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The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-04-01

Sidney Dillon, president of the Union Pa
cific railroad, in his annual report just issued
draws rosy picture of the prosperity of tina,
huge corporation. The gross earnings tor lasl
year were $24,2jS,Sls, and the operating ex.
penses and taxes $l2,4sO,342. The funded
debt of the company is $92, 9O2,635. The earn.
ings for twenty-five days Of March were 81,
7Ss,0OO. So the Thurman bill, which compels
the company TO lay aside annually per cent
Of its earnings to apply on its Indebtedness to
the general government, hasn't brought the
financial ruin upon that corporation which
Dillon had SO lugubriously predicted.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-04-01
OTTAWA FREE TRADER: SATURDAY. APRIL l. 1882

officer was found at Lake Wahbaw exhausted
They returned tothe fort, where the officer died
on Thursday. He was going home to Ger.
many on furlough. Howard, the driver was
found dead on Friday three miles this side of
Lake Wahbaw and halfa mile from his home.
Mrs. Long and her son Albert, 10 years old, nv
ing three miles north of Kransburg, left home
with u team to visit sick neighbor on the
prairie. They were found dead on Wedncs.
day three miles northwest Of Goodwin, ID. T..
Mrs. Long was found in a wagon, and the son
under the wagon, where he evidently tell while
fixing the whitlletrce and the faithful horses
were standing at the place where found, and
had probably not moved since morning IL is
reported that twelve landeXplorers started
Monday from Aberdeen for Watertown, They
rode ponies, and have not been heard from,
but two of the ponies have been found. The
storm did not extend with severity south or
east OF Goodwin, ID. r. Along the line OF the
st. Peter, in Minnesota, the storm was slight.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-04-01

NEw.-At the solicitation OF Mr.. Gillen Miss
Meta Wood has taken position in his new
store, in the dry goods and notion department.
Miss Wood has host OF frierds In this city and
neighborhood who will be glad to meet her
there, and SHE is sure to become popular as a
saleswOman.-Mr j. X. Butterbee, OF Bristol
England, more recently Of London, an exper,.
enced salesman, has also been added TO the force,
assisting in the dress goods Department.
Mr.. Royce, three new employees have been add.
ed during the month, making rs employees in
the house-probably the largest list in the
city in II house not manufacturing.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-04-01
LONGFELLOW.

The death Of the poet LoNGFELIow occurred
at his home IN Cambridge Mass, on Friday
of last week He had on the 9th of February
celebrated his 10Th birthday and been in I'M.
paired health since then. Two months ago. in
addition to his other ailments, he took bad
cold, which was followed by peritonitis, to
which he succumbed within "a hours.
Henry Wordsworth Longfellow was born at
Portland, Maine, In 1907, and at the age of IA
entered Bowdoin college, from which he gradu.
ated in 1925. He then entered his fathers
law Office, but soon conceived such dlstaste
for the profession that he was allowed to de-
vote his attention to general literature. Hay
ing spent three and u halt years in Europe to
perfect himself IN modern languages, he &C
cepted the professorship of languages in Bow
dom college which he held until 1885, when
he resigned 1t to accept the same char in Har-
ward college, which he held until 1854, when
he resigned it and devoted himself exclusively
to writing and the publication OF his works.
He began his literary work while yet student
at Bowdoln, and most Of his poems were pro-
duced while holding his professorships OF
course his poems are familiar to most of our
readers, and we shall neither attempt to char.
acterize or enumerate them. Beyond question
he was the ablest of all American poets, and
no other American poet has been so greatly
admired in Europe, where his poems have
boen translated into most of the continental
languages. Unquestionaby the best of his
poems was "Evangeline," and nextto 1t proba
bly, Miles Standish," though "Hiawatha,"
Excelsior" Hanging OF the Crane" "Kera
read and admired as long as the English Ian.
guage endurea.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-04-01

Tha, eminent member of the Illinois judici.
airy, Judge" Morrison, as he was wont com
placently to call himself while stumping
Maine and Indiana in behalf of the republl
cans in 1880, though he had never risen above
the grade Of a very indifferent Chicago justice
of the peace, has received the mess OF pottage
for which he sold himself IN the shape of the
appointment of US Marshal tor New Mexico
The World finds just one redeemlng feature in
the appointment-"the people OF New Mexico
are fond OF cunning, aud are not particular as
to game"
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-04-01

