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The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-03-12
Chicago Market.
TufTAnn March

CHICAGO. March II, 1881.
The Times o! yesterday says:
Yesterdays changes in the board Of trade mar.
kets indicated q small advance IN grain and a
besrlsh turn In provisions. Meas pork. lard and
abort ribs closed lower than on Wednesday,
Wheat WAS exceptionally strong and rather bull
ish in Its tendency. Speculation all around wss
quite active. On Change cash property closed
at the follow ing prccs.
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ELECTI0N NOTICE.

Nocc Ia hereby gwen tNGt Tucs0a7, ne uith day ui
Aprt 10 ~ 'ho ro4p-ctive places holding elections ~
the 'erer election precincts IN the COUNTY ot sale and
STATE Of Illinois, rcon vii br held for tEe eec
ton OF County Surveyor 10 III vacancy cauRed ny thc
death OF George W, Brumback, which election VIII be
opened az eght O'Clock the uorn and contEi" open
until seven O'clock IN the afternoon 81 that day.
pstcd ~ ot'H's H. tla 18Th day ~ february ihr,
T.. ". .IOC ~ EGER, CurGty C'sES.
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A CARD.

To- all who suffering from the errors and indcreti1ns
OF youth nervous weakness early decay loss of manhood
&C. I will SEED Tcopc that WI you, TRRE or
CHARGE. This great remedy discovered by miaslon
sry In South Americs Send sslfstdressed envelope 10
the Rxv. JosppH I. fNa.H. Station n. Yeso FORK CJs.
April lI-y-s?
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The Majority on the Popular Vote.

1t wnud seem that after "a careful collection
and consideration, by the Baltimore SIM, OF
the entire vote pollcd at the last presidential
election, General Hancock has u clear majority
over General Garfield Of G,332. The Sun
says:
Careful revision of the returns from all the
states, obtained by correspondence with the
best sources of information, enables US to lay
before the readers OF the sun n correct table
OF tnt popular vote of the United States for
President in November, 1880. The total vote
Of the country WAS 5000 794, divided as follows
james A. Garfield. republican..........4,43 1, 9sl
Winfield =. Hancock, democrat. ,...... 4, ~, 81"
james b. Weaver, greenback. .......... 307,
Neal Dow, probibtIon.... 9,6&3
scattering ............... .......,.... l.ioo
T.,a, ooD "a,
HancOck's maj ortiz over Garfield. ...... 1881
The total vote poled for president In 1879
by the same states rs IN 1880 was SAIL 1876,
and the increase is 7S965S.
The vote Of the states for Garfield. Hancock
and Weaver is Ms follows:
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-03-12
City Property for Sale.

The Lots situated the Ia Sale and Lafayette
streets opposite the Washington Park described as The
OF Lot and Lt a. Block IS Sstes Addition ts Ottawa
This property situated In the cent? part of the city
the business portion OF IT. and will be sod at bargain i
desirable for For particulars Inquire Of l..
H. EANFa ESQ, Ftuona City Hank, or W r CoDDISG.
Canal Collector. tmayl0Itf) ALBERT Y. DOW.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-03-12

Wedding Invitations printed on new styles o
payer with new types, equal to coppr'plate.
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Tho voltsio belt CO.. of Marshall. Mitch.

WIN send their celebrs Kretro voite Bets srric
ted upon thirty days trial speedy guaranteed Tbsy
DssH what shey say Write tot6sm without ds.sy.
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GOLD PENS ps s aSser .ss sns pspc
t.It, at,bsf ~ tsi.rrnr's west Of Court House.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-03-12
THE fire..

owing to losscS occas.onsd by the buruos OF ny Yc
va,or Losses in grain and shrnkase Of real etis'r md
mv>et In st11n ned circusapCt aud Sal chl s.d Ia -e
ms property pav NY dCh- otter Ht htrga!E he To-
on mali c8Iul watch my elevator ssocI rh me otcC
scaic- cribs engine ard boiler, VI In gUoh Gootor N,
r,-deuCs Fat Ottawa with eight o,s. the house AM
Part the los the vacant los separately the hne re
re-ldenc. Ottawa Avenue formerly owned hy p X. LH
land, a -Hp residence Ia south Ottawa, good bu-inctt
property Man street, OTTAWA HrIG of 10; acre In
Grand Rapde township; farm 1T l rcreT ~ lv 2F,oI
county, VII sell any ottpc ab Ye uarcr Ch oaHAc.
In v years Also vacant lots IN Srrcca % raue or
fchl..J.nC- Il L. HOssACk.
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ottawa wholesale Market.

