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The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-06-22
Ground UP BY Ma chinery.

CHICAGO, ILL, June 2l.-Miss Alice n.
Wells, of Boston, while viewing the ma.
chinery on the upper floor of large grain
elevator on Twenty-second street yestcr-
day, was caught in the machinery and
crushed to death in an instant. She was
eighteen years of age, and was visiting
the family Of II, n. Greeley, of this city.
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BUFFALO.

CATTLE-Murket unchanged: common
dun ami lower; good to choice shin.
ping sG.2jitGGO; medium. sLgo6tG ~.
butchers, grades Of from 800 to LOO lbs.
sjiDLG25; fair 10 good native cows, $35Jn
40; atOckers and feeders lower at S.}ni
SHEEP AND LANBs-Markct firm; medium to
good OF IRON 10 to ~ lbs, St75Ibj 10; or
binary 10 choice lambs Of from @ to %
pounds, &7tbi5
HObs-Oriinary ~ good Workers. sjm7:
good to CHOICE tj.2D95Jj; butcher grades
tJ..yyoLJiD
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-06-22
Fresh Conyicts.

JOPLIN, Mo, June 2l.-Sheriff Roberts
left last night for Jefferson City with
two fresh convicts, Ben Johnson, three
years for horse stealing, and Moses Has
ktns and Fred Smith, colored, two years
each for grand larceny.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-06-22
Injured Jockeys.

PITrsBUIG, Pa, June 2l.-Ray and
Crittenden, the jockeys injured by being
thrown from their horses at the Exposi.
ton Park races yesterday, were not fatal.
ly hurt. 1t is thought both will be able
TO mount again in a few DAYS.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-06-22
HMurderer Arrested.

NEw YORK, June H.--Miguel Chaicon,
the Cunan who killed Maria Williams, the
wife OF Monroe Williams, last night, was
arrested this moning and held to await
the Coroner's inquest. He said he was
cigar-maker and that his parents reside
in Cuba and are very wealthy.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-06-22
DISASTROUS FLOODS.
Two Hundred and Fifty Soldiers
Said to Have Been
Drowned.
Streams Swollen and the Country Flooded,
Causing Great Damage to Property
and Live Stock.
A Bohemian Civil Engineer Murdered
and His Body Dismembered
"A Mystery.
Germany.

HEAVY RAINS AND DISASTROUS FLOODS.
BERLIN, June 2l.-Severe rains have
fallen during the past forty-eight hours
throughout Gaiicia flooding the country
and causing an immense amount of dam
age to property. All the streams have
swollen and number have overlooked
their banks drowning many cattle, sheep
and swine. The TageJlau publishes re-
port from Limburg saying $50 soldiers
were drowned, but the report is not yet
confirmed, There is no doubt, however,
that several lives were lost.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-06-22
Iron.Works Trouble Settled.

PITTSBURGH, Pa, June 81, - The
trouble in the Volta Iron Works at Apollo
was settled to-day by the manufacturers
signing the Amalgamated scale. Work
will be resumed on Monday.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-06-22
{ IIICA 10.

WHEAT--Higher; June, SIC; July, sac,
August, SSlsc; September, SSi,USs5gc,
CoRN-Steady; June, 5jlac; july. 551,a
55Ac; August, $3.50; September, 5GHDj6 nc:
year, Bac. ~
OArs-Wcakcr; June, 3l4c; July, 3I,sc.
August, 2Tasc; year. 2G3c. '' ''''
PORK-Wcaker; June, slg,2O. Julv slo On.
August, $500 '' '''''''
LARD-Higher; June, 1855; July, s,5Il5:
August, Si.12h: September. $7.sj. ''''' -
SHORT Rlhs-June, $L1f; July $3.50:
August, s1HH; September, IS. '''''
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-06-22
yAHgAg CITY.

