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CONGRESS-.

The most important business Of the senate
during the week was acting on recent presl-
dental appointments The house spent all its
time not devoted to routine business In dis
cussing the tariff commission bill, which Is
expected to pass.
The most important appointments confirmed
by the senate were those of William Z. Chan
dler as Secretary OF the Navy, 2S by l6; w.
II. Hunt as Minister to Russia, and J. r..
Partridge as Minister to Peru.
The house on the 7th passed bill to relieve
from charge of deserllon volunteer soldiers
who served faithfully through their long term
and failed to be mustered out.
Same day the senate passed bill to fix at
S., 900 per annum the salaries Of the election
commissioners under the anti.polygamy law.
In committee of the whole in the house on
Tuesday on the postal appropriation bill, q
senate amendment was cOncurred in TO In.
crease by $500 900 the allowances for fast mails,
but the proposition to restore the Thanking
privilege was defeated. On the same day Mr..
Henderson presented to the house, from the
committee on railways and canals, report In
favor of the Hennepin canal, accompanied by
a bill appropr,ating 100000 to begin the
work. The main reliance for passing the
measure, however, is placed on having it at
tached to the rlver and hsrbor bill.
The Senate on Thursday passed the house
bill for a railroad right of way through lndi.
an Territory, an amendment to require the
consent of the Indian council being rejected
A bill was also passed authorizing the erection
of railroad bridge across the Mississippi at
Keithsburg, Illinois.
There seems to be pretty good foundation
for rumor sf1oat in Washington that Minis
ter Lowell will be recalled within few days
and that Judge Taft, of Ohio, will be appoint
ed Minister to the Court of st. James.
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ROAD MEETING.

Spite of all obstacles, chief among which
was the bad roads, which followed as natural
consequence OF the extraordinary rain of Sat
urday night, quite number Of farmers inter.
ested in the proposed road from Ottawa to
Deer Park, answered. the call for meeting in
Cheever's Block at noon on Tuesday last
The meeting organized in form and debated
the matter thoroughly The only question
was the all-impOrtant one of the finance, for ii
was decided once tor all that the road must be
built In a substantial manner so that there
could be no possible chance for failure. In
addition to the amounts already provided, as
mentioned in our last, those present at once
subscribed $1,000. A committee was ap
pointed consisting Of Elmer Baldwin,
f. C. Lewis and p. C.. Watts, to canvass
the towns particularly interested to raise
$500 or $4,000 more, which sum will
insure a road solid at all seasons from the Yer
million river to Ottawa. This committee will
report at an adjourned meeting to be held on
Saturday, April 22d at O'Clock p. m, when
those interested IN the improvement are re
quested to be present at the same place.
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JUMBo.-The big Elephant Jumbo, that had
grown too unmanageble for the London ZOO
logical gardens and was therefore sold to Bari
mum, arrived safely at New York on Monday
and was at once taken to Madison square. He
is said to be by two feet the tallest elephant 10
the world, ana can reach upward with his
trunk to height of 26 feet Among other
delicacies consumed by him on his voyage
across the Atlantic were one hundred pounds
of onions, washed down with about ten gal
Ions of whisky. The latter he IS said to be
quite fond of and swallows quart at time
with all the satisfaction of topper. He is in
rather lean condition, but otherwise in good
health, and Barnum expects to fatten him up
to all his skin will hold. A special car is be-.
ing constructed IN the Pennsylvania railroad
shops for HIM to travel In.
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About this time look out tor John Bender,
the famous southern Kansas murderer. AL.
though there Is the strongest reason to belIeve
that he was killed within three months after
his crimes were discovered, the people of the
southwest who scout the idea that Jesse James
is dead, are quite as firmly persuaded that old
Bender Is still wandering over the face of the
EARTH and every spring somewhere or other,
reappears. A week ago Herman F. Grelm, a
German laborer, who had known Bender we'll
years ago In Kansas, rushed into police sta
ton in st. Louis and with hair standing on end
announced that he had seen old Bender IN a
sklff at the wharf. Policemen went with him
and arrested the man whom he pointed out,
bat who claimed that his name was Balls,
and that now and for years he had lived at
Fort Scott; and few days latter kilograms
from Fort Scott confirmed the old mans story,
So old Bender is still loose
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-04-15

