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The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-05-24
LEGISLATURE.

The only bills worthy of note, besides the
appropriation bills, that have reached final
passage through both houses during the week
are the house drainage bill, which passed the
senate on the 10Th, the house interest bill,
which passed the senate on the Goth ard the
bill making body.snatchlng II pcnitentiary of
Tense
The senate bill to consolidate the supreme
court, as tccgraphcd week AFRO, was killed
in the house by Il vote Of ga to 40,
The democrats have made determined
fight in the house against the $4,000 appro-
pr!a,ion for paying the debts of the Joliet
penitentiary. The debt was incurred without
legal authority, and Harrington and others
characterize 1t as sheer steal in behalf OF the
republican campaign fund. They managed
to defeat 1t on final vote in the house, but as
the senate will restore it, the final fate of the
grab Is uncertain.
The principal appropriation bills passed by
the house during the week were the following
Senate Pin for Illinois coatofarIns at home OF
senate bill for expenses Of the Blind asylum isi
Hospital for Insane at 'lacksonvle .......' 25O5cD
Senate bill. for expenses of Normal university at
Senate bill for expenses and purchase Of land for
Senate bill for expenses joel johnson in return
ing fugitive from Justice. ............ ....... 5!9
Southern Asylum for insane ............ ...... 15G0
Feeble Minded ylum: 1900
laboratory of natural history al Normal. 5000
kankakce Insane hsy lulll l32JGi
The senate has adopted resolution to ad-
journ on the 3lst inst, and the house has posi-
poned its consideration to next Tuesday
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-05-24

The loss TO the farmers of Wilson county III
the price of grain on account of their remote
ness from the railroad is startling, figuring al
the rate of ten cents per bushcl. In Fail XIV
er township alone the amount lost on me wnea'
crop OF 1877 aggregated the sum OF Si,oo0-
enough to pay the annual interest on SiOo,O0o
in railroad bonds And Fall rives Is only one
of fourteen townships in the county, ana the
loss is not confined solely to the above esll-
mate on wheat wilson foA"tg (hdH1 tH'-
zen. -,
This is doubtless all true. But wait until II
railway has been built there on the strength OF
promised aid, and ireights have been reduced
70 a fraction of what they now are, while the
lands have increased in value several fold
Then listen to the chorus about eXtortiOn, ru-
inous taxation, and the duty of reputation.
1t is the old oft-repeated story.-Cbicogo Roit
rdy Age.
Yes. Or wait until the farmers have ta-
ken stock and mortgaged their farms for II,
equal to $4,000 mile to grade and tie"
railroad, and then a company of sharpers come
along and by mortgaging the road raise $1,000
mile more to equip it; and then when the
road proves success" earning enough to
paw handsome dividends on its cost, said shar-
pers sell the road under the mortgage and
swindle the farmers out of their stock-iS 1t
strange then il said farmers talk Reputation,
or try To dodge the swindle by taking advantage
of any available legal defense or dodge'
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-05-24

Brother Haskell, the evangelist, after IA rath
or protitless weeks work at Mendoza, disap
peared somewhat suddenly, and it is even hint
ed that his present exact whereabouts would
be hard TO find out. This is not to be won.
dered at if he is the j. ). Haskell" or "Doc
Haskell" whom the san Francisco, Cal, chieI
OF police is looking Tor Said C. of p. describes
his man as - years old height IT, IN
hair brown mixed with grey; eyes light grey
wrinkled face, thin lips. lie is an old con
fidcnce operator, travelling in the lecture and
show business, and as consummate scoundrcl
as ever graced prison cell" If that means
the late Mendoza evangelist, he is either "a mira
Gle of saving grace" or-hypocrisy.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-05-24
CONGRESS-.

The senate debated the Legislative and u
dicial appropriation bill up to Wednesday and
then passed lt-21 to 37--eXactly as it came
from the house. The chief incident OF the
long debate was Il characteristic splurge by
Blame in behalf of the everlasting bloody
shirt, on Monday. He not only berated the
South generally and in detail and individual
ly, but mendaciously and shamciully denied
that the democrats Of the North had helped tn
put down the rebellion
The house has been mainly occupied with
the Warner silver bill. The main contest ov
er it ccnters on the question who, the miner
and Spectator or the government, Is 90 reap
the advantage OF HE difference between the
value of silver bullion and coined dollars The
lnhationiSS insist that the mint shall give the
miner and Spectator - per cent difference
between the value OF legal tender dollars and
bullion, while the other side maintain that the
government shall only pay the current market
price for the bullion The latter idea having
been incorporated in the bll those who origin
ated and urged It's passage most earnestly are
now indifferent to its tate, and il is doubtful
whether the bill will pass at all.
Hayes Is expected to send in his veto OF the
Legislative bill on Monday, after which the OBJ
noyious clause in it will be passed as Il sepa
rate bill, and ON that being vetoed, congress
will possibly extend by joint resolution the
present appropriations to next January and
nliOurn
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-05-24

