The daily Cairo bulletin., 1883-11-27
Local News.

ASotSi hOVo iiohA Vol uouuoiO iooe
was to the effect that the Cairo special got
there when all hope Of saving the school
was past, and the engines were not even
taken from the cars. The boys didn't get
back, however, until after o'clock.
The statistical tables issued by the
commissioner of internal revenue for the
last fiscal year shows, among other things,
the number of wholesale and retail liquor
licenses issued by the government in the
several states. The question: Does prohi.
bition prohibit is answered so far as it
relates to New England states as follows:
In Maine the increase over 1889 of retail
liquor licenses was l38; in Vermont, 81; in
New Hamsphire, ll6, and in Rhode Island
IA. In Name during the last fiscal year
there were ten licenses issued to wholesale
liquor dealers.
Commission men and corn milers here,
who are in want of corn and see no pros.
pect of a boom in that line, because of q
lack of corn even in the rural districts i'm
mediately surrounding us, may or may not
draw consolation from the fact that they
and this part Of the country are not alone
minus the usual surplus of that all impor-
tsnt grain. Advices from Illinois, Indiana
and Iowa, with few local exceptions, are
unanimous in the statement that the corn
crop this year is the poorest harvested in
many years. The discrepancy applies more
to the qu,lity than the quantity OF grain
raised. The corn was damp and foggy
when the first frosts occurred, and as q
resul, was frozen hard. Then csme milder
weather, which was followed by rains, and
the corn thus had no chance to dry out and
become hard and mature. The consequence
is that large percentage of the grain is
soft and Il, only as food for hogs and other
stock. Large quantities of this soft corn
will undoubtedly 90 to waste on approach
of cold weather, as many farmers will have
more of 1t than they can possibly use in
feeding stock The question OF seed next
year will prove q most serious one, as there
will be q large deficiency. Kansas will not
be called 90 to supply the want, as there is
general complaint that the grain grown this
year from Kansas seed suffered proportion.
ately more than any other.
The votaries of hot water as cure.all
have found another pillar for their faith in
the person of Dr.. George R. Sheppard, Of
Hartford, Conn, who says in the Medical
Record ~ have used hot water as gargle
for tie past six or eight years, having beer
led to do so from seeing its beneficial ef
fects in gynecology. In acute pharyngitic
and tonslllitis, if properly used at the com
mencement of the attack, it constitutes one
OF our most effective remedies, being fire..
quently promptly curative. If used later
in the disease, or in chronic cases, it is al.
ways beneficial, though perhaps not so i'm
mediately curative. To be OF service il
should be used in considerable quantity
"a half pint or pint at time, and just as
hot ss the throat will tolerate. | have seer
many cases of acute disease thus aborted
and can commend the method with great
confidence. I believe it may be taken al
an established fact, that in the treatment
Of indammstions generally, and those o.
the mucous membranes in particular, mois
heat is Of service, and in most cases ho
water is preferable to steam. All are ia
miliar with its use in ophthalmia and con
Junctivitis, as also in Inflammation Of tn,
external and middle ear, aud feel conf
dent that those who employ it for tina
most annoying of all slight troubles to pre-
scribe for, viz. cold in the head, or acut'
coryzs, will seldom think Of using the irri
tsting drugs mentioned in the books, nor o
inducing complete an @thesis with chloro
form 10 preference to the hot water douche
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