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The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-02-28

Only a tramp? The Strcator Non,,or Of yes.
torday has this little story:
lido Reynolds, young man about Il years Of
age, died at Dr. Fnlcy's Office, last Friday eve
ming. He came to Strcator about one wear ago
and since then had been engaged in caring for
DR.. Fjnlcy's horses and doing odd jobs for a liv-
ing. He had been III for several weeks with lung
fever, followed with hcmmOrrhagc, which re
suited in death He was good, faithful boy,
wei! liked 10y his acquaintance, and was shown
all the Kindness hOmIe-s boy could wish, by
the Doctor and others. The remains were con
veyed to the cemetery Saturday afternoon. His
people reside in New Orleans The following
kilograms will explain the situation. DIR. Finley
sent the following. Louis Reynolds, New Or
leans, Ia - lido Reynolds, supposed 10 be your
son, il dead What shall I do with The body
To which he received this reply: KINDLY mark
brothers grave; too poor 10 do anything; father
dead
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-02-28

There was change Of time on the Pekin road
at Streator on Sunday last. The mail tram to
Chicago passes Streator at 1:32 p. NJ, and from
Chicago at 2:l2. This makes each train nearly
three hours earlier than formerly.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-02-28

Mothers need not be kept awake nights 10y the
incessart coughing Of their children, IL they have
DIR. Marshalrs Lung Syrup AZ hand, and give one
or two doses in season. Price y cents, 20 cents
and 81 bottle. Sold by VI. Kneussl.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-02-28
Tomorrow will be train Sunday.


There will be meeting OF the Business Mems
Association at the Court House on next Monday
evening. All invited to attend.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-02-28

Petty thieying continues in Mendoza and Mar
sellles.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-02-28

Pay your taxes to Town Collector Bach before he
returns his books, and save per cent. month.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-02-28
$40 buy good suit at NJ. stiefel & Co. S.

W. X. Stewards shop is responsible for the ele-
giant furniture of Mr.. Pergue's new cafe. 1t is a
credit to the shop and shows that no one need go
from home to get fine wood work.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-02-28

The Starch Works this week put in new
dump TO handle sheled corn.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-02-28

All kinds Of knife plaiters at Mrs. Brewers
store, cheap. Knife plating is very stylish
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-02-28
Millinery

Just received fine assortment of spring styles
at Mrs. Hazletts.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-02-28

Call and see the new styles in spring hats at
Mrs. HaAlctts.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-02-28

Undershirts and drawers at 20 cents piece at
Y. Stiefel 4 Co.'S.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-02-28

The Peoria National Democrat will be dubbed
With the FREE TRADER At $2.25.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-02-28

Undershirts and drawers at 20 cents piece a
NJ. Stiefel IL Co.'s.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-02-28

The >trcatOr business men are about TO or
ganizc an association to look after the promo
ton OF her manufacturing interests.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-02-28

Don't trhc with severe cough or cold. Pro
cure in time, If you wish 10 save doctor bills, a
bottle Of DR.. Marshal's Lung Syrup. Price p
cents ~ cents and 81 bottle. Sold by VI.
kUCus~l.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-02-28

Tie Streatur grain market, As corrected by the
c, B ~ q. Elevator Feb. -: Earn corn, 2Nc
.hclled corn. sc white oats 2Sr. mixed oats,
pc, rye. Coo; barley, Ihc.; timothy, S9n2. -.
-F,,H P,rU.
Ottawa paid: corn, $50 SIC. oats, @2r:s'c.
rye 7nc-; timothy, e. - Companions are odious.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-02-28
For Next W eek

At HuLL's the house has been rather in an
''uproar" because of the usual invoicing season,
and many new goods received had not yesterday
been placed on the shelves. BY to-day, howev-
err, as many as possible will be shown, and early
next week (say Monday the house will be in
splendid shape, and will show splendid lines OF
Dress Goods, Notions, Ldccs, Silks, White Goods,
Curtain Materials, in many new and novel ideas
DC, DC.
CARPETS.
The spring stock of carpets is about all in
THE FINEST STOCK EVER SHOWN IN OF.
TAWA. They are selling rapidly and as carpets
are advancing ao,o is the time to buy. All re-
auested to call.
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-07-06

