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The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-11-13

To tie Edttors:-rhe first prominent radi.
cal who accos,ed me after election told me that
darneld would give Us the most brilliant au.
ministration this country has ever seen The
mex, day a Washington telegram announced
that congress would be asked to appropriate
100000 to complete building to be used for
a great inaugural ball on the 4th of March
next. Brilliant indeed! Grant, with the no.
tons he has borrowed from his observation of
oriental spendor and magnifcence, would
doubtless have given us more brilliant ad.
minstration than Garfield will The Sultan
OF turkey has government brilliant beyond
the powers OF description. But is that the
Kind OF government the people OF this country
want? am frank to say that would much
prefer the plain and simple government devoid
OF pomp and splendor, with limited powers
such as Jefferson established And wan. to
say right here, that in this great struggle be.
tween the delegated and reserved powers of gov.
eminent, that every honest intelligent and pa
triotlc democrat SO far from repining that our
lot is on the side of the latter, we ought rather
to rejoice that such is the fact, for though we
participate IN but few of the advantages of the
government, we are compensated and more
than compensated in not being so much ex
posed to its corruptlons and temptations. Nor
Ought we to repine that a duty SO difficult to
discharge as the defense of the reserved pow
ers against apparently such fearful odds has
been assigned to us. The supporters of Han.
|cock-the people-havlng no army of salarlcd
office-holders at their back, holding no rem of
power, commanding no treasury, and welding
no public patronage made gallant and clean.
handed fight. But many of the timld among
them in dependant circumstances, were fright
ened by the scare" of :" free trade" and COM
petition OF European labor played upon their
fears, or by the direct or indirect threats of
discharge made by republican employers;
while many others, we regret to say, all oyer
the country yielded IN their necessities to the
temptation of the briber However, for the
present the die is cast and no matter how
foully made, the people must stand the throw
and face Its consequences, the contemplation
of which is not encouraging to those who would
maintain honest and constitutional govern.
ment. w.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-11-13

That staunch and peerless old agricultural
publication, the Chicago PRAIRIE FARMER,
appeared last week in a new dress, and looks
rs neat as "bride adorned for the altar" The
Farmer is model paper in lis way II is not
only admirable as family paper, but is also
al authority on the great questions of finance,
taxation, production, transportation &c,
witch it handles with marked intelligence and
ability; while IN the several departments of
agriculture and its allied branches, it is more
than an authority-it is the great educator of
the teeming, productive northwest, doing more
effective work IN that way than all our agri.
cultural schools and colleges combined
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-11-13
Rural Happenings.

OPHrR, Nov. MY pen for few weeks
has missed fire, owing to the great political
strain, but as the contest is now over | shall
again chronicle passing events
Mrs. Robt Wylie has returned from an ex.
tended trip west through Nebraska, Kansas
west. Mr.. James King, of Plainfield, is the
guest of Robt Wylie Mrs. Klein, of Homer,
will soon leave her old home and take up er
residence in Mendoza. Miss Alvina Krausse
gave a very select party last week.
The dance and social at the residence of
James Kidd, Esq, was success, every one
having good time. Owing to lazlness Pedro
did not get around.
Robt Wylie has - stock steers from Chlca.
go on his new stock farm; some are IN good
order
The stock sale of Mr.. D. Carr was good, cat
tie selling at fair price.
Tommy Ryan is making things on the old
homestead look like business. A new corn
crib and barn are the latest attractions.
What has become of our 100 bushel per day
huskers? Have they all vamoosed!
congratulate Messrs. Brewer and Taylor
on succeeding IN defeating their opponents,
Thompson was dead weight on the republi-
cans, Hawker feels like lightning rod man
since his man Clark was elected.
Potatoes in this vicinity were a very tsir
crop. Vim. Mitchell raised 500 bushels on ! !,
acres. PEDRo-HEEcULEs.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-11-13
OTHER RAILROAD MATTERS.