The reports which had been rife for week
or two and as often contradlcted as asserted,
that the new opposition telegraph line, the
Mutual Union, was about to share the fate of
all its predecessors by being gobbled up by
the Western Union, crystalized into solid fact
on Wednesday, when 1t was ascertained that
Jay Gould had got control of $4,000 of Its
100000 stock shares, and without ceremony
buried it IN the common grave which the
Western Union keeps open Tor all such daring
Intermediates with that graspng monopoly.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-04-01

The appointment OF Mr.. Rounds was decided
upon as long ago as last December. His prede
cessor was advised of the contemplated change
and resigned month ago, Why the appoint
ment was delayed until Monday Arthur HIM
self, we imagine, would find 1t hard to ey
plain,-The appointment of course, is a good
one, and having been regarded as a certainty
for three months past, the press of all parties
had approved it IN advance with so far as We
have noticed, scarcely dissenting growl
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-04-01
ILLINOIS LEGISLATURE.

u AS the only really Emporium business before
the legislature is the apportionment Of thu
state into congressional senatorial and repre-
sentative DISTRICTS and as no action can be had
on that mater, especially so far as relates tC
congressional districts, until some sort OF
agreement has been reached among about one
hundred and fifty congressional aspirants now
out of and nineteen in congress, besides boss
Logan and others, which may take a month or
two, the Legislature meantime is holding halt
hour sessions day the members lolling list.
essly the rest of the time about the state house,
hotels or streets. Mr. Buck, democrat from
Coles, by way of expediting matters, proposed
a resolution IN the house on Wednesday urg.
ing Logan, Long Jones, &c, to hurry forward
their instructions, but the chair ruled him out
OF order The only project for congressional
districts yet seriously proposed Is that of the
house subcommittee, which proposes to take
Grundy from this district and give us Dupage
in lieu of it,
AS usual there was no quorum IN either
house on Saturday, but that didn't prevent
Evans of Kane from offering Il resolution in the
senate and Kelly like one in the house ask.
ing the President to pardon Sergeant Mason.
The senate resolution was subsequently passed,
but in the house the resolution was squelched
as "out ot order"
The senate on Monday adopted Writings
resolution III favor of the Hennepiu Canal and
ordered 800 copies to be printed of his bill to
cede the Illinois Il Michigan Canal to the gen
eral government.
The House judiciary committee have deoid
ed against Cullom's project for a commission
to revise the criminal code, as unnecessary,
and no other action will PROBABLY be taken on
that question
Both houses acted promptly on bill appro-
prlatng $4,000 towards paying members and
officers of the two houses,
Jas II. Paddock resigned his place as clerk |
of the senate and Geo Terwlleger was ap.
pointed in his place The house reduced the
number of lis employees from about 10 to "a.
A sort of mass meeting of senators was held
on Monday evening in the art gallery on the
question of the cession of the canal to the gen.
eral government. Senator Archer, of Pike
county, declared himself in favor of the ces
sion. Senator Bell, of Peoria, SAID he regard
ed the Illinois and Michigan canal as OF more
than state importance. That 1t was the con.
Meeting link of the great chain of water trans.
portation from the Gulf Of Mexico to the At
lantlc ocean, via the Gulf of st. Lawrence
That being matter of national Importance,
it ought to be in the hands of the general gov
Tha, he was IN favor of cedng it to
the general government, upon condition that
It should enlarge It, and forever keep it IN re-
pair and free of toll. Representative Parish,
Of Chicago, was opposed to the cession. Sen
stor Whiting, Senator Rice, Senator Cambell,
md Senator Adams, each spoke In favor of
he cession, and seemingly the great majority
If the meeting were in favor Of the cessi0n, al. !
hough considerable opposition may be mani
esed
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-04-01

