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The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-06-24
OUR CLUBBING

We are prepared TO club tie FREE TRADKF
with thes,llowing publications., furnishing botf
1t the prices named, postage prepaid. The
offer-open to old subscribers or new at any
post office IN the couesy-is the CHEAPEST
xvxa MADE in this county:
FEE TRADER and Chicago Weekly Times. 81 OF
FREE TRADER ana Uniosgo Weekly Tribune. 800
tRRs TRADER ana Chicago Weekly Inter-
FREE TRADER and Chicago Weekly Journal. 2.61
TREp TRADER and 81. Louis Republicde 265
FREE TRADER and 81. Louis Globe Democrdt. 2.65
FREE TRADER and n. Y Weekly Herald. 80. $50
FREE TRADEx and Ansericda AgricIltarist. 200
FREE TRADER and Prairie Farmer. ......... 800
TRBE TRABRR ane either OF Harper's publ
FREE TRADER ard .Scribner. ................ 4.75
FREE TRADER AID Godey's Lddies' Book 49,. 800
FREE TKkDER and chronological Journal. ... 800
FREE TRADER and 81. Nicholas. ............ 800
FREE TRADER and Democrats Hossthlt $40
FREE TRADER and Litte!rs Living Age...... $50
FREE TRADER and Western Rurdl. .......... 800
FREE TRADER and Koo-e's Rural Mem Yorker $50
FREE TRADER and Chicago Wskly HerdM... 2.35
FREE Trader and Peoria W. Democrat. Il .25
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-02-09

,hrs reached exceeds $500, 900. 600, a
vast sum 10 be added in one year 70 lhe
general wealth. Taking all the Items
named n has been a year that iuiiy
aonals the average in the production OF
wealth. But this only partially pres
ents our prosperity. In spite oil high
protective tariff, manufactures nave
prospered, and the exports OF mahulao s
tured products have been very larse'
OF agricultural implements our exports
were nearly s8 100000; clocks and their
narts. 81 5000 manufactured cotton
goods. SIC, 0OO,0 900; articles in iron ana
Steel sl3. OOO. 600; leather and Its man
nractures. s7,O0O,000; musical instrn'
ments. 81, 800 900; refined mineral OIL
$50, 600, 900; ordnance and stores, sl,'
100000; wood and its manufactures,
l7,OOO,000. These represent surplus
products, and above what'was hecessa,
~ for the supply OF our needs ana
were sold at lucrative prices: ADDED
10 these are our exports OF fruits ana
living animals. OF the latter our ex-
ports have aggregated Sl7,OOO'Ooo, while
bread and breadstufis have been export port
ed to the aggregate of S3OO,ooo,ooo'
Over 50 900, 900 worth OF fruit has been
sent abroad to supply the deficiencies
of Europe, and also S22O,oOO,ou0 OF
cotton to keep theirlooms busy Cot
ton seed, lint'seed and other seeds IN
natural or manufactured form, have
been exported to the amount OF S5oo'-
600, 900; while bacon, butter, cheese,
lard. etc, to the amount Of Sl30,0oo'ooo
have Teen shipped abroad. Tobacco
to the value of $20,0C0,OCO has been
exported. Taking all our exports a
grand total of nearly $9OO,OOO,0OC was
reached in 1881. This exceeded our
imports by nearly $500 600. These
figures may be extended toinciude other i
items, but assuming that the production
of such large amounts OF wealth ana
the export of SO much, after supplying
cur own needs, is evidence OF sound
prosperity, we reach the conclusion
that the conditions for panic DO not
usually fail when they are making
money.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-02-09
The Upns Trse,
money.

