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The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-12-11
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The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-12-11
Rural HAPPENINGS.

MENDOZA, Dec. S.-IIe was made treasurer
of the Sunday school of one of our Christian
societies about two years ago. Weekly the
good little boys and girls piously brought
their pennies and deposited them into the
hands of the treasurer to assist IN elevating
heather women. The pennies accumulated
into dollars, until finally the secretary's book
exhibited the fact that S11329 was In the
hands Of the good treasurer A number of the
S. s. officials thought 1t would be well for him
to place the amount In the hands of the com
mittee on heather women. II was so deter
mined one week ago last sunday. I'll pay it
over tomorrow" said the good treasurer. But
tomorrow" has not come; for ere the morn.
ing sun had thrown its golden rays over the
glittering domes Of our beautiful city, the
treasurer had flown. He is good republican.
He means no harm. He probably wants the
S s. to let it go as loan He has gone west.
The committee on heather women will be
robbed of their anticipated glory In rescuing
S11329 Of female heathenIsm. But the good
treasurer can spend the money advantageously
among the slmond-eyed Celestials OF the Pa
cltic coast In his endeavors to make them more
holy.
We are beginning to assume literary airs.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-12-11

A lyceum has been organized. It's immense.
1t is run by the ladies principally; crowded
house every night. The Immortality OF the
soul, the origin of man, &c, are being discuss
ed at present Real hard, knotty questions
will be discussed later in the season.
Matters pertaining to education are not ne
elected. Our schools are conducted by able
instructors. Prof Jenkins has been with Us
several years, and his popularity as an educa-
tionalist increases yearly. Prof Heslet has
recently taken charge of the east side schools
and given good satisfaction Last Saturday
teachers meeting WAS held at the Blackstone
school house under the supervision of Supt
Williams, assisted by Prof jenkins. Some of
the best educational talent OF the state was
present, including Prof Hewe,t of Normal.
Hewett's lecture on Mental Habits was very
good The class exercises in the afternoon by
Misses Vaughn and Howes showed the syste.
matte methods of the teacher of Blackstone in
instructing pupils in reading and writing. AT
noon Prof. jenkins conducted a number OF
professors to his residence and entertained
them IN his characteristic inimitable style.
That cultivated lazy, Mrs. jenkins, added not
little to the pleasures of the occasion. Alter
Iexaming some of the choice works in the IL
brary the company gathered at the festal board
and fingered there with fond delight. Mrs.
jenkins SlOIc u lndICu On COulpdilN ny sup
ping the clock She was determined that
time should not end the festivities too quickly.
The Hyde Park and Peru professors fingered
so long over the scallopcd oysters, fruits and
creams, that their professional services had to
be dispensed with at the hall.
The afternoon exercises at the school room
were brief hut interesting. The meeting was
success IN every respect.
The Baptsts gave an entertainment at
Washington Hall last evening. The principal
attraction was Miss Nina Wright
GARFIELD, Ill.,, Dec. 12.-Water Is getting
scarce here these cold, dry days.
Corn.husking pretty well over; and Ihos.
Berry says he will bet a 5 cent cigar that he
raised more corn to the acre on his farm this
year than any man in La Sale county, and
Thomas generally means what he says.
B. Fowler & Son have shipped from this sta
ton since the LIST Of July, 1880, 900 bushels
of corn, and have IN store now 10000 bushels
of oats, while the ear corn is rolling into their
cribs at q rapid rate.
There seems to be quite mania among the
farmers to buy all the young cattle they can
find for sale Mr. j. Houston has been offered
$50 for two unweaned calves also selling two
2 year old heifers for $50. What harm?
lNCOGNITO.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-12-11
The sun FOR 1881.