For the first time in the history of Illinois
the people this year have an opportunity of
SEEING by the published reports of their local
officers, how their annual township taxes are
expended. This practice of publishing such
reports is quite general throughout the middle
and New England States, where its discontinue
ance would not be tolerated for day, and we
have no doubt the plan Will prove popular
here. These town taxes are often quite heavy,
and in the matter Of road building and repair.
ing especially almost as rule shamefully
misapplied and wasted
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expired, to put an enemy of Conkling in his
place, and when Conkling complained OF II as
a violation of "the courtesy of the senate"
none were more boisterOus than H0ar ana
Dawes, the Massachusetts, senators, in justify
ing Garfield's exercise of IAN undoubted execu.
tive prerogative" and in ridculing Mr. Conk-
iing's courtesy of the senate as "quixpslsm"
Now there happened to be- custom house IN
Boston, in regard to the colectorship OF which
Messrs Dawes and Hoar were especially So.
licitous Mr.. Arthur, careful to make his po-
sltion stronger than Garted's was against
Conklng, patiently awaited the expiration OF
the term of the present collector, and then
malciously waving the courtesy of the sen
ate" which the Massachusetts, senators had
treated SO contemptuoasly, proceeded to select
an otherwise unobjecionable man, but the one
of all others IN the whole state Of Massachu
sets most distasteful to Messrs. Hoar and
Dawes, and placed HIM at the head of the Bos
ton custom house. Never were the tables
more neatly and completely turned, and ali
Washington is in a broad grin over the wrig-
Cling and squirming OF the unhappy senators.
II is not only an exquisite bit OF revenge on
the Massachusetts, senators themselves, but
presents to the country in its strongest light
the contemplate character of the tremendous
battle of the administration with the New
York senators over the New York custom
bnuuo
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-04-15

The frost on Monday and Tuesday night exI
tended over large area, from Nebraska to
New England and from the lakes south as fal
as Kentucky. Over the middle belt of this
dlstrict-say from the 39th to the 41st degree
in this state from Woodford to Fayette counI
ty--ln which the peach, cherry, apple, plum
and apricot trees and strawberries were in full
bloom, the general opinion is tnat very serious
damage has been done to the fruit crop. South
Of that belt the fruit was SO far advanced and
the frost so light as to have done little damage.
and north of it no blossoms had yet opened
and the most of the fruit is believed to be still
unframed
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-04-15

James Is. Henry, exregister of the Jefferson
City land Office in Missouri and now editor of
the Tribune in that city, AYERS positively that
Jesse james was member Of the republican
national conventional at Chicago that nomi-
mated Garfield, representing district IN the
state of Mississippi and passing under the
name OF johnson, He names as witness II
the fact distinguished confederate officer
who was IN Chicago at the time and who
knows the Jameses as we'll as he knows his
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cluded TO accept; but in practice 1t was found
10 crude and lily digested, that it created q
general cutlery on the part of manufacturers,
shippers and others. For instance, the rates
On the raw material entering into our manu-
features and the rates on the manufactured
articles we're so tixea that manufacturers out
side of the state could send their wares into
Illinois at rates so much lower that our manu-
facturers were driven out of their own mar
keis Thus Pittsburg could get such rates on
glass US to be able to underse. the Illinois
glass manufacturers in the Chicago, Peoria
and other markets, ana Racine, Wis, Canton,
o., South Bend, Ind, manufacturers Of agrl-
cultural implements could get such tariffs to
all points in Illinois rs to b. able te undersell
our own manufacturers of such articles.
Well, that wouldn't do. So the comm ission.
ers Qwo of them got again together and re-
vised their schedules, not changing the rates,
however, but so changing the classification OF
articles rs to put most of such rs are manufac.
turcd in the state into lower classes, thus Civ.
ing them lower rates, but making such mud.
die Oh inc WuOe DuSlueSS tn8t OUT uhll Iuc
manufacturers are satisfied, anu the railroads
with few exceptions are 80 Disguised that they
will probably prefer to take their chance In
the courts to answer the charge of extortion
or unjust discrimination rather than conform
to the re-revised schedule.
The upshot of 1t all u.s. to bring greatly into
doubt and discredit the whole business OF at.
tempting to prescribe uniform rates" in a
business covering such a vast field of diverse
operations and conflicting points as the great
carrying business of the country. There is
common law recognized in all the states, that
protects passengers, shippers ana freighters of
all kinds against unjust determinations and
extortiOn on the part OF common carriers,
which all the courts recognize and enforce.
Doubtless legislation can more closely define
and extend the application of these general
principles, and prescribe definite nunishments
for their violation; but:.when it is undertaken
to go deep down into the minutlae of the bust.
ness rs our Illinois commissioners have ven
tured, are they likely ever to make anything
but sad middle Of 1t?
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CYCLONE RAVAGES.

