
g'ne, boiler, &c, in the story building
w'll be sold with it. For particulars ad.
areSs TINS Office, or John II oberly, Bloom.
ipgtop, Ills.
The daily Cairo bulletin., 1882-08-24
Fresh Oysters
at DeBauns SO OHIO levee.
Spr0at's Retail Ice Box.

Consumers of ice are notified that for
their convenience | have built large Ice
box on Eighth street in Cundih's store where
ice in anv quantity can at all times be OBJ
tanned. My customers will remember that
their tickets will be punched at this stand
ust the same as by drivers of wagons, tt.
john SPROAT.
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Fresh Oysters
at DeBauns 81 Ohio Levec.
Southern Hotel ana Restaurant

Leo Kleb desires his friends aud the pub
lie to know that this favorite hotel is now
thoroughly repaired and reftted in better
condition than before the fire. Meals at
reasonable rates are furnished at all hours
Good rooms and beds for the tired, good
fare for the hungry,-fne liquors Tor the
The daily Cairo bulletin., 1882-08-24

Use THg CAIRO BULLETIN perforated
scratcb-booS, made of caIendered iute
MANILA, equally good for ink or pencil. For
sale, in three sizes, at the Office. No. . and
3. five and ten cents each by the single one,
by the dozen. Special discount on gross
lots TO the trade
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Fresh Oysters
at DeBauns So Ohio Levee.
ICE! ICEl!
PHENIX !

Out of the fire, cor. of Sth and Levee, my
ice house and Office is at present At the
City Brewery, on Washington avenue, he-
tween 9Th and 9th streets. Orders will be
filled same as usual, both wholesale and
retail. Wagons supply regularly every day.
JACOB KLEE.
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HOw's the Baby.

"Hows the bsbyl" "His Group is better
this morning, thank you. We gave him
some of Thomas Electric OH as YOU adj.
vised, doctor, and shall give him some
more In an hour OF go" Mex, day the doctor
pronounced the youngster cured.
The daily Cairo bulletin., 1882-08-24
Best Oysters
in market at DeBauns Sc Ohio lovee
Summer Excursion Tickets.

The Illinois Central railroad has now on
sale excursion tickets to all the principal
summer resorts in Wisconsin, Iows MIN
nesots and Michigan; also, Denver, Pueblo,
Toronto and Niagara Falls Rates low.
Call or address j. Fl. Jones, Ticket Agent,
Cairo, for excursion guides.
A. II. HANSON, General Passenger Agent,
The daily Cairo bulletin., 1882-08-24

The old need them, the young want
them the sick crave them; thewell take
them; dyspep,ics need them; opicures like
them; men will have them children crv
for them ladies must have them. Hops and
Malt Bittefs. ""''
The daily Cairo bulletin., 1882-08-24
For Oysters
90 to DeBauns So Ohio levee.

j. S. Hawkins is prepared to pump out
clsterns and repair them or build new ones
promptly and at fair prices. Orders by
postal promptly attended to. No. 3 Win
ter's row If
The daily Cairo bulletin., 1882-08-24

Receipt books, Cairo date line, perlora-
ted stub, suited to any business, manuiac-
tured and for sale at the Cairo Bulletin
Office.
The daily Cairo bulletin., 1882-08-24
NEW ADyERTIsEMENIS

FOR PRINTERS We have for sale some three
or four hundred pounds ut Small Plea only slight.
~ used that We will sell for % cents per pound
taken as II lays in case
The daily Cairo bulletin., 1882-08-24

Notices iu TINS column, eight cents per line for
Grst and five cents per line each subsequent inser
ton. For one week, 30 cents per line For one
month, 20 cents per line.
The daily Cairo bulletin., 1882-08-24

A TRUE assistant 10 nature in restoring
the system to perfect health, thus enabling
1t to resist disease, is Browns Iron Bit.
tefs.
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FOR SA LIE.

