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The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1877-07-14

An interesting ZEN comes 10y cable ,ele-
gram. The Barring Brothers, the English
bankers. have decided To- establish steam.
shin line Crom New Orleans to South Ameri.
ca. to be run IN close connection with another
line which is To be established between s..
Louis and New Orleans. That is to say, while
American capital Is begging in our markets
C,r cmplnvment at low rates of interest for
eign firm penetra,es to the very centre OF our
territory and captures the traffic which shame
ful trade and tariff laws IN the interest oil
few shipbulliers have prevented US from
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The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1877-07-14

Take an average petit jury and an average
board of supervisors, and the wisdom of eth
or is so inscrutahle as among plain people
generally TO pass for sheer damloolativeness.
There was little daily paper started in town
a week ago, circulating couple of hundred
copies exclusively in Ottawa, and this con-
Germ made the board the splendid offer yes
terday to fiji one number with its proceed
ings and prin, 20c0 copies for $l500. There
is not another Office IN town but would cheer.
fully print, on a similar broadsidc, the pro
ceedlngs OF the board at $900 to 50 30 per
thousand, the more thousands the better.
Printing such broaisIde, however, and fill
ing four or five columns of valuable space in
a legitimate newspaper, are very different,
things MS probsbiy ~ a weeks hard study,
an average Ia Sale county supervisor might
possibly be able TO learn, if he should be for
lunais enough 10 have an exceptionally com
pctent ieGche~.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1877-07-14

II is doubtless very senseless in the Orange.
men at this day to get up an anniversary cele-
bra,ion in honor of the battle of the Boync, II
battle which, in this age of religious freedom
and universal toleraiI0n, would be condemned
on all sides as an outrage against civilization.
at the same time il is equally absurd for the
irish people 10 fly into a passion, and shoot
and be shot AT, because people are still found
who are fools enough To make pubic parade
in honor of scrimmagc that was about
equally discrcditalle To beth sides engaged.
In this view, the riot in Montreal on Thus.
day reads almost like an occurrence among
The sayagcs of Idaho or in the juGglcs OF
Africa. \ couple of ladies quietly walking
along the street returning from church, al
tended by hoy as escort, are set upon 10y a
brutal mob and the boy murdered. Another
man shot for attempting to rescue the boy,
aud then general riot, IN which thousands
are engaged-all this Deastly display OF pas
SIGN on accoun; of foolish battle 200 years
ago, Of which not one in five hundred of the
mob engaged can safe the cause or give any
connected account! Go 20. Let Canada send
10 some civilized country and employ few
hundred schoolmasters
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1877-07-14

That BaDquo ghost evoked by the Louis
lana frauds and the Bradley commission ris
cs to starile Hayes from hundred unexpect-
ed quarters. \ story is now current in Wash.
ingtoa that airs. Van Lew, whose removal
from the Richmond post Office was demanded
BY the new civil service ideas to make room
for Col. Foster, party henchman, proposes
to resist her removal in the courts on the
ground that Fas,er's appointment was null
and void, iuasmueh as President Hayes was
not legally elected, thus bringing the matter
up for trial 10 the supreme court Of The Unit
ed States.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1877-07-14

Gov. Hampton, of 5. c., whose recent visit
to and temporary sojourn in New York was
duly noted by the papers, has gone home,
having fully succeeded in the object of his
visit north, which was to obtain IA temporary
loan of 100000 to keep the wheels OF his
state government in motion until after next
falls collection of taxes. 1t seems, however,
that he will not need the money, as the peo-
pie are paying enough taxes in advance tc
meet the exigency.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1877-07-14

About O'Clock last Saturday evening Pen
saukee, a lumber town about % miles north.
west of Green Bay, was visited by tornado
which almost entirely destroyed the village.
Aside from two or three hundred wooden
dwellings, the town consisted OF lumber mills,
grist mills and machine shops. All the build
ings in the place were demolished like paper
houses Cattle were lifted up bodily, carried
through the air and left to die where they
fell. Lumber piles were scattered like straw.
y barn was torn to pieces and horse left
standing in his stall uninjured. The track
Of the tornado Was about 100 yards wide, and
its course through the forest is tracked for
miles The most deplorable part Of the bust
ness is that about a dozen Of persons were
killed, and some % more or less severely in
iured.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1877-07-14

