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The Portland daily press., 1878-04-30

THE LINGARDs.-This morning the sale of
seats begins for the Lingard performance on
the afternoon and evening of May-Day at Mu-
sic Hall. The programme offers one of the old
fashioned Lingard comedy bills, always so pop
ular, and very pleasing entertainment may
be expected. Those who enjoy fun without
coarseness will do well to secure tickets. 9th
ers had better stay away. Mrs. Alice Lingard's
beauty and grace, and Mr. Lngard's abilities
as a comedian ought to prove powerful attrac-
tiops
The Portland daily press., 1878-04-30
TEMPLARS OF HONOR.

At Templdrs' Hall, No. 100 Exchange Street.
CoUNCIL-Maine, first and third Monday in each
month.
evening.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1878-04-20
THE PLATFORM.

While there is much 10 commend there are
also things to find fault with IN the democratic
platform adopted at Springfield last week and
published on our sixth page to-day. We can
endorse the preamble, expressing the satisiac-
ton which all good people must feel in the
the restoration of the supremacy of law, the
liberty OF individual action and the duty of all
to yield to the will of the majority, &c The
first and second resolutions also, demanding
mcnt, and declaring in favor of a tariff for
revenue only, every democrat must cordially
approve The third resolution in favor of
state taxation of |. 5. bonds and treasury notes,
dozen decisions of the Supreme Court of the
L. s. and were the power even sought by
amendment of the constitution, the general
government oaght not to he allowed to abdicatc
its sovereignty in any such suicidal way.
If the ith resolution means to pledge the
democratic party of Illinois to the payment of
the $50 government bonds in grcenbaCks, il
is surplusagc and nonsense, for grccnbacks are
to-day as good as gold, and it can make no
difference in which they are paid; or if il Is in.
tended to pledge the democratic party in favor
of the National" folly of an ovcrissue of
grecnbacks TO make cheap" money, then we
rcpudiatc it as undemocratic and dishonest.
The 9TH rcSolution-against any further re
duction III the public debts based on the
kinCly doctrine that n national debt is "A ma
tional blcsSing"-a doctrine we hope no mere
state convention will ever be able to ftsten on
the Great body of the democratic party.
The 9Th Notwithstanding the immedi-
ate repeal OF the resumption acts Supcranu-
atcd, played out, has lost all its significance
and stuilin through the memorable procession
of time and tide which wait for no-platform
builders. Congress can't stop resumption now
by forty repeats of the resumption act.
On the eth csolution-approving the silver
bill, we cordially vote aye" If the Sth means
treasury notes always convertible into coin,
and not legal tenders, We also vote ave on it.
The remainingtcn resolutions, although hall
of them have no business many general party
platform, are otherwise uneNceptonahle in
their way and such declarations as the demo
cratic party can honestly live up To- Upon the
whole IT is consoling 10 know that while the
platform constructors of our late Illinois con
yention had many good as well as crude ideas
they arc happily not authorized to speak ex
cathedra for the democratic party ofthe United
States, and one may still be democrat in good
standing and yet repudiate their WITNESSES.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1878-04-20

The New York papers Of last Saturday an.
nounced the death, at noon on the previous
day, at Ludlow street Jail in that city, of VIM
VI. Tweed-"boss Tweed"-the man whose
wholesale plumber of the New York City treas.
ury eight or ten years ago has given his name
a world WIDE familiarity and left 1t
Damned 10 everlasting fame"
His health had been failing for some time
He died a constitutionally, physically, finan.
cally and essentially used up man. OF the
millions of which he robbed the city the law
and lawyers had got the last cent, and he died
penniless. though the numerous hangers on
whom he had more or less enriched had the
decency to accord him a stately burial. His
body was taken from the Jail TO the residence
of Fred Douglas, a relative, in nth street from
from which it was buried on Wednesday.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1878-04-20

President Hayes has done righteous act
which Grant stubbornly refused toperform dur
ing all his eight years, in granting Fitz John
Porter, who was cashered by one of Stanton's
court martials organized TO convict in 1863
a rehearing. The charge against Porter was
Gisobcdcncc of an order of Gen. Pope during
the sccond battle of Bull Run, while Porter has
always maintained the impossiblity of the cX
ccution of the order Evidence found among
the confederate achieves is said to prove this
demonstration, yet Grant, who hated Porter,
would never allow him a rehcaring. The
now ordered to rc.examinc the case is compos
ed of Gen Schoiicd, Gen. Terry, Col. Getty and
Maj. Garner 0he latter AS recorder and will
convcncc at West Point June 20.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1878-04-20
Ophir and Vicinity.

