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The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-05-01
The Daily Bulletin.
LOCAL BREVITIES.

Judge j. Ii. Robinson convened Coun-
ty Court Yesterday afternoon 10 dispose OF
several criminals 10 the County Jail. -Four
juvenile negro coal thieves, named Moses
Foster, Robert Parker, Bud bradley and
John Tally, were each given short tenn
in the Reform School.
Committees of the Rough and Ready
and the Arab Fire Companies, IN confer
ence Tuesday night, decided that Oh the
22d of May the two companies should en-
gage in d water-throwing contest with their
small engines, on Washington Avenue near
Eighth Street. TIE contest to be for the
small horns which were carried of by
the Roughs several years ago.
A case Of fast driving came near re-
sulting in the serious, if not fatal, injury to
several young people yesterday afternoon.
Mr.. Alonzo Schwartz ;r was out in a buggy,
accompanied by Misses Clara Robbins and
Hattie Rearden. 1t was two-horse rig
from the stables of Mr.. Patrick Fitzgerald.
When they first attracted attention they
were coming down Washington Avenue at
a mad rate, running clear from Fourteenth
Street down 10 Seventh, then toward Com
mercia and up that street in one contin-
nous igalop, evidently beyond the control
Of the driver who seemed to have given up
all effort TO stop them and 10 be striving
only to keep the middle of the street.
Near Eighth Street on Commercla, one Of
the hind wheels Of the buggy left the axle
and the vehicle flew over two squares OF
ground on three wheels, when the horses
dashed up against the grocery store Of Mr..
James Ross, corner of Tenth Street, and
stood trembling one on either side # the
corner pest Of the house The rig had
passed under the awning without touching
post, and come to a stand on the side
walk, after the tongue h4d crashed through
the weather-b boarding OF the house. The
buggy had held together remarkably well,
and the occupants had held to it and were
entirely unframed, though pale from
fright But for the bravery Of the young
ladies, which caused them to hold firmly
to their places even after the buggy had
been wrecked, they might have been thrown
out or they might have jumped out and
been sure to sustain serious injuries. They
were soon rescued from their perriIous
positions after the horses had been brought
to a stand. The horses we're two fine ami.
mails and 10 the hands of a careful, expert.
encei driver they would probably not have
acted as they did This was evident
from The manner in which they behaved
imme lately afterwards, when Mr., Fitz.
gerald himself had them out. They were
not known TO have run away before. How
ever, the occupants Of the buggy have much
reason to congratulate themselves upon
their go.d fortune in escaping all injury.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-05-01

"Eurekal | have found it." Happy the
man who suddenly finds long lost treas.
ure, and this is how Mr.. w. C. Field, Of
1899 Cedar Avenue, Cleveland, o.. felt,
when after suffering tor thirty years with
rheumatism, he found Athophoros twas
what he had been looking for, and now his
joints are free from pain, and he recon-
mends it to anyone suffering from either Of
those twin diseases, rheumatism and neu-
rsgia.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-05-01
COmpagnie Franchise.

MIR. Arthur Pretty, proprietor of the
"Compagnie Franchise" 5 Collins St., Mel
bourne, Australia, was cured, he says, of
rheumatism by st. Jacobs Oil, the great
pian-conqneror, after all other specifics had
failed,
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-05-01
Poison Oak
spartanburg, s.. c., March 10, lSs

Some to yield every time to treatment with
Swiits Specific.
Spartsnburg, 5. c., March 10, 1884.
Your most valuable medicine iSwifts Speciic)
has cone me so much good that | feel like saying
this for the benefit or those who suffer like did.
was poisoned by POISON OAK, and saw nOta well
day Tor six years until | used almost every kind of
medicine, but none had tina desired effect. After
using six bottles of SwIFTs SPECIFIC | am restored
To perfect health-with not a sign of that awful
poison
Yours truly, DAVID NESBITT
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-05-01

The man that succeeds nowadays is the
live man, who is up TO the times; and no
better evidence Of this is needed than the
fact that every go-ahead housekeeper is
never without DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-05-01
POISON OAK.

had for thirtyeight years suffered every spring
and summer with Poison Oak which | contracted
in bathing when a boy. tried ever, thing for it,
including many physicians but without any benefit
took six bottles of Swifts Specific Is. S. s. four
years ago, and II cured me sound aud we'll. Three
summers have passed and have had no return of
il. JOSEPH BEAsLEy, Columbus, Ga.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-05-01
RIVER NEWS.

