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The Cline tried and fire tested" Phoenix
continues TO offer solid indemnity against loss
or damage by fire. Its policies arc issued at
Ottawa by Ravens, MacHin'ay c.
j. r. Mason, Esq, the "adiuster" of the
Phoenix, arrived at Ottawa the next day after
the destruction of the Opera House and Masonic
Hall by kr2, and the following receipt but illus
tratcs the usual pronptness of this company in
adjusting its losses
$1,000. OTTAWA LII, Dee. 3lst, 1874
Received OF The Phoenix ms. Co., of Hartford,
Conn. by II. NJ. MHgil, Gcnl Agent of said
Co.. through Ravens, MackinlAy x Co., Agents
at Ottawa, H., the sum of twelve hundred dol
lars, it bei, z in full of all claims and demands
under Policy No. 2i95, issued at the Ottawa,
I'll. agency of the said Company, the loss oriG-
mating by fire, on Dec. both, 1874.
Having signed duplicates,
JNo. X. CAMERON,
EDWARD II. SMITH.
lJMimittcc.
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There will be a meeting Of the Union Poultry
Association at Smith, Rising & Cos store this
evening, Jan. I'd, at o'cTcek sharp, Important
business full meeting Is desired
By order Of the President.
WILL JENErSs, See Y.
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Il. r. Clark paints signs.

desire TO express my sincere thanks and
gratitude 10 those who, by their good vii! and
labor, assisted in saving my property on the
morning Of The 29th ult., from destruction by
FIRE, and especially to those ladies' who, by their
example and personol Efforts Just nj the critical
moment, assisted very materially in saving the
building from the flames. j. ". DJ'N.
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II. z. Clark paints, signs.

GREAT S-ocx SALE-ittcution IS called o"
the advertisement Of great sale OF io'Fied cat
tie to take place near Tockrort on The ID pIo1.
Mr.. Milne has devoted great deal OF money
time and attention to procuring the best blood
in the world and now proposes to extend {"
breeder the advantage he h's procured Tor
himself
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The yestry OF Christ Church, Ottawa voted
on Wednesday evening to extend call to Rev
VIM. s. Speirs, of Canton. Miss, TO fill the pull
pit of said church. made vacant by the resignc-
ton, some months ago, Of J. L. Steele.
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The elegant square grand Hallet & Davis pr
ano was taken from the music store Of L. Frank
Ford to the residence of Rev. j. Terry and is
now presided over by his accomplished nece'
Miss Cary. The EIallet & Davis has no equal in
this country or Europe. They were the only
pianos used at the great musical jubilecs at Chi
cago and Boston
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II. 2. Clark paints houses.

FoR SALE.--A frst-class livery stable, well
stocked with horses ana carriages and doing as
good business as any stable In Ottawa. FOR
further particulars, term, &c, apply TO Mrs. j..
D. Rhodes, Ottawa, IL.
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II. ?. Clark paints houses

Railroad stocks are the foot balls Of brokers
aud spectators, but an earthquake cannot I'M
pair rhe absolute security of stock in the Fox
River Horse Collar Manufacturing Go. For par
ticulars apply at their Office in Dayton, III.
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RIDING ON A RAIL.

