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The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-12-11

Raleigh Observer: b. NJ. Yeates died at
Green Level, November 9th, of typhoid
fever. He is brother of NJ. T. Ieates,
Missionary to China We regret to
learn that Col. r. W. Wharton. of Beaufort
county, lost his barn and stables by fire on
Monday night last.--The meeting at
Wake Forest College is progressing favora-
bly,.
Reidsvilie Times: The point is to split
the Piedmont District on Scales for Gov,
ernor. We see it. So do Jarvis and his
workers. -The Milton Chronicle had it
that Captain Abisha Slade, Of Caswell, was
the first to cure tobacco yellow. This we
are informed by an old citizen of Caswell
is a mistake. 1t was William Slade, Cap
tain Abisha SHADES brothers, and he now
lives in Caswell aged seventy odd. We are
told that Mr.. Slade did it entirely by acct
dent. He was with his father and after the
main crop was set he cleaned up a patch and
planted it which he worked at spare times;
waen he had it housed and ready for the
fires he found he had neglected to get wood
ready and went to the coal house at the
blacksmith shop and got coal. When it
cured yellow Mr.. Slade was much frigh-
tened. thinking be had ruined his tobacco,
but he soon learned what it PANIED out in
market and stuck to the coal cure. His
was the first yellow cured tobacco.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-12-11

OFFICERS OF THE NATIONAL GRANGE
Masters. E. Adams, Monticello,
Orerseer.-J. j. Woodman, Paw Paw,
Mich.
%cinnatl.
assistant Steacord.-Wm. Sims, of Kan
Treasurer.-F. NJ. Mcdowell, Wayne,
cecretarv.-O. H. Kelley, Louisville, KY.
Gate keeper.-O. Dinwiddie, Orchard
Grove, Ind.
'Soyps-Mrs. Adams.
PomOnd.-Mrs. Woodman.
Fora.-Mrs. Moore.
i1dv Asst. Steuard.-Miss C. A. Hall,
louisville. Ky.
ho EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
D. Wyatt Aiken, Cokesbury, S. c.
Henley James, Marion, Ind.
s H. Ellis, Springsboro, Ohio.
osacers of North Carolina State
Grange, P. OF II.
uostar-W H Cheek, Of Warren.
0rerseer-D A Montgomery, of Ala
1Tacturer-D E Sampson, of Guilford.
ctaward-J A Harris. Of lredell.
o1tant Ste0ard-H E King, of Ons-
low. w. cu,, Of North
aap' aon,rar-D w Benbow, of Guilford.
Sacretary--Jos E Porter. of E~dgecombe.
Gate Keeper-L w Reasons, Edge"
c0mbe. coL of worron
Domona-Mrs j E SOmers. OF Gu1ltOrd.
T1nrawMiss Eugenia Robinson, of Ca
LarruS.
Iady Asst. Steward-Mrs II E King, of
STATE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
Col William H. Cheek, Chairman, OF
Cant. J. E. Porter. Secretary, Tarboro.
Can't S B. Alexander, Charlotte.
John King. Falkland. Pitt county
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611od Recorder: Rev. DR.. Mitchell
sb%;sSned the charge of the church in
-ppne' and will settle in Murfreesboro.
la, r ~e': I; ii. Fontaine, of Reidsvillc,
poL,I1tll'ed a call to Leaksyi lie, and will
Ns,m~! accept.-Rev. N. "A. Purefoy,
lie cE uon' has resigned the charge Of
ind prucneS at GARDENERS and Browns,
rasos u. a. Glenn has been called as
ye.r these churches for the coming
,gle1d;JS C5Iusboro Messenger says there is a
iilg C 'reu deposit in Wayne county, on Fall
genber we were 81 marriages in Wake in No
desess bi far this year Mary Anderson's
nave cost 81, 800.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-12-11

