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The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-08-29

Yesterday there was quito a senSa-
ton created on Sullivan's island by tho
capture of fish OF genus hitherto
unknown in our waters. 1t was
beached by the waves, and was taken
by party of ladies, who wero unable
to satisfy themselves as to what man.
ncr of fish it was, until one of tho
party, lady from Michigan now visit
ing the island, and whose knowledge
OF technology is by 70 means limited,
threw light on the subject. The fish
belongs to the species known az sea
cucumber, and to the genus holothuria.
They are not rare, by any means, the
only remarkable feature Of its capture
being the locality in which it was
found. This fish is Indigenous to
tropical waters, and 1t is tho first ever
caught in our harbor. In size it is
about six inches long and is shaped
very much like cucumber, from which
it takes its name. 1t has neither fins
nor feet, but swims by the motion of
its body, us an eel does, its body boing
very supple, considering its bulk. 1t
has large mouth, which is surround
cd by a soft fuzzy fringe. 1t will eat
almost anything and can be easily
kept in an aquarium for years with
proper attention. -- Charleston NeWS
and C0uyiGr
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-08-29
A SaCkful of Dollars.

A very amusing incident happened
in court last week Mr.. Nick Becker
had purchased certain piece of ground
and executed his notes for the same.
Later on and before tho last note had
become due it was discovered that tho
survey did not hold out by quite num-
Der of feet, and, therefore, Mr.. Becker
declined to settle unless reduction DO
made for the loss of land Suit was
instituted, and last week Judgment was
given for the amount Of the note, less
50 much for the loss of land. Mr..
Becker seemed satisfied, and so soon
as he heard the decision of tho court
approached the attorney for the plain
tit and proposed to give him check
in full settlement. The attorney de-
clined the check and was asked what
he wanted. "Gold, silver, or green
backs" was the reply, VERY goodW
calculated Mr. Becker, "you shall have
it," And out OF the courtroom he
went. Soon thereafter he returned
with man he had hired and upon
whose back WINS a great sack, in which
was deposited S7j new silver dollars,
10 and 5 cents IN silver and one cop
per, making in all $50, lG, the amount
of the judgment, He had the sack
laid at the feet of the attorney, and en-
ioycd it more than the one who had to
see it deposited in the bank. -HendGr'
son (KY) JOUyH0l.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-08-29
Invisible Ink for Postal Cards.

Diluted sulphuric acid Ono part by
measure of acid to seven of water.
When this ink is used the card will at
first show roughenod traces Of tho
writing, but after being allowed to dry
for q short time these disappear, and
it is as invisible rs if done with water.
Of course, only gold pen or q quill
must DC used. If it is desired to avoid
the suspicion of using sympathetic ink,
which might be excited by blank
postal card, it may be written upon
across the first writing with the tincture
of iodine, which will entirely fade out
when the heat is applied to develop
| invisible ink. -AriA1e.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-08-29
jumping Fish.

One of two things is evident, Either
some of tho fish down the river have
acrobatic tendencies or the author of
tho following story did not have his
spectacles with him when he went
fishing; While Mr.. Sloat was drawing
Seine in the Rondout Creek he noticed
several large black bass in tho net in
dustrlously gobbling up the small fry.
AS tho net was hauled into shallow
water the bass became alarmed, and,
swimming around tho top of the net
until they arrived at the lowest place,
jumped over tho rim like sheep ovor q
fence. Not content with their cs-
cape" said Mr. Sloat, latter swimming
about 100 feet out into the stream, one
after another they jumped four feet in
to tho air, their bodies cleaning like
new milk-pans in the sunshine. -. Troy
en- ~ Times,
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-08-29
The Market
THURSDAY, EVENING, Aug, %, 1888

