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The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-01-31

DIED. Monday evening, Jan. 20th, Mrs.
q. A. Bsecher, widow of the late Tuo. II.
Bseccer, aged abou, 4G years.
Her funeral will take place to-day Jan.
3lst Services will be held at 81 Patrick
Church at quarter past ten, and remains
taken to Villa Ridge by the Il o'clock train
for i1teTment.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-01-31
zoe, per Can,
Extra Selects, at DeBaun's.

Laims Restaurant opposite Opera
House, Gus Bjtto PROPRIETOR ll-9o u
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-01-31

Seats for sale at BuDER'5 Jcwclry Store
Prices: IS 50 and rs cents. No extra charge to-
Reserved Seats.
The Russellville Democrat., 1883-03-08
HIGH SCHOOL NOTES.

Russellville boasts of her school
building. Coon. When man
has Jersey Cow that he is proud
of he goes to its pasture at least once
in months.
Columbia County sent in last
week one OF the tallest specimens OF
Arkansas physique we have yet
seen. We welcome Mr. Carol to
our midst.
Three bright scholars were en-
rolled, Monday morning, Miss
Mamie Russell, Miss Lucy Riddle
and Mr.. Charles Riddle. We sup
pose that the first one came TO help
us solve the last.
Henry Barlow is the smallest boy
in the first division, lst year course.
1t YOU want his true size, however,
try him in Geometry, Algebra, Phi
losophy and Latin.
We saw two young men escorting
their sisters to church Sunday night.
In this age "of anything but home"
this Is to be especially commended
and augurs well for the future of the
man, who never allows "sister" to
be an unprotected form.
To be a thorough critic, several
things are indispensable. lst; Mud
diness: this includes the semi trans
parent ignorance of the subject mat
ter, '.in toto" and "in partibus,"
so highly commended by all who are
oto the manner born in this art.
End; Foggyness; this, of course, in
cludes the three terms, swash, gusto
aud SLAYER, which enter into and
make up the grandiloquent term,
"non comprehensive" without
which every thoroughbred critic,
Othello like, feels that his occupa-
tion is gone. Sd and last; Crooked
ness; this takes up and dexterousIy
weaves together all the myriad tints
and shades of big EYE and little in
to fabric somewhat like the out
er bagging for coffee, good for moth
ing but to cover up the excellence
of the superior article within. Some
ex eellent critics assert that it aids
this fabric to baptize it in the dye
pots Of envy, falsehood and jealousy.
This is Tres gustus," however, as
all authorities are agreed that the
true rotttenness Of the fabric, like
that of the egg, cannot be heighten-
ed by the putrldity Of any extrane-
5ous substance.
We are sorry to note the continued
sickness OF Miss Eta Bayliss, OF Do
yer. Miss Eta was hard student
and would have taken laurels in the
approaching examination. We hope
to zee her among us IN short time.
Bright eyed Lily Rankin is in her
seat once more.
Two new students this Tuesday
morning, Mr.. J. b, Thompson and
Mr.. John Ferguson, both of Russell
vile. Welcome.
HIGH SCHOOL.
The Russellville Democrat., 1883-03-08
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hon. William L. Dodge, of New
York, one Of the widest known mer-
chants of the United States is dead
He was great man in many res
pects. He was a statesman and phi
lanthropist.
The rivers are assuaging again,
and the people along them are get
ting ready to begin business. Great
destruction to property has resulted
from these high waters, but in a year
from now it will not be felt.
There is great demand in the
west for young cattle such as year
lings and calves. If such a slaugh-
ter Of young cattle continues, there
will be great scarcity Of beef in this
country. Mich cows will also be
scarce and dear.
The Russellville Democrat., 1883-03-08
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
The betterment act was passed.

