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The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-10-25

But the "deacon " Is not opposed TO their
(the MethOdists') voting for the Democratic
candidate for Treasurer, whose election has
been worth to him an Undivided half" Of ST..
800 year. In the matter Of voting that ran
the deacon is llberal.-UtaCa RepHblic0n
While philosophers may be puzzled to &C,
count for the milk IN the cocoanut, any tyro
can account by the above for the wondrous
zeal that has seized the Ottawa Republican, for
the defeat Of Mr.. Raymond for county treasur-
er His defeat its publishers think involves a
$500 fee for publishing the tax list, Nothing
is more easy with Brother Cullen than to cast
aside his cloak of sanctity and ale like a
trooper" when $500 fee is involved. But
softly, Brother Cullen. You may overestimate
the prize and sell out what ought to be above
valuation IN dollars and cents for much less
than you imagine. Divide your $500 by two
and you are still above any figure the tax list
has ever in one year neted to the FREE TRAD
Err Indeed, if the Republican, will turn over
to the FREE TRADER the patronage it gets on
account of its politics from the office of the
County Clerk, Circuit Clerk and Sheriff, we
Will cheerfully resign to them the tax list and
pay them handsome boot besides. While riot
ing in the weekly fairness OF administrator no
tices, chancery notices, sheriff S sales, &C. &c.
isn't 1t marvellous now, Messieurs of the Re
publican, that sort of mean, sneak thievish
consciousness of hogglshness don't steal over
you when you begrudge to contemporary the
one only small streak of fat involved IN the
tax list
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FOREIGN NEWS.

The Marquis of Salisbury, member Of the
Dsracll cabinet, made an important speech at
a banquet in Manchester, on Friday evening of
last week He defended the foreign policy Of
the government, saying the ministry bad to
bear in mind the dangers Of Russian designs
on Constantnople, and that the dependence 10
avert the danger was first on the Turk and
then on Austria and Germany la regard to the
commercial DEPRESSION he attributed it largely
to the American high tariff, and he expressed
surprise that great agricultural country like
this would submit for the sake of a small por
ton of its citizens to such heavy protection.
He could not help thinking that the time would
come when American farmers would demand
that an end be put to the barbarous policy
In Cabul, while the English were about To
take possession as winter quarters of the Bala
Hissar fortress, q frightful explosion occurred,
killing thirty British soldiers and large mum.
Der of Afghans. The magazine at the time
contained $4,000 shot and six tons of powder.
The explosion is believed to have been acct.
dental. There is still considerable opposition
to the English among the hill tribes, who give
all the annoyance they can by sort of guer,
rilla warfare. Yakoob Khan has abdicated
and his filve-year-old son will probably be
placed on the throne, with British protection.
The excitement IN the tin and iron trade IN
England continues and there have been fur.
ther advances in prices The revival has also
reached Germany.
A number of emigrants from Bedford Left
England on Monday for Pennsylvania.
A lot of Mormons being ready to leave Liv
erpool for the L. s. on Monday the high con-
stable called their attention to the Evarts cir
cular stating that polygamy was crime In
the T. S, and that for any such practice they
were liable to heavy punishment.
The Liverpool grain market during the
week has been fully as wild and excited as al
Chicago, Milwaukee, &c. Both corn and
wheat advanced from to as. per Genital during
the week.
Destructive floods have occurred in ths
southern part of Spain, two thousand houses
having been destroyed in the Malaga and ALI.
cante districts and over thousand people lost
their lives. The destruction is said to exceed
$40, 900, 600 in money value.
Won Bulow, the German Secretary Of State
for foreign affairs, died on Sunday at Frank
fort on the Main.
The weather is unseasonably cold through
out Gallatia and the Alpine regions, with heavy
SHOWS. There has also been snow at Msrseilles
and In the Gironde, in France.
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a know something of fraud, don't | w said
Zach Chandler in his speech at Flushing, L..
l., the other evening. II hare been there"
and his audience seemed to relish the admls-
sion so much that he duplicated it right away
know all about it." Nobody will question
the veracity Of the Michigan senator upon this
point and the hearty applause that followed
from the amen corner showed that it was fully
appreciated. 1t was Chandler that sent Nor
ton to California in 1876 to manipulate the
$500 fraudulent votes in San Francisco that
gave the state to Hayes; 1t was Chandler that
sent dispatches to the returning boards in
Florida and Louisiana two days after the cleo
ton in 1876 telling them to count those states
for Hayes at all hazards, and that, to protect
them in the rascality, money and troops have
been sent" Yes, what Zach Chandler don't
know about the greatest fraud IN all history is
not worth knowing. But to think of the har-
dihood of the wretch to boast of it!
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-10-25