Friday night of last week cyclone started
near Raymond, Rice county, Kansas, and NOV
ed in northerly direction and Frustrated the
telegraph poles, when it crossed the track of
the Santa Fe railroad, blowing down John VIII
sons house on its way, killing Mrs. Wilson
and fatally njuring Mrs. Parker, another lady
In the house at the time Several other large
and stoutly built houses were demolished in
the neighborhood. Proceeding northward the
storm struck the new and thriving town OF
Chase, uemolIshing twenty out of the twenty
SIX buildings in the place and throwing cars
from the track Mr.. Read, u hotel keeper, was
killed.
At about the same time in the evening
small cyclone passed through the eastern part
of the county but it did but little damage. 1t
was accompanied by waterspout, pouring
deluge in some places and drowning every
thing loose in other spots. The wind sucked
all OF the water out of the wells. All the in
habltants of Chase were more or less injured,
but few escaping without hurt of some kind.
People are living in box cars and many faml-
lies are in destitute condition.
On the same night a heavy rain and wind
storm did considerable damage to fruit trees
and the barns and fences along the line OF the
Iowa division of the Wabash Railroad and
the Keokuk and Des MONIES division OF the
Chicago, Rock Island Il Pacific Railroad. AT
keosauqua and Humeston, Iowa, and Cahoka
and Ashton, Mo, the damage was especially
severe. Also throughout the lower Des Moines
valley the hurricane wrecked great deal OF
property and wrought much havoc. AT keo-
sauuua a large new house in which q locomo,
tive was kept was demolished. Heavy sections
of the sidewalk were torn up and borne away
| by the wind The wind tore up trees and
blew down fences IN all directions.
And at various points in Michigan, on the
same night, serious hurricane disasters occur
red. Among other points Highland station,
on the Flint and Marquette railroad, was a
heavy sufferer. The dwelling of man named
Crandall was blown down, killing Crandall
and one child and severely injuring dsugh.
ter. A guest named Mrs. Taylor, of Pontiac,
was also killed, and several other persons were
more or less injured. The hurricane covered
an area of less than half a mile wide, but lev
elled everything in Its path. \ dispatch IN
the Chicago Journal adds: A little daughter
of TYLER had her arm badly crushed. Miss
Cora Ward was also injured. The debris had
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-04-15

In the Illinois legislature the only action
during the week in the senate was the con-
sderation of the bill ceding the Illinois canal
to the general government, which on Thursday
The house has spent the week in prolonged
debate on the question of raising commission
to revise the criminal code. The main bust,
ness of the sesslon-the pportionment-stil!
awaits agreement among 1850 asplrants foi
congressional and senatorial honOrs and then
endorsement by the republican caucus before
1t can come before either house, and as IS a
day are more than most of the members can
earn at home, they are In no apparent hurry
TO push the work
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-04-15

EAST LYNN, VERMIIIoy Co., ILL, April O.
1881 thought some of your readers weuld
like to hear from this part of the state. 1
started from Grand Rapids, La Sale County
the 18th day of February, with teams, house
hold goods and my family and got here that
night all safe. We have had wet and muddy
spring until the 25th day of March, then the
south wind commenced to blow and it turned
warm and dry, and the roads have got good
once more Oats are all sowed and the most
of them up; and the most of the flax is sowed
and some have commenced to plow for corn.
Nature is putting on her robe of green and
everything looks beautiful here now We had
a fine shower last night Early potatoes are
up. Truly yours, Ii. q. e..
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QUIZ CLUBBING