CATTLE Receipts, l,gD; stendy: native
stccx, IN ~ 800 lbs average. So ma
GN NJ W. ~ l,lU lba. average, s5.DOdlj. 80:
ustiyc cpss. fjJNLlg5
oGs~ItrcclptA, $3.50; weaker and Zoe
lower, lDis ~ 40 81 $50 lbs average 81 7hGs
j.Gj; mainly, N1DqLt.yp.
sHEEr--iieceipt', GHj; quiet; natives, ia lbs.
average, tiHJ '
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-06-22
A Trouhled Oil Market.

NEW YORK, June 2l.-There was a
furry in the oil market to-day, Opened
at IS IA, declined to So l-2; rallied to
So, and then declined. Rumors regard
ing the Standard Oil Company are again
circulating.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-06-22
Live Stock Markets.
CHICAGO.

HoGs-Receipts, ll,oJ0 head prices lOa15c
lower; light. Si.5OW52O; rough Dackin%
$i@gg5.l0; heavy packing and shipping
<5ljlGjW fP'"S'
CATTLE-Receipts, 1900 head steady; OK.
common to fair Sj.!JlIGOD
SHEEP-RcccIpts, 800 head unchanged:
common to good, $2j01i50
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-06-22
Costly Fire.

ALLEGHENY Cry, Pa, June 2l.-Fire
at noon to-day damaged the residences of
7. c. Orr and Prof. Neale on Irwin ave-
nue. to the amount of $4,000; insurance
one-fourth.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-06-22
NEW YORK,

WHEAT-Steady; No. 2 Red, June, g9c:
July, ~2sc; August, Sl.Ols; September,
CORN-Lowcr; june 81 ,0B2c: .JuIy. G2i r..
August, G3'sc; September, 64l,c.
OATS Lower; June, 8s &C; July, 3Gl4c; Aug.
ust 4Ac; September, Size.
PROVISIoNS-Pork- Dull; spot mess, SIG G2Is
1876. '' |'''
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-06-22
Death of Andrew l.. Pudnev

New YORK, June 2l.-Andrew l.. Pud-
ney surviving member of the late firm of
Pudney & Russell, publishers of DeBo,e's
Rerteoc prior to the war, died in Brooklyn
last night extremely poor, He was sew
enty-eight years old.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-06-22
Shot While Making an Arrest.

MILWAUKEE, WIS, June 2l.-Police.
man Phchek was fatally shot while trying
to arrest an unknown man early this
morning. The murderer escaped.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-06-22
England.
PRINCE OF ORANGE DEAD.

LONDON, June 2l.-Alexander, Prince
of Orange, son of King William of Hol-
land, is dead, He was born August %,
1851.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-06-22
Ireland.

QUEENSTOWN, June 81 Arrived: Adri.
attic from New York.
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FAILED,

Scion Humphreys and G. P. Huntington
Reported Down.
NEW YORK, June 2l.-A rumor has lust
reached Wall street that Scion Humph.
reys and c. p. Huntington have failed
Particulars are not available at this writ.
ing, but the rumor is believed 10 be true,
aud has been telegraphed to prominent
brokers and exchanges, Scion Humph-
reys is one of the receivers OF the Wa.
hosh
Smyrna times., 1884-01-30
The Reading Room.

Departed vertically;-"C invent. un.
h0nOred and un'ung" Ii i not fitting
IN this enterprising burgh. with its
rank step in the march of improve-
meHt' that public literary institution
should be organized with much enthu-
Slasm and many words. only to die in
the space of few weeks.-to burst
like unto a bubble, to disintegrate to
be no more.-It is not we'll so II
worth creating. it was worth continu-
ing. We remember the many tvnes
employed i'll talking about the coming
reaulhE room; the numerous letters
printed III regard to it, the public meet.
lngs called 10 discuss and provide. far
H. the subscriptions, the purchase of
furniture, the opening ceremonies. &c.
anu now, dead. deceased. defunct
departed, and. Not even a funerai
discourse, no requiem. no obituary
notice. In its conception. in its iDcin-
lency, in its beginning the public we're
requested TO know all about il the
people heard 1t continually for weeks
ana now have not the people a right To
Know why i. died. Can not its nr0iect-
orS or It's officers explain? A floating
question is, What's the matter Win
the reading rOOm?"-and nobody can
answer the conundrum. at least the
publlc has heard no reply. A short
obituary mention would be very murh
IN place. Some one said "nerbans
they are merely selling the furniture TO
DnN hner goods If SO lets hear. Lets
hear anyway.
Smyrna times., 1884-01-30