New England is in danger of soon having
other reasons for hating the South than such
as are simply political. 1t is known that for
several years past Georgia and Alabama have
been erecting cotton mills at rate to become
uncomfortable rivals to the New England
en- a step in advance that promises to make
that rivalry runOus 10 the yankees" The
Georgia papers of late have had great deal
to say about an apparatus for converting seed
cotton in the field into yarn by very simple
process, that promises revolution in cotton
manufacture. The machinery Of this little
mill, they say, understands its business so well
that all it needs is to have the cotton, as it
comes from the bolls with the seed in it,
brought to it and poured into a hopper; the
mill does the rest-taking 1t througha process
which separates the seed, spins the fabric and
turns it out in the form of yarn One of these
little mills was put up in cheap frame build
ing twenty-five feet by fifty, at Westminster,
s G., at cost OF $780, and the result of its
first years work is thus stated: 10000 pounds
of seed cotton at 2la cents a pound, $l,l25
working expenses, $500; total expenses, So
625 The product was 10000 pounds of cotton
yarn at 10 cents a pound, $4,000; 5000 pounds
of cotton waste $l44; 1900 pounds of seed,
$3.50; total, 7,494-showing a net profit of
Sl,SG9
The Georgia papers referred to say the cot
ton region of the south will soon be full OF
these mills, and rs it won't pay to transport
unginned cotton to the north, they must soon
have a complete monopoly of the spinning
huslnpSS
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There was peculiar fitness in the appear
ance at the same time upon the platform at a
republican meeting In Brooklyn last week, of
Henry Ward Beecher and Roscoe Conkling
AS they appropriately represented the "decen
cy" element OF the party, SO Grant and Zach
Chandler ought TO have been there to show the
party's morality" and a few hundred whisky
thieves and treasury plunderers in the back
ground would have completed the picture O.
the party that makes the boast of includin,
all the temperance, honesty, morality and de
cency of the country.
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RUBBISH.

That astonishing genius who does the liter.
airy for the juvenile Republican Club Of OF
tawa and who, tried by his appalling "syllep.
SIS" test, must have ears as big as the wings
of windmill, feet to cover an acre and fun.
dament that weighs ton, has let himself out
in another screcd against Mr. Raymond, in
which he makes agains. him the following
surprising point:
1t is urged that Mr. Raymond is obliglng
and accommodating, and has accommodated Il
great many farmers during his official career
Let us see how this accommodating may be
done. A farmer walks into the county treas.
urer's office in the early part of June of any
year lie is known 10 he financially sound,
and an honest farmer The time is near at
hand when his real estate taxes are TO be paid,
He hasn't the money in hand, but will have in
thirty, or sixty, or, at most, ninety days. He
tells the treasurer that he hasn't the money to.
day and dislikes to 60 to the bank and borrow.
The treasurer says: Well, here; you rive me
your note payable in sixty days, wit, 10 per
cent interest and I'll let YOU have the money
needn't mind going to the bank. The farm
er goes home feeling that he is greatly accom-
modatcd and under lasting obligations to the
treasurer who has thus obliged him. But gen
tie reader, don't forget the fact that this occurs
Just at a time when thousands of dollars are
being paid into the county treasury, some of
which will lie there for months to come. Do
you believe the treasurer lends the money, or
that the county of La Sale furnishes the money
thus loaned? 1t seems to me that the way u
county treasurer can oblige good citizens is so
plain that "a waytaring man, though fool,
cannot err therein"
The plain English Of this is, that Mr.. Ray
mOnd violates his oath of office and lays bin
self open to a criminal prosecution and con.
signment to cell in the pcnitentiary by APP
priating to his own use the money belonging
to the county. In our humble conception a
scoundrel capable Of supposing such case
against Mr.. Raymond would, had he the op.
portunity, readily enough commit the crime
himself and ilatter himself with having done
q smart stroke of business; but the miserable
calttf overshoots the mark in applying his
" sylepss" to Mr.. Raymond Why see here!
The taxes must be paid by the middle of June,
or the lands will be sold. A farmer comes and
gives his note for sixty or ninety days, running
into August or September. Meantime in July
the Board of Supervisors meet and again the
first week in September, and committee call
upon Mr.. Raymond and count the money in
his hands Wouldn't he be IN pretty plight
could he only show, instead of the cash, the
notes ola lot Of farmers to account for short
age In the treasury? 1t would be an actual
'eief to be called upon to meet, explain away,
apologize for or manfully to own up to sin
y!e fact brought against Mr.. Raymond, but how
AN one have patience in combating imagin-
Try stuff like this?
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-10-25
OUR CLUBBING.