The betterment act was passed.
The senate introduced bill to
appropriate $4,000 to pay the expen-
ses OF the commissioners appointed
to visit the overflowed districts.
Saturday the senate passed the
bill providing for the reorganization
of the trustees OF the Arkansas In
dustrial school. That was the only
thing of general interest that was
done ip the senate during the day.
Monday was taken up discussing
the joint report on auditors accounts.
The report was finally approved.
Nothing else was done on Monday.
The joint committee on auditors
books reported, and the report was
approved Tuesday morning.
A resolution instructing the Gov
ernor to institute suit against Ex-
Governor Churchill was unanimous
ly adopted.
Bill providing for revising and di-
gesting the laws of the state was
passed.
The house consumed the rest Of
the day in reading bills.
On Wednesday the house passed
the bill to protect school districts
against losses incurred by the negli-
gence of school directors.
The house had one Of It's usual
long discussions. 10
The house then adjourned IN res
pect to the memery of Hon VIM. M.
Davidson Of Sharp county.
Thursday Mr.. Hewett offered a
resolution to take recess from the
9Th of March to the Sth Of June.
The forenoon was consumed discuss
ing the adjournment question.
The general appropriation bill was
passed.
Some other bills we're passed. The
house put in the rest of the dav
making speeches.
Friday the house passed the bill
providing reduction Of fnEpcn-
ses Of enforcing the crimt - Of
the state.
The house passed no Other i'm
portant measure.
Saturday morning the house was
entertained with some Of those spicy
speeches on the Churchill joint-com-
mittee business. This continued
till noon.
The house bill to regulate freight
and passenger fare was passed.
The house passed bill Monday
appropriating $4,000 to build an
additional school for the blind
The bill for the protection of tim
ber was passed.
The bill to prevent county courts
involving counties in debt passed. A
good bill.
A bill appropriating $4,000 for
the support of the State Industrial
school was passed.
The Russellville Democrat., 1883-03-08
SOME of the members of the lee

SOME of the members Of the legis-
lature want to take recess until June,
so that they can go home and study
the revenue bill. They affirm that by
so doing they will be enabled to
study up the question and sufficient
ly understand the wants of the coun-
try, to introduce and pass bill that
will live for ages. They want the
press to discuss the merits and de-
merits of the revenue of the country
in all their shades and bearings, and
so thoroughly ventilate the subject,
that these men elected to devise
measures for the goods of the whole
state, may know exactly what to do
in the premises. The idea is ridicu-
lous, preposterous, absurd. This
question has been before the people
ever since the last meeting of the
legislature, and man who has not
sense enough and general informa-
tion enough to understand the wants
of the country on this subject ought
not to go to the legislature. And if
he has not that information he will
not get it by reading the papers a
few weeks or few months Do not
take recess until any date, but adj
journ sine die. You have squander-
ed time enough to have done all that
was necessary for the welfare of the
of the state. The prosperity of the
country does not depend upon this
propos recess, but it rather de
pends upon adjournment.
The Russellville Democrat., 1883-03-08

Hon. w. M. DAVIDSON, of Sharp
county, member of the present leg
islature committed suicide last week
by jumping in the river. He had
been on drunken spree three or
four weeks, and had lost his mind.
This is another sad commentary on
the whisky laws of the state, and
demonstrates the pernicious effect
of the sabominable stuff, the distilled
liquid fire that destroys mems
minds, and renders life so unbeara-
bic that self destruction is the result.
Mr.. Davidson was 80 years old; he
leaves wife and four children to
mourn his sad demise.
The Russellville Democrat., 1883-03-08

Elk. Gov. CHURCHILL and Ex-GoY.
Miller rcsorted to the old way Of set
tling a difficulty few days ago in
the committee room. Churchill was
telling too much on Miller and not
enough on himself, and when Miller
asked some pointed questions,
Churchill pounced upon him like a
seven year old boy. The committee
men did not allow them to fight, but
separated them in good order
These two excellent Exes should be
more calm in their testimony.
The Russellville Democrat., 1883-03-08

