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The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-01-28
FOREIGN,

The only news of any interest from Europe
during the week comes from France NJ Gam.
beta, as prime minister having proposed Ger.
tam constitutional amendments, chlefof which
was the insertion of a clause establishing the
principle that deputies shall hereafter be elect
Ell by a departmental ScyHtiR de iiSte (by gener.
al ticket instead OF single districts), and asked
a congress OF the two chambers to act on the
proposal, the committees appointed by the
chambers to consider the proposition reported
IN favor OF the congress but almost unanimous
ly against the ScrutjH de lfSte, intmatipg that
should the congress be summoned, it would
undoubtedly also reject that proposition Gam
BETA thcreupon violently declared that if the
congress, when summoned insisted on exceed.
ing the limits of discussion prescribed for 1t
by the separate resolutions of the two cham.
bers Its action would become unconstitutional
and revolutionary, and the President would
then have to consider how to get rid of it.
This seemed to present the question whether
congress or the government" Uhe President
and Cabinet were sovereign and on the under.
standing that this was the issue, the chamber
of deputies on Thursday, by vote of 3O5 to
III, rejected the government bill for revision
of the constitution, upon which Gambetta and
the rest Of his cabinet Immediately resigned
The chamber thereupon adjourned in the high
est excitement There is no intlmation as yet
who Is to be Gambetta's successor.
The monetary panic on the Paris Bourse, in
consequence of the suspension OF the Bank of
Lyons and the run upon the Union Generate
Bank of Paris has about blown over, both
banks having proved able to meet their liza.
blites
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-01-28

The city OF Atlanta, Ga, had barely got
through rejoicing over its splendid and sue
Il was visited by the fire fiend, wiplng out IN
iew hours all the profits /, had reaped from
the big show. Early on Saturday morning
drc broke out in the basement of Blacks Can
dy NJ Mandatory, one of the largest buildings
IN The city, and before the fire department
could get to work the whole building was en-.
veloped IN flames. \ high wind blowing at
the time the fire spread rapidly, involving ten
other large business places In the destruction.
Fortunately at this time the CLOUDS came to the
rescue OF the inefficient fire department, and
sending down heavy ram, put the fire out.
The loss IS estimated at 100000.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-01-28

Berk, VooyheeS and HtgolS on the Pension Blu
| "A r-ieSthettcR Sliding IYoma1'g
| RENTS ORce WOre
tFrom Our Regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON d. c., Jan "a, 1882
| The past week was marked by the practical
failure of committee expansion in the house
after a somewhat highly spiced debate and by
a discussion of the arrears OF pensions bill, in
which Senator Beck of Kentucky had the
hardhood to dcnouncc the measure as fraudu.
lent and most unjust imposition upon the
taxpayer. Senator Voorhees, appeared to have
secured a momentary triumph by replying
that this nation could not hagge with its pre-
servers over the price of their blood, and Sena
tor ingalls, of Kansas said he was for the ap.
preparation first and last, no matter whether it
amounted to millions or billions Senator
Beck was not as pyrotechn:cal rs the other
two Senators, and he won applause from the
galleries, but the sober second thought of the
country, whether it comes now or fifty years
hence, Will be with him. In this arrears Of
pensions act there has been a prodigal waste
of the national treasure, and that treasure is,
for those who can discern it, hut another name
for the blood which Senator Voorhees, used
with such telling rhetorical effect
But we have had other entertainment than
Congress this week. The National Woman,
Rights convention has been IN session. and the
aesthetic crank, Oscar Wilde has for the mo.
mcnt quite eclipscd Gulteau as an object OF
morbid curiosity. Popular idols cannot all be
hung, and therefore must be endured. Unlike
Guiteau, Wilde does not run on theology, poll.
tics and assassination, but piques himself on al
bitterness in art, which Is thought to be more
artful than artistic He reeks with ultrapoeti.
CAL supcrTsthetcal art. Art oozes from his
every pore, and he Is Shiny with the art love.
sick maidens adore. There is report this
morning that such was the stress of his clio.
Quencc while talking to a young lady at the
hotel yesterday that she utterly" tainted. The
aesthetic craze is not fully diagnosed as yet
put enough is known to say that 1t Is epigunIc
and not epidemic. That women only and not
men grow wild Is shown in the fact that the
Establishments of the long haired bore had no
effect on Speaker keifer. He sent IN his card
during the session OF the house, evidently ex
pecting that the Speaker would accord him
admission to the floor and that the members
of the house would give him an ovation, which
would be worth thousands as an advertisement
Speaker Keller answered that he could be seer
at his hotel. 1t is pity that our women Will
make such jennies of themselves over an aes.
thetc sham, but we have our revenge in the
recollection that the English women ran after
our Joaquin Miller and Walt Whitman in
somewhat the same way.
The Woman's Rights Convention presented
the same old cast of reformers and performers
They have added nothing to their repertoire
of resolutions, speeches, reports and collec
tons. Miss Anthony and Mrs, Stanton are
very old; they will not appear at many more
conventions When they are gone the moye.
ment will have lost its ballast and its brain.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-01-28
CONGRESS has again done about nothing al

