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The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-07-16
Nelp advertisements.

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Rural Happenings.

FALL RIVER, July l3.-Editor Free Ira-
der: desire to say few words IN regard to
a statement made IN your issue of the 9th 10y
Mr.. G., T. Farrell against me and previous as
SCISSORS of this town. In The first place. Mr.,
Farrel's statement is false, and he knows It,,
and SO does every citizen OF the town The
property he alludes to Is feed ant provisions
He insisted that every bushcl of corn or feed
should be listed, flour, potatoes, meat, canned
fruit, &c. Fall River never had an ASSESSOR
70 small minded as Mr.. Farrell. That is what
he calls law and justice. was elected as,
SCISSOR and took the report of the State Board
of Equalization as my guide Mr.. Farrel SAID
that was too low, 1t must be raised. lie came
70 the meeting of the town board to complain
that some Of his neghbors were assessed too
low, but did not make his complaint ON ac.
count of notifying them at church on Sunday
He talked about three hours so loud that the
neighbors could hear him, and still did not
change the opinion of the town board-the su-
pervisor and town clerk-who pronounced my
assessment Just and right. have returned
nv books ind blanks The supervisors Will
attend TO their business and Mr.. Farrell Will
have to submit to il. | will not degrade my
self further to answer his abuse of me and pre-
vjous assessors OF the town.
ALBERT RICHARDSON.
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DRESS and BUSINESS SUITS.

Spring suddenly than it did this
at
spring
the various our labor got WORKING smoother toe
from S to $50 No. thatl not 90 to
spring This is anyhow clothes better 1oe than
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-07-16
Fall River.

FALL RIVER, July Notwithstanding
the severe warm weather of the past week we
are still 10 existence and reading the old FREE
TRADER with pleasure, beneath the shade of
the spreading oak and keeping cool with the
and of the largest tau which fortune can lend
us.
We think since the glorious ram Of ycser
day that some Of the finest crops OF corn that
have ever been raised will be raised IN this vi
cnlty; farmers are all wearing smile.
Our neighbor, Mr.. Arch Galloway, has been
dangerously Ill, threatened with cholera, but
with the aid of some OF the skilliul physicians
Of Marselles he Is fast recovering.
Mrs j. Pussy was surprised and greatly
pleased last Sunday by visit from her cousin
Dr. Fowler, from Springfield, that she had not
seen for years. who came down from Chicago
with Judge Dickey, of Ottawa. Both gentle
men think we have fine surrounding coun-
try
Our church and Sunday school are in fine
running order, which is due to good minis
ter and one of the best Sabbath school super
intendents we have ever had. 1t is suggested
that we drop our Sunday school until cooler
weather and give our faithful Organist, who Is
looking q little tired, something of a rest.
Mr.. Amasa Wilson is still. living on his
floating island in Minnesota, raising blue
beans and onions and frying his own ham and
eggs. We sympathiAe with him in his soil.
tude.
Mr.. Charles Hanna has applied for the
Hickory Point school. We wish HIM success.
Mr. Hanna is an excellent teacher
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-07-16

The monetary conference closed its sitting
in Paris on the Sth INST. by the unanimous
adoption of resolution, proposed by the
French and American delegates, expressing a
desire that negotiations shall be opened be
tween the states which participated in the con.
ference, and that the conference be summoned
to meet on April IL, 1882, to settle details of
the monetary convention, which it was hoped
would be concluded by that time. The Ameri-
cans in Paris are unanimous in regarding the
results Of the conference as highly satisfactory,
as the bi-me,allic propaganda is everywhere as
suming increasing proportions, while mono
metallIsm makes no converts. That England
is uneasy is evidenced by offers not only to
meet halfway in keeping part of the metallic
reserve IN silver, but To contne the Indian
standard to silver The Americans claim that
the manager of the Bank Of England Is the
latest convert 10 bi.metallism.
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The Telephone.

