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CAL for al Independent National Con
vSutiOl

WHAEEAs, our legislation, both Stat, and
1s'loDai, ;.r the last few years. las been al
most exclusively for chartered ulruoDoIie-
against the people, iu favor 81 foreign inter-
,.,., ,.ii tnt tie -&cha.Eer "a the detrim.nt
t tne produce; ann,
WHEREAS. -nyh Legislation Has resulted in
almost entire Tgastr.-InH and ii-Inte grafton
u our industrial interests. ~ bile a. the same
uia- enormously stimulating parasitic ievel-
upuyu,. AID,
WHEHLA-, The civil service Of the country
a.dtr The Oh party leaders has become thor
uu-Hiy aud ,i.lauolsly corrupt threatening
tu Slur--t uur government; therefore, be II
Y G-.l' I'd, That W. demand.
lIe repeal % -ht specie resumption ami
A.-Iu;.aI lana acts
. I'll, p-riectiug 81 a monetary system
based up"n the faith and resources Of the ma
upr, and adapted t. the demands OF legitimate
business: which money shall be a legal tender
Il payment 81 all debts, public and private,
duties ou imports included. Except that por-
tior " the interest ami principal 81 the pres
eur public debt, that j. by the express terms
Of the law creating IL, made payable in me
ta.Ic money! Tins money to be inter
cnsrgeable At the option If the holders with
reg,st led government bonds, bearing a rate
% interest no, exceeding IS per cent. per
aauum.
Tie thorough reform Of the civil service
" -Ac country by the expulsion and punish
m-u. of All corrupt officials, ana a rgd per
.,ual accountability 81 ever official.
4 rigid economy in the expenditures in
81. the departments Of the government
Rigorous lave regulating and controlling
m1ueyed corpora IONS, and their vigorous en-
I.tlemeut.
Therefore VIZ invite all legal voters 81 the
DATED States vino indorse the above pream-
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The Five Twenty Bonds.

"Wsea the bill was on its passage, the
question Nls expressly asked IF the Chairman
III tile Committee Of Ways and Means. and
as expressly answered by him. that only the
interest VA pa. able IN coin. '-THADDfUs
SrglESs.
III the houd-holier refuses to take the
same k'uI %. money with which he bought the
ooGd-, ae Is an eXtor,ioner and yudia-
tor JoHS -uEEHAN
1--WE sh.uli ~ toul injustice 70 the Gov
erauenr aut to the people " the United
: a;,- after We have suli these bonds on an
average ..r rc- more than SIXTY cents ID the
dollar. now " propose 70 make a now con-
tls-. .s t.- .rneut 81 thr holders. OLIVER
E.tIn~.
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SCIENTIFIC
POLITICAL LECTURES.

PerSona organ Eatons DESTROYS q securing he .-r
vices 81 Col. A. J. FINCH deliver his Lecture can
address himself l5l South Clark street. Chicago I
SnbIects-"A $ ientihc Analysis a the Money yur-
ton" The Financ Al Issue" Capita, and La.ur
+" The Railroad Rebellion
COL FINCH has successfully answered Prnf u ntmt
Price, u oxford Univers5t, Carl Schurx and Ia-gt
humber u other buioni.ta. Ills Analysis ~ tb 4up
Question 4 probably the most thorough ~ any y hal
has ever been written
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CoMMUNICATIoNs received from Savan-
rah. Ga, New York san Francisco,
Washington. Pontiac, and Colchester. will
aDpeAr IN orr next
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TERMS MODERATE.
1000 Agents Wanted
Footprints 81 tAs Ages, Or Government wv
the Nations Centennial Ristorg.

sOoo octave pages, fully illustrated Every citiEes.
sais; IT. Just the book want" Extra terms Ia.
elusive Territory. 0uth free Address GOODsPFEDs
BOON, BlBLE AND NAP HOUSE Chicago.
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THE S.EV,IVGS B.G.tK.