The annual cost Of the star.route service in
the Pacific states and territories under General
Brady vas $2S44 1865. Contracts for the same
service this year have been executed for ST.,
1919 But while 1t is thus evident thai
Brady, Dorsey and their confederates stole at
least 81, 100000 from the government, they are
above the reach Of the courts to punish them,
the second batch of indictments found against
them at Washington having just been quashed.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-04-01

Judge Advocate General Swain decides, in
the case of Sergeant Mason, who shot at but
unfortunately missed Guiteau while on duty
as a guard for his protection, that his sentence
to the pententlary by court martial was H.
legal, and now An Albany attorney has filed in
the U. S. Supreme Court a request for writ
Of habeas corpus for his release. Should the
writ be granted, however, it would not protect
Mason from trial in civil court for his of.
fpnap
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-04-01

Among other deplorable incidents of the
great southern inundation is to be reckoned
the abandonment of the proposed celebration
at New Orleans of the second centennial anil
versary of the discovery of the mouth
of the Mississippi river by La Sale The dis.
appointment of Uncle John Miller, Father G..
W. Armstrong and Col. HIT, who were ap-
pointed by our Board of Supervisors to repre-
sent La Sale county at the celebration, must
be terrible
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-04-01
CONGRESS-.

| The problem what to do to protect the low.
er Mississippi country from devastating
floods Is getting to be the most knotty one be.
fore congress for solution. Bills to appropri-
ate between SIX and seven millions have been
presented in each house 10 repair levees, &c,
butt is beginning to get through the wool OF
congressman that the levee system is all wrong,
and 1t now looks us it, before any money is
voted committee of ten or fifteen senators
and representatives will be sent down there to
see il some better plan than building levees
cannot be devised.
The tariff commission bill has occupied the
attention OF both houses during the week, that
before the senate having passed on Wednesday
BY vote of IS to 10. The bill raises COM
mission of nine experts to be appointed by the
president, who are to investigate the subject in
all its bearings and report to congress by the
lst Monday in January, 1885 Substantially
the same bill WAS before the house IN commit
tee of the whole on Tuesday, when Carlisle
made mastery tree trade speech against it
and Kasson made a high tariff argument
in its favor. The antiprotectionlsts of course
object to the bill as a mere dodge to postpone
all tariff reform Indefinitely,
The senate on Wednesday passed the house
bill to grant Mrs. Garfield a pension of $4,000
a year, with an amendment adding the names
of Mrs Polk and Mrs. Taylor each for the
same amount, and next day the house agreed
to the amendment and passed the bill.
The Reagan bill to control the railroads of
the country was argued before the house com
mlttee on commerce on Saturday by Wander.
bits man, Chauncey NJ. Depew, who main
tanned that the act would place the carrying
business of the west in the power of Cana
dian railway system, and that any evils might
be better remeded by the creation of nation
al advisory railway comission.
The Secretary OF the Treasury on Monday
sent to the house an estimate that It would
take $65 1880, 600 from the treasury to pension
the Mexican war veterans.
The House Ways and Means Committee has
agreed on q bill which will make an annual
of $23,0O0,00O IN the internal rev.
enue. 1t proposes the abolition Of the stamp
tax on bank checks, matches, perfumery, etc,
of the taxes on banking capital and deposits,
and makes material reductions in the burdens
of liquor and tobacco dealers.
The Indian appropriation bill, as reported
in the senate, proposes to devote S., 900 TO
the wards of the nati.n' Tor the coming year.
Mr.. Hoar gave notice that he would ask for
81 100000 in addition to educate young In
dians but he said he would take 100000 if
he could get no more.
Rumors of cabinet changes continue as nsu-
al The name OF Senator Teller 1t was posi-
lively promised, should be sent TO the senate
for Secretary of the Interior, and that of VIM.
Z. Chandler for Secretary of the Navy. But
neither appointment has thus far been made.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-04-01