CONGRESS has again done about nothing al
week. Monday and Wednesday were given
to eulogies on the deceased Senators Burnside
and Carpenter. During the remaining three
days the two houses were in session the only
bills passed were the bill to retire Judge Hunt,
the bill to pay Mrs, Lincoln $4,000 as arrears
of pension, and a pension hereafter of 5000
year; and bill to remit the duties Oh Ger
tain clothing sent over from England for the
suffering negroes III Kansas, Sherman made
the closing speech on his 3 per cent. funding
motion to lay 1t on the table was voted down
by 4j against %
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-01-28

GRAND RAPIDS, Jan. 27.--The Fall River
Grand Rapids and Brookfield Insurance Co
have made their annual report and make .
good showing. A little more vigor in its
management is desirable, however.
Sam Harley is home from Nebraska and
Kansas. He reports Mrs. Carrie Judd as suf
ferng from a disabled arm; that Mrs. Andrus
Moore has married rich widower that Bill
Porter IS buying lands at Girard and growing
fat on roast buffalo. Sam is going back there
himself to settle and grow up with the country
Sufterin Meyer had dance Tuesday nigh.
Considering the nasty weather only small
crowd of youths and festive maidens appeared
and weled the floor IN good shape until sun.
rise Mr. Hen. Titzel and Miss Z. Basore.
Mike Costello and Annie Meyer, Olive Letsor
and Mary Ann Engles, c. Basore and Almie
Tltzell, Elaine Wilkerson, axe Hettle, Johnny
Harragan, Will Adams, Joe Harris, Bob Wing
Bob Wagner, Miss Soles, and others logged out
in new store clothes shook the rafters to the
tune of "And Johnny Goes Shouting tor
Sarah" | am requested to thank Mrs. Meyers
and Jake Wagner for vlctuals generously donat-
ed to the hungry but thankful guests.
Mr.. James Batkin has been seriously i'll tor
some weeks, but his friends hope to see him
regain his strength soon.
The sociable at the Hickory Point church
last night was not a success on account of the
miserable roads. Our pastor will preach as
usual on next Sabbath.
a few persons in East Fall River are en-.
deavoring to compel the Commissioners to lay
road to the Marseilles bridge. The effect
will be to compel Fall River to build half of 8
bridge there, as the present one has been con.
demned as unsafe. Bird Bickford says he is
going for those Fall River tax liars if they
don't come down handsomely for that bridge
The attention OF the Superintendent OF
Schools is called to the board of directors in
the Lewis district, Fall River. They are about
as lazy and shlftless crowd as any civilized
community can show. On account of the con-
dition of the school house, the children of the
district have been compelled to sponge on the
neighborlng schools all winter. Finally when
the other schools refused to receive them any
any longer they reused up and hired
teacher. AS 1t is, the district isn't entitled to
any funds as they haven't had six months
school. and it would teach them good lesson
it they didn't get any.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-01-28

Melville being IN command of the whaleboat.
Before proceeding to Irkutsk, Melville says he
had found the place where De Long and his
men were left by Ninderman and Noras and
had not found De Long there, which seems to
Indicate that they had not perished, but had
been able to make their way inland to some
safer shelter where they will doubtless be found
when, later in the season, Melville, who is to
remain in the country, is able to continue the
quest. No tidlngs yet Of the second boat.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-01-28

NEw RAfLROAD.-rhe Joliet Ncars of We'd
nesday says ENGINEERS are running lines
on the flats to-day for a branch of the Chicago,
Burlington and Quincy railroad from Sheri-
dan, on their Streator branch, to Joliet to con.
meet with the Michigan Central Cutoff line.
There is also talk Of the line being continued
10 Mendoza on the Illinois Central The lines
'he engineers are following are the ones com,
monty known as the Mendoza, which has been
followed over so many lines already"
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-01-28

