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A terrible tragedy occurred in Mer-
win county, Iowa, Feb. 2. A man
named George Shaffer, who had twice
deserted his wife, returned recently
and ordered her to leave her fathers
house. He went there with loaded
revolver. His wife's mother met him
at the door, and after knocking her
down with a chair he served his wife
similarly and then shot her in the
head, killing her instantly. He next
fired three times at himself and then
gashed his throat with a butchers
knife. He was found lying with his
head on the bosom of his dead wife
and with one Of his children in his
arms. He declared his predetermin-
alton to kill his wife, even if he had
to murder the whole family.
The PLYMOUTH CHURCH. = This
though not in all respects a
model one-is eminently progressive,
and one from which some other church
essmight take valuable lessons. Its
membership is 1907; its annual in
come from pew rents $4,000, (it has
just rented its pews for the present
year for $4,000 during the last
year it has built a mission school house
at cost of 100000, and during the
same time raised $4,000 for charita-
bic objects. 1t pays its pastor, Rev.
Henry Ward Beecher, whose income
last year was about $4,000, d salary
Of $4,000 or $4,000. 1t tolerates
the rite of immersion and admits in
FAINT baptism only when both parents
are protested christians. 1t has re
Gently elected three women to serve
as deaconesses-an advance toward
primitive Christianity. Its pastor,
after more than twenty years labor
there, was never more popular and
useful than at present.
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.ILMAN's PULMONARY TROCHEs.-

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and relieving noarseness. Much valued by sing
ers and speakers. At once the best and cheap
est. Sold everywhere by druggists Only Is cts
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fsNO THE WORKING Glass; am now
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| notice please send me their address and test the
business for themselves. Ifnot well satisfied,
will send 81 to pay for the trouble of writing
| me. Full particulars sent free. Sample sent by
mail for 10 cents Address
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7 aides will find Merino Vest and Drawers at
IL SKINNER & DREW'S.
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Receipts for the Standard
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IF you want an Overcoat or a suit go to
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&MIlH'o CATALOGUE OF


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Hyb I'd Gladiolus and Lilies, is now published
and will be sent free to any address.
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FOR a CLUB OF ONE HUNDRED and So

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FNED.-Wm. Collinsworth and
Wallace Congden of Salem, were
brought before justice Sargent on
Thursday, on a grand jurors COM
plant charging them with breaking
in the windows of Nathaniel Cole and
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NEWPORT.

CANTATA. - We learn that Mr.
Whitney intends to bring out the
Cantata Of Esther at Newport before
many days.
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DANCE.-There is to be a dancing
assembly at E. E. Fosters hall Mon
day eve, Feb. Is.
Hiram Baxter has sold his farm to
Hugh Carr for $4,000, and has an
auction Feb. II, at 9 a. m, to sell off
his personal property. See advertise
ment and bills.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1869-07-17
Shall our Water Power be Improved ?

This is the question which the voters Of
Ottawa are called upon to decide in the
affirmative or negative by their votes next
Tuesday July 20th). On that day they are
asked by the City Council to vote for OF
against the issue of 100000 in city bonds, to
be given as a bonus to Mr.. Cushman,-or
any other man-in consideration that he will
bind himself to build the proposed dams
across the Illinois and Fox River at this city,
and prepare the necessary head and tail races
TO make available for immediate use, the i'm
mense water power which the erection of the
dams in question will create.
Have our people thought Of this matter suf
fciently to vote intelligently! Are they
aware, that the water power proposed to be
improved at this place will be the most ex-
tensive and magnificent in the West? 1t will
be just as much better than that at Marseilles
as high and dry ground is better than loca-
ton liable to overflow; and as much greater
es the addition OF Fox River will make it.
Aurora is fine manufacturing point, and is
@ flourishing city, on account of her water
power. She has an average fall of feet,
while at Ottawa we shall have fall Of 10
feet; and as to her quantity it is less than
one-eight of the power at Ottawa. That is,
while Aurora has power to run 10 mills, o.
tawa will have power to run eighty mills !;
besides which Ottawa will have the advan-
tage over Aurora as we'll rs over Marseilles, of
cheap coal, which always enters largely into
the calculations in all heavy manufacturing
operations.
The question is, shall Ottawa now avail her
self of the overwhelming advantages the i'm
mediate improvement Of this water power
thus presents9 Vote down the proposed bo-
nus next Tuesday, and our word for it, the
last chance for half decade at least is gone
to have this improvement made. We have
been fussing over the matter for ten years,
and trying to raise the necessary means to
make this improvement. All efforts hitherto
have failed hopelessly. An offer is now made
that is both feasible and certain of success.
1t would be madness to reject it, and We will
not insult the intelligence of our people by
presenting further arguments in favor of what
we can only imagine them capable Of oppose
ing on the assumption that they are fools.
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Radicalism and Lager.