How THE POLICY" WORKS .-Charles'oh
county. ;. c.. held an election last week Tor &
new delegation IN the Legislature IN place Of
the II embers that had been refused seats a.
the last session The republicans, VINO uH
der the bayonet system had carried the coun'
~ by $50 majority, offered TO give the uein'
i,,ra,s IN of the Il members and run bu: one
ticket. The democrats declined the oi'eT anu
nominated full ticket of their own, putting
unon !, three colored men. Then the repuO'
licans gave up the contest and the 'icNe' wa
elected on n full, free vote, without any
ou,r,rc.~ Darlington county, which HAD
riven Chamberlain 1000 majority, also eject
ed Democrat in place of The notorious
Wnl,iemOre.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1877-07-14

The Wlnaebago County Fair folks, not dis,
couraged by their fasco in attempting to
have JEFF Davis crate for them last year, have
now invited Wade Hampton 70 give them an
address Al their next county fair. Like Da.
Wis, Hampton accepts the invitation, knowing
doubtless that, as 10 the other case, the round
head bloodyshirt bigots Of Winnebago cpan-
tywill raise such arumpus about 1t before the
fair comes of that tie invitation will have q
De withdrawn.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1877-07-14

\ sad accident occurred at SUea'or on
vr,d.v of last week. Mr.. Silas Alexander,
ward master of tue Pekin stock yards at Siea'
TOR while adjusting SWITCH missed his foot
ing and fell in front of the car which passed
over his body, crushing it fearfally and cut
tine off an arm. Death was instantaneous.
Nj. Alexander bad been married only
month ago, and the young wife is of course
by the bereavement He was
The son of James Alexander, well known
farmer ON the bluff west OF the city, and for
merry. for several years, a resident Of this city
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1877-07-14

WE STAND Having stated
last week that the S;reator Pioneer HAD ob.
tanned the city printing by an adreit use of
soft soap, the Frcs Press ccrrects rs by saying
"No-ycu arc of The Pioneer put 10 lower
BIZ. The editor Of that paper docs not use
SOAP of any kind"
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1877-07-14

The Democratic State Convention of Ohio
will meet at Columbus on The the 25th OF the
present month, to nominate candidates for
Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Judge and
Clerk ct the Supreme Court, Attorney Gen.
erel, Treasurer, School Commissioner and
Member OF the Board of Public Works. The
convention viii be composed of 73j delegates
who will mean business and do il.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1877-07-14

'TlsAN ILL VIVID, &C.-RussiSn aanuiaC-
turers, that had heretofore got their cotton
supplies from Egypt and India, are now, in
consequence of the interruption OF the Black
sea trade, Obliged 10 draw from this country.
An order was filed IN New York last week
NJ 2 900 bales for the Russian government,
10 be shipped by way q the Baltic.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1877-07-14
gdIitc.

There is good deal OF uneasineSs ooiD IN
England an2 on the continent, as to the out
come of French politics Nothing, it IS fear
ed, can prevent an outbreak at The coming
election, The leading Bonapartists have gone
TO CAiselhurst tor consultation, and 1t Is
alleged mediate coGp etdt.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1877-07-14
URlY

There was IN unfuunded rumor on the tatls
Lcurse on the It'll OF the Death Of the pope,
but all the circumstances show 1t was circu-
lated merely for stockjobhing purposes
There has been no appreciate change In the
health Of his holiness in the past few weeks.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1877-07-14

The Narcotics Herald has changed hands,
and is now published by Chas 4, BALDWIN
and Fred. S. Douglas, both of Sandwich. The
HerdH already shows, both mechanically and
editorially, decided improvement from the
change tor which, indeed, there was abund.
ant room both ways.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1877-07-14

Aurora is u nice place 10 live in. y man
standing quietly a; his front gate Is sci upon
by rutiian who with junk bottle SO nearly
brains him tina; his lite is despaired o. NO
cause assigned for the assault bal pure ue'ii-
ishness. The marshal refuses TO arrest the fu!-
nan becsuss lac dislikes 10 make such a man
his enemy,
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1877-07-14

A man named Mitchell Scott, gallant
soldier of the late war, had his right arm
blown of at Tonica On the iih by a prems-
iure discharge OF n cannon.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1877-07-14

y. W. slOcksleger is a candidate for the Of
fee of County Clerk. 1t Is understood, we
believe, that Col. McCaleb has no desire 10 be
reelected.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1877-07-14
OUR CLUBBING.

