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The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-06-04

A malicious report was put IN circulation a
week ago that John G. Thompson, the Ohio
democratic politician and sergentat-arms of
the House of Representatives at Washington,
was short $4,000 in his official accounts.
Thompson is said to have been the maddcst
man in the United States when he saw the
Islander in the papers, and sat down on 1t at
once by presenting conclusive proof OF its
falsity but Thompson's swear words over the
matter are agreed to have been something
quite terrific
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-06-04

The recent revelations IN Washington In re
gard to the stealings of Pitney, the custodian
Of the contingent fund of the treasury depart
ment arc spreading the pitch at such rate
that they will most likely be stopped. Buy
ing brandy by the barrel under the name of
bay rum, and champagne and port by the
quantity as perfumes" indicates that not one
man, out scores and hundreds must have
shared in the steal. Nor could Pitney alone
have had use for the 700 yards of carpet tina,
are missing from single purchase. The
statement is now broadly made that no incon.
siderable amount of the steaIings, IN the way
CT carpets, lace curtains. &c, went to decorate
John Sherman's new mansion in Washington
1t is true, Sherman says he scorns to notice
such a charge, but why could he not just a.
well have said it was not true. Mr. Sherman,
as the Chicago Times remarks. sis consplcu.
Gus representative Of the Ohio school Of poll
ticians Entering public life without fortune
some twenty years ago, and, having no known
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-06-04
Poor old Fraud Hayes has had himself in

Poor old Fraud Hayes has had himself in.
terviewed on the Conkling question. He
thinks the chief trouble with ConklIng is that
he is monomaniac on the subject Of his self.
importance-in other words, that he is crazy,
why" SAID the o. f., "he actually had speech
written, and but for Senator Morton would
have delivered it, to overthrow the whole &C,
ton Of the electoral commission that made
me president" If Conkling's madness tends
IN that direction-which Is the direction of
honesty in opposition to the most stupendeus
faaud of the age-lt IL great pity that there
are not many more members both of the SEN
ate and house crazy IN the same way.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-06-04
THE NEW YORK STRUGGLE.

The New York Sun, in its pungent way,
hits off to dot the inner significance of the
great senatorial contest now IN progress st
Albany:
Mr.. Conklng and his friends can now APP
preclate the difference between Garfield and
Blaine and Hayes and Evarts.
We have continually warned the stalwarts
that the little finger of Blaine would be heav-
ier than the lOins Of the fraudulent admins
tratiOn, and that when 1t should be laid upon
them the bones would crack. When we saa
Mr.. Conkling and the imperial leaders osterA
tatiously performing the ratification of thts
treaty of Mentor, we told them that they were
stalking their fortunes upon the hazard of
loaded die; that Garfield was not covenant
keeper; that after they had faithfully perform
ed their part of the contract, Mr.. Blame
would draw his pen through the remainder of
the instrument and make Garfield spit on IT,
He has now done just that; and not stopping
there has so used the patronage of the admin
istration as to detach Mr.. ConklIng's summer
friends in the senate, and make temporary
exile seem better IN his eyes than the constant
humiliation which seemed to be in store 70.
him.
We now again warn Mr.. Conkling that il
he expects any sort of moderation at the hands
of the administration IN the fight at Albany
he will be disappointed. Mr. Blaine means
war When he seized the custom house-the
key to the situation-he proclaimed that pul,
pose once for all The power of patronage
confirmed Robertson 1t swept the majority.
of Republican senators from their natural
place beside Mr.. Conkllng in defense of the
rights of their own body, and 1t will be used
just as remorselessly at Albany, Hayes ana
Evarts have departed into that obscurity
whence Mr. Conkling should never have per
mitted them to emerge. Garfield and Blaine
are a different kind of men. The president
has the immense advantage Of having beer
elected, and the secretary of state knows some
thing about practical politics. Mr. Conklmg's
machine has been allpowerful in this state;
but we shall be able TO judge OF its real force
when it meets another machine running IN an
opposite direction on the same track.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-06-04