The Annual Report of the C., b. IL O. Rail.
road Is in the hands Of the printer, and ad.
vance sheets show the following among many
other huge figures:
Gross earnings for the year..... Ell, 324 $50 y
Operating expenses, taxes, etc. ... 1906 5l4 20
Leaving net earnings ............ $40, PSI GsS5 Is
During the year the company owned and
operated 1899 miles against 1858 in 1880, and
though the gross earnings tor the year show
an increase Of some $500 900 the net earnings
fall off S429,9l720. This Is accounted for by
the increased expenses the road was put to by
the floods of the Mississippi and Missouri rlv.
ers year ago, and by the loss of business
caused by the drought in Nebraska, Iowa, ETC.,
last summer. The entire property of the com.
pany, which is estimated at $4,000, 900, Is
represented by $55,337, 44G capital stock and a
funded debt of $59,12l,725.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-04-01

JUDICIAL ELECTIoN.-The Galesburg Re
pudtedn-Regtster and the Bureau County he
publican, both leading republican papers OF
their respective counties, vigorously oppose
the movement of the party leaders Of Other
counties to hold republican convention 70
select candidate, because they are opposed to
making the choice O. our judges a matter OF
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-04-01

5. p. RouSDs.-Presiden Arthur is rapidly
gaining the title OF "The Unready" by his di
latoriness in making appointments. In nc
case has this been more consplcuously shown
than in the delay to send to the senate the
name of Sterling p. Rounds, of Chicago, az
head Of the big government printing shop.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-04-01

II Is nearly year yet before the Illinois
Legislature will be called upon to cleo, sue
cessor 10 David Davis In the IT, S. senate, and
already fourteen prominent Illinois republi.
cans ere painting 10 sacrifice themselves by
stepping INTO his shoes, with 90 counties to
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-04-01

A repor, having been circulated IN Wash
ington that ex Secretary Blaine was about to
euIt politics and become Congregational
preacher, on reaching Mr.. Blame, was pro-
nounced by him as 1.-THE invention OF ID
ldiotu
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-04-01

The tastes. time on record of steamers cross
ing the ocean was made by the Alaska, of the
Guyon line, which arrived at New York on
Thursday IN days, hours and 40 minutes,
from Liverpool.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-04-01

Baltimore has contracted with the Brush
Electric Light Company to light the city FOL
500 $50 year, which is $4,000 less than Is
now paid the gas companies.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-04-01
OUR CLUBBING

We are prepared to club the FREE TRADER
with the followingpublicatio furnishing both
At the prices named, postage prepaid. The
offer-open to old subscribers or new at any
oost office IN the county-is the CHEAPEST
EVER MADE in this county;
FREE TRADER and Chicago Weekly Times. g. %
rRxH TRADER ana Unicago Weekly Tribune. 2o5
PaIR TRADER ana Chicago Weekly Inter , a,
Ocean 49, - ''''', a or
FREs TRADER and Chicago Weekly Journal 40
PRxs TRADER and st. Louis Republican. 30
FREE TRADER and st. Louis Gtobe, Democrdt. 3'oo
PRgE TRADER and N. Y. Weekly Herafd -. S'o0
PRRR TRADER and American Agr'cuftnrSt. - 'o on
PRss TRADER and Prairie Farmer .....',.;:' 3'oo
FRgE TKApER and either Of Harper's publ
Tree TRADER and .Scribner. ..,...:..: 80
PRBE TRADER and Godey's Ladies Book ;..' 3'W
FIRE. TRADER and Phrenotogical Journal. 3'W
FRRE TRADER and 81. Nicholds. :......... 3W
FREE TRADER and Democrats Monhfb ...'. 80
PRsE TRADER and Litteps Living Age..'.. go
FRRe TRADER and Western Rural. .......... 3O
pRgE TRADER and Moo-e's Rural Men Yorker 5oo
PREE TRADER and Chicago Wokiy Hcrd'd. 30
FREE TRADER and Peoria W. Democrat. 10
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1882-02-04
Peanut Protection.
Homestead and Observer

Homestead and Observer.
A railroad traveller writes home:
The country stores we pass seem
alive with customers, white and
black. New hotels, new churches,
barns and dwelling houses dis
close themselves as we glide along.
"What is all this due to ?" some
one inquiries "the land don't seem
to me to justify it,"
Peanuts!n answered a country.
man on the back seat.
"No!" incredulously.
ayes, sir. Bruce was a nigger
and a Radical, but he had gump-
ton enough to have tax laid on
foreign peanuts, and that made the
future of all this country. You
wouldn't think it, but this is the
section whore the nabobs live"
"And they do say" said anoth.
er, "that old man Singleton is
going to have foreign sumac taxed
and if he does, by jingo, all. East
Mississippi will get rich"
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1882-02-04
The Physicians Bill.
GClarion.l

