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The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-03-05

would seem that they have so opened the eyes
kuud rciur,ued the hrarts of Tho railroad cOrpOr
stu.S Ia The inquiries aud INJUSTICE t0riiddru
bv the ralrmd nN. that ali kind of business
haS hcca aNindun,1t in this state. No viola
tiOh- ot law ue UrrIr,ra,d. All the Commits
sioArrs have had la Il IL ~ travel around the
state show Inrn.elve. occasionally u the
| Prc-drut' ana Suprun,cinlrnIS, draw their
salaries, anu attend strictly 10 their own pri
| 5,Ir affairs.
Now, ~ the Tri5uae adds, The public inter
esls are Involved ~ th,- matter, and an honest
II iturm gram Inspection l. absolutely essen
/ H. Ipt in bringing about even the sem
blancr nf such IN il.p 'ClIol The cnrimI ssion
n, Ia ave signaIy f,ilrt And tina, brings IN
NJ qursrion, l. there not au, Ihcr and better
way 10 do 1t? We think there is There /,
another board, to w,i, the Board of Commits.
,innern of the Illinois and Michigan Canal.
whose duties arr much more t!nectly connccl.
ut with uu.i r'rn,nc To- the management OF
grain INSPECTION Than those of the railroad
commissioners. A very large proportion Of
The gram sent 10 market in this state goes BY
The river aud canal, and The canal board are
nccs hrly brought largely IL contact with
mat business. And having charge Of the ca.
II Il and river dams ni'"c, hey are not over
worked. Nothing, therefore, would I've more
rnIueHily proper than to turn over to them
the business OF looking after the warehouses
IN gram Inspection business. That happily
oil the shoulders of the railroad and ware.
house commissioners. they would have moth.
ing To do but To look after The railroads and as
they have attended to that branch or their du.
ties ciiacinaly heretofore as to leave moth
lng m re 10 do-"thc eyes uf the railroads be-
my so opened aud their hearts reformed" &c.
why what little Is left for The board to do
could with perfect safety he turned over to
iggrievcd parties and the attorney geueral, so
hat the warehouse and railroad board could
most easily and without danger of the slight |
1T dclrimCnt 10 t'!t puilic interests be al
,uce dispensed WIN. We beg, with all honesty |
md the greatest carncstncSs We are capable of, |
% urac the matter upon the Il, entiOn Of the |
legislature Al Springfield.
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coNsoy4xr1oN.

By the legislative aIrSeadings in yesterdays
Chicago Times we see that the consolidation OF
the supreme court at Springfield was beaten IN
the house by q vote of So against AZ, or nearly
2to1. As the bill had passed the senate viz.
tually without opposition, this vote in the
house is surprising. 1t is certainly tall
feather in the cap Of our members, among
whom we are assured Mr. Vaughey was far in
the lead, though all are ready 70 admit thai,
even with their industry and skill, the result
might have been very different but for the out
|side help of Mr.. Reddick and Wash. Arm
strong Well, such things have happened be-
|fore, and are not to be wondered at.
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THE NAYoRALTY.

Mr.. CHARLES BLANCHARD, to when Tor
NAL request was made by large body Of oul
leading citizens OF all parties to consent to !"
candidate for Mayor at the approaching CT,
election, having peremptorily declined Il
make the run, We are pleased To have il IN ou'
power to state that Alderman G. S. PnELrs
has, after great deal of persuasion, been pre-
vailed upon to allow his name TO DO used III
that connection, and that he may he fairly re-
sarded before the people rs II candidate. The
request, in response to which Mr. Phelps
gives his assent is signed Ivy 80 large mum
Der of our best citizens OF all parties u. t" sho"
the movement in his favor to he unpartl-an,
spontaneous and earnest, and that Of course
any attempt to oppose his election would IL,
hopeless. Indeed we have no Idea that M,
other candidate will be seriously talked about.
Mr.. Phelps deserves the compliment of u
unanimous election. He has for years served
the city SO faithfully in the ci.y council as to
have won the soubriquet of Father" OF that
body--oi course in the sense that in all cases Of
doubt or difficulty he has been looked ny /"
for advice, and the cases are rare indeed IL
which, IN such exigencies, his counsel has 10
been deferred to without question.
He is an honest, upright man, with broad,
practical views, cool headed and chock full OF
every day common sense. He Is beyond ques
ton the best available timber in Ottawa Tor
the position
1t Is due in this connection, TO state In re-
ference to Mayor Nicholson, who has served
The people with such faithfulness and eXcep
lional ability for the past two years that II
was long time before his hosts of friends
would listen to his repeated and positively "a.
pressed determ inatlon not to stand "A re-elcc !
ION. OF course, had he decided Otherwise,
md consented to be q candidate, no one can
that he would have had any serious
opposition But Mr.. Nicholson is lawyer
With q large and important practice anu Of
curse it IL unfair to call upon su;h u man to
Ne constantly giving his valuable time gratull.
'us'y TO the public. For what he has done
he city owe him much, and the least thai can
NC said in return is tina, by his many sacrifices
o the public good Mr.. Nicholson has entitled
imsef to the consolation of knowing that he
ublic feeling towards him is, that he is justly
n a position where "higher honors await
i'm ~
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HORRORS.