THURSDAY, EVENING, Aug, 20, 1884
The weather continues very hot. To-day
has apparently been the hottest day of the
season, following the heavy rain and thun-
der storm of yesterday. The air has been
damp and sultry, and the earth steamed in
the hot sun all day, and at this writing the
atmosphere is hot almost beyond endur-
ance.
The market is dull and lfeless. Very
little movement in anything, and no chang
es in quotation.
FLOUR-Stocks are large and there are
no transactions in round lots. Trade IS
confined to filling orders,
HAY-Low grades will not sell, and
there is very little demand for choice.
CORN-Thc supply is limited, but is
fully equal to the light demand.
OATS-The market is well supplied and
the demand light
MEAL-Quiet and unchanged.
BRAN - Very little doing and no
change IN prices.
FRUIT-Very dull; only choice grapes
and peaches will sell. Common fruit on
consignment will not pay charges.
BUTTER-Choicc is in active request
and light supply. Common will not sell
at any price.
EGGS-The demand and supply keep
about evenly balanced, and prices rule firm
and unchanged.
CHICKENS - Old are dull; choice
young are IN good request.
VEGETABLES - Potatoes are dull
Red sweet potatoes in boxes will not pay
charges. The local trade is supplied from
wagons.
Sales and Quotations.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-08-29

pyramids of instruction" are being
created in various towns and cities
throughout Germany. They show upon
their faces the elevation Of the place
above the sea level, the difference be-
tween local time and that of Vienna,
Paris, London, New York, etc, and
much statistical information. On each
pyramid, also, arc placed q clock, q
thermometer and barometer.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-08-29

lD~Tuc 3;j a. m. express has PULLMAN
SOkEPISG CAR from Cairo to Cincinnati, with
ont changes, and through slccpers % 81 Lou,s
AM Chicago.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-08-29
TURK
CHICK EMS.

Large ..'...,......... II 30
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The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-08-29

no ADV Lowest rates GdYortls
L iHg IN 9G2 good newspapers sent frIc. Address
GEO p, ROWELL Il Co, 10 Spruce ST, y. Y.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-08-29

Georgia is fertile in imagination as
well as in magnetic girls. A Cuthbert
farmer tells OF n swamp toad which
carried off a pig but could not pull his
captive through tho fence.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-08-29
TOBACCO
RATES or FREIGHT
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
ILLINOIS CONSERVATORY 1g MUSIC,

Established in lsi2 \ College course Of study
In Piano, Organ, Singing and Orchestral nztru-
mcuts. Languages, Art and Klocutiou. Address
S. BARLOW, Musical Director,
JACksOnNlLln. LII
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-08-29
Monticello Ladies' Seminary,

God frey, Madison Co. III.
One Of the oldest schools in the West Reputation
as first class school unqucslioncd. Superior az
vantages for English and Classical Education win
Music, Drawing, Painting and Modern Languages.
Opens September 18TH For catalogue, npplyto
MISS HARRIET n. HASKELL, Principal
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1884-12-06
A Great show.
Pullman, Mack g. Cos Monster Exlai.
bitfon-A ThPee-EHeaded sOngsGress,

For once we are to have something
new. Pullman, Mack 81 Co. are coming
with great show, made up of real
novelties and the very best of every
thing attainable in the amusement line.
In general, this monster exhibition is a
perfect colossus, while in detail it is
perfection itself. A three headed lady
songstress who walks, talks and sings,
is one Of it's greatest attractions. A
circus company of recognized arenic
stars. and an enormous menagerie of
wild beasts and trained animals are adj
1itional features which recommend it
to the amusement-loying public. Prof.
Mack's troupe of trained leaping and
acting dogs are worthy of more than
nassing mention. Clowns, acrobats,
ovmnasts, riders, trapeze-artists, con-
tortionists, and thousand other won
ders. are here congregated. Truly it is
8 great show and its curiosities are in
It will be here Thursday,
December 18th.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1884-12-06
OPELOUSAS
The ProhibitOry Law.
Editor DEMocRAT