MEcKLENBURG MATCHEs.-Ihe Charlotte
OJserrer reports: Mr.. A. I: Wlillamsons
Kitchen at Pineville burned. The negro
who fired Mr.. J. Robinson's barn at Caste
MIA is in Jail. The Clubhouse of X. w.
Capps in Steel Creek burned with five bales
Of cotton. Loss $1,000. S. H.. Hilton's
steam gin, saw mill, grist mill, etc., burned
on Monday. Loss 5000.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-12-11

HoOPS AGAIN. - Hoops, the old time
hoops, have appeared on Fifth avenue again.
1t is quite a common thing now to see the
h~eavy-swell young lady with a balloon ex-
tension bobbing up and down and keeping
time with the jaunty steps of the wearer.
A few years ago there was a hoop mania.
Hoop-skirt factories sprang up all over New
England. Many lucky Yankees got sud
denly rich making hoop-skirts; then the
''pull-back" came, and our young ladies
grew small and smaller, till by-and-by the
hoop-sklrt factories all stopped and hoops
became absolete. When an atrocious FASH
ION comes, and all the ladies say: 'Well,
III never wear such a dreadful scarecrow as
that you can make up your mind that they
are all going to have it within three weeks.
Little Miss Vanderbilt appeared with a
wooden Derby hat one hot August day in
Saratoga; and in less than four weeks every
young lady between New York and Omaha
had one. Every hat factory in New Englad
went to making round-cornered Derby hats.
Now that the same little Miss Vanderbilt
has been seen on Fifth avenue in hoop-shirt,
you may be sure that every young lady will
be wearing an iron cage before Christmas.
Let the hardware men lay in a stock of
steel. There will be no iron for the light
ning-rod men in a few months.-Micaqo
Tribune.
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The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-07-12

About the last appointment sent to the SEN
ate by President Hayes before the recent adj
iournment was that of w. II. Roberts, to coli
ty the rules and regulations Of the army. II
is an office that will pay at the rate of 81 600
year, and though the work can be done in
few months, will doubtless be made to last un
til the end of the administration of fraud
What seemed at first strange about the ap
polntment was, that Roberts had been a colon
ell in the rebel army; his appointment by
Hayes, however, was fully explained on the
discovery OF the fact that he had been an ETH
Gent agent in Louisiana IN the fall of 1876 in
helping Sherman and the visiting statesmen in
concentrating the great fraud of counting IN
Hayes.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-07-12
THE NATIONAL PARTY FRAUD.

That the so.called National Greenback par
~ is but tender and dirt carrier to the Repub
lican party has been so often shown that new
exposures of its fraudulent character have
ceased 10 excite surprise. The latest revelation
in point occurred at Washington week ago
There is Il national organ ofthe y. G. Is. Party
there known as the National Wee. The Re
week making It's usual blackmal levy on the
department officers tor the good OF the party
IN general and in particular to help the repub
leans in the Ohio campaign. Mr.. Hubbell
ar ex.congressman from Michigan, appears to
be the financial member of the Republican Ma
tional Committee, and in making his levy on
the poor clerks, stated, as among other objects
aside from the Ohio campaign for which mon
ey was wanted, was the support of the Ndttoa-
al Vice, which was republican organ in
disguise" The circular fell into the hands OF
a Mr. Turner of Kentucky, who "blowed it."
The committee thrown into the biggest
kind of muss over Hubbell's blunder, imme-
diately got up circular saying that Mr.. Hub
bell had made this call for money TO support
the greenback organ on his own responsibility.
Mr.. IIubbell, hearing Of il, Indignantly called
the committee together and in the strongest
terms objected to being made scapegoat OF
and threatened, If the circular was issued, he
would write card denying its truth and make
statement that the committee held meeting
on the subject and II was decided to do what
he was caught in the act off doing "The com
mlttee now" says World dispatch want to
throw Hubbcll overheard, but he has been their
financial manager for several campaigns, and
will not be snubbed The Republicans IN con.
gress are displeased with this committee gen
orally. 1t is said that nearly all OF the money
designed 70 be used in printing speeches was
spent to print the speeches of the members OF
congress who arc on the campaign committee
The same committee, it IS said, has been send
ing money to the Okolona StateS the fire eat
ing organ in Mississippi from which the sta-
wart organs are quoting with suck glee. Or
course minor frauds of this kind come natur
ally enough 10 party that is proud Of having
elected aprcsideut by the greatest fraud known
IN history and to which fraud IN every form is
the natural pabulum.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-07-12

