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The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1873-11-15
EXPENDED

Carpenter was elected by about 1900
majority, What would have been his fate if
this state central committee had expended the
whole of its enormous electioneering fund?
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1873-11-15

The Joliet papers announce the death Of 5
T. Thompson, late editor OF the Joliet R,cord
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1873-11-15

Five miles cast of the beautiful city OF Morris,
the county seat of our ncighboring State of
Grundy," on the Illinois river, Is located the
nasccnt city of Aux Sable. Its name was given it
perhaps by Father La Sale, the French Mis- sion
airy, who made the voyage from the Mississippi
river to the lakes 205 years ago, when he discoy-
cred Starved Rock and other notable places along
this route Aux Sable we believe means The
Sands. This young city contains now about two
dwellings, warehouse and Il distAiery-not of
the natural, but the artificial sort. II is OF the
liifnr we womb snrnb
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1873-09-02
Poetry Made Practical.

The saddest case of poetry of which
we have ever heard is that of young
lady in Missouri. A short time ago
she found it impossible either to eat or
sleep, and for ten days remained in
that unpleasant state. Strange to say,
the moment she was attacked she be-
gan to speak in rhyme. Ever sentence
uttered by those afflicted lips was rich
with sweetest melody and measure.
Ordinary affairs she turned into extra
ordinary verse-for instance" Dear
Ma, list 10 you daughter, Give her, o
give glass of waughter," and so on.
These charming rhymes were made
with no sort of effort at all, but just
tumbled out as it were, with startling
rapidity and precision. Some of them,
we are told, were extremely beautiful.
Alarmed by so dreadful an illness, all
the nearest physicians were summoned
by her beart-broken parents; each
prescribed a different opiate, and by
this means poetry vas conquered; she
life was saved. Less serious
cases of this fearful disease have been
known-none before so persistent and
absorbing as t'lis.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1873-09-02
The Aeronaut,
BY ELIZABETH SILL.

BY ELIZABETH SILL.
The airy bark, its master waiting,
Swings restless on an airy main,
And, wide its silken sails Initiating,
Pulls at the anchoring chain.
On viewless pillows lightly swaying,
II pants TO cleaye the soundless deep,
And, its high impulse oheying,
Through heavens wide blue TO sweep,
Like eagle proud, whose mighty pinon
tetters may bind but cannot tame,
Ceaseloss il chafes against dominion,
Ceaseless its upward aim.
And be on this strange voyage starting,
Lone wanderer Of the trackess height,
What but the spirits latest parting
Can match this daring fiight2
He 60 no shores his course ia bending.
No busy ports before him rise
He floats upon sea amending,
The sailor Of the skies -
sea whose cliffs, now dark, now beaming,
Each veering zephyr builds or mars,
Brtdged 10y dn arch Of seyen-fold cleaning,
Aud islanded with stars,
From bis aerial watch beholdng,
AS like a leaHet no is whlrled,
Silence and space alone eniolding,
do sees this distant world.
He secs confused the hills and valleys,
Dwindled and shrunk the ample plains,
The ocean but a sapphire chalce.
The rivers silver veins;
The winding course Of linked sierfas,
Like some huge serpents uncoiled rings
And, swooping from the rocky terrace,
The cataraets sunlit wings. So e.
To him vast towers and cities splendid,
Column and dome majestic piled,
Are gltlering spots, uncertain blended
The playthmgs OF a child,
lie secs the storms beneath Him gather.
Watches the wrinkled lightning fall,
And, canopied in cloudess ether,
Rides high above them all.
A speck amid the light eternal,
Az up the crystal dome he flies,
Well might 1t seem the path supernRl
That leads 10 Paradise.
=
Spirit, that now within me chained
Longest 10 soar at liberty,
Soon shall thy powers be unrestrained,
Aud thou at length be free
And when, no longer here enshrouded,
But batned IN the empyTean clear
Thou lookest back from heights unclouded
On this, thy mortal sphere,
it, scenes no longer shall allure thee,
It's faded JOYS no more invite;
Far, far beneath the storm-clouds fury
Above the perfect light.
-Gald1y.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1873-09-02
How Queen Victoria Got so Rich.

