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The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1877-03-17

MOTTO E1.-EsTATH OF JACOB BRuNBAck. DIo'D;-
traitor OF the estate OF Jacob Bumback the county
La Sale and state of Illinois, deceased WIN appear before
the County Court OF said county the third Monday beng
the 10th day. OF April 1871 At the County Court House In
Ottawa In said county when and where all persons having
and present the same In writing for adjustment.
Dated this 18th day Of February 4. .. 1871:
WILLIAM PITZER,
fcb76w Administrator.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1877-03-17

The organ grinders life is filed with the
most turn realities.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1877-03-17
BUDGET OF FUN.
The CENTENNIAL BagGage-Smasher.


Pete was Tip Up baggageman nc ran
on Number A.
Where The tears and groans OF 'he travelling
folks unfinchingly he bore;
he cared not how Tie women wcpt, or strong
men raved and swOre,
While he mutilated sample cases, disoi aled
Sarat0gas, annihlated ordinary luggage,
inundated carpet.bags, ex'erminated band
boxes, ana eXtinguished travellers outfits
by the score.
This fine old T. L. baggagcman, one OF the
modern time.
CANTO sECUEDUs.
But Thursday afternoon there came IA mod.
est travelling man,
Who smiled and watched how ruthlessly the
baggage Pete did slam;
Then, as he pointed out his trunk for him TO
smash aud jam.
He said: Dear friend, my worldly posses.
sions are few and humble; silver and gold
have none; but such as | have are in that
trunk. Handle it tenderly, for !: is fral
and am poor, and if there's a man travel.
ing who watches and weeps ana prays
over his baggage, then that's the kind of a
man am
Chorus the same rs befOre)
CANTo TERMS.
But Pete seized his shabby trunk with snorts
of wrath and scorn,
And in two seconds both the handles from
the ends Lad torn,
And needless of the pleadings of the passen.
ger forlorn,
He banged the trunk on the platform, and
then threw it over the top of the car and
let an omnibus run over it, and then whack.
ed it over stumper and threw it off the
end of the bridge, and shot in 1t with his
revolver, and finally Rugged it in his arms,
took flying leap into the baggage car
with 1t, and lit on 1t in corner with his
heels, head and stomach, and smashed il
into more pieces than there are hairs on a
dogs back; and the next second that bag
gage car was just alive with one interested
baggageman and more crawling, squirm.
ing, wriggling, rafting, coiling rattle.
snakes than you would believe had ever
Chorus as previously, but with more feeling)
CANTO QUORTUz.
In vain thy muse essays to tell how Pete the
smasheI swore,
And yelled, and shrieked, and howled, and
roared, and raved, and ramped and tore,
And turned as blue as indigo, and swclled to
toga trunk, and died in two minutes after
he got out of the car, while the modest
traveller viewed his exaggerated remains,
smiled sadly, and SAID lie never knew a
baggageman so fond of snakes before.
Chorus dd Hb.)
B. j. BUrdette, en- Burlington Haaokeye
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1877-03-17

A woman called into commission house
on Michigan Grand Avenue the other day,
and made for the rear end of the store without
waiting to speak to any one. The proprietor
followed her and enqu,red:
"Do you wish to hook at something, mad
ann"
mo, SIR she CURLY replied.
want some cggs?" he continued.
mo, sir"
perhaps you'd like some of those dried
peaches?"
mo, SIR
There was a painful pause, but she braced
her nerves and said:
There's something w-wrong with-with
my skirts, and-it you will"
Thunder! what fool l AMI exclaimed
the man, and he got into his office and left
her in peace.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1877-03-17

DOOIx AND JOB PRINTING OF
ID every description, done neatly, correctly. and at IN
owest prices. Give call and will endeavor TO CIV
you entire satisfac ton. OSMAN Il HAPEAAA,
West of Court HoGs
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1877-03-17
Maple Trees.

