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Weekly Trinity journal., 1877-11-17

A BLUsHING damsel Of forty summers
or SO entered the town clerks office at
Wheeling, w. Va, and asked for Ii
cence. The clerk took down her name
and address and asked for that ofthe 9TH
or party. "Faithful he lives with me-"
said the applicant. The clerk eyed her
curiously, but keeping his thoughts to
himself filled up the paper and handed it
over. The lady glanced at it, shrieked
out, "Monster +" and swept out Of the
office, leaving the ofipnder dumbfounded
a: the explosion, till it flashed upon his
mind that possibly a dog license, not a
marriage license, was what ;he spinister
wanted.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1877-11-17

SOME of the "poor white" families OF
the Far West become exceedingly tough
ened by their lifelong exposuses and
hardships. A lady travelling among
them took shelter in hut during rain
storm, and one of the barefooted daugh-
ters Of the family coming in who had been
hunting for the cows, stood on the hearth
to dry her clothes to whom her mother
said, "Sal, there's live coal under your
foot.n The girl, whose soles were as
hard as a horn, merely turned her head
and drawled out, (which foot mann
my ?"
Weekly Trinity journal., 1877-11-17

MUNG FUNo, a Chinese cigar marker
living at Chicago, for love of Celia Man
ming, abandoned the creed and costumes
of his fathers, cut off his pigttil, took out
license to marry her and prepared a
sumptuou. wedding feast. Behold the
bride came not, and he shot himself
through the body and died.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1877-11-17

"WHAT's tn use Of all :his sacrifice of
human life, this bloody butcbary Of Turks
and Russians ?" sad Philadelphia
Quaker to Cincinnati hog merchant
II don't know" replied the latter mourn
fully "Pork isn't riz any that ! can see."
Weekly Trinity journal., 1877-11-17

CBoNG YET, a Chinese nabob of Eure-
ka, Nevada, died and was buried, but
has been accused of reappearng and
making weird noises about the shanty in
which he formerly lived. One of the
present occupants Of the shanty explains
He heap scare everybody; he no likes
weere he go come back, make trouble" !"
The Sentinel says The Cinnamon seem
TO be much exercised over his ghostship' S
unwarrantable return to this mundane
sphere, and feel that it is base ingrati-
tude on his part, considering the Grst-c class
send-off they gave him when he made his
exit. Means have been taken to exercise
the impalpable intrusion, and various
heathen rites of q novel and interesting
character very pertinent to such occa-
sons, are indulged in by the moon-e eyed
disciples of Josh. judging from the or
ders pervnding the premises, we think an
effort is being made to stink the unquiet
spirit odt, and unless he is proof against
the vile ard pungent perfume, the exper-
iment ought to be successful. One sniff
would disperse battalion ofciviized Wis
itors from the other world, and cause
them all TO hasten back to the unknown
land.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1877-11-17
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The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1877-02-17

cy and demonstrated by the official figures
that had not Democratic efforts at economy
been partially successful at the last session
the difference between the receipts and ex
pendtures Of the government for the present
fiscal year would have been sixty million
dollars. This Is shown by the following fig
ures:
The appropriations made by Congress al
the last session were, in round numbers,
$l41 100000. The interest on the public
debt is $05O000y0. The sinking fund re-
qures $34, 100000, and the permanent appro-
priation required by the existing law are SIS
0On 900, making total Ct S294OOO,Ot0. The
receipts of the Government, as estimated by
the Secretary of the Treasury, for the present
tiscal year will no. exceed, If they come up
to, S2Gi,000,000, thus leaving deficit be.
tween expenditures and receipts of $3O,0OO,-
ono Now, the Democrats succeeded, in the
iace OF the strenuous opposition OF the Repub-
lican majority in the Senate, in reducing ex-
pendtures $3O,u00,000. Had tAis not been
effected, the deficit at the close of the fiscal
year would have bee $6O,OOOOOO, the total
amount of the public debt in 1860.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1877-02-17
PACKARD AS A MARTYR.