Editor DEMOCRAT
AS our citizens will soon be called
upon to cast their votes for or against
a prohibitory liquor law; it is very
needful that they should get all posi-
BILE information upon the subject be
fore they go to the polls to exercise
their lawful right Of franchise.
Then in the first place, they should
consider carefully, the deplorable. state
of multitudes of our people, both white
and colored; produced by wine and
strong drink as a beverage.
Next, let them consider the vast
amount of crime, in our parish, caused
by alcohol in its various forms-erime
even of the most accursed nature COM
mitted only under the dreadful intiu-
ence of this (Shakespeare's) liquid
devil.
80 thou invisible spirit of wine,
If thou hast mo name to be known by,
Letus call thee-devil.
@ that men should put an enemy
In their mouths, to steal away thrir brains.
Play of OttclJo.
Again, consider, We that have the
power to make and unmake, to elevate
and put down the vast sums of money
expended every year by our parish, in
feeding and prosecuting criminals,
most generally made so by Shake
speare's devil and then remember that
all these heavy expenses are paid by
yourselves in the shape of taxes. And
remember, too, that this money is TAX
en- from your needy wives and children
for this very purpose.
Consider again, that while saloons
and groceries are very numerous
throughout the entire parish, and blaze
with fiery spirits and prosperity, there
is not a public Sclo0l.AOase Uithin its
bounds, so far as the writer knows !;
while education seems to be on the
doaCf,-grG1e. We have some public
schools in our towns and other parts Of
st. Landry; but the buildings or fur
nished by the teachers are patrons,
free. and they are usually small, nDtit,
and generally comfortless in bad
weather. Ordinarily they are deserted
cabins, or dilapidated residences oroid
tumble-d down re-houses, or a. small
room in a back yard of the teacher
One result is that our children, rs a
class, are growing up without an edu-
cation while our people as a whole,
under the baneful influence of most
deadly poison, are totally Indifferent TO
this lamentable fact. In truth it is re-
ported quietly that some Of our public
men do not want the masses educated,
lest they lose their hold on them. This
is only a rumor and was heard as such.
Hope it is no more ~
Now our children, without distinc-
ton of race or color, must be educated.
But how shall it be done ? If we will
by law close up the saloons and grocer
les throughout the parish and take the
money expended in criminal prosecu-
tions in our parish, caused by liquors
sold at these, places or even half Of
the taxes thus disbursed; and invest it
in school houses, we will soon have
large substantial and commodious
buildings at all important school CEN
tres in our beautiful land. And there
will come better day for our precious
little ones, and of course for ourselves
too. More anon.
Opelousas, La, Dec. Sd, 1884.
A 6xrosnt shaw
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1884-12-06
Tr,e National surgical Ensti..

The National Surgical Ensti.'
tnte will open a Branch at 1865 ST.
Charles St. New Orleans, December 1st,-
1894. where they will be prepared to-
treat Surgical cases, Club Feet, Paraly-
sis, and all deformities of the face,
SHINE. limbs, and diseases of the joints.
eve and ear also catarrh, piles, fstula,.
female diseases, private diseases, etc.
The proprietors of the Institute open
this office in New Orleans in accord
ance with the request of scores of their
patrons in Mississippi, Louisiana and
Texas who desire to avail themselves
Of the reduced rates of travel offered
during the "World's Exposition" thus
enabling them to visit us and the Ex"
nosition rs we'll. For full particulars
address K. HI. ROLAND, Sec'y, Atlanta
Ga. or 1866 St. Charles ST., New Qrleanss
Ia. adv 3m
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1884-12-06
GATES OF THE SOUTH.
THE TIDE OF IMMIGRATION
AND BUSINESS CHANGES
ITS COURSE.

new Fields of Commercial Conquest so
BE shown by the Worlds Exposition
Thanksgiving sermon of the Rev.
II. Dewitt TaTmage, Preached ia the
Brooklyn Tabernacle.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1884-12-06
THE DELtGE sE SUPPLY

rises fifteen cubits high above the noun
tains Of demand. The loatSRf national
wealth is greater than the team can
draw. The man who dies forq ck of a
crust Of bread is no worse off than the
man who is smothered to death in a
wheat bin. The nation suffers to-day
not of marasmus, but of plethora not
from consumption, bat from apoplexy.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1884-12-06
CORRESPONDENCE Of the Times-Democrat.
BROOKLYN, Nov. 97, 1884.

BROOKLYN, Nov. Y, 1881.
AT the annual Thanksgiving service
at the Brooklyn Tabernacle to-day, the
church was profuseIy adorned with corn
from the West, sugar cane from Louisi-
aua, wheat from the North and cotton
from Georgia. The opening hymn
was:
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-05-07

ready signifed our glad acceptance
of his candidacy. Buff Gen. Perry
is opposed to a Constitutional con-
vention, he viii find many who are
anxious to support him now, luke
warm on the 18th of June. We
want Perry because he is strong on
the Gulf; we want Perry because
his nomination Will carry no antag-
onisms, but we MUST have a Consti-
tutional convention, and we have
other leaders with records as clean,
as well experienced in public affairs,
with brains as fine, and who enjoy
the full confidence of the people
When in national politics we have
such men as Carlisle. and Morrison
who dare risk all for principle, the
Democrats of Florida cannot truckle
to the expediency in matters Of right
AMI simple justice. WE MUST HAVE
4 CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-05-07
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