An ssr 10 horse power upright engine in good
condition, sud II inot horizontal nUc boilers
with Sll the waves. pipes, uew hoatcf, drive well,
water tank. etc new smoke stack all com mpletc
price $3.50, Apply Al THE BuIi ETiS e.
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GENERAL LOCAL ITEMS.

Notices In these columns, ten cents per line,
zach insertion. Marked
The daily Cairo bulletin., 1882-08-24
ANNoUN CEMENTS,
APPELLATE CLERK ,


We are authorized To announce ,Iustice JOHN
II. ROBINSON as an independent candidate for
County Judge NJ the coming November election,
The daily Cairo bulletin., 1882-08-24
COUNTY TREAsuRRIl.

We are authorized to announce Mr.. MILES w.
PARK ER as an Independent candidate for treas
uror of Alexander county at the coming November
election.
The daily Cairo bulletin., 1882-08-24

Cairo, Illinois.
ALL KINDS OF MACHINE
WORK, BOILER WORK AND
BLACKSMIIHING PROMPTLY
ATTENDED TO AT REASONrLE
PRICES
We clso hayea number OF SECOND HAND
ENGINES AND BOILERS, for sale cheAp
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-04-17
UEMAGOGISM.

| The Rock Isiander commenting on the
fact that ocean freight on grain for export
| is aniihilated-that in fact steamers are
offering to pay premium for the privilege
of carrying it-says The farmers of the
West ought to get the benefit of this low
freight, but the monopoly railroads get it. -
| The farmers of the West are hardly likely
to ship their grain to Liverpool SO long as
they can get more money for it in Chicago;
and 1t is Just this fact which has stopped
the movement of grain. Through the dper-
atoms of combinations of grain gamblers
prices have been forced up and kept up to
figures which make shipment impossible.
for the foreign demand can be supplied
elsewhere at lower prices. If any one is
benefited by this artificial initiation, it must
be the farmers who thereby realize at their
own doors more than their grain is worth,
freight added, in the worlds markets. 1t
will be difficult for the Rock Islander to
show how the monopoly railroads are bene-
flied by a stagnation of their freight bust
ness; but the Rock Islander undertakes
some curious enterprises once in a while
-NoEine Dispatch.
The Dispatch should learn the folly of
attempting any argument with the paper
mentioned It's editor should know that
the reason these premiums are being offer
ed is because there is no grain being
shipped; but he cares nothing for the truth
of his assertions and is only intent on
making specious arguments regardless of
the facts of the case. He is a fair type of
q .demagogue and has a stock of cant
phrases for use on every occasion
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-04-17

fore is one of suspense and expectation.
1t is consequently, also, one of great indie
pendence, and one in which the ordinary
machine politician is entirely at sea.
It's most positive aspect is the internal
dissension of the great parties. In New
York, for instance, democratic Tammany
allies itself with republicans, and the ALI
ance is denounced by other democrats and
other republicans, and with disgust and
fervor which can easily affect the election.
At the West the democratic editor OF the
Louisville Courier Journalarraigns his party
| for folly and its press for stupidity, and is
sharply brought to book by journals of his
own faith. In Pennsylvania the indepen-
dent republicans organize, and announce
| their purpose TO be regular" only upon
condition that regularity does not mean
| 'boss rule" and they command 10000 or
| SO. 600 votes. In Washington the most
savage assault is made upon the character
of the late President, in the interest of the
wing of the republican party which favor
ed a third term, while the patronage of the
government falls largely on the same wing.
The consequent feeling within the
party is one of extreme Bit
terness. Thus neither party is united up
on any policy or person, but each, on the
contrary is furiously distracted, and it is
questionable whether the hostility of the
| factions is not much fercer than between
the parties. The more intelligent Demo
Gratis propose that their party should be-
take itself to what are called Jeffersonian
principles, forgetting that parties do not
go backward, and blind to the fact that
nowhere is national aid so constantly invok-
ed and anticipated as in the section of the
Union which is most Democratic. The
more intelligent Republicans, on their
side, point out that to check patronageis to
raise politics from mere personality. But
meanwhile patronage is in the hands of
those who believe in its partisan use.
1t is in this condition that we are drift
ing towards the election of new Congress,
and it is plain that it will be an exceeding
ly interesting election. Mere regularity
will hardly suffice for a candidates plat
form. There will be great and general
catechiZing. Candidates will be closely
questioned upon their views regarding the
new issues Do they favor restrictive leg
islation upon corporations, railway com
missions, free trade in ships, reformed
method of minor civil appointments? The
same inquisitive and independent spirit
will hardly accept vague and evasive an
sWers, and it is obviously probable that
unsatisfactory nominations will lead to
system of scrub-races If nominations
should be carried by bosses, machines,
and bargains stump and independent can
didates will appear. Under certain cir
cumstances, there is no doubt that such
might be the situation in New York.
What was done so successfully in the Erie
district last autumn could readily be re-
peated in the State should occasion arise
The political atmosphere is calm, but it is
in highly electrical condition .-Harper's
Weekly.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-04-17
THE POLITICAL CALM.