No tree has been the subject of SO
many ridiculous fables as the upas,
and till quite lately they were popular
w believed On the faith of Dutch
surgeon named Foersche, it was related
that the upas flowed from a unique and
singular tree, which vegetated in the
midst of. a frightful solitude in Java.
"the valley of the death" According
to this traveller, no living creature could
resist the poisonous vapors which II eH-
hailed. and for three or four leagues
around only dead bodies and skeletons
Of men and animals were to be met
with. The birds themselves which
yentllred into the surrounding air fell
to the ground as if struck by lightning
Criminals consigned to capital pun
-ishmentalone essayed the task OF "rest-
ing its Internal produce from the tree.
Many tried the perilous journey, but
very few returned from it.
We owe the refutation OF this tabul-
GUS narrative to Keschenault, a recent
French traveller. This traveller noticed
that the famous poison is furnished by
two species of trees which grow amid
the forest of Java. So far from exer-
cising deleterious influence upon all
that surrounds them, they are encom-
passed by luxurious vegetation, while
birds, lizards and insects lend ANNA
nation to their boughs and foliage.
The learned Frenchman, while examln-
ing one of these trees, which he had
cut down, had his face and hands cov-
cred with emulation flowers from the
broken branches, yet he experienced
no bad effects. But when the upas
Juice is introduced by means of pune
ture, the effect is rapidly fatal. Eight
drops injected into the veins OF horse
will kill it instantly.
The story of the valley of the
DEATH" probably, had it origin in the
fact. that there was some locality in this
volcanic country where carbonlc-acld
gas poured out from crack in the earth
in such quantities as to produce the
fatal effects attributed to the tree. The
native Javans use the juice as an arrow
poison, prepared much the same as the
South Americans make their a0OorGrG,
with which their blow-gun arrows are
envenomed. The upas tree belongs to
the bread-fruit family, and grows in a
beautiful symmetrical shape, to the
height of 100 feet or more.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-02-09
Abeut The Leitcllfield Cave.

A CODY of the Grayson AdUocGte
published at Leitchtield, KY, was sent
to us about month ago, together with
a letter written by Mr.. Joseph Mulhat-
ten, of Louisville wish the expectation
that some notice would be taken OF
their contents. They profess to des-
cribe q large cavern with immense
halls, rivers swarming with blind fish,
great pyramid, u Masonic alter, sar'
cophaei covered with Masonic emblems,
and containing mummies, two OF which
the letter writer claims to have now IN his
possession. This story with variations,
has siuce appeared in several respecta'
Bile newspapers, and it is time toilet the
public know that the whole statement
is fabrication.
One of the persons mentioned as
having explored the depths OF this cav
ern is Mr. John E. Stone, surveyor,
by whose careful measurement 1t was
said to have been found that the main
avenue was fourteen miles long! MIR.
Stone, however, observes, in answer to
a letter of inquiry: "Mr. Mulhatten's
story about the newly discovered cave
near Leitchheld, Ky, is an utter hoax,
and l never heard anything about the
matter until I saw it in print"
The public is indebted to the same
inventive brain for the hoax that Went
the rounds in 1878, about the Grand
Crystal Cave" near Glasgow Ky, along
whose wide roads carriage and span
might be driven for eleven miles, and
whose deep rivers were navigable for
steamboatsfor fourteen miles! A letter
from MIR. Kelly, the proprietor of this
cave, after expressing Indignation at
these exaggerations, states that 1t is only
three miles long and has no rivers nor
roads, though" as he adds, there Is
room for great many wagons to turn
around, if they were once in there"
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-02-09

time schedule No. 20. which went into
effect Sunday, January 8, 1882, on q
o g. s, u. Railway, runs trains daily
between Galveston and Fort Worth,
Texas, until otherwise instructed, the
Galveston and Cleburne agent will per
form services daily, leaving Galveston
at @ 80 a. m. and Bolton Mt III 20 u. m
Section 8 is for the Texarkana and
Abilene agents from Texarkana TO DIAL
las, and directs them to send mail foi
Kentucky to Pittsbnrg and st. l.. X
p. o. when they connect with train No
4. st. L. !. M. & s. Railway; but in the
event of their arriving at Texarkana
after the departure Of that train then
10 proceed 10 Little Rock and TexGr'
kama Il. Z. o.
Section 4 says that commencing
February /, 1882, the San Antonio post
office has instructions to pouch letter
mails for Offices in Arkansas, Duval,
Cameron and Nueces counties to Lare'
do post-oilice; also to make direct
Canvas" for Brownsville, Corpus Christi
and such other offices ms quantity may
justify. .-.. ,..-,
Section 6 requests the Postmaster OF
Fort Worth, Texas, to exchange closed
uouehes with Morristown, Texas, by
trains of Missouri Pacific Railway, and
TO send mails for Cross Timbers. IN
Morristown pouch. y u.,,
Section relates to n new scheme Of
Texas. ...i... ...u,. e.. ,
A new scheme OF Texas win be issued
tbi, day Employees working Texas
mails will call ut this Office OF on their
chief head clerk for the same.
The Denison and Waco agent as
shown on this scheme, will forthe pres
emit only run TO Fort Worth and Offices
indicated to Denison and Waco agent;
Fort Worth to Waco will, until further
notice, be supplied by closed pouches
by this agent end Fort Worth post
office. . 4......
Route agent service upon the fort
Worth ana Galveston route is for the
present only performed between Dtl
ton and Galveston and offices loc TED
to this agent. Fort Worth to Morgan
and Morgan to Bolton are supplied by
closed pouches from this agent, bound
north from Temple Junction, .
70 Mr.. Lindsay, chief head clerk OF
the mail service i'll this State, are the
people indebted for the rapid transition
of their mail matter. ....
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-02-09
A Comedy OF Errors.