April Il, 1878.
Mr. and Mrs kirstcatcr were thrown from
their wagon and severely injured one day last
week
Mr. John Stevenson is fixing up his new sa-
loon in city style He gets new pool table ID
u few weeks.
Miss Ella Dorphner is learning the clerkng
business with Mr.. A. Gerlach, and gets along
finely.
Mrs Ernest Krausse has gone to Indiana to
visit friends. She will join her husband III
Wyoming some time during the summer
Miss Fannie Dana will teach IN the VIM.
Edgecomb district this term.
Nessrs. Short and Petry Will emigrate to
Ohio in a short time. They go by land and
have a wagon that weighs in the neighborhOod
of three ton. 1t Is built on the wide gauge.
Mr. :. ). Chase committed double suicide
last week, by first taking poison and then
shooting himself
Mr. Charles Foster has returned TO Homer
after an absence of nearly year.
Mr. Frank kurtZ shot and killed a heron
last week with the rifle at three hundred PAGES
1t measured five feet ten inches from the beaH
to the tip of the tail. The head IS on exhibit
ton at the shop of Mr. Gerrie.
4 smart shower OF gravel fell at the resi-
dence of Mr.. - one night last week. Inc
young ladies will testify to this assertion.
The exercises of the Waltham Literary Socl-
ETY. on Friday night were good. But omit
details for want of space.
PEDRo-HERCULEs
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1878-04-20
JUDICIAL DISTRICT CONVENTION.

In accordance with an arrangement made by
the delegates from the Northern Judicial Grand
Division of this state, Il convention was held
It Joliet Oh Thursday to nominate candidate
for clcrl, of the supreme court and another Tor
clerk of the Appellate Court. Delegates were
present from La Sale, VIII, Lake, Mcllcnry
Boone, DcKalb Henry, Lee, Whiteside, Steph
cnson, 10 Dawes, Rock Island, Bureau and
other counties Hon G. W. Armstrong, OF
La Sale presided. II. r. Enoch, of the Rock.
ford Jouyadi, was nominated for Clerk Of the
Supreme Court without opposition; as was al.
so James r. Wash, of Livingston county, for
clerk OF the appellate court A democratic
central committee for the Northern Grand Di,
vision was appointed consisting ofP. c. Haley,
Of WIll; John FoIsythe, of Cook; John Lee,
Of Peoria; B. IL Trucsdcll, of Lee; |. VI.
Slrowcll, Of Carroll; s. Nicholson, of LaSalc
and b. ID. Buiord, of Rock Island. The Cen
trail Committee for the Second Division Is the
same, with Trucsdcl for Chairman and Thomas
Williams, of DuPagc County, in place of For
sythc The Convention then adjourned.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1878-04-20

was elected bishop of the new diocese of
Springfield, ILL.,, after waiting until enough
of the dioccses throughout the country had
acted to confirm his election, concludes TO de
cline When elected bishop of Illinois some
years ago Il majority of the dioceses voted
against him. He probably deferred declining
this last election SO long to see whether they
would reject him second time. While the
result may be satisfactory TO himself, it is
hardly fair treatment to Springfield, which is
thus delayed year or two in getting bishop
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1878-04-20

ClarkSvllle, Tennessee, was almost totally
destroyed by fire on Sunday. Fifteen acres OF
the town were burned over and 81 houses des-
uoyed, including several tobacco warehouses
and 900 hogsheads of tobacco. The fire is be.
lieved to have been started by negroes in re
venge for the shooting of a negro the day be.
fore by white policeman. Not negro lifted
a hand to extinguish the flames while the fire
was raging There is intense excitement and
very slight causes might incite bloody negro
massacre
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1878-04-20