We clip the following item from recen,
issue of the Farmer CITY Journal and com
mend II to the careful attention of the farm.
ers of Livingston county. If soft naples can
be made to pay such a return in syrup and
sugar they ought to be largely cultivated
here. Our bleak prairies can be transformed
into pleasant patches of woodland and made
much more profitable than at present AL.
ways corn, and nothing but corn is not good
policy, ard we hope to see departure
from it:
"Mr. Hazel, living few miles west of
Farmer City, has grove of some 40 soft ma
pie trees, eight years old this spring. These
trees he tapped last week an from the "su.
gar-water" he obtained a quantity of maple
syrup of superior quality, taste and color.
Others who have groves probably made sy.
rup also 1t is said by those who seem to
know that the syrup made from the soft
maple tree is much superior In quality to
that from the hard maple, or sugar tree, and
that sugar from it is of finer grain and
white in color There is no reason why the
people of this section cannot make money
from the pursuit OF this industry. 1t is con.
sldered valuable addition to farm to have
grove Of any kind on il, and many farmers
plant the naples merely on account Of their
quick growth, and there is scarcely any tree
that grows so rapidly If to this advantage
.. growth we add the one that in eight or
ten years after planting the seed there is a
nice sugar camp, from which can be extract.
ed annually large quantity of the best syrup
and sugar that man ever tasted, it ought to-
make the planting o. groves on prairie farms
the universal habit. In eight years from the
planting OF the Sod 4 maple tree will grow
20 be as large IN I.,.D.cter as a stove.pipe, and
can be tapped ful 'hc saccharinc water. lie,
Us plant trees, ar whlle adding to the pleas
ure and beauty 81 "ur farms, also add to our
annual incomes
In many port!", Of Wisconsin the farmers
have "a sugar "nsh' on their plantations
which not only 'npplies them with sugar
and syrup for IT, Iar, but large quantities
of 1t are sold rood figures. The above
suggestions are :, ole and in few years,
with little trouL.,, our farmers could raise
their own sweetening, and of q quality the
most healthful, and in taste the best
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1877-08-17

"a Last week we stated jay GOulds
'1uck had turned" 1t has developed
since, that suits are preparing against
him for exemplary and equitable dam
ages, for his wholesale violation of Con-
tract.
This, it is stated, has been GOuld's
habit ever since he has been specializing
OH Wall street, and in the course of the
past ten years, it is claimed, he has di-
rectly caused the financial ruin of many
people, has caused the death of three,
and, it is said, has caused several to
lose their reason, and of these one at
least has died maniac.
He has, it is stated, so completely
complicated all arrangements which he
has contracted to carry out, that his
victims have no possible recourse in the
courts, and so desperate have they be-
come that it has required the greatest
efforts of their friends to prevent them
from using violence with him.
Now that this "bushwhacking" finan-
cier is coming to grief, let his imitators
mend their ways.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1877-08-17
Molly Maguires Again.

At this date, it seems strange to read
of the Pennsylvania authorities being
openly, and persistently defied by the
miners, and the treacherOus, and cow
ardly Molly .Maguires, still have their
vicious grip upon the better class of
workmen, and compel them to remain
idle, with their families crying for bread.
The actual condition of affairs in and
about the mining district, reads like
romance, if it had not the unfortunate
stamp of blood and lawlessness, which
carries truth with the tale.
The American people have been call
ed "the most willingly imposed upon"
and its fact. No matter how glaring
the abuse or outrage, the whole country
seems to accept the inevitable with an
idiOtic grin of self content.
For eleven years, this, and kindred
organizations, have terrorized the min
ing districts, and to-day, with holder
front than ever, they defy law, brow
beat capital, and disgrace our author
tiles.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1877-08-17
Tuesday, August IA.
ARRIVAL OF THE VETERANS.


