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The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-07-26
RIVER ITEMS.

The Cons. Milar from Memphis will ar
rive here this evening and will only remain
few minutes when she will proceed to
Cincinnati. W. f. Lambdin, Agent, will
furnish tickets at low high rates by the
MilIar.
Wash Floyd, of the Will s. HAYS, was in
town again yesterday. AS soon as he can
settle up the business of the boat, he will
leave for Cincinnati where lis family re-
| sides.
Capt. Hiram Hill lett vice the Illinois
Central for Huntington, where he is called
by the UNDERWRITERS on business during his
absence, however, his wrecking boat Char.
ley Hill will be in the hands of those who
can attend to any business that may need
attention in the harbor.
| Look out for the Jas. Lee to-day. She
is expected to leave Paducah this morning
tor Memphis and will pass here without
landing So if you want to see some fast
running, be on hand when she pokes her
nose around the bend 1t is expected that
she will make big effort for quick trip
to Memphis. Angelo Mcbride, pilot, left
here on the Fowler last evening to take
the Lee home and he promise to wire us
when she leaves Paducah
The Vint Shinkle passed down for Mem.
phis yesterday norning She had good
trip and done considerable business here.
The Ella Kimbrough leaves here
prompt at p. m. to-day for Hickman.
The Buckeye State from st. Louis ar
rived at l2 80 yesterday and left at p. m.
] for Pittsburg.
The City of Vicsburg from below passed
up for St. Louis last night with big trip.
The Arkansas City from St. Louis passed
down for Vicksburg last night.
City OF New Orleans from st. Louis is
due here in tho morning for Louisiana's
Capital.
The Hudson from ST, Louis is due this
evening for Paducsh and Shawnectown.
The nice little light draught packe, j.
H. Hillmau is due to-day from Nashville
and leaves here on her return trip tomorrow
at 10 a. m.
Capt. John A. Taylor, of Rubber Stamp
fame, s IN the city Oh business. He is now
representing commission and produce
house Of Paducah
The colored base ball club of Paducah
beat the Cairo coored club yesterday by
one score, the game stood 3 for Cairo anc
4 for Paducah
The Wyoming from Cincinnati is due
here to-day for New Orleans.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-07-26
Elrar A. Poe,

What DO YOU want to know about
Eddie Poe?' Mrs Cromwell said; "he's
been dead so long thought he was for.
gotten. Well, IL 5 mighty curious. You
folks think more Of him now than YOU
did when he was alive
you knew him?' the reporter ask.
ed
Knew Eddie Poe? Why, was the
first neighbour his folks got acquainted
with when they moved out here thirty
seven years ago. Nh Poe found nae
himself in the cherry tree and he took
me right over to see his wife, poor
woman, and bis mothcr.in-law | used
TO 90 there very often?'
did YOU know much Of the fam
ily?'
II knew they were mighty poor
poorer than ! ever was or ever expect
TO be. They lived hard over there, and
didn't have much that was nice Mr.
Poe was good man-when he wasn't
drinking, He seemed very fond of that
poor sick wife Of his. Mrs. GLENN
used to watch him mighty close, and
I've known her to 90 to New York twice
Il day to tend his business Just TO keep
him from going. She knew he would
get in bad company and 90 to drinking
again. Why, I've seen him when three
men couldn't hold him in the bed. But
there wasn't better man in the world
when he was sober, lie was very fond
of flowers and used to tramp all over
the woods to find EN-. He loved birds,
too, and had lots of EN- singing in his
yard. He was the greatest walker |
ever saw, and used to 90 to White
Plans--sixteen miles and back in a
day, many's the night he has wandered
over these hills without a coat or n
hat
when his wife died Mr.. Poe took It
mighty hard. She was buried in the
old Dutch Cemetery, but they afterward
moved her to Baltimore, about five years
ago. lie used to cry over her grave
every day and kept it green with flow
ers"
You have some relics, | believer
This is the chair he used to sit in"
said the old lady, rising slowly. Its
just exactly like it was when | got il,
except that iron strap on the arm.
Somebody broke il and had itmended.
Here is his own Bible, and his clock
is upstairs. If you want to see it,
1t is an eight day clock, running yet,
as it has for thirty-six years. The chair
has been in constant use, but has the
same cane in back and scat it had when
the poet sat in 1t.
II bought the chair and clock" con-
tinued Mrs, Cromwell, "but Mrs. GLENN
gave me the Bible, and I'll never part
, with it, | might sell the other things,
but II you all are going to think so much
of Mr.. Poe, guess I'll have to think
something of him, too
In the old Bible one passage was
found marked job, viii, Id loathe
it; would not live always; let me alone,
for my days are vanity"
where did you get those ilowersP'
Mrs. Cromwell asked. "Over at the
cottage, lreckon. You all are just alike
and 90 crazy about nothing | wonder
how many more will want to hear about
Eddie Poep'-NeW York Herald.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-07-26