When lovely maidens skip the gutter"
To show their stockings, be it SAID,
What man whose heart won't give ilutter,
Especially If the hose be red.
-Ol Chy Derrick.
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The fire department deserve comphmenting
on their work OF Tuesday, and especially Engi-
neer Clegg. The Swift" in charge of Maj
Clegg was worked as 1t never was before. The
fireman was quite horrihed 10 see the steam
above 90 lbs. and hear orders to Fire up"' 1t
had never been so before: Yet the machine
worked beautifully at 100 lbs. for nine straight
hours, and was ready for and did several hours
work next day The department have jewel in
Mai. Clegg.-Seven sire ANS were thrown from
the two steamers during the hercest part Of the
blaze.
When are those necessary houses to be bults
Our new glass. blowers and ether men about the
factories must have places TO live in; and there
are no houses for them as yet. DIR. Harris re-
ports enquiries every day for houses; aud on
Thursday had to send away three men who want.
ed to buy small places, because the houses could
not be had.
Touching the Ind, Ill. & Iowa railroad. men:
ton OF which Is made elsewhere, under the head
an the Offices" the Streator Free Press says,
we presume on proper authority: The new
railroad spoken of yesterday Is much nearer an
assured fact than many OF our readers are pre-
pared to believe. A conference has been held
between the projectors OF the Indiana, Illinois
and Iowa road and the Plumbs, who were max
ing preparations for new connecting line. The
result Of the conference was that the Plumbs
have abandoned their scheme for the immediate
present and work will be commenced at once
on the new road between kankakee and Srea-
tor. Contrary, however, to our kankakee dis
patch the direction OF the l., ]. K l. road, after
reaching Streator from the east, Is yet to be de.
termincd. The Free Press ventures the predic-
ton that instead OF It's taking the course marked
out to the Mississippi in Mercer county, it will
take northwesterly direction, taking the place
of, and being In effect, what the Plumb road was
intended 10 have been-n connecting line be-
tween the Wabash and Northwestern systems.
1t also developed that the l., !. ~ /. company
have sufficient financial backing to enable them
to carry the scheme through without delay.
Some unimportant devlatlons will be made from
the old Kankakee grade, but that will be, sub
stantially, the road. bed" TIE Kankakee "a.
zette Of the l4th tells us: "Thc right Of way has
been secured to an extent which places the com
pany beyond any serious difficulty, at least In
Kankakee county, Iron.laying commenced at
Momence last Monday, and 1t is told us that In
20 days the line between that place and Kanka.
kee will be ready for the cars This 10 certainly
very good news party Of eleven left Ksnka-
kee Monday morning 10 re.suryeY and set the
grade stakes along The roadbed west OF Kanka
kee The contract for laying the ties and iron
between Kankakee and Momence. and for build
ing the bridge "a Howe truss) across the Kankn
kee river has been let TO the Iowa Construction
company, represented here by Mr.. Shaw. The
railroad company expect 10 have their line Int,
the coal fields west OF Dwight within 90 days"
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adj usted with view to equality In the public
burdens; and deploring the recent attempt
upon the life of the president and extending
to him and his family "our deepest sympathies
and earnest hopes tor speedy recovery"
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-07-16

THE STORM KISG.-Most OF Iowa ami part
Of Minnesota suffered severely on Sunday last
by Il fearful thunder storm. /, seems to have
prevailed over more than half Of tie state
from Des Moines northward. Serious damage
was done to railroads, numerous bridges and
miles of track being swept away. No trains
on any OF the roads cenerlng at Des MONIES
were able to leave that place on Monday The
principal sufferers among the railroads how.
ever, appear to have been the Chicago & Rock
Island, the Chicago & Northwestern, and the
Iowa Central. Among the cities IN the state
Marshaltown was the heaviest sufferer, where
the storm eliminated early on Monday morn
ing IN waterspout, raising Linn Creek to
such height as to put a'loat about forty
houses occupied by families, some of them be
ing swept down stream. Fortunately, SO far
as learned no lives were lost. The kethum
wagon works and Stoddsrd saw.mills were al.
most destroyed, and the following properties
badly damaged: Hawkeye oilmllls, Mon.
mouth sugar refinery, cannlng.works, Iowa
barb wire, Kreutzer's furniture factory, gas
works, Bowman's brewery, Sleight's elevator
foundation, Iowa Central machine shops, Iowa
Central offices, buildings, stock yards, and coal
office of the Iowa Central and Chicago and
North western depot buildings and the Bowler
house, where the water reached the windows
of the first story. The Chicago and North.
western and Central tracks were four feet I'm.
der water at the depot. The Northwestern
bridge went out cast of the city, and the Cen,
trail bridge at that point is disabled.
At Des MONIES on Tuesday the Raccoon
river rose suddenly until South Des Moines
was under water and sixty families were drIv.
en- from their houses The track Of the G., B.
Il O., which alone remained uninjured on
Monday, had to succumb and the city was cut
off from all communication with the east until
late on Wednesday. 1t was the severest rain
storm IN the history of that section of country
At WInona, MINI, hailstones fell two inches
in diameter, breaking thousands of windows
cyclone struck the machineshOps of the
Chicago and Northwestern railway, and com
pletely demolished the repair shop and un.
rooted part of brick car.shop.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-03-23
THE WEST VIRGINIA LEGISLATURES
Had II n Member Like tho one Herein
Described?