WHERE PEorIE LAVE THE Longest.
"A collector of statistics has been cx-
aiming into the statistics of longevity
to find in which States they have the
best chance for long life and New
Hampshire seems to be the favorite
for one-seventy-fourth of the inhabi-
tants are at least eighty years old.
Other New England States do not
contain quite so many old persons, the
average proportion for the SIX being
in l34. Coming to New York, he
finds that for one person who has
reached the age of eighty there are l6I
who have not, and in the three Middle
States the average proportion is in
1872. As he goes Southwark he dis
covers a greater preponderance of
young blood, for in six South Atlantic
States the average proportion is / in
2O3. The Gulf States afford less at
tractive shelter for the aged, for the
average is in 300. In Texas, where
so many worthy parsons die with their
boots on in the prime of life, only one
octogenarian can be fonnd in a oroap
of 497 citizens. The average rises
again in the interior States East of the
Mississippi, but in the Great Lake
States it falls to in 263, u good old |
age being attained with the greatest
difficulty in the wealthy and prosper
Gus State of Illinois. In seven States |
West Of the Mississippi River the aged |
rarely appear, for the average proper |
lion is in 453. In Iowa a crop of |
j34 persons yields only one who has
reached the age of four-score in Min
lesota, Nebraska and Kansas only one
of these aged citizens can be found in
group that would yield two in Iowa.
md in Colorado l,l5O inhabitants
must pass in review before an octopen-
Irian comes in sight. The old are
wen more rare in Nevada, but in Cal
fornia and Oregon the proportion is
learly in 500.
Smyrna times., 1884-01-30
Public Sales

The following persons will sell their
personal property at public sale:
Benjamin w. and George W. Turner.
near State line, on the Hazel farm y
on Thursday, January 31st.
James c. Robinson, on the road from
Smyrna to Leipsic, about miles from
the former place, on Tuesday, February
9Th.
Charles H. Griffith, near the "Big
Oak" on the road leading down the
Neck, on Friday, February Sth.
Mrs. Kate F. Wells, administrative
on the road leading from the Sassafras
road to Blackbird mills, about . miles
from Smyrna, on Saturday, February
9th.
George D. Wright, near the Baptist
Church, on Monday, February 11th.
John Fraser, near this town. on
Tuesday, February 18th.
Joseph C. Robinson, on Miss Julia
Collins farm, on the road from Smvrna
10 Lelpsic, on Wednesday, February
18th.
Mrs. Sarah V. Farson, near Hoffec-
ker's mill, on Friday, February 18th
George Robinson, on the road lead
ing from Smyrna to Bombay Hook
Lighthouse, on Tuesday, February
18th.
J. Gould, on the road from Smvrna
to Kenton, on Wednesday, February
Goth.
II. II. Armstrong, near Taylor's
Bridge, on Wednesday, February Goth
Smyrna times., 1884-01-30
better Navigation.

