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The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1883-01-27
The Fire f'iend

Al Quincy, H., early on Friday mora
ing, while many of the guests were still
asleep, the cry of fire ran through the
Quincy House, one of the largest hotels IN
the city, followed by wild panic and o
mad rush for life Half naked, and scared
out Of their wits, men, women and child
rem mmbled out into the cold streets,
thankful TO have escaped the flames which
they saw devouring the property which
they had been forced to leave behind them
BY the greatest good fortune only two per
sons were injured out Of more than hun.
bred who fled from the flames. The loss
is estimated at 100000.
AT SrREAroR, ILL.-About seven
o'clock on Sunday evening 1t was dlscov-
cred that the new German Catholic church
was on fire in the furnace room. In few
minutes hundreds of people were on the
ground, but nothing could be done to save
the doomed building. The fire department
and others set to work to save the adjacent
dwellings, which they succeeded in doing,
though Julius Moses house, seventy-tive
feet south and w. A. Funk's house, sixty
feet north, were both scorched. One or the
other of these buildings must have gone
had there been anything but direct wes,
wind, and in either case 1t would have con
sumed whole block OF dwellings The
loss on the church is $500; insured for
$4,000.
AT NASHVILLE, lLL.-Early on Sunday
morning fire at Nashville, H., destroyed
nearly block Of business buildings, in
vOlving a loss Of about 100000 The
principal losers are: II. Holston, general
merchandise, loss $2s 900, insured $4,000;
John Martin, loss $4,000, insured $4,000;
Judge Goodman, building, loss $4,000, in
sured $4,000; ]. c. Brown, loss on build
ing and stock $4,000, insurance $4,000;
Meyer Bros, loss 5000, no insurance !;
Mrs. Margaret Sewell, loss on building
$4,000, no insurance. Over twenty other
smaller losses swell the aggregate to the
amount named. The Court House also
burned, but most OF the records and papers
were saved,
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1883-01-27
THE SKIPPING BILL.

| That was very sh0rl-lived triumph
gained In the House at Washington On TIT
l1th by the friends of American shipping
interest when they secured the adoption %
two important sections to the pending
shippiI Z bill, by the strong vote uf 1874 u
sc, to the effect ID tina, all m terials from
abroad entering into ship-building shal
be admitted free of duty: and, (2) tina, cl'i-
zens of the United States shall have lhe
right to purchase ships wherever they Car
be bought and to have them registered-ir
other words, the sections provided for FIRE,
ships and tree materials" To these sec
tons the bounty grahbers" had opposed q
section providing that any Amer can (johu
Roach) building ship for the foreign
trade, or trade between the Atlantic and
Pacific coast, shall have bounty from tne
national treasury equal to the duty on the
material used the san e as If IT had betn
imported. The adoption of the former
sections of course killed the latter one.
But as we said AT the out-tart, the trI-
umph of the friends of free ships was n
short one. The Roach lobby Of bounty
grabbers put IN some of their most ehrc-
tive work that night Exactly how much
money they were compelled TO smell oui
viii, of course never lie known, nor WHIT
got II, for rs the vote on the llih WAS in
committee no yeas and nays were taken
and there Is no way to find out who did
the hopping but this Is certain, thai
when the House next day came to vote on
the sections adopted by 50 largea majority
the day before, they were voted down by q
still larger majorily--154 10 54-including
the bounty" section.
The effect Of this action is about the
same as If the House had struck out the
|enacting clause OF the bill. FOR aside from
the three sections referred to there was
nothing in it, except some trivial regula-
tons in regard to when and how seamen g
wages shall be paid. OF course the bill,
though passing the House, will never be
heard Of again; and our poor merchant
marine, thai is going backward and decay
ing al the rate of 20 per cent. year, will
have to llnger along in teebleness and de
crepitude a year or two longer until q
democratic congress can take hold of the
matter and bring back to American com
merce what was the country's pride and
boast III the good OLD democratic days
from 1850 TO 1850, that every sea was
whitened by American sails"
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1883-01-27
A Remarkable Escape.

Mrs. Geo. &. Clarke, Of Port Dalhousie,
Ontario, states that she had been confined to
her room for long time with that dreadful
disease, Consumption. The doctors said she
could not escape an early grave, but forum
ately she began taking Dr.. Kings New Dis.
covery for Consumption and in a short time
was completely cured, Doubling ones, please
write Mrs. Clarke, ard be convinced. Sold by
'G. GehriRg. Trial bottle free. g
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1883-01-27
For Nothing Ever Could Stop It.