From the World.
Prince Albert's will has been kent a
secret to this day, and no one knows
what it contained. The rumor is that
the Prince left everything to the Queen,
and that he also laid injunctions upon
her not to convert any of the property
into money for the purpose OF giving
the money to the Prince of Wales.
That young gentleman, it may be re-
membered, was in disgrace with his
papa at the time of the latter's death
indeed, the death itself was the copse.
quence of u cold caught on sudden
journey to Oxford, whether Prince AL.
bert had been summoned in haste to
get his son out of disgraceful and
dangerous scrape in which he was in
yolved
No one at the present day knows
exactly what are ''the private estates
of the Queen. The estate of Balmoral
and the Osborne estate are known, and
their value can be- estimated but there
are, in addition, the kensington es-
tates, of which no one but the Queen
and her private agents know anything.
When tie plan for the construction
OF the South Kensington Museum was
first devised there were miles of unoc-
cupied lands lying around the spot
chosen for the great collection of build
lngs now known as the Exhibition, the
Museum, and Albert Hall and there
were other miles of streets only partly
built, and having for the most part
cheap and poor houses upon them. A
| little ring was formed Prince Albert.
Mr.. Dixie afterwards Sire. w. Dilkel
and two or three Others composed it,
and by this ring the greater part of
this property was quietly bought up
before the plan for the museum, &c,
was made public. This was more than
twenty years ago.
The whole of that region is now
1ensely covered with fine houses. anI
what cost only few hundred thou
sands is now worth many millions.
Prince Albert's share of this is now the
property of the Queer, and these Ken
sington estates are IN themselves a very
large fortune. Altogether in money
aud landed property, to say nothing of
the jewels, her Majesty is supposed 10
possess something like 10000, 900
sterling, while no one really knows
how much she has and the amount
may be Gig, 200, 600, or even csc, 00O,-
GOO, for aught any one can show TO the
contrary.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1873-09-02

A new and cruel invention az Long
Branch Is the introduction Of living
butterflies into the centerpieces OF
lowers which usually allorn the middle
OF the table at the fashionable dinner
and supper parties. The poor insects
are fastened 10y fine wire, which il
passed through their bodies and con.
cealeed among the flowers. The con.
NnlsiNe CULVER of the expanded wings.
Us the tortured butterfly struggles In
lts dying agonles, is supposed To rep.
resent charmingly the disgraceful wave
flower. F'''e'
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1873-09-02
A Hnllming-Ilird nneI.

The other day, as A. I. Clearwater,
of this city, was coming down East
Front street, be witnessed a novel
battle in the yard opposite the Presby-
terrain church. Two green-backed
humming birds were the combatants,
and the fray lasted seventeen minutes.
The tiny antagonists would dart on
each other most viciously; would soar
twenty feet or more in the air, and
then return TO the flowers in the beds
for moment or two where the war
fare ragged most bitterly. Occasionally
the larger would pin the smaller to the
ground, when the latter would strike
vigorously ut the throat of its foe.
Finally the larger bird apparently be.
came very much enraged, and made an
energetic squirt. The other fell To the
ground, its wings huttered, the body
quivered, one quick gasp, and the ruby
throated little ole was dead. The
victor flew to a dead twie on NEIGH.
boring shrub, smoothed its rufied
plumage as a dove would, and twisted
It's neck from side 10 side, then for a
moment lowering over the lifeless body
of its enemy as il TO be certain life was
extinct. il flew swiftly away. --KiRgsto7
IN ~ Freeman, Augast 5.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1873-09-02