Many times you want to keep meat or fish
for several days. Lay 1t in solution of
Rex Magnus over night and you can keep
it tor weeks. You can also keep milk
week or more by stirring 10 a little Of the
"Snow Flake" brand.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-07-26
Monticello Ladies' Seminary,

GODFREY, MADISON COUNTY, LII
Op 'ns September 20. First class school. One OF
the oldest In the west. Location healthy and de.
lightfnl. Superior advantages for Englhh and
Classical Education, with Music, Drawing, Paint.
Ing and Modern Languages. Apply, for catalogue,
10 Miss II. ". HASKELL, Principal.
T22.eodHw ON
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-07-26
5000 A YEAR
CAN BE SAVED
in THE LIVING EXPENSES
OF THE FAMILY

by the use OF REX MAGNUs, The Humiston Food
PrescrVatye, II preserv Meat, Fish, Milk
Cream Eggs, and ali kinds Of Animal Food flesh
and sweet for weeks, even In the hottest weather.
TINS can be proved by the testimonials Of bun.
dredS who have tried It. You can prove IL for your.
self for. ~ cents You will find that this ia an dItl.
Gle whlch VIII save You great deal Of money.
No Soured Milk
No Spoiled Meat.
No Stale Eggs.
IT VIII keep them ffesh ard sweet for many days
and does not impart the slightest foreign taste 10
the Articles treated. II IL 80 simple In operation
that child can follow he direction In Us harm.
less NJ rat and costs only fraction of a cent to
pound OF meat, fish, butter or cheese or to q art
OF milk. This IL no humbug; 1t n endor ed by
such men az Prof. SAM w. johnson OF Yale Col
lege sold by druggists and grocers. Sample
pounds sent prepaid by mail or express (as we
prefer on receipt Of price. Name your express
Office. Niandlne brand for meat; ocean Wave for
fsh and ses.f0od; Snow FLAKE for milk, butter and
cheese; Anti Ferment, Anti.Fly and Anti Mold SOC
per ID, each Pearl for cream; Queen for eggs,
and Aqua Vitae for MD extracts, 81 per ID. each
THE HUhIST0N FOOD PRES EkViNG CO.,
" KilbY St, Boston, Mas.
For sale by ZIG DAWN
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-07-26
RIVER NEWS.
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W, + HAhBDIs, river editor OF fHE BULLETIN
and steamboat passenger agent. Orders for all
kinds OF steamboat JOB printing solicited Office
a. Bowers European Hotel. No, re Ohio leyee.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-07-20
SOUTHERN.

A duel was fought near New Orleans
between two Mississippians-an editor and
a county ofscial-in which the latter was
slightly wounded.
-Four prisoners were lynched in the
South in one day-two in Tennessee, one in
Louisiana and one in Texas
The bark Berna, with six persons i'll
of yellow fever, has been sent TO quarantine
below New Orleans
The Governor of Arkansas urges the
Sheriffs of Garland, Yell, and Montgomery
counties to summon aid and hunt down the
outlaws in that mountainous region
Part of train on the Jackson road
fell through bridge fifty feet high near
hatcher, Miss Conductor Jennings was
killed and seven passengers injured
A young man named Hollingsworth
died of hydrophobia at Sherman, Texas
Fully eighteen months ago he was bitten
by dog. No other cause for his death is
known
A bank ledger which was expected to
furnish evidence for the conviction of
Marsh T. Polk has been stolen from the Of
flee of the State Treasurer at Nashville, and
reward of $3.50 is offered for its return
The iron propeller Niagara, which
ida Her passengers and mails were sent
on board the Commandery, after which the
Niagara was run ashore off Indian key.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-07-20
POLITICAL.