The rumors grow stronger every day from
Washington that Blaine has been caught IL
the star route swindles. 1t is now positively
asserted that his mysterious visit to New YORK
week ago had nothing to do with the Conk
ling. Garfield squabble, but had sole reference
to smotherng certain threatened revelations
connecting Blame with the star routes. All
of which may explain why Dorsey and Brady
continue to carry their heads so high.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-06-04

passing tariff laws inimical to English int
ests. 1t may be very nice for America, for
stance, to draw $2OOOOO,OOO of gold year
from England in payment for corn, wheat snd
cotton, but England can afford to pay bigger
prices to other countries tor those articles in
exchange for goods Of her own production,
and will soon be obliged to do so, If the hostile
tariff legislation Of this country is kept up
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-06-04

Mr.. Blaine has already scored at least one
diplomatic success, About year ago, it
will be remembered, the pious Newfoundland
fishermen drove off the crews Of three Ameri-
can vessels that were taking fish in Fortune
Bay on Sunday. Now while gong a-fishing
on Sunday may be very wicked from Sab
bath school point of view, there appears to be
no law of nature "agin" II and no treaty stipu-
lation between America and England. Our
goddess Yankee fishermen therefore put In a
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-06-04

The Joliet Republican regrets the defeat OF
the congressional apportlonment bill before
the late Illinois Legislature because IT left this
district unchanged. Perhaps the reason is
that the editor himself has congressional as
pirations, and, as now constituted, 1t would be
hard TO construct another district in the state
that affords so fine field for ambitious repuh
llcan Intellectual weakllngs.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-06-04

bill OF over 500 900 tor damages, and Eng
land, probably remembering the liberality OF
the famous Halifax award, agreed, on Blaine's
eral in return, and consents to pay the Fortune
Bay Sufferers" $4,000, which is estimated to
bc about twice as much as all the vessels con
cerned are worth, including their catch of q
month of Sundays
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-06-04

That these figures are reliable and have had
their appropriate effect is shown by results:
From October to the end of December, 1879
after the tugs and barges began to run, II
ocean vessels arrived and cleared at New Or
leans, carrying away 2,50l 1888 bushels Of grain
In 1880 the arrival of ocean vessels at New
Orleans ceased to be any longer counted for
they came and went daily, and often two or
three u day, and carried to foreign ports $685.
420 bushels of wheat and 12,046, 63l of corn
Up to May, 1891, the shipments of gram from
New Orleans have about doubled those of the
same months of 1880, notwithstanding the ex.
EXCEPTIONALLY unfayorabe state of the river on
account of ice and floods,
| What is to be the outcome of all thisY In
Belgium, we are told, the government owns a
few principal railroads, which are run on the
most economical plan that safety and efficiency
Of service will warrant, and then all the other
railroads in the country are obliged to conform
in charges for ireights and iales to such rates
as the government roads show to be reasonably
profitable. The tug and barge system on the
Mississippi evidently does away with the nc
cessity of any such regulation In this country.
No Jay Gould, Tom Scott or Vanderbilt can
ever encompass the Mississippi river within
the huge folds of his monopoly. That river
will forever remain such regulator of freight
charges between the east and west ~ no rail
road monopoly of this country can hope to
cope with.
But how as to the channels of freight and
trade hereafter between the east and west? Are
the lakes and Erie canal to be deprived of all
share IN the enormous grain freights OF the
North and Southwest? Are New York aud
Boston and Baltimore to cease being Shipping
ports for western cereals and southern cotton
To foreign ports, and is everything to so down
the river and be loaded for the ocean at New
Orleanss Hitherto the bulk OF Minnesota and
Dakota wheat has either gone in an unmilled
condition by way of Lakes Superior and Erie
! TO Buffalo, or,converted into -four at Minneapo.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-06-04

The predecessor of Fred Douglas, IN his new
position of Recorder of the District of Colum-
bia, says: Il liked the position, and told the
president wanted to keep it, although | was
oyerworked. My office hours were from half
past l2 to quarter of one every other We'd
nesdnX.N
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-06-04

Meantime Gov Cornell has not accepted the
designations of Senators Conkling and Plat;
SO that, whenever the contest tor their re-elec-
ton don't move along to suit him, he car
shut down on it," so to speak, by announcing,
his refusal to accept the slgnations and send
ing the gruntled senators back to their seats
like truant school boys.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-06-04

legitimate income since, beyond the salary of
a congressman or cabinet minister, which. &C.
cording to all accounts Is barely sufficient to
keep soul and body together in Washington,
he is now reputed to be worth some millions"
There IS no pretense, we believe, that Sher'
man owes any part of his big fortune to a
lucky strike in telephone stocks.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-06-04