day commenced suit in the Circuit Court
against Right Rev. Bishop Foley, Bishop Of
the Diocese, laying damages At $4,000. The
claim is based on the allegation that the Bish-
op, in suspending him, acted dcspotically and
irroguarly, and not in accordance with the
canons Of the Church.
Abroad.
A RAILWAY collision occurred near Noting
ham, England, on Saturday, by which four
persons were killed and n large number in
jured.
JUDGE THOMAS A. II. NELSON, Of the Supreme
Court OF Tennessee, wel-known as Tar y
Nelson, during Andrew Johnsons admlnistra-
ton, died Of cholera at Knoxville on Sunday
His illness lasted two days
THE time for the payment Of the Geneva
award of $4,000, 900 under the Washington
treaty expires ON September Is, and all but
S., 900 600 have already been received Greal
Britain notifies the government that the bal
ance will be paid next week. The transfer has
been conducted so as not TO disturb the com
mcrcial relations Of the two countries,
TnE Louisville Courier-Journal publishes 1
long list OF Ku-Klux outrages in Kentucky
The list embraces eighty-six outragcs com
mttod IN Henry, Owen and Franklin counties
since 1870, varying from simple warnings e
property holders not to employ negroes, L
arsons, rapes, whippings, pIllages and muir
ders.
The leading counsel for the Tichborp,
claimant has just concluded his address /,
the jury having been speaking all the time th,
Court was IN session since the 22d OF July.
REPUBLICANS IN Spain achieved brilliant
victory over the Carlists near Berga.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1873-09-02
Danhnry WIItlrislns.

SOMETIMES man will get the i'm
preston that there isn't but one fly in
the world.
The Danbury boy of the period has
no girl now. The party he takes to
picnics and makes bilious with con-
fectionery is his umbrella rack.
We hope our brass band will learn
some hofnpipes, and jigs and waltzes,
so we can have sacred concerts on Sun
day evenings like other places.
An evil-minded man who boards at
an Essex street restaurant thinks il is
cunning, when wanting the butter to
direct the passing of the chair OIL
MANY man who lies down at Light
in calm respose little realizes that be
fore the sun of another day glides the
horizon he will be sitting on the edge
of the bed chewing sweet.Aag.
An Essex street man bought a crate
of damaged peaches for fifty cents on
Saturday, and IL is said there is not n
man on that street With two perfectly
straight legs.
A LITTLE boy at Wooster street fell
from a stoop on Thursday and received
severe bruises. His father vas sent
for ard ON arriving home found thirty
one women in the house. 1t took the
mother of the boy five days to get the
various bottles of camphor and harts-
horn to their rightful owners.
A BLOOD THIRSTY citizen of this place.
who thinks his life is IN danger, car.
ries PISTOL to protect himself. He
came in the Office this morning TO get
string TO tic the stock and barrel to.
gether, as the other fastening is gone.
and took occasion to observe that he
would make the streets run with blood
if people didn't quit fooling around
him,
A NEWLY married man was directed
by his wife to order some yeast, Mon
day night, and not having very well
defined idea of yeast himself, be told
the baker TO send tp couple of dol
lars worth. AT nine o'clock the next
morning three men might have been
seen Juggling and sweating up the front
stairs of that mans house with a cask
of yeast.
Mr.. SwlMPToN weighs about ninety
five pounds. Mrs. Swimpton weighs
two hundred and ninety three pounds,
and Mrs. Swimpton's sister, who is
visiting here, weighs just three hundred
and five pounds. Last evening Mr..
Swimpton and the ladies went out for
a stroll, he having each hanging CD on
his arm. A neighbor who was walking
in the rear of them, says that Mr..
Swimpton's feet did not touch the
sidewalk more than twice in going
three blocks.
A WEsT STREET family had little
social gathering, Monday evening.
During the evening the head of the
house volunteered to crack some wal
nuts, but cracked his thumb instead,
and the walnut from which the hammer
glanced, flew against ten dollar vase,
and knocked in it's abdomen. Then
the head Of the house threw the ham,
mer through FIRE screen, kicked the
pan of walnuts across the floor and
into the legs of the minister, and went
into the kitchen to deliver an address.
The party broke up.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1873-09-02
A Lucky Baby.