AS WE intimated last week many
of our farmers have not paid up their
last years accounts yet, and what
if possible, j. that they are buying
and trying to b y goods for another
on time. How a man can live in
any sort of Sc, how a man can
sleep, how a man can do anything
with these debts hanging over him
is profound mystery to us. A farm
er who ought to be the most indie
pendent man in the world, who ought
to have louder voice in the man
agement of the affairs of the whole
world, than any other man, to sell his
crop, spend the money, and come up
to the merchants the first of March,
and ask for credit for another year,
and his account not paid up for the
previous years goods A farmer, the
tiller of the soil, the producer of the
land, buy goods, wear them oUt and
want to buy more goods without hav-
ing paid for those worn out A farm
er who owns the rich, r lie soil of
this country, who has good health,
not able to pay for the clothes he
wears and the meat and bread he
eats! Dear friends you will never
have anything of your own, you nev
er will know anything about the
pleasures of life. You will live out
your day and generation in this
world slave to your own folly, and
die after a while, and while your
spirit is pluming its pinions for its
everlasting fight, consciousness of
having gone through the world in
debt will oyer-shadow you with gloom.
You can make living if you will
manage at all. Let so much cotton
alone, raise corn, hogs, potatoes and
such things as you can eat. Do not
buy anything to eat or drink till the
last cenC you owe is paid up. Do
not buy any dry goods, better wear
patched clothes and few at that, than
nave these everlasting debts hanging
over you. If you will take our adj
wee two ye"rs and adhere strictly to
business, and cannot at the end of
that time pay your debts and be
happy we will give you tin horn
ana let you blow yourself away. The
only way to make a living is to work
ana keep out Of debt. Do not buy
anything thi7 wear, and again we say,
raise eYeryti you want 10 live on
at nome and every time you come to
Town bring something to sell to these
ymerchants, who do mot have time to
work gardens and attend chickens.
The Russellville Democrat., 1883-03-08
Proceedings OF the Leg islature
SENATE. nnf

Tuesday the committee on auditors
accounts reported.
The bill to suppress drumming for
quack doctors passed.
Bill to punish justices for not at
tending levving courts was passed.
The house bill to prevent the sale
of obscene literature was passed.
Wednesday the senate passed the
insane asylum bill. 1t appropriates
SILT. .42s for the support of the asy-
lum.
The revenue bill was read the last
time and passed.
Three hours were consumed read
ing the bill.
The senate then adjourned till
Thursday through respect to the
memory of Hon. VIM. M. Davidson
OF Sharp county.
Thursday the senate opened with
messages, and after considering them
the three-mile amendment came up.
1t consumed large proportion OF
the day. The senate did not pass q
bill Thursday.
Friday the senate began the con
sideration Of house bills and resolu-
tions.
The Doctors Drummers bill''
was passed.
The bill to prevent the sale or cir
cu.ation of obscene literature as
passed by the house was passed by
the senate.
The Russellville Democrat., 1883-03-08
STATE NEWS.

Van Buren Argus: Our mer,
chants are putting up new and at
tractve signs all up and down the
streets. Business is as lively as can
be and all our people look happy.
The bad weather has been somewhat
of d awback but it is now over and
things are stirring.
Ft. Smith Daily Herald. Col.
John Crawford has mortgaged his
property 10 the State to secure his
defalcation as Auditor This is the
proper thing to have been done, and
all fair minded men will commend
Col. Ora wford for his course. Ii
goes far to sustain his once unstain-
ed reputation.
The Russellville Democrat., 1883-03-08

Fr. SMITH is having warn the
minds of some of her citize' over
the city elections. 1t Goes seem that
little city might elect its city Off
GERS, and administer the affairs of
its own municipality wiohout all
this political disputing, and without
saying so many hard things. Many
people imagine that a political meas
ure cannot be advocated successful-
ly without indulging in low, infa-
nous appellations. We hope that
the Ft. Smith people will be able to
elect men to fill the offices of the city
government without indulging in,
and practicing demagoguery.
The Russellville Democrat., 1883-03-08
ALMOST every mail we receive

ALMOST every mail we receive q
copy of some new paper, and every
week we see an account of the sus-
pension Of some paper Surely there
must be great delusion in the field
of journalism. About three fourths
of the average printers want to start
little papers, and many of them do.
No wonder they fail, and no wonder
the standard of journalism is so dis
tressingly low in this country. The
idea of man setting himself up as
guide to the people, talking about
national affairs, who never read the
history of his own country! No won
der there is SO much demagoguery in
politics!
The Russellville Democrat., 1883-03-08

