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The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-01-25

Anna Dickinson has quit the stage AMI re
turned to the platform, delivering her first lee
turc, since turning over the new leaf, at Chick
ering Hall, New York Wednesday evening OF
last week. But though retiring from the stage
she abatcs none of her respect for that calling
Having chosen the stage as the subject OF hcl
lecture, she said she was not there ito defend
"A bad cause, but to magnify good one" She
maintained that the stage was more powerful
for good than the platform, books, newspapers
or the pulpit, and urged that the state should
provide endowed schools for instruction in the
dramatic art
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-01-25

1t seems to be settled that the body OF 4. /.
Stewart, which had been stolen by the resur-
rectionists has been recovered and is now in
the safe possession of Judge Hilton, though
he had to pay the thieves $4,000 for its rcsto'
ration. The recovery was effected about il
month ago but the fact has been kept secret IN
the hope of catching some of the tEieyes, in
which, however, there is thus far little hope of
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-01-25
OUR CLUBBING.

We are prepared to club the FREE TRADER
with the neutrality-suspicious. diminishing boih
at the prices named postage prepaid Inc OIL
fer--open to old subscribers or new at any
most office IN the county-is the CHEAPEST
EVER MADE IN this county
FREE TRADER and Chicago Weekly Times 81 %
FREE TRADER and Chicago Weekly IrIHne' -'o'
FREE TRADER and Chicago Weekly N'"-
O. .......... 2.65
So, u,. r. ,,,n ana p,a;,io E,,.o,sj, ..... 800
FREE TRADER and either Of Harpcrs publ
MT 'ntinns /. -
pnr, r., ,nrp and Sc,.;bnec. 4.75
- - ~, ,nrn and GoJ,,ts Lod,rS' B0ok.... 300
FREE TRADER and Phreno'Ogicd J0Hrnd. DIV
FREE TRADER and 81. Nicholas. 80. ....... $40
FREE TRADER and DemOrSfS Nonhty.....' 30
FAR TRADER and LttePS Liriag Age...... 80
FREE TRADER and Western Rurai. .......... 300
FREE TRADER and Noo,e'S R,Uu Ndc IorEr 800
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-01-25

March lard from $40 to $3.50 cash. or &c..
40, seller March; and live hogs from $3 10 for
best to s3,ij. The advance of mess pork in
the last two weeks has been about $3.50 per
barrel
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-01-25
ILLIONIS LEGISLATURE.

i The attention of our Legislators at Spru-
field has been so deeply absorbed in the scna
lorlal sQuahblc up to the elimination on Wed
Iu,sdav in the election of John \ Logan, tina
mo legislative business has yet received any at
tention. The tension on the nerves of In,
member, was 50 great, that after the cIima'
on Wednesday was passed they took vacation
until next Tuesday to rccupcratc and Sobc
down
! The republican caucus, after good dca, %
squabbling, was fixed for Friday evening o
last week, and all the republican members d
both houses attended It Daddy kuykcnda.I
who thirty years ago, when he represented
/ Egypt in the legislature as democrat, used
/ to be called "the gentleman from South Caro-
| Ina" on account Of his intensely pro-,avcry
and strong state rights ideas, presided. Every
thing was moving lovely when Wilson cast IN
Il tircbrand by way of II resolution that me
man who voted for or kept the back pay, com
monty known rs the salary grab was emit
tied to the support of republicans for the Scna
torship.' Amid intense noise and confusion
the resolution was tabled The caucus then
proceeded to vote, and the result was |, scna
tors and G3 representatives, in all 80, voted for
Logan, and senators and II representatives
for Oglcsby. Several speeches were now made
dcnounclng political death to any member
who dared to diSobey the behestS OF king eau
Gus, and the conventIcle adjourned.
Our legislators, it must he known, on nc,
count OF the free passes with which they are
supplied by the railroads, always go home ON
Saturday morning and return the next Mon
day night. so there was no meeting again
until Tuesday, the day on which the two
houses were to vote separately for senator.
Meantime the democratic members had held
Il caucus ON Monday evening and after several
balIollngs decided to cast their vote for Hon.
J. {. Black. The Nationals at the same time
agreed TO vote for Alex Campbell.
On Tuesday, the INST voting Tor senator took
place in the senate. The vote proceeded qut-
city until the name of Senator Riudlc was call.
ed. He said that he was about to vote for
Iol, Iog,r tbonob Inc .,,m,,tod no s,or,d
caSI liic No'c WIN lo"'i''HS anu oiN-"S'' ai' ne
did it only because he dared not disregard the
decision of the "r-r.o.at rcnuhIicon nor.yr m
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-01-25

