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The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-12-20
BUDGET OF FUN.
clay TO A MIDNIGHT CAT.

tBy London Bardl
O We feline bruises er0tic!
Is there not some strong narcotic.
Some refined and rare hypnotic,
Some potent spell!
Soothing catnip, helleborus,
Anything to still the chorus
Ofyour piercing, wild, sonorous,
Nocturnal yell?
Stirring wrath in souls pacific;
Blighting visions beatifc;
Thwarting agents soporitic
With horrid din;
Tempting even spirits sanity
To utter (almOst) low and family,
Words divided very scantly
From words Of sin!
Dye brutes, my windows under!
Sleep and me who widely sunder,
. for power for once to thunder
AnnihilatiOn!
o for boot. jacks, half a hundred!
o for hand that never Numbered,
Hurting, while the neighbors wondered,
PaciicatiOn!
o for catapults to smIte ye!
o let catalepsy blight We
\ All catastrophes invite ye,
j Cataclysmal!
: Cataracts be on We falling.
Curse, confederate, appalling,
Stop your ghorlsh caterwauling,
ParOXysmal!
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-12-20
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Old stock Of Blank Books per cent below cost to cese out
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The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-12-20

A very rich old man had married a young
Iylie, and died suddenly, on which the widow
Iaved like a maniac, and exclaimed to the doc
pr, who stood by the bedside Of the deceased,
IOh, III not believe that my dear partner Is
cad he could not die, and leave me! No,
| o! he's alive-I'm sure he's alive! Tell me,
|octor, don't you think soy Madam re-
Med the medical man, with much gravity, 81
fess that it is possible that he may be re-
ca. ! will apply the galvanic battery"
Oh, no. MOI" cried the griefstrlcken widow.
Experiment. against the law of nature; let HIM
|est in peace"
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-12-20

A gorously beautiful widow, says the Wash
gton Capital, has the best dodge of them all
he takes home hundred of her photographs
I'D when gentleman calls the maid happens
pc looking at one of them. what is that
an," says the caller, "A photograph OF
eMisses," says Susan. Amt it just too
|'vely?' Rather replies the caller and then
|e gives Susan a dollar for IT,
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-12-20

SHr.RIFF'S "a LEs.-By virtue Of special exc
cutiun issued of the clerks office Of the Circuit Court
Ia ard stste 81 Illinois, and To directed
whereby commanded 10 make the amount due upon a
certain decree recently obtained against William T. Beck
in Bridget Mctio~ ont 81 certain real estate In
said execution pecined have levied on the following prop
erty Lot four ia block seyenteen in Adanss Ad-
don the city OF La sale in the county of La sale and
state OF Illinois.
Therefore according the said command shall
public auction the above described property,
Monday. the 18th day of December 1873 at 10 O'Clock NJ
e. the OF the County Court House In Ottawa
La Sale county. Illinois.
pated al ottawa H. this 9Th day OF Decemher 1873
RUFCS G. STENENS.
decS3W ShcriS Of IA ss,,e County Hincis
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-12-20

A minister who had been reproving one Of
is elders for over-indulgence observed COW
down to a stream, take Il drink and then
lrn away. There" said he to his offending
der, us an example for you. The COW has
|uenched its thirst. and has retired" Eyes"
|,plled the other, that is very true. But sup
Iose another COW had come to the other side
4 the stream ard had said, Here's to you,
|iere's no saying how long they might have
lone on"
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-12-20

A popular clergyman was greatly bored by
lady who admired him without reserve. "Oh
dear Mr. -" said she, last Sunday after
BON; "there isn't any harm in one loving
hes pastor, is therc?' certainly not
ADAM" replied the worthy cleric; mot the
asst in the world, SO long as the feeling is not
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-12-20

"Women or whisky, which wins?" is to be
e title of Eureka Clcrgyman's sermon in
e near future. That's a poser. Both are
adulterated nowadays that they aren't safe
bet on, but we'll take whisky against the
ED, and if that don't suit we'll take whisky
hvhoW
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-12-20
Can YOU tell me-" said a punster

Gan you tell me- said punster
Who in our sanctum popped,
nd upon the floor was seeking
For copper he had dropped,
Can you tell me why at present
am like Noah's weary dovc?"
| nd he glanced with inward tremor
Toward gun that hung ABOVE.
|WOuldst thou know" he queried blandly-
AS he lodged the cudgel stout
Fhich we SHE'D at him in anger
otis because I'm one sent out"
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-12-20