In days dating back some eighteen hundred
and seventy odd years, it was customary fol
chetains to be elevated upon the shoulders O
the soldiery and rayaded about on holidays as Q
, token of esteem. A." Korn,' being an American
and Christian, was accordingly seized and
bound, and on the 10Th ult., Washington
birthday p ushcrel off from home (after pay.
ing $500 to the railroad company and getting a
rest from o. & H. to do Christmas, the Aurora
ball, Chicago, Bridgeport and the northwest gen,
orally.
Departing from Ottawa, the center of the
universe, we were boarded on c., b. & Q.
train and labeled to Aurora. Alas for human
expectations! We had thought that crowd Of
two couples would have accompanied us but the
panic had shed a binding influence, and we with
Prof Willis and Recorder Bernhard were doomed
to 90 alone. With a woebegonc feeling, similar
to that of n Teller who has hidden adeu to his
mother-in-law, we bounced the $40 train (after
giving our ticket to John Sulliyan) and were
wheeled away to the city Of gaiety at the rate Of
six miles an hour. In time for an elegant re-
past at the Empire, We were safely landed in the
begutiful MEADOWS adjoining Aurora. Conduc-
tors Vosburgh and Secoy had been previously
organized as bsdy guard, and, with Christie
and Frank Hackney to carry our umbrella and
Hammond to Jan us, we formed ourselves into
a hollow square and per-secd-ed The hotel
was reached, and a lemon squeezed into cup of
cold coffee and offered us as q beverage, when
our better Reason took possession of our crani-
um and we were savcl from being plunged into
to whirlPoole of insen.blity by the proiiercd
assistance Of High Evans whom we saw CVta-
l2in7 on the MENDOZA accommodation. SO Hinl-
ley hired hack and took us to a restaurant for
supper, where
WE DiNEp.
Completing our meal, we stuck up genuine
two O. dollar bill Tour last and ALI to pay for
the same, when the proprietor acknowledged he
was Short of change and we were let off by
promising never to come again.
NEXT!
We were greeted by serenade by Willls's
band, the tune being We won't go home till
mornng,-till Bernhard disappears.
The music was excellent and the jig by Sed
IIupp and Jim Blake extraordinary.
Oranges were then passed by Samuel Dagan
and accepted by ga black eyed beauty" after
which John Lomasney took Waterman home
Tagging Willis couple of blocks, we tsrned
up at the Opera House. Here we found many
/" fair women and brave men " standing around
in little groups, when "all to wonst " the band
played What followed we can never tell cx'
cept that we danced all night, till broad day
light. and went - no we didn't, for w
promised our wife that we would be good boy
before she would let us 90. Well, we went tC
chicago, and what we saw there we may tel
hereafter.
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The second term for advanced scholars viii
commence at WILLIS Dancing Academy Oh sat
urday, Jan'y 9th, at o'clock 2, " Terms -
per scholar, in slvance s. :. WuIIs.
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There will be a meeting at the Baptist church
on Tuesday evening, jar. 9Th, at o'clock for
the selection and assfgnmen, Of pews for the
year. All desiring seals will please be on hand.
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A regular meeting Of oeoilessl Lodge. No.
40, AZ. s. \. NJ. will be held ~ Iynchs hall
on Monday evening, Jan'y 4th, 1875, at :
o'clock. \ full attendance is requested,
X. 7. CLtEK. W. VI.
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The most widc-awake, nessy and spicy news
paper we know OF in the Yves, is the Chicago
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Latest STYLES Of Hacks, Carriages and Basgiss,

In 10. AT n,Icr. 10 ,ut times Parties Weddings.
pie Sics 1 snnped with good rigs short notice. and
Funerals In country or adjoining towns promptly ~
tended O Persons taken and IRON the aePos or 70 tn
country night or day. tB Remember the piace-on hshi
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GREAT ADELpmr.-This comedy company
opened last eveaing at Plymouth church to a
rood house What VIC saw Of the entertainment
was good, our hour for going to press, however
being To early to allow us to be able to see tho
show ont prevents us from making further motto"
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1npR1MG DEPARTMENT.

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for the principal magazines and newspapers
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II, p. Clark does all painscr's work

Norris Murphy, while engaged at work in
the Little Rock coal mise in the township Of
Deer Park, on Monday, was killed by the fall
ing of mass of rock.
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II. P. Clark paints wagons,

Collector Brown. Of Dayton township, will be
at Meyafsn' boot and shoe store every Saturday
until March lOih for the convenience Of iaxP0y-
ers in his town.
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Warranted winter wheat -four $500 per hun
d,ed pounds, at Woods Eagle Mills.
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80 bushels choice apples just receive by ID
Hcenan & Co
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You won't 20 to sleep reading the editorials OF
the Chicago Post and Mail. They are short,
sharp, spicy and always truthful and Impartial
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$50 Bushels choice apples just received by d
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$50 bushels choice apples just received by D.
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$50 bushels choise apples jus, received AT D..
Heenan & Co.'S.
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\. uuulecki T. -till at Kleu>sl drug ,forc
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II. p. Clark paints wagons.
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The city clerk reports the issuing Of license
to two lady graduates Of the Smithsonian lnsti-
tute 70 canvass m, city for rubber goods.
look out now for monogram gum classics.
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80 -, :. an ALna., a O.man 6 -.
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III. Clark paints wagons.
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Livery & Feed Stable.
PETER EGAN

Would respectfully to the citizens Of oaws and
vicinity that he has one OF he StocAs '
city, al The City stables, such as the
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Union Poultry Association.