Proctor, writing in his latest Folume-"The
Flowers CT the Sky "-remarks: 1t is no
longer u mere fancy that each star is u sun
science las made this all assured fact, which
no astronomer thinks Of doubling. We know
that in certain general respects each star re-
sembles our SUM-.
Each is glowing like our sun with an
intense heat. We know that in each star
processes resembling in violence those taking
place in our OWL sun must be continually in
progress, and that such processes must be ac-
compsnied by a noise and tumult. compared
with which all the forms of uproar known
upon our earth are as absolute silence. The
crash of the thunderbolt, the believing Of the
volcano, the awful groanlng of the Garth
quake, the roar of the hurricane. the reverbe-
rating peals of loudest thunder, any of these,
or all combined, are as nothing compared
with the tumuit raging over every square
mile, every square yard OF the surface Of each
one among The stars.
lie proceeds to describe, with considerable
circumstantiality, the two appearances wit
messed in the heavens within the last few
years-that in 1866 when a tenth magnitude
star in the constellation of the Northern
crown suddenly slone as a second magni-
tude, atterward rapidly diminishing in luster;
and that in 1876 when a new star became
SlSlUIc III tEt CtllSltiidLiDi NSSuuS SuCSt-
quently fading again SO as to be only percep-
tible by means of a telescope.
After noting the conclusions deduced from
the application Of the most improved instru-
ments to these observations, he remarks:
A change IN our W sun, such as affected
the star of CygnUs, or that other star in the
Northern Crown, would unquesLionably de-
stroy every living creature on the face of this
earth nor could any even escape which may
exist on the other planets Of the solar system
The star i'll the Northern Crown shone out
with more than 500 times its former lustcr
the sta: in C'gnus with from 500 to many
thousand times its former luster, even if We
take the highest possible estimate Of its
brightness before the catastrophe. or consider
that it may have been very much brighter.
Now if our sun were to increase tertold il
brightness, all the higher forms Of ANNA
life, and nearly all forms Of vegetable life
would inevitably be destroyed on this earth
S. Press.
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-07-06

II a mother lost her babe. she would cover
i; with bark, and envelope it %anXiously in the
SotteSt beaver skins at the burial place she
would put by its side its cradle, its beads and
its r~attles; and as q last service of maternal
love, would draw milk from her bosom in a
cup Of bark, and burn it in the fire. that her
infant might find nourishment in the land Of
shades. Yet The new bern was buried, not
as usual, Oh q scallold, but by tie way side !;
SO that its spirit might secretly steal into The
bosom Of some passing r~natron, and be born
again under happier auspices. On hurying
her daughter, the Chippewa mother adds, mott
snow shoes, beads and moccasins only, bu-
(sad emblems Of woman's lot in the wilder
messy the carrying belt and paddle. 81 know
my daughter will be restored to me- one said,
as she clipped a lock Of hair as Il memorial D.;
"bv the lock of hair. | shall take it with
me- abiding to the dav when she, too, with
her carrying belt and paddle, and the little
relic of her child, should pass through the
grave to the dwelling place Of her ancestors.
-BHncTOH.
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-07-06
An Independent Journal an Hancock.

The following sketch of Hancock's ~cliarac-
ter and career appeared in the Philadelphia
Times long before bis nomination: and before
even the Chicago convention had assembled:
Few men have served their country better
than Winfield 5. Hancock, and few deserve
more from their countrylnen. A big man,
with a big head, a big heart and a big brain,
Hancock is the very persOnifcatiOn OF houor,
honesty and capacity. Gallant and unassuIn-
ing, a soldier i'll three wars, the hero of a
hundred battles, he is a man on whom all
democrats might consistently unite for presi-
dent, and who, as a candidate, would perhaps
command a larger degree Of respect and sup
port from republicans than any other man in
the democratic party. Clear-headed and
self-reliant, his career as a judicial statesman
and military governor, while in command of
Louisiana and Texas, gives evidence that, il
a strong man is needed for president, there is
nc man in the nation more fit for that posi-
ton than Winfield $. Hancock. With him
as the candidate of their party the democrats
would have nothing to explain or demand,
and could point proudly TO his record and
challenge a comparison of it with that of the
republican candidate, whoever he might be.
The people of this country will not soon for
get there was a day in its history when, if
Gen. Hancock had not shown the highest
capacity as Il military commander, there
might be no republic to govern. 1t was on
that day when the gallant Gen. Reynolds fell
at Gettysburg aud Lees forces were driving
back the Union Army. Like a ~thunderbolt
Hancock precipitated his troops upon the vic.
torious enemy, hurled them back. and selling
Cemetery Heights and Round Top wrested
order from confusion and restored confidence
to our haifbeaten army.
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-07-06
NO YoUNa.
RY NARY cLEMMER AMPS

