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The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-02-04
THE ILLINOIS CANAL.

The report of the Commissioners of the Hi.
nois and Michigan Canal upon the operation
of that work during 1881 is in the hands Of the
printer at Springfield, and from ADVANCE
sheets correspondent of the Chicago Times
CLEANS the following among other items:
The receipts during the year were $l06,.
6io.57, while the disbursements were SIZE.
242.2o, being s5,6Ol63 less than the receipts
The large expenditure is accounted for by the
Fact that two locks were rebuilt last winter,
and that one additional dredgc had to be kept
In operation during last summer; and further,
that large extra expense was incurred by
reason Of high water, IN protecting the banks
OF the canal and repairing the damage done.
The commissioners had enough ON hand
however, TO meet these additional demands
upon the treasury without drawing on the
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-02-04
GUITEAU.

Washington dispatches describe Guiteau,
since his conviction, as wearing worried
look, while his appetite has failed. He is al
lowed 10 issue 70 more of his blasphemous
addresses to the public, and is shut off from
newspaper and other interviewers, and SEQ
willie says his mail will be dumped, unopened,
into the Potomac.
On Monday Scoville asked Judge Cox to fix
a day for hearing his motion for new trial,
aud stating that one of the main points IN its
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-02-04
CONGRESS-.

Senator Logan, with whom government pa.
ternaism seems to be hobby, introduced a
bill on the 21th ult., and actually got senate
committee to report in favor of its passage, di.
recting the National Board of Health TO pur
chase pure vaccine matter at the lowest whole
sale price and sell it to the people at cost!
Why don't he include Qulnine, morphine, bel
ladonna parogoric and Mrs, Winslow's Sooth.
ing Syrup?
The senate committee on Public Buildings
on Wednesday reported in favor of the pas.
sage of a bill tor the erection of a government
postoffice and custom house at Peoria
Sherman's bill for converting the national
debt into per cent. bonds still occupies the
attention Of the senate On Monday, against
sherman's opposition, an amendment was
adopted making the bonds redeemabe at the
option of the government; but next day a still
worse amendment was adopted on motion of
Plumb, of Kansas reducing the gold reserve
in the treasury for the redemption of green
backs to S100,000000. Sherman was 80 dis
gusted that he declared If this amendment was
and vote against It's passage. The senate there.
by being made duly penitent, obligingly struck
out the obnoxious amendment.
The senate postoffice committee on Wednes.
day reported adversely on the resolution to
grant the Thanking privilege to senators and
representatives for official business, and intro
duced bill for postal cards with flexible GOV.
ers to conceal the message written thereon.
The House on Wednesday fixed February
21th for the Garfield memorial services.
The committee having charge of the appor-
tionment bill has not yet been able to agree
upon report. Meantime Mr.. Colerick has
introduced an apportionment bill in the house
fixing the number of representatives at 316,
and Mr.. Cox presented one providing tor 307.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-02-04

1t has come at last The tide of gold which
has steadily flowed towards this country for
Abe Last three or four years, amounting for a
year or two to over $50, 100000 year, has
turned, and on Wednesday $l,SO0,OO0 in gold
were shipped from New York to Europe
Doubtless the immediate cause of this draft on
New York was the monetary pressure in Eu.
Eope caused by the collapse Of the Union Gen.
eraie Bank IN Paris and the Bank of Lyons
bat our imports have Of late been gaining SO
rapidly ON our exports that the gold tide
wonld soon have been reversed without this
special cause.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-02-04
CITY AFFAIRS.

