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The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-10-01
FOREIGN.

The English people on Mondoy manifested
more feeling in regard to the death of Presi
dent Garfield than had ever been shown on til,
death of the ruler of any other nation Indeed
throughout the country the signs of mourning
were universal Mr.. Jennings, the |Forld cor
respondent, says, Even when the Prince Con
sort, Albert the Good died twenty years ago
no such honors were paid to his memory a!
the English people paid to that of Gen. Gar
field" In London as well as most other Eng
lsh cities the business houses were draped il
mourning and closed during the funeral a
Cleveland 7hr Manchester Guardian appear.
ed with mourning border.
In Paris services in memory of President
Garfield were held at the chapel in Rue dc
Bern, attended by President Grevy and the
diplomatic body. Services were also held in
the Protostent chapel in the Rue st. Honore
at which besides the whole American colony
Say, president Of the senate was present, with
Barthelemy ST. Hilalre, minister of foreign af
fairs; Gen Tarre, minister of agriculture and
commerce, and Cookery, minister of posts
and telegraphs Gen Pittie represented Pres
ident Grevy, and Admiral Peyton the minister
of marine Vernes, president of the Paris
consstory, Rev. NJ. Recollin, and Bishop bud
ley delivered eloquent addresses, recalling
Gen. Garfields intelligence and honesty, and
deep sorrow which had fallen on the widow
and mother.
Similar services were held IN Vienna, Der
lin, St. Petersburg, Cairo in Egypt &c
Ireland seems to be abont rs quiescent as at
any time before the force law and land ACT
were passed. Among the incidents of the
week are recorded desperate attempt at Pal
las Green to blow up with dynamite the resi-
dence of Captain Thomas Lloyd, occupied by
seventeen emergency men and police. Cap
tam Boycott was in Westport Tuesday, and
was followed by a mob and burned IN ef1igy.
Moffatt, the leader Of an Orange expedition in
County LOuth, was fired at and wounded
Several ambulance wagons which left AthlonC
barracks with police ane soldiers for Shannon
bridge, County Westmeath, to protect pro-
cessserver, were obliged to return on account
of the roads being broken up and Instructions
placed upon them.
The Land League will appoint two tenents
in each nelghborhood to assess fair rents
which amount is to be registered by the branch
leagues and no greater sum paid,
Aid John Whitaker Ellis, a Broad street
land agent and surveyor, has been elected lord
mayor of London He is a conservative and q
Freemason.
NJ. Beaumont, formerly principal official Of
the ministry of finance, and Deshaune sub,pIe
feet of Toulon, will proceed to Yorktown as
members of the Lafayette family in addition
TO the others already known.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-10-01
TERRIFIC EXPLOSION.

One of the most terrific explosions ever wit
messed in this country occurred IN the ireigh
yard of the c. r. l. & p. Railroad at Omahs
on Monday. About o'clock IN the afternoon
it was discovered that loaded freight car in
the yard, marked &c. Powder" was on fire
Efforts were made to extinguish the flames
bat being found unavalling, notice was at once
given to all in the vicinity to flee for safety
In ten minutes the explosion occurred, and
though the freight yards were located halt q
mile from the central portion of the city, fully
one-half Of all the window glass in the city
was broken by the fearful conclusion. OF the
scene at and about the freight yard, u Time,
reporter gives this account:
Some thirty or forty freight and passenger
cars are as totally wrecked as If a cyclone had
struck them. All the freight cars were filled
with goods and merchandise for this and 9th,
er points The goods are no doubt more or
less damaged. The cars are totally destroyed.
Nothing is lett Of them of value save the
trucks, and they are doubtless more or less
damaged. Where the car of dynamite was
standing is hole from twenty to thirty feet
deep, and about one hundred and fifty feet in
II.
Lumps Of dirt, weighing from two to five tons,
are scattered about on the ground near the ex.
cavation. The freighthouse, standing two
hundred yards from the exploded car, is fairly
leveled to the ground. The round.house,
which was standing within three or four hun
dred fee. of the car, is also torn down. The
large repar-shOps that stood by the side Of the
car are all gone. Pieces OF iron blown from
the Car were picked up half mile from the
scene of the disaster Men and women half
to three-quarters of mile from the disaster
were knocked down. A perfect panic pre-.
vailed all over the city, and It was some time
before people could learn the real source Of
the tremendous shock. Fortunately nobody
was killed. 1t is reported that several child
rem and women living near the scene of the
explosion are lying at the point of death. The
loss to the railroad company is from 100000
to 100000. Of course, it Is hard to estimate
the damage to the goods that were In the cars
The wreck must be seen TO be realized. The
explosion was sweeping IN its scope.
The explosion was heard for many miles IN
all directions, the general impression being
that an earthquake had occurred A dispatch
mentions that it was heard at Des MONIES, l2l
miles away.
The car Is supposed to have contained dy-
Mantle, though it was marked " Gunpowder."
1t had been shipped from Easton, Pa, to Den
yer, and delivered to the Rock Island road by
the Lake Shore & NJ S. AT Omaha the Rock
Island turned it over to the L. p, but that
road refused to take it. The Rock Island, it
IS understood, will look to the Lake Shore PEG.
pie for indemnity, who in turn will fall back
on the shipper.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-10-01
OUR CLUBBING