The FREE TRADER stated last week, on the
authority of the Kendall County Record and
the Aurora papers, that IN the case Of h. "
Je,,is VS.. Geo. +. Sheldon, involving the vail
dity of one of the Fox River Valley Railroad
stock notes, the supreme court had decided
against the validity of such notes. THIS was
AT error, as the Aurora Beacon has since ex
n,ained. The case was taken up to the supreme
court and that court, instead of affirming the
Judgment of the court below, which was IN
favor OF the validity of the note, sends it back
on the ground that the court below had over
r,,sd a plea of want of consideration, which
ought to have been heard. That is all Inc n
defendant can now put in his plea oil want o.
consideration and If hec make 1t sood' 'her
he may win his case.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-07-12

SILKs.-Thcre has Of late been considerable
excitement in the silk market and prices OF
raw silks have nearly doubled within a month.
The cause is attributed to the failure of the
French and Italian crops, on account OF the
cold, wet spring The Italian and French
silks are the finest raised in the world, anu a
failure there affects the markets everywhere
A month ago fine Italian and French SILKS
were worth 1915 to $500 per pound. To-day
the same silks are worth $6 to $50 Japan
silk which IS next In value, has advanced
from s. to 81 per pound, and China silk,
which sold only short time ago at $3.75, sold
last Monday at $3.50 per pound. The new
crops in China and Japan are being sold at
very high prices, and the silk brokers are
united IN the opinion that there will be FUR
ther advance in prices, and that they will not
be lowered until the crops of next year are
brought on the market.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-07-12

The Joliet Ph0cntr has given up the ghost
1t was organized on the novel plan OF being
published simultaneously at five different
points-Jolict, Lockport, Wilmington, Frank
fort and Channahon, we believe, an editor be
ing stationed at each point to furnish the 10,
cal news for his town and vicinity, StyX Nc
Donald, at Joliet, officiating as general editor
With all ITS five editors and five cities to cater
for however large portion of the reading
matter had to be eked out with stereotype plates.
OF course the thing couldn't live, The petty
local concerns of four villages were of no IN
tcrcs 20 the fifth, ~ that there were always
tour disguised To- one interested reader while
StyX himself, who had ability enough to make
his general department interesting, was too
lazy to write, or at least neglected his depart
ment. Well, Joliet can get along well enough
without the Ph0cair. 1t still has six or seven
papers left which are about four too many yet.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-07-12

Details of the great cyclone in Minnesota on
the night of the 81 inst. show it to have been
even more destructive than the first dispatches
indicated The severest effects were felt in
Goodhuecounty, the point of greatest violence
being Vasa, small village some 1Omiles west
of the Mississippi. Scarcely a house was left
standing in the town, nine persons were killed
outright and some 80 more or less injured.
Trees were lifted right off the ground by the
roots, carried forward and set down without
breaking limb" From Red Wing the storm
crossed the river into Plera county, Wis, caus-
ing fearful destruction near Warrenton As an
instance it is stated that the residence Of VII.
liam Rush was carried away, and with 1t the
family, including Mr. Rush, wife and daugh-
ter young lady about twenty years of age, al
being drowned Another young lady, daugh
ter of Mr.. John Davis Of Rush river, was
drowned in attempting to get out of the house
which was flooded with water to the depth OF
several feet The rain tall is said to have been
five inches in less than two hours.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-07-12