While the democrats by no means approve
or endorse the absurd and bigoted legislation
Of Massachusetts, which has raised such a
howl of Indignation among the German pop
ulation, they find 1t impossible to sympathise
very deeply with them. There is kind of
poetical justice in their suferings, which
tends to repress anything like very hearty
commiseration. The Germans not only of
Massachusetts but of the whole country, with
6 few honorable exceptions, have trained in
the radical camp forsyears past and assisted
IN folsting upon the country a supremacy of
tAose purtancial ideas by which themselves
ere at last, We can hardly refrain from saying,
most righteously afflicted. There were none
more hearty than the great body of the Ger
mans in support Of that whole puritancial
system of impertinence and selfrighteousness
chat not only led to the civil war but char
acterized the policies and conduct of the ma.
sional government from its commencement to
fhis day. 1t is not half as great an outrage
icr Massachusetts, to aflict her own people
with tyrannical and disgustingly inquisitorial
suinptuary laws than it is for puritanism at
Tue north to force upon the southern states,
Contrary to the constitution, the hated, DIES,
picable and runous rule of negro barbarism.
Ii the Germans desire liberal legislation in
this country, they must not ally themselves
TO party whose vital breath and blood is in.
tolerance and bigotry and nothing but intol.
GRANGE and bigotry. So, in the language Of a
cotemporary, 1T is to be hoped that Puri-
tanism will continue to knock in the heads ot
Deer barrels, and to close up beer shops, until
the German population at the Hub shall re-
pent' In dust and ashes, its long alliance with
the tanaticism and pretended loyalty of New
England
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1869-07-17

A LIVE MOUSE IN CHILp's STOMACH.-A
very interesting and singular case of live
mouse having obtained Judgement in the stom.
ach OF little child, from which it was thrown
up alive, was brought to light yesterday morn.
ing in the third district.
The facts of the case, which are fully substan-
tiatsd in every particular, are these: A little
girl about three years old, named Emily Wal
haner, whose parents reside at the corner of
Spain and Greatmen streets, third district, had
been complaining for about q week of trouble
and pain in the region OF the stomach, at times
being quite sick and nauseated, and at others ex.
hibiting most uncomfortable appetite
The parents becoming alarmed at tho unac-
countable indisposition of the child, and the
singular way iniwhich she was affected, began
to give medicine such a. ia usually given
when worms are suspected.
This morning, while suffering from excessive
nausea, the child began vomiting, and in the VIC.
lent retching which ensued, threw up live
mouse of medium size, which was taken care of,
and is now on exhibition at the drug store Of Mr..
Weilbacher, corner Of Spain and Greatmen SITS
Quite crowd Of persons have visited the drug
store this morning to see the mouse, which il
alive, and doing AZ well as could be expected
Ne,o Orleans Pcayune, June II. da E-'9m d.
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THE EIGHT.HouR QUESTION.

Risdon, the originator of the story about the
loss OF the Powell exploration expedition, has
come to grief. After being furnished by Gov.
Palmer with transportation to La Sale, the
State Register says, Risdon, alias Miller, alas
Clark, went to Lincoln and hired himself as a
farm hand, to Mr.. Bowman. The next night he
stole horse and started toward Bloomington. A
short distance the road he stole from the house
OF j. G. Jones blanket, overcost and shawl, and
continued on his way. He found Kiokapoo
creek too high to cross, so he left the horse and
went on foot to Atlanta, where he was captured
the next day. He was brought back to Lincoln.
and after preliminary examination was ordered
to Jail in default Of $500 bail . ..a
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Brigham Young-Saucy Talk.