Last Sunday night, the St Patricks Orphan
Asylum at Scranton Pa, was burned, will
eighteen Of its inmates, aged from 6 10 1:
years. The institution was IN charge Of sever
al Sisters, and the number OF children under
their charge was forty, eighteen boys and TWEEN
tytwo girls. The girls were rescued but the
boys being in separate apartment persisted
before aid reached them, When their apart
ment was broken into by the fremen, they
were found huddled together beneath their
COTS having been sutiocated. The cause O.
the fire IL unknown.
At East Liverpool, OHIO, on Friday of last
week at one o'clock in the morning, flames
were seen to issue from four story building
at Broadway and Sixth streets, occupied below
one part as grocery and the other part as a
drug store and over it lived Mr.. VIM. Sloan,
the druggist. with his wife and family of seven
children. On discovering the flames Mr..
Sloan awoke all of them and picking up at
little daughter, 3 years old, told them to fol-
low. The stairwsys were by this time burned
away ard escape by that means cut Off Turn
Z,
wife, who had babe in her arms, and tine
children to follow him. He leaped to the
ground, but the wife was either overcome bv
the smoke and flames, or, failing to get the
children to jump, preferred death with them.
Mr. Sloan hoped by jumping first to be able
to catch the others and break the force of their
fall. Although breaking his leg in the leap,
he hobbled around crying piteously for the
others, but none came, and al! persisted in the
flames. The bodies were afterwards found in
the ashes charred beyond recognition.
One Of those everlasting idiots who fool with
pistols supposed not to be loaded but which
always go of, turned up on Sunday near
About six oclocl. III the even
ing, at the residence OF Mrs. Josephine Lowrey,
q wealthy widow living on a farm about three
miles northwest Of Bloomington, her son, Will
Lowrey, recently returned from Wyoming,
was engaged In cleaning his pistol. His SIS
ter Mary beautiful girl aged 80, was passing
into the dining room to tea, when Will play
fully pointed what he supposed to be the emp
ty revolver at her and pulled the trigger To
his unspeakabie horror the pistol was dis |
charged, and his sister fell on her face with |
stream OF blood pouring from u wound in her
back. The ball, which was of No. 42 cali, |
Der, struck her beside the spinal column about
eight inches below the shoulder and ranged |
upward. Surgeons were al once sent for and |
they pronounced the wound fatal. VIII Low. |
reg, on learning the terrible nature of the in
Jury, declared he would kill himself, and was
only prevented from dong so by the interior.
ence Of those near him. Miss Lowrcy had
hosts Of friends in and about Bloomington,
among whom of course there was the deepest
borrow when the terrible news became known.
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CONGRESS-.
Economy.