The report Of the Philadelphia and
smyrna transportation Company which
we give in another item, while making
good showing, might have been a
good deal better if the navigation of
our creek was what it ought to be TO
Smyrna Landing. If the steamer and
coal yards were located at tho latter
place instead of at Rothwell's Landino
the profits of the line would be i'm
mensely increased by additional travel
and freight, and the expense of haul
ing freight and coal would be lessened
more than one half If the steamboat
landing was at Smyrna Landing. il
would virtually seem at the edge of
the town while it now appears a con-
siderable way off. Every individual
who travels or has things to TRANSPORT
by this route is interested in having
the creek cleaned out for better facili.
ties of commerce. A few thousand
dollars would do it, and as an enter
prise for our people to take hold of
popularly, there is nothing promising
better results.
Smyrna times., 1884-01-30

ONE of our merchants has sold all
his eggs for this week and next at 40
cents per dozen.
WM. r. SMITH, living beyond Bren-
ford, and John Hackett were in sit
uation one day last week to cause both
fright and danger. They were crossing
the tressel work over the pond on which
they entered, not knowing or having
an intimatiOn of an approaching train.
Smith was ahead and about midway
the bridge when he heard the train ap-
preaching with great speed. He hadn't
time to advance or recede to either
end, to jump might endanger life and
he was only left the alternative to
prostrate himself on the end of the
sieepers outside and parallel with the
track. Even in this condition there
was danger of his clothes being caught
In some part of the trucks, but
fortunately they didn't, and he escaped
uHhurt but considerably scared.
Hackett being several feet behind was
near enough to jump just in time to
escape.
Smyrna times., 1884-01-30

THE period of imitation and maxi
mum prices of commercial articles and
wages seems to have been reached and
the inevitable reaction has set in.
Dispatches from Boston received
last week stated that all the New Eng
land mills have entered upon a policy
of reduction in wages that all the
mills Of Lowell, Lawrence and Fall
River, including even the Pacific mills,
will join in the movement, though the
reduction proposed will not be the
same at different mills. At some
points the cut will be only ) per cent.
and at others as much as II per cent. :;
some have been reducing gradually
for weeks, while others are now post
ing 10 per cent. reduction. There
is no indication of concert of action.
but the mills make such reductions in
each case as the nature of their trade
appears to render necessary. 1t may
be added that the latest British Jour
mails show that the great struggle in
the Blackburn region was caused by
prolonged depression and consequent
reduction of wages, which the opera
tives are resisting.
Smyrna times., 1884-01-30
F"T IN SNtTiNl IlIu6s
The Sudden Death of a yellow
Man.

On Saturday last while Isaac sam.
mons and his son were on the rn,d ~
Leipsic, To look at farm. he was tak.,
suddenly ill, falling back in his dem.
porn, and never spoke afterwards
dying III few hours. The decn...J
was born and raised in Sussex Com.
~, ana was a young man nearly grown
he SAID, AT the time of the war oi 1o1D
when the British landed at Lew+s Ha
theh worked on farm near that town
tltty years ago he moved to this conn.
" and has remained here ever since
farming the most of that time H..
made good citizen as he was = ma,
that attended to his own affairs. he Lns
raised several families of children. hay.
ing been married three times. and the
latner OF twehty-cnc children. HI, re-
mains were Inferred at Sutton. Chan.I
Bishops Cross Roads. yesterday. t,I.
lowed 10y his relatives and friend, N
doubt his loss will be felt by thos,. win
Whom he associated as he was one nf
the old standards or his race. and :,
great many being in the habit of ra-
pcatlng what Uncle Isaac would s,v
1t Is estimated by some that he was tit
years old, | should think he wa, s. =,
least, Even We regret to part with
Uncle Isnac. II
MooRToN, January 18th. 1884.
Smyrna times., 1884-01-30
\ Good Showing

At the annual meeting of the stock
holders in the Philadelphia & Smyrna
Transportation Company, held at the
Office of the Company in this town, on
Monday, 2Sth inst, net profit of
thirteen per cent. was declared
out of the earnings of the company for
the last eight months.
n dividend of four per cent. was
declared, payable to each shareholder
on demand, the remainder nine per
cent. carried TO credit of ''undiyid.d
i'.'.it' account, thus paying to stock
" .d, r. II interest of six per cent. per
"a IHn', besides making the stock of
&c company worth say $2.25 per share
Jnve par.
The following Board of Directors
were reelected to serve the ENSUING
year: John II. Hoffecker. J. +. Tygert
George c. Deakyne, II. S. Tygert. w
G' Pierce. Subsequently the Board
met and organized by rejecting J.E
Iygert, President, and w. G.. Pierc.
Secretary and Treasurer.
Smyrna times., 1884-01-30
"The Beautiful Snow, =,