We are prepared to club the FREE TRADER l
with the following publications, furnishing
both at the prices named, postage prepaid,
The offer is open to old subscribers or ne"
at any post Office IN the country .o,s
Eprr III AnER and Chicago Weekly Times s5,i2
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1877-07-14

D. p JoNEs, Esq, 0td,ra:
Dear Sir--lIayng confidence in your abll-
ity, integrity and learning in the law shall
take pleasure in giving You my support
should you be candidate for circuit judge
at the approaching election.
Very truly yours,
j. ID. CATON.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-03-24

A CORRESPONDENT of the English Ne
cbGnGc insists that musical sounds stimu-
late the growth of plants. He gives an
instance in point. In barren section
of Portugal he built a small conserva-
tory, and endeavored to cultivate roses
and other flowers under shelter; but, in
spite of his precautions and industry,
they did not flourish. One day he took
harmonium into the greenhouse and
played for several hours. This practice
he maintained for several months, and
was surprised to see gradual but rapid
recovery of health on the part of his
plants. He attributes their Improvement
to the influence of music, and unfoids
the theory that the singing of birds is
conducive to vegetable life. 1t is a
pretty theory. Let the honest gardener
hereafter whistle as he waters his plants
and trims his roses. Let the pianos be
moved from drawing-room to green
house, and let the young ladies of the
family practice there. Let the small
farmers of Westminster County hire all
the organ-grinders of New York to make
music in their cOrn-fields all the glad
summer long. Let the brass. bands be
sent into the wilderness until it blossoms
like the rose.-N. Y. Tribune.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-03-24

THE milliners are anticipating very
few novelties this season. Chip bonnets
of ecru shades will continue in vogue,
but great number of fancy straws will
also be imported. There will be bonnets
partly of chip and partly of lace straws,
with brims of one and crowns of the
other. The capote shape, it is predicted,
will prevail. The fronts of all bonnets
will be close against the face, but there
will be some variations in the crowns
Trimmings will be tied closely around
the crown, and follow its outlines, in
stead of being massed in bows and loops
A great many flowers will be used, es-
pecially in wreaths and half garlands.
Tilleul green appears in foliage of every
plant. Wreaths of rose leaves of shaded
green will be used for spring hats for
young ladies'. Silk crowns will match
the costume in color, and the front will
be of satin finished straw or fancy
braids. White lace will be used in com
bination with silks and gauzes for mid
summer bonnets. Many shades of yellow
deeper than those worn last summer
promise to be opular.-Harper's Basar.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-03-24
The CamphOr Tree.

One of the most useful and magnificent
productions of the vegetable kingdom
that enriches China, aud more particu
larly the provinces of Kiang-si and Can
ton, is the camphor tree. This stupen-
dous laurel, which often adorns the banks
of the rivers, was in several places found
by Lord Amherst's embassy above fifty
feet high, with its stem twenty feet in
circumference. The Chinese themselves
affirm that it sometimes attains the
height of more than three hundred feet,
and circumference greater than the ex-
tended arms of twenty men could en-
brace. Camphor is obtained from the
branches by sleeping them, while fresh
cut, in water for two or three days, and
then boiling them till the gum, in the
form of white jelly, adheres to stick
which is used in constantly stirring the
branches. The fluid is then poured into
glazed vessel, where it concretes in a
few hours. To purify it the Chinese
take quantity of finely powdered earth,
which they lay at the bottom of cop
per basin; over this they place layer of
camphor, and then another layer of
earth, and so on until the vessel is near
ly filled, the last or topmost layer being.
of earth. They cover this last layer
with the leaves of plant called pc no,
which seems to be species of mentha
(mint). They now invert second basin
over the first, and make it air-tight by
luting. The whole is then submitted to
the action of a regulated fire for GER
tain length of time, and then left to cool
gradually. On separating the vessels
the camphor is found to have sublimed,
and to have adhered to the upper basin.
Repettions of the same process complete
its refinement. Besides yielding this
valuable ingredient the camphor tree is
one of the principal timber trees of
China, and is used not only in building
but in most articles of furniture. The
wood is dry and of light color, and, al
though light and easy to work, is dura-
BILE and not likely to be injured by in
Sects.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-03-24
Why Chinese Servants Are Kept.

