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The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-08-02
FOREIGN.

ENGGAND.--The cotton spinners at Oldham
have concluded to shorten time instead OF iur-
Their lowering wages. Some Sl0OOO,OOO OF
capital has been unproductivc there now for
three wears though 90 per cent. REDUCTION mas
been made in the wages of operatives. Nearly
400 of the engineers on strike at Bradford are
nronorino 20 cmigatc to the United States.
In the house of commons on FRIDAY SIR
George Campbell offered an amendment TO The
India bill that in view of the difficulties caus'
ed by excessive changes in the relative value
of cold and silver advantage should be taken
Of the proposal Of the United States to fin "a
standard calculated to steady the value OF the
precious metals. India undertaking to conllnne
free coinage Of SILVER if the United States VIII
do likewise. The amendment was talked
out"
The Zulu war j. considered over, and parlia
ment is asked for Slj,000000 to pay the eX'
pense All the India troop ships are ordered
to be ready TO bring home the $4,000 soldiers
sent to South Africa, of whom but 1000 were
needed.
Hot weather. is improving the crop prospects
In ENGLAND, though IT comes too late Tor the
crops on low,lying lands The queer insect
discovered at Killavunclan, in Ireland, turns
ont to be the Colorado potato bug.
GERM\Ny-The International Bank oi
Hamburg with a capital of S4OO0,OOO is go
ing into voluntary liquidation. 1t is paying
ITS creditors in full, but the capital is sunk.
FRANcE-Ileavy rains in the north contln
lie and have about destroyed the crops. In the
south of France, however the harvest turns
out equal in quantity and better in quality
than last year The phylloXera has attacked
and about ruined the vines in 10 departments
In laying out new quarter of the city OF Par
is principal street has been named Lincoln,
in honor of our martyr President
RrssrA.-The Siberian cattle plague has
made its appearance among the ANIMALS of
Nova Ladoga. The plague last year destroyed
PIP ,1Gs cattle and 2G,360 horses in forty gov
crnmcnts of the empire
The Nlhilsts are held responsible for $500
fires during June causing damage to the
amount of l2,OOOO00 roublcs The theatre in
the Krcmlj2 al Moscow was harmed ir til"
Nihilis;s The NIhlists trials are still pro.
cccding at khortsoll and Warsaw, and several
thousand Will be sent to Siberia. The general
diff of sentiment at both places is 50 hostile
to the government that a strong military force
guards the court
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-08-02

The Oldhams and Belts live in Hardin Coun-
.ty, Ill and rival each other in wlckedness.
There has long been ieud between the families,
and wear ago it broke out into bloody hostll-
ties. \ Belt was killed by an Oldham in con
sequence of quarrel about woman, and
after that hostilities were open and fierce. Lo.
Gan Belt, the leader of the Belt faction, killed
Doris Oldham soon atterward, for revenge. 1t
was not long before Logan Belts nephew was
Killed ia a drunken brs,sl by man whoee wife
was an Oldham The next homicide was that
OF" Doc" Oldham by Logan Belt, at an Old.
ham family party, into which some ofthe Belts
ntruded in order to force a fight Although
justice is very sleepy in Hardin County, four
murders within q few months aroused the
Grand Jury to action, and Logan Belt was in
dicted Several witnesses against Belt were
fired at, one losing finger; and badly am
ed shot at an Oldham seriously wounded
Belt, who was standing near. The trial OF
Logan Belt took place and terminated last
week in sending him to the penitentiary at
Chester. But whether that will give peace TO
Hardin county remains To be seen.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-08-02