Everybody reads THE Sun In the editions Of this
paper throughout the year to come everybody will nnd
l. All the worlds news presented that the reader will
get the greatest amount of information with the least
profitable expenditure of time and eycsight THE SUN long
ago discovered the golden between redundant fness
An d unsatisfactory brevity.
H. Much OF that sort OF which depends less upon
its recognized Importance than upon Its interest to
kind From morning to morning The Sun prints contn-
ucd story Of the lives of real and and OF their
deeds plans loves hates and troubles This story more
varied and interesting than any romance that was
ever devised.
Ill Good writing every column, and freshness, orig
naty accuracy and dccorum in the treatment Of every
subject.
". Honest comment. THE Sus's habit is to speak out
fcaressly about men and things.
" Equal candor in dealing with each political party and
equal readiness 10 CONNIE nd what prasewerhy or TO re
bukc what Is blamablc In Democrat OF Republican.
VI Absolute Independence of partisan organizations,
but unwayerng loyalty Democratic principles TIM
Sun believes that the Government which the Constitution
gives good to keep Its notion Of duty Ia TO re-
sst to Its utmost power the efforts OF men In the Repub-
party TO set another form OF In place of
that which exists The year 1881 and the years Immediately
following will probably decide this supremacy important
contest THE Sun believes that the victory will be with the
people against the Rings for monopoly, the Rings for
plumber, and the Rings for imperial power.
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the prompt relief they afford in Sick Headache,
Dizziness, Blousness, Constipation, Piles, Pain
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HARPER'S PERIODICALS,

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June and December OF each year When time is speci
hed 1t will be understood that the subscriber wishes to
begin with the current Number.
Complete Set OF HAErKE's MAGAzrEE, comprising l6
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The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-12-11

THE RIGHT ArPLICATIoN.-Mrs. ID. Morrison
Farnham Centre, P. O., writing about DIR. Thorn
ass Electric Oil, SAYS George Bell used it OF
his son, and it cured him of rheumatism with
only few applications. The balance of the bot
tie was used by an old gentleman for Asthma,
with the best results 1t acte like charm
Sold by G.. Gehring.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-12-11

The Liedertafel Society will hold fair on Dec.
2l-22 to raise money to pay their debts and pro.
vide for tAe future. A contest will be had for a
gold watch, to decide which is the more popular
man in Ottawa, A. T. Bartels or Stephen Ar
mold
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-12-11

A sneak thief yesterday walked off with Judge
Miller's overcoat and other winter trimmings,
taken from the office. The Judge Immediately
invested in a so cent lock.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-12-11

The Young Mems CLUB of this city will dance
at Willis's Hall on New Years Eve. A large
number of handsome invitations have been is
sued, and a brilliant dance may be expected.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-12-11

John Baker of Peru, came up this week 10
keep the peace in the jail he has gloriously fail
ed to do so two or three times at home.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-12-11
School Books!

All kinds of School Books used in the city and
country, at the lowest prices at Osman " liape-
mans.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-12-11
PENSIONS

Procured for all soldiers disabled in the T. s. service from
any also for heirs Of deceased soldiers The slightest
disability entities To pension. P.nsions Increased.
Bounty and discharges procured Those in doubt az
whether entitled TO ANYTHING should send two Scent stamps
for circular Of Information" Address with staps
STODDART CO.. Solicitors of Claims and Patepts Room
g. St Cloud Building Washington. u. c. decli3mos'
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EHarrtP0.

On the 7th inst, by Arthur Lockwood. Esq. Mr. Will
LIAM j. NELSON TO Miss SARAH HERTZNER. oil OF
this city.
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CHASE FOWLER,

master Chdncerp
MA STEERS SA HESITATE OF ILLINOIS
WI COUNTY Ia SALE Circuit Court Of said county
In ch6ncery
Thomas Pool, complainant. u.s. Mary Ann Pool, Ella
Green Newton NJ. Green. Isabella NJ Pool Frank D. Pool
Jesse G. Pool. william Pool Lizzie NJ Pool and PHILIP
Cole, defendants.
Public notice is hereby given that in Of an
der In the above the sixth day OF December
A 1880 Chase Fowler, Master ChanCery OF said c0uI
WILL Tuesday the fourth day OF January 1881 at the
hour o'clock in the afternoon OF said day al the south
door Of the County Court House in ottawa In said county
Ia Sale and state of Illinois sell to the highest and best bid
der for cash the following described premises to WIT Tn,
southeast quarter OF the southeast quarter OF section TWEEN
ty thrtyye north four east OF the third prin
cpa meridian situate in the county OF Ia Sale and stat,
OF Illinois, subject to mortgage held by Philip Cole
CHASE FOWLER.
Dated Dec. nth, 1880. Master in Chancery.
BLASCHARD & BLASCHA RID, COmpl's SOlrs. deCli 3w
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-03-04
Is a COIOred Man a Mhitei