New styles visiting cards at Osrnou & Hape.
mans.
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60 ut tu,, thirds prlcs
The grain prices W. oe rangc OF market trcin
hCtis" prices ~ prices paid for odd !,,sds for feed
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q ~ ~ ~ a YEAR and expeuaes to agents.
~ 4 eutft Free Address 7. o. WICK
ERY. Augusta. Maine.
5000 a year % Agents. sad expenses = q OUth'
sNSJJ frees. Address =. SWAIN Il Co. Augusta, Ne
TCTrERING cured by Stess Appliances. Send for de-
- scripton to SlupSon d Co. Box ss36. New York.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-02-18
LOndOn'S 4" Fiery Mine.o

1t is "fact not generally known"
that there is in London " fiery mine"
of so very excitable disposition that no
artificial light of any description has
ever yet been allowed to be brought
even into its neighborhood. It's pro-
duct, however, is not coal, but rum.
The rum-shed, as it is called, of the
West India dock covers space of 200,-
600 square feet, with vaults of CORE
spending size, all crammed with huge
casks of spirit, from every pore of which
and the most carefully-closed have
pores in plenty-the fiery vapor is for
ever streaming out into the air, only
begging for the smallest chance of con-
verting the whole area of the docks,
with their 250-odd ships and 5000 or
300,00 tons or so of cargo, and their
more or less inoalculable stores of tim
Der and tea, silk and sugar, cigars and
cereals, Goals and cotton, wine, wool,
whisky, whale-ins and what not, into
the most magnificent bowl of snap
dragon ever imagined in infant night
mare.
Into these fiery regions not even
bull's-eye lantern is or ever has been al
lowed to penetrate. Even the wharf
along the side where the great punch
cons are landed is forbidden to the up
proach of vessels, every cask being trans
ferred from ship to shore in the COM
pany's own lighters. Each cask in that
vast range of dim, dark vaults is marked
and numbered, and on the right reading
of these marks and numbers depends the
efficient execution of every one of the
numerous operations to which every in
dividual cask has to be subjected before
its contents can go forth for the mixing
of the worlds grog. How any one but
an experienced japanese juggler ever
manages to perform this feat in the very
brightest weather by the simple aid of
little plate of. polished tin, artfully
turned and twisted to catch the solitary
ray of highly-diluted daylight, which
here and there filters down from the
floor above, is a mystery by no means
among the least wonderful of the many
of which the visitor to this commercial
paradise catches here and there tan
talizing glimpse.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-02-18
Cold Winters.

There seem to be no such winters now
as there were. seventy or eighty years
ago, owing, no doubt, to the cutting
down in this country OF the native for
ests, the planting and growth OF the
towns and cities, and the general de-
velopment of the land During the
seventeenth and eighteenth centuries,
there were il the Old World some win
tiers bitterly memorable. In Britain, in
1864, the Thames was frozen TO the
depth of sixty-one inches, and nearly all
the birds in the United Kingdom per-
ished. In 1892 the cold was so intense
in Southern Europe, especially in Aus
tria, that wolves were driven by hunger
into Vienna, where they attacked beasts
of burden and even human beings.
Three years later many persons were
frozen to death in various parts of Ger
many. The Cold Winter, as it was
called for distinction, occurred in 1909,
when all the rivers and lakes In Europe
were compactly frozen, and even the
sea several miles from shore, and the
earth itself from seven to eight feet
deep. Birds and beasts fell dead, and
thousands of men, women and children
persisted in their houses. In Southern
France nearly all the vineyards were
destroyed. The Adriatic was frozen,
and much of the Mediterranean in the
neighborhood Of Genoa and Leghorn,
and the lemon and orange groves were
blighted in many parts OF Italy. Dur
ing 1716 persons crossed the straits
from Copenhagen to the Province of
Sonia Ouden) on the ice, and horses and
wagons likewise. Snow lay ten feet
deep in Spain and Portugal during
l740, the Zuyder Zee was covered with
ice thick enough to bear multitude of
people, and four years after snow meas
ured on O level twenty-three feet in
Portugal. In III the Elbe was frozen
to the bottom, and in 1776 the Danube
showed ice below Vienna eight to ten
feet thick. -NeW York Times.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-02-18
A Noble Offer.