One of the ablest Judges of our suprems
court once remarked, 81 hold that no city OF
over 10000 inhabitants is capable of selfgov
eminent" If when he made the remark, the
government Of the city of Ottawa for the pas,
year could have been present 10 his mind, ne
| doubt he would have limited the number ofln
habitants to 10000. The scene here presented
has been one of humiliation and disgrace, arls
ing not only out Of the petty and contemplate
chickering's between the mayor and city officers
and ridiculous conflicts of power between
mayor and council, but out of the matter OF
appropriations and continued prodigality and
waste in the expenditures.
TO begin with, the present council started
out by making an appropriation and levying a
tax for ordinary city purposes ofabout s27 600
which exceeded the legal limit on the assess
ment by nearly 100 per cent. That is, whereas
the city Is allowed to levy a tax of one per
cent, the council levied nearly two per cent
The enormous levy, however, would probably
have been quietly borne by the people, if the
money had been judiclously expended. But
every citizen knows that the rule has been one
of continuous extravagance and waste Elk
cept the Cass street viaduct and the graveling
of Ottawa Avenue, what has the city to show
for its $4,000?
But that Is not the worst of it. The city
government not only expended those $27, 900
within the year, but had expended them before
the year was half gone, and by the middle OF
October had III addition borrowed $4,000
from the First National Bank, when that IN.
sttuton refused to lend any more, because
$4,000 was at least two-thlrds of the amount
which the city can legally levy under the as.
sessment, which is the limit of the city's power
to borrow. Nevertheless, the city had It's nu-
merous officers and employees and unfinished
Jobs to pay, and must have money, but instead
OF borrowing from the banks 1t went to Dor.
rowing from the people, by issuing orders
payable in June next and bearing six per cent.
interest. OF course, under the decision of the
Supreme Court in like case IN the city of
Chicago, the city has no power to issue these
orders, nor can a dollar of them probably be
legally collected, though we have no doubt
they will be duly paid at maturity, law or no
law, for though 1t may and doubtless will ex.
haust in advance the entire revenue for next
year, it is to be hoped by that time we shall
have q government OF somewhat higher
grade than one elected solely IN the interest
of the saloon keepers.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-02-04

arrest the spread Of smallpox Logically, the
next step should be the employment OF an army
of government surgeons to attend to the proper
use Of the vaccine matter thus furnished and
the smallpox pest being arrested, the attention
of the same surgeons would naturally be turn.
ed to efforts to prevent the spread of diphthe.
ria, scarlet fever, measles, chicken pox, hay
fever catarrh, &c, DC. The Jeiiersonlan idea
was that that government is best which gov.
erns least" but the Logan idea reverses this
and esteems the government best which gov
ems most
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-02-04
LOGAN.s EDUCATIONAL CRAZE.

John A. Logans project to distribute the
SOL, 100000 annually collected by the govern
ment as a tax on whisky among the states as
an educational fund, not according to popula-
ton but to lllteracy, would have some strange
results. The ratio OF persons unable to read
or write over 10 years of age IN the south Is
about % to the hundred, while IN the north
the average is less than four. The result would
be, that while the population Of the southern
states Is less than one-thlrd of that of the
northern, they would get more than half of
this money. That Is, the amount contributed
600, against $30,00O000 to the north. During
1881 all the taxes raised for educational puT.
poses IN the southern states was 81, f50,965,
and IN most of those states this expenditure
provided at least fair II not first class common
schools for all the children during an average
of SIX months in the year. Mr. Logan propos-
es to add to these four millions $3l 100000
more out of the national treasury, enough TO
enable every southern state to erect a UNIVERSE
ty and in it educate all Its children free of cost
to state or parents The scheme would not on
ly be paternalism run mad, but would involve
an amount of extravaganza, jobbery and cor
ruptiOn that would make our government the
establishment and laughing stock of the world.
While Logan Is apparently essaying to win
the title of the biggest demagogue in the na
ton, he is iD talrer way of winning that Of
the biggest fool.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-02-04

The cheering news comes from north eastern
Siberia that De Long and the party with him
in one OF the Jeannette's boats have been found
and are being cared for. Danenhower tele.
graphs that he will send the men with him at
Tkutsk to st. Petersburg while he himself
will remain behind to undertake an expedition
m the spring along the Siberian coast to find
Chipp and his party, of the still missing boat
Secretary Hunt has telegraphed to Danen.
hover to hire vessel at government expense
and that he will send two officers to assist him.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-02-04
BIG BLAZE IN NEW YORK