INTERCHANGEABLE arrivals of emigrantS at
New York during the month of May exceeded
the figures for the same month last year by
81 900, and were the largest for the month IL
the history of Castle Garden. The arrivals
each month since the 1st of January and tor
the corresponding months last year were as
foliOws.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-06-04

The Denver Republican, a stalwart paper,
wants to know what kind of a man the presi
dent is, to start cut for harmony and que;
ride with can of nitro glycerine like Blaine
under the carnage seat
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-06-04

The tornado season opened II Texas on
Tuesday, fearful halstorm with destructive
winds visiting McLennan in the north part OF
Belle county number of Iarm houses were
torn down. one lady was killed and several
men were badly hurt
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-06-04

The Robertson House, the largest hotel il !
Joliet, but of late rather indiferently kept
has been purchased by Mr.. Sllas Rhodes, Of
Shawnee,own, H., for 5000.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-06-04

There is strong protection" boom grow
ing up In England, in favor OF retaliatory
measures against such countries as persist In
Omaha daily bee., 1881-07-02
Notice to Contractors.

Sealed proposals will be received by the
Board of County commissioners OF Douglas
County, Nebraska, until Wednesday, July
9th, A. d., 1881, at 2 o'clock p. M, Tor the
erection Of OF "A court house building at
Omaha, III said county, In accordance with
plans and specifications made by t.. ~.
Myers, architect of Detroit, Michigan, and
now on hle In the county clerks office at
Omaha.
Each bid must be accompanied by a good
and sufficient bond In the sum Of ten thous-
and dollars, $1,000, conditioned that the
bidder VIII enter INTO a contract, and give a
good and sufficient bond, should the contract
be awarded him.
A copy of the specifications will be for
warded upon application TO the county
clerk at Omaha, Neb., and in all cases must
accompany proposals,
or all bids. '
BY order of the Board Of County Commits
OMAHA, Neb., June 25th, 1881.
JOHN II. MANCHESTER.
luheZT-u County Clerk.
Omaha daily bee., 1881-07-02
SA NGAkN
" G'vss Rock islas! assa!"


West for being the most direct, quickest, and
safest line connecting the great Metropolis, CHI.
CAGO, and the EASTERN, NuEru. EASTERN, Sourn
and SorTn .EAsrsRS LINKS, which terminate there.
with KANSAS CTTY, LHAVyNwORru, ArcmsoS,
CoUSciL BLUPPs and OMAHA, the COMMERCIAL
CKNTRRs from which radiate
EVERY LINE OF ROAD
that penctratcs the Continent from the Missouri
River to the Pacific slope. The
CHICAGO ROCK ISLAND & PA.
CIFIC RAILWAY
Is the only line from Chicago owning track into
Kansas, or which, by its own road, reaches the
points above named. No TRANSPORTS ny CARRIAGE!
No MISSING CoNNECTioNsl No huddling In i'll.
ventilated or unclcan cars, as every passenger Is
carried in roomy, clean and ventilated coaches,
upon Fast Express Trains.
DAY CARS of unriNalcd magninconce, PULLMAN
PALACE SLEEPING CANS, and our own world famous
DINING CARS, upon which meals are served Of un.
surpassed excellence, ct the low rate OF SEvENrY.
FlSB CESrs RAclI, with ample time for hoalthful
enjoyment.
Through Cars between Chicago. Peoria. Mil.
waukce and Missouri River Points: and close con.
%nections at all points OF intersection with other
roads.
We ticket do not forget thisl directly to every
place of Importance in Kansas, Nebraska, Black
Hills, Wyoming, Utah, Idaho, Nevada, California,
Oregon, Washington Territory, Colorado, Arizona
and New Mexico.
As liberal arrangements regarding baggage as
any other line, and rates OF fare always AS ow as
competitors, who furnish but q 1.-THE Of the com.
fort.
Dogs and tackle OF sportsmen free.
Tickets, maps and folders at all principal ticket
offices In the United States and Canada.
II. II. CABLE, Z. ST. JOHN,
Vice Prest l. Gen. Gen. Tiki. and Pass'r Agt.
Manager, Chicago. Chicago.
Omaha daily bee., 1881-07-02
FREE OF COST.