Last week Chicago sent an imposing COM
mittee over the Pacific Railroad to California
to look after her commercial interests in that
direction. With many others, Gov. Oglesby
and Lyman Trumbull were members of the
committee. On the way, a stoppage was
made at Salt Lake City, and Brigham Young
was approached on the subject of more ex-
tended and intimate commercial relations
with Chicago and the East. But Brigham
was not at all responsive. Indeed, he scarce
ly treated the committee with common court
esy. He seems to understand very well that
MOrmonism depends for its safety on its iso-
lation. It was doubtless with that idea that
Young managed so as to have the Pacific X.
r. pass some 90 miles north of the city of the
saints. But Brigham was something more
than merely non-responsive on the subject of
closer commercial relations. He insisted,
also, on being let alone politically. In plain
English, if the government ut Washington
will send to the territories Governors, Judges,
&C., that are agreeable to Brigham, and will
let polygamy alone, all right, otherwise he will
not be so quiescent. Here is the substance of
the conversation between Brigham and Sen.
ator Trumbull on that head, as reported by
the correspondent of the Chicago Times:
As Senator Trumbull was bidding adieu to
Mt. Young, the latter remarked, That on return
ing to congress he might hear Of some persons
being put out OF the territory and if done he
might be sure it was done for Just and good rea-
sons. If such federal officials are sent here as
sometimes have come, they will be guilty, and
in an orderly way put out of Utah, for good
cause. q SllA5A,J y = 1NAta Va GAGt J.4l p "a
Senator Trumbull-Beiore you take any step
OF that kind, allow me to request that you make
known your grievances TO President Grant. He
10 just man, intending to do justice to all; but
he win not permit q Violation Of law to 60 un.
punished. II will not be safe to modest public
officers in the discharge Of their duties.
Brigham Young-What more will he do for
~ than johnson did? Gen. Grant has removed
the only officer who WIS Mormon, and for no
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their guests, take it upon themselves to come
forward and say, that Mr.. Morris report is all
bosh, and that these California Pacific roads,
which the engineers, Messrs. Barnes, Blick-
erderfer and Warren, appointed by the gov
eminent for the very purpose Of examining
the roads, and who did examine them minute.
ly and carefully, and Mr.. Morris, appointed
for like purpose, by like authority, and who
also made minute personal examination, are
talking bosh when they say that these roads
are not equal to first class roads (the condition
required by the law by ten or eleven millions
of doilars-a sum equal to some sixteen per
cent on the whole cost Of construction, be-
cause, to those eleemosynary gentlemen, who
travelled over the road as fast as steam could
carry them, half the time asleep and half the
time awake, looking through their eleemosy-
nary spectacles, it appears that the roads are
in all respects equal to first class roads, and it
does not require any ten or eleven millions of
dollars to make them so, because they are so
already! 1t is not too much to say that this
is display oftoo much effrontery on the part
of these gentlemen, and may well provoke the
inquiry, how many more Pacific railroad
bonds were they able to count into their strong
boxes on their return than when they started 2
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osher reason save that he was Mormon The
OnAsed States judges who were here sometime
ago, acted badly. I told them what thought
OF them, and they left. ~ -l.l
Senator Trumbull-You will promise obedi.
ence to the constitution and the laws of the
union?
Brigham Young-Adherence to the union
certainly. One enactment Of congress-. however
we shall not obey: that is the one forbidding
Polygamy. 1t is not right to interfere in that
matter.
Senator Trumbull-That is a matter about
which we must differ. We think the national
government and the states can riohtfullv pas,
laws against bigamy, and Justly punish the of.
tense. All the states make . plurality Of wives
criminal offense
Brigham Young-Yes; all the states have
will have an equal right to make laws protect.
ing polygamy.
Senator Trumbull concluded the dialogue by
remarking that the laws, at all events, must be
obeyed and upheld, and that the Chicago party
was here on commercial and not political
errand.
The correspondent adds, that Mr.. Young's
remark about expeling federal officers from
the territory who do not please him, and his
declaration that Mormons would not obey the
law of congress against bigamy, created con-
siderable sensation among the members of
the party.
What will Grant do about its The repub.
lican party stands pledged by its first and
nearly every additional platform, not to cease
in its crusade against the "twin relics of bar
barism, slavery and polygamy" Will Brig.
ham Young be allowed to bully the govern
ment in this way; or shall we have another
civil war to destroy polygamy as we had to
destroy the other ".win relicir
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The Washington kilograms say that Secretary
Fish, on Monday, positively declined to give Mrs.
DR.. Walker a clerkship, for which she has been
dancing attendance on him and the President for
a month or two past. The general impression is
that Mrs. DR.. w. is still comparatively young
lady. but about this there appears to be some
doubt. A Washington correspondent, says Of
her:
"From appearance one would Judge her 70 BE-
between 25 and % years of age. But in CONVEX.
satlons-at different times, and forgotten what she
had said before-we were informed that ut fiji.
teen she commenced TO teach school, and taught
common school for five years that she taught
for five years in seminary; that she was nil.
lines for five years; that she worked for Ave
years at the printers trade; that she was for five
years associate editor Of literary magazine !;
that she had studied medicine, regular school,
for three years, and then practised it for two
years; that she was an invalid, unable to walk
more than few rods at time, for five years {;
that she was cured by the hydropathic treatment,
which led her to investigate and adopt the water
cure system, which she had practised for Ave
years, etc., ETC. Aggregating the time occupied
in her various occupations, she must have been
close to 100 years Old" ,~t,EfE ybR&3
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Chas. A. Dana, the radical editor of the
new York San, and during the canvass last
year very ardent supporter of Grant, says
ol the president, he "ls like yellow dog in
q menagerie-he is too small for lion, he
cont look like tiger, and nobody wants to
see dog" There are several radicals in this
vicinity who have the same opinion of Grant