The talk of the town is an elopenso,
that proved 10 be Comedy OF r.
rors.S A rich old creole opposed n.
marriage of his only daughter with
poor artist. One evening there was
carriage drawn. cautiously up 10 ths
corner of the grand boulevard Esnlss
made. There was an air of mystery IN
its movements. The driver looksS
around and then apparently, from soma
signal, fixed his eyes at the window Of
A mansion avery little distance from his
halting place. A female form, cloaked
and yelled threw open the easement, Al
the same moment bidding the driver
advance. He did so, and when the car.
rage stood Immediately at the door.
beneath the lighted window, tall and
handsome man jumped out of the We.
hicle and entered the house. Shortly
after this two cloaked figures passed
hurriedly down the steps Of the main
entrance and hastily entered the car.
riage, closed the door and requested the
driver to speed like lightning An
old gentleman, the proprietor of the
mansion and the father OF the artists
inamorata was spectator of the whole
affair, and, gliding softly from private
door, mounted the rumble of the carr.
age and found himself whirled Gu the
road to Milneburg, the lake port Of the
Mobile packet. .f
The old fellow had caught them.
The lovers were in the carriage, but he
was on the box. On ratified the carriage
to the steamboat landing. Down
Jumped the father and opened the door.
What did he see? Gould it be! Yes,
il was his own hostler and his daughters
maid The affrighted servants de.
seconded from the carriage and in an
agony which was so exquisitely comic
that the disappointed pater Jamilias
could not refrain from smiling, fell on
their knees and begged forgiveness.
The prevailing mania for elopment had
seized them. Seeing carriage before
the door, and being under orders Of
the millionaire to watch the artists
movements, they thought to thwart the
elopement of their mistress by using
the artists carriage for their own.
Meanwhile the artist and the lady were
being married at the, house of friend.
-NeaU Orleans Letter IN the Louis
uille Co1t1 ier-Jo1ArnGL
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-02-09
A Useful Inyent&R.

1t is reported that several Eastern
roads are soon to introduce station
Indicator on passenger trains. 1t is
known as the Boynton patent. Ateach
end of the car is an obloDg box con-
tanning the names of the stations Oh
ribbon. Over the top of the box is
printed next STOP" and the name OF
the station at which the next stop is to
be made, shows through an opening in
the door of the box. The shifting of
the names is controlled by the engineer
on the locomotive. There is n small
bellows in each box which is contracted
when the engineer makes vacuum
this works lever that raises platform
on which the band containing the names
of the stations rests. An ingenious
catch prevents the band from slipping
backward, so when the platform falls
again 10y the bellows filling with air,
the band must fall to the front, thus
shifting the name of the station passed
TO the next one above it. The engi-
neer has small indicator in the loco
motive cab, bearing the names of the
stations, and he thus knows whether
the apparatus is set right. The indl-
Gator can also be worked 10y the West
iughouse automatic brake cylinders or
by 4 bell cord.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-02-09
How to Hold a Newspaper.
New York Herald.

The wife of an emient Journalist
once said that she could always PICK
out a trained journalist in p1oIlee
place by the manner in which he helu
and turned his newspaper. 1t is sur,
prising how many people think thaS
they must hold out two extended pages
at once, with their fists in the faces OF
their neighbors, and with the paper
scraping thei1 ears and eyes. Any mar it
of sense can fold one page IN nan
lengthwise, turning it from night 70
left as he wishes a new half, and WneIe
pages need cutting, pencil dezterouss
ly managed does the work III a seconu'
The owner OF the paper can also cOm
fortably and easily hold his paper IL
the doubie-page shape.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-02-09
Is the Country PrOspering!

