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The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-05-06
From Leland.

E. NJ. Kline has his commission as Justice
of the Peace, and celebrated the event last
week by trying a notable salt and pepper
case. The witnesses were Billy Cummns,
the popular conductor en- this railroad, and
resulted in verdict of not guilty.
Three saloons, at 5000 each, will constitute
the number of death-hol and amount OF
money paid for passage tickets in this vii
lage this year.
The funeral of OrrIn Austin was largely
attended
Mrs. johnson, of the NJ. L. Church, of Au-
rora, had splendid success in her revival ct
fort here Among the converts might be
named j. j. Millay and wife, Mr.. Veval and
wife, Mrs. Frank Potter, Howe, Kline and
George a. Young.
Farmers are driving their spring work,
and will commence planting corn within
week. which will be as early as last year.
The Leland bank has faded, vanished, gone,
winked out, left, removed, folded its tent, and
again found itself in kewanee.
Business is looking up, and the prospect
hrIrhtens. In order to make money must
get a corner on something, if nothing more
than sell to 20 pounds OF prunes for dollar
which would be retailing physic rather
cheap and besides wopld draw customers
In the last issue of the Republican, OF your
CITY, appears the name of William Cullen,
formerly of this township, as a candidate for
congressional honors. This looks ike throw
ing physic to the dogs. His tre"ehem PEN
Glib tongue. sharp eye, and also the fact that
he is brother to the Rev. Tom. Cullen al!
combine to give character to the candidate
I'D ,ro,,d. he successor Of Alexander the
9, EX UNO.
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From Serena.
Elk UNO
Great.

Uessrs EdiorS-In your last issue we see
that certain persons In an adjoining town
have been cracking away at. what they cali
"voung blood's of Serena Now all they
know about the people of this village is what
they have learned while prowling around TO
get their bottles filled with Az rod "hi'Aes
and we think they were under the influence
of il when they wrote their fourishlng article.
Our whiskey dealers say that they mus
have got some of their "Own Brand 'ha'
goes TO mems heads thai have no braIas' an
we Judge there was large space for the pour
bon. If they continue to write such sensible
or,,c,os as their last, they can go in partner
ship with George Francis Train ana eal' a
nansr of their own, or get position among
t'aPe' -, aniraIs Yours, &c.
BOYS FROM SERENA.
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Philadelphia counted noses last week, the
census of the city being taken in one day, on
the English plan. A blank was left at each
house in one day, by the police force, said
blank TO be filled and handed back to the pc,
lice one week from that day. Where the du-
ty was neglected, "a rare caseO the policeman
filed the blank whey he called for it, Thus
IN one day the whole count was made, and
the population footed up Sl7,74S, Of which
397 logs are males and 419470 females The
population of the city In 1870, by the L. 5.
census, was GA, 022, showing an increase since
then OF 1896
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tiles to bring success within the range OF pos
MIR. CAMPBELL'S BILL.