The Minnesota Democratic State
Convention has been called to meet in st.
Paul on Thursday, Aug L.
The Iowa Greenbackers, in conven-
ton at Des Moines, nominated Gen. b.
Weaver for Governor, Sanford Fitzpatrick
for Lieutenant Governor, ID. w. Church for
Supreme Judge, and Miss A5bie Garfield for
Superintendent of Public Instruction The
resolutions favor a graduated income tax
civil-service reform, postal telegraphy
temperance and the abolition of Railroad
Commissioners
The colored people of Texas have
been holding n State Convention. They
framed an address to the people declaring
that the white race throughout the South
has continually increased in friendliness,
even to a surprising degree Colored peo-
pie are recommended to keep sharp eye on
their teachers and preachers, and to remove
ut once those found incompetent or i'm
moral
Samuel j. Randall, of Pennsylvania,
announces himself candidate for the
speakership of the National House of
Representatives, and seeks no other Office.
After three weeks unsuccessful
balloting for United States Senator by the
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-07-20
Pennsylvania Republicans.


The Republicans of Pennsylvania held
their State Convention ut Harrisburg 1t
was very quiet affair. There were no con-
testing delegations John Cessna presided,
and the business in hand was rapidly dis
posed Of William Lvesey was nominated
Tor State Treasurer on the sixth ballot and
Jerome b. Niles was declared the nominee
for Auditor after the fourth ballot
The following platform was adopted:
The Republican party OF Pennsylvania makes
declaration OF its principles as follows:
l. We unquaitcdly approve and demand a
continuance of that system of protect Cn TO
home industry which has proved itself TO he the
basis of National independence. an incentive TO
industrial skill and development, and a guaran-
tee OF just and adequate scale of wages for
labor, and we denounce all attempts to reduce
the rates of the tariff below a level which will
accomplish these objects.
2. That any surplus in the public treasury
arising from a redundant revenue should, after
paying the national debt "a fast its condi-
tons permit, be distributed from time to time TO
the several States upon the basis OF population
TO relieve them from the burdens of local taxa
ton and provide means for the education of their
people.
3. That, as the deprecated trade dollar is
largely In the hands of our laboring people, and
Ia disturbing element to the business of the
country, we declare IL TO be the duty of Congress
TO adopt such legislation as will insure its full
redemption and conversion into other coin for
circulation
4. That We protest against the practice of for
efgn Cover nmtn ts in aiding or enforcing the
emigration Of their pauper and criminal classes
70 this ccCrtry, and we call upon the General
COVER meht % take proper steps TO prevent the
sam.
Q. Tie Republicans OF Pennsylvania most
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-07-20

Nine Cinnamon, who were recently
struggled into Washington Territory from
British Columbia, will be sent home, by order
Of President Arthur
The Western Union Telegraph Com
pany has adopted rule that days work is
to be nine hours actual service, without
Sunday labor, or seven hours labor at night,
Sundays included, all service in excess to be
paid for as extra
A heavy storm has deluged sections of
Ontario At London the river rose to an
unprecedented height Bridges and houses
were carried away, and seventeen persons
drowned, while live stock persisted in large
numbers Crops and fences were ruined,
and miles OF railroad washed out
Gen. Moore, American Consul at
Calao, whose residence was at Decatur, Ill,
died at his post of yellow fever.
Domestic money-orders can now be
obtained for any amount from cent TO 800.
The international system is being extended
throughout the civilized nations
A national convention of colored ed
itors was held in St Louis last week, W. A.
Pledger, of Atlanta, Ga, presiding. Reso-
lutions were adopted favoring co-education
of the races; pledging themselves TO en-
couraging the opening of machine shops,
factories, and industrial schools in
which colored youths may be ap-
prenticed; advising negroes TO pre-
empt public land favoring the i'm
provement of the Western rivers, declaring
it detrimental to the interests of the colored
race to be made tools of by any political
party, and demanding recognition proper
tionate to the number of any party to which
they may ally themselves 1t was resolved
to spell negro with capital N.
The Illinois Department of Agricul-
ture reports that corn promises a better
crop than last year, although the season has
been unfavorable
A surveying party, acting under the
authority of the United States and Mexico,
is about to survey the boundary line between
the two republics
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-07-20