The political situation battles speculation.
EVERYBODY is conscious that the issues upon
which parties divided twenty-five years ago
are settled. Not cry of the campaign of
1860 could be uttered in that of 1884
Everybody is also conscious that there are
questions of vital importance, and of a
wholly different kind from those of the
last quarter of a century, upon which there
is as yet no party division. Such are the
true principle and policy of taxation in
its various forms; the question of monopo-
"; of capital and labor; of administrative
reform. These are all issues of the future.
They are not whimseys. They will not
elbow over, and they must be met by the
organized cooperation of those who agree
in opinion. The present situation, there
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-04-17
Monday. april J., 1882

TOFFICTAL PAPER.l
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-04-17

II. II. WARNER & Co.
ROCHESTER,, \. I.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-04-17
WHEAT.

W. L. Chamberlain, Secretary of the
Ohio Board of Agriculture, has completed
the summary of the spring crop reports
made up from over / 1000 returns sent in
by trusted and well-infCrmed correspon-
dents from all over the State. The Ohio
reports are authority wherever known for
their completeness and accuracy, and the
most important points taken from the Sec
retary's synopsis below will prove of gen
eral interest to producers, dealers and all
classes. The most important points al
luded to are the belief of the department
that the world at present is short of wheat:
In regard to the
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-04-17
Apparent probable surplus over crop OF

So ' Fie 49, A'4''7 wv - ~ w an -, ooo
But these four States have, according
to the estimates of the National Depart
ment, at least 10, 100000 less wheat on
hand now than year ago, which just
about offsets this probable gain, and leaves
US with about the same probable surplus
for export at the beginning of harvest. as
i'll 1881. And these States furnish Just
about one-third of the entire wheat crop of
the country. and mere thaa half of the
wheat for actual export
Some Z, 900 600 bushels of wheat are
still in producers hands in Ohio. Nearly
all this it is true, will be eaten up in the
State before the new crop IS ready for
milling, But the producers will sell it, and
they well as millers, dealers and con
sumers, have right to know the facts and
figures in this office that must influence
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-04-17
TENDENCY OF PRICES

will not legitimately be downward. From
the it facts would seem there never was bet
ter time for the bulls to manipulate
corner or a squeeze that shall not relax its
grasp at the close Of each month, but
shall hold tight Till after harvest. We can
not use the coming crop till it is grown.
and cut, and thrashed and sweatcd; and
the shortage of old of good grades is I'M
doubted and very great
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-04-17
FUTURE PRICES OF WHEAT.
These facts and probabilities for