A man erected some kind of new
tangled pumping apparatus for ranch
or at Paradise Valley, Nevada. The
pumping machine was to be driven by
wind. The other day, when ten-knot
breeze was blowing, the inventor turn
ed her loose In about half an hour
the machine flooded the cattle corral
with water and foated away the butt
end of o hay stack. The ranchman
yelled to his machinist: "Stop her! stop
hertz but it happened that provision
for stopping was what the inventor had
not thought of. Had 1t not been that
the we'll was soon pumped dry the whole
ranch would probably have been wash
cd away. Even after the well was dry
the machine threw mud and gravel so
wicked that to approach it was unsafe.
The rancher now says: 1T is q good
pump-a wonderful pump--but it needs
q regulator
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1883-01-27
Crime.

lHE HANGNAN.-ATtnur Preston, COL
orcd, 90 years old, was hanged on Friday
of last week, at Belair, Md, for the murder
of his mistress, Mary Dorsey. He made
confession of his crime few hours be
fore his execution. He said they had beer
living together for several months, whel
one night last April he went TO the house
charged her with being unfaithful TO him
and announced his determination to sep
arate from her forever. She became en-
ragged and attacked hun with butcher
knife that had been lying on table. III
took the knife away from her. She ther
took his pistol out Of II cupboard and at
tempted to shoot him, but he forced the
weapon from her They then guarrelet
hereby, and finally he picked up an a,
and crushed her skull ia, killing her in
stantly.
At Washington City, same day, Edmund
Shaw, negro, was hanged in the District
jail yard. on the same scaiiold Gulteau wa.
hanged on, for the murder OF his sister
Susie Carter, near the Government Insane
Asylum, about the miles from three CAPT
tol, one sunday night about two years ago
He also made full confession of his
crime.
BLOODY WOHK.--On the morning Of the
10Th, in Richland Springs, N. Y, triple
tragedy occurred, resulting IN the death OF
Harvey Layton, his wife and mother.in.
law. Layton was subject to fits closely
bordering on insanity, and in one OF these
he killed the women, and then wen,
into an clubhouse and hanged himself,
TRAGEDY AT MILwAuKEE.-At noon on
Monday a terrible crime was discovered \,
Milwaukee The wife of John Zimbrick
q labOrer, living on Sixth street, killed
her three children--the Oldest years and
the youngest IS mon,hs-in a most brutal
manner, literally cutting them TO pieces
and completely dlsemboweling them The
neighbors' attention was attracted to the
scene by the woman's attempting TO hang
herself in an clubhouse. They took hei
down and into the house. When the hor-
rible spectacle was discovered, Mrs, Zlm
brick was at once arrested. She took hcr
arrest very calmly, stating that she had
read to sacrifice her children IN the good
book. The woman is undoubtedly suffer
ing from religious insanity.
ROAD AGENTs.-Early on Monday morn
ing gang of twelve masked men captured
q small station on the Central Pacific rail
road and locked all the employees in the
tank. house. When the cas-, bound express
train arrived shortly afterwards the thieves
side-tracked the engine, robbed the train
men, and proceeded to go through the
train. The messenger in charge OF the
express car was not only armed, but had
the courage to use he weapons, and the
robbers, finding they had struck fighting
man. beat a retreat without having at
tanned any remarkable degree u financial
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1883-01-27

4 Boston merchant advertised for sales,
women," aud had only two spniice.inHs-
gu. from i h..f blind WON IA q: t,J. Az IL
other from & glrl OF Il, who proved 81 gid
dy on days trial rhs. he discharged her
at night The next morning new adver-
tisement appeared, calling tor "sslesla-
dies" and before . O'Clock there was such
a rush that he had to put out sign of
Positions ~ Filled hcf,,. L.s business
could proceed
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1883-01-27
Nc All tinlirNs.

That 1t is a long lane that has no iurning;
that many shaft ST random sent finds
mark the archer little meant; that no remedy
sold will cure coughs. colds, Group, whooP.
ing cough and all throat end lang troubles
so quickly and permanently a. Dr.. Bigelovs
Positive Cure; thatour druggist, s. Y. Griggs,
is very gener0es TO give tr.sl bottles Of the
remedy free Of cO-t
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1883-01-27
Wfnd-Gail-.