The Two days marked by the greatest NOR
tally were wet rainy days. 1t Is to be noted,
however, that while the fever has thus shrunk
apparently to nconsiderablc proportions, three
or four deaths a day being a tritlc in Il city OF
1900 people Memphis has suddenly dwindled
to Il city of 5000 people, and of these but
d, 600 are whites and such as, having had the
fever heretofore ar. regarded as acclimated
and fever proof; while the remaining 10000 ne
groes are largely being transferred to camps
and are at all events much less liable to take
the fever than the whites. Were the whole
10000 population Of Memphis at home, the
ravagcs of the fever would be fearful running
into hundreds day
A large shipment Of government tents has
been received and Il camp established miles
below the city, to which some 600 negroes had
already on Thursday been transferred, though
it takes much persuasion, notwithstanding the
regular rations promised, TO get them to leave
town, and the probability Is that force must
ultimately be used The city remains in
charge of "A committee of safety, with two mil
tary companies and strong police force to
protect property. The Towards have torty.slX
nurses at work, and all the other benevolent
socltcs are IN full operation, and it is deter
mined to spend the last dollar on hand or that
can he raised at home before appealing to the
north for aid.
The most rigid quarantine against Memphis
is maintained at every point in the rcmotcst
danger from fever Yet Memphlan refugees
are found everywhere. There are said 10 be
5000 in st. Louis, 5000 IN Cincinnati 800
IN Louisville, etc. and at one or other of these
points every day or so Il fever case occurs
among their own, and they are hustled off to
the quarantine hospital St Louis asked the
government for tents and ralions to form
camp of Memphans but the request was
denied
New Orleans has thus far escaped with but
half dozen cases and two or three deaths, but
there seems to be a general agreement that if
the present hot weather continues, both New
Orleans, Vickburg, and in fact the whole fever
district of last year Is bound to catch the cpl
demlc before frost comes.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-08-02

Gen Bu.la-, on the importantly OF alis
friends, has consented to lay aside his habitGal
nodesty and aEnuunoes tiimseli.as ready once
more 10 run for the gosernorsblp of the OIi
Bay State SO !, Looks Ct ifthis e.4eelent mar
may again he forced into a publioity that must
be exceedingly &istastefUl so his shrinking ma
lure His headquarters be says VIII be at No.
9Trenont Piece Boston. ueantimehis tr,isty
lieutenants and benchmcu Zion. JohnJ Baker
and Col Usher hsge issueS a call of & convcn-
ton o. his friends 20 presan- the General as a
candidate br L formal nOmia.ation.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-08-02

4 Mr. Corbin, keeper of a hotel ON Manhat-
ten Beach and President of the Manhattan
Beach Company, a New York organization
that is trying to make Manhattan Beach a rival
10 Coney Island as a summer resort, has jump
ed into sudden notoriety by an attempt to i'm.
itate Judge Hilton IN prescribing the Jews.
His objection is, that the Jews come to the
beach and pass their Sundays there without
spending as much money at his hotel as the
upper crust Americans do. Mr.. Corbin doubt
less thinks as Judge Hilton did in the case of
his Saratoga hotel, that by pronunciamento
against the Jews he can give an air OF aristOc
racy to his hotel and thus make it fashionable
Hilton's attempt, however, was failure, and
before the season was over he was glad to con
eiliate the wealthy" Jews, and it looks as if
Corbin may be compelled to take the same
course. The Jews meantime take special de.
light IN worrying him, visiting Manhattan
beach IN quadruple their usual numbers but
giving Corbin's hotel a wide berth.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-08-02

The reports in reference to the shoFt crops
in the south of France were exaggerated, the
latest dispatch being to the effect that there Is
about the same IN quantity and better inquali-
.y than last year. The chief damage to the
crops in France from wet weather was IN the
north. However, there is no question about
snor, crop IN England and on the continent so
there will be NO want Of foreign demand for
the supcrabundant crops Of the United States
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-08-02

dhe Ottawa FREg TRADER % down Oh Sher-
man Is between Grant and Sherman for the
aext campaign, il 80 Cor Grant and thinks that
his chances tor Il reelection are very much
amproReu eb6atog 4Ohder.
The FEEE TRADER exppessea an 'opiNion
that Grants chances ware improved by his nc.
pudiatol n the whisky thieves and treasury
pIunderers who were engineering the Grant
Doom, but as 10 expressing preference he
tween Grant and Sherman we must be excus,
ed Where one soad leads only 10 hell and
The Other Go dalnastsoB, as faworite story Of
Abe tihco.K used " run. tic FREE TRADER
Knows no cioice but 10 take 1froo de woods"
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-08-02
Fatal Runaway.