A startling report went over the telegraph
wires on Thursday that Packard, the repub
lican sham governor Of Louisiana, had been
assassinated OF course every republican a,
pnce jumped to the conclusion that the white
leaguers and bulldosers of New Orleans had
broke loose and were going for the radical
usurpation Ui ct arms and shell bent on
universal slaughter. Nothing could be more
lovely, for 1t would be just in time to turn the
scales in the electoral commission at Wash
ingtou, and would be worth hundreds OF
thousands of votes besides. Later and full
reports, however, showed that the whole
thing was probably put up job of the most
diaphonous kind. A fellow named Vim. II
Weldon, regular correspondent of Forney'
Philadelphia Press, radical republican
sheet, it seems called on Packard at his office
at noon on Thursday, finding some Is per.
sons in the room with him. He sat down by
his side in vscan. chair, and in minute or
80 pulled a Derrlnger cut of his pocket and
pointed 1t at Packard's head. There was
nothing TO prevent his blowing Packard IS
brains out then and there, but instead of do.
ing so he attracted Packard's attention by
saying when can | see your" Packard
turned and seeing the pistol struck it down,
when it exploded, the bail grazing his knee
cap. Several persons in the room then sho,
at Weldon, also slightly wounding him.
That is all there was Of it. Weldon affected
to belong to party OF four that had bound
themselves to kill Packard, but the others, he
said. had backed out. The whole thing looks
like very gauzy and harmless attempt to
create sympathy for Packard in the charac-
ter of a martyr.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1877-02-17
CONGRESS-,

Mr.. Dawes, on Monday, introduced q bill
in the senate, which it is said will probably
pass, to appropriate $4,000 towards fitting
out another arctic expedition on the plan
proposed by Capt. Howgate of establishing a
colony in the arctic regions.
A bill has passed both houses authorising
an ocean telegraph from Baltimore to Eu.
rope.
| Mr.. Morrison's report on the part OF the
House Committee TO investigate the Louisi-
ana frauds was laid before the house on Sat.
urdav. The report itself is not very long,
covering a compact statement of the frauds
discovered, but is accompanied by an I'M.
,nense mass of testimony. A short minority
report was also handed in. The majority re-
port closes with resolution declaring that
the state had undoubtedly voted for Tilden
like report from Florida had been laid
before the house some days earlier, and was
debated and finally acted upon on Wednes.
day. In the course of the debate Mr.. PuI-
man, a republican member from Florida,
surprised the house and disguised his repub.
lican brethren by declaring that the report, IN
declaring that Florida had voted tor Tilden,
but told the simple truth. AS an honest man,
familiar with the whole subject, he could
not declare otherwise He made no claim to
special honesty or conscientiousness, how
eyer, in making this statement, for II was a
fact that every man, woman and child IN the
state knew, and he would only make himself
ridiculous to pretend the contrary. The re.
solution that the electoral vote of Florida
had been cast for Tilden was adopted by the
house by vote of 142 to SO.
The bill has passed both houses to pay Mr..
Eads his first instalment of $500 900 IN gov.
eminent bonds for deepening the mouth of
the Mississippi by his system of jetties.
The bill to compel the Pacific railroads to
pay the interest on the government bonds
that were loaned them and to provide sink.
ing fund for their ultimate redemption, still
hangs fire in the senate. An important
amendment was agreed to, however, on Wed.
nesday, requiring the companies to pay $780,
100 year into the public treasusy in addi
ton t. the amounts they are now required to
pay by law.
A bill was passed to remove the political
disabilities OF Gen. Joseph f. Johnston, Of
Virginia.
$1,000 have been appropriated to pay the
expenses of the electoral commission.
Both houses are holding night sessions to
hurry through the necessary appropriation
bills before the 4th of March.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1877-02-17

The republican papers are trying to con
sole themselves with the notion that the de
feat of Logan by Davis was mo great shower
after ALL" as Davis Is also a republican; bu,
the Joliet Sun goes u step further and pro
claims Davis to be both II republican and a
fool. 1t says:
Justice DAVIS recently had conversation
with friend here on the political situation
particularly its legal aspect, and that CONVEX
sation was repeated to a gentleman well
known IN Washington, and perfectly reliable
He states that III the conversation as related
to HIM Judge Davis expressed his gralifica
tian at having had AN opportunity 10 escape
serving on the electoral commission, for nc
should have beeu compelled To have decided
against his friends on every legal point IN
volved and there We're reasons why he wished
to stand well with Tilden.
IL there is one thing Judge Davis ever re
ceived full credit for, II was the having OF
sense enough to know when to hold his
tongue. The above presents him IN the lirh,
of babbling idiot We venture to discredir
the story categorically, knowing that Judge
Dayis is not that kind of a man.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1877-02-17
SIMPLE SIMON AS A TICKLE LOVER.

