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The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1883-08-18

Wednesdays attendance was much larger,
and the races fully as interesting as the day
before The 2.27 trot was reduced to two
starters. Lucy acted badly, and hardly did
herself justice, breaking badly, but the race
was a good one all the same. The score
stood:
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1883-08-18
e, 2:293I, 2:2S3I; purse, $500.

llihe, -'-oIA, 5000, Pu'0', Sh'"'
In the 2.40 trot there were nine starters IN
double tiers. The race was little tedious
owing to the difficulty in starting. 1t was
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1883-08-18
COUNTY ASYLUM.

Notice 10 hereby gIyen. thAt on Thursdays
abo Fridays Of each week visitors will he ID
nisted 70 -. Asylum. Ne visitors admitted on Sur.
days. TIC. GIBSON Colnty Agent
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1883-08-18

Time, . AZ, 2.3513, 2.3I14, 2.oo; purse, SiOO
An !mpromtu running race was also given,
two half mile heats being run:
Geo Lambs Maud. ...................l /
L. Hess's Mollie. ..............-......2 2
Herman Strawn's Dan. 8
Time, 81 sec, SO Sec; purse, stakes.
Thursday was great day with large at
tendance. Toronto Maid had the "pic.nlc"
in the three-minute race, winning in three
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-23

was much terrified by the vehicles, when a
great big policeman stepped up and said,
Don't be afraid; when I'm with you you are
perfectly safe
THE population of jerusalem" continued
the lecturer, lis about 10000. The in
habitants dwell in different quarters accord
ing to their religion, and each nationality
hates the others cordially. Each speaks its
own language and preserves its own customs.
The donkey is very useful animal in the
Holy Land, and you see him everywhere.
When donkey is lost crier goes about the
streets chanting. All good people who be-
lieye in Christ or Mahommed, or who have
no religion at all, give up that donkey and
you'll get salvation, and anyway dollar
When Jew gets up in the morning he
thanks God that he was not born a woman.
In Mohammedan countries all brides are
paid for c, o. d. The groom provides the
trousseau. There are no latch-keys in the
East When a man comes home late and
knocks at his door, all the windows in the
neigbborhood open and everyone is politely
anxious to know where you have been at
that hour" The lecture was illustrated by
an exhibition of some Eastern social Gus
toms, and at the end prayer was recited by
the Oriental gentleman, who also sung
song,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-23

is not necessarily fatal unless there is such a
freezing below as works total exclusion of
the air.
Happily, it will not be for long that we
will have to wait to see what we shall see;
but it will hardly be read in the chapter of
accidents that wheat has escaped unhurt.
The rural Jeremiah has had cause for his
lamentations during the last year.
"Unmerciful disaster
Followed fast, and followed faster"
Even the magnificent wheat crop was vex-
alton of spirit, and great expense besides
Many waded in water to harvest it, and the
binders behaved like balky horses. But we
rise superior to such discouragements Many
of us again, like Logan, never felt fear,"
and will not turn on our heels to save pone
or pie. The dismal prospect is already bright
ened by more cheerful prices. Iago, in the
play, contemplating the result of the quarrel
he had made between Roderigo and Cassie,
chuckled at the thought that whether he
kill Cassie, or Cassie him, or each do kill the
other, every way makes my gain"
ROB Roy, Ind, Feb. Is. J.M.c.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-23
POLK'S PROPOSITION.
His Friends Present Plan Proposing a
Full Settlement with the State.