"I guess I'll have to hire clerk"
said a Galveston merchant, by the name
of Merritt, to his friend Chrysler.
81 am glad to see that the business
boom has struck you, responded Chrys-
Ter.
at isn't that, replied the merchant,
but you see 1 am very popular, and 1
am asked by my friends to step across
the street and fake "A drink almost every
minute III tle day, and rs haven't any
body to leave in the store have to de-
cline Ten dollars day won't cover
what have lost by not having a clerk"
"IIl tel you what I'll do, said Chrys-
Ter, Frightening up; hire me as your
clerk, and send me across tho street to
drink with your friends, and 1 won't
charge you a cent for my clerical serv-
ices"
The application of Chrysler was put
on. file, along with those of number of
other leading citizens who had applied
already. NeDs.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-02-18
Sinecures at Washington.

Before this house (the one occupied
by Mr.. Seward when he was attacked
by Payne), for several years afterward,
n sentry paced night and day, even
when Mr.. Seward had moved away and
gone out of Office. The same building
was once used rs clubhouse, and
from it Key had just issued when he
was shot by Sickles This lonely sentry,
still at his post long after he had been
forgotten ut the War Department, and
allowed to remain, / suppose, because
no one thought it was his duty to re-
lieve him, reminds me of several similar
incidents that are relatedin Washington.
The great falls of the Potomac are
about sixteen miles above Washington,
and during the war there was station
for the collection of provisions for the
army on the bank of the canal near
these grand cataracts. The road be-
tween Washington and Great Falls was
several times raidedby the Confederates,
and block-house was erected by the
Federals at a point three or four miles
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-02-18
Cheap Goods.

Do not buy cheap clothing; it is not
an economical plan. A strong, fine tex
tured, well-made article Will outwear at
least three of poor material, and it does
not really cost as much, considering the
amount of wear, to say nothing of the
shabby appearance of faded cloth-the
vexation of having the garments contin-
ually breaking to pieces, the necessity of
daily repairs, with the unsafe feeling
when one steps a little high, or puts on
an unusual strain. A scarcity of means
is the general excuse for buying such
goods as this, and we know it is a hard
one to meet. But it is better to make
the old coat last little longer, and put
all the money into the rest of the suit,
and when the money one will soon have
to find to supply another cheap suit is at
hand, get good coat. As q wise and
economical rule one should never pur-
chase anything but good article The
care of clothing Is very important mat
ter. 1t makes great difference in the
looks and wear of hat or coat, whether
il is thrown down on the lounge or chair
when taken off, or carefully hung up.
Properly brushing and cleaning clothes,
and mending them as soon as required,
rather than waiting until the threads
ravel out, or the tear has grown too large
to be neatly repaired, add greatly to
their durability.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-02-18

above Georgetown TO prevent parties of
rebels from passing up and down the
road. At the close OF the war the de-
lenses about the capital were one after
another deserted, but nobody seems TO
have remembered the corporals guard
stationed out there ON the Aqueduct
road, and they remained on duty for a
year or two. After they were relieved
the block-house was set on fire by
tramps or boys, and only few black
ened posts now mark its site. A still
more remarkable case was that discov-
cred by Gen. b. L. Butler about ten
years ago. He was nosing around
among the appropriations one day, when
he discovered an officer in the Capitol
whose duty he did not understand. He
was watching crypt. An investigation
showed that many years ago it was pro-
posed to deposit the bones of Gen.
George Washington beneath the Capitol,
and crypt was prepared for that pur-
pose. When it was completed, pub
Tic officer was appointed whose duty 1t
was 10 watch this crypt and prevent it's
Dissertation, and there he had been ever
since, growing gray in the service, and,
while Congress had appropriated money
to pay his salary year after year, nobody
had thought it worth while to inquire
how he earned it, Washington Cor.
Providence Press.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-02-18
The Powder Of IMAGINATION.