The gossips of Washington city are revel
ing in the richness of the topic afforded them
by the breach of promise suit brought by a
blooming Georgia widow against the gay and
festive Simon Cameron. The lady in the
case is Mrs. S. Barlow, said to be a grand
daughter of Commodore Stewart an old per-
sonal friend of the Csmerons-is 30 years OF
age, of sprlghtly, winning manners and come
y in form and feature. She came to Wash
ington three or four years ago, claiming to
have been heavy sufferer by the war, and
through the influence of Cameron got a posi-
ton in the Treasury Department. But Cam.
erou, like other members of congress who
have lady friends" quartered upon the gov
eminent as clerks, claimed OF his prOtege Ger
tain privileges which the wiley widow i,
seems is disposed to turn to the best account
Cameron is 10 years old, and thinks every
body ought to regard it as ridiculous that he
should be sued for a breach of promise, but
those best acquainted with the old reprobate
say he Is none too old, in spite Of his seventy
eight years, to indulge in very mlschievous
gallantries. Lord Palmerston at 80, while
Lady Palmerston was still living, was accus.
ed to her of Indulging, like our own grave
and noble senator, in reprehensible gallan
tries, and the good lady said she was not a,
all surprised to hear it, 70 ut was just like
him." Richelieu at 80 was notorious for his
lechery, and Tom Parr was father after he
wrote his age with three figures. The widow
is said to have III her possession letters from
the ardent and youthful Simon that compro-
mise HIM most seriously, and if the suit is
allowed TO go on in May, the date for which
II is now set, the sensational press is in a tar
way to have subject little inferior in pru.
rient richness to the great Bcecher trial.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1877-02-17

The only answer the republican papers
have to make to the damnipg revelations
against J. Madison Wells, the autocrat of the
Louisiana returning board, by Pickett Little
field anG Maddox is, that these men are liars.
Maddox, ever since 1861, had been IN the EN-
ploy, in one shape or another, OF the I. ;.
treasury department, and was always found
truthful and trustworthy Littlefeld was
Wells own faithful and confidential clerk
and Pickett is a prosperous lawyer at wash
ington, as honest, we suppose, as that tribe
are usually made. But admitting all to be
true that the republicans now say against
their former trusted pets, their evidence
stands fully corroborated by other witnesses
Picketts statement that he went To New
York in behalf of Wells TO sell out The Louis
lana returning board 10 the democrats IS
fully borne out ~ Norrissey and Hewitt
Littlefeld is corrObolaied by two other
clerks of the same returning board, as well as
by the papers he produces; and MADDOX
proves his case point blank by producing Tue
letters of Wells TO Senator West which con-
firm his statements to the last particular. III
is really amazing how the republicans cllng
10 this scoundrel Wells If old Satan him
self had appeared in the flesh during The
last contest and had done the republicans
par,y the same service, alltheir papers would
be holding him up as saint
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1877-02-17

The Aurora Herald enters into lengthy
discussion with Professor of the question
whether christian is allowed to take inter.
est on loaned money, maintaining that the
Bible forbi is it, Doubtless the Herald is cor
rect that the word usury, as used IN the Old
Testament, means interest only, and not ex
cessive interest. But while the iheocracy es
tablished by Moses was sort of communism
with which the idea of Jews shaving each
others notes was wholly at war, the abolition
of the ceremonial law, at the coming of the
Messiah, certainly removed the reason for the
regulation, and under the New Testament
dispensatlon the charge of moderate use
for money seerls IN various ways to be coun-
tenanced indeed, in the parable of the tai
eBts, Indirectly enjoined. The whole gospel
teaching Is TO be industrious and thrifty, and
ACKNOWLEDGMENT whatever shape, il
after all but u form Of usury, or piling up vi
interest. One man invests $4,000 in lands,
plows, harrows, and So on, and by judicious
use ui this capital makes il produce $1,000 II
year: another invests the same amount
in rotes aud mortgages, and by careful and
laboriuus attention to business may make it
also produce $4,000 year. Which is the great.
er usurer' All gain or profit is usury In the
broadest sense, and 10 forbid it TO christians
is to make them miserable, shiftless, worth
less, hand .to-mouth race as unworthy of the
religion of Chris, as they would be dlscredi-
table humanity
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1877-02-17