RY MARY CLEMMER ANTS
No longer young how sad it seems,
To mark our mornings warning beams,
To feel our dreams are only dreams,
To hear, in mirih of girls and boys,
The refrain of our early joys;
To seem too old for simple toys!,
To catch u shadow in the glass
A fitting d as we oaSS
\ face no olger young, alas!
Loves prophecy young years anfold,
Time steals its glow with fingers cold
There's something sad III growing old.
1t never comes again, in sCoth.
With marhoad'S wisdom. ages truth,
The pleasant fever OF Il youth.
We find, while mcmory's sea we sound,
Midst arest tire rsureS wrecked around,
How much we've missed, how little found.
Once from LIES miser hand we bought
Joy, wilder than our widest thought,
But, all, she kept that joy we sought.
For no new gift we still may bow;
She binds upon our shaded brow
No opaline rown o. promis now.
We bear no more the exultant palm
Triumphant towards our zenith $ calm,
Bur, gropinG graveyard, sing Il psalm.
The self-asserting soul will crave
The song-liie joy is sought TO save
Twill shrink back from the drear, dark grave
Age hath its pleasure, age it's pain,
The ripeneSs of Times sOHarer reign.
The stated eye, the burdcneu brain:
PalSied pulse. the measured mctn,
The yearning for what once hath been.
The waiting for the dead unseen!
How happy, if, with whitening hair.
And face all lined with lines OF care,
The SOU toolls upward. young and fair!
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-07-06

on tbe floor Manifastlv this came to I'D ae-
centcd as 4 sion. because il would be MOI tify-
inr for tbe stranger tocome in before the dish
clont conld he taken nm and the room made
tidv.
0id wives Inv the sea coast hold MANY SUI
perstitions concern,nr the understanding
aud mysterious main.n Thus Dickens tells
nc that Rarkis hnoered in his diving until the
turn of the tide. when. the tide going out,
Rarkis went ont with H. In New England it
is unltckv to xiii a MIC in the wane of the
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-07-06
THE SLOPE,

The ladies' brass band of Albany, Oregon,
is composed Of twelve members, the foremost
Young ladies in the city in social standing ana
Intelligence.
According to the Salt Lake Tribune. Great
Salt Lake, by the Government survey Just
completed, is found to be ninety-three miles
long and forty-;hree miles wide.
Census returns show the population Of
Oregon to be about 10000. The population
OF Portland, exclusive of Chinese, is 10000.
The Chinese will make it 10000.
The Plumas National says that the lake on
top of the mountains between Quincy and
Indian valley is still covered with three or
four feet of clear blue ice.
Shasta Courier One would almost wonder
to see the dusky maidens of the forest 90 trip
ping down the street, with their mantles
wrapped closely about them, hair banged,
faces painted, and one hand clasped in the
rear as ii they had u bumblebee in their bus
tle-we say one would almost wonder whether
the fashions originated with white people or
Indians.
Tie past winter was a disastrous one for
some of the bee-growers in Nevada county.
j. Ii. Allison has lost all bat five out of two
hundred hives that he owned last fall, and
another gentlemen saved only seventeen hives
nut Of forty-llree.
Preparations are being made at the Blne
Tent mine, Nevada county, for the firing of n
blast charged with 1900 kegs of powder, each
keg containing y pounds, making in all 81
800 pounds.
There are 100 prisoners in The Nevada
State Prison.
The asceitained population Of Salt Lake
City is O,I67.
The fruit crop on the islands in the lower
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The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-07-06

When a Boston girls soul reaches ont into
the infinite after an idea and grasps it, she
realizes how base and ign0ble is the cOnven-
t~ionality that obliges a being thus endowed to
wrestle with a paper hustle.
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-07-06

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The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1880-08-03

E%The public records of GARFIELD
and ARTHUR cannot be defended. The
Republican party has been placed in q
sad plight by it's most sagacious leaders.
Defeat. certain defeat, has unnerved even
the Re urning Board rascals and the Wis
iting Statesmen of 1876 Victory will
crown the Democratic candidates in No.
vember, and then all the people will re.
joice thereat, and because rank corrup
ton has been dethroned and honesty and
pure craftsmanship have been sum.
moned to the aid Of long suffering
people.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1880-08-03

~Was or was not the acceptance OF
DEGoLYER's money by General GAR.
FIELD while Chairman of the Committee
on Appropriations Ga sale Of official in
fuence which no veil can cover? ?" IF II
was, how can the Republicans have The
face to be running huckster Of official
influence for President Of the United
States2 II it was not. why do they not
construct veil thick enough to cover
itP They have tried several wells, but
these have been gauzily transparent-in
point Of fact, too thin.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1880-08-03
virtuous Salary Grab Der Weakens

Virtuous Salary Grab Der Weakens
Special to the Cincinnati Commercial.
WASHINGTON, July 26.-The Star this
evening publishes the following para
graph about an Ohio statesman: Viii.
liam Peter Sprague, an Ohio member Of
Congress, who served in the Forty y.sec-
ond and Forty-third Congresses, voted
against the salary grab, and at the time
wrote letter scorning to "touch the
unclean thing" Subsequently his con-
stituents advised him to give $1,000 Of
the "grab" to each of the most promI-
nent agricultural societies in the State
This be declined to do because there was
horse racing attached to such societies,
and he did not care to encourage such
wickedness." Thinking the matter for
gotten, SPRAaUE, on the Oath of June
last, drew the money from the Treasury
Department in five drafts, and now has
it in bis possession.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1880-08-03


