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The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-08-31
New Blacksmith ShOp.

A lew horse Shoeing shop has been open.
ed 10y Mr., p Powers on Tenth street. All
aisnner Of blacksmitbing and wagon work
done to order Repairing work speciality
Work done promptly. If
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-08-31
w anted.

A large number of men wanted to make
slaves. Steady employment gwen from
now until next spring. Full wages paid,
Apply toJ. Merry, Rector Ark, or to
Farnbaker e. Co., Cairo, Ills. If
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-08-31
Cured Of Spasms.

~ ain well and happy again" says our
fair correspondent, Miss Jennie Y. Warren,
740 W. Van Buren, st., Chicago, H., "your
Samaritan Neryine cured me of spasms,"
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-08-31
The Daily Bulletin.
LOCAL ITEMS.

Notices In those Columns, ten cents per Inc,
zach insertion and whether marked or not, II calcu-
lated to toward any mans business interest are
always paid for.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-08-31
SPECIAL NOTICES.

Soucus II, Inis column, cignt cents per line Tor
krst aud ave cents per line each subsequent inser-
ion For one week. 30 cents per line. FOR one
month. GO cents per line
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-08-31

One furnished room for rent Apply to
Mrs. NJ Boyle, over the Parlor Shoe Store.
lw.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-08-31

sKr-All kinds OF light and heavy blacksmithng,
wagon and carriage work done In the most work.
manike manner, Horse.-hoeing a specially and
satiaCtion guaranteed
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-08-31

Saddle Rock Oysters at DeBaun So Ohio
Levee. Il
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-08-31

For good cup Of tea or coffee, 90 to
DeBaun's. If
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-08-31

Restaurant and Oyster House, 56 Ohio
Leyee. If
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-08-31
WAGON-M MAKER.

Shop on Halliday Avenue, between fourth and
Sixth Streets, Cairo, Illinois.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-08-31

will be compelled to leave family of
small children just at time when they
most need the care Of a loving mother"
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1883-07-12
The German Headsman,

lBerlin Letter IN ChlcaBo NeWs.I
You probably know that in Berlin,
when they wish to deprive a criminal of
his life, they cut him in two Mt the neck.
The executioner that Yields the sharp
axe is called upon to exercise his func-
tions on an average about once a month.
His name is Krauts, mild-faced old
fellow, with a soft, gentle voice, dandy
manner and white hands, and op these
occasions he usually smokes cigarette.
He has four assistants, quartet OF
cruel, hard-looking men, whose duty it
is to strip the victim. In the case under
notice the culprit was suffering the ex-
treme penalty of the law for no less a
crime than the murder of his wife and
two children. When he was stripped to
the undershirt, the collar of which was
cut down to the level of his shoulders,
his feet pinioned and his hands tied be-
hind him, he was led out and his head
placed upon the block.
In the meantime Krauts, the execu.
toner, had stood among the few specta-
tors of the scene, quietly putting his
cigarette, and without anything in his
demeanor indicative of his office. When
the platform was reached he threw aside
his cigarette srasped the axe in his
white, slnewy hands, gave it SWING up.
ward, and struck with force sufficient
to detach the head from the body in.
stantly. The remains were covered with
q black cloth, and the witnesses, having
signed their names, were escorted out
of the Jail. l have seen many execu.
tions by hanging and number by bal
and shot, and have witnessed one or tive
poor victims keelhauled, but it seems tc
ME that decapitation must be the most
bratal-certainly it is the most hideous
tn cOntamplatn
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1883-07-12
He Saw Jumbo
lFrom the Kalamazoo Telegraph