4 remarkable religious revival is under way
70 Richmond, Va among the negroes The
preachers have not lodged the question of hell,
but have We'd with one another in picturing
the torments of the damned. The Rev. John
Jaspers assault upon the theory that the world
moves was only one of the incidents Of this
weakening. A correspondent says OF one of
Brother Jaspcr's sermons: Nothing could
exceed the vividness with which he pictured
tie torments Of eternal punishment, and he
scathingly denounced Beecher and those other
preachers who attempt TO show that there is
10 hell Some of his congregation groveled
upon the floor in very agony when he told them
that same as a head of cabbage in bilin' pot
viii de sinner be for everlastin' in hell. Til,
pot will keep on bilin and dc cabbage viii burn
but never burn up. You all will he like dat
Cbbage if you don'trepent" All the employ
ees in a tobacco factory gave up work one day
and went through the streets shouting singing,
and urging everybody whom they met TO seek
salvation. Many Of the converts say that they
have visions Of heaven. Here IS another Incl
dent: Tonight, at supper in one Ofthe hotels,
q waiter suddenly became converted as he was
entering the dining room with dish of stewed
oysters, and throwing the dish and contents 10
the floor, he raised his hands and began TO tell
how he was converted on the spot, and TO pro
claim the visions Of glory that had been revealed
10 him and were passing before him"
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1878-04-20
OUR CLUBBING.

We are prepared to club the FREE TRADER
with the followingpublicatio furnishing both
at the prices named, postage prepaid. The Of
ler-open to old subscribers or new at any
post Office IN the county-is the CHEAPEST
EVER MADE IN this county;
FREE TRADER and Chicago Weekly Times. :! 20
FREE TRADER and Chicago Weekly Trim" 2.oo
FREE TRADER and Chicago Weekly inter-
tjctdH '''''' 900 ,,n
FREE TRADER and P1Uirie Farmer. ......... ".oo
FREE TRADER and either of Harpcr's publ
Fprr TpAnrP and Scy5p,r. 4 10
Fprr Tp,Drn nd 6o8e,jS LaaRS' Book. ... $50
Fprr Tp,DFR and Ijjg Stock JmUua2. ....... s. -
FREE TRADER and PhrHolo9icdt Journal .... 30
FREE TRADER and 81. NichoidS. ............ 80
FREE TRADER and DcmorcStS Nonthty...,.. 80
EpFr TR,DrR and Litte1Ps LiIfng AGe...... 5 -
FREE TRADER and Western Rum. .......... 800
FREE TRADER and lNoorGs Raai N0D York,r $50
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1878-04-20

II appears that the nationals are playing
ont. In some sections of the state they atfili-
ate with one party, and in others another This
has become a disgusting fact TO great many
creenback men, who would much rather re-
man in a successful party than one of such
vaScillating qualities as the national is making
itself out TO be. If Greeley remarked, there
are enough republicans TO make one party, but
not enough for two would he have not now
remarked, considering his own experience at
forming third party, that there are enough
democrats and republicans TO dcccntly MAIN
tain two parties but none TO spare to make Up
another with. And thus it is.-Ldkc C0uRyy
Patriot.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1878-04-20

The great Kcarney, who leads the Commun
list organization in California, and holds that il
is crime to accumulate and possess property
addressed a gathering Of socallcd working
men in San Francisco last Sunday, and in the
course of his speech made the following touch
ing appeal:
must eat, and have no money. When
took up your cause left a good business, ont
that Melted me 5000 "a month. | must live
and you, Acknowledgment, must keep me
Let me see by show of hands if YOU will dc
| IT, Al up Immediately Since my entry
into your service have not received on an aver
age $50 per month, and my family Is suffering
Yet some few sore heads have raised howl
about the disposition of the money collected
! will make them hang their heads in shame
for the unjust suspicion. | don't work for
money; | work only for principle | told my
wife when became a rciormcr that she, with
me, must suffer hardship, priyation, and perse
cutIon for the sake of the cause.
Poor kearncy! How he must have suffered
under the prosecutions of capital which allow.
cd him Ia clear only 5000 month. Labor
proved irksomc 10 him under such diScourag
ing conditions, and so he made up his mind ht
would do no more of il, but live on the earn
lngs of other people.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1878-04-20

Here is the way the G1ojc DCmocrot praises
and encourages the national faction OF the re
publican party:
The nationals made good showing in In
diana at the local elections on Monday last
enough to warrant the belief that they will be
able to prevent the choice of democratic
Legislature next fall. The republicans should
encourage the nationals in Indiana, and in all
the democratic states
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1878-04-20

The Union Mills at Fall River, Mass, one
of the heaviest New England concerns engag.
ed in the manufacture Of print cloths, came to
sudden stand still on the 10th inst, on the
discovery that its treasurer, Angir c Chase, had
robbed the company of. about 100000. The
mill was started in 1859, employed 500 opera
tiveS and produced annually twelve and half
million yards of prints So profitable was its
business supposed to be that its stock often
sold at eight times its par value and down to a
month ago it was paying 20 per cent. divi,
dcnds. Yet on account of the raScality of the
treasurer, whose thieveries run through four
or five years the concern had really been
financially rotten for a year or two Chase,
after the explosion, locked himself up in his
palatial home, where he is sand TO be in dan
gcrous condition from nervous prostration."
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1878-04-20