Many republican newspapers and stumpers
in the conduct of their political discussions
find their model in senator Window of Mime
sofa on the last night of the recent extra SEES
sion. The senator had launched ont in stem
torian defence of the honesty Of the great re
publican party Ajax bawling for light wa:
not more clamorous than the perspiring sena
tor from Minnesota. you democrats" ht
roared, SAY republican ofiiceholders have beer
dishonest Name one mani defy you &c
name single republican officeholder whom
your dragnet investigation has caught in the
act of defrauding the government" 1t was in
vain that the democrats reminded him of Bel
KNAPP, Babcock, the Credit Mobilier, the Wash
ington ring, the whisky ring, Secor Robson
&c, &c, &c. 1t is just as l said" he roared
''you cannot name one-not one" Window
however, had an excuse which not all republi
can newspaper scrioblers and stumpers car
plead-he was drunk
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-07-12

The reporter OF Chicago stalwart paper
undertook to interview the colored senator
Bruce from Mississippi the other day, but was
hardly satisfied with the result and made ii
short. The senator told the interviewer that
during his various election campaigns, when
he made speeches in many places throughout
the state, he was always fairly treated" and
never insulted" in single town that he visi-
ted. There is as much freedom Of speech in
Mississippi, without regard to race, color or
previous condition, he thought, as there is IN
Massachusetts, but it seems to take long time
for some Of Senator Bruces colleagues 10 find
il ont
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Another Leaf in LOgan's History.

We find the following interesting contrl bu'
ton to Logan's record IN the lronton (Mo)
Register:
+, ,rwoops, Iron Co., Mo, June %, 1879.
ia Reoister-l see in your paper the
affidavit of Wheatley, stating that he belonged
N a company of volunteers made up for the
South through the influence ofJohn a. Logan,
and referring to men living near Marion, VIII
hanson county, Illinois, for the truth OF his
statement Now, Mr. Editor, | lived near
Marion for six months in 1865 and saw three
If the men named by Wheatley, and they told
me that John 4. Logan went with the COM
nany as far as Saline bridge, on their way
South and there made speech to them, encou,
no a;nc them 10 90 on, and said that he would
ION them in the South and take command OF
Them as soon as he could settle his business, ana
that he would suffer his right arm cut on soon
or than desert the Southern cause. He was
member of Congress in 1861, and went 10
WASHINGTON. after starting accompany South,
IN settle up his business there, he SAID n
short time after, he sent a lot OF posters noiie
announcing his change OF heart, ana una. ne
would give his reasons puplicly on q certain
day named therein. They were posted up III
Marion, and when Mrs. Logan heard OF II sue
was terribly put out" She went arounu anu
tore down all she could find, expressing her
dissatisfaction theoretically as only deterM-
| ined woman can. had conversations Win
many of the citizens of Marion, and they an
corroborated these statements. In TACT no one
Questioned them. Fleming Client, one Oh lhe
narties named in Wheatley's afhdaviI Is my
nephew,
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-07-12
THE SOUTHERN sC0URGE

Along with the extreme hot weather OF the
past few days in the whole lower Mississippi
valley-the thermometer reaching l0l in the
shade at ST. Louis and 1913 at Memphis and
New Orleans on Wednesday-the whole river
region was thrown into intense excitement on
Wednesday by the appearance at Memphis OF
a veritable and lndisputable case Of yellow
fever. The man was taken sick and died with.
in ten hours afterwards. The excitement at
once grew intense, and on Thursday it was
heightened by the appearance of five more
cases. Tne physicians insist that all these
cases are merely sporadic and still hope and
believe" the disease will not become epidemic
but that by no means appeases the panic
among the people, hundreds of whom have
already quite their business and are crowding
the trains to the north.
| The excitement is not confined to Memphis
only, but is fully shared by Vicksburg, Baton
Rouge, New Orleans, etc. though no authenti
Gated cases Of the scourge have yet occurred
anywhere but at Memphis, except one at New
Orleans. St. Louis is not yet alarmed abeu
the fever but is threatened by scourgt
scarcely less dreadful-sun stroke. There
were four deaths from that cause on Wednes
day, four more on Thursday, and If the hea
continues the fatality may, as it did last year
run up 10 scores day
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-07-12