NATIONAL BANks.-Comptrollcr KnoX's re-
port gives the following figures in reference to
the National Banks:
Total number of banks ......... 20f7
Total capital stock .............. $40, PSI 500
Total dividends for last months. 1899 223
Rates of dividends Ia cap. stock, q
months, per cent. 3sl
The highest dividends were made hy the
Detroit banks, 1928 per cent; the lowest by
the Louisville @nd ST. Louis banks, is The
Illinois banks averaged Az per cent. The
average dividends for 1878 are about one per
cent. below 1871, and lower than for any pre-.
ccding wear.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-01-25

take the seat now filed by Senator Conovcr, n
republican,
Illinois elected Gen Logan to succeed Scna.
tor OglcSby, rs elsewhere noticed
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-02-08
Country Negro Versus Town Ne
gro.

An eternal warfare seems to rage be-
tween the country negro and the town
darkey. This was illustrated at the pas
senger depot yesterday. A colored
youth from Pike County approached a
town negro, and the following CONVEX
sation ensued:
"Whar bouts is de ticket Officer"
"Right dar TO- yo' eyes,"
"Fo' whose eyesp'
"Yone'
is you de ticket officeP''
"Look yer, niger, don't you gimme
none yo' Slack
elm a mighty slack man, ole man,
Wen gets stirred up"
cam you'll git stirred up eff you
STAN roun' yer foolin' longer me.''
60 OATS de kinder excise wat I'm 6
pinin' fer.''
And with that they clinched and had
right lively tussle. They were sepa
rated, however, before policeman
came along, and the Pike County dar
key found the ticket office. The town
negro, it may be well to mention, wa:
badly used up.-Atldnta Constitution.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-02-08
YellOW-Fever Germs Alive in
December.

Yesterday, and for several days past,
it was rumored on the streets that case
of yellow fever existed and death had
occurred within day or two at Leath
Orphan Asylum, which institution is To-
Gated out on the Raleigh road half a
mile from the city-limits. An appeal
investigator was delegated to hunt up
the facts. From his Investigations the
following may be relied upon as correct:
In November last young woman, aged
about Is years, a cripple and invalid,
and former inmate of the Asylum,
took the fever, and. after lingering for
some weeks with very bad type of yell
low fever, recovered in December.
Within a week or so a little orphan boy
of weak constitution and IN bad health
contracted the yellow fever, he having
been, no doubt exposed to it in the case
first mentioned. He got along very
well for couple of weeks, it being a
very light attack, and at last was able
to be up and run about. About Christ
mas he had a relapse, and this time q
bad and malignant case of yellow
fever of pure type. DR.. Ess, the attend
ing physician, believed that the boy
would die, his constitution being weak,
but he recovered from the attack, only,
however, to be again Frustrated with
meningitis, which was a consequence of
the yellow-fever relapse. The boy is
now sitting up, is out of danger, and is
in a fair way of recovery. Our COM
missioner asked DIR. Ess for an opinion
as to the probability of the appearance
d yellow fever next summer. The
Doctor said that he believed the late
freezing snap of weather had destroyed
all germs of the yellow fever. But, he
added, it might be that such germs may
yet exist, not actually but passively, in
buildings wherein yellow-fever patients
had died, and which buildings had not
been properly fumigated and ventilated
Should this be so, it might break out
again next summer in such buildings.
He believed that the only true preventive
was rigid system of quarantine, he not
believing that the yellow fever was in
digenous TO any portion of the United
States, and most certainly it could not
originate in this latitude.-Menaphis
| Appeal.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-02-08
CANTON, MISS. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY

| ing entitled to the foar, made
; lengthy argument in favor of the adoption OF
his substitute of Jan2o as agreed upon by the
Democratic caucus Before Mr.: Morgan con
cluded his remarks the Sennte whnt into es-
| ccutivti sh-s.oh .....1n The House, the Post
! Office bill passed after many of the amounts
had been increased
| In the Senate, on the 31st, Mr.. voorhees,;
| from the Committee on t'snsioHs, reported a
resolution instructing the Secretary of the
Interior to report an additional clerical force
| necessary in the Pension ONCE and hension
secure II applicants prompt exainf-
nation of their claims and a speedy
and efficient transaction of the bust
Mr.. Shields was appointed member Of the
Mr., SAUNDERS from the Joint Coiiinittee to
inquire into the expediency Of transferripg
committee had been Unable. to agree,
and dd submitted their rep9ht aeeG sbe
President temporarily to transfer the custo
dy, control and management of certain Indi-
an tribes from the Interior. to the War De-
table. The tfce-l'resit!ent submitted the
credentials of q. G. Vest, Senator from Mis-
souri,. The senate, on motion of Mr.. Conk-
ling, went into executive session, when a
message from the President was read
tom-house appointments. Mr.. Conkling
moved to proceed to consider s,ts and act upon ~,
adjourn, which was catried--yeas; IS; nays,
&c; the Democrats mostly voting YEA III
the House, Mr.. Morgan, from the Com
mittee Indian Affairs. reported the
bill for the relief of settlers on
absentee shawnee lands in Kansas. Passed.
The Senate bill was passed for the erection of
a military post at FL Paso; Texas' The ,Horse
went into Committee OF the Whole on tine pri-
vate calendar, the pending bill being the one
known as the Fairfax Seminary bill. After
considerable discussion Il motion to report
the bill to the House was defeated-yehs, &c /;
nays, IS.
In the Senate, on the list, Mr.. Coke SUBJ
mitted amendments to the Senate bill provid-
ing for the construction of railroad from
Galveston, Texas, to point on the Rio
Grande opposite Camargo, in Mexico. Or
dercd printed and referred. Mr.. Edmunds
called up the Senate bill to provide for
ascertaining and settling private land
claims in New Mexico, Wyoming; Arizu
ma, Utah, Nevada and colorado It's object is
to settle the titles to lands derived from the
Spanish and Mexican Governments. The bill
was discussed and finally laid aside. Con-
sideration was then resumed of the resolu-
ton of Mr.. Edmunds, declaring the validity
of the. Thirteenth Fourteenth and + fifteenth
Amendments to the Constitution, and Mr.
Morgan continued his argument in favor of
then took the floor, but yielded to Mr.. Ran
som for a motion for Executive session.
In the House, the bill for the relief of Maggie
Barron came up as the regular order OF bust
ness and Mr. Chalmers spoke in reply to the
remarks heretofore made by Mr. Bragg in
reference to Southern claims. He was fol-
lowed by Messrs. Hooker, Mills and single
the Whole on the Army Appropriation bill,
but rose without action.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-02-08
CIVIL SERVICE REFORM.
Message of the President Regarding the
New York Custom-horse Nominations.

VI
New York Custom-horise Nominations.
transmit herewith a letter of the Secreta-
~ of the Treasury in regard to the suspen-
sion of the late Collector and Naval Officer of
the port of New York, with accompanying
documents. In addition thereto respectful
ly submit the following observations:
The Custom house in New York collects
more than two thirds of all customs revenues
matter not of local interest merely. but is
of great Importance to the people; and the
whole country. For a long period of time
it has been used to manage and con-
suspended by me are and for several s Years
have been engaged in the active personal
management of the party politics of the City
and State of New York. The duties of the
offices held by them have been regarded as
work. Their offices have been conducted as
ed pa1f OF IN. TS% aW a tbe
the center of partisan political management
The Custom house should be n business of
flee, it should be conducted on business prin-
ciples. Col James. Postmaster of New York
City, writing this subject, says: The
should be run as such. 1t is my deliberate
Judgment that and my subordinates can do
people of this city a good and efiicient postal
service than by eontro mh primaries or die
hnnss SbnnId b ne ths o to,;o
with tine New York Post-office. But under the
suspended officers the Custom house would
be one of the principal political agencies in
profess to believe would be, in the language
of s Mr Cornell in his
Convinced that the people of New York and
the country generally wish the New York
Custom house to be administered solely with
a view to the public interest. 1t is my purpose
to do all I'm my power to introduce into this
office reforms which the country
desires. With my information of facts
in the case and with the deep sense of the
responsible obligation imposed upon me by
the Constitution to take care that the laws
faithfully executed, l regard it my
plain duty to suspend the officers in question
and to make the nominations now before the
Senate In order that this important office may
be honestly and efficiently administered.
fSignedI Ii. HAYES.
Executive Mansion, January 81, 1879.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-02-08
Alderman Students Funeral.