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with the following publications, furnishing both
At the prices named, postage prepaid The
offer-opcn to old subscribers or new at any
post office IN the cOunty-is the CHEAPEST
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FREE TRADER and Chicago Weekly Times. 90
FREE TRADER ana Unicago Weekly Tribune 2,o5
FREE TRADER ana Chicago Weekly Inter
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rnnn m. mn and a. Louis Rep,blican 49,. 2.65
FREE TRADER and st. Louis GLOBE. Democrat. 100
rRER TRADER aud N. Y. Weekly Herald: 2'5o
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END OF JESSE JAM MES.

| We confess our INABILITY 10 enter INTO sym
pathy with that sentimental swash which sc
many newspapers are gushing over the death
of Jesse James. Thus the New York World
says: 1T appears that the Governor OF Mis-
souri, of his own motion licensed citizen OF
that state to commit murder, and to have pu,
himself IN the dsagreeable position of an &C
complete before the fact to capital crime.
= The murder OF James was as cold blooded
and trcacherous as any murder which he
himself ever committed, and for this murder
the Governor has made the whole state respon
sible" And then five hundred dollar coffin
was provided by his friends" to bury him
his funeral, paying HIM all the honOrs OF a
saint, and the largest funeral train ever seen
in the state followed his remains to the grave
And 80 on All of which is intended to excite
sympathy in behalf of the outlaw, to exalt him
to the rank OF hero, and to bring into Odium
the means by which the land was rid of his
baneful presence.
Now the Governor of Missouri licensed" no
W SOLlhllt huAuOAi ohu uiu nv "oAS sh"AA
Is done IN the case of every great fugitive
criminal He offered a large reward tor his
arrest, and rs abundant experience showed
that he would not hesitate to commit forty
murders rather than be taken alive, the Cover.
nor said, as is said of every other criminal in
the same case, at you can't do it otherwise,
take him dead" But the Ford boys ap-
preached him treacherously. Did the Cover.
nor 80 instruct them! But suppose he did,
what right had James to claim that before his
arrest he should be entitled to fair, stand up
fights Did he accord that privilege to the
three men he treacherously murdered when he
robbed the bank at Gallatin, Mo-. or when
he treacherously killed the engineer and fire.
man at the train robbery west of Council
Bluffs; or when he so basey murdered the
cashier of the Mortified bank?
Ordinary means were not practicable in
bringing such a desperate to justice. Such
officers of the law as the Plnkerton detectives
who undertook IN good. faith to arrest him
were treacherously murdered. Other officers
of the law were either so in league with or
stood in fear of HIM that they winked at his
crimes and when dead assisted to bear his
body in honor to the grave. What else could
an honest state executive do under such cir.
cumstances than hire-supposing Gov. Crit
tenden did even that-some of his trusted &C
complies to approach him unaware, and thus
without further bloodshed rid the land of the
most cowardly and bloodthirsty ruffian the
age had producedg 1t ID not necessary to
whiten the character of the Ford boys to jus
tIfy Gov. Crittenden. "Set thief to catch 8
thief" is an axiom approved and abundantly en-
dorscd In criminal ethics, and Justice is often
permitted to use the vilest instruments to &C
cOmplish righteous ends
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-04-15

Jesse James may have been the inventor Oh
that Chef d'guvre OF the craftsman popularity
known as tram robbing, but he evidently held
no exclusive patent right TO the invention, AS
il was used with effect week ago on north
bound train on the Gulf, Colorado and santa
Fe railroad at Blum station, IN Texas. Six
masked men entered the passenger coaches,
two standing guard at either end while anoth'
er couple walked down the aisles with a pil
low.slip and robbed everybody. The conductor
was fired upon, but escaped injury. The
amount secured is believed to have been about
$1,000. The officers OF the road sent out blood
hounds from Fort Worth.
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down to the northern hemisphere, and there bel
at its brightest. The best view will be had ,nI
Australia and South America. 1t will fade|
rapidly to the unaided eye In the south but ID
can be followed for months with teloscOpel
The comet differs from telescope comets gen1
orally IN having a tail As rule teoscopic|
comets are only masses of light. The pres1
ence OF .all indicates that this comet is d
large one. Its orbit has not been sufficiently
determined to say whether it will come back
or not. We may look tor the comet Of 1919 to|
follow this
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TOWN OFFICERS.