Had II u Member Like the one Herein
Described?
From the Detroit Free PreIs,
lie gave oil the hsckmen at the Union
depot stnndoff, brushed tho bootblaCks
right and left, and shouldered bis sixty
pounds Of baggage and started up Jefferson
avenue in search Of tavorn. He was a
right up and down man, and he wanted to
strike a tavern where they had an old.
fashioned boiled dinner.
"Just come in from lansing" he OBJ.
served, az he fell In with q pedestrian.
"Dld, chi Been out to the Legislature?"
"You bet | have. I'm not q member,
but l made things hum ont there oil the
same"
"Have bill7"
"Not exactly. / come down from
county to take the kinks out OF our mem.
Der. He YVES sailing in With high head,
and II I'd waited ten days niger he'd have
been boosting the whole State. What dye
thinkP"
II dunno"
HE wouldn't speak to me when I frat
got there Think OF thatI Up home
there we rated him about No. 4, and sent
him down to Lansing more because none
oil tho rest OF rs could leave, and he
wanted 10 cut me colder'n a wedge. What
do you thlnk?"
"Rather mean"
"You bot But lowered his nose a bit.
We'd heard how he was pranCing around
and putting on airs and making out that
he run our county, and few OF us 90.
together and wrote him letter. Itdidn't
seem to do any good, aud 30 We got 10.
gether again and they sent me down TO
put on the Curry.Comb."
"And YOU did,"
"Didn't II He'd put In about a dozen
bills affecting our country, and mashed
all but two. He had laid himself out for
six or seven speeches, and | mashed all
but one. The first day | got there he was
supporting motions and moving 10 amend
and strike out, but l mighty soon let him
understand that no s1Ch chat passed for
oratOry with us. He tried to buildoze me
OF first, but when he found that his con.
sttuenCy had got after him be Gained
down. He'd been Iooling with the game
law, and had got mixed up with dogtax
bill, and a paw.log law, and bill about
inland fishing, and I don't know what
else. l took him out behind the State
House, and says +: Now, boy; YOU
squat Your constituents demand that
you calm right down. We don't want
no Cicero In ours, and we won't have H.
We cent you down here 10 do little quiet
work, and not 10 pranCe around and i'm.
agine you've got Patrick Henty's hat on.
We humble people take kindly 10 loQ.
houSes aud johnny cake, and we don't 20
q cent on big. words and long flourisheg,
That's what | told him, and he Calmed."
"Did, eh7n
''You bet lie did and II we hear any.
thing more about bis rising 10 explain HE
vote on the lOg.tax, or moving to recon.
nit the muOk'tatbill, our county won't be
no place iot him to return 10. This IL the
place, eh7 Well I'll fodder up and then
take the train for home"
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-03-23

circulation, and then to withdraw the
bonds on which said circulation was based
This step is prohibited by the bill that
passed Congress at the late session. The
banks are compelled to retire their own
circulation over their own counters when
they want to quit, process that might in
yolye years Of delay. Hence a number OIL
these banks, Reeing no profit in the bust
ness, determined to get out Of 1t before the
bill became law, and hence their action
while the bill was pending. Because oil
this action Voorhees, determined yesterday
to eudeavor to use the present executive
session Of the Senate for party purposes.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-03-23