Mr. Hving's 1872 performances in Amer
lea have yielded $405, $50.
Governor Ordway, of Dakota, has given
bail in the sum of $4,000 to answer the
charge of receiving brides as a United
States officer.
A son of Kit Carson, the famous scout,
frontiersman and explorer, is a superin-
tendent on ex-senator DOrsey's New
Mexico cattle ranch. ..s
AS Mr.. JAY Gonld's income is estimated
to be nine dollars a minute, statistician
says that he lost S135 by the change from
solar to standard time.
Mr.. Tilden will go to Greystone the lat
ter part of the present week, for the
spring and summer. He had intended to
build a yacht this summer, but will rent
one instead. e#t..ft
Jack Cole, the boatswain of the jean
cite, who was brought home insane from
the North, is dead, thus adding another
to the victims of Arctic explorations in
the protested interests of science.
The Princess de Wagram, who died in
Paris on Sunday night was the widow of
the Prince de Wagram, son of Marshal
Berthier, who served as a captain with
Lafayette in the American revolution
and who afterwards grew famous as
chief of staff of the first Napoleon. Il
One of the charms by which Miss Sarah
AIthea Hill sought to down Senator
Sharon consisted of exactly nine drops of
molasses and nine pinches OF. sugar. adj
mlnlstered in a pint of Senatorial cold tea
Perhaps twas the amount of fluid that
prevented the charm from working. 1t
won't do to dilute molasses and sugar too
much.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-05-07
POPULAR EDUCATION.

We have urged the necessity of
good schools in every community.
In conversation with gentlemen
who has long been identified with
the cause by hard work well done
IN our State, we learn that the prin-
cipal difficulty with which the coun-
| try boards have to contend is the
scarcity Of trained teachers 1t does
not follow 2ecause man is well
educated that hejis a good teacher,
any more, than it follows that he is
web educated because he has "been
through college" Now the teachers
are generally young; they are APP
pointed because, on examination, it
is found that these are better quail
fed than others, and they are en-
tirely ignorant how TODD the neces-
sary work with most benefit to the
students. Many trustees think he
is the best teacher who spends most
hours in the school-room; we hire a
/ laborer to work=so many hours, but
a teacher is employed TO benefit his
pupils, and one can do9more of this
in one hour that another in six.
The school-hoUse may be all we
wish, and the child prepared to re-
ceive instruction; but much labor is
expended in vain, if the teacher.
however learned, has not acquired
the art of teaching. Bad methods,
even where all else is good, may dis
! gust the student, and send him away,
! often from. the. school-house to the
bar-room Learning can as little
make teacher as beauty; both are
useful, and one is indispensable, but
some men can no more. impart the
stores of the brain than the features
of the face.
Our State is thoroughly aroused
to-the-- necessity of c ducation; our
! promises cannot be fully realized.
nor our wishes accomplished, with,
out trained teachers. How can we
take the next step? Let us have
Teachers, Institutes throughout the
State, where methods are taught as
well as books, and child-nature is
studied with direct relation to It's
needs and capabilities. Other states
have recognized the necessity and
provided for it; we have a costly
and complicated system now at work
end we cannot leave its direction tc
chance, any more than a railroad
company would be justified in ap
pointing an engineer for his know.
ledge of Greek.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-05-07
The Philadelphia Times.
I SS4.
A TIMES 1854
THE PHMAnELPH