and 18th of July. In some localities the
disturbance assumed the proportions of a
tornado, and inflicted immense losses One
wing of the storm swept down the Missouri
valley, doing much damage at Kansas
City, st. Joseph and Moberly. Mo. At
McPaul, Iowa, many houses were blown
down and ten persons injured, but fort
unately no one was killed Hail fell as large
as hens eggs, killing live stock, and
cutting the wheat corn and grass to
pieces At Hamburg, Iowa, a brick church
and several frame buildings were
wrecked The front walls of several
business houses fell out into the street At
Westboro. Mo-, ten houses were demolished
and one child killed At Burlington juno
zion, No, not a house was left uninjured,
and several persons were injured Mary
vile, Maiden and Trenton, Mo-, suffered
severely, churches, public buildings, store
houses and dwellings being demolished or
unroofed- Near Browning, Mo-, the bag
gage-car and coach of a Burlington train
were blown completely over by cyclone.
Six passengers injured, two Of them fatally.
The section about Lincoln, Neb., suffered
severely by hail, especially the crops, and
some buildings were demolished. Central
and Western Illinois lost considerably on
damaged buildings and ruined crops, es-
pecial havoc being created about Cordova
Paxton, Clinton, Carlinville, Gibson
City, and points in Mercer, Logan
and Dewitt counties Scott and Ere
mont counties, in Iowa, suffered great dam,
age, the hail in these sections falling as large
ashens' eggs, and laying vegetation fiat AT
Alton Methodist Church was unroofed and
the streets blockaded by fallen trees Heavy
rain in st. Louis flooded cellars, while the
wind unroofed structures and released
river craft from their moorings
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-07-20
WASHINGTON.

Special Treasury Agent Howell, at
Plattsburg, n. Y, informs the authorities at
Washington that numerous Irish pauper
immigrants are entering the United States
from Canada, some being State aided, -
and ticketed to the Western States The
treasury officials say pauper immigration,
via Canada cannot be prevented.
The Attorney General has given an
opinion that the office of Tea Inspector was
not created by the act to prevent the i'm
portation of adulterated teas, but that the
customs authorities must do the work.
The Department of Agriculture at
Washington, in its July report, places the
condition of winter wheat at 80 per cent
of spring wheat at 9S to 100, and of corn
at So
Thirty special agents of the Genei al
Land Office have furnished information
which caused the prompt cancellation of
fraudulent entries covering 5000 acres,
much of which was located in rich valleys
During the third quarter of the last
fiscal year the receipts at the postoffice
Department were 81 ,912. $780, expenditures,
$40, 12, 400; surplus, 81, 1887, For the nine
months of the fiscal year ended March 81,
1888, the receipts were s33, 946, 356; expendi-
lures, s31, 436, 9l4; surplus, 81, 5O9,442
Secretary Teller, in letter to the
Commissioner of the General Land Office,
says the indemnity lands of the Northern
Pacific railway must not be closed to settle
ment any longer than necessary TO
enable the company to make its selec-
ton of lands in lieu of those
lost within the granted limits, and
directs the Commissioner to notify the com
pany that all selections in Wisconsin and
Minnesota must be made within three
months, when the orders withdrawing the
indemnity lands will be revoked, and the
lands opened to settlement The company,
in selecting, will not be permitted to take
the best land and leave the poorest
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-07-20
NEWS CONDENSED.
Telegpaphfc Summary
EASTERN.