The census bulletin giving the relations
Of native and iOreigu.born persons In the
several States and Territories, Rmpli6ed
by a little figuring, shows that during the
last decade the lOreign'born population oil
the United States increased only l,llO,l3l
about 20 per cent. In 1870 the number
wss 5,5G7 go; in 1880 1t WAS 6,677, 500. The
number Of nRtive.blrn was 5000, l42 In
1870, and in 1880, 43, 475, $3.50. In only three
States and two Territories does the foreign
BORN population exceed 80 per cent OF the
whole. These are, States-Calii0Tnia
Minnesota and Nevada; TERRITORIES
Arizona and Dakots, The per Centage Is
largest in Nevada, where, on the basis oil
100000 natives the ioreigu'born persons
would number 700lG, In eight States and
Ave Territories the per Centase OF foreign
born Is below so and above %. The
States are-Colorado, Connecticut, Massa'
clusstts, Michigan, Nebraska, New York,
Rhode Island and Wisconsin; the Terrific
ries-Idaho, Montana, Utah, Washington
and Wyoming. New-YoIk has 81 ,2S4 for
eign, to each 100000 native born inhabl-
tants. Nine States md tho District oil
Columbia, have less than % and more than
10 per cent Of foreign born residents. The
States are Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri,
New Hampshire, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsyl.
yaaia and Vermont. Tho Territory oil New
Mexico and these states-DelawRrC, In.
diana, Florida, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mary
land, Maine, Texas ana Yves! Virgins,
have q foreign born population greater
than 2 and less than 10 per cent OIL
their whole, while in Alabama, Ar.
kansas, Georgia, MississipPi, the Carroll
mas, Tennessee and Virginia the foreign
born element Is less than per cent OF the
whole population. Indeed, with the ex.
ception OF Florida, Louisiana, Missouri
and Texas the Southern States are praCtl.
CallY without foreign born residents. The
mining and agricultural States, it will DO
noticed, have TIE greater number Of for
eiguers. In the mining States, Irish, Ger.
man, French, Canadian and Welsh ma.
tionalites predominant; in the agriculture
al States Germans and sCaudinavianH
most abound. In thirty.one States and
Territories natural increase outran immi'
grafton during the decade, while in twelve
the reverse was the cEse. In tho country
as whole there has been relative de.
crease OF the foreign element to the ex'
tent of / $40 to 100000 OF native born, that
is to say, the natural growth has exceeded
to that extent the increase by immigra'
finn. =
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-03-23

Tho total amount oil national bank cir
culation now outstanding is SS46, 7S4,62S
The total amount OF legal tender notes
now on deposit by banks reducing circu'
lation, banks in liquidation and iusolyent
banks, ia S3s 92l, lO4, leaving the net
amount Of circulation Of the national banks
now outstanding, which ia secured by
United States bonds, 1907 slS,524. The
total amount Of United States bonds to se-
cure circulation is S347 GS2 900, OF which
$40 9SS, $50 are skies Of 1881, $l5s.47O, 100
funded tiveg, and slS79OOOOO fours and
four and halls.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-03-23
SEALED PROPOSALS.
CLEFG's CPFicE,
BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS " ono COUNTY
MHEELING, W. Va, March 10, lSsi.