We are prepared to club the FREE TRADER
with thefollowing publications, furnishing both
ct the prces named, postage prepaid. The
offer-0pen to old subscribers or new at any
post office IN the county-is the CHEAPEST
EVER MADE IN this county:
FREE TRADER and Chicago Weekly Times. az 90
FRBB TRADER and Chicago Weekly Tribune. 265
FREE TRADER and Chicago Weekly Inter
PAM TRADER and Chicago Weekly Journal 265
PRKR TRADER and st. Louis Republican. .... 2G5
FREE TRADER and s.. Louis Globe. Democrat. 2 90
Fprr TRADER and N. Y. Weekly Herald 9 50
FREE TRADER and american Agriculturist 2 6O
FREE TRADER and Prairie Farmer. ......., 800
FREE TRADER and either Of Harper's publ
Fam TRADRR and Scribner. 475
FREE TRADER and Godey's Ladies' Book go. 800
FpRr TRADER and Phrenolo1ical Journal :. 800
Fprr TIA pRR and 81. NicbOlas ....... $50
TRRE TRADER and Democrats Monthlp..... 3 10
FREE TRADER and LittelPs Living Age..... $40
FRRR TRADER and Western Rural. ......... 300
FRBR TRADER and Moore Rural NeD Yorker $50
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-10-01

Then Cyrus w. Field started to raise a
fund for the benefit of the family of Preslden,
Garfield be proposed to limit the sum to $3.50.
900. Since the presidents death, however,
the subscriptions 50 rapidly mounted above
shat sum that he withdrew the limitation, and
now 1t looks as MT might reach half mil.
lion. The subscriptions on Monday had al
ready reached 100000. In addition to this
sum the family will have $4,000 from the
presidents life insurance policy, and con
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-10-01

The perpetrators Of the Arkansas train rob
berry, an account Of which is given in another
part of this issue, have been arrested, and iul
ly identified. One was captured near Sulphur
Bluff, Tex, and the other two in the Indian
nation. Clark Hull, a conductor on the Iron
Mountain road, had the satisfaction of taking
one of the robbers.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-10-01

Aurora had a CHASTITY case of murder and
suicide on Monday. A man named A. b. Rog
ers an employe in the upholstering depart
ment of the G. b. & G. car works so year old
after living 20 years unpleasantly with his
wife and parting from her, met her on the
street and shot her. inflcting fatal wound
and then shot himself dead
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-10-01

FOR the SIXTH time in the history of the ma
ton, the President of the United States is
without wife to adorn the white house. JEFF
lerson was widower, Mrs. Andrew Jackson
dled Just before her husband was inaugurated.
Martin Van Buren, was a widower. John Ty.
,ei "AS aw'uower for about two years during
MS Term oil Office, and James Buchanan was a
oachelof. Now comes Chester A. Arthur,
WHOSE vic has been dead for more than year
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-10-01

The democrats of Pennsylvania held state
convention at Williamsport on Wednesday,
which was attended by full delegations from
all parts OF the state. Such confidence is
felt in the ability OF the party carry the state
that most animated contest occurred over the
nomination for candidate for state treasurer,
no less than dozen of candidates being pre-
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-10-01