These generally innocent little eye-sores
are 10 be found more or less on most horses
that have been ct WORK; but though
doubtless arising from the effect Of work
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1883-01-27

Many wonder how Parker's Ginger TuHiv
can perform such varied cures, thinking il
simply essence Of ginger, when in fact il IL
made from many valuable medicines which
act henescially on every diseased organ See
other Co.umD.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1883-01-27

In spite Of the popular superstition as
TO the number thirteen, the thirteenth
card Of suit is good thing TO hold In
q game Of whist
National Republican., 1883-12-31

THE negro rising in Yazoo City, Miss, has
been pat down by gathering of $50 or 200
armed men from different parts Of the county,
who proceeded quietly to the Jail where the
negroes were confined" They gently hung
Micajah Parker and Bob Swazzie, and peace
fully "shot down" w. II. Foote, who "de-
fed them" and fought for his life with a
courage born of despair" The refusal of
the lock of Richard Gibbs's cell to work
obstructed the purpose of the crowd to hang
him, and they, therefore, shot him to death. "
The telegraphic chronicler of these "quiet"
proceedings remarks in conclusion that
"the public mind had been pretty thoroughly
convinced for the past few days that con.
spiracy had been formed by the negroes to
commit MURDER" and, while many wanted
the law to take its course, others felt that the
safety of their wives and children depended
upon immediate action. We feel q thrill O
satisfaction that tho quiet two hundred go
the four negroes under. Had they remained
in The Jail there is no knowing what ravagc
they might have committed. How long viii
the aggressive and dominating negroes con
tinue to persecute and terrorize the meel
and timid whites of the south2
National Republican., 1883-12-31

and that his weight has not CALLED the back
of either of the horses no has used in the
performance. We do not think tho empti-
moss and Transparent inconsistency of tho
lettcr is due to tho insomnia with which its
writer is said to DO afflicted but rather TO the
confidence q shallow man has in the credulity
and shallowness of others.
We dismiss it with the following quotation,
showing his hostility to the American farm
ers Having advocated tho removal of all
duties from raw materials he says:
BY raw materials mean fuel, al food products,
all materials in which no process of manufacture
has been applied, all metallic ores, and all waste
products which are fit only to be manufactured.
In coal and iron producers Mr. Hewitt has
no interest. lie would abolish the duties on
wheat, corn, oats rye, barley, potatoes, poul-
try, peas beans, tobacco, live stock, meat.
wool, and hay. Surely Mr., Morrison's COM
mittec need look no further than this remark
able manifesto for tho details Of the great
revenue reform weapon which is to unhorse
tho republican party in the coming tourua-
ment
National Republican., 1883-12-31

nothing in tho accounts received Of the fight
ing at sontay TO justify tho sudden in
1ation of French hopes and purposes
that has followed It. 1t has long beon openly
stated that 10000 Of tho best Chinese troops,
drilled and armed in modern style, arc at or
near Bao-Ninh, and IL seems possible that
they may prove evon moro effective oppo-
nents than tho lately-defoated Annamese. If
the comparatively small force undcr Admiral
Courbet should defeat the Chinese at Bac-
Mimi there would seem to be q
more substantial basis for the expansive
designs announced from Paris, but before
taking possession Of Hai-Nan and levying an
indemnity on China it seems to be in order
for the French to demonstrate their ability
to thrash the Celestials, and thereby reduce
them to proper frame of mind to consider
proposals for a cession of territory immemo-
rally Chinese.
National Republican., 1883-12-31

A NICE, cheerful pi.-- for consumptivc
man to read on co., rainy night is The
Shroud, which says that it is "the only indie.
pendent periodical published exclusively in
tho interest of undertakers." Its outside
cover is livened up with pictures of Old
Times hour glass and scythe, cemetery
scene, with the hearse and black horses pass
ing through; broken monument, with the
inscription, Sacred to -" The inspirit-
ing motto at the top of, the page is "Thc
Hour Cometh" A great and ghastly car
toon represents o number of rival undertakers
in deadly battle, with coiiins for cannon. An
other shows man hanging by the neck
from hook, and there are other bright illus
trations such as little boys sitting upon
coffins and the like. The editorials are cal,
culated to make sick man dance with glee
In two of them The ShrOud wishes the under
takers and coffin manufacturers "a prosperous
New Year" Onco II is in small caps and
another time in italics Tho attention o
The Shromd is hereby called to an omission
1t has forgotten to wish the hangman busy
season or the cholera good luck, while small
pox and yellow fcver are conspicuousl!
omitted from the list of anticipated blessings
National Republican., 1883-12-31
THE ROLL OF MERIT.
interesting Exercises at the Fifteenth
street Presbyterinn Church.