THE Arkansas legislature went on
an excursion (free) last Sunday to
the Mississippi River. We are not
opposed to pleasure and pleasure
seeking, but there seems to be a
strange inconsistency in this ex-
cursion. These very men have
been discussing a measure, and
finally passed measure to prevent
the violation of the Sabbath. They
claim to be working for the protec-
ton of the sanctity of the Sabbath
day, for the encouragement of moral
ity, and in the face of all this they
90 off on an excursion on Sunday,
drink whisky and otherwise disre-
gard the principles of morality. That
is about the way OF the majority of
the pretended philanthropists of this
ace
The Russellville Democrat., 1883-03-08
Gov. ALEXANDER H. STEPHENS

Gov. ALEXANDER Fl. STEPHENS, of
Georgia, died last Sunday evening at
the executive mansion. He was a
great statesman and served his coun-
try honestly and faithfully. No man
enjoyed any more general confidence
In The hearts end minds of the whole
people than Gov. Stephens. We will
give his biography next week. We
did not get the particulars in time
to get it in the paper this week.
The Russellville Democrat., 1883-03-08

Of the state exempting manufacture
ing institutions from taxation for q
period of years. The Gazette was
presenting in condensed form the
views of the state press on the pro-
posed amendment, and to make us
appear on the same side as himself,
he pirates on our article and selects
a paragraph to suit himself, and
uses it in connection that shows us
up opposing our own position. If he
had reproduced all of our article as
it was, it would have been all right,
but we do not wish to be made to
occupy false position in the minds
of the people. Such things are
breaches of journalism and should
not be INDUCED in. We took our
stand on the Fielder resolution, and
our fortification has not been shat
tered by the subterfuge of the oppo-
nents.
The Russellville Democrat., 1883-03-08

K LITTLE Rock GAZETTE of Feb.
% contained a paragraph from the
DEMOCRAT that is very wrongly con
strucd and calculated to mislead the
people. The paragraph alluded to
was taken from our article on the
Fielder resolution, which propos-
es an amendment to the constitution
The Russellville Democrat., 1883-03-08

extent that desire toward the clouds
we began early one mornirysy X to climb
the side of Wild Cat mountain. 1t
is not high mountain but it is the
highest we were ever on. In due
course of time we reached its summit.
exhausted, tremulous and almost
breathless. The hectic flush of early
morn, the golden rays Of the rising
sun, the cloudless, azury blue of the
arched dome above, and the leafess
trees on the bleak mountain, present
ed scene that aroused all the deli
cate tendencies of our admira-
tion. On one side of us skirting
along the undulating slopes of the
lower hills was magnificent, dense
pine forest; on another the slope of
the mountain went down more grad
ually till it seemed to die away
among the lower hills; on another
the mountain itself from our view
stretched out till it seemed to bury
it's head in the enormous sides Of
another that stretched further and
further till it seemed to bath its blue
summit in the azure sky; still on an
other side the mountain broke off
more abruptly and seemed to scatter
itself into numerous hills below that
were ornamented with farms and
orchards. Away IN the hazy dis
tance was another range that looked
like huge dark cloud coming up
out of the earth. We could write a
column describing the beauties and
grandeurs of the scene, but we must
forbear. After working an hour
rolling rocks down the mountain
side we took last long look at the
scene around us and came down with
profound sentiments pervading the
dominions of our soul On Sunday
evening having fulfilled our mission
to Presbyterv, a half a dozen Of us,
having more determination than dis
cretion, started for the town of At
kins on foot. The friends looked at
us with an eye of pity, and rugged
up some wagons and brought us to
Point Remove and put us across on
the same craft ON which we went
over. When we got across we spull-
ed OUT Cor Atkins. We hung our
baggage on our umbrellas, and then
put the umbrellas on our shoulders,
and mply counterfeited the tramp
busl ess. We had no serious diff
Guilty in getting along till we reached
Gum Log. This name applies to a
creek you know, and that creek was
"up and about" We had no diff
Guilty in getting across the creek but
there is slough on this side that was
about thirty feet wide. We had to
cross it on logs, stumps, trash, and
rails. There was not much patience
in the crowd, and one of our party
who is very short man, stepped in
the deepest part of the water. 1t
was deep enough that the water came
up considerable on the gentleman,
but we all got across without much
trouble. We hired man to carry
US to Atkins. We will have to tell
the rest some other time.
The Russellville Democrat., 1883-03-08