One of the most remarkable funerals
ever seen anywhere was that OF the stu
dent who was shot so brutally few
weeks ago in Wurzburg, Bavaria, by an
officer of the City Guard. He was ar
rested while on a lark, and, attempting
to run from his captors, was deliberate
ly shot in the back at close quarters.
Great public commotion followed, the
general aversion of the German people
to the nsolence of the military being
stimulated by this act to the highest
pitch. A mass meeting was called, at
which a petition and address to the
Government were adopted, demanding
the severest punishment for the "friVo-
lous and brutal assassination. Tho
funeral was attended by nearly thou
sand students and by the entire faculty
of the university. The body had been
living in state in the hospital during the
day, and as darkness set in it was borne
forth with funeral music, )lloWed by
the long procession OF students, bearing
torches and flags draped in mourning.
1t was carried slowly through the main
streets of the city to the railway depot,
where special train was waiting to
convey it to the home of the young
mans parents. The return of the pro-
cession was through gthe streets along
which the student had taken his way on
the fatal night. Opposite the main gar
rison, to which the officer who had shot
the student belonged, the procession
came to halt and formed hollow
square, in the middle of which the
standard bearers, with their draped flags,
stationed themselves Then, while the
Pickering torches cast fantastic shadows
over the plaza, the i.'Gandeamus" was
sung. With the last words of this stu
dent song al hurled their torches stimuli
taneously to the ground, and in dark
ness and silence the multitude dispers-
ed. The report having spread that the
commander of the garrison to which the
guilty officer belonged had expressed
his approval of the murder, he received
challenges to duels from hat dozen
students.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-02-08
THE PLAGUE
Origin and Development of the Fatal Ep-
idemic now Devastating Astrachan.

Origin and Development of the Fatal Ep-
idemic now Devastating Astrachan.
from the British Medical Journal
On the Sd inst, the telegraph from
St. Petersburg carried the important and
startling news over Europe that plague
had broken ont in Astrachan. The news
as yet received of this untoward event
is most meager, but it at least may be
taken as showing that the fact is accept
ed by the imperial authorities in Russia.
Otherwise il would be difficult to explain
the meaning of a meeting of the chiefs
of government Departments, including
the medical department, which was
summoned for the 9TH inst, under the
presidency of the minister of the interi-
or, to consider the measures to be taken
to prevent the extension Of the disease
in the empire. The facts at present
made known are, that plague has de-
clared Itself among the Cossacks in As
trachan, and that, dttring the LIST and I'd
inst, one hundred and ninety-five cases
were recorded, Of which one hundred
and forty-three proved fatal. 1t would
further appear that this outbreak WIS
not the beginning of the prevalence of
plague in Astrachan. The disease must
have first shown itself at some earlier
date, for it is stated that the occasion of
the sudden extension was the occurrence
of thaw. The alarm created by the
outbreak is evidently very great.
The governors of Astrachan and Of
the adjoining province of Saratov
have been in consultation, and the most
energetic measures have been taken to
stop the progress of the malady along
the course of the river, and other routes
of commerce. Official representatives
of medicine have, moreover, been SUM-
moned from various quarters to give
aid to the local authorities in their effort
to master the disease. 1t is to be fear
ed, however, that the measures hitherto
adopted to this end betray greater &C.
quaintance with traditional notions of
quarantine as to plague than of the
knowledge to be derived of its peculi-
arities from recent experiences of the
disease. II, then, we are to accept the
fact of the presence of plague in Aus
tria, it is interesting to observe that this
disease reappears in Europe at the same
spot where cholera first obtained its
hold on the continent. In view of the
fact, we are better able to appreciate
the foresight with which the medical
officer of the local Government Board
has, in his last and preceding annual re-
ports CHE reports for 1876 and 1870,
given us careful records of the move
ments of plague since the temperance
of that disease in the Levant after its
apparent cessation. With the assistance
of these records we can form a judg-
ment of the probable relationship of
the outbreak in Astrachan to previous
outbreaks, and at the same time esti-
mate in some sort the danger to which
Europe generally is exposed by this re-
introduction of a malady practically I'M
known to us.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-02-08
A Negro WOman's Love for Her
Child.