There is excellent authority for the state
ment that Jay Gould has completed all arrange
ments Tor a standard. gauge road from Ogden
to Boise City within eighteen months. The
simultaneous completion OF the Grand Ronde
branch of the Oregon road will leave gap OF
but one hundred miles in Gould's transconti.
mental line.
Last Saturday appears to have been Il pretty
exciting one Tor certain railroads in the New
York stock market "A feature of the day.
say the kilograms was Burlington and Quin.
cy which advanced to 1921 4 from 14s In the
morning The rise was on the report of a
stock dividend Of 20 per cent to be declared
soon Early In the present year the company
made one stock dividend of 20 per cent If
the report is correct the company will have in.
creased ITS share capital 40 per cent in one
year for the benefit of its old shareholders.
Another feature was Chicago and Alton, which
advanced to 1875 from 1876 in the morning.
This too was on revival of the report of a
stock dividend, although those who should
know say the report is incorrect
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-11-13

! The BERNHAIDr.-Slrah Bernhard made
her first appear nee before An American audi
en"e in Booths theatre in New York on Mon
day night, in the French play "Adricnue La
lconyrcur," and was greeted BY IAN enormous
brilliant and kindly disposed audience" in.
GLIDING large numbers Of the most prominent
people in the CITY. The audience it is need.
less 10 say, overlooked with enthusiasm ~
Her first impression IS described as that Of "a
woman who WAS not beautiful after the accept
ded models but was Of a gracious and refined
presence, of much amiability and sweetness of
expression, and calm and reposeful of demean-
or. The Sun raves over her acting, and says
In the two great scenes in the third and
fourth acts she WAS SIMPLY bewlidcrlng, u lurid
ana amazing phenomenon OF emotion and
passion. IL Is Impossible to descrine tIc i'm.
preston that the scene produced winch ends
with the recitation from Phudre With each
line she seemed 10 add u cubil To the stature of
adrlenne, until she lowered above her cold
ana hooking rival, every fihre trembling at
It's own tension, her lace glowing llhe fur
nace-H very embodiment OF consuming hat
req ana whitening scorn. Ii WAS asupremc eff
lprl, ana overwhelming in lis effect
After short season in New York Miss
Bernhardt goes to Boston where already S27..
900 worth ofseats have been sold; and then to
Philadelphia, where $4,000 worth OF seals are
already sold. She will appear in Chicago
some time in January.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-11-13

ILLINoIs.-The Chicago Tribnne of Wednes,
lay publishes what it claims to be the official
vote of Illinois on the presidential question
according to which Garfield received 3lS,2O5
votes, Hancock 277,454 and Weaver 25,s21
Gartield's majority over Hancock 4O,75l, The
vote on Governor is not given, but Cullom is
said TO fall some 1000 behind Garfield, so tina,
his majority over Trumbull must be 5000 less
than Garfield's over Hancock.
The Illinois congressional delegation re.
mains politically unchanged, ID republicans
to 6 democrats. In this C7th) district the ve,e
nv counties IA as follows.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-11-13

Among the most hogglsh "corners " ever or
ganized In Chicago were those during the pas
year on pork. The business started in March
last, when pork was 50 barrel, and was IN
few weeks run up TO $l4, when the corner was
closed out at u profit Of $20OO,0O0 A second
was then started, on which the operators are
said to have lost million; but nothing daunt
ed third was started, which has just been
run out at profit Of 100000 to the srccula
tnIs
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-11-13

la looking mp grounds for contesting the
majority for the Garfield electors in New York
1t il discovered that the Garfield tickets sup
piled by the republican state committee and
voted all over the state were illegal in form
A law passed by the New York Legislature in
May last required that "all ballots shall be
printed upon plain white printing paper, with
single caption, in plain great primer con
densed roman capitals, and without any i'm
preston, device, mark or other peculiarly
whatever about them to distinguish one ballo,
from another" and that the casting of any bal
io, not conforming to this requirement shall
be illegal. Yet the caption of the republican
tic,,cts referred to was printed In two lines
one Gully being In the statutory type, the sec.
ond Inc being such an impression" and "de.
vice as to clearly distinguish the straight re.
publican electoral ticket from all others. A
democratic election board in Oswego refused
To- cCus, these tickets and suit Is to be brought
against them to test the legality Of their action
and Of the rejected tickets. If the legality OF
the action OF the Oswego election board is
su,isned, ii is said forty thousand votes cast
tor tie Garfield electors throughout the state
mus. be thrown out as Illegal
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-11-13
OTTAWA FREE TRADERS SATURDAY. NOVEMBER 10. 1880.