IRON the kalamazoo Telegraph.l
The presiding elder of a Kentucky
campmeeting once dismissed his congre-
CATION until the circus was over. and in
1873 a Scranton, (Pa. editor postponed
a funeral to attend the Great Moral
Show, but none of these gentlemen
score. This is left for jackson, Mich.
igan. The Barnum Loudon Show was
there Thursday. June 21st, and for
weeks previous John Clancy, from Liv-
1ngston County, serving term in the
jackson state prison, boosted that he
was going to see Jumbo. He made no
secret of this, and his companions look.
ed upon him as crank. On Tuesday.
the 18th, when the prisoners were locked
IN the cells for the night, Clancey was
missing. As usual extra guards were
placed and diligent search made about
the. yard and outbuildings, but without
avail. All night and all day Wednesday
the search continued. Thursday the
circus came and Jackson was oil excite.
ment. About IL O'clock that night Den.
nty Warden Hinckley was awakened by
the nlght-bell, and upon opening the
font door Clancy walked in. He had
seen Jumbo, and apologized for being
late, as he said he wanted to stay to the
concert. He had but II months to serve
and his better Judgment told him TO
come pack and serve out this time. He
would give no explanation how he got
out OF the yard, but it is supposed that
he concealed himself in the bottom of
box wagon that was hauling out cinders.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1883-07-12
Gone tin n, SmoIxe

s large building at Red Wing. Mimi, was
burned on the 7th inst. The building was oc-
icupled Tor various purposes, and the loss will
! aggregate about $4,000.
New Orleans had small blaze on the 9Th
inst. in which 5000 worth of wines and
liquors were destroyed.
Seven ice houses filled with chullhs of COM
fort, were destroyed by fire at Lake Hentucket,
Mass, on the 9th.
A warehouse filled with prints and cnlcring
materials belonging to the Cocheco Print
on the 9Th inst. Loss $4,000.
A block of business buildings was destroyed
by fire at Calumet, Lake Superior, on the night
OF the 4th.
Twenty-seyen business houses vanished in
smoke at gladden., Ala., on She 4th. Loss over
100000.
At Joliet, ILL.,, on the 4th, James Molherr
and his wife started out and LETT his house in
charge of their two children, aged six and
eight years. respectively. In the absence of
the parents the house caught fire, presumably
from tire-cracker, and was consumed to-
gether with the children.
The wholesale tea and spice house of Bell,
Conrad & Co., Michigan Street, Chicago. suf.
fered to the extent OF $4,000 by fire on the
4th.
The total loss by fire at Astoria, Ore, on tIs.
I'd inst, is estimated at S225000. The Oregon
Railway Navigation Company's loss is S75 900.
Seven salmon canneries were destroyed also
$4,000 cases of salmon. The salmon put up is
considerably diminished.
The almshouse buildings of Dauphin Coun-
ty. Pa, were partially destroyed by fire on the
I'd inst. Some of the insane inmates were bad
ly burned. Two of them escaped. The loss is
estimated at 100000.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1883-07-12
London's Clean Streets,


I will add, as disjointed item, be-
cause it just now pops into my head,
that the streets OF London are the clean
est L have ever seen. 1t is wonderful
the provision that is made for this, when
| one reflects on the many thousands of
horses that go tramping through the
s:seets with the ruH.bling attachments
OF light and heavy draft, the wonder
grows how everything is kept sweet and
pure. On the principal business streets
in the heart of the city, numberless
boys with cast-iron pans, shaped like
the common dust-pan, and stiff brushes,
gather up the droppings OF the horses
all day long, running between vehicles,
under horses legs, evading wheels, dart
ing upon their prey like vultures, whisk-
ing into their pans with skillful turn
of the brush, and off to the cast-iron
shoots provided for the purpose and
connected with some subterranean
vault. whence it is taken away. At anv
rate it disappears from the surface Of
the street like magic. The boys get six
shillings week fer their perilous work.
How they escape being run over is a
mystery, but such an accident is of very
rare occurrence.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1883-07-12

could have no friends. "Say, you,
how is the walking in Colorado asked
one. "I don't know" was the meek re-;
ply. e 1 came through on a palace car: = :,
"What were you doing out there Z!
Breaking up lah-de dah boys for rail
! road ballast" This made his dudeship
| mad, especially as small boy and
/ farmer burst out laughing at the retofs.
"If you'll step down the alley over
there I'll knock the stuffin' out of you,
was the next remark of the tooth pick
shod youth. "No occasion, there is
plenty of room here" said the tramp.
"All right, look out" The two gentle
men made jump for the tramp. As
soon as they got within reach he gave a
c convulsive sort of shiver, and while one
III Che attacking party unwound himself
fuom the spokes of the front wheel OF
tt,e farmers wagon, the other dug two
of his front teeth out of the roof of his
mouth and tried to draw his nostrils
down out of the way of his bangs. AS
the feeble tramp limped slowly away, he
said: "It does make me SO tired to get
into controversy with well.fed muscu.
lar fellows who take delight in licking
poor devil like me. [ haven't eaten
anything for three days, or maybe l
should have hurt them"
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1883-07-12
w. G. BROWN. Publisher
FEMALE DOCTORS.