In the United States supreme court,
the case came up of the Cnited States,
appellants, VS.. Sanford Perryman, ap.
peal from the court of claims. The
somewhat paradoxical question present
ed by this case is whether negro is a
white person. The suit was brought by
Perryman, a Greek Indian, of Arkansas,
under sections 2154 and 2l55 OF the re-
vised statutes, which provide that when
white person shall take or destroy
property of a friendly Indian within the
Indian country, and when such white
persons, upon being duly convicted OF
the ofTense, shall be unable to make good
to the Indian the entire value of the
property thus taken or destroyed, the
deficiency shall be paid out OF the Uni
ted States treasury. The property OF
Perryman, the friendly Indian in the
present case, was taken by negro, and
when the latter, upon conviction, was
found unable to make its value good,
Perryman brought this suit against the
United States, alleging that the words
white person in the statute were intend
ed to mean any person not an Indian.
The United States, however, contend
that the statute grew originally out Of
trouble between the state OF Georgia
and the Cherokees, and that the color
line was purposely drawn TO exclude
both negroes aud Indians,
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-03-04
An Amusing Scene,

At prayer meeting in one of the
leading churches few evenings since,
a gentleman, well known as an active
and earnest church member, whose
remarks are always listened to with
great interest, was making a most i'm
pressive appeal to his auditors. He
was just proceeding to enforce a point
by illustration, when gentleman few
seats in front rose to his feet, and re
marking that NO one was occupying the
attention Of the meeting, asked that
they join with him in prayer. The first
gentleman, thus summarily taken off his
feet, abruptly subsided; the second gen
tleman prayed fervently, and though the
grave face of the pastor was not illum.
ined with smile, the auditors could
with difficulty restrain from laughter.
Both gentlemen who were the innocent
means Of producing the amusing scene,
are very deaf; the second one is also
short-sighted, and, sitting in front
the brother who was speaking, was
wholly unaware that any one was oecu-
pying the attention Of the meeting The
first gentleman, though deaf, is not
blind, and the facility with which he
sought his seat when his discourse was
interrupted, was not the least amusing
part of the scene.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-03-04
Bishop Hayen's Last Words.

When the late Bishop Haven was
told by his physician that his end was
near, he replied, When that agony was
upon me at the beginning of this illness,
/ feared it was the grip OF DEATH He
expressed wish to see as many OF his
friends as possible, and during the day
many called upon him, to each of whom
he had something to say. TO one caller
his remark was, Goodnight, doctor;
when We meet again, it will be good
morning. An hour before he passed
away, he fell asleep. On awakening, he
looked up and said, There is no river
here; it is oil beautiful He did not
speak again.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-03-04
Using the Forces of Nature.

An article in Soribner detailing Mr..
Edison's effort to produce the electric
light, concludes Besides the enormous
practical value of the electric light, as
domestic illuminant and motor, it fur
nishes most striking and beautiful
illustration OF the convertibility of force.
Mr.. Edison's system of Lighting gives
completed cycle of change. The sun
light poured upon the rank vegetation
of the carboniferous forests, was gath.
cred and stored up, and has been wait
ing through the Oges to be converted
again into light in the carbon horseshoe,
The latent force accumulated during the
primeval days, and garnered up in the
coal beds, is converted, after passing in
the steam engine through the phases Of
chemical, molecular and mechanical
force, into electricity, which only waits
the touch Of the inventors genius to
flash out into q million domestic suns to
illuminate q myriad homes.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-03-04
How the SaVages Live.