Kansas, on the line of the Kansas, Topeka Il
Santc Fc railroad from Emporia to Hunts sta
ton, was visited by fearful tornado last Sat
urday There was a terrific wind accompanied
by heavy fall of rain and hail, doing great
damage to crops, blowing freight cars from the
track, and ovcrtumlng numerous farm houses,
SO that 30 or more people are known to have
hnnn killnl
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1878-04-20

At the annual town meeting OF the town OF
Freedom, in this county, on the ID inst, the
following resolution was adopted:
R,SOlrtd, That rs a town we diSapprove the
present road law and ask our legislature to re-.
peal the law and restore the old law at their
first session; and that our Town Clerk furnish
a copy of this resolution for publication in the
Ottawa papers.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1878-04-20

J. Madison Wells, having announced his
intention of suing the Philadelphia Yime1 for
libel, that paper repeats the libcllous matter
with the addition of "forger, perjurer and muir
dcrer," and tells Wells to crack his whip
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1878-04-20

The Republican legislature of connecticut
refused to incorporate the colored troops of the
state as militia battalion. The colored voters
got even at the late election by making Hart
ford and Bridgeport Democratic.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1878-04-20

Last Sunday night young girl named Nina
lhrig died in this city ofconSumption, and the
same night her grandmother, widow of VIM.
Ihrg who recently committed suicide, also died
nearly at the same moment Strange coin
cidence in mortality-Ld Sale Democrat.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1878-04-20
ANOTHER TREMENDOUS CLERICAL SCAN

| nAJ
When ON Wednesday morning the people
| hastily oncncd the Chicago Times 10 satae
their nruricnt anpcti,cs on the latest contribu-
Ition 10 thc BcechcrTilton scandal, their aston
Iishmcnt must have been equal to their gratiti-
cation 10 find the BROOKLYN nastincss wholly
cclpscd by 4 brand new one from Detroit, II
ANYTHING still nasticr and more spicy. The last
/ Is no less than that fine AGED Bishop McCosk-
rev. of Michigan, had been detected in lioiSo"
with a vounr GIRL of twenty and that the proof
Of his ruilt was 50 conclusive and Overwhc!n-
inc that neither tbc bishop or his friends made
the least attcmp, 10 dcuy or pallate it,
The story runs in this way: About four years
AGO fine bisbon cmploycd pretty girl Of six
teen named Fannie Richards, a, amanuCnsis
and She could have been but short time in his
employment rs such before he became cnamol-
cd of her and ACCOMPLISHED her ruin. \ year
or two later she became intimate with a Detroit
printer named George Mcconnell, who also
Iconfesscs to having been criminally intimate
with her. The bishop became jealous OF the
printer and sent Fannie off to school, paying
her occasional visits and having her visit him.
The rirl. however having confessed her init
macy with the bishop to Mcconnell, that wor-
thy not only made use of his information to
levy blackmail on the bishop, but became so
Ilcakv. that the scandal was privately whisper,
ed around in pretty extensive circle. To put
an end to this the bishop gave out that Fannie
was Il relative of his and his ward and heir to
considerable property, upon which young
dry goods clerk named Bannistcr made love to
and was induced to marry her.
Mcconnell, however, would not hold his
tongue. He not only had the confession otthe
Girl but had got from her scycn letters OF the
bishop any one OF which was enough to prove
his guilt, and all together making an ovcrwhel-
ming case against him. The letters finally,
about month ago, got into the hands OF the
Standing Committee of the diocese, and 10y
them the bishop was at once summoned to ap-
pear and explain. lie made no attempt to de
my his guilt or to eXculpate himself, but beg
gcd so piteously to be saved from exposure
that the committe very culpably) consented to
accept his immediate resignation on condition
of his sailing to Europe as soon as the neces-
sary arrangements could be made; the letters
establishing his guiltmeantime to be sealed up
and placed for safety in a bank vault. Accord
ingly the resignation of Bishop McCoskrey
was publicly announced a month ago, and since
then he had been perlecting the arrangements
for his European tour, having fixed the 9th
inst as the date of sailing from New York, his
unhappy wife, who had all along been kept in
total ignorance of the scandal, having left De
uoit for New York in advance of her husband
on Monday.
But the man Mcconnell and his contederates
who it seems had rcveled in many thousands
of dollars they had eXtortcd from the bishop
as blackmail, had taken the precaution to make
deposited in the bank vault, and these, togeth-
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1878-04-20