These facts and probabilities for the
new crop have already been given. TIC
this may be added that last night april
10 and ~ occurred a severe freeze nearly
all over Ohio. In Columbus it froze mud
hard, and small pools of water formed ice
one-fourth inch. thick or more, while water
standing in small tin vessels out of doors
froze solid and bulged up in the middle
from the expansion, as in winter. Much
of the wheat that was nearly winterkilled
or drowned out, and was just ''greening"
up under the rains and hot weather of the
past two weeks, will be finished by this
freeze, while it is feared that some of very
rank and rapid growth which had formed
joint Gin Southern Ohio) and even lodg
ed in the hot, damp weather of the two
weeks past may have the embryo head
killed. This may reduce the probabilities
of the whole State considerably
1.-The ten States given below are the only
ones east of the Rocky Mountains that ever
have surplus of wheat to export. They
produced nearly 81 per cent CT the entire
wheat crop of 1881, as follows:
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-04-17
GENERAL WHEAT OUTLOOK,
we have the following probabilities;

I'm Ohio, the tables on pages and 8 of
the crop report show, as compared with a
year ago: acreage, 101 per cent, and CON
dition "a per cent and a probable total,
with fair acreage weather till harvest, of
80, 516,461 bushels, as against 1851, 094
last year. The latter was our October es-
innate, based on returns of eight weeks
thrashing from about /, 900 machines in all
parts of the State Old wheat on hand
7,411, 1873 bushels, as against 10,375, 900 in
1881.
From official information received from
Michigan, Indiana and Illinois, and from
the National Department, and from care
full computations based thereon, we give
the following figures as our best judg
mCnt:
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CHICAGO. BURLINGTON & QUINCY.
CHICAGO. MILWAUKEE & ST. PAUL,

(RACINE AND sOUTH-wEsTERN DIvIsION.)
Leave for Racine and Milwaukee S:25 a. m, and
HOO p. m.
Leave for Dubuque, Wnona. St. Paul and Minneap-
oils. 100 a m.
Leave for McGregor, Portvle, Calmas, Sioux City
and Tankton, II 100 p m.
Arrive from Racine and Milwaukee, 5:05 a.. m, and
6:25 p II.
Arrive from Minneapolis, St. Paul, Wfnona and Du-
buque, 3:05 p.
Arrive from Yankton, Sioux City, Portville and Nc
Gregore :05 q.
ThIoHgh sleeping all night trains.
The Night Express leaving Rock Island every Sun
day night at II O p connects with the train ar
irving in Chicago early Monday morning. No lay
over checks given through tickets from Rock Is
land to Chicago. Through tickets only good on this
train.
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ROCK ISLAND & PEORIA RAILWAY.

ROCK ISLAND 4 PEORIA RAILWAE.
(sHoRrEsT ROUTE TO THE EAST AND wEsT)
LEAVE. ARRIVE.
Way Freight. Is 100 A. NJ.
Fast Express s. As A. NJ Mail and Elk. ~ IS P N.
Mail and Elk. As p. NJ. Fast Express. $40 7.
Freight and Accommodation, 6 80 p. NJ.
The AS p. train makes close connection at
GaIva with the G. b. IL O., for points west; arriving
at Galesburg at 4;25 p m. Burlington 6 40 p. m. ;
Keokuk 10 :25 p. n; Quincy 1905 p. m; also max
ing close connection at Peoria with l. B. & W.:
T. P. 81 W., roads for all points east and south.
ROCK ISLAND & MERCER CO., II. Z.
LEAVE ARRIVE.
Rock Island 0 100 A. NJ. Cable 10 :55 A.
-: 100 p. NJ ........ 5:45 p. NJ
Cable ...... o:3OA NJ Rock Island . S:15 A. M
= ..........1 100 p. NJ. = 3:15 p. NJ.
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in the above table the estimates for
Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa. Missouri and
Nebraska are from the National Depart
ment. For the other states they are from
state official or private sources believed TO.
be nearer the facts
Now, in the ten wheat exporting states.
the old wheat on hand compared with same
date year ago is estimated by the Nation
al Department. of Agriculture as follows.
Old wheat on hand March 20, 1881 81, 600 Ogas
Old wheat on hand March 20 1882 36 100000.
Comparative shortage now Is 900
'The Department, too, puts the present