could be used effectively some time or other
when talking to the boys" at western gath
erinr or picnic. But does Logan imagine that
o,hc boys" are so ignorant as not to Kho" 'hat
these amendments have been in the hands OF
his own party for the last lSyears ana are s''l''
and that during all the ten years since the war
while his party wa~ in power in all branches
of the government and Logan occupied seat
in the senate il never occurred to himself or
his party to remember The veterans IN ule
way he now proposes, The dcmagosues may
rest easy When the democrats get the presl.
dencv, the veterans" Will be m.orc carefully
for than they ever were by the hypo-
critical etalWartS
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-05-24

Hon =. \. Armstrong, Of Morris. who has
lust returned from visit to Kansas and the
southwest, in the course of which he took i'll
the Indian Territory, says Secretary Schurz is
buting his head against a stone wall in his
efforts to keep settlers out of the Indian Terri
tory. OF the II 900, 900 acres OF land cmbodi-
ed in the so-called Indian Territory the Indian
title has been cXtinguished to l4,COo,O00 and
the title Is absolutely in the United states, and
the tract having been surveyed and section
lied is as open to entry so far rs any law OF
congress to the contrary Is concerned, as any
other government land. Knowing this the
settlers laugh at the few soldiers the govern.
mcnt has sent there to drive them out, and the
soldiers themselves take care not to be around
where the emigrahts happen to squat down.
Besides the Indians welcome the emigrants
and take pains to point out to them the best
lands. The pretence that these 100000
acres belong to the Indian tribes is absurd, and
all the orders of the President will not keep
out the emigrants, for manifest destiny has
decreed that the white man shall occupy the
land ,"
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-05-24

In plain English, President Hayes insists on
demanding the right to employ the army and
navy nj places where elections are being held
TO shoot down or overawe unarmed citizens.
The bill which Hayes vetoed proposed in
no respect to curtail the presidents right to
have the army and navy present on election
doy 10 execute any process, TO suppress any
instruction, or to repel the armed enemies Oh
the United States All II forbade was to sta
ton soldiers around the polls TO interfere, or
threaten to interfere with voting. Hence
what Hayes, or rather the stalwarts Dehlnu
him mean, is To retain the same power which
Grant used so freely Ito compel republican
victories in democratic districts " at the point
OF the bayonet
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-05-24
OUR CLUBBING.

We are prepared to club the FREE iRADLi
with the following publications, furnishing o.l
at the prices named, postage prepaid Inc Oh
fer-open to old subscribers or new at any
post office III the county-is inc chhArhsi
EVEN .,,ra and Cb;caDo Weekly Times. So. 81
FREy TRADER and Chicago Weekly 1rit'tae. .'o'
FRrE TRADER and Chicago Weekly Inter- . @,
Ocean .........,.....'... ''.''''''''''' - oO
FpEE TRADER and Prairie Farmer. .....,',:.. DIV
FREE TRADER and either OF Harpers ptlpi- =.
=, cal1 gis No., 49,, and S.riner 475
FRyE TRADER and Godeys Ladies Book go. 3O OO
FREE TRADER and chronological Jour"df'.'' 30 w
TRrE TRADER and ST. Niclaolas. ..........'. 90 ~.
FREE TRADER and Demorests Nonthty.'''. 80. 90
FprE TRADER and LittelPs Lining Age.... SO 20
rEEn IN ~ and Western Rural ....... 800
r rhsE IN. and Morris Rural Neto Yorker $50
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-05-24

Mercy on us! what is Brooklyn coming to ?
Not content with her Becchcr and Talmage
she has invited that arch rebel and rawhead
and bloody bones Gov. Colquitt, of Georgia,
to come to her and address a gathering of fif
teen or twenty thousand Sunday school chill.
dren on the beauties of religion Next we
shall hear Of Boston inviting some Southern
plantation ogre to come and instruct her peo.
pie in the subllmated retincments of the higher
"culchuah
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-05-24

\ monster coored convention was IN scs-
sion two days at Richmond, Va, last week to
consider the grievances OF the race, and after
an infinite amount of spouting came to the
they had to complain of just now was the law
of that state torbidding the marriage between
negroes and whites. As the law is as severe
on the whites who infringe 1t as on the blacks,
it don't seem, at least, to be Il case of uni st
discrimination
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-05-24
WON'T GO DOWN.