1873 just before resumption took place. The
greenback vote, as protest against that meas.
urc ran mp IN 10 states ia 636,212 We have
not before US the vote in all the states, but il
putting from the figures before Us, the vote has
fallen to 2500D0. THIS shows that the party
reached Ms meridian in 1873, that il is on its
wanc, md must soon disappear.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-11-13

The chief horror OF the day is reported from
Batesville, Ohio, where Frank NJ Beden.
baugh, while in an intoxicated condition,
killed his wife with an ak, cuthis sons throat,
murdered Mrs. Stephens and her child, who
were visiting his wife, knocked the servant
girl senseless, and then cut his own throat.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-11-13

Norris in this state, is again sufferisg seri-
ously from dlptheria The public schools
have again been closed and the churches have
temporarily dismissed their Sunday schools
form than it was last summer.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-11-13

Hon. Andrew G.. Curtin, the war governor
of Pennsylvania, has been elected to congress.
He lberallzed in 1872, and is now an active
democrat His election Is democratic gam.
He has about 1000 majority.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-11-13

~ volcanic Eruption is about to take place,
according to late dispatches, on the top of
White Oak Mountain, in Arkansas. For a
week past stones two pounds in weight have
been rising from the earth and falling like
hail, driving people out OF their fields and
causing the greatest excitement
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-11-13

The Joliet portion of the greenback party
are notdiscouraged, if they are routed, and tina,
all their friends voted the republican ticket
AT their meeting the other night they
Resolred, That this club be declared per.
manent organization for the campaign of 1884,
and that meeting be ordered for Saturday
evening, Noy. 6, for reorganization.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-11-13

Decatur and vicinity, in this state, were
visited last Saturday with fall of some seven
inches of snow followed on Sunday by n
freeze up Though Ottawa is 12j miles north
of Decatur We have Us yet had no approach to
winter weather like that here.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-11-13

AS in 1876, when Tlldon showed popular
majority of 100000 over Hayes, and of 1876, 9Oa
of all the votes cast for president, even alter
the Southern returning boards and the elector
al commission had cut down the majoritles
given him at the polls IN Louisiana, Florida
and South Carolina, so Hancock has received
popular majority, although he Is in aminor.
ity IN the elcctora! vote by states. The major.
ties given by the different states and the num-
Der of electoral votes cast by each state, show.
ing how Garfield Is elected on the face of the
returns, although Hancock got majority Of
the votes of the people, are as follows, as nearly
as can be determined now:
THE ELECTORAL VOTE.
A
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-11-13

Shooting nlggcrs has apparently gone out
Of fashion in Arkansas, seeing that one John.
son, negro barber and a republican, has been
elected to congress from the Augusta district
IN that stale over Poindexler Dunn, demo.
rrat
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-11-13

A report comes by way Of Yokohama, Japan,
that the Bennett arctic exploring ship jeanette
has been crushed by the Ice in the Arctic sea
and the vessel and all hands lost
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-11-13

A live, healthy alligator, five feet long, was
caught on Wednesday on the bank of the Ohio
river opposite Cincinnati. He had evidently
come up from the lower Mississippi, though
he is about the first one ever caught so far away
from home
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-11-13
Y counties Is as follows

The Illinois legislature will stand politically
about as follows The Senate will contain
thirty.one Republicans eighteen Democrats,
one Greenbacker and one Socialist. The House
will contain eighty.four Republicans, sixty
eight Democrats and one Greeubacker.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-11-13