The respite from icy streets was only
of one or two days duration, for Non
day morning the falling snow flakes
hight IN quantity-were again lramPed
and congealed to the pavemenls. max
ing walking the same unpleasant ex-
ercise of the previous weeks. By the
way, more beautiful snowfall is rare
ly seen than that on Monday at two or
three different times in the day. In Il
perfectly still atmosphere the big
flakes in quick proximity came silently
down, down, resting as lighta as feathers
on the beautiful bed which they them
selves formed the covering. There
was poetry in that, but precious little
when it became paste to dampen and
chill the feet of the pedestrian.
Smyrna times., 1884-01-30

THE Morning Ners, while castiga-
ting US for not being intensely inter-
ested in the matter of representation
in the Legislature like they are in
Wilmington, makes a humiliating
confession, such an one as we did not
expect to come from that journal, viz {:
that 1t supported a measure because it
was Mr.. Bates, that it now speaks of
as "utterly unreasonable and out of
proportion" The TINES had no
means Of knowing that the Ne,cs occu-
pied two positions on this subject. 1t
gave the editors of that paper credit
for frankness and when it endorsed the
proposition to give Wilmington CITY
nine Representatives, we accepted for
genuine, what it now says was a
quGa support. What its Representa-
tive and its papers expressed we nat
urally concluded was what the city of
Wilmington wanted. and if we were
in error, the .Aorning Ne,rs was the one
that led us into it. Now that paper
says it was for district representation
all the time. We are glad we know
where to find it, and when it comes
with reasonable propositions, Kent and
Sussex counties may lend a more
ready ear to hear. Come if you will,
with proper basis Of city representa-
ton, representation by districts or any
thing that promises an improvement
upon existing statutes, and you will
hearty endorsement by many in the
two lower counties.
Smyrna times., 1884-01-30

HE DeIGDdrean, in its last issue
after noting at length the failure of
the Democratic party since 1860 to
elect its candidate, no matter how
bright or good the chances, though
1t says, " blundering stupidity from
bad leadership" declares for a cam
palgn Of aggressive fight and settled
policy. 1t says:
Every campaign, during the time
OF which we speak, has been character:
lied by vacillation and timiditv and
unwillingness on the part of our lead
ers to take up and grasp the opportu-
mites offered. Had it not been for
umldlty, stupidity, supineness and to
use a mild expression, want of hack
Done among our leaders in both
branches Of Congress in 1876, the
democratic party would be TO-DAY
frmly entrenched in power, and Re-
publican supremacy one of the things
OF the past. IL was nothing but the
courage and daring, the agressiveness
On Governor Morton, Thad. Stevens.
Wade, Sumner, Seward and Stanton
that made leepublicanism in the past
what 1t was, and in measure is to-
day, and it is nothing but the want of
NJ that has kept the Democratic party
~here 1t now is. The year 1884 has,
however, brought about needed
'change, one not only beneficial, but at
the same time radical. The times
point clearly TO new era in party
Smyrna times., 1884-01-30
Personal.