PRACTICE SAVING and Yrouragr yaur .t,I1,.-
d0mestics and friends % saw
Deposits y FIVE CENTS and upwards rel+I.- w WI /.
INTEREST allowed thereon
INTEREST WED
On deposits Of One Dollar and upsar,is
societies
May deposit Money from time time and before n..L
ing the first Deposit, may Provide by Vots how AMI
whom y shall BE- drawn out and, provided 4 cur, NJ
the Resolution be furnished % The Savings BARN. Yr
money will be paid, unless ill., provisions arv .rrtt
complied With
OFFICERS.
JOHN c. HAINES. Pre.id.r.
JARED GAGE, Vice President
CHARLES >. HAlNES Cashier
GEORGE NJ. GAGE. Asst Cashier
DIRECTORS
JARED GAGE, JoHN q HuNL-.
FRANK B. ToBEY. Henry II SurFrrr,
JUDGK +. ; WILLIAMS
The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1876-02-19

Large eonsignments of fresh dressed beef
cave Kansas City weekly for Europe.
The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1876-02-19

Deposits in Savings Department. mad
during hrst ten days Of January aHl
July Will draw interest for the full.
month.
The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1876-02-19

L. slDrAY, President J0ny b DRAAE. III NJ DIV
H. PovEEs, NJ Pres. JAs. GIBs~. Cashier
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DIRECTORS.

W. COolbaugh AnsOu StAgur N. Llndgrsn, Dr
y DAVIS, II G Power. JuO. MeCadery. hu Gre
far, Wn. IL Mitchell, Iheo s,hiutz. I,asc Walked
Geo Stunges. John B. brake l.. h sid0a}. T.
Crane .. Potter
The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1876-02-19

Prentice milford, late editor of the
Overland Monthly, has been delivering
witty ten cent lectures here. He says that
exhaustion and starvation" are the "un-
derlying causes" of most Of the intemper-
ance Of the world. Let him add this more
general expression, ''the grinding oppres-
sion of the poor and weak by the rich and
strong" Look at England. In that
p; mary element of true civilization, due
Ne gard ~ the interests Of the common
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COMFORTS THE AGED

ram weighing sixteen pounds and FIVE ounces !;
Messrs. Paddock Il Long tieeces weighing II to
l414 lbs. each, anu Mr. Moses Stocking, fleece
of Is lbs. ~ o., from a two year old lnfantado
ram. The business is rapidly increasing, and
soon textile manufacturers will look to the Ne.
braska prairie for large annual supply of wool.
Mr.. Cornelius Jansen, Zone of the leaders OF the
Russian Mennonites. who are making Nebraska
their home,) on $50 acres Of land purchased from
the B. q NJ. Company, has established flock OF
500 grade Merino sheep, and herd of 100 blood
ed cattle, choosing Nebraska for his enterprise
after he had carefully examined the country from
Southern Kansas to the Red River of the north
and Mr.. NJ. s. Maloney, capitalist of New York,
"a practical flock master,) who has purchased two
sections of land and leased one section from the
state, in the Republican river country. 70 this
ranch he is bringing 900 Merno ewes frcm New
Mexico, and thorough. bred Merino rams from
Vermont, anticipating from the cross large
sheep and heavy fleece in Nebraska, which in
the matter Of sheep, he considers to be the Scot
land of the States In cattle the prairie herd
men are accommodating 'fortunes.-f Comn'unicd-
fei
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\ good seine for sale cheap.

Z. l. REED.

On Monday night about 10 O'Clock, our friend
Billy Fo7lough had a very narrow escape from
death. While walking home, on the west side
he noticed two men sneakiug toward him along
the high fence about fifteen or twenty feet ahead.
He stopped, resting his hand on his hip, when
one cried out: "IIes going to shoot" With
that one Of the twain shot at him. the ball strik-
ing the edge Of MS watch and glancing oil, in
iicting only slight flesh wound. They then
fed. The affair is very mysterious. Doubtless
the rufians' intention was 10 rob him, for he can
see no other reason for their action. However,
the watch saved his life, and the men escaped.
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Becves, sheep hogs ana hOrscs-oue or all,
there is millions in them At the base oil aii
there Is the ilimitable markets, wide as The word
Then comes the low down cost VI production 70
supply this market-ihc low cost because the
climate favors health and ygor in animal life, eX.
pericnce proving that there is no ylrulentiOrm u
disease among stock In Nebraska, anG because
even on the wild prairie, the pasturagc afforded
fy the native grasses being abundant, ana All TIE
Law that is required Obtaindble al the cost OF cut
ting Grain feed, 81 course, is cheap; ana SUI.
tg..ut shelter for the winter months is obtained
iy building the rough prairie stable OF posts ana
boards, covered aud wrapped as with blanket
by piled up straw and hay. No one has con-
rgenced a. flock master. and not found the ayo
cation profitable In 1873, a flock Of iotsWOlds
slrph, rded on the plains, yielded AcssrS. C'cigh-
ton Of Omaha, an average fleece oi 10 lbs pei
head, the price they realized being 40 cents PEI
hound in The dirt. The Hon. Moses Stocking
uf WahOo, ia Saunders county, had on July ISL
I.14, flock of 1852 McrinOs, which he valued al
- per head, amounting To SiHj6; and lroni ines
on June Both, 1873, his profit was Si,49Sa3 Mr
4 ID. Richie, an experienced nOck master oil VI
ton Seward county, states that h,s profits Tor The
sheep wear, 1896. exceeded his most sAnguint
expectations, and he believes be can get MS
money back each year, aud have ne mock OF
which he starts besides. Instances oi this Kind
could be accumulated. Let II be said, hOSeVer
that there are now $1,000 in Grange county; and
al a sheep shearing festival held st Beatrice, the
county seal, on NAY II, ls16, Mr.. 5. { Carey ex'
hibiied a Merino fleece weighing - lbs. - or
and a second fleece from three year oid herlnC
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A Wonderful Escape.