The Philadelphia NelcS answers the
croakers with statistics that show a
state of general prosperity that bids
defiance to the cry of panic. 1t gives
the results of its observations for the
year Just closed as follows:
In fields, forests, mines, fisheries and
manufactures the whole country has
prospered. Our cereal products are
estimated at $1,000, 100000; our hay
crop ut $3.50, 100000: potatoes, at $780,
100000, and tobacco at so. 100000.
There are no exact statistics or even
close estimates of the timber felled for
home consumption and foreign export,
nor of tue products of our fisher,
but the amount is very large. The cot
ton Weld was over 100000 bales of
$50 pounds each, of which one thousand
million pounds have been consumed at
home and twice as much exported.
The cash value of this is not less than
$500. 100000. The wool crop has not
been less than 2jc,000,O0O pounds,
worth about S100,000,0O0. The sugar,
rice and molasses produced at the
South are valued at S3O,OOO,OOO. The
output OF coal Is estimated at 15,OO0,OOO
in 1850, and this, at 50 per ton, viii
AGGREGATE S225. OOO, 600. The output of
cold and silver did not fall below S75,-
OOO. 600. Three million tons OF pig iron
were smelted during 1881, representing
a still greater value. Then S25O,OOO,yJO
nay be added for provisions not IN
cluded in the above. The sum total
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-02-09
A Human Bellows.

There is a man in the hospital named
James Dryer, who has three bullet
holes in his chest, one OF which is still
unhealed. Through the last mentioned
wound, which is little way below his
eft armpit, he expels air from his
lungs. A Tribune reporter visited the
man last evening at st. Marks hospital.
He had no hesitation in exhibiting his
peculiarly, and when requested to
Strip, removed his shirt and showed the
reporter four holes in his chest and
back, where two bullets had entered,
and another where ball had struck his
shoulder and came out under his arm.
There was also hole or two in his leg.
From the wound under the armpit ne
breathed so loudly that the sound OF air
escaping through the orifice could be
heard the length of the room. me
reporter held his hand before the hole
and felt the air rushing out. Dwyer
tells his story as follows:
Il was at Bonanza City about three
years ago; had mining claim, and a
man named Flaxon, Charley was his first
name, came at me with six shooter,
for fight. Well, before 1 knew 1t ne
had filled me up with lead. had holes
all over me, and they crossed this way
and that, until I couldn't tell for GER
tainty which bullet made any two holes:
For while they could look into one OF
the holes and see my heart quite plain,
but that healed up and now there IS no
show to see the heart at all. Ii you,d1
a been here year or more ago l could
have shown you the heart beating right
along. I amt much Of an exhlpltloa
now; all I can do is to pump air out OF
my lungs by this hole. Once l could
take it in one place and send it to an.
other. but the other hole healed. l was
all we'll once, but the wounds opened
again. .ho
"Did you return the fire." asked the
reporter. shot
"Hadn't any gun; but after 1 was snot
few times I went for him, ana ge'
him down and the crowd pulled me on
When I got him down he began 10 noi
Ter murder; nice chap to be singing 4l o
murder after the way he had acted ~
shot his partner once the same "a ~
Guess I'll be out in few DAYS o."
right"
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-02-09
The Wife's Commandments.

l. Thou shalt have no other wife but
me.
.. Thou shalt not take into thy house
any beautiful brazen image of a servant
girl, TO bow down to her and serve her
for am jealous wife, visiting, etc.
3. Thou shalt not take the name OF
thy wife in vain.
4. Remember thy wife to keep he1
respectable.
5. Honor thy wife's father and moth
er.
g. Thou shalt not fret.
Z. Thou shalt not find fault with thy
dinner.
S. Thou shalt not chew tobacco.
8. Thou shalt not be behind thy
neighbor.
10. Thou shalt not stay out after 8
o'clock at night.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-02-09

II is one Of the unexElainable things
of5moral ethics how people decide so
promptly as to how little rain and bad
weather it takes to keep them away
from prayer meeting and how much Is
required to keep them away from a
good show.
WELLS, Fargo * CO. estimate the
lar West product OF gold for ISL At
81, SIS, 6S6, and Of silver ss5.O77. S29.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-02-09

Al a trial of criminal case the prs
oner entered a plea of mot gni.y ,5
when one Of the jurymen at once So -
mp. The Judge informed him ina. =
could not leave until this case vas tI IT,
-TriedI- repeated the juror ID ss.C =.
ment. Why he acknowledges iha' -
is not guilty."
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-02-09

NEARLY slO.OO0,OOO was taken from
the mines Of Utah last year, and bull
hon product OF S13,OO0,OO0 is predict
ed for the present year.
Thirty families OF well-to-do Hi
nois people nave recently settled near
Dublin, Erath county.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-02-09
ORDER No. u.