President Arthur went TO New York on
Thursday, accompanied by Secretaries Lincoln
and Hunt and Postmaster General James II
Is said he will refuse to accept the resignation
of p. NJ. Gen. James and Attorney General
McVeagh until the star route prosecutions are
disposed Of
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-10-01

John Sherman, United States marshal for
New Mexico, a nephew of the great financier
was indicted by the federal grand jury at Las
Cruces, for embezzling government funds
and passed night in jail. Why didn't he
bethink himself to put in an extra bill for can
dlee, like his uncles
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-10-01

gress, no doubt, will vote Mrs. Garfield at
least one years pay of the president, $4,000
and his estate, being valued at $4,000, with q
fortune thus of 100000, and the retired life
to which her instincts and afllichon alike
prompt her, Mrs. Garfield and family OF five
children, may be regarded as comfortably pro-
vidpd for
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-10-01

The new comet which came into telescope
view at the same hour when President Gar
field was breathing his last, was first seen by
E. Z. Barnard, at Nashville, Tenn, who will
get the Warner prize of 5000. 1t Is the fifth
comet that has come into view since May Is,
and of this number four have appeared from
almost the same spot in the heavens
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-10-01

George Scoville, OF Chicago, says the Times
will 90 to Washington next week and under
take the defense of Guiteau, his brother. In. law
He states that Guiteau's uncle and two other
relatives died IN insane asylums, while anoth
er IS in the Michigan retreat.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-10-01

The railroad war of passenger rates between
Chicago and the east was supposed week
ago to be nearing its end, as the managers OF
the interested lines were to come together this
week and arrange for cession of hostllities
1t is now announced, however, that the meet.
ing was fruitless and the end of the war IS put
off indefinitely.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-10-01

Dr. Thomas N Cream, the notorious abor
ZIONIST of Chicago, who during most of last
week was on trial at Belvidere, ILL.,, for the
murder of Daniel Scott, was convicted, and
sentenced to the pehitentiary for life.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-10-01

rev, SAMUEL A W. JEwETr, d. d., presid-
ing sidef OF the Joliet District of the Rock
iaver conference Of the Methodist church,
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-10-01

On Saturday of last week livery stable a,
Gilman, H., was burned and fourteen horses
persisted in the flames.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1881-09-28
BI,OOKHEADS,


Parents with dull boys should take
heart. Ounces have done fairly we'll in
t! world after all. Sir Isaac Newton,
ior example, was Ounce, low in his
class and by no means fond of study.
Indeed, if he is to be believed, it is due
to the unamiable spirit of revenge that
he ever learned at all. The "show-boy'
of the school kicked him, and as re.
taliation Isaac determined to beat him
in lessons, and succeeded, but owed his
success both then and in latter life to
perseverance and persistence than to in
herent capacity. Oliver Goldsmith was
pronounced perfect idiot by his school
mates. They never tired OF teasing him,
and he was for years the butt ofridicule.
A wonderful amount Of patience was
needed by the old school dame, who at
last dinned the alphabet into his un-
willing mind. Sir Walter Scott was
nicknamed at school "the great block
head" Hutton, the antiquarian was
slow to learn, and details his experience
in his own way: "My MASTER" he writes
"took occasion to beat my head against
the wall, holding it by the hair; but he
never could beat any leArning into it."
Sheridan was introduced to school by
his mother, with an apology for his
dullness. Adam Clarke's father called
him miserable Ounce" DIR. Chal.
mers was put down by his teacher as an
incorrigible blockhead, and Chatterton,
unfortunate even in his early life, was
dismissed from school by his master as
stoo great fool to learn"
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1881-09-28
OPINION OF A SCOT.