W f. ,ANBDny, river editor OF TaE BULLETIN
and Steamboat passenger agent Orders for all
kinds OF steamboat job printing solicited. Once
al Bowers European Hotel, No. ~ Ohio leyee.
St. Landry democrat., 1884-03-15
COTTON SEED.


Arkansas and South Carolina
both promise us that the EXPOSE
tion will introduce to the South n
cotton picker that will enable it to
do away with the present verv
| by hand.
product that should be 3o''VvlTI we'll
represented here, so that it's MANY
possibilities can be fully under
stood, and this is cotton seed. II
will he remember that one of
the main purposes of the Atlanta Ex-
position, as laid down by Mr.. At
kinson, who first suggested it, was to
show the South how much unutilized
wealth lay in cotton,
It is only during the past eight or
ten years, that our planters have re-
garded cotton seed an not nuisance
For almost hundred years thew
had been raisingit without finding its
value, And we have discovered
scarcely half It's true properties.
Beside the cotton seed oil, cake, meal.
etc OF which we know, there are
are hundreds of other products
not yet in general use that can he
obtained from it. By clearing the
cotton seed oil of gluten and
paraff1ne 1T proves a valuable lub-
ricator; bleached and purified with
care, it is indistinguishable from
olive oil +; for making fine toilet soaps
it has no superior; a good miners
oil can be produced ftom it; it is
OF value in pharmacy of wide use
IN the arts made into butter and lard:
employed as salve, pomade and soap.
and used for cooking purposes. When
we add to this that the hulls are good
to feed to cattle, or can be made into
the best. paper stock, we see that
this. one single article yields the greatest
variety of products. And yet we
must feel that all the possibilities
OF cotton seed have not yet been dis
covered.
This one item can by itself make n
Varied and interesting exhibit at the
Exposition. New Orleans is the largest
of cOttonseed oil pro-
products in the world; it ought Ger
talnly be able to make a handsome
display in this line. 1T will be of ad-
vantage to the whole South, as showing
the possibilities of cotton seed and
wealth that lies in it.-Times-D Demo-
crat.
St. Landry democrat., 1884-03-15

given that the Post-ofice Appropria-
tion bill will then be brought forward,
but it is not expected to go through
during the week. An evening session
will be held on Friday to consider pen
sion bills. The Senate will take up and
dispose of the Military Academy bill
first, and spend the remainder of the
week upon the calendar, taking meas
ures in their order. The Senate com
mittees have finished the greater part
of their important work, though the
public lands committee is still busying
itself with the Land Grant bills, and
the committee on Post-offices, and Post
roads, with the Postal telegraph bills,
and the telegraphic Investigations.
St. Landry democrat., 1884-03-15
A Searching question.
Manhattan for March.

We may see the significance of the
inquiry which the Almighty is said to
have put to JOb-"Where vast thou
(man) when / laid the foundations of
the world ~ The supposed colIoduy
between Job and his Creator embraces
a pretty searching question, which may
be asked of the ev0lutionist; for, upon
the evolution theory, these things, the
tendency and capacity of the molecules,
and the environing conditions, are fthe
foundations of tile w0rld.n It is no an
swer to say, as Mr.. Spencer does, that
these tendencies or capacities of matter,
and the laws OF the favoring conditions,
came from the Unknown Cause.
Known or unknown, did they have a.
cause, or did they make themselves +?
Did these, the foundations of the world,
have an origin, or were they without
any origin? I? II they had an origin, was
it from the will and power of a being
capable of summoning them into exis-
tence and prescribing their modes of
action z 1t they had no origin, if they
existed from all eternity, how came it
that they formed this extraordinary
habit OF invariably acting in certain
way, which, amid all its multifOrmity, |
shows an astonishing persistency If
we deny, with Mr.. Spencer, the absolute
commencement of organic life on the
globe, We must still go back of all the
traces of organic life, and inquire
whence matter, molecules organized or |
unorganized, derived the rUpacity to
become organized, and how Nr6e favor
ing conditions became established as
auxiliary or subsidiary formsD This
has not been met by Mrs jpen-
Ger, or by anyone else; for whether wei
call the cause an unknown or a knoHj14 I
cause, the question is, was there cause,
or did the foundations of the world lay
themselves? The reasoning powers
Of mankind, exercised by daily observa-
ton Of eause and effect, Of creative
power and creative product, seen, for
example, in the works of human power
and skill-are entirely equal to the con-
ception of First Cause, as a being who |
could have laid the foundations Of the [
world but they are utterly unequal to
the conception that they had no origin
St. Landry democrat., 1884-03-15