PROBATE CoURTs.-A decision Of the SUI.
preme court of this state, rendered last week,
has created wide alarm particularly in Chlca-
go, by wiping out the Cook county probate
court, established by act of the Legislature IN
1877, and declaring all Its acts and proceed
lngs illegal. The court has been IN operation
over four years, and during that time has pass
ed upon and settled the title TO property valued
at Sl0,0O0000. Now all this action is declared
to be illegal and void. On that point Cooley
on Constitutional Limitations Is quoted rs
follows:
When statute is adjudgcd to be unconsti.
tutional, it is as if 1t had never been. Rights
cannot be built up under 1t; contracts which
depend upon il for their consideration are
void; it constitutes protection to no one who
has acted under it, and no one can be punish
ed for having refused obedience to 1t before
the decision was made.
The consequences of unsettllng all this hti-
cation ofcoursc are OF the most serious Kind,
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-01-28

New York dispatches on Monday announc
ed the death in that city of the Hon. Clarkson
n. Potter, eXrcpresentativc In congress and
for years prominent as a democratic politician
Of that city and state, Two years ago, when
by the Kelly detection, the rest OF the demo
cratic state ticket in New York was defeated
by 10000 majority, Mr.. Potter came within a
Few hundred votes of beng elected lieutenant
governor his personal popularity even draw.
ing to him the bulk of the Tammany vote
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-01-28

"THEY ALL DO ITu-For investigation, dis,
covery and research, there Is no time like VIII
ter People are often more at leisure then than
at other seasons. Long evenings give time for
reading, thinking, counting, and doing chores
generally. The glare Of day is not shut in
and toned down by leafy covering, by green
sward, by delightfully."- growing bud and fow-
err Front yard and back are as to that mat
ter, on a level and no pretentlous upper.crust
and aristocratlC airs at the front door can i'm
pose on the passerby. if the shutter hangs by
one hinge over dirty window, if the gate
don't swing, and the fence is out of its perpen-
dicular, if the feathers of turkeys lie round
IN easy familiarity with the scrapings Of the
the gentle traveller passing by has = sense of it
and an impression. If the trees and shrubs
hard by have an unkcmpt look, like a school
boys hair when he gets out of bed, if the
out calling that the folks there are easy-going
people, and not Of that kind always IN stew
about dirt and slackncss. Dingy paint, the
walk to the front door, or loose boards, the
sidewalks indicating age in rottenness and
hard usage generally, all help to make lmpres.
sons on the newcomer. Not alone every old
shanty, but every red.looking, rickety gate,
the heap of rustlng cans and piles of ashes in.
dictate when people can live comfortable"
and not be IN an everlasting fret about being
nice. When the world wants quiet and people
are looking for a home,-that's the place that
will be at premium. Mankind can't always
be stralghtlaced and go in tights. Churches
and school buildings, painted and standing in
lawns, amid trees over-arching, suggest taxes
and blue blooded aristocracy. High notions
are of no use. This world is largely made of
dirt Are we better than our fathers:
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-01-28

WIile the weather hereabouts has been ex
seecIngly variable during the past week,
about half the time mild aud sprlnglke and
The other halt wlnterish with the thermometer
from freezing point down ION Tuesday morn.
ing) 10 zero, the week throughout New York,
New England and Lower Canada has been one
Of intense cold. The reports on Tuesday and
Wednesday from all portions of New England
are the lowest temperature In thirty years,
many towns reporting So to 40 degrees below
zero. The Piscatauquis river at Portsmouth
vas frozen over for the first time since 1857
at New York the thermometer sank to 8 be.
low, at Poughkeepsie to l6, at Albany to ~,
and at Saranac lake TO 40 below.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-01-28

D. NJ Ferry & Co., Of Detroit, the well
known seed men, place US under obligations
for packages Of their excellent vegetable and
flower seeds for 1882, These seeds are well
known in this market, beng kept by all cur
dealers, and their excellence has been so album
dainty tested by our gardeners and florists as
70 place their popularity on a solid basis
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-01-28
OUR CLUBBING