A Mrs. King had a surprise at Shaw
neetown, ILL.,, the other day. 1t wss
an accident that Mrs. King happened
to be at Shawneetown. She did not
intend to go there, but the steamboat
Jennie Howell, ON which she was tray-
cling, struck snag in the Ohio river.
Several of the passengers were drowned,
among them some children. Mrs. King
had child on board whom she
mourned as lost, and was taken To
Shawneetown without her babe. The
Jennie Howell sank deep in the water.
and the next morning men went To the
vessel TO recover the bodies of the lost.
Soon after daylight mattrass was dis
covered floating in the cabin, which
was filed with water nearly 10 the
ceiling Upon examination,
child, a little hoy, was discov.
cred on the mattress sleep
ing as peacefully as if nothing had
happened. His bed was not very dry.
for 1t had surk good deal from soak
ing, but still sustained its living
freight. In due time the child was
sent TO Shawneetown, where the other
passengers had been landed the even
ing before. It's coming made great
excitement among the wrecked travel
lers, Tor more than one mother had
lost children 10y the disaster. IL was
touching scene when Mrs. King recog.
nized the chlid as her boy whom she
had mourned as lost for nearly twenty
four hours. The preservation of Moses
IN the bulrushUs was not SO miraculous
as the safety of Mrs. Kings boy. He
had been tossing about on the waste Of
waters in the cabin all night, and was
brought 70 his mother alive i'm the
hour Of her deepest affection. MIS-.
souri, Rcpu6licaa.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1873-09-02

The Wawasset investigation was
closed on Fridry afternoon, so far
as the testimony was concerned,
and the commission announced that
they would proceed at once TO
make up their report. Fifty or
sixty witnesses were examined, but
il was impossible 10 ascertain the cause
of the fire. The results of the investi.
cation may be summed up as follows !:
l. Ii was shown that neither the cap
tain nor mate - the v.ssel had the
United States license required by law.
?. IL was proven that when the fire
was discovered, the engineer was alb
sent from his post, and had been deal.
ing out liquor ut the bar.
3. That while the certificate of in
spection allowed the vessel 10 carry
only fifty passengers and a crew of iii
teen, the vessel carried one hundred
and fifty passengers ON her last trip.
The officers of the company. insisted
that limiting the number of passengers
10 % was an error. Opposed To this
was tho duplicate certificate i'm the
treasury department, aud also oath of
the local Inspector, MIR. Sayille. who
SAID he wUdld not have ISSUED Ger.
titcate for more than 90. All the wit.
nesses agreed that after the fire had
been discovered, the officers hbored
faithfully and did all in their power 10
save tie lives Of the passengers, but ii
was also in evidence that the disci-
pune ON board the boat was bad that
the crew bad never been exercised with
the fire apparatus and that the me.
talic lite-boat was not in the condition
that It should have been 10 meet an
emergency.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1873-09-02

AT the present time there are ten
couples living in the town Of Hollis,
n. H., who have been married fifty
years, and their names are as follows:
John Loveioy and wife, married in
lsl0i James Farley, 1911; Ebenezer
Farley, 1917; Minot Farley, 1920 /.
Jeremiah Dow, 1918; Jesse Hardy,
1920 Lucas J. Wright, 1920; Calvin
Rideout, 1872 Benz. Pool, and Nehe-
miah Boutwell,, 1924
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1873-09-02

In Maysville, KY, there is woman
named Jane Young, who, two or three
years since. was black as the daughters
Of Ethiopia ever are. Now there isn't
a lady in all the State possessed of a
clearer skin. The change has not
been sudden. nor has the woman ex-
perienced any sickness. Such instances
have occurred before, but they are
rare
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1873-09-02