Texas was visited by heavy snow storm on
Friday of last week. At Dallas full six inch
cs fell, though the ground being warm il melt
ed as fast as 1t fell
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-11-13

HnRE's PICK FOR You.-Although thu
National Greenback Party, of whom that ef
Hcieat republican worker Gen. Weaver was
the PRESIDENTIAL candidate, lost from so TO u
per lcnt. OF its vote IN every state compared
With two years ago, the Jolie, Nc,os, the only
surviving organ Of the party in Illinois. We
believe, is quite jubilant over its party's
achievements, bursting out gradiloquently as
follows:
The greenback party comes out of this cleo.
tlon strong, sinewy and symmetrical, having
the respect of all fair minded men of both the
old parties. We have made gallant fight all
alohg the lines. 1t has not been, as ht retofore,
arUnning guerilla fight here and there On
the contrary, there have been Weaver and
Chambers tickets in the field in thirty.four
States in the Union out of the thirty -eight
From the cold lake regions IN the north TO the
land OF The olive and the orange in the south.
from the whispering pines of Maine to the
golden shores Of California, the greenbabk par.
ty. led by the gallant Weaver, backed by scores
Of patriotic aids, has made glorious figh. for
principle; and today our cause looks brighter
llan ever before.
The same paper, to whom Its party prospects,
with the total vote IN the Union cut down
from 100000 TO a meager 200 900. look "bright
or than ever" is Of opinion that the democrat
ic party Is killed outright, though 1t polled
FIVE millions of votes, and has square popu.
lar majority of 10000 of the whcle Union is
is favor.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-11-13

In 1876, Peter Cooper. the greenback candi-
date for president, received si,907 votes In
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-11-13

WHAT TO WEAR AND How To MAKE Ir.-Thls
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The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-11-13

burg under the new law including Herr Hart.
man, member OF The reichstag for Hamburg :
Herr Aucr, Saxon deputy, and the whole staff
of the Gerichts ZeitnHg.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-11-13
Around the Court House.

The following we're this week granted lieenses
to marry:
Christ Fraukner ard Lizzie kinke.
Jacob Hallan and Helen johnson.
Danforth Norton aud Mrs Sarah Prescott
John kolouczik aud Amelia Gsnty
Malachia Cox and Theresa Saugie.
WIN. II. Harrington and Ida E. Fuller.
Geo. L. Palmer and Altha NJ. Stoaffes.
CLAIMS.
Monday next is "claim day. In the county
court. Claims against the following estates must
be filed on or before Monday next: William W.
Stumph, Charles Dixon, Emily Msekey, James
Adams, James acGoverl.
INSANE.
Three insane men from the county asylum
were taken TO hSnkskee yesterday by the sheriE
ably assisted by Charley Hook and Tom
Stumph.
TGE gAII.
Thos. Nolan, OF Waltham, wGs seat 20 Jail this
week BY Esq. weeks, in default OF bonds OF soc
TO keep the peace,-on complaint OF his rlse ana
her father.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-11-13
lancock's popular majority .l78. 900
A STOLEN VICTORY.