We are prepared to club the FREE TRADER
with the following publications furnishing both
It the prices named, postage prepaid, The
offer-open to old subscribers or new at any
cost office IN the county-ls the CHEAPEST
RIVER MADE IN this county;
fRsE TRADER and Chicago Weekly Times. 90
FREE TRADER ana LnIcago Weekly Tribune. 2o5
vR.E TRADER ana Chicago Weekly Inter
FREE TRADER and Chicago Weekly Jour"ds' 90
FREE TRADgR and ST. Louis RepablicdH..., ITO
FREE TRADER and st. Louis Globe Denocrdt. 100
PREE TRADER and n Y. Weekly Heram 90. 2'30
FREE TRADER and AHlericda Agr'utgriSt. =. 2'6O
FRRs TRADER and Prairie Farmer ......:. 3'oO
FREE TRADER and either of Harper's publ
cations, .-.......,.. '''' '''' '''
FREE TRADER and Scribner. .........,.,.'.. 80
FREE TRADER and GodeYS LddieS, Book. '..' 3'OO
Free TRACER and Phr8o'oGicaI JomHd! 3.OO
FREE TRADER and 81. N'c|o'ds. ...,,.... 3'W
FREE TRADER and Dc1n0reStS MoHtht5 ,.,.. 30
FRgE TRADER and LittepS LiUiag Age...... o,25
pRBE TRADER and Western Rurdt. 1920. 300
FACE TgApeR and Noo~e's Rurai Netc Yorker 800
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-01-28

The Illinois Central Railroad, whose poverty
come Of its officers and the RaiI,o0y Age have
lately been lamentng, we notice has just de,
clared a scmrannual dividend of 3ls per cent.
Seven per cent year IN dividends, with a
good surplus over, is rather too good a show.
lng for the company to make such poor
mouth over
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-01-28

William Neal, one Of the men charged with
The murder of the Thomas girl and Gibbons
children near Ashland, Ky, month ago, has
been tried, found guilty and sentenced to be
hung. Craft and Ellis, engaged in the same
crime are next to be tried, and little doubt is
entertained that both will receive the same
rpntpnrp
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-01-28
SMALLPOX

The State Board of Health is receiving dis.
patches OF the appearance OF smallpox at new
points in this state at the rate OF about four a
day, but think the disease Is not on the IN.
crease. The Board has extended the time to
vacclnate school children IN counties where
smallpox now exists to February lst, and in
counties yet tree to March 1st
In Chicago there were at last dates 100
smallpox patients in the pest house, with new
cases at the rate Of about 8 day, and deaths
about 3. Health Officer De Wolf says it is
impossible TO stamp out the disease while
tramps and others from outside are constantly
being sent in broken out with the disease
Seven such tramps came in in one day infect
ing dozens, no doubt, If not hundreds on the
way.
At Pttsburg the new cases still average
about 80 day; and about the same at Rich.
mond and Norfolk, Va. In New York city
the total number of cases last week was 80 III
Philadelphia during the same week there were
% deaths from smallpox, an increase of II
over the preceding week. The first case ap-
peared on Tuesday AT Hartford and on Wed.
nesday at Omaha. Boston is still free from
the pest, but there has been great alarm over
the appearance of case at Amherst college
In Michigan the pest is on the increase, and
believed to be on a stand in Ohio and Indiana
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-01-28

TAE JEANETTE CREw.-The Navy Depart
ment at Washington on Saturday had later dis
patches from Eastern Siberia in regard to the
crew of the unhappy arctic search steamer
Jeanette. From these 1t appears that Dayen-
hover and his eleven men of the whaleboa,
had reached Irkutsk in safety. Davenhowcr
being incapaciiated by blindness, accounts fos
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-01-28

By the burning OF some store sheds at
the upper end of the C., b. q q. Railroad
Company car shops at Aurora, on Tuesday,
half dozen cars were destroyed, including
the splendid Directors Car No. POO, which had
cost $4,000 one dining car, two rattan smok.
ing cars and other cars-all INVOLVING a loss
Of from $4,000 to $65,O0O.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-01-28

VIM. A. Jordan has been appointed post
master ut Morris, which shows one editor out
of luck. The Rev. Gilbert II. Robertson has
been appointed postmaster at Sandwich, which
shows one editor in luck, Mr.. K. being editor
of the Sandwich CGs,tte, The latter appoint
ment, however, appears 10 have given general
lispust
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-01-28

The real name of the safe robber, giving his
name as Little, of whose shooting at Dallas,
Texas, an account is given IN another page,
10 ascertained to have been OTIS Goody, Of Bur.
lingame. Kansas.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-01-28

A religious revival at Madison, Ohio, has
become so attractive that the stores and tacto
ries IN the place are closed in the afternoon to
enable the owners and employs to 60 to
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-01-28

The Mendoza Bulletin is In line with the en-.
Tire press Of the county, with one or two paid
exceptions. IN scoring the so-called "Hoge
plan Of publishing The proceedings of the
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-01-28

Berk, VoorheeS and H,goUs on the Pcasioa Blu
"A Super-1 eahet5cM YSho,a--IVomaa'g
RENTS once W0re
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-11-11
Voluntary Editorial from the Dubuque
Herald.