New York, on Tuesday, was visited by the
most destructive fire it has had in half dozen
of years. About 10 o'clock A. NJ. there was an
explosion, followed by flames bursting out of
the cellar OF the large building on the CORE r
of Park Row and Bcekman street, occupied
until few months ago by the New York
World and known rs the World Building"
The cellar from which the flames issued was
occupied at the time by the New York Betting
and Packing Company, who had stored there
among their other effects, quantity of rubber
cement, composed of rubber dissolved IN nap
tina, and therefore as inflammable as gun pow
der. An explosion of this sent the flames in
two minutes to the very top Of the building.
The five stories above the basement or cellar
were occupied by no less than twenty different
firms including Pettlngll's large advertising
agency, Rodrigues 81 Sons cigar factory, the
the Turf, Field and Farm, the Scottish Ameri.
can the Euentng Press, the Nati0pal Bank
Note Reporter, and The Retailer, besides book
stores, tailor shops, lawyers offices, patent
agencies, &c. At least five hundred persons
were employed IN the building at the time,
and considering the rapidity with which the
flames spread it is marvellous that so few lives
were lost, the number of deaths not exceeding
half a dozen. Luckily there was no wind at
the time, and the tons of water thrown upon
the building by 30 steam fire engines prevent.
ed the flames from spreading to the adjoining
buildings, among which that occupied by the
New York Times, the Morse building, the
Kelly building and few Others were, howev.
or, somewhat damaged but more by water than
by fire. The loss is estimated at 81 100000.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-02-04

Fhlle for the past week the weather in this
,ion has been balmy and springlike, with
eat raiD, snow or high winds, the East has
"a having spell to remind them Of their
~ iesi experiences last winter On Friday
ara Saturday violent gales caused great de
ssgnction Of property throughout New Eng
had. Three persons were badly injured a
pis.sield, Mass, and a church steeple Wa
t.8wD down. Extensive brick buildings wer'
sconled over at North Adams. A four-story
factory at Nashua, N. H., was moved tw'
sal oct Of line, siampeding two hundred work
res A building filled with carriages wa
1sSisurned at Rochester, N. II. The roof o
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-02-04

the gas house at Rockland, Me-, was destroy.
cd. Three buildings at Burlington. VI, were
robbed of coverings, and the ice was swept out
of the bay almost in an instant. This was sue
ceeded on Monday and Tuesday by heavy
snow storm, averaging fall of over foot in
New England and New York, and extending
westward as far as the Indiana line, the fall
being SIX inches at Lancaster, Ohio. In New
England and New York railroad trains were
generally delayed and in many cases blockad-
ed for a day or two.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-02-04

The postoifice at kankakee, in this state, was
entered by burglars last Saturday night, who
blew open the outer compartment of the safe
and obtained about Sl,100 worth of postage
stamps The inner compartment, containing
three or four hundred dollars of money, how
ever, could not be forced open even with gun
powder. and the attempt TO get the money was
folled. No clev as to who the burglars were,
though then work showed them to be expert
euced cracksmen.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-02-04
OUR CLUBBING

We are prepared to club the FREE TRADER
With the neutrality-suspicious. furnishing both
So the prices named, postage prepaid. Inc
offer-open TO old subscribers or new at any
post office IN the county-is the CHEAPEST
EVER MADE IN this county:
PREa TRADER and Chicago Weekly Times. 81 %
FREE TRADER ana vnicago Weekly Tribune. 2.65
FREE TRADER ana Chicago Weekly Inter
Uv."s vn and cbicaoo Weekly Journal los
RRKg TRADER and St Louis Republican .... 100
RRgR TRADER and st. Louis GLOBE, Den'ocrdt' 90
FREE TRADER and n. Y. Weekly Hera1d -. 2'oo
RREE TRADER and AB,ercan AqricuturtSt' 49, GOV
YRRs TRADER and Prairie Farmer. .....;... DIV
FRsE TRADER and either of Harper's publ
cations. '''' - - -
BRgE TRADER and ScribHer. ............ 40
FRRs TRADER and Godey'S Ladies Book; go. 3'oO
FREE TRADER and PhrTrologcdt Journal. 5'U
FRgE TRADER and 81 Nicholas. ........... 3'gO
FREE TRADER and DemOreSt's Monthly .'. 30
EReg TRADER and Ltteips Living A9e..... SO
gRgg TRADER and Western Rural. .......... 300
FRRB TRADER and Moo~es Rarat Mem Yorker 800
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-02-04