street Presbyterian Church.
The Fifteenth Street Presbyterian church
was filled last night with large audience,
the occasion being the anniversary of the
Sunday school. The exercises consisted of a
welcome address, delivered in good style by
Willie Johnson; an essay on the Life of
Ruth" by Miss Grace Shinn, and one essay
entitled Jonathan" by Willie Myers.
Recitations were delivered by Master Daniel
Atwood, Misses Grace Jones, Ella Logan,
and Ella Perry. A pleasing feature of the
exercises was review of the lessons by the
primary scholars under Miss E. \. Fisher,
one of the most efficient primary class teach
ers in the city. After the exercises were
concluded the following pupils were presented
with books by the pastor, Rev. +. j. Grunke,
for punctual attendance during the year
Misses Jennie Dowling, Gertie Smith, Cora
Smith, Maud Smith, Grace and Emmil Shinn,
Mollie Syphax, Ellen oseph. Jennie Jones,
Lila Jones, Jamie Freeman, Marie Freeman,
Lottie Clark, Mamie Moten, Lille Moten,
Ellen Logan, Hattie Contee and Marshall; and
Masters,Danie Atwood, Harry Frank Car
doza Napoleon Marshall, Byron Fisher,
Harry Williams, Richard Smith, and Others
of the main school.
The following pupils in the primary de-
partment received books for punctual attend
ance Charlie Smith, Harry Cardozo Willie
Cardozo, Harry Freeman, Robbie Freeman,
Belini Freeman. Willie Jones, Archie Jones
Jerome Jones, Martha West Maggie West
Adocia Langfoot, Olive Contee, and Gertrude
| Clarke.
A book was presented to Miss Ellen Fisher
| by her class.
National Republican., 1883-12-31
Estntcs In tho Netherlands.

The department of state has been informed
by the United States minister at the Hague
that, in response to a special inquiry, the
Netherlands minister of finance has apprised
his legation that the registers of the commits
sion appointed in 1862 to settle all estates
formerly in charge of tho orphans court of
the Netherlands, do not mention the estates
of any deceased person of the following
names, to wit: Probasco Webber, Tx Tor
OK Brosius, Peter Whittingill, Bonto
Webber, Grove or Graef, Nicholas Kern,
Glider, Thoobald Metzgar (said to have died
at tho Hague about 1772), Melar, Van Horn,
Van Hoesens or Van Huizens, Turner, Fran
els Mast. "These Estates" the minister con-
tinued, have therefore either never existed,
or if they ever did exist. they were distrib-
uted to their claimants before 1852"
The commission mentioned finished its
work in 1879. Under the law of March 8.
1852, of the Netherlands, all such undis-
tributed estates, the sources Of which could
be traced, were to be advertised in the Stats
COWdnt, and if not claimed within five years
were to escheat to the state
National Republican., 1883-12-31

IN the supreme court at Albany, N. Y, OIL
Friday last Frank r. Sherwin, the great
rancho owner and cattle raiser of New Mex
ment in the penitentiary and fined $500 fol
contempt of court in disobeying its subpoena
1t is right that the courts should teach ricl
men tbHt they have no more right to disobey
its process than poor men, but in this cast
the penalty is so dsproportioned to the
otIense that it'amounts to downright cruelty
and injustice.
National Republican., 1883-12-31
PrcsltIentinI postoficea.

Tho following named postoffices of tho
fourth class have been added to the list Of
presidential postoilices, and the salaries of the
postmasters fixed at the figures below stated I:
Eutaw, Ala, 81, 100; Forrest City, Ark, 81 100,
Barnesville, Ga, 81 100; Bellevue, Iowa, 81 900;
Houma, La, 81, 100; Whitestown. N. Y, 81 ,000;
Henderson, N. c., 81 200; High Point, n c.,
$1,000; Kingstown, N. c., 81, 100; Salem, N. c.,
LOO; Tippecanoe City, Ohio, $1,000; Bloss-
burg, Pa, S1,100; Point Pleasant, w. Va,
$1,000. Altogether, seventy-six fourth class
offices have been raised to the presidential
grade during the quarter just ending, num-
Der largely in excess of the number changed
in any preceding quarter.
National Republican., 1883-12-31

TUT French losses in the action at sontay
ne now reported at 800. This is respect
able advance on the trAing loss claimed in
III Grst dispatches received after the affair
rae chances are that they were greater than
has yet been stated, since Admiral Courbct
has found it necessary to await ro-enforcc-
mcnts before conducting further opera
tlons 1t is stated that of one COM
pauy Of 40 only twenty men and one
officer escaped, which would seem to indicate
that the resistance of the Black Flags and
Annamese was not overcome without despor-
ate lighting. France is acting as if all she
now has to do is to reach out and take any.
thing sho wants. Conceding the great
superisrity, man for man, of the French
troops over their opponents, there is still
National Republican., 1883-12-31
Dnshn,yay REFORM club.