The flibustering fight made by the repub.
icans against the app0r,iOnment bill in the
house, referred to IN our last, came to an end
after an all night session, on Friday morning
in an agreement to refer the bill to q commit
tee of three republicans and three democrats to
patch up compromise. OF course the COM
mittee did nothing. The disagreement is on
the number of representatives. to be provided
for. With 307, the number in the bill, the
relative percentage Of representation between
the north and south will he exactly equal, and
the south will gam three members. With 3Ig
members, commended for by the republicans,
that equality will be disturbed and the north
will gain three representatives. To gain this
unfair advantage the republicans are deter
mined to defeat the bill by tiibustering and
probably succeeded.
The river and harhor hill, after aa addition
Of million to It's appropriations by the SEN
ate, raising the total to sll 900 900, has passed
the house. and if not vetoed will become q
law
The republicans tried their hand to defeat
the funding bill in the house in the same way
they did The appor,onmcnt bill, but failed,
| and the measure passed on Thursday as il
came from the senate, the Carlisle amend
ment" included. The bill, on beng sent to
the President. however was promptly vetoed
veto. Thus by the help of the republicans
the banks have trumphcd and the people will
have the fun OF paying few millions year
more interest on the public deb, to please the
| National Banks.
All the Appropriation bills 1t is understood
were passed by yesterday morning 80 that II
there Is an extra session il will be purely on
account Of republican cHssedness In regard tc
the funding and superintendent bulls.
President Hayes, contrary To expectation
issued his proclamation on Wednesday. call
ing an extra session Of the senate on Saturday
today 10 act on Garfield appointments. Al
/, was understood Malone Of Virginia woult
&C, with the republicans In organizing th,
new senate, his vote, with that Of Carpenter
successor from Wisconsin,, TO be elected on thu
9Th, would have given the republicans ma
jcrIty Of one wherefore the republican pro
gramme was not 10 convene the senate nnti
after the 9Th. 1t seems, however, Garfield oh
jected to the programme ana 1t was changed
The special train with Gen. Garfield OIL
board arrived at Washington at Q o'clock OF
Tuesday morning, and the President was in
formally received at the depot in few pleas
ant remarks by Robt G. Ingersoll. Of the com
mi,,ee on inaugural ceremonies. The Presl
den, and family were at once conveyed In cal
! riages 10 the Ashland Hotel.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-03-05
LEGISLATURE.

Our news from Springfield this week on &C.
count OF the railroad blockade and failure Of
the mails. really covers the proceedings of but
one working day-Frday of last week
On that day the senate passed Marshalls
compulsory education bill, which has yet to
run the gauntlet of the house. The 81 of 1t
is that all the children in the state between the
ages Of 8 and IA must be sent to school at least
~ weeks in each year for four years unless OK.
cused from attendance by the board Of educa
ton of the district in which the child resides.
The bill is Of very little consequence ONO,
Massachusetts and other states lave had such
laws for years and it IS admitted that they
were never anything but dead letter
The house on the same day took quite IN.
industrial fit and passed the following meas.
gres:
The bill to amend the act concerning con.
veyances was read third time and passed 1t
simply corrects mistake in the revision OF
The statute so as to provide that the words
grant bargain and SELL" shall not Le required
for an express covenant, but only either one or
them.
The bill providing that the death penalty IN
cases where a change Of venue has been taken
shall be inflicted III the county from which
the change was taken, and by the Sheriff Of
SAID county, was read THIRD time and passed.
Pope county got bill through changing
the terms of the county court to the second
Mondays OF July and December.
The following measures were also passed:
A bill to change the law requiring all cities
and villages to publish ordinances SO as to al.
low them to be published IN newspaper or
posted.
Collins bill, with an emergency clause, al.
lowing villages and towns to hold their vii.
lagc.and town elections on the same day. The
bill really affects only Hyde Park and Jeiier.
son, in Cook county.
A private dispatch yesterday from the Hon.
]. o. Glover states that in the house ON Thurs
day the senate bill to consolidate the supreme
cour. at Springfield was killed las usual, as
nSual -
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-03-05

Besides an unusual crowd to witness the In.
auguration ceremonies, Washington is cram.
med with office seekers, expecting to make
strike with the new regime.
Among several thousand applications ON
file for post offices We see mention made OF the
names Of John Pfeiier and Robert 8 Wilson
for Chicago, X. W. Bantram for S,restoT and
Ed. II. Clark tor Ottawa.
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BANK BILLS NOT MONEY.