A little negro two or three years old
fell into j. ID. PAGES well, near Hodges,
last week, and was almost miraculously
delivered from death by its mother. The
well was 40 feet deep, AMI the child fell
to the bottom. The mother was some
fifty yards distant from the well at the
time of the accident, but rushed to the
rescue and descended the well, holding
to the wall rock and piping of the pump.
The child was found clinging to tho
pump, up to its mouth in water and
beyond the power of speech. The wo-
man placed it in bucket which had
been lowered to her, and with this load
on her head safely climbed back to the
surface again. But few such instances
as this of miraculous escapes and
motherly devotion ever occur, and as
such it is worth recording .-Abbect5Ie,
Is. O. Medium.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-02-08
A Jersey Economist.

Forney's Progress tells a story of a
thrifty resident of Camden, N. j., who
wished milk-man to serve him with q
cents worth of milk day. The milk
man declined to supply less than two
cents worth The gentleman desired
until next morning to turn the matter
over in his mind, and then decided that
condition that the milk-man received as
full payment therefor the Philadelphia
Ledger, and did not call with the milk
until $3.50, by which time the paper
would be read and ready. The milk
man being himself subscriber for Mr..
Childs's paper, would not accept the
offer.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-02-08
Migration to the West.

Taking the land sales of the whole
period since 1873, the year of the panic,
when the fall of prices and the scarcity
of work in the East set people thinking
about going West, it would appear that
more than 100000 people have taken
up homes in the West and South in the
past five years. Of this number, not
over 100000 can possibly have been
supplied by foreign immigration, the
rest of the total of 100000 immigrants
in those years remaining in the East or
in the towns and cities of the Pacific
Coast. At least 1886, 900 people have,
therefore, gone from the East and from
Virginia and Kentucky, in the last five
years over 500, 900 of them during 1873
This remarkable fact is regarded as part
of the explanation why times have
grown perceptibly easier in this
country during 1878. There is
no mistake about the fact that
times have grown easier. There is less
labor unemployed, and there is larger
consumption of manufactured goods.
This migration to the new States would
alone have been the means of producing
this result, even if it had had no mate
rial aid from any other source.
Tine regions to which the migrators
principally went in 1878 are Texas, Kan
sas, Dakota, Nebraska, Minnesota, and
California, in the order named; bu,
some have gone to Florida, Arkansas,
Colorado, Iowa, New Mexico, and the
regions beyond the Rocky Mountains
Nebraska gained 100000 of these new
settlers during 1878. Gov. Pillsbury, ot
Minnesota, writes that his State gained
$4,000. Kansas gained probably 1876,
600. The Arkansas Valley in Kansas
alone gained $4,000 settlers in 1878
The eminence of Kansas in wheat-pro
duction in 1873 is due to the immigra
ton of previous years, and such ha1
been the rush this year that the position
of Kansas as the banner State in whea
seems guaranteed for some time t.
come. While Kansas gained 125, 900 o
new settlers in 1873, it is estimated tina
Dakota did the same, the rush to tina
region being, of course, due largely T.
the mining excitement, although not ex
clusively. Texas claims to have gaine'
half n million during 1873, but there i
no proof that the influx to the State wa
more than 20O,U at the very outside
The movement to Florida and other re
gions was ll.-NeU York Tribune
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-02-08
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

Ben Daniels, colored, and his two
sons, who were under arrest near Arkadel-
phia, Ark, charged with robbery and arson,
were taken from the Sheriff on the night OF
the oath by band of masked men and hang
ed to a tree.
The entire sale of public lands-Gov-
eminent, railroad and State-during the las,
year was Ii ,292 ,246 acres. This is large
excess over the sales Of 1872, the year pre-
ceding the panic.
The First National Bank of Green
vile, o., has suspended. The depositor,
will be paid in full, and holders OF the bank
paper will be losers.
] 1t is feared that a general business