There are 1,343 members of the Mas
sachusetts Medical Society, and circu-
lar was recently sent to them, bearing
the inquiry: "Do you favor the ad-
mission of women to the medical pro-
fession and societies on the same terms
with men?" Replies were received
from 1,209 physicians, 700 answering in
the affirmative, and 400 being opposed
to the proposition; and it is probable
that the sentiments of physicians in the
west nre even more liberal than in New
England. Chicago is said to have a
larger proportion of woman practition-
ers than any place in the world, and it
is to their credit, and to the credit sof
their sex, that they are worthy Of their
profession
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1883-07-12
MOUNTAINS IN FLORIDA.

People who have travelled in Florida
will be surprised to learn that a range
of mountains has been discovered in
the interior. of that state. Florida has
heretofore been supposed to be MS free
from mountains or hills Us are the
prairies tof Kansas, though thickly
covered with dense forests of pine and
other trees. The recently discovered
mountain range is in Sumpter County,
aud is about fifteen miles long, one mile
wide, and 500 feet high. The value of
such piece of property in mountain-
less region is apparent, and every foot
OF ..land covered by this range has been
bought up, and is held at such figure
as virtually to be out OF the market. The
present owners intend TO improve it, and
make several points summer resorts for
the heat-oppressed citizens OF the PENN
sular State. That these will be popular
there is little doubt. Besides the advan-
tages OF mountain air, Lake lApopka is
conveniently near, and a view of the
Gulf of Mexico, aud of the Atlantic
Ocean can at the same time be obtained
from the mountain summit,
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1883-07-12
UNITED STATES BONDS.

The Washington Sunday Herald claims
to have information as to the largest
holders of United States bonds. The
list of these millionaires in this country
and Europe is as follows: Mr.. Wander
bilt, $37, 900, 900; Mrs. A. T. Stewart,
$3O,0O0,00O; Jay Gould, $l3,OOO,OOO
registered and large amount of coupon
bonds; Mr.. Flood, OF California, s15,-
OGO,000; an estate in Boston and three
or four persons in New York have $1O,-
100000 each; the estate of Moses Tay-
lor, $5,000,000; D. 0. Mills, $4,000
600. These, with an unmarried lady in
New York, name not given, who has
$S,00O,0 900, are the largest holders in the
United States. In Europe, the Roths-
childs together hold the evidences of
nearly one-quarter of the entire bonded
debt. They have $4OO, 900, 900. In
England, the Baroness Burdett- Coutts-
Bartlett has 2O,OOO,OOO; the Duke of
Sutherland, $4,000, 600, and Sir Thomas
Brassy, $5,OOO.OOO,
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1883-07-12
Deeds of BLOOD.

Lawrence yettman, aged 16, fatally stabbed
Charles Jarvis, aged u, at West Chester,
N. Y, on the 7th.
Alex Perry. aged fifty years, was shot dead
at Otsego Lake, Mich. on the 9th inst, by the
young wife of Amos Bidwell, TO whom he had
made IMPROPER advances.
A mob took Nelson Howard, colored man,
from the jail at Mound City on the morning of
the 9th and hanged him. Howard murdered
John Kane on the 4th of July.
AT Chrisman, ILL.,, on The 9th, an unknown
tramp entered the house of John Kelly, and
finding Mrs. Kelly Alone committed y brutal
outrage upon her. Mrs. Kelly was in a deli
cate condition at the time, and her conditisn is
very critical.
Jealousy impelled Jim Napier, colored. 20
beat his wife nearly to death at Hampton, Ga,
on the 9th. Els then hanged himself.
DIR. Hornbrook. respected physician of
Union, Ind, was murdered in bis Office on the
9th inst, by farm labsrer with whom he had
o dispute about work.
man named McCully, noted rifle shot,
was arrested at Minnesota, on the 4th, for q
murder committed at Sycamore. ILL.,, twelve
years ago.
On the return train from Sunday school
picnic at Oakdale, Tenn, on the 4th, gang of
roughs engaged in melee in which Jesse
Hooker stabbed Tom I4ysle, who was immed-
ately shot dead by Lysle's brother.
In row at barbecue near Deposit Station,
Kentucky, on the 4th, Vim. Middleton stsbbed
Levi Miller fourteen times, from which he
died. Middleton was drunk.
AT Salem, Ore, on the 4th inst, the state
prison convlcts made n break for liberty. Three
were killed and two wounded. Eight priso-
ners escaped.
Two Indians we're killed during bloody
fight at an Indian dance at Bird Creek, I. T.,
on the night of the I'd inst. Over 100 Paw
nces, with drawn revolyers and knives, took
part.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1883-07-12