stituting marked cards for honest ones
was caught one night in the act of sub
Perhaps an American monte player
might have performed the trick dexter
ously enough to dupe that circle; but
Garcia possessed no such wonderful
llegerdemain. The discovery Of his dis
honesty closed the gilded doors against
him fOrever.....
During some years he wandered
about the streets of the city where he
had spent millions, begging all whom
he knew for few francs. The profess
slonal sporting men Of Paris no doubt
helped him at times, just as they help
one another more or less in this cOun-
try. After the fashionables turned
their backs on him, the professionals
seem to have done handsomely by him !;
for he was able to make his way. After
the war of 1870 his name was often in
the papers; he was at different times
heard of as hair dresser, a croupiey in
a fifth -ciass gambling house, a waiter,
etc: Finally he disappeared altogether; );
and his very name had been almost for
gotten, when the news came that this
once celebrated gambler had entered
the monastery of La Trappe as one of
those silent laborers who toll not for
earthly remuneration.
St. Landry democrat., 1884-03-15
Typographical Errors.

The number of types used in an or
dinary country newspaper is about 60O,-
600; that is the actual number of bits
of metal arranged for each paper in pre-
pairing a newspaper of that size for the
press. Few people think of the print
ing trade as one of the most exact and
particular handicrafts; but it is in
making type, variations that might be
in the finest machinery would
render type useless. The most elabo-
rate and carefully fitted piece of work
ever made in any other very particular
skilled labor does not compare for min
uteness Of detail and accurate fitting,
with that which the printer does every
day. The man who does the first is
looked upon as the marvel of skill, but
if one hundred of his pieces are put in
wrong side up or down, or turned
around, it is not noticed in the general
effect; il a printer, in fitting ten times
as many pieces together in a single day,
puts one in the wrong way, everybody
sees it, and is amazed at the Stupid
earelessness of the printers" Des
Moines News.
St. Landry democrat., 1884-03-15
WIRES BURNING LIKE ROPE.
A Fire Started by Electricity
Which Might Have Proved
Serious.
New York Times.


The danger. to property and human
HE resulting from the stringing of cleo
trlc wires overhead in the streets of a
large city was again ILLUSTRATED last
Saturday afternoon in the printing es-
tabllshment of Wynkoop & Hallenback
No 1S1 Fulton street. Passing by the
shop, which is on the second floor of the
building, are number of electric wires
for telegraphic and lighting purposes,
stretched along from poles, which en-
eumber and disigure the sidewalk.
Next door to Wynkoop & Halleback, at
NO. III Fulton street, is the hat store
OF Z. Smith, and from the window of
this shop projects long pole, from
winch hangs swinging sign. The
pole is supported by guys of twisted
wire, one of which was carried to q
window of No. 121, and there fastened
to staple in the sill outside. Through
this same window passes the telephone
wire attached to the telephone in Wyn-
kooD q Hallenback's store, and the
space between this and the staple did
not exceed a sixteenth Of all inch. On
Saturday afternoon, between 5 and 6
o'clock, the bookeeper of the printing
hrm, whose desk is near the window
through which the wires pass, was
startled by sudden an vivid flash Of
light outside and the unmistakable
smell of fire. Turning quickly to the
window, he saw that the wires conver-
glng there were at1ame, and looked like
SO much burning rope, while all along
the wall the wire running to the tele-
phone, which is enclosed in a large
wooden box, was also in one string of
blue flame. Hastily opening the win
dow, he pushed up the sash and extin-
gulshed the flames at the junction of
the guy and telephone wires, by pour
ing a pail of water on them. He then
loOsened the guy wire and cast it adrift !
receiving quite severe shock as he
touched it. An examination of the |
wires was then made, and it was found |
that the covering of the telephone wire
for about an inch from the window had |
been completely burned off. The wires
wound about the two spOols in the tele-
phone instrument itself had been fused |
as though they had been subject to the
action OF q crucible in furnace, and
the Instrument was so completely ruin
9d that new one had to be substituted |
IN Monday. Had the fire occurred in
HE night, when nobody wa sDresent to /
extinguish it in the beginning, the en-
ire building might easily have been
The explanation of this dangerous
exhibition OF electric power is very sim
Die. The twisted wire of the guy sup
porting the sign pole of the hat store
lad come in contact with the lightning
wire which was stretched along the
,oles over the sidewalk. 1t had been
aiming hard during the day, and the
Vater had made the circuit between the
elephone wire and the guy complete,
o that the positive and negative cur
ents were enabled to cross the sixteenth
f an inch chasm between them and
leet with the startling results describ-
d. When Times reporter visited the
flee of Wynkoop & Hallenback yester-
ay, the wire of the guy was attached
D the staple by length of rope, and
he guy itself was far above the light
ing wire.
St. Landry democrat., 1884-03-15
Talk over what You pRead.
Christian Union.