The following story is told OF II Scotch
subaltern at Gibraltar He was one day
on guard with another officer, who, I'm
fortunately, fell down precipice foul
hundred feet, and was killed. Non-mil
itary readers should understand that in
the guard reports there is small ad'
dendum-. viz, IN. B. Nothing extra
ordinary since guard mounting" The
meaning of which is that, in case any,
thing particular should occur, the officer
commanding the guard is bound to men
ton it. Our friend, however, said moth.
ing about the accident that had occurred
to his brother officer and, some hours
after, the brigade major came to his
quarters on the part of the officer com
manding, with the report in his hand, to
demand an explanation. The brigade
major, addressing him, said, "You say,
sir, in your report, N. B.-Nothing ex-
tmordinary since guard mounting when
your brother officer, on duty with you,
has fallen down precipice four hundred
feet and been killed" "Weel, sir" re-
piled he, 81 dinna think there's ony-
thing extraordinary in it ava if he's
faun doom q precipice four hundred feet
and not been killed, should hae thought
it very extraordinary indeed, and wad
hae put it doom in my report"
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1881-09-28
THE NEW W0BBLE,

There is no sadder result OF this NAL
adv than its effect on the walk, which
appears to bo extraordinary and almost
indescribablc. Before getting under
way the figure is erect and graceful
enough, but Immediately there comes q
change. The knees appear to bend q
little; ar the same moment the body
seems to sink slightly into the hips, and
one perceives by the movement that the
ladys form owes something to the
hustle. Tho shoulders are then thrown
forward and the elbows back, the fore.
arm, meanwhile being horizontal and
the arms dangling like the forepaws Of
those singular animals the kangaroos
The head = then tossed back in such
wise that the chin attains prominence
evidently not intended by nature the
eyes are opened toa certain extent, thus
giving q set and earnest expression to tho
face; a fixed and highly indicated smile
lust moves the corners Of the mouth
and displays whatever dimples may lie
in the cheeks, and the young woman is
ready for her promenade. .
The transformation above described
is almost instantaneous, but its various
steps are clearly marked and easily OBJ
served as they succeed each other. This
result achieved, a decided movement
animates the form; it rises slowly upon
the toes of the French boots, teeters
lightly thrice, and moves down the
street in series OF wobbly, serpentine
undulations, which set the head to bob
bing backward and forward and to the
right and left like one of those ingeni-
ous dolls which the Chinese delight to
manufacture The spino bends, shakes
and quivers, and the arms flap irregu-
lally in and out, much after the fashion
of chicken whose wings are wet
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1881-09-28
EASY DICTIONARY.

A Golfers wife, from one OF the pit
villages of the neighborhood, lately
entered booksellers shop in Sunder-
land, and requested the proprietor to
change dictionary her son had bought
on the previous Saturday, "for an easy
one" The book she produced, and
said it was toe full of hard words for
her son to learn, but if she could get
an easier one it might suit him. As for
herself, she said land her appearance in
dicated the truthfulness of her state
menD, she never had any need for such
n thing, and she wondered why people
made books so hard that nobody could
read them. In vain the bookseller in
timated that he had no easier diction-
aries, and the good wife went away.
huffed that she could not get what she
wanted. English Paper.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1881-09-28
WORsHlPPIsG EVIL sPIRIfa,

An interesting account Of the felllis,
on leyil-wOrshipers, Is given by Maj,
1rOtteE British consul ioi kurdlstan, IN
a memorandum On the different races
inhabiiing lis consular district, just
printed, IN the further correspondence
respecting the condition VI the popnla'
tions Of Asia Minor aud Syria, The
deyil-worshipers are, says Maj, Trotter,
a very curious race Of people who arc
scattered IN groups over the consular
district to tho number oi about 10000,
They universally speak the Kurdish
Language, They are believed by some
10 DO tie remnants Of tho lost tribes !
aud Syfiae manuscript, Of date 4, D.
1858, contains the statement that tho
Yezidls, OF Izidls, arc OF Hebrew de-
scent The great peculiarly about them
IA their religion, which is based on the
idea that there arc two spirits Of nearly
hut mol quite equal power, tho good and
the owl, Al present tho good u In the
ascendant, Int tho turn Of the Other may
some day come aud a. the good spirit
thHHDt llplH wv HpfNi' I'""''sy W.
them harm, II " In their opinion OF
great importance 10 DO on good terms
with the evil spirit, Their religion.
however, Ia mixed mp with several forms
oi Christianity, aud they use, II IL said,
tho right Of baptism and make the sign
Of the cross, Their religious center II
at Sheikh All, q village In tho noun
tains east II MOSul Tho Yezidis have
been accused by the sunnite MoslemS.
who detest aud dcspiSe them. OF the
preparation OF the most horrible orgies
during their Nocturnal ceremonies but
Mai. Trolter believes the accusation to
be false Those who know them best,
speak rather iayoably OF them than
otherwise. They are, however famous
irecbrootors, Tho Turkish officials, in
order TO bring them under conscription,
insist that they are Moslems, and enrol
them ~ soldiers in the districts where
thcy arc mostly found. Their habits
arc generally agricultural and pastoral
and tho dcyil.worshipcrs, whatever may
DO their merits, are not q wcll'edneated
vace,--!SL Jdmes's Gazette.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1881-09-28
TRoUBIE FROM ONE COW.