One Of our correspondents sug-
gests that we assist him in impress
ing upon the minds of The people the
Importance of judiciously disposing
of their cattle. The practice of sell
ing the calves and yearlings to
drivers and shippers is indeed de-
rogatory to the interest of the whole
people and destructive to the cattle
raising. Ten or twelve years ago
there was a great demand in Chica-
90 and St. Louis for yearlings, and
to supply that demand the stock
raisers of Texas shipped thousands
of yearlings to these markets. They
could not be convinced by the most
conclusive argument that such a
thing would have any effect upon the
stock raising interests, and the cat
tie market of the state. In two years
COWS were worth q third more than
ever before in the state, and beef
cattle were selling for twice as much
as ever before, and the state did not
get over it for five years. In the
North and East the calves are killed
for veal at from three to five weeks
of age, and the price of cattle is tre-
mendous. The farmers ought not to
sell their calves and yearlings be-
cause they command good price,
but wait till they are at least three
years old, and then they will be worth
something. In majority of cases
it costs nothing to keep them.
The Russellville Democrat., 1883-03-08
Henry 3. Miner, Editor.
NINTH YEAR.---NO. 8.

Mr.. RYAN, the proprietor of the
Press Eagle has decided to move his
printing establishment and paper to
Little Rock. The editor steps down
and out and will seek subsistence
in another field. The Eagle is one
Of our best papers and we will miss
, 1883-10-13

A glass-making firm in Pittsburg,
Pa, have been manufacturing glass
textile fabrics during the past twelve
or eighteen months. A rod of glass
several feet long and half an inch in
diameter, and heated to the proper
degree, is attached at one end to Il
large, rapidly revolving wooden
drum, and thereby drawn out to
fine thread. This process is repeat
ed till enough glass has been spun,
when it is wound on bobbins and
woven like cotton, fax, or silk. The
fabrics thus produced are very beau
tiful and pliable. The glass they are
made of is made very soft by the ad-
ditiOn o. lead.
At Gaudenfrel, Germany, the art
ist and glass spinner, A. Prengal, of
Vienna, has established his glass bus
iness, offering carpets, cuffs, collars,
wells, etc, made Of glass. He not only
spins, but also weaves, glass before
the eyes of the people. The other
wise brittle glass he changes into
pliable threads, and uses them for
making good warm clothing by in
Producing certain ingredients, which
are his secrets, and thereby changing
the entire nature Of the glass. He
makes white curly glass muffs also
ladies's hats Of glass with glass feath-
ears, which are lighter than real
feathers. Wool made Of glass, it is
said, cannot be distinguished from
the genuine article. Glass is a nom
conductor, and the time may not be
distant when 1t will cause a revolu-
tiOn in dress materials.
Curiosity-lOvers and those scien-
tifically inclined may be much grati-
fed to know that napkins are now
being made Of spun glass, luxury
which few persons will deny them
selves at the reasonable price Of one
hundred dollars per dozen.
They are Of delicate pearl color,
about the size Of an ordinary break
fast napkin, and almost as pllable as
silk.
The filling consists Of minute glass
threads, crossed by a silk chain, and
the fringe of glass fiber is about two
inches long.
, 1883-10-13
Captain John Ericsson.

II, in reply to the question as to
who is the most remarkable Of living
men, one should name Captain John
Ericsson, whose eightieth birthday
was celebrated at his home in New
York last Tuesday, it would not he
difficult to support the claim by strong
evidence. Certainly he is the Creates
of unknown men, Of men whose
names are not familiar in every
household. John Ericsson is gener-
ally knOwnas ian inventor who drew
the plans for the Monitor" The many
great facts Of his life are not In COM
mon recollection. For seventy years
he has been doing remarkable things,
which have had a revolutionary effect
on accepted systems. He was born
in Sweden, and before he was eleven
years old he had produced a sawmill,
the ingenious construction Of which
challenged the admiration Of expe-
rlenced men, and had designed a
pumping engine, which received the
approval Of the President Of the