In recent lecture by Miss Josephine
Meeker, she stated: The Utes live prin.
cipally on bread and meat. When they
can't get bread they live on meat, and
when they can't get meat they live on
bread. When they have a great guam
tity OF provisions on hand they eat it all
up before getting any more. The same
is true when they have a small quantity
on hand. They ere dirty. They are
even very dirty, Their meat is gen orally
permitted to lie about on the gr'Jund or
any place. Each Indian far DOS.
sesses any number Of dogs rom eight
to fifteen, and these animals help them.
selves TO meat. After tIey have satis-
fed themselves, and wnen the Indians
become hungry, they cat from the same
piece on which the dogs feed. They
generally boil their meat, but sometimes
they broil it. They put in water and
let it rernain only a few minutes, just
long enough to heat, when they take it
ont and begin to eat. They use the
same water and the same pail for boiling
over and over again, until the water be
comes a perfect slime of filth. One pot
generally does service for the entire
family. This particular pot is frying
pan. When the Utes get ont of their
bed they wash their faces and bathe the
baby in it, after which they bake the
bread and boil the meat. Then they
eat out of the vessel, and then the dogs
lick up the leaving. They clothe them
selves with skins OF animals or with
blankets. They generally-take blanket
or skin and cut a hole in the middle of
it and throw it over their heads, cutting
armholes and fastening the garment at
the waist with wide belt, while they
close up the neck with a buckskin
string. When the garment wears out
they cut the string and let it drop, but
not before. Sometimes the Indians will
wear as many as five of these garments
at time, always keeping the cleanest
one On the outside.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-03-04
The Mexican Bandits,

A correspondent Of the New York
World writing from Mexico, thus de.
scribes the doings of the bandits which
infest that country: Two horrible cases
OF the abduction of rich men, held and
tortured for heavy rausoms, have re-
ssntly been published; in fact, there
are three instances in which starvation
and maltreatment have injured the gen.
tlemen beyond the possibility of entire
restoration TO health. Awhile ago a
circumstance was related to me which
savors strongly Of the days of Claude
Duval. A band Of robbers attacked a
small hacienda near this city, and hay
ing terrified the workmen and servants
by threats Of instant death il they at
tempted to defend their master, three Of
them proceeded to the chamber of the
owner, who met them pistol in hand,
but before he could fire (or else perhaps
his shot missed its obiecD the chief OF
the bandits shot him through the heart.
The wife of the murdered man thought
her last hour had come, and was COM
mending her soul to God, when the
gallant leader said blandly: Don't be
alarmed madame; we are gentlemen, and
would not be guilty Of cruelty to the fair
sex. You haye only to give us your
keys and tell us where your money and
iewelry are to be found The keys were
delivered to the bandits, and informa.
tion given regarding all valuables In the
house. While they were ransacking
bureaus and wardrobes, the bereaved
wife was sobbing on the breast of her
dead husband. As the robbers were
about to depart one Of them, approach.
ing the sorrowing widow with a jewel
box in his hand said:
Madame, our captain presents his
compliments. and desires me to say if
among these jewels there is anything
you desire to retain as a memento of the
deceased, you are at liberty to do 30; we
are gentlemen The only response to
this polite offer was a glance Of horror
and a gesture OF contempt as the af1ict-
ed woman again bent over the body of
her beloved husband. A moment after
she heard the chief say, Madame,
have the honor to bid you adieu, and,
looking up, she saw the three masFed
gentlemen, hat in hand, bowing them
selves gracefully out OF her chamber.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-03-04

II ladies sin against propriety in TAX
ing the inatiative, they cannot be blamed
for bringing a shilly-shally or over
bashful lover to the point W hen good
opportunity presents itself.
Such an opportunity suffi,ed to end
what had been somewhat tedious
courtship. The young man paying his
usual evening visit, asked his lady-love
how she got along with her cooking.
Nicely replied she, I'm improving
wonderfully, aud make splendid cake
now.'
Can you, said the young fellow, ig-
norantly rushing on his fate. What
kind do you like bestP'
Il like one with -four and sugar, with
lots of raisins, currants and citron, and
beautifully frosted on top
why, that's wedding cake
Il meant Wedding
And there was nothing left for him but
to say he meant wedding too.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-03-04
Healthiest City in the United States


In the annual tables of vital statistics,
lately published by the health depart.
ment of New York city, among the ex-
hibits is the comparative death rate OF
various cities, American and foreign
The exhibit gives the population and
death rate OF over three hundred and
fifty cities in different parts Of the world,
of which sixty are American and the re-
mainder foreign. 1t appears from these
tables that the city of Burlington, Iowa,
with population in 1876 Of about 20,-
600, enjoys the pre.eminence for health,
its annual death rate being only Asa
deaths per ], 200 souls. Stockton, GAL,
stands next, TAT; but this is 62 per cent
more unhealthy than Burlington. There
are probably few, but only few, more
favored places than the latter in all the
world. The death rate for New York
city is % 93 per 1000; New Orleans,
50.7l; London, "a 40; Paris, 24.71.