II. P. Clark will paint yoar fences.
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Town COLLECTORS Tax Receipts.
Town Collector can find all sizes OF tax re-
ccipt. printed oa good paper, at Osmaa x HapS-
mans
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MIR. uumtecs i, a careful rro-crip''oa clerk
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For Occidental Lodge, No. 40, a. F, & A. NJ.
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Eneus.l'. prescription clerk is Mr.. Iumlcci
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Dancing hracemy.

Have your woodwork painted by Clark
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LOCAL MATTERS.
Ottawa Post OMce.

t5aice opens at A N, an closes at 7.GD
April /, 1874. j. RCamEhoN'E' d.
CONDENSED TIME TABLE,
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad.
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Nicely sells Bulls.
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Ottawa, Jan. lst, IS.
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II. p. clark paint, houses.
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Il. p. Clark paint. houses.
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y. ". HITCHCOCK, General Passenger Agent
hoBsaT HA sEts, General Superintendent.
DIV. TOUZALIN.
July jth. Agent, ottaWa' uiino's.
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A HEAVENLY STUDY.-The young
man, who had always manifested an in
terest in the heavens above him, says
The San Francisco Chronicle, paid his
quarter and was told to pick out any
star he pleased and fest his eyes on it..
He glued his optics to the small end of
the tube, and after showing the machine
about for some seconds, suddenly be-
came wrapt in the study of something
which appeared to give him the highest
satisfaction. For several minutes he
stood as immovable as statue.
"Guess he's goin' to grow there, "
growled a man waiting for chance.
''Perhaps he never saw telescope be-
FORE" said somebody else.
Young man." remarked the owner
Of the tube, ''if you propose to mon
opolize tue instrument you must pay
more"
The only answer made by the fellow
was to quietly put his hand in his
pocket, and, without taking his eye away
from the opening, hand the man foul
bits. For nearly fifteen minutes the
student of astronomy kept up raptur-
ed and uninterrupted gaze upon the
heavens, and paid his regular assessment
every time he was called ON. The own.
er of the telescope was taking in rich
harvest Suddenly there was a long
drawn sigh, and rising from his stoop.
ing posture, the young man stood up.
''Mister, that's good telescope and ]
| am satisfied with the show" Then he
walked on, and the next man who went
to look at a heavenly body didn't see it,
from the simple fact that the house on
Telegraph Hill which had been in the
focus of that telescope for the past fiji.
teen minutes was no longer illuminated,
and the girl whose chamber had been
peered into so steadily had gone to bed.
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CLoCKs-The time of the introduce
ton of wheel-clocks moved by weights
cannot be fixed with any certainty
From the time of Arcbimedes, 220 Il.
c., to that of Robert Wallingford, abbot
of st. Adams in 1926, many ingenious
men have been credited with the inven-
ton. To Boethius CA. D. 500 had been
accorded the honor, Notwithstanding it
has been disputed whether it was wat
er or a wheel-and weight clock which
Paciicus, of Verons, who lived nearly
four centuries later, constructed, on the
ground that the date was too early for
such an invention. AS, however, Ger
bert, who became pope as Sylvester IL,
did undoubtedly construct wbeel-and-
weight clock at Magdeburg, in 906,
when he was archbishop, the belief that
Pacifcus might also have made one a
little more than a century earlier is not
unreasonable. But, however much the
earlier history of clocks may be involved
in doubt, it is certain that clocks driven
by weights were in use in the monas-
teries of Europe in the eleventh century.
The Catholic clergy are credited with
the introduction of clocks into England.
They possessed much wealth, and had
leisure to cultivate many of the arts, and
were probably led to the cultivation of
horology from the desirableness of hay
ing some means OF regulating their re-
hgious services. The first Westminster
clock is scid to have been erected from
the proceeds of a fine which was impos-
ed upon chief justice of the Kings
bench about the year 1890. a
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1875-09-16
A NEGRO PRAYER.