From the Monroe County, Mo-, Appeal.
A few days since Mr.. Even Slower, OF
Spring Valley, Berks county, Pa, while work
ing in his mil, noticed that the machinery
was not working as it should do, and kept
getting slower. Finally it almost stopped.
He Immediately proceeded to investigate the
matter and ascertain the cause. He raised
the stones, inspected the machinery, and did
other things without avail. Finally he went
to the water gate and raised itup. Finding
that the water did not flow rs fast as II
should, he inserted his arm in the race, and
to his horror pulled out one Of his own chit
dren, aged about three years. 1t was, to all
appearances, dead, but as he was carrying II
to the house its nose began to bleed, and the
color came back to its face. Tie child was
resuscltated, and IS at present as well as II
nothing had ever happened. How long the
little child had been IN the water no one
knows.
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Obituary..

DIED-On Thursday morning, tne sd inst, at
the home of her parents in this city, HELEN
ID. SWIFT, only daughter of Milton II. Swift,
Esq., aged about "A years.
The death of Miss Swift falls upon the CON-
munity as shock. Two weeks ago she was in
all the bloom of youthful buoyant health. Then
she took cold, which, though severe, excited
no serious apprehensions, until about ten days
ago, when alarming symptoms of tetanus mani
tested themselves. There was battle between
the disease and medical SKILL and about Monday
last science seemed to have triumpbed, and the
patient began to improve SO rapidly that her per-
feet restoration to health seemed but the matter
Of three or four days. But suddenly, on Thurs
day morning, there was violent return OF the
disease, and ere those who anxiously bent over
the suffering, precious form of the patient could
realize it, her spirit had taken its fight.
Death is the common lot of all, and SO omni-
present are its insignia that 1t seems soecism
ever to speak of it with dread or surprise; yet
although few days here, more or less, are rs
naught in the cycles of eternity, no philosophy
or religious support wholly fortify us against
the shock when the dread messenger summons
those who are near and dear, especially, as in
this case, when they are still in the bloom OF
lovely, exuberant, joyous young womanhood.
Around her had been entwined the strongest
cords of pateInal and fraternal affection; and
outside of this sacred circle in host Of daily in
Inmates, associates and cherished companions,
many heart is grief stricken and dumb in the
presence of the decree that sewers them for all
time from one whose society had ever been to
them joy and a comfort.
The funeral of Miss Swift takes place from the
Episcopal Church at 10 o'clock this morning
In this connection we are requested to publish
the following lines:
To Mrs. NJ. IL. Swift.
Grief stricken mother, whose anguisked heart
Once more by" sorrows sword" is rent,
And mute, dumb woe bespeaks thy grief,
When sorrowing tears are long since spent
Tears shed DER the clay of your cherished darling,
The light of your eyes, the JOY OF your heart;
Who was linked to you by bonds so holy
That her life became Of your soul part.
God has taken her home. @ Borrowing mother,
Recall her not from that realm of rest;
When bliss eternal shall crown forever
Gods chosen children supremacy blest.
Though your griefseared heart be crushed and
sore,
1.-The pure shall meet to part nc MORE"
And wen know our own in Heaven"
Ottawa, November "A, 1876.
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VARIOUS ITEMS.