\ bill passed the lower house OF our legisla-
turc a week ago to reduce the salary OF the
railroad and warehouse commissioners some
800 each, and having been sent To the senate
was referred to KuykendallS committee on
fees and salaries That committee, il 1t had
any conception of what the people really want
and what would be the sensible thing to do in
the matter, would have amended the bill by
wholly abolishing that eminently supertluous
and purely ornamental board; but instead
OF doing so restored their salaries TO the former
enormous figure of $500 or $4,000, with an
additional steal of some $50, 900 tor expenses
and transferring to them, so that they should
not be wholly without something to doas they
have been hitherto the charge of the canal,
abolished the canal board This is reform
with vengeance! The canal board consists
OF gentlemen supposed from location, interest
in the work, ASSOCIATION, etc, to be peculiarly
fitted to take charge of that important proper
" and to give it that constant attention which
II needs. The railroad commissioners reside
in localities distant from the canal, have no
interest IN lis prosperity, and would probably
not spend week in a year on its banks or at
tending to its affairs Now, If one Of the two
boards must step out, we say let the railroad
and warehouse commissioners 70, They cost
the state about $4,000 year, and their work
is positively not worth one cent, They have
not affected railroad freIghtS or fares dime
and To- the gram business IN Chicago are a
nuisance The canal board. ON the other hand
costs the state less than $4,000 a year, and
though It's occupation in looking after the
canal and its important river improvements is
by no means a sncCurc, the additional trifling
attention paid to the warehouse business in
Chicago by the other board, and their vicious
with the railroads (mainly de
signed in most cases, it is limited, to compel
the railroads to buy them Off could be quite
rs well attended to by the canal commissioners
Besides the functions of the railroad board
belong TO the canal board. They
have everything to do with the Chicago grain
trade and the regulation of the railroad traffic
50 that injustice shall not be done to the trans
lines in which the state has an inter
est We say, then, by all means abolish one
Of the boards. but Lee it be the board that is
most expensive and at the same time most
useless and least adapted to the duties to be
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-05-24

Daniel j.. Russell, member of congress from
North Carolina, is not Il confederate brga
der" nor even democrat, but good, loyal
republican; yet he had the audacity to say
in a speech in The house:
/ avn not afraid to say that hope the time
viii come when the poor confederate soldier
bobbling on his clutches, will be pensloned by
this government If any man wants to take
that up on this floor, | am ready to discuss il
and to take the full responsibility of what
say.
Neither Garfield or our Hayes was ready
TO discuss it," but suppose southern demo
Graf had said that, it would have been made
The text for 40 congressional speeches and blaz
oned In every stalwart paper in the country
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-05-24

There is good deal of "taily" in the com
plimen,s the RepUJ!icdn pays our "able repre-
sentatives in the state legislature" Messrs
Bowen, Richey, Croker, &c, for their atldres,
in defeating the consolidation of the suprem,
court, DC. Doubtless our representatives did
their best in the matter, but If Hon. VIM. Red
dick and Hon. Wash. Armstrong hadn't beer
there to help them, every body has an "idee''
of what would have happened.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-05-24

The venerable Judge Asa Packer the rich
est man III Pennsylvania" died at his home in
Philadelphia on the 17th INST. He was IA ma
tive of Connecticut, and from the little town
of Mystic, when but IS years old, migrated
on foot and alone to Susquehanna county, Pa,
where he learned the carpenters trade. Soon
after, however, he became engaged in the MIN.
ing business OF the rich Lehigh and Schuyl
kill region, and thus, step by step, acquired
his enormous wealth, which is variousy esti
mated at from twenty to fifty millions. He
had figured some in politics, having served
several terms in the Pennsylvania legislature
and two terms in congress. In 1866 he came
within 1000 votes of beng elected Governor OF
Pennsylvania by the democrats, though the
state was republican by 10000 majority; and
III 1868 large vote stuck to HIM through four
teen ballots in the contest for presidential can
didac IN the democratic national convention
in New York city which nominated IIoratIo
Seymour. In spite of his great wealth, Mr.
Packer was ever known as a plain. modest, un
assuming man, liberal to the poor, kind,hcart
ed, neghborly and atlable, and always i'm
mensely popular among those who knew him
personally. He had attained the ripe age OF
~ wears
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-05-24

The Chicago Tribune, for stalwart organ
is anything but complimentary in speaking OF
our present model republican Legislature Re
ferring to the rumor that Gov. Cullom is about
to proroguc IT. the Tribune says; "No wonder
Gov. Cullom is getting disguised and is seri-
ously considering the question of dispensing
the disgraceful crowd"
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-05-24

The livery and sale stable of Wilse &
iawkinson, at Galesburg, was entirely con.
sumed by fire on Monday morning, including
seventeen horses and several carriages. The
fire is supposed 10 have originated through
the carelessness or deviltry of tramps The
loss Is about $4,000
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-05-24

\ chrome war has been raging all spring
between the trunk railroad lines east and west
and all the powers of diplomacy have been I'M
able to temper its fury. The strife had mostly
been over frerghts, but Of late passenger fares
have been drawn in. Since Monday firstclass
passenger rates from Chicago to New York
have been cut down to $l5, and the end is
not vet ~
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-05-24