Miss Alice HOffecker left this morn.
ing for BroOkfield, Mo, where her
father and sisters reside and where she
purposes entering business and maxine
her future home. There is much re-.
gret at her departure from us, but To
'hoSe who know her best, will her
presence be the most missed.
Mrs. Eta f. Baldwin, wife of Rev.
Dr. Baldwin, of Nyack -on-the- Hudson
comes to-day on two or three weeks
visit te her sister, Mrs. John H. Hof-
fecker.
Miss Laura Postles, of Camden, is
visiting Miss Laura Doughten.
Rev. L. 0. Ayers, of East New
Market, Nd, made a short visit to
friends in this town, last week, on his
return from Middletown, whittier he
mad heen to hear John B. Cough.
Rev. John i. Smith, of Salem church
near Wilmington, is on visit to friends
in this town.
Miss Minnie Clement left yesterday
for two weeks visit to friends in
Philadelphia.
Rev. DIR. John A. Roche, who spent
from Saturday to yesterday with rela-
tiVes in this town, has two sons minis
ters in the Protestant Episcopal Church
spencer, rector of church i'm Brook
lyn, and Olin, assistant rector of St
Peters church in New York.
Miss Laura Hazel is visiting friends
in Easton, Md.
John II. Walcott and daughter. of
Fhiladelphia, spent Saturday and Sun.
day with his sister Mrs. Ohristiana
Cloak.
L. W. Bleakley and family, for sew
eral years residing near this town, will
return to Canada the first of the week.
Geo. w. Underwood, who bought the
farm, will succeed Mr.. Bleakley.
Charles e. Hazel, of Laurel, came |
home yesterday on a short visit.
David ]. Murphey and bride. of
Newark, are ON visit to his son, H. |
z. Murphey in the "Alley.n
Miss Kate Douglass returned on Sat
nrday from two weeks visit to Balti-
more, Md.
FFank Greenwell, Jr., who went to
sait Lake City, Utah, in November is
returning home TO go in business with
bis father at Kenton, the first of March
Smyrna times., 1884-01-30

OUR National Legislators as well as
the thoughtful people outside of Con-
gress who rememberthe unsaLisfact ory
issue of the Electoral Commission as
well as the deep concern that attends
the death of President in Office are
pleased at anything tending to a bet
ter solution of these important ques.
tlons.
Mr.. Hoar's bill touching the success
sion to the Presidency has been
passed by the Senate In case of the
Vice-President's death Or inability to
serve, it gives the office first to the
Secretary of State, or if for any reason
nc should be ineligible, to the Secre-
tary of the Treasury; and so on
through the Cabinet. This is the
measure which the Senate approved at
the last session of Congress, but it
failed in the House. 1t is to be hoped
that It's fate will be better this year
Mr. Hoar's plan is the least complex of
any proposed, and it would keep the
Office in the hands Of men whose politi-
cal sympathies were with the party
which had elected the President
Such b.. "ou.d remove the possibil.
lty and temptation of bringing about
change Of administration by forcibly
removing the President and Vice
President. AT all events this ques-
ton of the succession, as well as that
relating to the counting of the cleo
toral votes ought to be settled prompt
ly.
Smyrna times., 1884-01-30

The demands upon Congressman
for matters entirely personal are often
onerous and in some cases very nm
reasonable. When N. b. Smitbers
was a member of Congress twenty
years ago he found the demands on
him for all kinds of things were so
heavy that but little time would be
left for official duties In CHOOSING
which he should neglect he very nat
urally chose that which least pertained
to his office and thus gave offense to
some very selfish people Others
have had the same experience. The
other day the question came up in
Congress and the members of the SEN
ate voted themselves from the contin-
gent fund sum of money sufficient to
provide this convenience for each Of
their number who does not. as chair
man OF committee, already enioy it
Judge Belford, of Colorado. declared
in the House that it would take the
time of one clerk to answer his private
correspondence alone.
A clerk for every Senator will he
attacked by great many newspapers
as an unnecessary extravaganza. but
the simple fact is that the routine bus
mess of every member of Congress-
has so increased in the last fifty wears
that a Senator is swanped with it un-
less he can afford to hire a clerk. The
same Is true in measure Of a Repre-
sentative. All rich Congressman hire
clerks. Poor Congressman get them
at the public expense, if they are
chalrmen Of committees, or get a
stenographer loaned to them from q
department Public business wonld
be better done and Legislation better
considered, if members of Congress
were relieved of the food of letter
writing and clerical work with which
they are now buried.