Mirabeau-Tonneau one fine morning rang
br his valet and to him did say, "You are
|,ithful, honest and Intelligent; indeed l have
10 fault to find with you'--
IN. lie Vicomte is too good" says the fiat
ered servant.
"Only won't require your services after TO-
Law"
"But why, sir?"
because, you rascal, in spite of your posi-.
i've agreement on the subject, you get drunk
In the same days that do, instead of remain,
bg sober to take care of me. That's why, sir"
| The valet with dignity)-And am to
kame, sir, because you get drunk every day?
klrabeau- Tonneau kept him.-N. Y World.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-12-20

"Pshaw," said Czardine, as he seated HIM
|elf in the Times sanctum, 1.-The snake stories
nat are going around are all too thin. Why
lst look here. Last spring | went out intc
be woods. took an umbreler which laid
own onto some rocks Well, sir about an
our afterward went to get my umbrelcr, a
! had begun to rain little | took hold OF
he handle, and, as l gave 1t shove, some
hing began to tear, and as the umbreller flew
pen a live black snake fell to the ground
|plit in two from its head to Its tail. The con
bundled critter had actually swallered my UNI
|reller, and never noticed it until showed
p the dumb thing and split the animal open
rom stem to stern"
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-12-20

1t has been noticed by Philadelphia youth
at the wide belts now worn by fashionable
males are just the width of gentleman's
at sleeve.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-12-20
NOTICE.

Notice ia hereby given that any person caught throwing
or placing or any other substance on the ice on The
Canal will he prosecuted the full extent of the law
- " WIN. THOMAS Gen'l Snpt
Ottawa H., December LIST, 1879. decs4w
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-12-20

:E- Single copies for salt and subs
lslnnn & Hnncman. OttnWn. IllinOls.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-07-31
Preaching i'm America.

The preaching of the time in this cOun-
try is as good as the people are willing
to hear. Neither in the church nor out
of it is there any considerable demand
for better preaching. Where there is
most intelligence or culture the chief de-
sire in regard to preaching is that it
shall be entertaining, and thus suited to
attract many hearers who will help to
pay the expenses of the church. Under
the voluntary SYSTEM as it is called,
which prevails here, it would be very
difficult to give the people any kind of
preaching which they do not want. The
persons who need to be taught, guided,
and instructed thus fix the standard and
determine almost wholly the character
of the teaching which they are to re-
ceive. This is an incidental effect OF
the dominion of the masses, of our uni
versal-suffrage arrangement of society.
In very few of the churches or congre-
cations in this country can there be any
continuous or habitual religious teaching
which the people do not approve. The
standard, or ideal, as to preaching is
usually higher among ministers than
among their hearers, and many clergy
men maintain constant struggle against
the injurious tendencies of the popular
taste, and try to create IN the minds of
their hearers an appetite for the higher
and more spiritual qualities in religious
teaching. But the preaching of the coun-
try, like nearly everything else in our
national life, is likely to become more
and more completely representative of
the culture, taste, morality, and entire
character of the people who compose the
churches. If this is the tendency, the
character of the preaching will not there
by be elevated or improved.-August
Atlantic.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-07-31

ment. The veto of the Bland silver bill,
carried through Congress by overwhelm-
ing majorities, was protest which no
president who held his principles as con-
veniences rather than cOnvictions,o or was
infirm in courage, would have made. But
besides exercising jealous care for the
national honor and the national inter-
ests in his official capacity, the presi-
dent has exerted a consistent, enlight-
ening, and powerful influence upon pub
lie sentiment in behalf of right under
standing of the conditions of financial
soundness. To his Stalwart faith in
absolute national integrity it is largely
due that the republican party all over
the land is becoming more and more
solid in its hostility to every heresy of
finance, while the democratic party is
becoming more and more identified with
the clamorers for initiation, depreciation,
and repudiation.-August Atlantic.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-07-31

ANEW American export trade has
been started, which promises to be more
successful than the expectation of cattle,
hogs and sheep, because the margin Of
profit is much larger; and that is the ex-
pOrtatiOn of horses, a cargo of which ar
rived in Hayre on Sunday. They are to
be used in the French cavalry, and hav-
ing been inspected by army officers, were
I'll accepted at the highest prices paid for
French regiments-from 1920 to S27O.
As the French government is expending
such vast sums for the equipment of its
constantly increasing army, this will
doubtless prove an entering wedge for
an extensive and lucrative trade, and
the high price of horses in Europe will
before long lead to expectation to other
countries than France. The cost of
shipment to Havre is still considerably
greater than to Liverpool, but if the
trade becomes a permanent one more ia
vorable terms are confidently expected.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-07-31