The republican papers are setting up a
howl oyer the Imprisonment of the members
Of the Louisiana returning board at Wash
ington, because they refuse to produce the re
turns of that state on which they counted in
Hayes over majority Of 10000 against him
Says the Mter.Ocedn.:
There IS not despOtic government in the
world that exercises grosser tyranny There
is no justification whatever for il. Men com.
mitted even for the crime Of murder enjoy
rights and privileges denied to those gentle.
men by the lyrannical majority Of the Demo.
cratic house.
Those gentlemen" is good. Kenner is a
negro undertaken, Casanavc q negro bar.
keeper Anderson broken winded politi.
clan, and Understanding to Sheridan-s
scoundrel and thief, who has no friend that
is not thief. Their Imprisonment consists
IN confinement In pleasant airy rooms OF the
capitol, where they are fed from first class
restaurant. In five minutes they could secure
their release by producing papers that are
public documents, which they have no right
TO keep, and which ought to have been placed
on file in the secretary's Office in New Or
leans, but which they have stolen and hid
away to conceal their own crlme-a crime
which in atrocity has no parallel in modern
history. In any other country but the United
States they would before this have dangled
at the end Of ropes
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1877-02-17

DEATH OF JUDGE PITzER-We are in re-.
ceipt Of copy of the Salt Lake Utah Her.
aid of the Sd inst, in witch we find the iol.
lowing paragraph:
Judge Jesse 5. Pitzer, Pacific coast veter
an, died at his residence in Phoebe, (Utah),
on the 10Th uli Judge Pi,zer went 10 Cali.
foruia in iSi9, where he resided until 1864,
when he removed TO Virginia city, and subse.
queptly To Phoebe. In 1871 he spent few
weeks ia this city, where he appeared as at.
torney In two or three law cases. The Judge
was an Intelligent gentleman, a staunch dem.
ocrat, and good lawyer We believe he
leaves no family except a wife.
Judge Piizer, when young man, was well
known in Ottawa, where he studied Law in
the Office Of Hon. T. Lyle Dickey, now on
the supreme bench. He had been educated
ct Mt Morris, and after completing his Law
studies at Ottawa formed partnership with
John ". Crothers, the firm opening law of
fee IN 0swego, bnt practicing In the court,
Of La Sale and Kane counties, ss we'll as O.
Kendall. Mr.. Croihers, after being elected
circuit clerk and sent TO the legislature from
Kendall county, died there, some Is year
ago, while Mr.. Pitzer, as stated above. sough
land fouEdD wealth and honorable position
% the Pacific slope.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1877-02-17

year ago congress appointed silver
commission, to collect facts IN reference t.
silver production and to recommend congress
sional action on the subject of u bi-metalliC
standard The commission still holds daily
sessions at the capital and hears discussions
of the standard question. Meantime silver
and gold are steadily approximatlng their
old relative value and doubtless by the time
the commission get through talking the ne
cessity for their labors will have passed
away
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1877-02-17

% per cent. on the price Of labor, and the re-
bate had to be allowed. Then some 100000
had been expended in the purchase of new
machinery, and the peni,entiary is now oblig-
ed to give each discharged convict new suit
of clothes and $40 cash If the state would
pay this last item and repay the $50 900 spent
for machinery, the board think they can get
along; otherwise the institution VIII be
swamped with debt.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1877-02-17

SIXTY MILLIONS SAVED When 1t was
claimed last summer that the democratic
house of congress had saved forty millions
by cutting down appropriations, the republi.
cans said The economy was sham, for the
mount would have TO be made up this ses-
SION by deficiency bills. How true this was
is shown by the discussion on the deficiency
bill In the house last Saturday. Speaker
Randall" say the dispatches, made an able
defence Of the democratic retrenchment poll.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1877-02-17