NerIy forty years. experience as q
teacher has shown how little I know
of a subject until begin to explain il
or teach it. Let any young person try
the experiment. of giving in converse
ton, briefly and connectedly and in
the simplest language, the chief points
of any book or article he has read, and
he will at once see what I mean.
The gaps that are likely to appear
in the knowledge that he. felt was his
own will, no doubt, be very surprising.
know of no training superior to
this in utilizing ones reading, in
siren gthening the memory and i'm
forming habits of clGr, connected
staobment. It will doubtless teach
other things than those which I have
mentionedo o which the persons who
honestly iemake the experiment. will
who r0&H can"6e encouraged te give,
in a}miliar way, the interesting
parts d the books they have read,
with grdi8 advantage to all concerned.
Morfsf99fh one youth / know has laid
thesS- sMgdation of intellectual tastes
ip oR JW England family, where
n6artyI lencouragens was given to
adults in their attempts
to sketch the lectures they had heard
the evening previous. The same thing
was done with books.
St. Landry democrat., 1884-03-15
Rich Tin Mine.
Boston Bulletin.

In the United States tin has been
found in eight States, but in slight
paying quantities, except in the Vir-
GINA mines, which rate at ten cents
per pound, and have more than paid
the exposes of developing them. The
discovery of the ore at Kings Noun
tain, IN Cleveland county IN. C. about
forty miles from Charlotte. was made
IN singular manner. Among the
minerals exhibited at Boston from
North Carolina was small quantity
OF black looking ore, of unusual
heavIness, labeled ''unknown.D A
lump of this unknown ore would
outweigh a piece of iron ore
twice its size, and a scientist, curious
to see what it was, made analysis and
found 1T to be tin ore of a very rich
quality. An agent was sent out. who
arrived at Kings Mountain and gath
cred up large quantity of the ore,
which he forwarded to Boston and
which, on being worked up, was
found to yield seventy-five per cent
OF tin, the richest yield known in the
world. The matter was brought to-
the attention of the North Carolina
State authorities, hence the efforts to
locate vein and establish a mine.
There are only three bearing
mines in the world, and there is q
standing reward of $4,000 offered for
the discovery of one in the United
States.
St. Landry democrat., 1884-03-15
A Giant Vino smashes Two
Inch PIanks.
He MEETS sULL1vAN-rHE RESULT.
Astoria (oregon) Independent

|
/ Our citizens are familiar with Sylves-
Ter LIE GOWrltf, a native of France, who
has lived in Astoria for some time.
Probably no man on this coast has As II:
much muscular power as this giant of
strength. In wrestling he has thrown
a number of professional wrestlers in
| San Francisco and his powers of endu-
rance have surprised every one who has
seen his exhibitions. Last winter, on a
wager he performed remarkable feat.
Two men seated themselves in chairs,
and LIE GOWriff, grasping the bottom
| back round of each chair, lifted one
| with each hand and set them on a coun-
ter three feet high. Not long ago he
was making his brags that he could
break twO-incIl plank with his fist,
and number of gentlemen anxious to
see this done, tried to find a plank, but
unsuccessfully. They produced three
boards, one inch thick, and nailed them
together and set them up. Sylvester
marched up to the boards and let drive
with his fist, and the boards were split
in several pieces. His fist did not show
even a bru3se or scratch. We do not
know that this wonderful man has the
requisite scientific knowledge to cope
with man like Sullivan, but one thing
we are certain of, if he ever gets blow
IN on Sullivan the great champion of the
world will be evicted from this world
to the next. Sullivan has published in
every cityhe has visited that he will
give $1,000 to any man that will stand up
to him for four rounds, each round to
last three minutes. LIE Gowriff has ac-
ceDted the proposition.
THE RESULT.
Northwest News.
John L. Sullivan, the champion, ar
rived at Astoria yesterday afternoon on
the steamer Oregon, and was received
by an immense crowd. the exhibition
given at Occidental Hall was we'll aft |
tended. Everybody wanted to see the |
champion, and more than that, they |
wanted to see LIE Gowriff stand IN be- |
fore him. After some sparring between |
members OF the combination, LIE Cow I
rift and Sullivan made their appearance |
lie GoWriff is well-buiit, muscular |
fellow, and is a perfect giantin strength /
In wrestling he has thrown number of /
professional Wrestlers in San Francisco
and his Uonderful powers of endurance
nave surprised every one who has seen
his exhibitions. lie Gowriff, when he
met Sullivan, exhibited a look that he
had lost hope of being able to stand up
the four rounds, and it was we'll he did
80, for ne was not then doomed to dis
appointment. Sullivan simply did
little light sparring for about nineteen
seconds, and then he threw out his left
hand and hitLe Gowriff slap on the
face that sounded like meeting be-
5Ween fog horn and political orator,
knocking him down and completely
,ut of time. The yells sent up at this
eat were terrible.
St. Landry democrat., 1884-03-15

