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The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1874-02-14
Interesting TO those who are Afflicted with
Chronic Diseases,

Eor there cure for you although you may have tried
vain heretofore and acdt get relief but you win ind
tif you come TO DIR. J. WARD. You win not be dlsap
pointed IN nndng that which you soug. 70 long
the blessing OF health restored.
DIR. J. WARD Is now permanently located In Ottawa.
ONCE up stairs over Mrs. Greggs Millinery Store Main ST.
ottawa, us J. WARD. NJ. d.
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Ottawa quotations;
Ottawa Wholesale Market.
ported by Il. L. RIALE e. CO., Wholesale and Retail
GroccTs, No. 10 La Sale street.

OTTAWA, FcU H. M,
Corn and oats have fallen off little in prices,
&c being selling price at warehouse and 47c at
Starch Factory. Oats, 36@37c. Dressed chick
ems, &c. Dressed turkeys, S@10c-mostly sold
at &c. Butter IN good demand at 25c.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1874-02-14

Nrom other than huvng worms In the stomach
BROWNS yERMIFUGE COAiFIrS
VII destroy Worms without Injury the child heinz per
ecty WHITE and free from al cOOring or other lnnrin
Ingredients usually used In worm preparations.
CURTIS BROWN, Proprictors
No. 2ij Fulton Street Rev York
Sold by Druggists aud thcmss and dealers IN Medicines
- twenty I'VE Cehts a Box. Wyl2-ly
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1874-02-14
]lIaniug anu Huilning.

l]Ianing ann Euilolng.
PLANNING MILL.
Sash. Door and Blind
Lumber, Lath, Lime, Nails.
Builders Hardware, &c.
COLWElL, CLARK & CO.
Have on hand LUMBER of all ora les
Lath, Lime, Hair, Plaster. Cement
and Brick, Sewer Pipe, Drain Tile,
Dimension and Cut Stone, Ottawa
and Joliet Bubble Stone, Builders
Hardware OF all descriptions, and
Nails. Also Glass and Putty, Build,
ing Paper, DC.
The whole Of the above materials
having been purchased at the lowest
wholesale figures, we will either sell
or use them at the lowest market
figures. Being extensively engaged
in the
BUILDING BUSINESS.
And with the facilities we have, are
prepared to complete and
DO Work Cheaper & Better
than Any Other Firm.
We are fully stocked with Ready
made DOORS, SASH & BLINDS. |
from Well Seasoned
Lumber.
.4y1 Lumber Yard-Hossack &
Docks.
~ Office and Factory-La Sale
St., opposite the Park House.
COLWFLL, CLARK { co
Ottawa. March 1st, 1873.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-08-20
A Princes Financial Troubles.

A London letter says ga report has
suddenly gained currency that the
long-expected crisis has occurred in the
financial affairs of the Prince of Wales,
and that the Ministry have made up
their minds to propose to the House of
Commons, at the next session, to pay
his debts. The sum named is f40,000
sterling, four times the sum that was
voted In 1877 to appease the creditors
of that pattern of royalty who after
wards became George ". About pay
ing the bills there are certain to be two
powerful and contradictory sentiments,
one that the honor of the nation is con-
cerned in providing for the debts of its
future King; the other that these debts
are of character which ought to be
paid out of the accumulated fortune of
the Queen. The latter view rests on
the we'll known fact that the Queen has
been receiving, ever since the death of
Prince Albert, the whole of the income
calculated at her decision to support
the expenses of the Court in the usual
degree OF splendor; that Her Majesty
has, however, lived during this period,
for the most part, in retirement, and
the cost of the drawing room levees
and other royal pageantry has, in fact,
fallen upon the Prince and Princess of
Wales, whose income has been unequal
to such burden. The existing debts,
or considerable part of them, have,
according to this theory, been incurred
in the discharge of these duties hence
it is urged that the Queen, who has had
and kept money given to her by the
State for such purposes. ought to pay
them. The Prince of Wales has e49,-
600 year, plus the revenue of the
Duchy of Cornwall, which now amounts
to over e100,0 600 per annum."
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-08-20
Last Years Cholera.