1
seAled proposals. will be roc lived at thI, oae,u,u
Thursday, Sst inIt. At u O'Clock w., ior M M
ordered by the Board d County Comni.,obg, n
thRir Ie'slOn on the 7th Inst a' lOlloWS,viI
On hnt division, q, q, 4 +. road, 90 cube ,tl
masonry, G90 cubic yards excavation, SOO CuOt I'M
macAdAmiElnR.
On second division, @. c. 4 p. rofd Lon ,s.
yards excavation, GOO cubic yards mRCadAmItE
On Middle Wheeling Greek. lower ,nd, i,aGuls
yards merchandising
On river, 'Ilenn'a Run and Short CrttE, 10 sM
yaIdS masonry, 500 CUBIC yads tICAyillyh
On hTst dlvlil6n ". " u 4 h. pIke 10 t.A
yards matchmaking, 1850 cubic yards rip RAP
On Peninsula and Fulton road, OCulle JUdinL
| sonny, 400 cubic yards mACadAmlZinR
On ChApel Run to Sptlpgpr'S, lOO cubic y,riint
sonry, 1000 cubic yards excavation, 800 cube JUt
nIAcidamiElps
gonTyt 200 cubic yAld' excavation KPllyI, RifnIi
Dementg Cemetery, 1900 cubic yards 1cIil6h
On Mc0Eaw's Run, 60 cubic yards masonry, la
cubic yards txcav Walton
On Middle Wheeling Creek Eosd, uppF ssi, pA
cubic yards masonry, 100 cubic yards excavation, ~
cubic yards matchmaking.
River from Glsn's Run 10 Brooke county linz, ia
cubic yards excavation.
Rice aud WeIdemanS 1900 cubic ylrlI uub
lion.
HOuey's Pointio Il. y. 4 . roaJ, 100 cubic ylfil
masonry, 1900 cubic yards excavation.
| httupk u0uht NIL bUUCuUlc yhFla mAtAlAnlhIl
South Fork Short Greek, 1850 cubic yudI iatp
ton.
W &E. q. road, 600 cubic yard, micIdiaIdil
500 cubic yards excavation.
Wet Liberty aud HerVey'S, 1900 cubic yIrdiub
vation.
Battle Run, 90 cubic yards mnoDry, 2nu a
yards excavation.
I'm Grove to BoggI I'LL, 90 cubic yards H,NEI
5000 cubic yards excavation,
GllleSpis5 Hun to Ridge Road, so cube yEb
| excavation.
Laidley's Run 10, Kldds MIL, 10 cub. Ira
Inasonrv, 1900 cubic yards excavation
Peters Hun, 80 cubic yards masonry, lNQHa
yards excavation.
RcilJb and Dtlaplllnb, 90 cubic yarlI niEui
| 1000 cubic yards excavation.
StOri Creek, main stem, 100 cube JaflS miptiI
1900 cubic yards eIcavA lOn TutSI work 10 WIZ
hams, 200 cubic yards excavation,
Warden and Wa1dle'S Hun, GOeubIe yards nN0i'ii
1900 cubic yards excavation.
Above quantities are RppTOklmittd and lliht
| charge Al the pleasure oil the BOSrd. All nbiG
will 10 Of the BRnond.rlam Prices Tor Gltila
must 10 diItinct for earth, loose rock s'i h'l
Bios must be separate IT each road, ard mlf ~
nams Of eFoh bidder and member Of ffa ,lIii't
with postotice address, and mus inC ulC tbe utiM
recO nmendAtlOn Of at least two persons atceililtN
the Board As 10 the character and qnsll6tAtoa dlh
bidder The standard Of IN, RAur' nebt W ~ ttad
Of work will DO tho yard Of q cubic i'tL ltdp
proposals., "pTOpOsalS for County Work 10 hlNn
4th Of April, 1881" ThN Board fe,eVeS The rGhl
Z 1eCt any or all bids Forany information 'PPI
this Office.
BY order oithe Board ..
CHAS. II. ptIrERs, Clerk Comml''0ony5;.
W. G, BM1TH, Comfy Engineer, EIS
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A DEMONSTRATORS NOTICE,

HSving bern appointed Administrator olA,,,..
Of J, ". Berry, deceased, al prrsonI Ebo1is, ~, NIX
selves indebted 10 the estate will pIta,e r1ii sbga
lie, and all persons having claimA viii plss, t,,,.'
them 10 me properly Ger lied TO- IAlooh,r ' .SI
the business heretofore carried on by ibS j.,, a
known as tho kopO and tOrdAgs bnsipfs tiIS,t ",
tiTn, with the good will ttSmC, or viii ,e \, n.
lionad stock oUntltS Of Ror0 TWlnes, ComL M.
Pitch, 0akum, Blocks, b rEing, Horse and ! nv
CoyerS, Fishing Tackle, Gum and Leather B,D K,
steam Packing, FirO Brick aud Tile. Aim, ,s,,
goods will DO sold a. cost 10 ClrSe up the hu,StH
mIi5 W. b, hUMES, AdnIpLtrb,