We are prepared to club the FREE ihA hn,h
with the Iurnlshia a oo'T
ut the prices named, postage prepaiu, ine W,
Her--Open to old subscribers or ~" q, "ny
post office IN the cOunty-is INC c"HAi h''
EVER MADE IN this county: .,e,
FRgp TRApge and Chicago Weekly Times. .tS'D ID
FRBg TRADER and Chicago Weekly tribune. I'"'
FRgE TRADER and Chicago Weekly inter- o az
Ocean ...........,........ ''''''''''''' % ~
FRRE TRADER and Prairie Farmer. ......... o'oo
FREE TRADER and either OF Harpers publ
" en ~. T,' an, ,,., a,d p..nner 475
FREE TRADER and Godeys Ladies' BOOK; .'.. o'U ~
FREE IRA DER and PhrenOlogcal J0urnM ... 3'V Vo
FREE TRADER and 81. Nicholas. ...........' 3'.U
FREE TRADER and DemOresrs Wontuy..... 90
Zee rn.nrn and JittlJps Iipin1 Age.. S.25
80 ,rn,nrn.nd Wcsteyn R,,rai ....... 800
rnns Tn,nvp and Voore's Rural Ven YORKER $50
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rwe,vo I'm. of Agate make one square.

TWpVp AEHIt HIRhV VH'' oI''''''
Advertisements not under must be plainly marked
the length of time desired they will be continued anu
charged for until ordered out g.,
Business and professional cards mot excecins "' INV
-, =, o,e dollars pcr annum; over Ave lines. one dol
ar per line extra ,, ..-.,,,. q,
Transient advertising in all cases TO be paid strictly III
advance. .,-.,.
ry Yearly advertisers disseminating their advertisements
>fore III. expiration the contract will be charged lhe in
rates AZ above Extra charge will also be maze LOT
ZION and other notices not connected WIN 'her ''s"''
Business.
Local notices, Afteen cents per line
ry- In no case will these terms be departed from
The date on the slip which the Subscribers name
" nripted indicates the when the subscription erp'
Persons who have paid for the FREE TRADER shou" w
careful to notice that the the slip corresponds 10 o
date to which they paid and at once noy 'pe
ers of any discrepancy
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&l.6QOi Sl.60OIi

Why is 1t that the Ottawa Republican mani
tests such extraordinary zeal TO defeat the re
election of Samuel w. Raymond? The whole
editorial space of that paper is occupied witt
! lying abuse of Mr. Raymond and impassioned
appeals to the republicans of the county to
turn out and vote against him. For months
past It's editors have been actively engaged in
organizing republican clubs and harrangulng
them, writing letters and getting up secret CIR
cuars crammed with lies, all for the purpose
of comprising the defeat of Mr.. Raymond
Why all tins extraordinary zeal? The SAME
paper was indifferent enough when Hayes was
Il candidate for congress; and when Croker
and Bowen were candidates for the Legislature
scarcely mentioned their names, though they
were candidates for strictly political offices. Is
1t because Raymond is mot good officer? The
whole county is ready to affirm that he is the
best treasurer we ever had and the most valu-
able man of all our county officers about the
court house Is it because he has held the
Office for eight years: The same paper finds
no fault with j. II. Cameron for holding the
Ottawa post Office for twelve years, and sup
ports Webster who held the La Sale post office
eight years and is mad ut Congressman Hayes
and half the republicans IN the county because
he wasn't rc-appolnled for four years more,
though that is political Office and worth
more than the county treasurership.
No-thc whole secret Of the zeal of Cullen
& Sapp against Raymond is that he don't give
them the Tax List to print They say the JOB
is worth $500; and then they repeat 1t, the
Tax List Is worth $500; and then, with big
tears running down their checks, they howl,
"The Tax List is worth 81 500, and we don't
get it-boo hoo! boohoO" They have all the
patronage of the circuit clerks office, worth
five or six hundred year. all the patronage
Of the county clerks office, worth seven or
eight hundred dollars and all the patronage
OF the sheriff s. Office worth five hundred more.
But their hoggish souls are wrung with grieI
because they have not also the Tax List to
print! And though they know they lie when
they say it Is worth 81 500 year, and though
they know 1t is not worth half that amount,
their greed would be equally ravenous were 1t
worth but $50 year. Their poor, miserable
swinish souls are riven with agony
to see the FREE TRADER get even five dollar
fee that they think they ought to have. Is it
that their howl against Raymond, |
having for its only basis motives so mercenary
md degrading, can have any influence with
he intelligent voters Of La Sale county?
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-10-25