DIR. KINGS New Discovery for
Consumption, Coughs and Colds
Asthma, Bronchitis, etc., is given
away in trial bottles free of cost to
the afflicted. If you have a bad
cough, cold, difficulty of breathing,
hoarseness or any affection of the
throat or lungs. by all means give this
wonderful remedy a trial. AS you
value your existence you cannot
afford to let this opportunity pass.
We could not afford, and would not
give this remedy away unless we
knew it would accomplish what we
claim for it. Thousands of hopeless
cases have already been completely
cured by it, There is no medicine in
the world that will cure one half the
cases that DIR. KINGS New DISCOVERY
will cure, For sale by
(6) IsH 4 MCMAHON, Omaha.
Omaha daily bee., 1881-07-02

Carefully examine this Nap. The FrInci
on this road. Its through trains make {
junction points.
Omaha daily bee., 1881-07-02

FRIEND, July Rye is being har-
vested. 1t will yield from fifteen to
twenty bushels. Barley promises a
good crop. Wheat and oats are look
ing well. Corn, although weedy, is
shooting ahead at a fearful rate with
samples standing seven feet high.
Specimens of clover brought in stand
Omaha daily bee., 1881-07-02

A GENTS II you want something 10 sell fast In
n SUMNER Ait the people want ft-prodts big,
write at once to the Boston La mp Co., 66i
lamp burner with the Hyde Wick attachment,
makes kerosene lamps burn evenly. II has TWO
small hand wheels insteads OF osE-each wheel
controlling q corner, or one.hAlf the wick. Sells
~, g, and s3.5o per doz. Retail price, S. al
ana 90 cents. Samples ssnt 10 agents by mail
ii 70 SenIs' l75-l7
Omaha daily bee., 1881-07-02
n Pour on Oil.

l.. p. Follett, Marion, o., states that he
has used THOMAS EoLECTRIc Onfor burns.
and has found nothing to equal it in sooth.
ing pain and giving relief.
Omaha daily bee., 1881-07-02
A SURE
RECIPE
For Fine Compilations.

Positive reliefand immunity
from complexional blemishes
may be found in Hagan's Mag
nOlia Balm. A delicate and
harmless article. Sold by drug
gists everywhere.
1t imparts the most brilliant
and life.like tints, and the clO-
sest scrutiny cannot detect its
use. All unsightly discOlOra-
tiOns, eruptiOns, ring marks
under the eyes, sallowness, red
ness, rOughness, and the flush
of fatigue and excitement are
at once dispelled by the Mag
n0lia Balm.
1t is the one Incompatible
Cosmetic.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1881-09-15
RAILROAD RUMBLINGS.

The Manitoba company are building I'M.
1nense shops, ETC., in St. Paul. Some idea of
their dimensions may be gained from the fact
the stone work will amount to &c, 600 perches.
The round house will have stalls for 40 en-
gines and is $50 feet in diameter; the machine
shop is 1l2 by $40 the blacksmith shop 60
by 100; the two car shops are to measure, one
1OOx25O feet and the other 100000 feet.
All off these will built with reference to the
addition Of extensions toward the city.
Articles of incorporation have been fled in
Illinois for the Chicago ST. Paul & Omaha rail-
way, which 10 to build lines in various 'direc-
tions west and northwest from Chicago.
The names Of the incorporators are not famil-
liar in this locality, and the ultimate destina-
~ indicated. It is an inference, however, that
this is q renewal of an old scheme, for a new
outlet from the northwest to Chicago.
The Wisconsin Central company IL survey
ing line from Penoka station, twenty nine
miles south Of Ashland, east toward the Mon
treal river, keeping on the north side of the
Iron range. Recent discoveries at it's intended
terminus are turning out rich. A fine vein of
iron ore has been stripped for a considerable
distance and the ore is pronounced by experts
to be tirst-class.
The Chicago, Portage & Superior railroad
company is advertising for contracts for the
building of sixty five miles of road from Su-
perior City, Wis, to a crossing of the North
Wisconsin road at or near Chandler. The
Omaha road is also being pushed with vigor.
A large force of men is at work clearing, and a
crew of timber men has arrived to build the
Bear creek and Aminioon bridges.
The gross earnings OF the ST. Paul, Man
itoba rAilroad for the six months ending June
80, asreported to the railroad commissioner,
were 81, >63 ,461.38, and the state tax there
on was 500, 9O3 IS.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1881-09-15
THE DAYS DOINGS.
Condemned from the Most Reliable Tele-
graphic Dispatches up to the Time OF Co
ing to Press with this Side of our Paper.
PRESIDENTIAL PARAGRAPHS.