| Commenting on some remarks OF the FREi
TRADER last week on the recen, furry In Wal
street, IN which it was stated that "Na.iona
Bank bills are not money but mere bits OF pa
per used for convenience in passing money
from HAND to hand our esteemed Cetempora
ny of the Ottawa Rcpublicrs jumps to the con
cluslon that ii the FREE TRADER holds ;ha
bank bills are not money then II must also
hold that greenbacks are not money, bd
mere bits OF paper" &c. On the contrary
only money we have in this country at this
time is gold, silver and greenbacks. The las,
named having been made legal tender BY
the government, are rs fully money as gold
such IN TINS country at least, with the metals.
1t was not the withdrawal Of bank bills that
caused the sudden pressure in Wall street last
week, but the sudden Withdrawal! Of $4,000.
that amount of money from the loan market,
and the consequent contraction Of loans by
the banks to that extent, that caused the
squeeze.
1t may be, however,-nay doubtless is true
that if the same amount suddenly with.
drawn from the loan market in Wall street
last week had been bank bills instead of
greenbacks, the result, so tar as n sudden strin.
gency IN the loan market Is concerned, would
have been the same, for it was not question
of the abundance or scarcity of the general
circulation OF the country, but an illustration
Of the dangerous power of the banks to pro.
duce money panic at will by u sudden pre-
contraction of their loans. Whether
the national banks do or do not issue bills of
their own can have nothing to do with their
power to expand or contract their loans They
would have exactly the same power, though
they were allowed to deal in gold alone. When
John Sherman, last Saturday, suddenly order.
ed the redemption of ten millions of govern
ment 5 and d per cent bonds in Wall street,
the striBgency III the money market was re. |
lieved, though it did not involve the return of
q dollar of the S17,0000O0 Of bank bills sud. !
lenly retired by the national banks. The ten
millions were paid by the subtreasurer at
New York in gold and greenbacks But the
order put that much loose money on the loan
market and the men who had BEEN offering
.s high as l and ~ per cent per day to the
banks suddenly found abundant men on the
streets eager to accommodate them
If bank bills are money then are all other
paper promises TO pay" money. Then are
notes of hand, checks on banks, drafts, bills of
exchange, &c, money, and as these can be
multiplied indefinitely and indeed hundreds
f not thousands of millions Of them are con-
family atloat between the east and west, north
md south and the great commercial points all
'vcr the world, how can any one ever make
wen guess at the amount Of money" there
nay b. at a given time III existence; or what
proportion does gold and silver bear to the
Imount Of "money" in existence But 1t is
childish nonsense to contend that bank bills
IRE in any legitimate sense money" and those
Who MAINTAIN such an absurdity ought not to
Ielay an hour to purchase and diligently study
AbbO,l's or some other Primer of Political
Economy.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-03-05
THE STORM.

While the three days storm we have been
enjoying has been unpleasant enough, 1t is
nevertheless true that We have experienced bat
The outer rim of the storm that has really oc-
buried. At Chicago the storm commenced
Fith furious wind, accompanied at first with
lain and sleet and then turning into snow
|nough to pile 1t from three to five feet deep
b the streets. Travel on all the horse cars
Fas quite suspended; and railway travel IN
p directions was cut OIL Tor many successive
|eurs. Up in Wisconsin and Minnesota the
|ains were swamped in many cases in drifts
Dirty and forty feet deep. The storm seems
have prevailed over an unusually large area,
verng Montana Minnesota, Wisconsin,
wa, Illinois, Indiana Michigan and Ohio,
ough Wisconsin and Northern Illinois seem
have received the brunt Of 1t.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-03-05

|raska has not quite gone the length of
5 In prohibiting the use and sale oil in.
hing drinks in that state, but has fixed
'ense fee at $500 to $1,000 per year, re.
lg the saloon keepers 10 give bonds in
mot 20 sell TO minors, drunken men, &c,
be aDswerable for civil damages, after
Inner OF the Reddick law of this state
.lso made a mIsdemeanor. punishable
me and Imprisonment. to treat a man to
sic dri Ks IN that state.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-03-05
OUR CLUBBING