His friends in this city and elsewhere hes4
with pain on Wednesday morning that Mr.. p
seph Pool, of Serena, had the night before be
thrown out of his wagon and, if not killed, y
riously hurt. 1t appears that Mr.. Pool in go,u
home from Ottawa that evening stopped at Nse
Peter Jacobs's house, about a mile and quart
from his home, and talked with Mr.. Jacobs q
some time on business matters While standiIt
there by some mischance one of the traces y
came unlocked. The horses "a fiery team thu
began to run, and while running at stror
gait the tongue dropped and, fastening to an &
struction in the road, threw the wagon end OF
end and Mr.. Pool into the air. lie fell on I
head, crushing in the fore part of the skull. Z
was taken up unconscious and carried into N
Halls house, some 50 rods from Jacebss plac
There he lay until taken home on Thursday evs|
ming. On yesterday morning he was still alive
but entirely unconscious, as he had been since
the accident, and his physicians considered his
case hopeless.
Mr.. Pool being frequently in the habit OF going
out from town in liquor, the accident was laid to
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-08-02

The racing seasons" on the princip cours-
es throughout the country THE year have thus
far been unusually well attended and prosper
Gus, nevertheless th@e has not, among all of
them, been L single notable achievement wor
thy ofmentien except She paoipgfeat of'hleepy
Tom q; Chicago on Friday Of CAST week He
made i've heats OF nSle each as follows2a Il
tlGil, S1Cl5, 2IG, >.Pl4. This is sad to
knock all previous saeords af pacing OCT of
sight. though he beG' Matte Dsunter by but
4 Of q second
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-08-02

Gen. Singleton, member of congress from
the Quincy dist9o; met with painful acct
dent on the 2Sth inst, at BOecobel, has country
residence nesr Quincy. Feeling restless dur
ing the night, he rose irOm his bee and at
tempted in the dafh to pass 10 another room
but mistahine his course iehdown flight of
stairs TO the floor below, alfiering a severe
shec.i and iEIume,a ble bruises. Fortunately
40 bones were broken and no serioW results
are feared from The accident
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-08-02

The republicans are in trtbuatien over Cali
fornia not only the democrats and Kcarneyltes
having united on Glenn, a democrat, for gov
erDor, but ex-senator GorLam, one Of the most
prominent republican leaders in the state, hav.
ng aleo pronounced" in h9s favor. The fight
in the state seems To be directed manly against
the overwesnln.g lsaver of tho -tontrnl i'aorffc
Railroad monopoly, which Is folding every III.
aerest IL Tie state IN IT'S nserciless coils, com
parable orly 80 those of some Cyclopean ana-
rnp6q
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-08-02

The silver question is rapidly growing iaio
quite as much prominence in England as it
attained in this country few years ago on the
discovery of the clandestlne decentralization OF
the silver dollar. The cable dispatches men,
ton that Sir George Campbell has just made
a motion in parliament to invite America to
another conference on the silver question in
the hope of getting over the trouble by agree
ing on common worlds standard Mr. Camp
bells motion, however, is eclipsed by that of
Mr. Lowe, whose proposition to cure the India
difficulty is of character TO challenge the at
ton of our greenbackers. His plan IS to dis
pensc with both silver and gold as Il currency,
but to issue a thousand millions or more OF
legal tender greenbacks, made redeemable in
sums of $500 in gold bars of that nominal val
uc All gold coin Is to be taken up and melt
ed into bars, and silver is to be discarded alto
gether except as subsidiary coin. THIS plan,
he thinks, will dispense almost entirely with
the necessity for gold as money, a few millions
kept in the Exchequer or Bank of England
being quite sufficient at all times to meet any
probable demand for redemption in $500 bars
while it leaves the government at liberty to is
sue enough paper money tomect any probable
or conceivable demand for the wants of com
nerce As the intention and manifest tenden
cy OF Mr. loves plan would be to lower the
importance and value of the metallic basis
and dispense entirely with its use as u circulat
ing medium, it IS hard to see why silver Oh
even iron would not answer for the basis quite
as well as gold, or indeed why there is need fol
any basis at all except the government tia
making the greenbacks money, Mr.. Lowe
has evidently been reading up Campbell ant
Kellogg and Is imbued with the most advanced
ideas Of our fiat money philosophers.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-08-02