fraternity there has been no great event IN
the way of speed in advance of any heretofore
attained. The best time of Goldsmith Maid
was nowhere beaten, and Rarus still stands at
the head of tro,ters. However, Mr. Bonner in
private way has just made an achievement
with Edwin Forrest, on the exercising track on
his farm, that stands without parallel, On
Wednesday, July %, Forrest, driven TO wagon
by Bonner himself, weighing $50 lbs, trot,ed
Il mile in PIG This, considering that il was
done on a three.Quarter mile track, to wagon,
and carry ing such weight is said TO be the
greatest performance ever made by trot,ing
horse
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-07-12

Congress passed bill to pay the salaries Of
the L. s. marshals and of all the deputies they
needed 10 discharge the duties of their Offices
There was however, on the statute books an
unconstitutional law which authorized the
marshals, when congressman and presidential
electors are 10 be chosen, and the success OF
the republican party made it necessary to fal.
sify registrations and stuff ballot boxes, TO APP
point large number Of special deputies to do
this dirty work. Congress refused to make an
appropriation to pay these, and for so refusing
Hayes vetoed the bill TO pay the marshals and
their deputies, and hey are out of money
This is the whole case Now let US see what
the country thinks Of it,
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-07-12

The expedition Of the ancient mariner secre
tary Thompson to explore the Mississippi rlv
or with the government war steamer Wachu
set came to grief IS miles above Vicksburg
by running aground. After Stockings days on
sandbar the vessel once more got afioat and
dropped back to Vicksburg, where at last ac'
counts it remained, awaiting higher water
Meantime the negroes ire wild over it under
the impression that it va, sent to give them a
free passage to some northern Canaan.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-07-12

1t is TO be borne in mind that Hayes did not
veto the Marshals appropriation bill because
it appropriated too much, or dollar to which
he objected, but because il omitted appropria
tons that Mr. Hayes wanted made for certain
unconstitutional objects. 1t was not an attempt
on the part of congress to bull-doze Hayes in
to ,heapproval of anything TO which he Oh
iected, but it was an attempt by Hayes to bull
doze congress into making an appropriation to
pay horde of republican clectoneerlng
agents
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-07-12

And now new horror confronts Kansas
from the negro exodus. The re-appearance OF
yellow fever in Memphis reminds a paper OF
that city that large proportion the negroes
who have gone TO Kansas from the south are
from last years fever district and have doubt
less taken with them baggage infected with
the seeds Of the disease. 1.-THE disease should
thus be carried 10 Kansas her people Will have
renewed cause 10 be thankful to the political
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-07-12
SOLO II SIS {

These, as will be observed, are wholesale
prices at the respective periods indicated. The
reduction in 1879, as compared with prices IN
1864 and 1868, may not be followed by cor
responding reduction in the retail market; yet
there has been a great reduction in retail
prices The consequence is that the money
cost of living has been immensely cheapened.
The same nominal amount will now buy tar
more of the necessaries OF life than it would
in 1864 and 1865.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-07-12

Hon. Asa Barton, nominated short time
ago for governor by the greenoackers OF Min
nesota declines denomination, meaning there
by probably TO intimate to his party that II
thew want TO help elect the republican candi'
date for governor II would be more honest tc
vote for him direct.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-07-12

The wheat crop ofsouthern Illinois has beer
harvested in good order. How il pans out
may be gathered from the following dispatch
which we find in the st. louis Republican:
NoKoMIs, Ill, yuly7.-Thirty acres of wLea
just threshed by Pat O'Donnell averaged ovel
fcrty.three and one.half bushels per acre and
twenty-six acres averaged over forty-six bush
els per acre. Wheat is yielding from thirty
I've 70 forty-fve bushels per acre.