DIR. Ely Mcclellan, of the United
States army, who was appointed some
time since to investigate the cholera
epidemic of 1873, has lately returned
to his home in Lebanon, KY, after
visiting Tennessee, Alabama, Missis-
sippi, Louisiana AID Arkansas. His
work has not yet been carried far
enough to authorize any broad general
izations, but few isolated facts have
been given by him to Kentucky paper
as follows: at is apparent already
that the investigation will cover much
wider field than has been anticipated.
The number of points at which cholera
occurred will be much larger than is
generally believed. An impression has
prevailed, for example, that the cpl
demic leaped from New Orleans to
Vicksburg. In point of fact it is found
to have dotted both sides of the river
between the two points, cases occurring
on plantations in nearly every parish.
The first reported case of cholera in
the United States in 1873 occurred in
New Orleans, February 9. Itprevailed
in that city during the months of Feb
ruary, March and April. Early in May
1T began to travel northward, up the
Mississippi. During the month of
June it began occurring in the interior
towns of Alabama and Mississippi,
along the lines of railroads, and spread
further north, step by step, during the
months of June and July, reaching
Little Rock, Ark, early in the latter
month. Montgomery, Ala, by rigid
system OF quarantine, escaped with a
single case of cholera, while at Birming-
ham, in the same State, ninety-seven
miles distant, and connected with Mont
gomery by rail, over 300 persons, mostly
negroes, fell victims to the epidemic.
The first case of cholera In
Kentucky last year, SO far as
ascertained. occurred at Paducah,
May %. The investigation indicates
that construction hands upon railroads
were the most active agents in spread
ing the disease. 1t was introduced in
Memphis by party of laborers on the
Memphis and Paducah Railroad
Thence it was conveyed to Nashville
by convicts from the penitentiary that
had been working on the same road.
From Nashville it spread to Chatta-
nooga and East Tennessee, to Gallatin,
Franklin, Bowling Green, etc. The
first case in Central Kentucky was that
of negro laborer at Muldroughs Hill,
on the Cumberland and Ohio Railroad,
who came from construction party on
road In Tennessee.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-08-20
A Very Loose Man.

For the past day or two, says the
Providence Journal, there has been 10
this city a colored man who presents In
himself queer physiological freak. He
is 81 years of age, thick set, of medium
height, of fair intelligence, and was
born in Manchester. England. He gains
a livelihood by exhibiting himself to
physicians. His abdomen is naturally
full, but at will, without the use of his
hands, he gives it wave-like motion,
and it gradually sinks in as if being
wound up, until it apparently rests
close against the back bone, and he
presents the appearance of a man with
no abdomen, and then, in the same
manner, he rolls it out to its original
form. He then drops from under his
ribs duplicate set Of ribs, with a
breast-bone, when the original ribs and
the duplicates can be distinctly felt and
counted, and the whole front of the
body is, as it were, iron-clad. Or, at
will, he apparently drops his head from
its natural position some twelve inches,
puts it back. and sends it to the right
side of the body, opposite its natural
position, puts it back and sends 1t to
to the lower part of the body on the
right side, thus putting it in four differ
ent POSITIONS. During these changes
the two sounds of the heart can be dis
tinctly heard In either of these new po-
sitions, and not where they usually are
heard. 1t seems to be necessary, how
ever, that after each change it should
go back where it belongs before being
sent to new quarter. He also has the
power to stop the beating of his heart
at will, from five to ten seconds at a
time, the pulse stopping at the same
time. He seems also TO have consider
able strength, easily bending by blow
on the arm. heavy iron cane which he
carries. Several of our prominent ply
sicians have examined him, from one of
whom we have obtained these facts,
and pronounce him to be the greatest
curiosity in physiology they have ever
seen or heard of.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-08-20
The heat of Summer, as we'll as the

The heat of Summer, as well as the
sudden changes of temperature incident to
Autumn, coupled with the use of unripe veg
etables and fruits and other unwholesome
articles of food result every season in pro-
ducing much suffering from Diarrhea, Dyson
tary, Cholera Morbus. Collie, ard other de-
rangements of the stomach and bowels. A
remedy that will promptly relieve these suffer
ings and restore tone and normal action to the
relaxed and debilitated alimentary canal, is
surely boon to the afflicted. DIR. Il. v.
Pierce, whose Family Medicines have acquired
q worldwide reputation, by long study and
careful chemical experiments has succeeded
in extracting, by q cold process, from Smart
Weed, 81 Water Pepper. that modest little
plant seen in wet grounds by the roadside and
in neglected grounds and pasture fields, a
remedial principle which, when skillfully COM
bined with the extract of Jamaica Ginger and
other pleasant modifying agents, in what he
calls his Compound Extract of Smart Weed,
forms q most reliable specific for all such de-
rangements and sufferi7gs. 1t is pleasant
and safe to take, yet powerful to cnre. Its
wonderful efficacy is q further confirmation of
the Doctors idea that God has caused to grow,
in each climate and region, those medicinal
plants bes, calculated for the cure of the dis
eases that prevail in the section of country
where those plants are found-that "the
leaves were for the healing of the nations, y
and that the fewer far-fetched remedies we
employ the better, if we would thoroughly
investigate and understand those we have at
home. The Doctors Extract of Smart Weed
is sold by druggists generally.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-08-20
Another Wild Man of the Mountains.