EW Republican stay-at-homes during
the war should not pirate about how the
soldiers will vote. Able bodied Repub-
licans like GOVERNOR Foster and 9th.
ers, who remained at home TO sell beans
and calico, can't fathom the feelings Of a
soldier on the question Of voting, when
q gallant soldier like HANCOCK is pitted
against candidate like GARFIELD, who
left the army to take seat in Congress.
A large majority of true soldiers will
cast their votes for their comrade who
remained at the front until his wounds
compelled him to retire.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1880-08-03

feeling between all the sections, and make
us in fact, as well as in name, one people.
The only rivalry there would he in the
race for the development of material
prosperity, the elevation Of labor, the
enlargement of human rights, the pro-
motion Of education, morality. religion,
liberty, order aud all that would tend. to
make us the foremost Nation Of the
earth in the great march of human pros
perity. ] am, with great respect, very
truly yours, VIM. H ENGLISH.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1880-08-03

Rev. A. L. PETTY, OF Duncan's Falla,
has just been blest with another CON-
Guernsey Times.
Gen. I. R. Sherwood, formerly Secre
tary of State and Representative in Con-
gress as Republican, now editor of the
Toledo Sunday Journal, and Probate
Judge Of Lucas county, elected by
Nationals, Is for Hancock.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1880-08-03

TWnLIAM PETER SpRAGUE, ex-
Member OF Congress, no doubt. thought
if the Republican party could stand q
Salary Grahher at the head OF their Pres
idential ticket, he could stand it to pocket
his little grab of IS 600, voted 10 him
by GARFIELD & Co.. in 1874.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1880-08-03

HThe Republican National Com
mittee should authorize JOHN SHERMAN
to proceed to Louisiana and have ELIZA
PINKsroN write a letter declaring for
GARFIELD and ARTHUR. That would
make the cold blood Of Northerners
thrill and tingle. 1t would stir them
more than SHERMAN's account of ELIzA's
bad treatment BY the bulldozer's did.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1880-08-03

~Col. FoRNEY saws in Saturdays
Progress, that "the hope of the ring man
ayers that the furor for HANCOCK Is dy-
ing out. or that it soon will suhside, is
so fallacious that hefnre the 1st Of Sep
,ember the Republican break for the gal.
lant soldier will become a Continental
revolution" Dye hear that, bovs2
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1880-08-03

H%One Of the most powerful parts Of
Secretary SEIZURES recent speech is that
in which he tells that il the Democrats
succeed the Republicans will all be turned
ont of office. There are some members
Of the Cabinet who would deeply regret
this.-P Philadelphia Times.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1880-08-03

E% The defense of GARFIELp's Credit
Mobilier transactions is exceedingly
lame; in fact it is no defense at all, but
rather a plea under the baby act. The
evidence SO clearly proves that GARFIELD
held the stock and pocketed the divi-
dends, that the only honest method is
for him to admit the entire transaction,
and that he knew what he was doing when
he entered into it. Any other course
only adds perjury to perjury.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1880-08-03

EW. A. GUTHRIE. Esq, one Of the
most prominent and influential Republi-
cans of North Carolina, and one whom
the Republicans OF that State intended
to nominate for Governor, has come out
sauarely for HANCOCK and ENGLISH.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1880-08-03

GF Hon. WILLIAM P. SPRAGUE. Re-
publican. ex-Member Of Congress, a res
ident of Morgan County, in this, Is h
District, who was in Congress when the
Salary Crab bill was passed, and refused
to "touch the unclesn thing" drew his
IS 600 on the Gath day OF June last, 80
saws the Cincinnati Commercial VIII.
LIAM PETER is q supporter Of. GARFIELD.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1880-08-03

FThe Republicans of the Goth Ohio
District held their Congressional Con-
vention at Cleveland on the 24lh ult.,
and nominated AMOS TOWNSEND. W. G..
ROSE was his opponent, and be and his
friends bolted aud held separate meet
ing. appointed Central Committee and
issued a call for another Convention.
This fight gives the Democrats chance
to carry the District.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1880-08-03

JOHN W. FoRNEy is causing R"puh-
lican editors deal of trouble He is a
s,aunch Republican, hut has decided to
support HANCOCK and ENGLISH, hence the
labor Of the Republican press to con
vince their readers that he never did
amount tn much. as a Republican.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1880-08-03
EThe troubles in th

%The troubles in the Democratic
party in New York and Philadelphia
have been adjusted to the satisfaction OF
all interests; and 10 Virginia compro-
mise is about to be agreed upon that will
unite the party in that State. The signs
all point to the election Of HANCOCK and
ENGLISH by an overwhelming majority.