James Redpath, who so mysteriously disap-
peared from Boston month ago and was sup
posed to have committed suicide, has turned
up in Jamaica The day after his disappear;
snce he staggered, IN halfdazed condition, on
board the steamer Atlas at New YORK, ABOUT
to start for Jamaica, and took passage for King
ston. The voyage seems to have done him
good, but when the Atlas left Kingston for
New York, Mr.. Redpath, who had said he
should return by her, was not to be found.
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AND STILL THEY STICK TO THAT LIE.

The Ottawa RtpubIicda sums up brass
enough to publish the lying circular of the
Juvenile Republican Club of Ottawa with the
single remark:
As we observed last week, the young men
do not mean in saying that there has been no
squaring of the accounts of the County Treas
urer for the last eight years" that there has
been no settlements with the Board of Super
visors, but simply that there has been no
"sQuaring of accounts" as becomes necessary
when an Office changes hands and the money
is counted and handed over.
Upon which we, too, need only remark, "as
we observed last week" that the statement
that there has, since Mr.. Raymond has been
treasurer, been ''no such squaring of accounts
as becomes necessary when an office changes
hands and the money is counted and handed
over"-is a bold, reckless fslsehood and the
editors Of the Republican know it, At least
once every year since Mr.. Raymond has been
treasurer the balance of money in his hands
has been as carefully counted, to the last cent,
as it possibly could have been had his term of
Office expired and the money been turned over
to his successor Nothing shows so garingly
the reckless desperation of this dirty warfare
which the Ottawa Republican and its squad Of
infants are waging against Mr.. Raymond as
this shameful persistence in "a ialsehood which
none but a scoundrel would repeat after It's
| full exposure over week ago.
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OF the pedestrians who started on six days
walk a week ago Sunday night for the O'Leary
belt but seven remained on the track TO the
close, and Of these Fitzgerald, the best, made
but 81 miles, Colston $40, Campana 1868, &c
In fact the big match" was nearly tizze
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-10-25

A light fros, or two during the past week at
Memphis has nearly wound up the yellow fe-
yer plague. From nine new cases day a
week ago and four deaths, the record of the
last few days shows but one or two new cases
day and about as many deaths There has
been general removal of quarantine restric.
tons along the river, and business IN Memphis
is beng rapidly resumed, though 1t is still con
sidered unsafe for fugitlves to return.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-10-25

The rapid increase of the population OF Kan
sas Is one of the marvels of the day. The i'm
perfect annual enumeration of its Inhabitants
that is made for school purposes demonstrates
that the population of the state for the lastfew
wears has been increasing at the rate Of II per
cent per annum, and that by the census next
wear It will reach 100000. This will place
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-10-25

There seems to DO no further room for doubt
that Prof Wise and his companion who a.
scended IN balloon from st. Louis four weeks
ago and have not since been heard from, went
down in Lake Michigan. Papers thrown from
the balloon were found on Monday near Nil.
Ter station, on the Michigan Southern road in
Indiana, where the balloon was seen on the
night of the same day 1t sscended, moving TO.
wards the lake.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-10-25