The principal event of the day has
been the arrival of the the various COM
panies and battalions of Vermont veter-
ans, the reunion of whom will consti-
tute one of the most interesting features
of the Centennial. The organization
has it's origin in society formed in
1868, which was composed exclusively
of officers who served in the war for
the suppression of the rebellion. About
the year 1870 the membership was en-
larged by the admission of all privates,
as well as officers, who went out from
Vermont. Two years ago the society
had reunion at BrattleborO', when it
was adjourned to meet here and partici-
pate in the cOmmemOration of the Cen
tennial.
The Veterans are organized into bat
taliOns by counties, and these into four
brigades, commanded respectively by
Col. A. f. Walker of Rutland, Col. F.
G. Butterfield of SaXton's River, Col.
A. S. Tracy of Middlebury and Col. F.
V. Randall of Montpelier, the whole
under command of Col. j. II. Walbridge
of Bennington, formerly of the Second
Vermont Regiment. Most of the Veter-
ans came by rail. Several companies
from the surrounding towns marched
into Bennington to the tap of the drum
and the shrill whistle of the fife, as their
grandfathers did in the days of yOre,
when their hearthstOnes were imper-
rilled by the invasion of the troops of
King George the Third. They came in
in the dress of yeomanry, with sweat
upon their brow, canteens strapped
across their shoulders, and dusty from
their fatiguing march, their cOuntenan
ces aglOw with enthusiasm. Their ap-
pearance in the streets of Bennington
revived in the minds of the venerable
spectators memories of events chrOni-
cled in history, and it those of the
younger residents of stirring scenes
through which they had themselves
passed, for be it remembered, these
sunburned and travel-strained heroes
have each and all faced death in the
conflict of war.
THE MARCH FROM BRATTLEBoRO TO
BENNINGTON.
The Windsor county Old Soldiers
battalion, uniformed in blue blouses,
and commanded by Col. George w.
Hooker who had mounted staff of
about fifty men, left Brattleboro at half
past eight Monday morning. The COM
mand reached Marlboro at noon and
took dinner there; then marched on to
Wilmington where they spent the night,
and gave serenade by the Brattleboro
Cornet Band left Wilmington at five
o'clock Tuesday morning, and reached
the Crawford Hould, WOOdfOrd, in time
for dinner, after which the march was
resumed toward Bennington, where the
veterans arrived at half-past four this
afternoon.
A GENUINE OVATION FOR THE VETS.
AS the column, headed by the various
brass bands, marched down the main
street the sidewalks were thrOnged with
spectators, whose huzzas rent the air,
while their hearts were stirred at the
sight of sleeveless arms of battle-scarred
soldiers, whose brave deeds are record
ed in the history of the Vermont Vol
unteers. At the Putnam House, where
the column passed under the triumphai
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1877-08-17
Cross and Crescent.

The Eastern war seems needlessly
prolonged. That vigorous prosecu-
ton of the contest, on either side, would
soon determine the case, is apparent,
but Europe must have her regular wars,
if not in one quarter then in another,
and the average reader is at loss to
fully understand what it is all about.
The war will no doubt outlast anOth-
er winter, by that time, perhaps the
contestants will know what they have
gained, and lost, beside blood and treas
ure. Very little glory attaches to eth
er side, as brutality and butchery is
evenly divided between Cross and Cres-
cent.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1877-08-17
Death of DIR. A. B. Crosby.

DR.. Alpheus b. Crosby, professor of
surgery in Dartmouth College, died at
Hanover, n. H., on Thursday afternoon,
at the age of As years. DIR. Crosby
graduated ut Dartmouth in the class of
'53, among his class mates being Prof.
c. a. Young, the eminent astronomer ;
President Hurlbut, of Middlebury
Rev. Henry Fairbanks, of st. johns
bnry, and other well-known men; and
three years later received the degree of
NJ. ID. from the medical department of
the same college. During the war he
served us surgeon in one of the New
Hampshire regiments and subsequent
ly resumed the practice of his profession
in Hanover, most of his time, however,
having been spent in New York city for
the last few years. DR.. Crosby came
of family long eminent in medical pro-
fession. His father, the late DIX Cros-
by, was one of the most sbillful and
most widely known physicians in New
England; his uncle, Thomas Russell
Crosby, was a doctor and scientific
man of profound and varied learning !;
and other members of the family ably
sustain its old time reputation in Con-
cord and Manchester. As physician,
DIR. Crosby ranked among the very first
i'll the United States; and as a lecturer
he had few equals. None who ever
heard him address IL medical class will
forget his thorough mastery of his sub
ject, his clear and lucid presentation of
the theme and the enkindling enthusi-
asm with which he discussed his favo-
rite topics. Socially he was the most
genial of men, and made friends every
where and his too early death will be
profoundly regretted by very wide
circle. He leaves Il wife (whom he
married in the South under somewhat
romantic circumstances), IA most estima-
BILE and accomplished lady, and three
children
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1877-08-17
Steamboat Disaster.
ONE HUNDRED PERSONS BELIEVED TO
HAVE PERISHED.