STOLEN VICTORY.
1t will thus be seen that Hancock, like Til
den, Is the choice of a majority of the people
and the returns as they stand show that a
change of 1900 Republican votes, or votes
credited to Garfield, in New York state would
have gwen Hancock the electoral vote of tina,
state and the necessary number Of votes to Sc
cure his election, with half dozen to spare
This shows how important New York was for
Garfield. In New York city alone enough
fraud was committed to more than make the
10000 majority accredited to Garfield; and
whatever may come OF the inquiry into these
frauds, the fact is PLAIN now that the electoral
vote Of New York has been as shamelessly
stolen this year as that Of LOUISIANA was in
1876.
CONGRESS-.
As to congress, the next senate, It Is admitted,
Will stand 80 democrats to 81 republicans,
counting Malone Of Virginia and Davis of II.
hnOis rs democrats. In the house, present in.
dications are there will he small republican
majority. The latest computation we have
seen gives the democrats li2 members, the
republicans 144 and the greenbackers Z, but
of these greenbackers from Missouri arc adj.
mitted to be republicans and will probably 90
into the republican caucus, so that that party
will have in fact 141 members, being one ma.
jority over all. Corrections of the returns,
however, may yet considerably vary these fig
urcs Thus VIM. NJ Lowe greenbacker,
whose triumph IN the s:h Alabama district
was announced few days ego, 1t turns out is
beaten by Wheeler, democrat; and the election
of Pacheco, republican, ia California, is still
in doubt.
Thus the overwhelming" victory OF the re.
publlcans amounts TO this: they retain the
president while the democrats hold the senate
and about evenly balance the republicans IN
the house 4 change Of 1900 votes in New
York. effected by a corrupt purchase Of Boss
Kelly, defeated Hancock and elected Garfield,
while Hancock retains large majority Of the
popular vote. After sll, the republican party
retain power by the skin Of their teeth and on.
" by the unlimited use of money and the in.
duence Of corporations aud private capitalists
IN controlling votes. THIS has gone 20 an ex.
tent never before known In this country, and
the probabilities are will increase, so that the
Government of the country Will eventually be
kpocked down to the highest biddes Il hss
got pretty much 10 that already
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-11-13
THE COURTS.
The Circuit Court.

In the circuit court, the case of the week was
that of Thes. Fox v. DR.. VIM. III. Fraser Both
are Of La Sale now on trial. Thomas sues for
g., 900 damages caused by malpractice-claiming
his dislocated shoulder had been improperly
operated on by the Doctor, resulting In bad
shoulder ss hea'ed.-In the case Of Mrs.. Fay Y.
City of Mendoza, the jury disagreed.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-11-13

eyes are directed TO NJ. Gambctta, who is real.
ly the leader OF the republicans and who it is
felt ought to be At the head OF the ministry
On Thursday evening M. d'Asson, who had
been ordered out of the chamber by President
Gambetta for calling the government "a gov
eminent of burglars" re-entered and was again
ordered TO leave He refused and troops were
called in TO remove him. He resisted and his
fellow monarchists came to his rescue. Avid
hand.to. hand fight followed, but NJ. D'Asson
was finally dragged out and something like
order was restored but the affair caused the
widest excitement, and since then the impres.
SION prevails that anything is possible in
FraSce.
The expelled French monks I've generally
gone to Spain where they are received with
open arms, mobiles offering them their palaces,
town councils giving them old converts and
vacant buildings, the king granting them in.
tcrvews and the ministry authorizing the Je-
suits and other orders to establish themselves
in Madrid and all over the kingdom. Even
NJ. CASTELAR, has just published severe strict.
urcs on NJ, Gambetta, whose intransigent VIC
Spanish republic in 1873.
GggsAsY-Ths government continues the
rigid enforcement of the laws against the So
'cialists the lates, persons expelled from Ham
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-10-22

The Patrons of Husbandry held their sec
ond annual festival and hall exhibition on
the 18th inst, at Ariel Farnum's. There was
a good attendance and fine exhibition of the
products of the farm and garden. A. Wake
field, j, d. Watson, NJ. A. Smith, NJ. j. Glea-
son, A. Farnum and f. A. White presented
some very nice specimens of wheat and corn,
on which they were awarded honorary pre-.
miums. At O'Clock a grand dinner was
served to all present.
"A. Wakefield has sold his farm, known
as the Abner White farm, to Mr.. Wilder of
Winhall, for $1,000.
e. b. Bissell and VIM. b. Eddy have
nearly completed the extensive repairs on
their dwelling houses.
e. II. Fessenden, the village blacksmith,
went with his family to Jamaica about two
weeks ago, to visit his brother-in-law, Wrl.
Barnes and collect some bills due him in that
place. Soon after his arrival he was pros
trated with typhoid fever and died ON the 18th
inst. In the death of Mr.. Fessenden the
town loses worthy citizen, and a live bust
ness man.
W. @. johnson of Fitchburg, Mass, and
@. j, Torrey of Wardsboro are fitting up a
steam mill in Podonk