The Public Debt Statement Tor February Is,
q, aces the total debt of the United States n,
iJat date, less cash IN the treasury, at $l,752,
5l2s $50, of which 81 ga 1891 600 bears inter
sst varying from AZ to 80 per cent. The
d pt includes $4,000 in bonds upon which
sa,ere-t has been stopped and which have
beeu due since 1864, also 81 200, 900 due since
1879, and $30O0000 due since last May. A
considerable proportion OF these sums will pro
baby never be called for.
The reduction of the debt for the month Of
January was sl2g78,S36 and for the yeal
about $l5OOOO.OOO. averaging abou, $l25OO,
600 a month. At this rate, In less than ter
gears. the national debt will be wiped out, ant
iben what will the banks do for bonus TO de
,oslt as security FOX circulationr
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-02-04

The papers and people that have been ridi-
cullng John A. Logan's proposition for the ma
tional government to take charge Of the COM
mon schools of the country as "paternalism
run mad" will be puzzled to End terms to
characterize still greater extreme to which
he would carry the paternalistic idea, in his
proposition that the government shall supply
all the physicians and through them all the
families of the country with vaccine matter to
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-02-04

The deadlock IN the New York Legislature
was finally broken on Thursday, the Tam.
many democrats having united with the regu.
lar democrats in electing K, G. Patterson
speaker of the house. As the senate Is pre-
sided over by the lieutenant governor, no in
PERMISSION can occur on account of the disa-
greement of the regular and Tammany demo.
erats IN regard to electng Mr.. jacobs presi.
dent pro TEN.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-02-04

Oscar Wilde, the aesthetic humbug, over
whom the Anticipated division of the upper
srustian society at the east has been raving
Dor few weeks past, was disappointed dy his
reception at Boston Nobody met him at the
railroad station on his arrival and at the hotel
he was treated like any common guest At
his lecture in Music Hall on Monday evening
sixty Harvard students appeared in full dress
coats and knee breeches, and carrying lilies
and sunflowers The gsthete was mercilessly
fuyed and left the platform in towering
passion
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-02-04

The town Of Johnsonville, on the Tennessee
river, was completely swept away by the late
Hood and the great iron bridge which crosses
the stream at that place was saved with diff.
Guilty. East OF Knoxville last Saturday, the
tallest peak of the Buffalo mountains, having
been undermined dy the constant rams tell
from height of three hundred feet, alarming
citizens tor distance of thirty miles
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-02-04

1t is understood that Gov. Cullom will issue
his proclamation for an extra session of the
lllinos Legislature as soon as the apportionment
bill has passed congress, hoping that will oc-
cur within the next three weeks. What topics
he will enumerate for the Legislature TO act up
on is as yet matter of speculation.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-02-04

The agreement OF the trunk lines from CHI.
cago eastward on tariff of freight rates has
been speedily followed by an agreement on
passenger fares, The new rates, to begin next
Monday, are $11 for second-class and $50 to
32325 for frst-class between New York and
Chicago, and $3.50 by the Pennsylvania and
Baltimore roads
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-02-04

A city fashion paper says it Is no longer al
lowable, in wealthy aud aristocratic circles, to
publish the list of the presents at weddings
The reform is in the interest OF good taste and
common sense
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-02-04

The impression, which seems to be quite
general that the dog law WAS amended by the
last legislature so as TO reduce the tax to Do
cents, is an error. The bill so to amend the
law failed 10 pass. The tax Is still 81.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-02-04
$4,000 "safety.valve" appropriate

$4,000 "safety.valve" appropriation Of the
last legislature.
The commissioners recommend the abandon
mcnt of the Little Wabash improvement as
costing more than it comes to-
The following is submitted as an approx
mate estimate Of the expenses Of the canal for
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-02-04
the coming year:

Should the receipts be the same rs last year,
this would leave n surplus Of about 900
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1882-08-26