John s. Prince, the American cham
pion wheelman, was defeated in a twenty
mile race ut Rochester, N j., by H W..
Higham, an English bicyclist
Boxes have been placed in the hotels
and police stations Of New York to receive
contributions toward a monument for Peter
Cooper Mayor Edison will act as treasurer
Of the fund
A bitter contest occurred the other
day, during the Tewksburg Almshouse in
vestigation, between the members of the
committee, the majority refusing to permit
DR.. Macarthur TO answer the question of
whether there was practice at the Harvard
Medical School of skinning cadavers
Two hundred assisted emigrants
reached Boston by the steamer Austrian.
None of them are of the pauper class, most
of them having money to reach points in the
Western States
The Captain and Lieutenant of the
Salvation Army were fined at Bridgeport,
CT, for disturbing the peace and were com
PEELED TO give bonds not to hold street meet
ings or parades in the future They ap-
pealed
Orange Judd, the noted New York
philanthropist and ex-publisher has made
an assignment for the benefit of his credit
ors
Edward Banks, colored hotelwaiter
in New York, recently gave eight ounces of
his blood for TRANSMISSION to the veins of a
man who nearly persisted from gas-poison-
ing, for which he was promised 10 cents a
drop Not receiving that amount of money,
he has brought suit for $3.50
Phinny 81 Jackson, merchants. of
Portland, Me-, have suspended, with liza
bilities to the amount of s200,000
In the Tewksbury Almshouse investi-
CATION at Boston, the other day, Gov. Butler
made a speech six hours in length, declaim-
ing against his enemies in vehement and
sensational manner.
One Bockelman, a private, who was
"drummed out" of the New York State mill
tia at Peekskill by Col Austin, sues the lat
ter for So, 600 damages
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-07-20
GLEAMINGS.

WATERMELoNs are selling in Florida for 5
cents each
THE annual income of the Sultan of Tur-
key is s15,OO0,0y0
LYONS, Iowa, has a match factory which
turns out POO gross per day.
THIRTY. FOUR men in Uvalde county, Texas,
own $500 600 worth of sheep apiece.
THE poet of the Hartford Post speaks of
an old straw hat as a symphony in last years
sunburn
A GENTLEMAN of sumterville, Walton
county, Fla has established gopher park,
and is said to have go head at work
THE Baptists are about to invest from
S15, 900 to s1O0, 600 in the erection of de-
nominational college in North Dakota
IT is estimated that the miners and me-
chanics of Butte NJ T. have on depoait at
the three banks in that city about $500, eco
THE Missouri State Teachers Association,
in its session, passed a resolution that no
member in the association should receive
the title or Professor.
THE liquor dealers OF San Buenaventura
Cal, have resolved to withdraw their pat
ronage from the two local papers because
the latter advocates high license.
IN Portland, Ore, the ship owners claim
they have the advantage in view of the large
expected wheat harvest on the coast and are
generally asking full rates for freight
IHE peacefu community or MCPHERSON,
Kas, which has a population of about J, 600,
gets along with police force which consists
OF City Marshal, who is also Street Com
missioner Of the town.
A TON of silver coin is now being turned
out daily at the Philadelphia Mint The
most of this is in dollars and small coin,
notably dimes The demand for scent
nickels is in advance of the ability to sup
ply.
THE American and the Mexican nickel are
engaged in tight race at III Paso Texas
The latter, though worth l 4 cents less, is
rather getting away with the former, for
some unknown reason, though at Laredo
and other points on the Rio Grande the mer-
chants refuse to receive the Mexican nickel
at par or face.
The Denver Tribune is responsible for the
statement that Scout Club" has recently
been organized in that city, with Judge
Steck, President; Ward Lamon, Secretary;
Judge Ward, Umpire; and j. B. Bedford,
General Interocutor. 1t is generally known
as the Historical Club" inasmuch as these
equity philosophers generally devote them
selves to the discussion of historical ques-
tiors, including such abstruse inquiries as
why didn't Moses have a front name?"