We are indebted to Hon. A. Campbell! for
copy of the bill he recently introduced III
congress, entitled bill "TO increase the CIR
culation of the national banks and to release
them from the payment of the tax or duty on
their circulation, to liqudate the national
debt and strengthen the public credit"
The title seems to be intended as Il little
stump speech in favor of the bill, but alter
reading the bill one is rather incllned to re-
card it as a "sarkasum," the intended effect
OF the bill being maniiestly exactly the op-
positc OF what is indicated in the title, The
intention of Mr.. Campbell is obviously net to
increase the circulation of the national banks,
or release them from the payment of any tax
but on the contrary to retire their circulation
and replace it with greenbacks In word
these are the provisions Of the bill; That
hereafter the national banks, on deposiung
bonds with the L. 5. treasurer to secure CIR
culation, shall have currency issued to then!
equal to the par value of the bonds deposited,
but the interest on such bonds, while thus on
deposit IN the treasury, shall be withheld
from the banks and applied to the payment
of the national debt. OF course, Mr.. Camp
bell knows that no national bank will deposit
bonds with the treasurer and receive bank
notes on such terms. 1t is the same as ask
ing a man or company proposing to start a
bank with say 100000 circulation, to take
$4,000 of greenbaCkS and buy $4,000 III
government bonds, and receive for these
100000 of paper from the treasury with
which to do banking business That Is, the
banker is asked to deposit $4,000 currency
with the treasurer and receive from him
100000 currency in return--in other words
for the privilege of banking with bank bills
instead of greenbacks he is willing to lose
the use of $4,000, or the interest on govern
ment bonds to that amount
Fully conscious of what the result must be
Mr.. Campbell's bill finally provides that as
rapidly as the banks return their circulation
its place shall be filed by greenbacks issued
from the treasury, to be used in the purchase
or payment of the principal of any interest
bearing Indebtedness of the |. 5.
We see no serious objection to the bill
indeed are ready TO advocate its passage on
the single condition, that before the large adj
dition to the legal tender circulation of the
country is made which the bill contemplate
some effective steps shall be taken to bring
their value up to par with gold. We can
bear the reproach of bank circulation
hawked about among eur merchants at dls
count of from 10 to IS per cent, but no gov
crnment can decently claim the respect OF
the commercial world which will allow It's
own promises to pay to be thus hawked when
i, can by a word make them as good as gold
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The following item, which we clip from
the Springfield Register, is not without inter
EST IN Ottawa, former kome of the venerable
pair referred to;
Nav 25th is the date Of the golden wedding
of Mr.. aud Mrs. Jacob Fry, which viii be Gel
ebr,ted at their home, Il few miles east OF
Kane. Mrs. Fry Is daughter OF Gen James
Turney, formerly attorney general OF Illinois.
Gen. Fry built the first house at Carrollton
uas the first sheriff of Greene county; was in
the Blackhawk war; was state canal com
missioner; general of the state militia, and
colonel of the 6lst Illinois reglmcntin the late
war On this occasion will be brought to-
re,ber a number of distinguished members
or The family from New York, San Francisco,
and other points. Gen. J. b. Fry, provost
marshal general during the war, Is his son.
A son and daughter reside at San Francisco
Cant VIM. W Fry, is another son. Gen. Fry
has been totally blind Tor several years, and
Is now in his nth year. Ii is expected tina;
all the old settlers of Greene and Jersey coun
ry will be present
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-05-06

Those who say Blistow has emerged from
the investigation of the Mary Merritt case in
a"blaze of triumph" whatever that may
mean, are easily satisfied. The case, in a
word, is this: The bark Mary Merritt was
libcled and condemned at Milwaukee for a
violation Of the revenue law. As certain
Kentuckians were interested in the vessel,
Bristow, as their lawyer, applied to Secretary
Richardson for remission of the forfeiture.
The case was argued twice by Brlstow, and
Richardson's decision, from which there was
no appeal, each time against him, Then,
when Bristow became secretary, he allowed
the case TO be re-opened, and the decision of
his predecessor was reversed and the forfeit
ure RENTED. Bristow's triumphant explain.
alton" is, that the vessel was released by his
subordinates, without his knowledge, while
he was away in New York under treatmcn,
for sore throat! This may clear Brlstow OF
the charge of corruption in the case, but is II
not criminal carelcssness in an officer IN hi.
position TO be no better posted about the do
ings OF his subordInates?
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besides. They will report severe resolution

besides. They will report a severe resolution
of Censure.
STEVENSON.
Stevenson, a new Illinois member, won
laurels IN the house on Wednesday by his
maiden speech, which was against the ad.
mission Of New Mexico, very conclusively
demonstrating that the admission of that ter.
ri,ory as : state would be an lndcfensible
outrage.
BLAINE.
The House on Tuesday adopted ressolu.
ton ordering an investigation by the House
Judiciary Committee INTO the mystery sur.
rounding the extraordinary transaction Of the
Union Pacific Railroad Company in worth
less Arkansas bonds, and the connection OF
the name of Mr.. Blaine Herewith.
SPEAKER KERR.
On Monday the speaker asked and obtain
ed leave of absence Oh account of personal
illness, for not exceeding 10 days, and ap
pointed Mr.. Cox speaker pro TEN. He then
in an earnest manner expressed his thanks to
the house for its long continued kindness and
indulgence toward him.
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And now the whisky lightning has struck
Grundy county. Dispatches to the chicago
papers las, Friday state that descent has
been made on the Au Sable dlstillery-ior-
merly McNellis's, but latterly run by MT
,errv Warrants were issued for the arrest
of Chas II. Conklin, Peter Grant, ex-gauger,
and four or five others. The name of j. +.
Rathbun, of Ottawa, exlnspector, is also
mentioned among the accused, and Mr.. Il.
went to Chicago on Saturday of his own &C
cord to see about it. We notice by yester-
davis Times that on his appearance in court
the Judge told him there Was no evidence
against him and he was free to 60 about his
business
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LOYAL" CIRCULATION.
out