On last Friday morning, says the
Knoxville Press and Herald, of Aug. 2,
about 2 o'clock, a young man entered
the house os ohm Webb, at Buckeye
Tavern" the usual stopping place mid
way between Caryville and the Cincin-
natl Southern railroad, near Chitwood,
about ten or twelve miles beyond Cary
vile. and threw himself into bed along
with some gentleman stopping there for
the night. The landlord, Mr.. Webb,
being aroused, found the young man In
a state of intense excitement, and at
first supposed he was drunk. But on
trying to induce him to take lodgings
elsewhere, it was ascertained that he
was not intoxicated, but wild or crazy.
Then Mr.. Webb tried to induce him to
remain and take quarters with him but
failed. He became excited and ran
away, and, strange to say, fine mastiff
dog of fIr. Webb's followed him, and
was found with him and very much at
tached to him, six or eight miles dis
tant, later on the same day. The first
heard of the strange man after leaving
Webb's, was early on Friday morning
at Mr.. Meals several miles of, IN Scott
county. He was accompanied by
Webb's dog. which seemed to have
linked fortunes with him. He, in COM
pany with the dog, slipped into the
house of NJ. Neal, and seized q four
year-old child and started for the woods.
Neal pursued him, when he fled at
great speed, leaving the child, the dog
continuing with him. Here he became
wholly destitute of any clothing save
shirt. The neighbors became aroused,
and after running him through the
mountain gorges for more than ten
miles, succeeded in capturing him late
in the afternoon of Friday. 1t was with
the greatest difficulty that Webb in
duced his dog TO leave him and return
home, the canine showing many signs
of sympathy with the unfortunate young
man. Our informant saw him soon af-
ter he was captured. He was then
much exhausted, and going through all
the maneuvers of tired dog-panting,
shaking his sides, and lolling or drop
ping out his tongue to its full length
and letting it hang out. At times he
would go through the most remarkable
grimace and distortions of his face and
whole body. His captors had succeed
ed in getting pair of pantaloons on
him. He had talked little i'll a very
uncouth style; had asked for some
thing to eat, drank a few sips of water,
and commenced gnawing huge piece
of corn-bread. He gave his name most
generally, as George Hyath, of Town
Greek, Claiborne county, though he
used other names frequently when
asked III regard to his name. He is
somewhere between 20 and 30 years
old, being of that peculiar appearance
that gives but little index to true age.
He has some hair on his face, which
leaves the observer in doubt as to
whether it is boyish fuzz, or half
grown, or half week s growth of hair.
He is not an idiot. He is a wild man.
How long l.e has been such. or what
has caused it, our informant seems to
regard as matters of doubt. Those who
had him in charge are good citizens,
who designed proceeding to Huntsville
and taking all necessary steps for his
comfort and welfare.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-08-20
An Ice.HOuse for Five Dollars.

A neighbor of mine, says a CORE
spondent, has an Enclosure about SIX
feet square in the clear, and six feet
high. The walls are formed of old re-
fuse timbers thrown carelessly together,
with no regard to form or comeliness.
The roof is made of hemlock boards.
The entire cost of this building did not
exceed five dollars and, practically con-
sidered, it is success not ambitious
of containing thirty-fve loads of ice,
but simply five loads. Ten years this
little, unpretentious house has been
used for ice, and never yet dishonored
draft upon its crystal deposit. About
six inches of sawdust was spread upon
the ground floor, and in packing a space
of about nine inches was left between
the ice and the walls of the building for
sawdust, and about nine inches of saw
dust was spread upon the top of the ice,
and the thing was fixed. The three
main principles observed here viii al
ways insure a supply of ice, viz: good
ventilation, good drainage and plenty
of sawdust. With these rules adhered
to a corner of any old pen-sbed will
prove quite efficient in preserving ice.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-08-20
A RECENT trial in Massachusetts in