Some official of the general hospital in
New Haven writes to the Medical and
Surgical Reporter of queer case of tho
power of imagination. A female patielt
with chronic gastritis had habitually
taken morphine in the form of sleeping
drops" For the first few times she was
given morphine, but after this the hos
pital physician had bottle carefully
labeled " sleeping drops" and filled
with water. OF this she took drachm
at bedtime. At first she complained
that the medicine was too strong and
made her head feel badly the next day,
80 that the dose was reduced. This she
took for nearly month. sleeping nicely
when she did take, and not Sleeping ut
all when it was kept from her for the
sake of experiment.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-02-18
A Foiled BOOk Agent.

A yong man with large book under
his arm and q seven-by-nine smile on his
mug stuck his head into the ticket win
dow at the Union Depot, and asked the
clerk what the fare was to San Antonio.
"Ten dollars aud fifteen cents" re-
piled the ticket singer.
81 am pining to leave Galveston, but
/ lack just $40 of the ticket money.
However, that shan't part us. I'll make
q partial cash payment OF 10 cents and
take the rest out in trade"
"What do you mean by taking 1T out
in trade ?"
81 am book agent, and If you WHY
let me have the ticket, won't try to sell
you book. 1 won't say book to you
once. This is the most liberal and ad-
vantageous offer ever made to the public,
and you ought to take advantage OF 1T.
have been known TO talk a sane man SO
completely out of his senses in fifteen
min.tes .hat he wasn't even fit to send
tc the Legislature afterward.
"What book have you got?" asked
the ticket agent.
A beaming smile came over the book
agents face, and in sing-song voice he
began:
81 am offering, in seventeen volumes,
Dr. Whifietree's Observations In Pales
tine, book that should be in every fam
lily, a book that comprises the views OF
the intelligent doctor on what he saw IN
the Holy Land, with numerous specu-
lations and theories on what he did not
see, altogether forming a complete IL
brary of deep research, pure theology and
chaste imagery. / am now Offering this
invaluable encyclopedia for the unprece-
dcnted low price of So volume, which
is really giving it away for nothing -
After the book agent had kept this up
for about ten minutes, he began to grow
discouraged, for, instead of showing
signs of weakening, the ticket agent,
with an ecstaiic smile on his face, begged
the eloquent man to keep on.
The book agent stopped to rest his
jaw, when ticket the man reached out his
hand and said "SlIake, old fel /! Come
inside and take a chair, anG sing that all
over again. That cheers me up like a
cocktail. l used to be book agent
myself before / reformed and went into
the railroad business, and that is like
music to me. 1t soothes me all over.
1t calls back hallowed memories of the
past and makes me want to go out on
the road again. would rather pay $40
than have you leave Galveston. You
must come around every day.
could listen to that all day, and cry for
more.
The book agent shut his book and
said:
"Some internal hyena has given me
away but there is another railroad that
can get out of this one-horse town on.
I'll not consent to travel on any road
that don't employ gentlemen who can
treat cash customer with common POI
likeness. You can't capture my book on
any terms, and if you viii come out of
your cage III punch your head in less
time than you can punch q ticket" And
he passed out like beautiful DREAM
Galveston Ne,0s.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-02-18

OF the %, $50 breweries in the Ger
man empire, Bavaria alone had, when
the last returns were made, 1884, while
in Prussia the number of breweries has
fallen from 10, 600 to 1926, though the
quantity of beer brewed has not dimin-
ished. Berlin, which supplies nearly
all the beer drunk in that city, had in
1876 only forty-nine breweries, but they
were on so large scale that they made,
on an average, nearly 1000, 900 gallons
each. The same is the case in Saxony,
where the production of beer has .rebled
during the last forty years, while the
number of breweries has diminished.
Nearly fourth of the Austrian beer is
brewed in Bohemia, and the imports of
beer continue to diminish, while the
quantity exported is seven or eight
times greater than it was twenty years
ago.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-02-18


A life misspcnt, an incompleted mission,
house all void Of merry laugh
Pertain unto that fractional condition
or man without better half.
No one 10 cheer him In this worlds invest
And soothe a debt-bemuddled brain;
No love with fertile fancy To suggest
Some way 10 " raise the wind" again.
No one TO laugh with him when ali IL bright,
Nor weep when joys seem over gone
Alas no fingers, deit and white,
To sew missing button on.
No pure-white brow, no love-ht eyes OF blue,
M tresses moyed 10y GUNNER breeze;
All me! no dewy lips of rosy hue,
No ng'Iing, SOFT, white hand To squeeze.
No sympathetic hope Of morn Of life,
Nor memory when he IL old
So sad the thought no meek and gentle wife
To sheer at when the oofiees cold.
And duties over, when the long day dies,
No need Of gentle wifesy tones.
Noone to ask with glad, expecting eyes,
"Dear, did you get the best of Jones?"
or earthly joys and pleasures he is bare,
He has no hope of heaven withal;
No school for Christian resignation where
lie never hears baby squall.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-02-18
A New Jury system.