Nashville Special, February p.
The counsel for NJ. T. Polk, the defaulting
State treasurer, to-day presented to the Leg
jslature the appended document:
The undersigned are requested by some
friends of Colonel NJ T. Polk to make the
Legislature, through your honorable COM
mlttee the following proposition for a Sc /
Element in full of the amount of the deficit
OF Colonel Polk to the State They will pay,
within ten days after its acceptance by the
State, 100000 in the currency of the Bank Of
Tennessee and $75, 900 in the bonds of Ten
nessee, upon which are accumulated cou-
pons to the amount of 1913 700, but which
will not be taken into account as part of
the credit of the bank, and within ninety
days more to pay $75, 900 more in the cur
rency of the Bank of Tennessee, the bal
ance of said alleged deficit to be
paid by the note of Colonel Polk, due
in one year from date, which shall be Sc
cured by mortgage, or such other mode OF
indemnity thereon as the State may desire,
upon the interest of Colonel Polk in Mexi-
can mining property, which interest is the
one-third, and is coupled with the obliga-
lions of his co-owners that he shall pay out
of the first receipts of said property the sum
of 5,000 said interest shall be taken in
charge at once by an agent, designated by the
State and Polk, empowered if necessary to
operate said property, free of expense to the
State, secure the proceeds and apply the same
to the discharge of any balance due by said
note which, however, may at any time be-
fore payment otherwise be paid in the
currency of the Bank of Tennessee. We are
satisfied the above proposition is all that his
friends can do, and if accepted will be carried
out promptly and in good faith"
Ex-Ireasurer Polk, who is still in jail, is
very ill., and his physicians fear that if con-
fined for several weeks together he will die.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-23
LIFE IN JERUSALEM.
Domestic and City Life Described by Miss
Finkelstein.
Now York Times, Sunday.

Now York Times, Sunday.
Domestic and City Life in Jerusalem, :"
was the subject of an interesting lecture by
Miss Finkelstein last evening in the Cooper
Union. The lecturer was dressed in Oriental
costume, pink frock with wide blue trou-
sers, and little blue bonnet with gold trim
ming. She was led upon the stage by a gem
tleman, her brother, in the dress Of native
of Jerusalem, who seated himself upon a
divan in the middle of the platform, and
smoked a "hubblebubbe" pipe with a
long tube. Miss Finkelstein began with
an Eastern song of welcome, which
sounded to the untutored ears of the audi
ence like sort of Cheyenne war-hoop.
"The earliest mention of Jerusalem, ~ said
the lecturer, takes us back to the days of
Abraham, 1000 years ago. but it was not I'M
til David was king that the city fell into the
hands of the Israelites 1t was strongly for
titled and was considered impregnable. When
the Ark of the Covenant was conveyed
thither the city became the religious as well
as the political center. The city is sur
rounded by a wall 60 to 80 feet in height
with mighty battlements and towers with
loop-holes. The walls are guarded by SOL
ders night and day, and the six great gates
were formerly all closed at shutdown and not
opened until the day broke again. As the
sun set the gateman came forth and called in
a loud voice: Come, the sun is setting
come into the city or the gates will shut
you out; and just as the last rays
disappeared the massive portals closed
with a crash. All who came afterward were
admitted by little door in the middle of
the gate, which was called the eye OF the
needle The streets are very narrow in
Jerusalem, and there is no such thing as
right of way, so that you see donkeys and
people tumbling over one another in the
crowded thoroughfares There are no oblig
ing policemen there to help one across. "A
lady who had lived in Jerusalem all her life,
and who was visiting New York for the first
time, once said to me that New York police
men reminded her very much of the Savior
Broadway to the Aston House one day, and
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-23

National hepuDncan.
What this generation is most nterested in,
next to the protection of all American indus
tries, is the firm establishment of the Union
for which such sacrifices have been made,
and the fultillment of the hopes which were
aroused by the new constitutional guaran-
tees of civil and political freedom. The ped
agogue and his pupils need not neglect their
sums" the solutions of which are to be
passports of adolescence into place, but the
people of this great nation would have
already decayed if they could not be
aroused to the impending danger of
the restoration of the Bourbons TO power
Not incompetent clerks, expensive scrubbers,
short hours OF department employment, or
influence of leaders over followers-none OF
these loom up, threatening national destruc-
ton. The great danger for the prevention
of which the people would gladly rally if
leaders would call, is that which would come
from the return to power, for purposes of re-
prisal and revenge upon the nation, of the
Bourbon haters of free schools and lovers of
free trade. Upon the subject of opposition
to this calamity Republicans can unite.
Hopefully engaged in this work, harmony
would reign, even among the men who diff
fered in 1880 as to the Presidential nomina-
ton.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-23
Pendleton and Bayard.
Boston Herald.