THE PHILADELPHIA TIMES. 1851
THE TINES will enter upon the new year
stronger and more prosperous than ever be-
fore in Its history-more widely read and
quoted, more heartily commended, and more
herccly criticized, with more complete Or
ganiZatiOn, and an able sSOf of contributions
and with the same independence and fearless
ness that has made it successful and powerful
in the past ...... -. -f..
THE TINES has no party to follow, no candi-
dates to advance, but viii meet every issue, as
it has ever done, with consistent devotion to
the right, to honest government, and the pub
lie welfare. And while maintaining its posi-
ton as the leading journal of Philadelphia, it
will aim TO be continually in the advance in all
that can add value to newspaper.
The value of a newspaper is not in its size or
display, but in the intelligence and care, the
.cOnciScneSS and freshness with which it is
edited. THE TINES spends lavishly for news
IRON ali parts OF the world but all It's dls-
patches are carefully edited and condensed, in
order to give the complete news of the day in
the most concise and attractive shape, and with
it large variety of entertaining and inStruc-
tive reading. The best writers at home and
abroad are employed to enrich.i columns,
and to make it a journal adapted both to the
busy man and to the leisure of the home cir
Gle, a welcome visitor to intelligent and honest
citizens of every political, religious and social
taste -..# ~ .H
THE WEEKLY TIMES is altogether different
from the weekly newspapers of twenty years
ago. The day Of those papers have gone by.
The telegraph and better local newspapers
every where. especially in the thriving centres
of rural population, have made the old weekly
metropolitan newspaper unSatlSfy1ng- Those
that cling to their ancient usages have lost
their hold on our forward-mOving people; they
are but shadows OftheirforneF greatness and
they have but a shadow Of their former power.
Those papers have had their usefulness, but it
is gone; and with il, they are going, too. 1t
was not the fault of the papers: it was the i'm
brOyenaent of the country that brought about
the change. Men and women, wherever they
live, now require fresheF news; and they re-
Quirc more than news.
= THE WEEKLY TINES gathers off the types of
every passing week whatever has lasting in
terest to the people at large. and sets it before
them in such generosity of paper and print as
would have astonished US ali twenty yeorS ago.
& DAILY--TweIEe cents a week, fifty cents
month So year two cents copy.
+ SUSDAY-Four cents a copy, 81 a year.
WEEKLY-0ne copy, - q year five copies
IS a year; ten copies. SIS il year twenty cop
les 50 a year. with one copy free to the getter-
up of every club.
THE TIMES, aas
PHILADELPHIA.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-05-07
THE PLATFORM AND THE NOM
INEE

The Pensaeolian is one of those
papers with which we like to agree,
and yet dare to differ. It strikes
straight from the shoulder, but its
blows are above the belt and it can
appreciate the fact that men may
argue without malice and differ in
all honesty.
1t says for the platform, mo pro
hibit1on" So we agree, for mans
appetite is no concern of the law
makers till he makes a nuisance or
terror of himself. 1t is not be-
cause the liquor men would refuse
to stand on a platform which had a
prohibition plank; or the temper
ance party would leave if liquor
plank was in, but because experience
has shown that legislation on such
subjects do more harm than good
and because prohibitory statutes re-
strict the liberty of the citizen.
EACH MAN SHOULD HAVE THE Wild
EST LIBERTY POSSIBLE WITHOUT IN
FRINGEMENT ON THE RIGHTS OF AN.
OTHER. Freedom means this and
nothing more; it is anarchy when
the laws do not punish any liberty
which encroaches on any right, nat
ural or acquired No man ever vet
grew to full moral stature whose
conscience was upheld by the swad-
ding bands of moral babvkoo2.
Let the government begin to pre-
scribe certain ideas IN Difference to
the doctrines of physicians of moral
ity and we take step backwards.
The people of southern Europe are
more sober than we, where wine is
cheaper than milk. Legislation can
no more prevent drunkenness than
it can lunacy Therefore we want
no party position on any liquor ques-
ton.
The Pensacolian however desires
no constitutional convention. Here
we are separated wide as the poles.
We hold that the Constitution of
1868 is radically bad in that it de-
Prlyes the people of election of coun-
ty officers; in that it gives to the
governor of Florida powers too wide
to be safely grasped by any man in
the age and land in which we live;
IN that it does not provide for the
quick and effective punishment of
maladministration in office, in that
1t provisions for assessment of taxes
are wholly inadequate; in that it
holds the masses IN tutelage to few
and gives us political oligarchv.
Ii the Democrats use such al engine
after they have the power to put it
aside, they are responsible equally
with the makers thereof; if the soil
is bad, we must not reap the harvest
even though it was planted by our
enemies, for 1t will be poisonous un-
to death. No such rotten tree can
bring forth good fruit; the apples
may be fair to look upon, but they
will turn to ashes upon the lips.
The Pensacolian names Gen. Per-
ry for the nominee. We have al