The San Francisco Post says: 1.-TWO
cases are told, illustrating the vexed
question of domestic helps. The eau
casian Society of San Francisco sent a
girl up to Sacramento to supersede a
Chinese boy employed by family in
doing errands and the like. The lady
preferred a female help, if she could get
her on reasonable terms, and offered this
one two dollars and half per week,
with bed and board. She refused, pre-
ferring to remain idle, and the Mongo-
liam is still employed at two dollars per
week, with board, but without sleeping
accommodation. Another case is that
of girl who refused two dollars a week,
with board and lodgings, for cleaning
rooms. She would not take less than
fifteen dollars month, and goes idle.
A Mongolian does the work satisfactorily
for the lesser sum. In both cases the
females would have been preferred, but
the families requiring help could not
afford to pay their terms, and SO the
Chinese maintained their ground as do
mestics. This is point for the eau
casian Society to consider
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-03-24
How to Save and Keep Manure.

There is no question more frequently
or seriously considered by the farmer
than how he shall get, keep and spend
an adequate supply of manure; nor is
there anything about the farm which is
of greater Importance to its successful
management than the manure heap.
There are few farmers now left who pre-
tend to ignore this feed for the land; and
few localities, evenin the newer Western
States, where manure now is thought to
be nuisance. We have gradually come
to the inevitable final end of our "vir-
gin farms" and have now either to save
what is left of their wonderful natural
fertility, or to restore them slowly and
laboriously to a profitable condition.
We have reached the end of our tether,
and are obliged to confess that we have
trespassed over the line which bounds
the territory of the locust, or have i'm
proved the face of the country so much
that, the protecting timber being re-
moved, the water supply is becoming
precarious, and springs, brooks and
rivers no longer flow as they did hereto
fore. To some extent the tide of emf
grafton, which has flowed westward so
many years, is now eddying or even ebb-
ing, and the cheap, worn lands OF the
East are finding purchasers, who under
take to bring them back to their former
condition. At the same time Eastern
farmers are discovering more and more
certainly that they must increase their
crops, and make one acre produce as
much as two have heretofore done. The
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-03-24