Another sight of daily occurrence on the
avenue is that presented by Gentleman
George" Peudleton, of Ohio, and the Cheva-
lier Bayard, of Delaware ~These two are in
separable and after the close of the session
and during the winter, walk together to and
from home. AS the session advances these
two senators can be seen ensconced in a
basket phaeton drawn by two handsome
black horses, the turnout being the property
of the Ohio statesman. Many persons have
remarked the tidy appearance OF these TWO
legislators, for. no matter how fatiguing the
labors of the day have been, they are fault
lessly attired whenever they take the Gus
aomary promenade.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-23
WISE ADVICE.
MIR. Burdette Gives Valuable Pointers Against
the Old Inhabitants.
Cincinnati Enquirer. a..

Cincinnati Enquirer.
Robert J. Burdette, the Hawkeye humor-
list, was in the city yesterday, en- route to
Manchester, where he lectured last night
An Enquirer reporter met him, and asked
what he thought of our flood.
ITS almost as bad as Burlington cyclone
Indeed, it strikes me as being cyclone re-
duced to liquid form"
Mr.. Burdette asked how the oldest inhabit-
ant was bearing himself under the humila-
ton of defeat, and, without waiting to be
told said he supposed he had crawled into a
hole and pulled the hole into the vacuum
to keep the water out. He had no
sympathy for the old party who had
been lording it over us for so many
years, and said it would not grieve him a
particle if the vacuum sprung leak and let
the water in on him. Nothing but hydraulic
pressure would squeeze from the o. l. an adj
mission that we had had a flood at all. He
had no doubt that as soon as the andtedilu-
Wan liar got out he would point with pride
to trees on Walnut Hills to which the Indi-
ans had tied their canoes when he was boy.
Mr. Burdette counseled firmness on the part
of the people of 1888, and suggested that we
insist upon our rights. He tn ought the Old
est 1nhabitant should be kept down at all
hazards, and advised hitting him on the head
with bucket of water every time he spoke
OF cloudy weather. We had the edge of our
old enemy, and we were not the brave mer-
men and fair mermaids he took us to be if we
did not keep it.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-23
INSANE FROM GRIEF.

Braidwood tnl.) Special.


Braidwood md Special.
At Braidwood yesterday, the scene of the
late mine horror, the men who were busy
around the mine noticed a sorrowful-looking
woman approaching the shaft with baby in
her arms. A strange look in the face OF
the woman attracted the attention of a man
who stood near and he thought something
was not right. He therefore followed her
down the road toward the crater-like open
ing in the surface of the prairie that marks
the spot of one of the most
terrible calamities that has ever
befallen an American village When
the woman had gone a short distance the
man heard a shr;ll laugh. He watched tn e
poor creature closely, and when they reached
the brink of the opening where the waters
entered she became strangely affected, and
cried out in accents that were not those of a
sane woman. Herman, we come to youp'
and with a shrek, she would have thrown
herself into the pit had she not been re-
strained by the man who followed her. She
was pulled away from the edge and asked
why she would have taken her own life and
that of her baby, and she only replied by
making piteous appeal TO release her and
let her jump into eternity. She was taken
to her home and n physician called, who
pronounced her crazy from the nervous
shock that she had received upon the receipt
of the news of her husbands death. Her
name was Mrs. Herman Unger.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-23
Pan Not Dead.