Iowa il having cholera excitement The
following dispatch appears IN Wednesdays
Chicago Tim4s;
Dubuque, Iowa, july ga disease akin to
cholera is rayaging Centre Point, Linn county,
this state. Fully twenty persons have died
from its effects during the past thirteen days
and an equal number are Frustrated bytt The
seven miles from Centre Point, several deaths
having occurred there. Az order tot forty
cofins was received from Centre Point today
by Dubuque undertaken. The physicians ct
Centre Point are worn out, and residents are
fleeing from the place.
Later information is 10 the effect thai the
disease il but q malignant fern of dysentery,
fatal chiefly to children, that 1t prevails in but
. limited district, and IS rapidly disappearing.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-08-02
HOME MATTERS.
Our Birthday,

This is our birthday-just 10 years old. OF
course We could I'll volumes telling how good
we have been and how good We are, and are 20.
ing TO be, but we won't We do, however, thank
the public for their liberal patronage greater
than that Of any other newspaper in the county,
and shall cndeavor to merit It's continuance. The
proof Of the pudding shall be the eating
THE FREE TRADER.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-08-02

The Rev. MoncuTe d Conway, well knewn
- foreign Correspondent for several New
York papers, writer tor Huper'.7 &c, speaks
somewhat dubiorsly Of Sarah Rarnhart the
French aytistac'ress, oueG whom the upper
crust" Of London are just now making so
much Fuss and who is TO take the United
States by storm next year, What puzzles Mr..
Conway 4. that although she was never mar
rieA she has four children.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-08-02

The Forest dhd Streds Of New YORK, IN IT'S
peculiar sphere the ablest publication IN the
country, comes 10 Us this week in a new dress
and shines cut like a bride arrayed Tor the
wedding. We are pleased to see this indica-
ton Of prosperity, which is certainly deserved
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-08-02

The eight hour movement would be simpli-
fed If those who are driving it with so much
earnestness would place 1t upon honest
grounds The question Is not whether men
shall work eight or ten hours day and no
more, but whether men shall spend eight hours
or ten hours each day in a single occupation,
No man with thrifty. industrious habits is con-
tent with working but eight hours "A day.
There is not a merchant banker or even pro-
fessional man who does justice to his calling
that is content with eight, or even ten hours
work day. The advantage these classes
have over the brick layer, carpenter and hod-
carrier is, that they can work five or six hours
in one way and then change off to something
else. The industrious, thrifty, honest cabinet
maker or shoemaker wants the same privilege
After eight hours at his bench, he wants The
privilege Of changing off to his garden, his
fiower-beds, or his books, and to put in three
or four hours a day there Very good. He
should have that privilege But while he is
gaining two hours q day in his garden, potato
patch or corn field, is 1t r,ght that he should
exact from his employer pay for the same two
hours work that he don't DO In his shop |,
Ten and twelve hours a day are too long for
any man TO spend continuously In any one &C.
They will harrow, wear out and
break down almost any constitution. But by
work most men that have stuff v
in them put in ten and even fifteen hours
work day probably, and are healthy and
cheerful under IT,
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-08-02

Hegeler, of La Sale, and the council of Peru
have long beer at loggerheads about the street
railway between the towns Hegeler is the rail.
way company and for various reasons refused
to run the cars into Peru. The council forced
him TO their way Of thinking by quite novel
method. The Press:
Since the construction OF the light car that has
been on the road for two or three weeks, the
street ears have been making regular trips to the
second bridge, between La Sale and Peru, refus-
ing TO cross that structure on account Of its
claimed unsafe condition. This the Peruyians
did not like They couldn't understand why one
bridge should be crossed and the other not. Ac-
cordingly they demonstrated with the managers
of the road and wanted them to run their cars
clear through to the Chambers house. But the
managers wouldn't do it. Consequently the Pc
m Council ordered the track TO be torn up over
the first bridge on Tuesday last, saying that the
ears shouldn't run on Peruvian territory ut all
unless they ran on the western terminus OF the
road Next come out the officers of the road,
who charter a wagon 10 make trips between the
Chambers house and the first bridge and carry
messengers through for the small sum of
nickel The ears did not cross the bridge, and the
railway men carried their point. The Pcruyians
rot through transportation and were happy.
And i'm this condition. matters rested until Thurs
day afternoon when Sheriff Stevens came down
with legal documents, arrested the whole Peru
Council. compelled them 10 relay the track across
the bridge. and started the street cars, on regu-
lar trims, clear through the road. After two
wears suspension, commercial connections are
sgau completed with our sister city, Peru, and
everything is ''quiet on the Potomac"
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-08-02
OUR CLUBBING.