East Baton Rouge now boasts Of two
complete Democratic tickets represents
ing the late factions. The Administra-
ton party have dubbed their opponents
ttSoap tails" Like all family duarrels
it will only result in disaster to the COM
batants. Better heal differences
Natchitoches Vindicator.
St. Landry democrat., 1884-03-15

"A curious fact It takes a girl about
four hours longer to wash the front
windows of 4 house than the back
windows. Newport Journal.
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1884-12-18
A RappahannOck Fake.

FREDERICBsBURa, Dec. l3.-The re-
ported drowning of twenty seven men
in the Rappahannock river on Tuesday
last is not confirmed. Two steamers
from there, arrived since then, have
heard nothing of it.
THIS is DIFFERENT.
BALTIMORE Dec, l3.-The steamer
Westmoreland, from the Rappahan-
report that the destruction OF life by
Tuesdays storm was much greater
than heretofore reported. Off Canoe
house landing, considerable distance
above Urbana, several boats were
swamped and all on board persisted.
At other points lives were lost.
FULLER DETAILS.
The Baltimore Evening News, in its
account of the disaster, says: Officers
OF the steamer WestmOrelaDd report
that so far,of the party Of cOlored men
whose boats capsiZed in the Rappahan-
mock, near Urbana, twenty-eight are
known to have been drowned, in addi-
ton to those already reported. At least
six were drowned at CanOe-house land
ing, in the same river. At Mill Creek,
another landing on the Rappahannock,
a young white man was drowned. In
speaking of the fact that so few who
We're out in the boats escaped drowning,
an officer of the Westmoreland re
marked that they could easily have
reached the shore and avoided the
accident which befell them,
but that squall broke in all
it's fury without moments warming,
over the boats, before they were fully
aware Of what had taken place. The
negro es all along the river, and espec'
tally in the neighborhood OF Urbana, are
greatly exercised and frightened.
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1884-12-18

10 nefes, nlauu II, mites north from
the courthouse, Tor n valuable consider
ptiOn,
ionn Dnndfldge and wlfo To Henry
Wexford, u acre, ~ miles northeast
frntu lie rOuri house, Tor sln.
T.. +. Ehflinrdt IA George w, lhdd, 10
l,y IN feet, the south corner OF Garter N
Collins streets, $3.50.
Mary u. baird 10 Richard Cohn, lot
IL, blrk I, ~ Crowdns n Akard'- add
tion, for NV,'
ii. e. Clark to William Kelly, 80 10y
100 ieet on north side of Elm. 10 feet east
al IIarwood street, or 5000.
VI. u. Funk and wife a. Herman Net
nv, lot on north west side oi Beaumont
street, un east side &C the Gulf, Colorado
4 Santa Fee rallroad, Tor 800.
NJ. j. Roseniield Ut nj, 10 X. H. God
hpld, lot II, of Myer n Rosenheld's adj
dilipn tn East Dallas, Tor $500.
NJ }. Rosenield et al. IN Mrs. >. a.
Gudbod, lots 10 and ~ OF Meyer N
ltoseniield's addition 20 East Dallas, -
1870.
IL. l.. Godbold and wife to Max j.
Rosenlleld and Gerson Meyer, lots and
s, block ~, the north corner OF Akard
and st. Louis streets, for 5000.
~ DaugheIty to Charles Meister-
hans, lot on south corner of Live Oak
street and the Houston n Texas, Central
railroad, fronting 30 feet ON said street,
for $500.
Ii. -. Bowen and wife 10 Henry
Garter, IA acres on Turtle creek, about
~ miles north from the courthouse,
Tor So15.