We would suggest that twelve jurors
be appointed by the Governor for each
circuit, and paid reasonable salary for
a fixed and definite term. This Jury
would travel about the circuit in the
same manner as the Circuit Judge they
would generally betotally DISTINGUISHED
and, holding office by appointment
would never decide for political pur.
poses. BY experience, such jury could
learn to sift the true from the false testi-
mony in almost every instance by prac.
tice they would become expert in weigh.
ing testimony and judging of the credi-
bility OF witnesses. Their verdicts would
DE sooner rendered, and more often in
the right; for their Judgment would be
the result of the deliberations of twelve
men whose every day business and study
was such as to make their judgment pc
clliarly quick and accurate In such mat
ters.-Kentuoly Law Reporter.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-02-18
A Terrible Disaster.
American news via Paris /:

American news via Paris
Most horrible I"
An accident atrocious comes to have
place on the line of the Great North
western, at the States United.
1.-Two trains are encountered them
selves shocked, and so for to say re-en-
tered the one in the other in leveling
himself completely.
There does not rest of survivor
many more than mechanism.
Arrived at the station, we do not
know how, all the world throws itself
on him; we interrogate him, feverishly.
Him, very calm:
."Oh, there has not had large thing
be two trains have made telescope IL
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-02-18
Tom COrwins Welcome to His SOn.in-
Law.

At the marriage of his oldest daughter,
Eva, to Mr.. George r. Sage, young
lawyer of Cincinnati, Corwin manifested
SO much feeling that the occasion took
more of the aspect of funeral THAI of q
wedding. During the ceremony he
shed tears, and at the supper, after a
prolonged and solemn silence, he sud-
denly broke out:
"Now L want it distinctly understood
that this thing is never going to happen
again in this house. There will never
be another wedding here. 1 will get a
niger six feet tall, and give him pole
ten feet long, and post him ut the front
door, and instruct him to knock any
young man in the head who comes to
see my daughters.
Gen. Garfield relates that, shortly be-
fore Corwin's death, when he returned
to Washington from q flying visit to
Lebanon to attend the marriage of his
youngest daughter, he referred to this
marriage OF Eva, and said that he shut
himself up in his room for three or four
days before it occurred, and could not
be persuaded to take any part in the
preparations, and only on the most
earnest solicitations did he come down
to witness the ceremony. He said 81
could not endure the thought of my
daughter loving another man better than
myself; and yet she married noble
fellow. And now the old feeling has re-
turned. tell you 1 had horrible time
of it until the ceremony was over"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-02-18
Beer by the Gallon.

The Journal Of Applied Science gives
some detailed information rs to the pro
duction of beer, the number of brew
cries, and the consumption of beer per
head of the population in the different
countries of Europe:
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-02-18

In the counting-room of Galveston
Irishman the following notice is stuck up
in conspicuous place: " Persons hav-
ing no business in this Office will get
through with it as soon as possible and
leave.s
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-02-18
HOaxing a Manager.

Mr.. FL. G. Jarrett tells the following
story: One evening, while his party
were playing at the Opera House in
Detroit, small boy approached him,
and, holding out his hand, exhibiting
10 cents, said:
Please, mister, / would so much likeI
to see Cinderella, but that's all the
money I've got"
The boys manner touched Jarrett's
tender spot, and after asking HIM two or
three times if that was all the money he
had. and receiving each time a pitiful
affirmative answer, he gave him a quar-
ter. The boys countenance beamed
with delight, and he did not know how
to express his gratitude. Finally, mov-
ing toward the street, he said:
"You don't know how thankful am.
sir. am ever so much obliged to you.
sir but, now that you have been so gen
erous. guess I'll go to the other theater
and sec Jack Sheppard T."
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-02-18

WHAT becomes of all the "old war
horses after the campaign is over and
the President is elected? Do they go
back to the pillow? And echo answers,
Neigh they go to the trough
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-02-18

The man who knows you well may for
get all about you when you are sick.