will stand as debatable plan will de-
pend largely upon the heat of the cam
paign. There is but little appearance
of amicable solution of the matter
now, but time will probably demon
strate that considerations of State poll
tics are entitled to some respect, even
if local divisions have to take a back
seat, and the abandonment of the pro-
gramme just suggested will be step No.
2 in the divorce aforesaid. The most
intelligent and reasonable proposition
yet brought out, though it has not yet
taken the form of action, is that the
fight on the county-seat question-for
it is bound to come-shall be made in
the nominating Conventions of the
parties. Let the Republicans, say, hold
their Convention and fight it out on the
county-seat line. Then let the Demo
Gratis sharpen their fnger-nails and go
for each others eyes on the same sub
ject. If both parties nominate anti
Removalists, there is an end to removal.
If both nominate Removalists, then let
St. Clairsville follow the example of
the aged colored gentleman celebrated
in song, and decorate the wall with
their music. This would keep the po-
litical lines nearly straight. There
might be some scratching on both sides,
but it is predicted by those who, in all
the turmoil, are able to keep their
temper and judgment under control,
that in the fire of the campaign, which
is likely to be hot one, the county
seat question will go out of sight, or
be so over shadowed that it will not be
specially annoying to either party.
CAPULET.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-07-31
NE WS ITEMS.

The increase of cotton export at New
York this year is 3S per cent. over that
of the same period last year.
This country uses up 1,000,000,000 pa
per bags annually, and several manu-
facturers report increasing demands.
The President has accepted an invita-
tiOn to attend the camp meeting at
Ocean Grove, n, j., commencing July 30.
VIM. Kinks, for thirty years one of
the official reporters of the House of
Representatives at Washington, died
last week.
The Boston Commercial Club enter
tanned Secretary Sherman at dinner one
day last week. The Secretary made a
short address.
News from England shows that 45O,-
600 of the 100000 cotton spindles at
Preston are stopped, and the same ratio
exists elsewhere.
Abraham B. Coleman, of New York,
founder and for many years owner of
the Burnet House, Cincinnati, O., died
at Utica, n. Y, last week, aged 81 years.
Joseph w. Norton, well known COM
mercial traveller, committed suicide one
day last week at Syracuse, n. Y, by
shooting. The cause for the rash act
is unknown.
John Hope, convicted of the robbery
of the Manhattan Savings Bank of New
York, of S3,0OO,OOO in securities, ETC.,
has been sentenced to the State prison
for twenty years.
Henry Kuhn, living eight miles east
of NeWcomerstOwn, died one day last
week of starvation. He was without
food or drink for seventeen days. In
sanity was the cause.
Austin Corbin, President of the Man.
haitian Beach Company, announces that
he does not desire Hebrews to patronize
his hotel at Coney Island. There is
much excitement among the Jews of
New York.
An engagement took place on the 18th
near the mouth of Beaver Creek, be-
tween two companies of troops and 300
hostile Sioux. The Indians were driven
to Sitting Bulls camp. Another fight
was expected soon.
The one hundredth anniversary of the
battle of Minisink, in which forty-four
of the best sons of Orange county, n. Y,
were killed by the Indians and Tories
under Brandt, on the mountain opposite
LackawaXen, Pa, was celebrated at
Goshen, N. Y, Tuesday of last week,
with a large procession and public eXer-
cises.
The Republicans of Wisconsin held
their convention Wednesday, and nom
mated Governor Smith for the first pO-
sitiOn on the ticket; Lieutenant Cover
nor, James N. Bingham; Secretary of
State, Hans B. Warner; Treasurer,
Richard Guenther; Attorney General,
Alexander Wilson,; Superintendent of
Public Instruction, William c. Whitford.
The jury in the case of Thomas Bu-
ford, on trial for the murder of judge
John NJ Elliott, at Frankfort, KY, on
the 26th day of March last, Thursdayre-
turned a verdict of guilty and the Judge
sentenced the prisoner to a life's service
in the State Penitentiary. The assassin
was lodged in the Louisville jail where
he will remain until the decision of the
appeal in his case.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-07-31
Financial Record of President
Hayes Administration.
BY WALTER ALLEN.

The record of this administration In
financial and currency matters is so con-
spicuously honorable that it needs only
the briefest comment. The supporters
of Governor Tilden, those of them who
were not infationists, never tired of
vaunting his superior wisdom in political
economy and public finance. They did
not conceal their contempt for the repub-
lican candidate, and for all who thought
the national pledge to resume specie paw
ments on the first day of January, 1879.
could be kept. The repeal of the resump-
tion act because it was an obstacle to re-
sumption was the demand of the demo-
cratic platform, and Governor Tilden
took the same view. When that had
been done, wise measures of prepara-
tion for resumption at some far-off day.
which it would not be safe to fix In ad-
vance, might be undertaken cautiously.
President Hayes believed that the ma
tion's pledge could be kept, and that it
should be kept. Without additional leg
islation, with less than the anticipated
hardship to business interests, and with
no shock. specie payments were resumed
at the date previously fixed by law. 1t
is demonstrated that the indefinite post
ponement recommended by Governor
Tilden was unnecessary, and would have
been blunder. The refunding at four
per cent interest of the whole interest
bearing debt which the government can
now call in has been accomplished in a
manner worthy of high praise, and is a
signal testimony to the ability and energy
OF the conduct of the treasury depart
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-07-31
UighIy.seasOnedF Food Pr0motive
of fIntemperance.
Sunday Afternoon for August.