The following grotesque yet solemn
prayer is verbatim report taken in the
winter of 1923, at Methodist meeting
held by plantation negroes in settle
ment near camp:
go Lord God of dis universe, wilt dou
look down in the omnipresence of dy eye
upon desc collared children bowed upon
de knuckle-bone dis night. Take SOL
emn peep upon us and let heap O.
ightin. Youknowest what dy poor dark
les need. Dere be Sam, dere be Jerry,
and dere be Pompey. Dey are in dere
sins, OATS what 1 reckon. Help dem to
git up and git from de wilderness of sin
and come into the clearing of salvation.
Take solemn peep also upon de dar-
kies in de other cabin, who fiddle and
whirl upon the bombastic, while dy SER
want Eliminates words to dee. May dey
rise above the anthratory things of dis
world and fly like Msssa Linkume's
balloon, heavenward. (Prof. loves bal
Ion was anchored near by.) Ruler of all
humans on dis earth, wilt dou bress de
generals in de field dis night, if it be cir
cumspection in dy discreet eye, and also
Dress de union soldiers who carry de
musket and chew de cartridge fgthin
for de Union and de Stars and Stripes.
Dey fight in q scientific cause and de
bestest OBJ men ; but, good Lord, may
| dey swear less aud pray more. And
finally, Dress DIP humble servant now
supphcating dee in behalf of desc be-
nighted darkies. It behoovesde to dig
deep and sound in de very bottom of his
heart. May dere be nary blimage be-
tween myself and Saviour. In de Ian
guage of de mighty Washington, dis
world is fleeing show. To-day.
| day we are alive and hoppin' around like
| grasshoppers tomorrow de sickel OF
| death cut US down and spreads us out
like grass in hay time. On every side
dou knowest 0 Lord is de evidence of
de dislocation and destruction of de
human family. Dere be fightin' among
one another and natural disease. But
we die to live again, either as saints or
evil spirits. Dere be discussion on doct-
rines. Elecshion before ordination,
Perfection and SIGH like, confuses de in
telIects of both black men and white.
But dou knowest good Lord, dat desc
are all vain illusions, splittin' and divi-
din dy creatures into sexes without
mercy. Many dere will be with slick
countenances, white collars and fine
clothes who will find de gates shut
against dem, while de blind old woman,
hobbling on crutches she go straight
in. Amen"
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CAPTURING OsTRICHEs.- greatest
feat of an Arab hunter is to capture an
ostrich. It is the largest of living birds
and probably the swiftest of all living
animals. Being very shy and cautious,
and living on the sandy plains, where
there is little chance to take it by sur
prise, it can only be captured by we'll
planned and long continued pursuit with
the swiftest horses. The ostrich has
two curious habits in running when
alarmed. 1t always starts with out
spead wings against the wind, SO that it
can scent the approach of an enemy.
Its sense of smell is SO keen that it can
detect at a great distance, long before
one can be seen. The other curious
habit is that of running in circle
Usually, five or six ostriches are found
III company. When discovered, part of
the hunters, mounted On fleet horses,
will gallop away at right angles to the
course these ostriches have taken. When
these hunters think they have gone far
enough to cross the path the birds will
be likely to take, they watch upon some
rise of ground for their approach. If
the hunters hit the right place, and see
the ostriches, they at once start in pur-
suit with fresh horses, and sometimes
overtake one or three of the birds, but
often two or three of the fleet horses fall,
completely tired out with 80 sharp q
chase
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1875-09-16

THE CALIFORNIA PICTURE PLANT
One of the most remarkable products of
the vegetable world for which this coast
is famous, is the singular plant familiar
ly known by the above title, but which
among botanists is better recognized as
Dalingtonia California;. 1t is native
of the northern portion of the state,
chiefly of the district around Mount
Shasta, where it grows in Doggy places
on the slopes of mountains. 1t belongs
to the natural order s'saveaceniacea, ="
and is the only species of its genus,
though several of its relatives are found
in the swampy districts of the Atlantic
states. Darlingtoria is remarkable for
its habit of entraping insects which are
attracted toward the hood at the extrem-
ity of the tubular leaves, probably by its
bright color and its resemblance to a
flower. Once inside the hood, they pass
down the tube which forms the stem,
and on attempting to escape find their
exit prevented by number of fine hairs
pointing downward, which offer a secure
means of imprisonment for the unfor-
tunate insects. 1t is not unusual to find
the leaf stems at their base filled to the
depth of four or five inches with insect
remains. Mr.. Harry Edwards, who has
recently spent some time in the region
of Mount Shasta, and who has brought
mems of the Darlingtonia, informs us
that no less than thirty-six species OF
insects of various orders which had met
Gus plant were found.
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THE other day a Detroiv policeman
was approached by lad who carried in
his hand an old wallet tied up with q
string, but appearing to be full of money.
The boy stated that he had picked it up
on the street and wished the officer to
take charge of. s'You are an honest
boy, my son, said the admiling blUe-
coat. and he slipped a shinplaster to the
lad. Ten minutes afterward it was dis
covered that the wallet was stuffed with
waste paper.