Masonic Temple was well filed with an in
telligent audience last evening at the regular
public meeting of the well-known temper
ance club. The exercises were conducted
by the president of the club, Mr.. Charles NJ.
Nye. After the opening prayer by the chap
lain of the club, Rev. Mr.. Burghardt, the
president intro duced in avery complimentary
manner Mr.. Holden, of Providence X. l., who
for the past fourteen years has been worker
in the temperance cause, especially among
the boys His address was both practical
and interesting and was replete with illus
trations from every day life. Mr.. and Mrs
Frean aud son favored the audience with O
trio entitled Drink Cold Water" A large
number signed the pledge.
National Republican., 1883-12-31

THE New York World pleasantly explains
that Mr.. Dana has retired his Holman boom
because he has discovered that Mr.. Holman
is too nice man to be wasted upon dis
abled democratic party. Along in the early
part of next November some distinguished
but badly defeated democrat will wonder in
the midst of his anguish what Bill Holman
had ever done to deserve such superior luck.
National Republican., 1883-12-31
Court Martial Sentence Approved.

The President has approved the action of
the court martial in the case of Chaplain
Toussiant Mesplie, U. S. A., who was con-
victed of having duplicated his pay accounts
and sentence to be dismissed the service.
He has also approved the sentenced of the
court martial in the case of Capt Chambers
McKibben, U. S. A., who was convicted of n
similar offense, but who, in view of mitigat-
ing circumstances, was only sentenced to be
reduced ten numbers in relative rank Of the
CAPTAINS of infantry,
National Republican., 1883-12-31

"THIs man Hayes, most people say, is
for it to conciliate the south. He may be-,
but hardly believe he is for many things
he should not be for" SO wrote G. P. Hunt
ington June /, 1877, to Friend Cotton" He
evidently thought "this man Hayes" "a
good fellow" despite the story of his friend
shin for the T. 2. Il. r.
National Republican., 1883-12-31
He Cnnnot be Landed.

The secretary of the treasury has decided
in the case of the Chinaman, who was brought
to New York on the ship Resolute, that he
cannot be landed in the United States, but
may be transferred 90 any other vessel
which may bc going to foreign country.
National Republican., 1883-12-31

ANY nation that excludes American pork
on false and injurious grounds should be
taught civility by retaliation. The people
who turn up their noses at our pork send to
us many articles which had better be sub
iected TO chemical analysis.
National Republican., 1883-12-31
It Is to be Hoped They Won't Bite.
Goipestoa Nsus.

The republican party stands for protection by a
tariff with incidental revenue. The projections
lists wanted to contrive things so that they would
have had the democratic party committed to a
revenue tariff with incidental protection, thus
getting protection saved anyhow. That plan does
not work. The democrats refuse to bite at the re-
publican file. The makers of short platforms may
now proceed to adjust their eyeglasses to shorter
platform. No protection In the tariff.
National Republican., 1883-12-31
GJlIp Nalluital KEpnhIicalr,
Term, To sphscrlbernt

naily edition 10y mail, postage prepaid) per year,
$500 six months, s4.oo; three months, $500. To
city subscribers delivered by carrier-Por year
500; per month, zoe.
Weekly edition postage propaid), per year, $3.50
tix months, 75o,
Sample copies sent on application.
Remittancea may be made at our risk either by
draft express postofoe order, postal note or reg
islcrcd letter. Money sent In any other way Is at
lie risk Of the person sending It. Address
THE NATIONAL REPUBLICAN,,
Washington ID. O.
National Republican., 1883-12-31
Well Expressed.
Philadelphia Press.

If popular sympathy for Con, Grant could re
lieve his pain, he wouldn't have the shadow OF
an ache in his body. 1t may mako him patient
however and reconciled to his temporary incon-
venience know that his present distress has de-
fined his place in public affection more clearly
than anything he could have done or said.
National Republican., 1883-12-31
rnrninr over the FIIes.

The ways and means committee, the COM
mittee on military affairs and the committee
on commerce will meet to-day for the purpose
of organizing to install the new clerks and
turn over to them the papers and files OF those
committees. Members have been notified
that no other business will be transacted.