George Emerson, an old and well known
citizen of Mendoza, who removal to Caliior
MIA year ago, has returned, prelerrihg Ill
nois as permanent home to the western
slope.
The notorious Younger brothers-three o.
,bem-wbo were captured a month or two
ago for the murder of the cashier of The
Mortified Mimi Bank. which they had
robbed, were arraigned for trial at Fari
bault on Monday and all three plead guilty
upon which they were sentenced TO the peni
Tertiary for life.
During the funeral of Gen. Giles A. Smith
at Bloomington last week. an old cannon
that had betn captured in the Mexican wal
was brought out to be fired. At the first
charge the cannon bursted into pieces, para
lying the crowd with establishment, but for.
tunately no one was hurt.
The Moody and Sankey revival meetings
at Chicago have now been kept up cOntinu
ously for six weeks AMI with steadily increas
ing rather than abating interest The Taber
nacle holds 5000 people and IS always full
A Christian Convention met there on Wed
nesday, to devise means for spreading the
revival over the northwest, and was attended
by 1900 delegates.
The Centennial encampment Of the Patrons
of Husbandry, a large frame hotel at the rail
road station near the Centennial grounds
was totally destroyed by fire on Friday OF
last week 1t was 500 feet long by $50 fee,
deep, with accommodations for 1000 guests
end 1900 rooms. 1t was completely furnish
ed, and COST all told, $4,000; insured for
$4,000 A hundred thousand grangers were
accommodated in the building during the
Centennial Nothing was saved from the
building but 10 mattresses. The fire is be.
lleved to have been the work of an incen-
diary.
At Gilman, Ill.,, on the 10th inst, drunk
en- man went into dining hall and called
for some oysters. After eating part of them
he left. The girl who waited on him. think.
ing something wrong about the oysters, tasted
them. She soon became deathly sick, and
the calaboose where he confessed that he had
put strychnine In the oysters for the purpose
of killing himself. Physicians were called.
The man has recovered, but the girl is still
in a critical condition.
There is a small Kuklux excitement IN the
town OF Usage, in this county. For several
years past number of horses have been stol.
en- IN that town, and no clue was found to
the thieves. Lately, it seems, suspicion has
fallen on one Frank Orr, q resident of the
town, as connected with the thieves, and one
night last week a number of disguised men
surrounded Orr's house, pretending to have
come to arrest him. Orr refused to be arrest.
ed in that way and fired several shots into the
crowd, who thereupon beat a hasty retreat.
Orr is confident that several were hurt, but
no killed or wounded men have been found.
The affair is involved in mystery.
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For hats and caps go to A. Frank & Co.'S.
A /" Herald" Man.

You've all heard of the New York HeraldS
collar all the intellect that lands there and press
it into the Herald staff. Which may account
for some of the HerdlTs eccentricltes. Which
may account for the Herdlfs multitude Of spe-
cial correspondents also, aud the loose way in
which they turn up at odd times, in places and
in manner unexpected. We could not see any
special reason for sending man to Ottawa at
this present. perhaps the "cuss" had "roving'
commission and swooped down here just for
luck" He came very mysteriously and disap-
peared in like manner. He came incog., or,
rather, through cogs," Judging from his make
up. He came carrying bundle OF umbrella
handles, wires, &c., and mended the umbrellas
for the boys. No one imagined the intellect be-
hind that highly cultivated proboscis; all mistook
the bright fires of the mind that shone through
those blue embroidered eyes Tor the flames OF
gin and water. He was sensitive, as all men of
genius are. SO on that night when he roamed
the streets yelling for Whayes & Heller and in
his patriotism kicked over boxes, upset potato
barrels, and tore around promscuously, his SEN
sitive nature recoiled from the outrageous treat
ment the boys heaped upon him-antiquated
hen-fruit, watery potatoes, and demoralized APP
pies, &c. He shooh his umbrella stalks, swore a
terrible swear for revenge, and yelling: Bull
dozed! bull hic)dozed. You'll (hic) hear from
me in the (hc) 'erdld," disappeared INTO " sam
pleroom" and called for his "old reliable "
" whisky and sugar--no water, sir"
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Books.
How TO SING, or, The Voice, and How to Use It.
BY W. II. Daniel. New York: S. r. Wells L
Co. Ottawa: Osman d Hapeman.
little Volume of 40 pages, written in the
form OF conversation between teacher and pupil
1t makes no pretensions to give perfect manu-.
al OF singing, but simply to make such sugges.
tions as will lead the student of music into
healthy channels. points on; sharply the diff
ference between true art and false-between gen.
uine singing and clap. trap. No honest vocalist
can read 1t without finding the road to high at
tainments Strengthened and cleared of many i'm.
pediments.
THE CENTURY OF INDEPENDENCE: Embracing
collection, from official sources, of the most
important Documents and Statistics connected
with the Political History Of America, with
Biographical and Historical Sketches. j. R
Hussey 4 Co., indianapolis. For sale by Os
man & hapeman.
This is such handbook as ought to be within
the constant reach Of every intelligent citizen
There is ishardly a day in which questions are
not coming up which reference to this volume
would speedily solve. Here we have the origi
nal articesof confederation, the constitution and
all its amndments; sketches of all the Presi
dents; the popular vote at all our presidential
elections statistics of all the states and terrior
les; events of the late war and important docu.
ments pertaining thereto; the civil rights bill
kukluX &C, bankrupt act, history Of finances
and loans; statistics of currency, &C., sc. In
short, ii issuch collection as can only be 9TH
erwise found by consulting large library with
tedious md useless waste of time. The book
is handsomely and substantially bound and con.
tains 600 large octave pages.
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Married.