The withdrawal of Washburn as guber'
Material candidate in this state is grlevous
disappointment to the Chicago ring that had
brought him forward and pinned their hepes
an him Their slate was about this wash
burn for governor; Rlnaker, of the Macou'
min Enguirer, for lieutenant governor; Bob.
Lincoln for secretary of state; Lippincolt FOR
auditor, Rutz for treasurer and Callahan Tor
attorney general The ticket was strong
one well distributed, and but for Washburn's
fying the track, would probably have won
What disguised Washburn was probably the
overweight and offensive zeal with which
his cause was championed by his Chicago,
Galena and minor organs, exciting the ire OF
the opposition and causing them to rake up
old sores and make the contest much more
personal and dlsagreeablc one than Wash
burn anticipated
The head having dropped off the ticket, OF
course n radical Encouragement of the slate
becomes necessary, unless, indeed, 1t Is pro
posed to surrender the field to Beveridge and
Cullom, and of this there Is no thought. The
plan now maturing by the Chicago ring 1t Is
said is TO bring out l.. Brentano for Secre'
tary of state, This cuts out Rulz, as one
German on the ticket is enough, and lets In
Tom Needles, from Ruiz part of the state, Tor
Llpplncott's shoes gives George Sanders, who
was fraudulently counted out two years ago
chance for treasurer, and of course smashes
both the Bcveriige and Cnllom slate tickets,
leaving the road open for the great un
known" for governor, to whom the Chicago
ring have now pinned Their hopes, The
state Register, which prctends to have got
peep behind the curtain and "smouched' the
above outline, adds: The scheme is bold
one and the indications now are that 1t will
be successful. The present fight among the
loyal brethren is one the like of which was
never before witnessed In Illinois
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-05-06

BEFORE the Centennial Show at Phladel
nina. which is advertised 10 be open on the
10th inst, can be regarded as permanently
open, there are few preliminary questions
TO be settled over which It is said the man.
agement is still, as ii has been tor month
past, frightfully torn up, with peaceful So
luton apparently at far OF as ever. The mo.
mcntous questions involve great moral prin-
ciplcs in which, Of course, SO pious city as
Philadelphia has an infinitely deeper inter
est than can arise from mere pecunary con
slderations. Firstly, shall the show be kept
open on Sunday 1t is a worlds show open
TO HIndoo. Turk, Jew, Christian, heather and
infdel alike. ICIt is closed on the Christian
SUNDAY, why not, say the anti sabOatarians,
clo,e it also on Saturday, Tie Jewish SAB
bath; or on Friday, the Mohammedan Sab
bath; or ON Thursday, the lllndoo Sabbath
and so on, covering with somebody's sabbath
every day IL the week. Yet how can such ar
gumcnts be expected TO affect the stauncl
quakers presbyierians and methodists tha
control the management? The next tremen
dous question is, shall liquor be sold on ih'
grounGy This is badly complicated by th'
fact that many contracts have already beer
made by subcommittee of the management
and large sums paid into the treasury for tn
privilege of selling liquor on the ground
II And worse still, the purchasers Of these priv
lileges have expended considerable sums il
erecting buildings for their expected trade
+ and if now voted out, will bring ,roublesom
{ lawsuits against the management for heay
! damages. II looks As II 50 expansive an III
S dertaking as a worlds show, managed b
: something SO narrow and contracted as Phi
ladelpbia ideas, involved too many ineongr'
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Thomas X. Beecher, although Il brother of
tie Brooklyn saint, is not that kind of a
man. On the contrary, he seems 20 be as
pure and exemplary in his private life as he
Is manly aud trenchant IN his public utteran-
ces In recent letter in an Elmira paper
on the subject of election frauds, he makes
the following rather novel suggestion:
While the world stands votes will be bought
and sold IN a democracy, vast numbers OF vo.
tiers cannot possibly use their votes wisely
1t is better for capital TO get out the vote by
cash than for party men TO get il cut by brides
and lies. Toycte proxy Is no innovation, no
disgrace 10 stockholders; bribery laws once
repealed, honest wealthy, and patriotic men
could bid In open market for the votes which
are now sold 10 the knavish and corrupt only
OF course the facetious parson intends i
as "sarkasum;'' what he means to say be
ing, that in the government Of cities, at leas,
there should be such a restriction on popHla
suffrage as would eliminate that large vo,
which at most municipal elections il fouu
purchasable. Such a reform, ho,seyer.
more easy 10 talk about than 10 put INTO pra,
,ice.
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RARNUM