A RECENT trial in Massachusetts in
volved the question whether Spiritual
ism is form of religion or not. A lady
had the misfortune to receive an injury
while riding on Sunday in one of the
cars of the Middlesex Railway Com
pany. She was at the time returning
from a camp-meeting of Spiritualists.
1t was In evidence that she was a
Spiritualist by profession. The injury
was clearly proven, but the railway COM
pany complains that she had no right to
recover damages inasmuch as she was
travelling in violation of the Sunday laws
of the State. The point urged was that
she was not travelling on account of
necessity or charity, neither was she
going to or returning from religious
meeting. For all this the jury returned
verdict of $1,000 in her favor. On
appeal the case was argued deliberately
ON both sides, but the Supreme Court
refused to disturb the finding of the
court below. 1t held that she had as
much right to protection in riding from
her camp-meeting as a Methodist had
in returning from his. Her religion
might be very absurd, but ii was ques-
ton for her and her Maker and not for
the courts.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-08-20
British Beer.

A Parliamentary paper lately issued
shows that, including beginners,
paying lbs Cd each for their license,
and of whom there are 3,179, the total
number of licensed common brewers
in the United Kingdom last year was
29, 929, and the total amount of license
duty paid by them was 9416, 1l6 rs,
besides net supplementary charges
amounting to e22, 239 Is additional.
One brewing firm paid e10, 784 lbs Cd
as license duty ON over $4,000 barrels
of ale and under 100000; and three
brewers paid license duty on over $50, :
600 barrels and under 700, 900 each,
their aggregate contributions to the
revenue amounting to f25, 1873 rs. The
total number of brewers not being
victualers or persons licensed to sell
beer on the premises in the United
Kingdom in 1873 was 2,671, of whom
2,522 belong to England; the victualers
were 99,06l In number, 60, 940 belong
ing to England; and persons licensed
to sell beer on the premises, all of
whom are in England, reached total
of 40, 7U1. There were 1856 victual-
ers in England who brewed their own
beer. The amount of malt consumed
by common brewers not being victual-
ers or holding retail license was 49,
$685. bushels; by victualers, $780,
$50 bushels by persons licensed to
sell beer to be drunk on their premises,
1862, 0S3 bushels and by persons
licensed to retail beer not to be drunk
ON the premises, 45S, 993 bushels. The
total exports of beer from the United
Kingdom between the LIST of October,
1872, and the lst of October, 1873,
amounted to 1886 barrels, the total
declared value of which amounted to
s2, 1855, 1856.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-08-20
BUY ]. & P. COATS BLACK THREAD for your MACHINE |
WAUKESHA WATER.
MINERAL ROCK SPRING,
CURES
propsy, Diabetes,
Gravel, Dyspepsia,
Constipation, Jaundice,
Bright's Disease,

and all diseases of the liver and kidneys. This
Nster is now known and sold as a remedy for the
above diseases, in all parts of the world. 1t is
truly wonderful what effect il has upon the hum
system. 1t is now being shipped at the following
prices:
Barrel, 30 ga S12; halfco, 81; demijohns snd Jugs
30 cents per ga package extra; bottles (qts 50 80
per doz. Money must accompany the order, ex-
cept to our regular authorized agent. Inquire of
your druggist for Waukesha Mineral Rock Spring
Water. Address c. C. OLIs Co., Waukes ha,
Wis.,, for orders for the water or for circulars.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-08-20
A Horse Attacked With Hydrophobia.

The Liverpool Daily Albion says
ga remarkable case of hydrophobia has
occurred at Robert Town, Liverpool,
near Dewsbury. On the 10Th of last
May a mare. the property of Edward
Walker, farmer, was bitten by small
black-and-tan terrier dog, which was
seen to run into the stable in which the
mare was located. Mr.. Walker drove
it away, and, although he followed it,
lost sight of it In one of the lanes of the
village. Half an hour afterward the
dog returned to the stable and again
snapped at the mare, whereupon she
kicked. On the I'd inst. the horses
hip became very much swollen, and Mr..
Sumner, veterinary surgeon, having been
called in, he treated for disease known
as the struggles On Monday night,
however, the animal became very vlo-
lent, and snapped and bit at everything
within her reach. Ultimately she ex-
hibited all the symptoms of hydropho-
bia. The veterinary surgeon pronounced
that she was suffering from the disease
and consequently she was shot"
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-08-20