We are prepared TO club the FREE TRADER
with hefolowing publications. furnishing BON
ct the prices named, postage prepaid, Inc OF
fer-open to old subscribers or new al any
post ottlce IN the county--Is Tie CHEAPEST
EVER MADE IN this county:
Fsrr TRApEx and Chicago Weekly inns ~, %
ERxy TRADER and Chicago Weekly Iribs"f 100
FARE TRADER and Chicago Weekly !"'"r- =.
Dean ......,,..,,- .'''.''s 900 nn
Pgry TRADER and P,is,rTt Farmer. .,....... .'>'o
FREg TRADER and either Of Harpers pupil
CatiOns. ..,,..,s..,..' '..f - ace -
FREE TRADER and Scrithef ;'n.';;''''' - - M
FREr TRADER and Godeg'S Ladies fook, Ply
Fxrr TRADER and PhnHologicdt Journal. 3' oooo
yRvr TRADER and ST. Nicholas ............. 3'N
Fspr TRADER and BeMortst's .NonHly...... 30
FRyr TRADER and Lit',lrS Lic1e9 AI....,. 50
FRTp TRADER and Western Rural. .......... 3'W
Errr TKtpgR and Noore Rar,tl Noc forker $50
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-08-02

fatal railroad accident occurred on the
Northwestern railroad, near Waukegan, last
saturday eycalng. A construction tram with
3 large number of laborers on board ran over
q cow, throwing the train from The track ana
r,,,irc mn the cars in confused mass -Four
men we're killed outright and five more severe
" yyerHjel
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-08-02

A jeweler peddler, of Chicago, went crazy in
Sheridan last week He was taken back to Chi
cago. II is believed that trouble had been weigh
ing on his mind for some time, and that by car
rying heavy pack during the extremely warm
weather of the past three weeks he had over-ex-
erted himself, so that his mind gave way.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-08-02
YELLOW FEVER.

The yellow fever as an epidemic Is still con
fined To Memphis, and the weeks record
shows little variation from last week, beng
about az follows;
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-08-02

ticipat,ng refractory conduct on the part OF The
states" by passing this infamous law 70 meet
suck conduct before the cmotcst sign OF il has
anyWhere manifested itself.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-08-11

wait your turn to get look att The subjectcontrD-
uted something its popularity, but it would have
been hardly less remarked had il been likeness OF
Mrs. Brown herself The canvas Is not more than
twelve by fifteen inches The face is IN protle inc
whole picture simple almos;antque in ITS severity;
its scheme ofcolor austere and pure; background
and dress of erays and nearly all the picture gray,
save for the carnaton of the cheek and the auburn
brown hair. 1t is painted with learning and solid
ity worthy of all praise. As the inscription In the
upper left-haud corner shows it IS an artists NOM
to an artist; gift from NJ. Lepage 10
Mile. Sarah Bernhardt. She observed, half ruefuliy,
half proudly, that he made her sit thlrty-eight
times for this portrait; coming to her house every
morning at o'clock. and staying, with intervals
devoted to callers and to breakfast. till noon Not
less striking and admirable is NJ. Lepages much
larger picture of the peasant woman with a fore
ground of potatoes. also in this years salon. And
he has two portraits in the Royal Academy, which
have attracted but little of the attention they de-
serve so careless is the British public of any art
which does not appeal to It's sluggish sense with the
seal and stamp of n made reputation. lt is not
enough that the reputation should be made in Paris
II takes time to cross tie channel; at least
as much as to cross the Atlantic. But NJ. Le-
page has some notion of setting mp studio
in London; attracted, probably, by the high prices
here prevailing for portraits and taking note OF the
fact that. notwithstanding the high prices, there
are but few painters to earn them The factis one of
which supply and demand theorists might also take
note, with a view to revising or ever SO slightly
modifying, their theory. For the present he has
gone back to Paris with a commission from the
Prince of Wales in his pocket, hear. A crowd of
clients are knocking at the door of his ateer in the
dngy house OF that queer lmpasse du Maine. where
IT suits NJ. Lepage 10 live now, he lived before he
became famous. Mr. Brown will do well to secure
his portrait before he becomes more famous still.
G, Wa 5.