The Ottawa Republican, in its usual blum
derIng way, states that Mr.. Cameron, the
Chicago lawyer who appeared as one of the
attorneys for the plaintiff In the breach Of
promise case in our circuit court this week
and made such an able address In behalf Of
his client, was the "rcdoubtable Gen. Oar
Cameron" the "wah" and "goah" leader, &c
All of which is sheer stupidity. This wa,
Charles L. Cameron, one Of Chicago's ables
lawyers, while DAN" we believe, Is no law
yer at all
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1877-02-17

The contract for the public printing Of Hi
an adventurous BLACKSMITH" by the name OF
Lusk, at prices which, if honestly done
must bankrupt him. Yet Lusk had seen
enough of the ms and outs of the Spring
field offices, by which the work has hereto
fore been done, to know that If he could have
his work measured in their way, there was
money in the job even it hisiruinous figures
The Springfield printers were happy in the
possession Of an expert" appointed by the
Governor to measere their work, whom they
could trust; but they are jealous of Lusk,
and are urging Cullom to appoint for him a
very different sort of man. The past expe.
rience of the state with the "expert" sug,
gests strongly whether it would not be a
saving TO dispense with that functionary alto.
gether. The SO day paid him, there is rea.
son TO believe, are by no means all that
would be saved. Happily Col. Harlow, Sec
rotary of State, to whose department the sub
ject belongs, Is a practical printer himself,
as well as an honest man, and should he be
held responsible for the supervision Of the
printing and an honest count of the work,
the people would have a thousand times more
confidence In Its being done correctly than
if done by any of the disreputsble "tramps"
or country Office "blacksmiths" that are be.
sieging Gov. Cullom for the appointment OF
"prln,er expert
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1877-02-17

To the general democratic complaint that
the decision of the electoral commission not
To ca behind the returning board IN Florida
even after the state courts had gone behind
and corrected tina, return, left both state and
nation helpless in case of any fraud in the ap,
polntment of electors, however indecent and
gross, the New York Tribune replies, that
there Is still remedy by quo 1drrdH.o pro-
ceeeing in the Supreme Court Of the United
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1877-02-17

1t seems that not only Wells and Anderson
we're willing to sell out the decision OF the
Louisiana returning board to T,lden, but tina,
some of the Hayes electors were concerned in
the same scheme. Levisee, one of these cleo.
tors, appeared before the committee at Wash
ington on Monday and said he was offered
100000, which of course means that he tried
IA I'M lIIm
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1877-02-17

States. To this the SIN makes this singing
and ominous response:
The trouble about that is that we have not,
any longer, a Supreme Court of the United
States The fury of an honest and indignant
popular opinion, however, rising, as 1t assur-
edly will, like II whIrlwind and storm, NAV
safely be trusted to drive the present natl onal
Judges from their places upon the bench, sub.
shutting a judiciary for that political body.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1877-02-17

RT. Taylor, the defaulting cashier Of the
p;-s, National Bank OF Franklin, Ind,
.ho.. theft of $4,000 c. Gated such = sensa-
ton alter sbsenting himself for lew days
r,,urned home crazy as loon. Before run
n,pr away he wrote several letters ccniessing
,ha, he had criminally used the money OF the
hank in wild specula;ions II real estate, grain
optious, &c. and Of course LOST.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1877-02-17

New York.is at present ieasting on poia
toes brought from France. They are arriv
ing In lots of 80 and 100 barrels and sell
rapidly at 81 barrel. They are of moder
ate size, not having been stimulated by the
heavy manurng practced in this country
and resemble Jackson whites. They are
grown chiefly in Asace. Lorraine, and sem
by railway to Havre.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1877-02-17

The Executive Committee of the Illinois
Vermonters' Association, desiring to make a
complete list of all Vcrmonters IN this State,
request the full name, birth place and pres
ent address OF oil such persons sent to Frank
B. Williams Sec, It's La Sale St., Chicago
OF married ladies, both the present and
maiden names should be given.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1877-02-17

The Mendoza papers are agitatlng the sub
ject of organizing an agricultural society a,
that place with view to holding annual
fairs on the plan of the Buel Institute. A
Joint stock company, with paid up capitol
OF $4,000 to ST., 900, is the plan.