Female suffrage on the liquor question some
how failed TO work last week at Des Moines,
Iowa The vote was 800 majority in favor of
license although over four hundred women
voted on the question of whom but three voted
for license. 1t was the menace OF pitticoat
government that braced up the men to vote as
they did
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-05-24

Sherman made statement to the house a
few days ago that since the resumption OF spe-
Gle payment IN January but 81, l33, jl3 IN legal
tender notes had been presented for redemp-
ton, while the treasury held S2,0OOO0O more
gold now than it did in January. Still Sher,
man clings to his Sl33,0OO000 gold reserve for
the redemption of greenbacks.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-05-24

Lord Derby was recently asked whether W.
Waddington. the Prime Minister OF France,
was an Englishman. Yes he SAID "ahd
the Prime Minister OF England is not an Eng
lisbman (Beaconsfields father was Jew
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-05-24

A year ago quite fever strucn the negroes
of North and South Carolina to emigrate to
Liberia, and some 800 went One OF these
lately returned and reports nearly half OF those
who went out dead and the rest anxious to get
hack
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-05-24

The Hon. Franklin Corwin is said to be ~
ing at the point Of death from consumption at
his home IN Peru.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-05-24
THE FISH LAW.

We have not before us full copy Of the
Crooker fish bill that has passed the Legislature
and become law but the following sections
embrace its leading provisions. The omitted
sections refer to fish farming and provide for
imprisonment, we believe, for non.paymcnt Of
fines:
SECTION l. BE Il tn0cted yMc People Of Mc
state Of IUihOiS, represented IN the GeHerut Az
se,,,bly That it it Shall be unlawful for any
person to catch or kill any fish of the species
commonly called black, green or silver or
white bass, pike pickercl salmon, land lock
salmon, jack salmon, croppy or grass bass,sun
fish or sun perch, or other fish commonly
known as game fish III or upon any OF the
rivers, creeks, streams, ponds, lakes, sloughs,
bayous or water courses wholly within or run
nlng through the State of Illinois, with any
seine, net, weir. or other device, other than
with hook and line, from the fifteenth day Of
February to the fifteenth day Of June, in each
and evcyr year.
SEC. 2. That it shall be unlawful for any
person or persons at any time to catch or XIII
any fish in or upon any OF the creeks, streams,
ponds, lakes, :! .ughs bayous or other water
courses within the jurisdiction Of the State OF
Illinois, by the use of lime acid or any medic
inal or chemical compound or explosive.
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SEC. ). Any person found guilty of violating
any of the preceding sections of this act shall
be fined by the justice before whom such of
tense shall be tried in IA sum not less than five,
nor more than thirty dollars, and costs of such
proceeding, for the first otlensc, and for any
subsequent ottcnse in any sum not exceeding
one hundred dollars and costs.
SEC. q. Any person or persons ,respasslnE
upon the enclosed lands of another, without
the consent of the owner for the purpose OF
fishing shall he deemed guilty of misdc'
meanor, and fined in a sum not more than ten
dollars and costs Of such proceeding, such fine
and costs to bc enforced IN the same manner
as in the preceding section of this act: Pm,
rtded that only the owners, occupant or au-
,horized agents of such lands shall make com
plaint under this section.
r.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-05-24

SEC. 10 WHEREAS, IN emergency exists,
therefore this act shall be in effect from ami
after its passage.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1879-03-07

LLOYD MrcuELL OF OLp TIMEs.-Some months
ago Mrs. Sallie Lamar, Of Augusta, the widow
of Colone! Thomas Il. Lamar, lent us her scrap
book of the war and in it among other pleasing
"reminiscences, we find the following. All our
eldorly and middle-aged people remember Lloyd: :
During the heaviest of the firing from Fort
Sumter, as Colonel Lamar was looking hastily
around upon some of the batteries, he approach
ed n soldier stationed by gun not pointed to-
wards the fort but located for other purposes
Knowing the man, who was originally from
Edgefeld, he said to him, "Ilello there Lloyd
what in the thunder are you doing by that gun
in the midst Of this fire. Jump into your rat
hole, man, quick" But Lloyd remained immov-
able, and looking askance at the excavation
thus recommended TO his attention, slowly re.
piled "Not now, Colonel the thing might
cave in, and then you see, some day after the
battle, they would, may be, dig me ur, and then
be cure to say. We'll, heres Lloyd Mitchell, he
run away and buried himself for fear of An
derson No, sir rec ; they put me by this here
gun, and mean to stay right by it, live or die. -
Colonel Lamar passed on, and has sincethe bat.
tie requested that Loyd's behavior should not
go unnoticed, at least in Edgeheld, E.iy.ish4
.4drertiser.