only way in which eitherof these classes
can succeed is by keeping sufficient
stock to manure their farms literally; to
feed those animals so skillfully and well
that they shall pay for their feed with a
profit, and in addition leave supply of
rich manure, with which the soil can be
kept in productive state, and to save
and use the manure with such care that
no particle of it be lost. 1t is not every
farmer who can procure all the manure
he needs; but very many can save what
they have with far greater economy than
they now do; and this, although it may
seem question secondary to that OF
getting manure, is really of primary i'm.
portance; for by using what one has to
better purpose he opens a way to in
crease his supply. We have found this
to be the case in our own experience,
and by strict attention to saving and
preserving every particle of manure in
its best condition we have succeeded in
so charging our supply of fodder that
the number of stock that could be fed
was largely increased each year, and
very soon it was necessary to 60 out and
buy animals to consume the surplus. To
bring farm into improved condition
there is no cheaper or more effective
method than this.
The ordinary management of manure,
in open barn yards, where it is washed
by rains, dried by the suns searching
heat, and wasted by every wind that
blows, is the worst that is possible In
this way half or more of the value of the
manure is lost. By figuring up what it
would cost to purchase quantity of ma
nure equal TO what is thus lost, the cost
illness of this common method would be
discovered, and the question, How much
could be afforded to take care of the ma
nure? would be settled. When properly
Uttered, one COW or OK will make ton
of manure every month, if the liquid as
well as the solid portion is saved. Ten
head would thus make 1870 tons, or sixty
two-horse wagon loads, in year A pair
of horses will make as much manure as
one COW, or twelve tons in the year. A
hundred sheep, if yarded every night and
well Uttered, will make 100 tons of ma
nure in the year, and ten pigs will work
up wagon load in month, if supplied
with sufficient coarse material. The
stock of 10Q-acre farm, which should
consist of at least ten cows, ten head of
steers, heifers, and calves, pair of
horses, 100 sheep, and ten pigs, would
then make, in the aggregate, 3l6 tons of
manure every year, or sufficient to give
twelve tons per acre every fourth year.
If this were well cared for it would be,
in effect, equal to double the quantity of
ordinary yard manure; and if plenty of
swamp muck could be procured, at least
six hundred tons of the best manure
could be made upon 100-acre farm. If
this were the rule instead of rare ex-
ception, or only a possibility, what a
change would appear upon the face of
the country and what an addition would
be made to the wealth of the nation
American ASricuLturtst.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-03-24
Fashion Notes.

Wide galloons are worn.
Fringes are very fashionable.
Shirred sleeves are again worn.
Gemmel rings are "a revival of an old
fashion
The buttonhole bouquet of the season
is Of violets.
Nail-h galloons are among the new
dress trimmings.
Knife pleating continues to be the
most fashionable trimming.
The newest polonaises are so long as
to show only mere line of the lower
skirt
Every other lady you meet on Broad
way wears a bunch of violets at the
crossing of her bonnet scarf. Ts't
Small shawls to match the color of the
dress, when the latter is of plain cash
mere, will be the favorite spring wrap.
Only the upper part of the sleeve is
shirred in the lately revived style; the
lower part is plain and fits the arm tight.
Mttens for evening wear are made
very long, and trimmed with lace at the
top, which falls gracefully around the
elbow. .u. ....
The bayaleuse, or dress-sweeper, is a
fiounce of muslin and imitation lace,
basted on the under side of the train to
support the same.
Ribbon cut in small pieces with the
ends folded to form triangles, and each
point ornamented with tassel, will be
used for dress trimmings.
The more the material and trimmings
are cut into bits the more fashionable is
the costume in Paris.
Many of the handsomest imported
spring suits have the flounces mounted
on cambria skirts, the polonaises being
so long as to cover the cambria entirely.
The new French prints are very ele-
giant, having stripes, flowers, quadrille
effects and other designs in beautiful
colors on fine grounds of dark blue, seal
brown, ink. green, black and white, and
light neutral tints.
The Paris correspondent of Hdrper'S
Bazaar says: "The bonnets of the present
day are fortresses; they rise above the
head like mighty towers, and, like the
coiffures of the days of Marie Antoinette,
place the face almost in the middle of
the entire stature of the wearer The
coiffures of the hair are still so overloaded
and complicated to such degree that il
would be impossible to make them of the
natural hair. Aigrcttes of metal, arrows
and daggers are worn with these couture.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-03-24
Thousands of Amdayits.

Many having used patent" and prepared
medicines and failed in finding the relief
promised, are thereby prejudiccd against all
medicines. Is this right? Would you CON
denim all physicians because one failed in
giving the relief promised? Some 90 to
California in search of gold, and after work
ing hard for months and finding none, return
home and say there is no gold there. Does
that prove it? Many suffering with Catarrh
and pulmonary affections have used the
worthless preparations that crowd the mar
ket, and in their disappointment say there is
no cure for Catarrh. Does that prove it?
Does it not rather prove that they have failed
- employ the proper remedy? There are
thousands of people in the United States
who can make an affidavit that DR.. Sage's
Catarrh Remedy and Dr. Perce's Golden
Medical Discovery have effected their entire
cure Many had lost all sense of smell for
months, and pieces Of bone had repeatedly
been removed from the nasal cavities.