HAVE PERlSHED.
PANAMA, Aug. From Chill we
have news of the loss of the Pacific
Steam Navigation Company's steamer
Eten, 20 miles north of Valparaiso. Our
correspondent writing from Lima, July
20 says: We have advices of the total
loss of the steamer Eten, Captain Coat
huse, on the morning of the 18th inst,
at a point known as Los ValOs, about
20 miles north of Valparaiso. Accord
ing to the meagre kilograms received
there must have been considerable loss
of life, as fourteen dead bodies have
been recovered. Forty three of the
crew and passengers had reached the
shore in safety, and twenty were still on
the rocks. All efforts were being made
to rescue them. The English war
steamer Amethyst and the CHILEAN gun
boat Chacobuco proceeded Immediately
to the assistance of the unfOrtunates
The cause of the disaster has not been
reported.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1877-08-17

inimical to every consumer in the land.
To alter the actual value by any means,
not based on the merits of supply and
demand, entails loss to all dealing in,
or consuming food, and seldom does the
producer reap a pennies benefit by
these gambling sales, and purchase
prices, as reported in the large trade
centres.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1877-08-17

1t has been calculated that 100000
people would visit the Bennington Cen
tennial. The average expense to each
person, would be at least so, and so
the grand total would be one million
dollars. If any stckler for exact fig
ures, claims not more than $4,000 peo-
pie will go, then we exercise our priv
ilege, and claim $40 for expenses per
capita, and there you have it. Centen-
mails are big things but they cost in ex-
act ratio.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1877-08-17

70 A great deal of enthusiasm is
wasted over such feats as Miss Won
Hillen essays in the pedestrian line.
No sensible person can doubt that such
efforts destroy all chances of long life,
inasmuch as organic arrangement al
rays follows ercess. No matter what
the strain may be, or how applied, ex-
cess of diet, or excess of exercise, or of
inactiOn, each and all, by natures i'm
mutable laws, eXacts payment in time,
to a mathematical certainty. Miss Won
Hillern shows a splendid native endur-
ance in her prolonged walks, but we
will guarantee that close examination,
by competent medical experts, would
evince constitution already broken by
her self appointed tasks.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1877-08-17
Sugar Down.

If one thing pleases us, more than an
other, it is reading the account of sugar
spectators getting bitten in New York.
A loss of one and One-half millions is
good. 1t is "sweetner." Gambling
in sugar, corn, wheat, or any staple, is
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1877-08-17

~ The riots demonstrated the
"pinchback" economy of Congress in
cutting down our army, and to enforce
the application of the lesson, comes
news of an engagement in which the
United States troops are beaten by the
Nez Perces, out and out, and another
in which large body of Indians slip
ped by another detachment and have
gone ''lOose" to scalp and rob the I'M
protected settlers in Montana Territory.
This insufficiency, and total incapac
ity of our government, goes abroad and
disgraces us in the eyes of all Nations,
and, while the drums are beating, and
flags flying, and horns footing, over a
hundred years ago battle, we are being
tiounced about, and shaken UP like a
wet rag, by frienzied mob at its own
sweet will here in the heart of our
cities, and on the frontier by set of
half naked savages. How long is this
to be our condition ?
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1877-08-17
The Fairs.

State Fair, st. Albans Sept. 11-14.
New England, Portland, Sept. 81.
Caledonia Co., st. Johnsbury, Sept. 1870.
Chittenden Co., Essex Junction, Sept. -
Franklin Co., Sheldon, Sept 1921.
Orleans Co., Barton. Sept. 4, 5 and 6.
Washington Co., Montpelier, Sept lib.
Windham Co., Newfane, Sept. 1918.
Windsor Co., Woodstock, Sept 1921.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1877-08-17
Fighting the Nez Perces.
A HARD BATTLE WITH THEM.