English segment of the United
Kingdom, but under his admin
istration the taxpayers have had to
pay for expensive wars in Egypt and
South Africa; millions have been spent
bullying the Irish with bayonets, and
the Tory policy OF annexation has been
followed in the political annexation of
Egypt, Papua, or New Guine and
Borneo. The Irish Land Act, o -..eager
measure of reform, has accomplished
more than Mr.. Gladstone intended,
since it has led to agitation againss the
British land system, which will necessi-
tate radical reforms in England and Scot.
land as we'll as Ireland. The foreign
policy OF Mr.. Gladstone has been what
he bitterly denounced in the campaign
of 1896. He has been successful in it,
but the footnoid acquired in Egypt is of
such nature as to make war possible
with one or more of the continental pow
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1883-07-12
THE BRITISH DEBT.

II Mr.. Gladstone's promise that tue
public debt of Great Britain shall be re.
duced ss6o,o0o,o0O during the next
twenty years is to bo verified, he and
his successors in the premiership will
have to stop all foreign military exploit.
alton and land stealing to do it. The
British debt is now about 1850, ,0O0,-
600, and it has been reduced about
s37o. 100000 during the last twenty
years. The promised reduction, Of
course. can only be accomplished by
twenty years of profound peace, and
there is very slight guarantee for that.
MIR. Gladstone came into power in 1880
on distinctiveiy peace platform and
pledges as to domestic legislation,
more especially interesting to the
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1883-07-12
No GRANGE FOR LAWYERS.

An Ohio man made cast-iron will, Civ
ing his widow $40, 900, and 5000 and $500
each to all the women now maids or
widows whom he courted in his unmar-
ried days. This required $1,000.
Notes outstanding he destroyed to
the amount OF $4,000. The
hired girl and all his wife's relatives
were remembered in small sums. Be-
fore his death he paid $40 to two minis
ters to officiate at his funeral. Immedi-
ately after he chartered train of three
cars to take his remains and 11O friends
to Ills funeral at West Sonora, O., and
also sent cash to the best hotel in West
Sonora for dinner for the party. Not a
detail was forgotten, even to the floral
tribute. When his body was laid in the
ground no one in the world had claim
of cent against his estate and no one
owed it cent.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1883-07-12
The Tale of a Tramp.
tFrom the Pittsburg Leader. /,

He looked pretty tired as he came
Looping across the Allegheny suspension
bridge ut 5 o'clock this morning
Though not more than twenty years Of Of
age, his played-out appearance, sun.
burned face aud weary gait made him
seem at first glance MS if he might have
been fifty, while his faded, tattered
clothing and dilapidated shoes looked as
II they might have been on many good
healthy drunk in the time of Georqe
Weshington's grandfather. But with
all the disadvantages of his personal an.
pearance, the young man was going
quietly on his way without showing any
desire to interfere with other people.
As Aa.s he reached Duquesta Way two we'll
dressed young men athletic dudes. ms il
were-thought i6 would be good Joke
to guy" the tramp, who of course
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1883-07-12
How an Academic Head Went of.