IL is hereby ordered that the rule of
Court, rendered April 6. lSsO. he and the
same is hereby amended, as follows:
From and after July first, 1882, the
terms of Court of the several parishes
composing the Eighteenth Judicial Dis
trIot shall commence or the following
dates:
Parish of TmgiRahoa.
Jury terms-Second Monday in Janu-
airy and first Monday in June. Court
erms Fourth Monday in April and sec
ond Monday in November.
Parish Of Washington.
Jury terms-Fourth Mondays in Janu-
airy and June. Court terms Second
Monday in May and first Monday in De-
cember.
Parish Of Livingston.
Jury terms-Tuesday after the second
Monday in March, and tuesday after
the fourth Monday in October. Court
terms-Tuesday after the second Mon
day in April, and Tuesday after the
fourth Monday in November.
Parish Of 81. 7dmma,y.
Jury terms-Fourth Monday in March
and second Monday in October. Court
terms-Fourth Monday in May and third
Monday n December
Signed in open court, June II, 1882.
JAS. ~ THOMPSON,
Judge Eighteenth Judicial District
A true copy.
Y. CAsTAING, Deputy Clerk.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1882-08-26
NO. 81.

A Kiss BY MOONLIGHT. The
Spanish student Victorian became
desperately enamolated with the
personal beauty and charms of
Prosperino. daughter to the King
Of Naples. He frequently scaled
the wall at night, in order to steal a
kiss by moonlight while the pale
moonEeams We're playing upon her
chiseled features, and at one time
IN rapturous ecstacy he asked,
what hast made thee 50 beauti-
ful?" Was such 2 question pro-
pounded to our prettiest women,
tfose modern times, the reply
would be. Il simply use ENGLISH
FEMALE BrrTERs. which cures all
aches and pains. It is the only
known Female beautiier and toxic
for married and single.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1882-08-26

Woman's primitive beauty and
visor, which have been lost. can be
restored and retained by the action
of certain constitutional agents.
These agents necessarily regulate,
build u, fortify and antag, nlze all
existing female irregularities and
excuses, or distractions which pro-
duce the i'll health. The remedy
must unload the locked up secre-..
tons, add iron to the blood, strength
to the system and vitality to tho
nerves. Such remedy is found IN
the use of ENGLISH FEMALE BiTrRRss
Il great triumph il the cure of sIck<
ly females.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1882-08-26
IL Nemoriam.

The following poem was written on the
back OF a Confederate State Treasury
note of the denomination of twenty dol
lars, by Maj. :. A. JoNAs, the talented
editor OF the Aberdeen Miss. Examiner,
and as poem Will compare favorably
with any production of modern times.
Representing nothing on Gods earth
row,
And naught in the waters below it,
lis the pledge of nation that's dead
ana gore;
Keep it, dear friend, and show II.
To the tale that this paper can tell;
Of liberty, born of the patriots dream,
OF the sccIm-cradlea nation that fell.
Too poor to possess the precious ore,
And too much OF stranger to borrow.
We issued to-day our promise to pay,
And hoped to redeem ON the morrow.
Days rolled o., and weeks became years,
But our Golfers were empty still;
Coin was SO rare that our treasury
quaked
If a dollar. dropped into the till.
But the faith that was in us was strong
Indeed.
And our poverty well we discerned.
And these little checks represented the
pay
That our suffering veterans earned.
We knew it had hardly value in gold,
Yet as gold the soldiers received it.
1t sazed IN our eyes with promise to
pay,
And each patriot soldier believed it.
But our boys thought little of price or
pay,
Or OF bills that were over due;
We knew if it bought our bread to-day,
Twas the best our poor country could
do.
Keep it; it tells all our history DER,
From the birth of the dream TO the
last;
Modest, and born of the angel Of Hope,
Like our hope of success it passed.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1882-08-26

A mother advised her daughter.
who was going TO party, to oil her
hair, and tainted away when that
candid damsel replied 'Oh, no.
ma !; ii is SO apt to spoil the gentle
mans vests"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1882-08-26

When a young lady went to look
at parasol the other day, the clerk
said "Will you please give the
>Lade you want?" Il expect the
parasol to give the shade l want.
said the young lady.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1882-08-26

Annie Moore's gone away to get married.
And her loss we deeply deplore;
Mong hosts of friends here long she
rarriej.
But she'll never come back Annie
Moore.