70 the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal:
Your correspondent has read or heard, or
1t has otherwise entered his mind that there
is tradition, legend, or some such thing,
that away back in the mist of NEUROLOGICAL
ages the god Pan would from time to time
show himself Oil the mountain tops or sides
and brighten the shepherds and their focks
in the plains below, so that they would run
hither and thither pell-mell, hurry-skurry;
and that this event would thereafter be
spoken of as a Panic. Whether this is true
and why the guardian of shepherds would
behave in such way are questions for others
better versed in NEUROLOGICAL lore.
The Journal recently announced his
death. But, dear Journal, Pan is not
dead, but lives, blooms and is
still freaksh in his perpetual
youth. Several times in the last twelve
months he has made his appearance, with re-
suits more serious, there are reasons to be-
lieve, than mere panic. Certainly the floods
of the last spring and summer did most Sc
rious work over the agricultural districts
affected by them and it is true of the corn
that much of it was not ripened thoroughly
enough to terminate 1t is now pretty gen
orally conceded that the corn crop of 1882
was enormously. overestmated, and much of
it is of quality so inferior as to be unmar-
ketable; fact which seriously affects the
business of shippers. 1t is not probable that
every district was equally disastrously af-
fected, and, forewarned and forearmed farm
ers will exercise great care in selecting corn
Tor seed. They are unusually hopeful of a
good crop for 1883, based upon the
belief that the close winter will leave the
ground in good condition, as it was not left
last spring after the open winter that pre-
ceded it.
The injuries inflicted on the agricultural
country by the rains that turned to ice on
she trees and ground cannot be lightly con-
sidered.
The picture of the gloomy granger rising
In the night and going out to gather branches
of the peach, the cherry and apple trees
might have been painted in freer colors and
with more liberal brush. Some of us
might have gathered up the whole tree from
the ground, leaving only the trunk standing
like Logan "leafess, branchless" AS to
what are to be the consequences to the
wheat crop, opinion takes wide range.
The winter of 18S0-81 it will be remembered,
was in some respects similar to the
one just past There was long-con-
hnued and severe cold freezing the
earth to a great depth. There were rain and
sleet storms, and water sometimes stood in
ponds over the fields, the ice holding all
with a hermetic seal. Now mark the result.
The wheat was in good part frozen or smoth-
cred to DEATH What survived maintained
sickly existence, and yielded light harvest.
Doubtless there are other conditions of the
earth that contributed to the result, but it is
believed that heavy crust of ice over wheat
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-23
A TeleGraphic Feat.

San Francisco Exchange, Feb. 10.
Under the head of interesting telegraphy
the Exchange referred some days ago to a
wonderful feat that took place between Bos-
ton and Guaymas over circuit of $500
miles. A still more wonderful feat was per-
formed between this city and Valencia Bay
Ireland, a few years ago, and we think was
noticed in the papers at the time. A con-
tinuous circuit was made up between San
Francisco and Hearts Content (about 4, 500
miles, the cable landing on the American
side. As very delicate instrument is used to
telegraph through the cable, this circuit
could not be worked beyond the end
of the cable, but conversation
was held between the operator
at the instrument in San Francisco and the
one at Hearts Content, and then request
made to see how soon reply could be had
from Ireland. The message sent from here
was as follows: ITO operator, Valencia Bay
Ten o'clock here what time is it with you?''
The reply came almost instantly as follows:
six o'clock in the morning, and the maids
are milking cows" From the time the mes
sage was started from the operator here I'M
til the reply was received did not exceed
three minutes The above extraordinary
feat took place under the immediate direc-
ton of Mr.. James Gamble, who vouches for
the correctness of the above. The distance
to Valencia Bay and back makes about 49,
600 miles. The difference in time between
San Francisco and London is about eight
hours,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-23
Congressional Eulosies.


1t is better to abolish the practice at once
and forever. Nobody ever petioned for IL; it
is waste of time, and an injury to public
morals. Nobody holds the dead man in any
higher esteem because of these ELUSIVE obse,
ques, where members, with rare exceptions,
are always understood to atttudinize for
some effect. Grief rarely takes that form of
expression, while faith in the market value
of an epitaph has never been high enough to
justify more than the smallest minimum OF
invested capital.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-23
Using Locomotives as Poker Stakes.

San Antonio NIeN.l Special
A report has leaked out here regarding a
great game of poker played in New York
some time ago between several railroad
kings during which one of the gentlemen,
having lost all of his pocket money. offered
to put up engines as collateral Fortune
still combatted him, and at the close of the
game he had lost three of the best engines
he owned. They are now running on
the winners road in this State, their num-
bers being %, q and 26, and are valued at
$40 900.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-23
CROWN JEWEL FLOUR.
BRUSH ELECTRIC LIGHTS

BRUS H ELECTRIC LIG HTS
Are fast taking the place of all others in fac.
tories Foundrles, Machine Shops and Mills.
Parties having their own power procure an
Electric Generator and obtain much more light
at much less cost than by any other mode. The
incandescent and storage system has been per.
fected, making small lights for houses and stores
hung wherever needed, and lighted at will, day
or night. Parties desiring Generators or to form
companies for lighting cities and towns, can
send to the Brush Electric Co., Cleveland, o., or
to the undersigned at Indianapolis.
/ CAVEN
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-23