DEvAsTATIoNs IN NEBRASKA
hoppers by the myriads appeared in this
State last week, and are destroying all
the crops now ungathered. Thousands
upon thousands of acres of corn have
been destroyed in the last week. The
insect are flying by millions, and look
at a short distance like a cloud of dust
or smoke. Potatoes and corn will be
almost total failure in consequence of
their visit, but wheat, oats, barley and
fax, already harvested, give immense
yields, so the year will be a good one
despite the incursion. The grasshop-
pers started through the State at Knox
and Hall counties, travelled in a straight
line across to Kansas, then returning
by this route.-Lincoln (Neb.) Dis
patch to Chicago Tribune.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-08-20

HERE is a good story that Rev. DIR.
Adams tells of himself. A lady parish
Toner once remarked to him that his
sermons were little too long.
Don't you think so, DR.. Adams, Z"
said she, lust a little ?"
All, good sister," said he, ct am
afraid you don't like the very sincere
milk of the word"
Yes, I do" said she, "but you
know the fashion nowadays is con-
densed milk"
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-08-20

The SKEPTICAL Every
advance in medicine, every new remedy
has encountered an opposition, which
is the test of truth. Galen and Jenner
only were believed when they had proved
their discoveries against opposition.
But men are observing, and benefits al
ways make believers. No incredulity
can stand the silent argument of good
results. When DR.. Walker proclaimed
that he had produced from the medi-
cinal herbs of California an Elixir that
would regenerate thesinking system and
cure diseases not organic, the incredu-
lous shook their heads. Yet his VINE
GAR BITTERs is now the Standard Re-
storative of the Western World. The
truth could not be resisted. Under the
operation of the new remedy, Dyspep-
tics regained their health, appetite and
strength the Bilious and Constipated
were relieved of every distressing symp-
tom; the Consumptive anG Rheumatic
rapidly recovered; Intermittent and
Remittent Fevers were broken up the
faint of Scrofula was eradicated Who
could gainsay facts like these? Not
even the Fac llty. Skepticism was
routed. All doubts as to the claims of
the Bitters to the first place in the first
rank of modern medicines were silenced,
and this wonderful preparation is to-
day the most popular Tonic, Alternative
and Blood Depurent ever advertised IN
America. In common with other jour-
nalists. we are free to add our testimony
to this remedy. 1t is domestic medi-
cine, and no household should be with
out it. 3
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-08-20

WnHoFT'S FEVER AND AGUE Tonic. =
This medicine is used by construction COM
panies for the benefit of their employees, when
engaged in malarisl districts. The highest
testimonials have been given by contractors
and by the Presidents of some of the leading
railroads in the South and West. When men
are congregated in large numbers in the
neighborhood of swamps and rivers, Will
hofts Tonic will prove a valuable addition to
the stock of medicines, and will amply reward
the company i'll the saving of time. labor and
money. We recommend it to all. WHEELoCK,
FINLAY q Co., proprietors, New Orleans. For
sale by all druggists.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-08-20

Coop advice never comes amiss. If
they have not got the Elmwood Collar at the
store where you are in the habit of purchase
ing your goods, tell them to get some for you
at once, and don't be put of with any other
goods. --
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-08-20


egar BitterS are q purely Vegetable
preparation, made chiefly from the ma
tive herbs found on the lower ranges al
the Sierra Nevada mountains of CalifoI-
MIA, the medicinal properties of which
are extracted therefrom without the use
of Alcohol. The question is almos,.
daily asked. What is the cause of the
unparalleled success of VINEGAR BIZ
TERSW Our answer is, that they remove
the cause of disease, and the patient re
covers his health. They are the greas
blood purifier and life giving principle,
perfect Renovation and IDyigoratoa
of the system. Never before IL ths
history of the world has medicine been
compounded possessing The remarkable
qualities OF VINEGAR BITTERS in healing the
sick of every disease man is heir to- They
are gentle Purgative as well as Tonic
relieving Congestion or Inflammation OF
the Liver and Viscerai Organs, IL Bilious
Diseases.
The properties of Dr.. WALKERS
VINEGAR BITTERs are Aperient, Diaphoretic,
Carminative, Nutritious, Laxative, Diuretio-
Sedative, Counter-Irritant, Sudorifc. Altere-
tire. and Anti Bilioek'
II. II. NcDOSALD a. CO..
Druggists and Gen. \ CTS. San Francisco California
and cor. of Washington and Charlton SITS, Ny.
Sold by all Druggists and Dealers.