ALIENS LUNG BALSAM is popular remedy
in Dubuq re and the surrounding country. The
druggists whom We have Interviewed in reg lrd
10 the sale OF different remedies for Lung Dis
eases. all speak IN high terms of Aliens Lung
Balsam not only as having the largest sale, but
of giving entire satlsfacu wherever IL is used.
Ia relation to its excellent curative properties,
we can speak from experience. having used 1t in
our family for long time.
As an ExpectOrant 1t Has No Equal.
For Sale by ALI Medicine Dealers.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-11-11
New York General Marker.

New YORK, November 9.-Southern
-four fairly active and steady; common to
fair extra, 81. 65a5 so; good to choice do,
S5.60a5.67. Wheat, opened dull, and TAI
lower, but subsequently recovered from the
decline, and advanced sa14, closing firm, at
shade under the highest rates; No. 2
spring. nominal ungraded red, 87k; No.
2 red, November, 864a873. Corn, cash, 2.
higher and scarce; ungraded, 8OaS8; No. 2.
November, SlaS3t. Oats opened .ak lower
and closed strong; the decline recovered;
No. 3, 4ota4lt; do, white, 424a43. Coffee
dull and rather weak, on spot sales; Novem-
Der, Sc Is. Sugar dull and unchanged;
fair to good refining, 7sa72; refined lower
Molasses steady and better inquiry; sales,
New Orleans, 5000. Rice steady and quiet.
Wool dnll and unchanged. Pork quiet and
firmly held; sales, new mess, spot, S22 25a
22.50; city family mess, quoted at $25. 90;
options nominal; long clear 124a12A Lard
cash aud November, about 10 higher, clos
ing strong; later deliveries 24a5 lower and
dull; sales, prime steam, spot, $12.50;
November, $11.77aa11.95; December,
ST. 25af1. ga
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-11-11

According to the cambridge Banner,
little child seven months old, of DR.. ID. I.
Coil. was badly scalded last Tuesday Ii
was sitting on the floor near the fire and got
hold of coffee pot with hot coffee IN 1t,
pulling it over. It's hands were scaioed so
badly it is feared it will loose them.
Call on l.. ZFBINDEN, northeast of ceme-
terv. on Broad street, for Hyacinth, Tulips,
Crocus. Lily and other bulbs, also Came
las. Aealios, Cape Jassamines, monthly
Carnations, etc Bouquets, and cut how
ers. nov II q"
cambridge Banner: Vineyard Brlmer, an
old and highly respected citizen of the 3rd
district of this county, died recently, at the
advanced age of 80 years. Previous 10 his
death. he had the misfortune to loose his
eyesight entirely He was perhaps, the
oldest man in jefferson County. He was
soldier in the war of 1912, we believe, and
was peDsiOner.
LADIES. call on Miss Elise Humbert and
get your Dresses made at the Latest Styes,
under telegraph office, Church Street.
nov1ld2t.
The wrecked car, with the bursted wheel
from the effects of which John Denton lost
his life, has been brought to the shop. The
bursted wheel, we notice, by the imprint,
is not of home manufacture, but came
from Columbus, Ohio 1t had only been in
use about two months.
Forty Varieties of Crackers al
Bearden's.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-11-11
Yellow Fever Prevented.

The engineers of the Central Railroad of
Georgia say: Though exposed to the
worst miasmatic influences, going in and
coming out of Savannah at different hours
of the night, and also in spending entire
nights in the city during the prevalence of
the yellow fever epidemic of 1874, with but
the single exception of one of us (who was
taken sick but speedily recorvered) we con-
tinued in our usual good health-a circum-
stance we can account for in no other way
but by the effect under Providence, of the
habitual and continued use of Simmons
Liver Regulator while we were exposed to
this malaria"