In an interview with ]. G. Blackburn, M. O.,
Of Kentucky, he said: Il think he is being
butchered by the doctors and that he will die. !"
He then went on to speak in the highest terms
of the president, whom he had known well, and
said: III have served on committees and sub
committees with him very often and have al
ways found him q splendid fellow. AS far as
he is concerned he will do his duty and treat
the south with kindness" "Do you think, in
case Of his death, and after the universal ex-
preston of sympathy from the south, the stall
wart element, if that was to succeed to power,
could have the temerity to treat the south with
unkir dness!" ''Thy certainly they could; if
you would turn the state over to the devil you
could not make it worse than it will be if Gar
field dies"
On Friday, 10th, Col. Rockwell said the
president had partaken Of nourishment freely;
had eaten woodcock, milk porridge and sur
loin with relish. The colonel received q dozen
fine squirrels tonight. DIR. Agnew, who left
on Wednesday last arrived tonight Upon en-
tering the presidents room he said: s'Mr Pres
ident, you have improved considerably since I
last saw you" The president said: "Do you
think eo?" DR.. Hammond left for New York on
the evening train.
In many of the principal cities prayer meet
ings were held during the removal Of the pres.
idont
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1881-09-15

more people persisted in the flames in the VII
;cinity OF Port Hope and Huron city, Vernon
Mills, Charleston and Bad Axe are lying in
aahes. Ri
The villages Of Charleston and Threa are to-
tally destroyed Ubly, Huron county, partially
destroyed; Bad Axe and Verona NILS, Huron
county, are probably burned.
An appeal has been issued for aid by a COM
smittee Of citizens of Port Huron, headed by
Senator Conger, Mayor Carlton aud others.
"a dispatch from Port Austin, at the top Of
the burned Peninsula says the following VIII
slages are burned: Bad Axe, Verona, Forest
Bay, Richmondville, Charleston, Anderson.
Deckersville, Hsrrisonvllle and Sandusky. The
following are partly burned: Port Hope, MIMI
den and Utley. The great loss in the villages
is nothing to that in the country, where losses
are too numerous to be named
The flames in almost all quarters subsidized on
Wednesday. owing to copious rains, and the
3h0rrer in the woods are too frightful for any
pen to portray. The dead were found every
where, very rarely recognizable, and in mos.
cases nondistingn punishable as human beings
Many were mere masses Of burnt flesh, which
fell apart when touched, and very few could
& sex or age be distinguished
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1881-09-15
OVER THE OCEAN.

At Constantinople, Gen. Lew Wallace, in.
his credentials, as United States
minister to that court, said the relations be-
tween Turkey and the United States would be
amicable from their commencement, and be
would endeavor by all means in his power to
make them, if possible, more intimate The
sultan formally made q friendly assurance, and
he afterwards conversed with Gen. Wallace.
and iqnuired with soicitude concerning Presi.
dent Garfield. He asked that his assurances
of sympathy be communicated to the presi-
dent
The London Times, re ferrinC to to the el2c-
ton in Belleville, France, says Gambetta has
become the representative of q large majority
in the country, aud the elections have placed
him almost under the necessity Of assuming
power. This will necessarily result in the form
alton OF ministry with Gambetta at it's
head.
News has been received from St Petersburg
Of the recent arrests there, including the official
of the general staff, who is accused Of advising
the revolutionists Of the precautions which the
government is taking. Although the prisons
are filed with persons accused of political
crimes very few are brought to trial
A st Petersburg dispatch says tits rumored
that Count Ignatief will be created vice chan
cellor OF the empire, Count Shouvalof succeed
ing him as minister of the interior.