Dispatches from Chicago, Davenport and
other cities in the Northwest, states that many
national banks are redeeming their notes IN
gold, and that that metal is beginning to CIR
culatc freely.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1878-04-20

Switzerland is the first of the European ma
tons to respond to the invitation ofthe United
States TO attend convention to determine a
proper ratio of value between gold and silver
Switzerland will be represented.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1878-04-20

Just where, in our present currency settle
men,, the greenbackeIs can make out any
needed reforms, is neither clear TO themselves
or anybody else.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1878-04-20

All in need of Wall Paper should examin
man Il Hapeman's fine stock before purch,>
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1878-04-20

New patterns Of wall paper just received at os-
man x Hapeman's.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1878-04-20
JOE BRADLEY.

The senate unanimously passed concur
rent resolution on Wednesday to adjourn with
out day on the 10th of June. When the reso-
luton came to the house Wood asked its refer
encc to the ways and means committee, which
by combination of high tariff democrats and
the republicans was defeated. Further action
on the resolution was delay by the action of a
democratic caucus on Wednesday evening.
The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-03-10

hands ioyfully, "All right, Father MOsesi All
right" he said.
Everybody laughed Tho
procession, ran to the market to open my
shop. -
Little Safel had also understood thet we
were going to have pre- ii cable day, for, IN ths
midst of the crowd, he had come and pulieo
my coat-tails, and said. 81 have the key OF the
market I; 1 have it; let as make haste! Ae' uS
try to get there before Frichardr :.
Whatever natural wit o child may nave IL
shows itself at once.
So we to the shop. Iopened my WIN
to eat q morsel, and get good quantty OF sous
and email cha ange. -,
Sorle and Zeff IN were at their counter cell
| ing email glassfuls. Everything went well az
ns1al Bat q quarter of an hour later, when
| the soldiers had broken ranks and put osok
| their muskets in their places at the parracRs,
| tho crowd at my shop in the market, OF people
wishing to sell me coats, sacks, "atohes' P.s.
| tols cloaks, epaulettes etc., was 50 great 'pae
without Safel's help never conld have gotou'
oft. ~ A.,
Igot all these things for almost nothing. Men
| of this sort never trouble themselves about to,
morrow; their only thought was to i've wen
from one day to another, 70 nave tooaoou, ~.
brandy, and the other good things which are
! never wanting in a garrjsoned town
That day, in six hours time. refurnlshed
my shop with coats, cloaks, Pantaioons' an u
| sbick boots of genuine German leather, OF Inc
| first quality and bought things OF all sorts
nearly fifteen hundred pounds worth-whiGh
afterward sold for six or seven times more tnan
they cost me. All those laudwehr were ~ell't
do, and even rich citizens, with good, So bstan
tial clothes. ,
But what gave me more pleasure than al
the rest, was that Frichard, who was sick foi
three or four days, could not come and opeI
his shop. 1t makes me lsugh now to think o'
it. 1t gave the rascal that green jaundlce
which never left him as long as he lived.
At noon Safel went to fetch our dinner In 6
basket we ate under the shed so as not to les
custom, and could not leave for minute I'll
night. Scarcely had one set gone, before twt
| and often three others came at once.
1 was sinking with fatigue, and so was Safei
nothing bnt our love of trade sustained u.s..
, Another pleasant thing which recall is that
on going home few minutes before seven W:
saw at q distance that our other shop was full
8 NV wife and daughter had not been able Il
? close 1T they had raised the price, and th'
Q soldiers did not even notice it,-it seemed al
right to them; SO that no. only the frenct
Q money which had just given them, but ais'
Q Wurtemburg lorins came to my pocket.
: Two trades which help each other along ar
: an excellent thing, Fritz: remember that
: Without my brandies I should not have hat
b the money to buy many goods, and withou
! the market where gave ready money for tn
Q booty, the soldiers would not have had where
i with to buy my brandy.
f At length, we could not do more, we Wer
obliged to close the shop, in spite of the pro
4 testatious of the soldiers, and defer busines
, till to. morrow.
!, (To be oontnued)