We are prepared to club the FREE TRADER
with thefolowing publications, lurnishingboth
n the prices named postage prepaid. The
offer-open to old subscribers or new at any
cost office IN the county--ls the CHEAPEST
EVER MADE IN this county:
fRss TRADER and Chicago Weekly Times. 81 65
BhsH TRADER and Chicago Weekly Tribune. LOO
rRIE TRADER and Chicago Weekly Inter
Ocean ............,......' .'''''. a.
FACE TRADER and Chicago Weekly Journal. 2'65
TxBE TRADER and st. Louis Republican. -. 20o
FREE TRADER and st. Louis Globe. Democrat 70
FREE TRADER and n Y. Weekly Herald. =. 90
FREE TRADER and American AgricHtur'sf. =. 6O
eRES TRADER and Prairie Farmer. ......:... 3'oo
FREE TRADER and either OF Harper's publ
cations. ...'.''.'...''''''' -,
FREE TRADER and Scribnr. 40
FREE TRADER and Goiey's Ladies' Book. ... BY
FREE TRADER and Physiological Journal. S0O
FREE TBADER and ST. Nicholas. ..... ...... 30
Pass TRADER and Democrats MonhNy...... S15
FREE TRADER and LtkWs Living AT...... SD
PRES TRADER and Western Raral. .......... 500
Free TRADER and Aoore's Rural Neto forkc $50
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.ARDI GRAs.-ln spite OF tho recent inun.
4 ms and generally unpropi.ious weather AT
q Orleans, the Mardi Gras nonsense in that
on Tuesday, day before the begin.
Of Lent and largely observed as n festival
rnival farewell to flesh throughout the
an Catholic world,-was even more elabo.
land gorgeous than usual. The theme
IN for representation in the grand process.
were the scenes of the Arabian Nights
than which certainly nothing in human
pa,ion can be more elaborate and por.
g. The procession Is said to have been
Etliles in length and was witnessed by half
: ion OF spectators. As the display in the
81 me exceeded all that had preceded il, SC
! recession Of the Myslicke Crewe Of King
rs at night made the handsomest display
3srcsented in the Crescent city, the theme
4 ated being myths of the Northland
Feather on Tuesday was balmy and de
IN, as ii had been, indeed, during all The
5;SsAlDg week, the waters Of the inundatio.
sg receded in good time, So that, in fact
eets instead OF being too wet were dusty
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-03-05

ar of rates has broken out among the
ian steamship companies, and last week
int rates from Liverpool TO New York
Eoxn 10 $l2, "AmerIcan money"
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-03-05

and as it is hard case all round, Ottawa
probably has right to ask for settlement on
something like liberal terms, and We don't see
why such settlement cannot now he made.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-03-05

Re at Cllsiswortb. III, last SUNDAY, de-
ten mercantile houses. leaving 81, 900
|ljusicd by the insurance oompasies.
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amendment, repeating the act of 1874; but
thai on the bill being sent TO President Hayes |
1t was promptly vetoed, scoring big victory
for the banks!
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-03-05

Since the above was written dispatch from
Washington has been received in town an
nouncing that the funding bill was passed by
the house on Thursday including the Carlisle
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-03-05

After all, II is suspected that the visit of
nkling To Mentor, which suddenly brough,
dge Folger, Of New York, into prominence
Gardelds prospective secretary Of the treas
has come to nought, an ugly suit of the
dge's in the Supreme Court Of the United
tes--just decided against hm--placing
In such an ungaInly position before the
bile as 10 preclude the possibility Of placing
in charge Of the national money bags. II
bears few years ago he was, for just 2l6
|s, assistant sub.treasurer at New York, at
(lary of some $1,000 year. A part of his
es consisted in the sale of L. s. revenue
pps 70 the tobacconisis, whisky dlstlllers,
ggists, &c, Throughout. s sne country, and as
Ing his brief tenancy of the Office he sold
e $20000000 worth Of these stamps, he
anded, In I'd .hion to his handsome salary,
rcentage on his sale Of stamps amounting
early 100000. The treasury department
Iashington secuted his clam and he com.
ced sult for the money IN L. 3. court.
also decided against him on which he
an appeal to the Supreme Court Of the L.
nd there too, few days ago, a unanimous
Bion was rendered against him. Garfield,
Farming these facts, it appears, has decided
a man who can manifest such greed to
lie the peoples money will never do to be
I'd in charge of the national money chests
, 1881-02-12

and whose canes were not planted
earlier in last year. With regard to
labour, we notice that Barbadians,
young and old. male and female are
quite willing to come over to help
u.s."
The same paper on the 25th says,
"since OUT last report on Weather
and Crops refreshing though not
heavy showershave fallen, we believe
over the whole of this Island, cheer
ing the at one time almost despond-
ing hearts of planters as to crop
prospects this year. The rain that
fell last week has stimulated the
growth of what is called late canes.'
The present atmospheric appear.
ance, is promising of "more rain"
The rainfall tor the month in the
city is recorded at PIT inches"