III IS reported that the question Of
an international meridian il about ~
be discussed 10y the Academy Of Sci.
ences, Paris, and that the English
meridian will probably be adopted.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1873-09-02

A NAN IN Colorado has shipped a
hundred prairie dogs East, with the
intention, il is thought, Of raising the
animals for market.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1873-09-02

on the road. This Will save the child
from wicked influence and propitiate
the fairies"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1873-09-02

Older people, when they first hear
ITS welcome notes, turn their money in
their pockets, So they may not be with
out money all the following year.
Speaking Of birds, we frequently, in
Central Cheshire, hear another charm
or saying of childhood IN reference 10
the crow. II seems TO be regarded
with aversion; in fact its eroaking is a
prediction Of death
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1873-09-02

ating his brow in dong SO its breast
was dyed red with the Savioar's blood,
and when afterwards a blessing was
pronounced upon II for its kindness. il
was permitted through all succeeding
ages TO wear the symbol on its breast.
A Welsh story states that he ae-
quired his red-breast by conveying
daily drop Of water in its bill to aid
in quenching the thirst OF the lost and
by coming 50 near the flames its breast
is scorched, therefore it is named
Brow rhuddyn' (breast-burned. } /
prefer TO hear the tale of the cross
than the latter, which appears TO have
been invented to terrify our little ones
with the horrors OF tho bottomless pit
The little lady bird is not forgot
ten by our children, but in this case it
is uery innocent, aud the little insect
is used only with kindness innocent
prattle can do bnt little harm. When
one is discovered it is placed on the
child's open hand, and \ verse, which
like all others varies much, is used to
persuade 1t TO open it's wings and fly
away. II is more successfully used
than the snail charm, for the simple
reason, when it feels the warmth from
the hand it quickly flies off.
Ladybird, lady bird, Ny TO thy home,
Thy house Is on tire, thy children all roam,
Except little John, who sits iuh is pan,
\ Weaving gold laces as fast as be can.
More often We hear only 'Ladybird,
ladybird, fly away home repeated
over and over again. In Cheshire the
ladybird is known better perhaps by
the name of eowledy. II is the Gee
cinella of Linn@us.
When boy is stung with the net.
tie he scientifically applies the dock
leaf, beating the part violently, repeat
ing at the same time this verse until q
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1873-09-02

SOMETIMES man will get the i'm
preston that there isn't but one fly in
the world.
, 1873-06-07

and thoro, no bolovo, 10 will romatn au long
as lin nnino IN remembered among mon. Tho
public m1lst to-dny aocopt ono Of two altcrna-
tvcs oithor that brown Ia II linr md n elandor
or, or TINT Horny Wara Doeclior Is n syatomatio
villain. THO wholo llfo Of tho ono man stands
as toatimony against lin tho whole lifo Of tho
other tliaproyea tho nccunation. Horny Ward
Decchor hns lived for twenty-five yeara in
Brooklyn before oil mon. 1lora ha8 boon hard
II day or night In nil tlroao yonrs, vlllo ho has
boon at home, tint y waa not possible to asoor-
engaged actively, and uacfully. It is not in
human nntlre that this man nay not havo
errod, but we will not beliovo that lo dosorycn
to forfeit q jot Of the reapect ho has bosn hold
In by thia community, and by mon III this and
ovory 1ana who admire intellectual om!nonco,
groat moral courage, and, 30 far MI tho world
oan Judge, high nobility of character. Dowon
iaH at last pfaccd lin,aolf On o pinnacle OF In
fanny before tho world and IN all tho wido world,
who viii evcn try to lift, him down. Hu can
mako this community but ono rcraratlon' and
that In by getting ont Of 1t. His tlandera Of.
mon mud womon-h!a chlnmnioa OH tho living
and tho dcn-togt nj Hovoroly IN 1t can be tentod
tho respect mon llnvo for law--for that law on
which Dowon is himself living libol =.
, 1873-06-07
THE ELECTION OF JUDGE BOOTH.