Clarion.
The bin introduced in the Sen
ate by DR.. Hyer, of Marshall, to
regulate the practice of medicine
in the State provides that there
shall be established Boards of
Censors, one Board in each Con-
gressional District, whose duty it
shall be to examine into the quail
fication of applications for such
license. For the purposes of the
act, the words: "practice medi-
cine," shall mean to suggest, rec
ommend, prescribe or direct for
the use of any person, any drug,
medicine, appliance, or other agen-
cy, whAther material or not mate
rial, for the cure, relief or palliation
of any ailment or disease of the
mind or body, or for the cure, OF
relief of any wound, fracture, OF
other bodily injury or any defor-
nifty, after having received, or with
the intent of receiving therefor
either directly or indirectly, any
bonus, gift, provided or compen'
sation; Provided, That nothing in
this act shall apply to females en-
gagged solely in the practice OF
midwifery.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1882-02-04

Any one who has children and
who, about forty times during a
term, hears complaints about them
their breaking or loss will, per-
haps be glad to know that the sup.
ply is just about inexhaustable.
There is not the slightest danger
that the world will ever want for
slate pencils. The hard, black
German ones have been superse-
of late years by round white ones
of clay slate. AT the quarry, near
Castleton, Vermont about thirty
five workmen produce 10000 pen
ellis daily, and it is proposed to in-
crease the daily output to 100000.
The blocks when quarried, are saw
ed into pieces seven by twelve in.
ches, split to the thickness of a
half inch and smoothcd by a planer
the block is placed under q semi.
circular knife and, after having
been turned over the process is
repeated. A particle of quartz in
the block would break all the pen
ellis. They are pointed by q grind
stone, turned, assorted, and sent to
market In boxes of hundred.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1882-02-04

Seldom is q more romantic ca
reer brought to the public attcn-
ton than that which has just en-
ded in the death at Philadelphia of
Mrs. Elizabeth Hatzler, in her 02d
year. Mrs. Hatzler's claim to dis
tinction lay in the fact that she
was q veteran of the Franco.Rus.
war of 1912. Born at Landau,
then a French possession, in 1900,
she married at 20 George Hatzler,
a cavalry sergeant in the French
army, but their honeymoon was
rudely interrupted by orders to
the husband to join the expedi-
ton against Russia. The young
wife Immediately determined to
accompany, cut her hair short,
donned a soldiers uniform and
thus disguised, rode at her hus-
bands side through the whole
campaign. She participated in all
the great battles, witnessed the
burning of Moscow, and after her
husbands promotion to the rank
of q staff officer, often saw, and
several times conversed, with Ma
poleon. She suffered her full
share of the rigors of war, having
been captured with her husband by
the Cossacks, and held a prisoner
for nineteen months, and then ex-
changed only in time to share the
suffering of the disastrous retreat
of the French army. She went
through ell these experiences
without her sex being discovered,
and despite all the exposures Of
her early life, retained the full use
of her faculties to the end. lisiag
to see ten great-grand children
growing up in her American heme.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1882-02-04
/ |CHANCERY COURT.

nena ceunty-Begins on the LIST
of April and October, and may
b judicial days.
kington county-Begins on the ID
Of April and October, and may
I Is judicial days.
pr eounty-Begins on the lst NON
say and November, and may con-
3 judicial days.
pma county-Begins on the 81
of May and November, and may
De IL judicial days.
Iower county-Begins on the LIST
Of June and December, and may
he 6 judicial days.
key county-Begins on the 2nd
n OF June and December, and may
DC Q judicial days.
liar meetings are held by the
of Supervisors as follows: Bien-
st Monday Of January to elect
Commissioners. Annually first
Of March, to receive Tax-Collec-
ports of delinquent and insolvent
/ Monday of August to receive and
on the Assessment Roll; LIST Mon
September TO levy taxes and on
nday next preceding each term Of
Court.