AT the meeting of the New York
Farmers club recently, q resolution
was introduced by the President, DR.. A.
S. Heath, calling upon Congress to en-
act law upon which measures could he
taken to eradicate pleuro pneumonia in
cattle. Dr. Heath said that two billions
of property in live stock was involved.
Unless the disease was overcome 1t
might raise the price OF stock to one
dollar pound "Few, he added,
can afford steak at that price"
DR.. Fuller Walker said that in Eng.
land that the loss by cattle disease had
averaged $4,000, 900 a year for thirty
nine years. This accounted in part for
the agricultural depression there. The
disease had originated in this country
from Brooklyn COW, and was now
prevalent over the Atlantic seaboard.
DR.. Pasteur of Paris had found that
vaccination was a preventive. If the
disease should once reach the wide
plains of the West it would be impos-
sible to eradicate it.
Orlando B. Potter opposed a govern
ment commission. He thought the
states able to care for the matter them
selves. and that if this system was con-
tinued the country would be overun
with an army of commissioners.
DIR. r. w. Finley, veterinary sur
geon, denied that pleuro-pneumonia
was malignant disease, and said it
was wrong to slaughter the infected ami
mails.
DIR. Hopkins, another veterinary sur
geon, said that all infected animals
should be slaughtered, for even if cured
they might carry the infection.
The resolution was adopted
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1881-09-28
KNOWING MAN.

The vicar of a little village in Lincoln:
shire, being desirous of having choir
in his church, called together few OF
the villagers, among whom was gener-
al dealer-a very important, self-sufti'
cient individual, notorious for his long
winded political arguments. The party
met. and all went of with eclat. One
evening the piece selected was "Luthers
Hymn" When it was concluded, the
vicar remarked that it was curious
thing that the author of it had never
been discovered whereupon the person
mentioned before remarked that che
knew who was the author. and could
show it in black and white etc. The
matter passed over and few days
after, the clergyman happening to be in
his shop, and remembering what he had
said, reminded him of his promise. Mr..
- fetched the book, and turning,
with triumphant smile, to the hymn,
pointed to the word "Anon," in the
corner, remarking that he knew "Mr.
Anon to be the composer Of great
many very capital pieces"
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1881-09-28
STRANGE FOOD.

Lieut.. d. A. Lyle, U. S. A., has eaten
grasshoppers out West, and he lately read
a paper before Springfield science
association praising them as food.
Although they naturally have disa.
greeable smell, he says that when cooked
they become pleasant to both smell and
taste. no disguise being required. They
can be eaten after boiling two hours,
with pepper and salt, and thus prepared
are not easily distinguished from beef
broth. Fried in their own oil they have
q nutty flavor. One drawback to their
use as food is the bones in the small
locusts, though in the larger ones these
can be easily removed. Some residents
of st. Louis have tried dinner Of these
skilfully prepared, and liked it very well,
and after becoming accustomed to the
flavor they are considered desirable
addition to the bill of fare by some.
These locusts feed on vegetable matter,
and so may properly be classed as clean
food.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1881-09-28
VALUABLE WIFE.

Lady Florence Dixie is plucky help
mate for her husband, with whom she
camps out and cooks her rations in the
Transvaal, whittier she went rs CORES.
pondent OF the London Morning Post.
Not long ago ago Boer who made
large boasts of his skill with the rifle
was challenged by her to trial of skill.
The Boer shot with Martini-Henry rifle,
Lady Florence with Winchester, at
bottles placed at distance of 200 yards.
To the delight ofall the onlookers, Lady
Florence hit the bottles one after the
other as if they were elephants, and the
Boer went away signally defeated, and
with the conviction that IL all English
men can't shoot, some Englishwomen
can.