The New York World invites attention to
the singular contrast between the speeches of
the stalwart Senator Conklng at Brooklyn,
last week, and of the exrcbel Gen. Chalmers at
Corinth, Miss, about the same time. Conkllng
denounced civil war against the south and call
ed for the establishment of new Ireland IN
the United States. General Chalmers called
for the election of Union soldier to the Pres
idency and for the establishment of the un
challenged authority of the Constitution over
oil sections Of the republic alike. Under which
regime is the Union most likely to remain IN
broken and popular liberty secures
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-10-25

Ex-Governor Hubbard, of Texas, estimates
that the population of that State under the new
census will reach three millions, and entitlc
the State, under the present ratio of represcn-
tation to twenty-five members of congress,
which exceeds that of any State at present ex-
cept New York and Pennsylvania
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-10-25

The RI. Rev. William Robinson Whiting.
ham, Bishopof the Episcopal Diocese of Mary.
land, and the next to the oldest Episcopal
Bishop in the United States, died at his sum.
mer home near West Orange, N. j., at 7 o'clock
last Sunday morning. He was "A years old,
and had been bishop 80 years.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-10-25

The Supreme Court of the United States, IN
decision just made, has sustained the con
stitutionality and validity of the law of con
gress known ms the Thurman act, requiring
the Union and Central Pacific Railroad com.
panies to lay aside annually certain proper
ton of their earnings to pay their Indebtedness
70 the United States.
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IopnING nEPAKTMENT.

Our facilities for doing all kinds Of job Work. In the VI"
ous STYLES of the art not surpassed In thS seco m
We respectfully solicit those wishing ahyih'ns ""o ~ ~
Nv o -. call Nv the judicious and liberal use OF
,,,e in many man's fortune has been made. and the
Aed is still open Tryit.
Orders by mail promptly attended to.
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NATIONAL PARTY NOMINATION.
FOr Tredsurer--PHILO CASTLE.

The Virginia Qll.) Gazette says silver mine
was discovered in Schuyler county, in this
state, two weeks ago, not far from Baders, a
station on the c. b. & q. road, and that
schuyler county Is wild with excitement
over il -
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to Jericho and tarry awhile for their boards to
grow, and in the meantime take lessons in the
courtesy Of common decency. MENDOZA.
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DEMOCRATIC NOMINATIONS.
For County Treasurer,
SAMUEL w. RAYMOND.
For County Surveyor,
JOHN WOLFE.
REPUBLICAN NOMINATIONS.

Far Treasuryr-E. G. WEBSTER.
For Couaty Smceyor-G. w. BRUMBAcH.
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Kansas in year on level with Wisconsin,
Michigan, &c, in point of population, and at
the same rate of increase by 1890 thestate vii!
nearly rank with Ohio and Illinois.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-11-14

The Union Pacific will forward IA, 600
ties in a day or two, for the extension
Of the Omaha & Republican Valley
railroad, from Osceola west for six or
seven miles.
The Union Pacific branch from Val
paraiso to Lincoln. will be completed
about January 1. The grading is near
ly finished.
Regular trains will be run on the
Jackson branch of the Union Pacific,
a distance of thirty miles, in about ten
days.
Upon the completion of the extension
Of the Omaha and Northern Nebraska
railroad. an excursion will probably
be given in honor Of the event.
One Of the bandsomest passenger
trains that ever left the Union Pacific
transfer at Council Bluffs, was the
outgoing express over the Rock Island
road on Sunday evening. There were
in all ten cars in the train, all of uni
form color and appearance, with that
handsome silver engine, "America, y at
the head. All who saw the train as it
rolled grandly nut on its way to Chica-
go were struck with its beauty and
length.
Jay Gould has purchased a Kansas
road, extending from Atchison to
Smith Center, 280 miles, and with a
branch leading to Cawker city, increas-
ing the number of miles to something
more than 300. 1t runs through the
very fertile second tier of northern
Kansas counties, tapping the Solomon
at Cawker city, and the Republican at
Smith Center. Atsthe eastern 'termi-
nus, Atchison, it connects with eastern
lines. This road has been pushing
vigoi ously toward Denver in the last
year, and has thoroughly awakened to
action the B. & NJ. in Nebraska, who
have feared the Kansas road meant to
reach into their territory, or outstrip
them in the race to Colorado's capital.
Whether Gould intends to push west
ward with this new line, or simply cut
off competition, is not known. 1t is
safe, however, to assert that it will
prove valuable in some way, as the
magnate of the iron road-ways of the
continent, makes no Improbable in
vestments.