The great Barnum is coming No"a'c Is 'N,
ed but he has sent us copy of his illuminated
pictorial 1G page circular, in which ne prom
ises to visit Ottawa some time during 'h'
coming summer, with the "grandest show on
earth" He says It is his own and ohIy CoIoSs'l
Centennial Exposition; but instead OF asking
the people to spend their time anu '"'E'
sums of mohey to 90 TO this eNposl'iop' "S
they must to see that at Philadelphia, the
show will come to them, moved on three
monster special trains of solid steel carr
And the star spanglcd banner
In triumph shall wave
O'cr the grandcst OF SHOWS
Even Baruum Ger gave.
He calls it ~ colossal moral moVaoIe
academy Of object teaching, embracing
every obtainable museum, menag'rle' au'o'
matte, art, arenic and hippodromatlc noVeI'y
worth exhibiting 1t takes eleven hNhuTeu
persons and six hundred horses and ponies
and three monster railroad trains to transport
and run the thing, besides special paIace
coach in advance for the advertising OriSaue'
AS every day this year is appropriate LOT
grand centennial celebration, so IN every 10
cality to be visited by this colossal exposition
the day of such visit is one to be Designated
there for the grand centennial ovation OF the
wear. 10 be heralded. at o'clock \. NJ, by a
national salute of 10 guns and the joyous
pealing of bells, followed by the trumphaI
procession of liberty and the nation. 10
make the ovation as thrilling and impressive
as possible the great vocalists, Sonora Don
ETH and J. Russell Haynes, assisted by train
ed chorus of 800 voices, will make the streets
resound with national airs with the accom-
paniment of bands of martial music and sal,
vOs of cannon.
And there Will be national colors, gorgeous
banners, "a gigantic live American eagle
will hover overhead, living groups Will per
senate the father of his country ana other
historic characters, and the Goddess OF Lib
erty will trlumphantly wave the stars and
stripes over the splendid and animated scene;'
each performance winding up at night with
magnificent display of fireworks"
! That's the way the circular talks, and VINO
ever knew Barnum to come short OF his
promises? ut is all humbug," say YOU
Granted; but it is humbug on such colossal
scale that you may live century and sec
no other humbug like IT,
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The Ottawa banks have been paying out
silver for several days. And yet the quar-
tiers, dimes and halEdimes are not plenty
Rep.
If the facts revealed by recent treasury in
vestigations at Washington are reliable 1t
looks as if it might take several hundred
millions of dollars Of silver to replace the
fractional currency. The facts revealed are,
that although the fractional currency as soon
as printed sready for circulation, no account
whatever is kept of the amount printed, or OF
the amounts sent IN for redemption, and In
short, nobody can tell whether the amount
now IN circulation is forty or hundred mil
Lions
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FOREIGN NEWS.
England.


The officers of the crown having refused TO
surrender the Boston lorger Winslow except
on condition that he shall be tried in the l.
5. only for the otfense on which his extradi
tiion is claimed, and secretary Fish refusing
to accept his extradltiOn on such terms, the
extradition of criminals between the |. ).
and England may be regarded as and end, as
neither country is likely hereafter to pay any
attention to the treaty on that subject.
Both houses Of parliament having agreed
to the royal titles act the Queen on the 29th
issued her proclamation announcing the as
sumption by her of the title OF Empress OF
India. There is nothing, however, said IN
the proclamation about the promised release
of the Fenian prisoners, which led Maurice
Brooks, on the I'd, in the house, to question
Disraeli as to the omission, without ellcltlng
any answer
A small war-cloud arises in Africa. The
King of Dahomey having been requested by
a British Commodore TO pay certain hne
imposed on him for maltreating British sub
iects, snaps his fingers at the British lion and
invites the commodore to visit his capital and
receive his pay in powder and bullets
There is serious troubeln the British West
India island of Barbardoes. a dispatch from
the Governor to London says: Forty OF the
rioters have been killed and wounded and
500 taken prisoners. Confidence in the gov
eminent IS entirely gone and intense anxiety
nrnvails'
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Mendoza has heroine A Miss Van Doren,
a lass of lG, was left alone at home on Mon.
day in charge OF small child, when tramp
appeared, and taking in the situation at a
glaunce," like McCaleb's HERDS in the 'Obson
story, presented pistol and demanded what
money there was in the house. The lady
said all the money was in fathers bed room
backing into which, she seized rifle cane
and with il scared the tramp off the prem
iups
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From Garfield.