Section l, which instructs the Ottum-
va and Moberly agent that upon arrival
at Moberly. Missouri, they will hereaf-
ter make separation OF mails when put
ting the same our Of their care. deliver
ing those for dispatch 10y Wabash, St.
Louis and Pacific Railway, express No.
4 first, and separate, In order to save
del5y in transfer al that point and
insure connections.
Section ? saws that inasmuch as the
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-02-09
Railway Postal Service.
Dallas Herald.

4 new series of general orders have
been issued to the employees of the
seventh division of the railway mail
service and the various post offices in
that division. As it gives an idea of
the rapid transition of the mails in
this State, it is given to the readers of
the Herald:
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-04-01

through and the bill put upon Its passage
One o'clock came and he was still speaking
Two O'Clock he was saying I'm the second
place" Three O'Clock he produced fearful
bundle of papers and insisted upon reading
them.
The maj ,rIly began to have suspiclons--he
was goirg 10 speak I'LL the next noon and kill
the blll For n while they became merry over
IL; but nS il came IN dusk they got alarmed
They tried interruptions, bur soon abandoned
them, hcCau-e each one afforded bun u chance
for dsgress and rest.
They tried to shut him down, but that gave
MIN breathing space, and finally they settled
down to va ch the combat between strength OF
will aud weakness of body. They gave him
no mercy; no adjournment for dinner; no
chance 10 do more than wet his lips with
water; no wandering from ms subject; no sit.
ting down. Members slipped out to eat IN r..
lays, and returned To sleep; hut DE Cosmos
went on. The speaker was alternately doing
ard trying to look wide awake Day dawncd,
and the majority slipped out IN squads Ia wash
and breakfast but DE- Cosmos kept on II
cant be said ,hat il WAS "a very logical, clio.
quent or sustained speech There were rene.
tilions and disgrcssions But still he kept
until noon came Ia u baiIlcl majority, livIu
with rage and impotence, and single man
was triumphant, though his voice was sunk to
husky whisper his bloOGsho' eyes were al
most closed, his legs tOttrrrd and his baked
lips were cracked and bloody. He had spoken
iwenty.six hours, and saved the settlers their
land
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-04-01

deplOrable roads. Joshua Pusey would like
the Office, but he wants to buy the Marseilles
bridge, tack Fall River on to Rutland, and do
other choice things like that LOUIS Soule IS
q good man, and would do something towards
giving us decent roads, G. +. Farrell is men.
toned for assessor He says those North Fall
River tax liars had better be making their
peace as their day of reckoning is at hand.
There wIll be no more fat steers, Norman
horses and L, :. bonds bundled out o! Fall
River without paying taxes, If he Is elected,
and he requests the aforesaid tax thieves not
To forget It. As tor road cOmmIssioners--wcll.
Fail River has three II Is said. mean man
over in Brook field offered So reward 10 any
man who would discover anything they had
done since they came into office. But he
would have lost his bet, for the older inhaOi.
tants remember some time since of the aioIc'
sand commissioners shoyeling snow Mt 81 "A
day to their great pccunisry sorrow. And then
the, had rcd.hcadcd youth haul rocks on to
Gcn,lcman's bridge until the Inhabitants IN
thai vicinity threatened In resort 10 mob Ia"
II they didn't dcsisl. Since then everything
has been quiet, but The inhabitants out th's
way travel principally on foot tor safety. ii.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-04-01
An uDeQualled stock

Our new stock Of books Is now open. The
stock is SO complete and extensive there is NJ
question it is ne only first class book stock in m,
city,
Our stock was not bought for the purpose Of
hooding the country with old editions at dppar
entity low prices.
We are selling ns,c books, in new editions, in
new and strong bindings, this seaSm'S publGa
TONS, for the came and less money at which 9th
crs are offering last yeor's stock.
We will show you u line Of the Poets, Standard
Works, the most valuable elegant and complete
line of Juveniles ever opcned in Ottawa. This
is fact and not bray.
Don't buy books until you have seen our stock
or you will regret your purchase.
OsMAN & HAPBMAN.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-04-01
The Longest Speech.

The longest speech on record is believed TO
have been made by DIR. De Cosmos, in the leg
islatxre of British Columbia, when meas
ure was pending which would take from a
great many settlers their land. DE Cosmos
was in hopeless minority. The job had
been held back till the close Of the session.
and unless legislation was taken before
noon of gwen day the act would fail. The
day before, DE Cosmos got the floor at 10 A. NJ
and began to speak against the bill.
Its friends cared little for they supposed
that by one or two O'Clock he would Dc