Gen. Gibbon attacked camp of the
Nez Perces on Big Hole River on the
9th inst, with 182 men. After hard
fight he had to retire from the camp to
a hill. The Indians assaulted him in
superior numbers, but he beat them off
and intrenched. The Indians retreated.
Gen. Gibbons loss was 25 killed and As
wounded. The Indians lost over 100
killed. 1t is stated by correspondent
of the Tribune that the cause of the In
dians escaping from Idaho to Montana
and the Big Hole country was the in
efficiency of the volunteers, who did
not want to fight.
DEER LODGE, Montana, Aug. r.
w. H. Edwards arrived here yesterday
from Big Hole, bringing accounts of a
terrible battle between Gen. Gibbons
command and the Nez Perces, on the
Big Hole River, Aug. 9.
Gen. Gibbons command, consisting
of l32 men-seventeen officers, 1873 reg
ulars, and thirty-two citizen volunteers
crossed over from Ross Hole on
Wednesday. Starting at ii o'clock the
same night they moved down all the
troops with the exception of a few left
to guard the transportation few miles
above, close to the Indian camp, which
was on the Big Hole about three miles
below, where the Bitter Root and Ban
mock trail crosses. At daylight the fight
opened by the volunteers firing on an
Indian going after the horses. A charge
was then made on the camp, and some
hard fighting took place in the next two
hours, during which time large numbers
of men and Indians were killed. The
soldiers then charged the lodges but
were repulsed. The Indians then at
tempted to cut the soldiers from high
wooded point, but the latter charged
upon them, beating back the Indian add
vance from the point, which they then
held and at once fortified. Fighting
continued all day, and was still going
on fitfully when the courier left at II
o'clock. The fighting was desperate on
both sides, the full force of Indians
being in the fight. Capt. Logan and
Lieut.. Bradley were killed; Gen. Gibbon,
Capt. Williams and Lieuts. Coolidge,
English and Woodruff were wounded,
Gen. GibbOn slightly, Lieut.. Bradley
was the first man killed.
Gen. Howard had arrived at the time
the courier left, and intends to pursue
the Indians as soon as his command
arrives. Gen. Gibbon intends to move
to Deer Lodge, and take his wounded
to Fort Shaw as soon as medical aid and
means of transportation reach him. The
Indians have disappeared, in what di-
rectiOn has not yet been learned.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1877-08-17

lS There can be no doubt of the
criminal shiftlessness of the railway
company in the Oceanport disaster.
Beside the evident lack of care in set
ting the drawbridge, the full account of
the accident was withheld fol- days, and
the total number deliberately given out
as being injured, has swelled from 30 to
$50. No doubt there is justice in n. j.
Notwithstanding it is said to be owned
by railroads, and the actual inquest will
decide whether the train left the bridge
from the tender jumping the track, or
the draw was IL inches from being
closed. One fact is certain. Had the
tide been up, instead of ebb, every pas
senger inside the cal would have been
drowned like rats in a trap.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1877-08-17
The Democracy of Maine.

PORTLAND, Me-, Aug. lathe Maine
Democratic State Convention met in
this city to-day and nominated for Gov
ernOr the Hon. Joseph III. Williams.
The nominee of the Convention, is a
retired lawyer at Augusta. In 1856 he
was elected to the Senate, and was
President of that body. In 1857 Han
nibal Hamlin was elected to the United
States Senate, and the Governorship
consequently being vacant, Mr.. Will
liams, under the Constitution, became
Governor. He has been a member of
the House since. He is about sixty
three years of age. He is a son of the
late Hon. Ruel Williams. During the
war Mr.. Williams affiliated with the
Republicans, but was a Greedy man in
the campaign OF ~, and voted also for
Tilden and Hendricks. He is gentle
man of large experience in public af-
fairs. A resolution was passed endors-
ing Mr.. Williams and recommending
him to the suffrages of the party. The
Convention adjourned at AS P. M.
Mr.. E. K. Smith, a prominent bust
ness man, widely known in New Hamp-
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1877-08-17

Samuel E. Carpenter, noted New
York rough who was wanted for assault
ing an officer at Coxackie, N. Y, was
the first victim of the Bennington CEN
tennlal police force. He was armed
with pistols and false keys, and goes to
New York on requisition from Gov.
Robinson.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1877-08-17
Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New
Hampshire well Represented.

The Bennington Centennial week
commenced on Sunday by appropriate
services in the different churches which
were attended by the prominent arri-
walls, and the pulpits filed in most in
stances by distinguished divines from
abroad.
The native Vermonters, in many in
stances from great distances, came in
large numbers the trains being over
loaded on Saturday. There seems to
be adequate preparations for the COM
fort of the coming hosts, and enormous
quantities of beds, bedding, ETC., have
been, and are being brought into town.
The statutes empowering the military
closing of drinking saloons, has been
put in force, and is to be warmly COM
mended as a law, and in it's enforce
ment..
The railroads have combined to do
all in their capacity to forward the peo-
pie and supplies.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1877-08-17

Crown Point, N. Y; Colonies Penfieid
of Crown Point, and M. 5. Colbern OF
Manchester.