AS long as the American people con-
sumo such quantities of stimulating and
'highly-seasoned food as they do, they
will want to imbibe stimulating drinks.
Stimulating food and stimulating drinks
go necessarily together. Many a man
who seasons his dinner literally with
the contents ofthe caster excites in his
system thirst for something stronger
than cold water. Not that cold water
would not be the best thing with which
to extinguish the fire he has kindled
within the vital domain by the use of
such hot, stimulating condiments; but
that is too insipid. Having partaken of
such highly seasoned food he Graves a
drink equally stimulating.
Now, it is not true that every one who
eats inordinately and of stimulating and
highly-seasoned food is drunkard, but
hold that such one, by his manner of
living, supplies very important condi-
ton for becoming drunkard. That he
does not become one is, perhaps, because
of high moral principle, acting in con-
junction with great will to restrain his
appetite for diffusible stimulants; for
we hold that in such case, this appe-
tite, to greater or less extent, exists.
The converse of this proposition, howev-
er, is true, that as a general thing, men
who are fond of stimulating and highly
seasoned drinks are also fond of stimu-
ting and highly-seasoned food.
On the other hand it was the opinion
of Liebig, founded on observation, that
persons who live mostly upon farinoce-
Gus and amylaceous food cannot take
wine ;all kinds of alcoholic drinks seem
to be repugnant to such. 1t is only those
whose daily diet consists largely of ami
NAL food, who can relish spirituous Ii
quors. Savage nations living in tropi-
cal regions. where they have subsiSted
mostly upon fruits and vegetables, the
spontaneous productions of mother
earth, have rarely, on coming into con-
tact with the white man and his fire
water, fallen victims to intemperance
like the North American Indian, who
living by the chase, has subsisted al
most wholly upon animal food.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-07-31

THE Confederate Congress neglected
or omitted to make an appropriation to
pay claims for unsettled balances to pay
and allowances due to Union volunteers
The accounts have been audited, the ap-
preparation was recommended to Con-
gress by the Treasury officials, and the
money is sadly needed by many widows
and orphans of dead Union soldiers
The whole amount in question was only
S225, 900, but it was to be SO finely sub
divided that the lack of it may be the
cause of real want for many. The most
charitable thing that can be said of this
Congressional achievement is that it is
a piece of characteristic incompetence.
N. Y, Tribune.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-07-31

the veteran volunteers. But they know
what Vallandigham was, and they know
what influence the arbitrary power of
commander in war gives over his regi-
ments. And Rice gave to his regiment
the bad fame of casting a majority vote
for Valianeigham, and he himself came
to the rear and paraded himself at Val
landigham meetings-Cin. Gazette.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-07-31
THE Nationals have created a decided

THE Nationals have created decided
sensation in Toledo. They succeeded in
gaining majority in the Board of
Capitalization Of taxes, and Herewith
proceeded to raise the estimates of all
persons who could pay easily, and lower
those who could not. For example,
the estimate of one national banker was
raised from $4,000 to $1OO,615; of anoth-
er, from, 81 200 to $S2,S50; and of anoth-
er, from $4,000 to S236,47S. This is not
only the most practical sort of imitation,
but it is practical mode of abolishing
the national banks.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-07-31

IT WILL NOT WoRK.-Mr. Ewing
comes to blind the people with his SER
vices as soldier, and with device to
make them rich by fabricating money
but Nh. Ewing in Congress !is as ser
viceable as any Northern Democrat to
weaken the National Government and
surrender all to Confederate supremacy.
Mr.. Rice,is put upon the ticket for an
other blind but his course in Congress
is basely servile to the Cenfederates.
He was Colonel of regiment of Ohio
volunteers, and he thinks this will catch
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-07-31
Ii. SONNET.

Where shall the Poets house and household
llbe? 4a.s.1
Beneath what skies, in what untroubled air
Sings he for very joy of songs so fair =
That in their steadfast laws he most is free?
In woods remote, where darkly tree on tree
Let fall their curtained shadows, to ensnare
His dreams, or hid in Fancy's happiest lair
Some laughing island of the stormless sea?
All, never such to him their welcome gave!
But, fattered by the gods in finer scorn,
He drifts upon the worlds unresting wave,
r As drifts sea-fower, by the tempest torn
From sheltered porches of the coral cave
Where it expands, of calm and silence born.
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