10 tho Editor n Tho Chicago Tribune:
s1n.. Tho first thing that happens af-
tor mn c1not;nn in this connt,-v
~ ,.hu ,a,o.s;, a.[.,,,,,o.s. ,,;,a ,n ~ ' ~
~ .no "po1ea ase"niehs 'aao W 'no uo'
foatod party to Bhow that tho defeat was VIC
tory aftor oil. Therefore, In our rocont Judicial
election. which resulted iu fayor of a radical
ton,noro,,oo cona,d,to of+or ,rool,a ~ b,tfa aud
eAt' eio. ~, "uoA" ~, y. D.s.o. an.,
aotofmihea oppoeltloh, Doth III TIC proas ana
public mcetings OF tito liquor eloFnont, those pm
porB and people ato trying to allow us how badly
1,1ra roni,, ,na honfon for r,;obt },avo hoon
""aHo ~''p~4 Hto 1"'F-o'@ W. ''A'b@A' A"'S o~o"l
, 1873-06-07

a very remarkable caso OF renusctatlou, ro-
marks gali9nani's Messenger, Inns Just boon
elrocted ut tho hospital Of tho Val-ac-hraco. A
man had hanged himself IN garrett In tho Rue
saint.Jecques, and having hoen ont down and
o1aminol by tho medical mon, ho WAS pro-
nounced to 10 dead. Ihe clinical lecturer, how
ever, doairod to try one last experiment, and le
opened tho Ghost and attempted artificial reapi-
alton, but without R,sceosa. 1lo thcn applied
tho pole Of m electrical battery to tho pnoumo-
, 1873-06-07

Havn hnn sod In thousana Of tho worst cAscs Of ovor
and nCuc, tntesmtont fevor, and inmt-nEuo with
tontng sueooss. Tiny offorad to tho pubc, with
full confidence In tlcs mort. They do not cbntatn pos
onous or injurious properties md bo takan by adutt
AMI child with nosloot baosy They sugarcontcd aud
for sao BY tuGgsts At 30 cnnts per box aek BY mail
prapaii. MoIa!ns Oandiod Cnstar Oil In = delicious
syrup Of tho castor boan reliable
.nudfe,no Also aro Mutain's vonnlfugo ponhons. do
ltghtful candies. Ohildsnn nrp delighted with
tlom. Fr1co for cihor Is cunts. VAN Ht]lIAACK,
STEVENSON REID. Solo Agonta ChIcnuo,,
, 1873-06-07

Saratoga Correspondence Of the He.c FORK Herald.
Whom tho war Of tho rebellion commenced, lo
wont to Washington and had q clorkahip in tho
War Department., but aftor timo he was found
to be Engaged in communicating valuable intolli-
gence to the robolB, through Il woman with whom
1ie was intimate. Forthis offense ho was thrown
into tho Old Capitol Prison, from whence llo was
rolensea as prisoner on parole and sont to sara-
toga, whore his father Ind to eend n vrittcn ra-
port Of hia presence to tho War Department
eycry (lAy.
, 1873-06-07
NUGGETS FROM THE CHICAGO JOUR-
NAL,
All About judge I.slsvroncc.

II From The LH7cHg0 J0tlrH0l, ,]ft1it g.
THE Tribune acc,,ses tho Jourinl Of IL i'm
boci!ity" because 1t ho1ped to defeat Judge
Lawrence; We must. t,el, a'nond tho old
proyorb, that " knowledge is power" 40 ns to
mako it read, "Imbccility in power.'
, 1873-06-07

To [Lnwrencol has no doubt been faithful
student Of Inv, md Ia certainly wol rorHetl in
hia profession, but it would DO difficult to find
Judge anywhere in tho United States who il moro
aonso!eas procodonts, aud old :fogyism in gon-
nrnl