BoniMEYEg-JoNEs-At the residence Of II. W
Jones, Esq, father Of the bride, on Wednesday,
Nov 22d, 1870, by Rev. I. J. Valentine, Mr. o.
W. BoLLMEYER and Miss HELEN \. JONES,
both of Ottawa.
The wedding was a very pleasant one and was
attended by many Of our people. The bride re-
cciyed many very handsome presents, as well as
congratulations. After a boun,eous collation.
the hero and heroine took the train east for q
short tour during the honeymoon, before set
Ting down to lifes' work. We heartily conaratu-
late both, and wish them all happiness.
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4 Good Paper.

Everybody knows TIE Independent, of New York
as the leading, most enterprsing, and, all agree
most readable and instructive Of our numerous
religious papers 1t is not slow to recognize the
fact that the popular passion tor Chromos has
died out and it makes the remarkable offer of any
one volume of Dickenss Works, an handsomely
illustrated and bound duodecimo, to anybody who
will subscribe and send the regular Three Dol
lars subscription. This is equivalent to offering
the paper fora dollar and a half. Everybody
wants some volume of Dickens, and everybody
ought to want The Independent.
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The "Show,''

Living Statuary" great gracious. The ordi-
nance would not allow the vile cuts TO be pasted
up to give the expectant public an idea of the
"beauty-thc delight of the show, but the boys
don't care for that. All we have to say OF this
show on Monday is that it is propably the filth
est thing in the way OF show that ever struck
Ottawa, if all stories are true. II has been pull
ed" time, time ard again, and if the authorities
have the grit they ought to pull it here and
fine the whole "caboodle.' OF course no woman
will attend nor any decent man. However, foI
the kind 1t IS said to be 4 good show,
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spoiled.

We thought we had a first class item when we
heard all the talk about the murder, but it
didn't pan out 1t seems that Tim Lynch
went home at noon on Friday carrying fish.
Getting home, he quarreled. as usual, with his
wife. and threw the fish at her. 1t struck his
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Gloves, best assortment, at A. Frank & Co.'S,


One of the most precious liberties of this
country is the trial by jury. But a more pre-
cious liberty is to be juryman. What would
some of our old stagers do if It wasn't for the
blessed privilege of sitting in the box to chew
Fountain " and try to figure out by the rule of
three what the Judge means when he talks Of
the preponderance of evidence" What
married man doesn't sigh to be a juryman when
he thinks of the nights when he needn't go
home to tea and NOPE around the house for the
rest of the evening signing for "Bil's" and
Sanchez We are led into this line Of thought
by the experience ofa--h-sidcr on L jury. The
case was but small matter and they agreed at
once; but he didn't let slip this opportunity OF
STAYING over town that night-the first time for
some months. So he sent word over to his wife
that the Jury hadn't agreed yet and the prcba-
bility was that they wouldn't before midnight.
He then went out TO play PEDRO and "Sancho,'
billiards, whisky poker, and drank gin and wa.
ter-the latter didn't wet him very much-hot
whisky three or four cocktails, innumcrable
beers. and finally had Smith deposit him at his
front door step, pull off his boots, aud find the
key hole He disappeared within the house
Smith said he has heard some "racketsn in his
day, but he is ready TO swear that every dece9s-
ed husband turned in his grave in the cemetery
beyond, that night after our juror got TO his
wife's room. Our juryman hasn't been over
town since; but Judg Leland has ordered that
he be hencefo-th forever excused from jurors
duties