Following is the completion OF the list of
town officers elected at the late town meetings,
portion of which lis, was published last week (:
Brooktield.-Isaac Gage SUPERVISOR John ]
Marsh, clerk u. G. Thomas, assessor; w. NJ
Bragg, collector; w. A. McCollum. highway
commissioner Obey A. Johnson, and John F.
Shook, justices; John Broderick and Frederick
Rohr, constable
G. Baldwin, clerk; Urbin s. Ellsworth, asses
sor; Thos. f. Turner, collector; Geo. G. Cad.
we'll highway commissioner.
Fail Rtrer-Jackson Butte, supervisor; E.
A. Dearth, clerk; NJ. G. Vance, assessor; Ell
lott Langley, collector; Joseph II. Vance,
highway commissioner; Edward Hampson,
constable.
Hope.-W. A. Reynolds, supervisor E. E.
Rhodes, clerk; Joseph Balderson assessor; w.
F. Wiley, collector; Christian Hsrtenbower,
highway commissioner.
Mdnltus-Wm. Drackley, supervisor; VIM.
II. Wiley, clerk; f. II. Spicer, assessor, II, G..
Whitman, collector; T. J. Linder and |. N.
Fleming, highway commissioners; David B.
Chase, constable.
Meriden-C. T. Franks, supervisor: G. T..
Harvey collector; S. ii. Keller, highway COM
missioner; c. r. Roehm, justice; j. O. Carter
constable
Rtchland.-Wm. Lauf supervisor; GOttfrled
Relnhard, clerk; Peter Eschbach, assessor; W.
Salz, jr., collector; Gottfrled Renhard high.
way commissioner.
Wdltham.-Alex. Wylle. supervisor; s. A.
Jones' clerk; W. r. Warrick, assessor; John
Wylie collector; Chas. Shomas and John
Hanley, highway commissioners; J. II. Car.
lin, school trustee.
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THE New CoMET.-Protessor Sharpless, the
Harved College astronomer, says the new CON-
ct Will be visible to the naked eye in about
two weeks, just after midnight, and will re-
main in sight until dawn. About two O'Clock
in the morning it will be seen half way up TO
the zenith IN the constellation Of Lyra and
near Vega, the brightest morning star in that
part of the sky. The comet is travelling north
east at the rate of about degree a day. 1t is
coming toward the earth, but will not come
nearer than eighty million miles. 1t will go
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The venerable Charles Francis Adams, of
Boston, U. ). Minister to England during the
administration of President Grant, but now rs
years old and so rapidly failing in his intel
lectual powers as to be mere child, was vic
timized week ago by gang of bunko swlnd.
lers in Boston. They got him into their den
and succeeded in getting him to sign checks
on his banker to the amount Of nearly 1000.
The fraud was detected however, and the
swindlers were arrested before the checks were
paid
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Chang Chi Lang, another Chinese giant, ar.
rived In New York on Monday, SAID to be Six
inches taller than the Chinese giant exhibited
by Barnum last summer. His height is eight
feet 8ls inches. He is accompanied by his
wife, a little body less than five feet in height
rather pretty, with feet scarcely four inches
long. He expects to make an exhibition tour
through the country during the summer.
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New York witnessed the novel spectacle last
Sunday of an elaborate Easter Service in Q
Jewish temple. The Episcopal Church of the
Incarnation, on Fifth Avenue, having been
made untenable BY recent fire. the Rev. Dr.
Gottheil, rabbi of the Jewish Temple Emman.
uel near by, kindly offered its use for Sunday
to the Rev. Arthur Brooks, Episcopal rector,
who gratefully accepted It,
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Mr.. Arthur, along with his other quiet ways,
is "devilish sly" As the avenger of the
wrongs of his friend Roscoe Conkling the lit
tie job he put up on the Massachusetts sena-
tors by the recent appointment of Worthing-
ton TO the collectorship Of the Boston custom
house, is the perfection of neatness. Conkling
quarreled with Garfield because he removed
an urexceptionsl man from the head of the
New York custom house, before his term had