OF DR.. Soule, of Exeter Academy,
one writes: 'The old doctor was consti.
tutlonally opposed TO drinking. One
day a class-mate of mine, whom I will
call Smith, got gloriously drunk. The
doctor called him up and made him de-
tail the course of the spree, which in
cludes visit to the three or four orog.
geries of the village and the absorption
OF four or five glasses of ale, three gluss.
es OF wine, and horn or two of whisky.
In holy horror, as Smith ended the
enumeration, the doctor held up his
hands, saying: Why, Smith, if I at my
age had drank that much I should have
been carried home on stretcher.' Pos
sibly, said the imperturbable Smith: (:
some heads are constitutionally weak
to spiritual Influences. The doctor
emote oil Smiths academic head that
instant, and he went home on the even
ing trnin.' -
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1883-07-12
The Troy Pound.
(Frorn Nature.l


The Troy pound, still used in this
country for weighing the precious met
ais, is believed to have been derived
from the Roman weight of 5, 1902 grains.
the one hundred and twenty fifth part OF
the large Alexandrian talent; this weight.
like the Troy pound, having been divid
ed by the Romans into l2 ounces. The
earliest statute of this kingdom in which
the Troy weight is named is the Q
Henry V. statute 2, chap. 4, but the
Troy weight is universally allowed to
have been in general use from the time
OF King Edward I. The most ancient
system of weights in the kingdom of
England was the Money er's pound or the
money pound of the Anglo .Saxons,
which was continued in use for some
centuries after the conquest, being then
known as the "Tower pound, !" or some
times the Goldsmith's pound. 1t con-
tanned IL ounces of $50 grains each. or
5,4O0 grains, and this weight of silver
was pound sterling. The Tower pound
was abolished in 1877 by statute of
Henry VIII. which first stestablished Troy.
weight as the only legal weight for gold
and silver, and from this time to the
present our system of coinage has been
based on the Troy weight, the Troy
pound containing 5,760 grains.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1883-07-12
Shaving Dead Men.


A lady stepped into a barbershop on
Woodward Avenue the other day. lead
ing little child By the hand.
Scan you cut this chlld's hair ?" she
asked of the artist at leisure.
"No, ma'am," was the answer, as the
barber hurried on his coat; "I've got a
job.'
"But will pay you well,' persisted
the lady.
"Got job that pays better, ma'am, F"
said the barber; "going over on Miami
Avenue to shave q dead man !"
The lady nearly dropped with horror.
When she could speak she said to the
man who was trying razor with hair
borrowed from his own hair: ."It won't
take long 70 cut this child's hair
But 'tother job won't keep-dead
men can't wait. Besides, I'll get So. 25
for a shaving of him."
1t was true; the average professional
tonHorial artist hates to shave man
when he arrives at that peaceful state
where he can neither he talked to death
nor made to absorb pint Of hair-oil in
shampooing process, and he is super
stitious about cutting into flesh that
can neither feel nor resist; but the fee IL,
good one, and he is willing to pocket
his prejudices on one hand and the fl
on the other when the opportunit
presents.
1--WE don't like to shave man afte
de spirit am departed. said one of tht
brotherhood. You can't tell him any
jokes to pass de time, and it's solemner
den fun'ral. 1t am sleepy Gravity
kind of performance wild de chin music
left out. y
The undertaken, ,iwhile not barber, is
not averse to doing little shaving in @
financial way, He considers the fee of
the professional quite too large, and
shaves the corpse himself for half the
money.
81 thought" said well-known
undertaken of this city on Grand River
Avenue, that any kind of razor would
do to shave o dead man with when be
| gan the work, and / made fearful Job
OF the first Gaze undertook. The razor
was dull, and what would have been sn
abrasion of the skin became livid spot
III death. Ilearned then that I must use
exactly the same care with q dead man
rs with living one. I generally use
the razor of the deceased person and
bury it with him. so that it can never be
used again, as it might contain u ter
rible poison-the virus of DEATH"
Is it true that the hair and beard
frequently grow after death ?"
Not one word of truth in it; just the
merest superstition"
g But it is well-authenticated fact
that missionaries and early settlers in
this country have been found and ex-
humed whose boards had gown through
the face-clotb wrapped about them.
| They crumbled to dust on being ex-
posed to the air, but there are those who
saw them and recorded the fact. 1t was
true OF the first Napoleon"
Mere newspaper stories not n
scientific truth at all, . said the under
taker. 81 helped to exhume men who
had been buried in the Russell Street
Cemetery half century, and there was
not hair or any trace of it left-noth.
ing but bones.
An intelligent barber claimed that the
hair could grow simply from the mois-
ture OF decomposition. He said he knew
the beard grew after death, and in n
most remarkable manner.