THE finest mayonase dressing for all kinds of
salads, cold meats, raw tomatoes picked sal
mon cabbage etc, is Durkee's Salad Dressing.
Better and more economical than homemade.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-23

WELLS "Rough on Corns." 15c Ask for it.
Complete, permanent cure. COrns, warts bum
ions
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-23
wnv Judas was RuIed Ont

Every year an abbreviated version of the
passion Play" is presented at San Antonio,
Mexico. Last Christmas there was no Judas
in the cast. The leaders explained his alb
sence by saying that the year before the 9TH
er apostles had TO choke him black in the
face before he would give up the thirty
pieces of silver, and they had decided not to
allow him to have a hand in it at all this
time. 1850 80 sues t.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-23

DIR. PIERCE's "Favorite Prescription ia the
debilited womans best restorative tonic.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-01-30

Rink. open every afternoon and evening, lex
cept Suuday.) Admission 25c. Season tickets
$500; double, $500. Skates to rent. Entrance
foot of SibIey street. Electric lights, with
music by the Great Union Band.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-01-30
ENGLISH GRAIN MARKETS.

LONDON, Jan. 29.-The Mark Lane Eac-
press says: The prospects of the growing
wheat crop are about the same as last
week, but the outlook for spring cultiva-
ton gets materially worse as the season
advances. A weaker feeling in English
wheat at the close of the week. Flour
weaker. Trade in foreign wheat off coast
stands restricted by higher rates. The
supply of wheat in London comprises
S,172 quarters from Indian ports, IS, ,084 from
Germany, 1868 from American Atlantic
ports, and 2,542 from Russia. American
maize cheaper. Barley firm but quiet.
Trade in wheat cargoes off coast small.
Red winter unchanged. California Sd
higher. The demand for wheat cargoes,
afoat or for shipment, slackened the past
week, and the business done was chiefly in
Russian grades. Sales of English wheat
during the week, .62,435 quarters, at 4os
4d per quarter, against 49,8ss quarters, al
46s Sd, for the corresponding period last
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-01-30
TOO MUCH COMPETITION.
Rival Postal Concern at Cincinnati.
Especial Telegram to tho Globe.


Rival Postal Concern at Cincinnati.
Especial Telegram to the Globe.
CINCINNATI, Jan. 29.-Mr. J. 81. Brown,
inspector of the postofice department,
filed an information under the United
States revised statutes, before Commits
sioner Harper, who issued summons to
Mathews & Staley, proprietors of private
express. When the deputy marshal started
out to secure them, however, only Staley
could be found, Mathews having left for
parts unknown. The "private express
referred to in the information is said to
be an opposition letter carrier system. It
has been in use in Eastern cities for some
time. Four months ago it was started in
Chicago by one Allen, and was started in
ST. Louis about the 1st of last December
by William S. Mathews and j. j. Cody.
Mr.. Staley bought an interest in the st.
Louis enterprise on the 11th of this month
and Immediately came to this city, open
ing up here on the 18th. The modus
operandi is to deliver sealed letters to any
place within the city limits for one cent.
OAoOd1C0 1OUtCIH, OIC', S0fOugJ-
cents per 100. Small packages two to five
cents each. Deliveries made by carriers
in the same manner as the postofice men,
stamps being attached to each envelope
or parcel. 1t is stated that the business
can be made very profitable, even at the
small rates charged. There are three men
now employed here and Mr.. Staley
will put on three more next Monday. In
st. Louis there are eight or nine carriers,
and in Chicago greater number than
that. Mr.. Staley says that he has received
very substantial support from the business
men of this city and that he thinks it can
be made to pay here. A curious feature
of the affair is that the federal authorities
in Chicago should allow the business to
flourish and grow in their bailiwicks while
the officers here come down on it immedi
ately on receiving information of it. Dis
trict Attorney Richard says that he feels
certain that it comes under the prohibi-
ton of section 1882, and that it can and
should be stopped.