GARFIELD, May 81, 1876.
The death of Allen Mcdonnell, a neishooE
"a roIl.todo farmer, was very Unexpectedly
' 'n,onyco5 in our village on Monday mora
an. AZ" Wor =, Mr.. Mcdonnell leaves many
, I'D and $ family of wife and children to
regre, his departure from this life.
w,pp,rp-On Sunday evening, Mr.. VIM.
rerne,, of Bureau Co, HIS, to Miss Nellie
Iarkin. of this place. Many friends were IN
tendance. They 90 to Bureau this week to
,,,o nsy home willie has provided for Nellie.
ono remembrance attend them.
GREAT SCOTT,
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As between dem ocrats and repuoilcans'
indianapolis has for long time been deoat'
able ground. A year ago the democrats car
ried the city, and previously to the late elec'
ton so gerrymandered the wards, that 'hey
thought they had sure thing on perpe'u'
alton of their power. They were nightly
mistaken. The trick excited such indIgna-
ton that they were kicked out OF power on
Tuesday by 1000 majority. Served them
rlrhtl
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Turkey.

The rebellion of the Turkish provinces In
- : an nearer an end than ever. Iur-
low refused to accede TO the wish OF Austria
ro,o,vs, of the armIs;ice, because the
Turkish troops penned up in Niesic were ,,
starving and must be v.ciualed' and hhaI.y
an the Doth, the Turkish general by a strata,
-, or rather trick, succeeded IN entering
T;asic and vic,ualing the place. But In WIN
drawing his army he encountered large osa
- Of the insurgents, and had some hsru nsn'
inc in which both sides clam the Sic'ois
pHssi, drsclaims earnestly any desire To ~
,er,ere in the quarrel, and as the other sr.a'
mowers are deeply interested IN ma'n ,I Ii
the peace Of Europe, doubtless the IouU , ~
We, be settled by them without mu'H WV
mony. when they get ready
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Germany.

A ferry boat explosion at Bingen-'laii
Rincen ON the Rhine'-killei 80 persons Oh
the LIST inst. ,,5
The Prussian chambers, after long anu
heated debate, passed the railway bill on the NJ,
ID inst, by vote of PIG to 100. Inc Oil
nroposes to place all the railroads In the eni,
n;,d rr1or control of the gevernment-no'
as d political, but as com'nei'i"' 'D''7''
Bismarck explained.
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spain.

Nearly every day the dispatches announce
the sailing of recruits for Cuba-2oOO iniah'
try on the 3lst ult., cavalry on the LIST, DC.
After an angry debate of several weeks the
Spanish Congress on the Sd rejected a pro-
nosed amendment to the constitution to strike
an, the federation clause-ly vote of 226
10 50.
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Japan sets this country wholesome exam
pie. The VIceroy Of Fukicn, finding bribery
and corruption spreading among his officials
proceeded at once 10 punish the guilty by de
capi,ation, which soon put stop 20 H.
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SQUAT ON HIS PILE.

At least one indubitabe branded, convicted
public thief squatS down serenely on his
plumber and deties those pestilent nuiSances,
the democratic congressional investigators,
to touch him. That man is Clapp, the Super.
lntendent OF the government printing office
at Washington. HIS stealings may amount
to hundreds Of thousands, but $4,000 were
traced squarely into his pocket and he never
denied or tried to explain it. But he is, by
special law, an officer of the Senate, and
neither the house or the courts can punish an
officer Of the Senate The way Clapp got to
be an officer of the senate was this: In 1866
Andy johnson discovered he was thief and
tried to remove HIM, but the senate, which
had already passed the tenure of office bill
Immediately passed another making Clapp
an officer of that body, thus protecting him
not only against Andy Johnson, but any fu
ture house, should that body ever become
democratic. 1t is good deal more funny to
the republicans, however, than to the tax
PAYERS, that the democrats, though they find
no difficulty in proving republican officials
to be thieves, are impotent to punish them