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The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-03-29
Vicinity Items.

The Aurora watch factory has common
ced work,
The Wenona Coal Company has ordered
two new boilers 10 be used in sinking the
air shaft, and work will be commenced
soon.
- Rev Mr. Al. Colwell, on leaving
Srcator was on last Friday evening pre-.
sented with silver table service by the
Baptist church of that city,
II is reported that the Wenona miners
have decided not to accede TO the reduc-
ton proposed, and are likely 70 90 out on
strike next Monday evening.
Streator Noaitor: Walter CONFESS, of
Eagle, has two valuable horses sick with
spinal meningitis in the Streator feed yard.
The disease, 50 far n, We can learn, comes
on with sweating and fOaming, then the
TANKS begin to culver, and the animal soon
loses the power of its hind limbs and is
compelled 10 lie down, The animals ap.
petite continues good, but it is unable TO
ret up until the disease leaves it, They
sometimes die from this disease, but with
proper care generally recover
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We are authorized to announce WILLIAM sToR-
MONT as a candidate for Supervisor for the Town of
Ottawa.
We are authorized to announce LYME 5. WHIT
MORE Of Mendoza, candidate for the Office OF
Recorder of La Sale county subject to the decision OF
the Democratic County Convention.
We are authorized to announce the name Of NlCHO-
LAS HEATING as a candidate for the office OF Com
missioner of Highways of the town of Ottawa at the en-
suing town election.
We are authorized to announce the name of NJ. j.
CASSIDY as candidate for the office of Town Collector
for the town Of Ottawa at the ensuing town meeting
We are authorized TO announce l. A. WILLIAMS as
candidate for Alderman of the first ward, subject to
the wishes Of the of the ward at the ensuing city
election
We are authorized to announce the name OF Thos.
f. MACKINLAY as a candidate for Commissioner OF
Highways for the township of Ottawa.
We are authorized to announce that FRANK p.
DONLEvY is candidate for Assessor for the town OF
Ottawa
We are authorized to announce that V. b. WEEKS Is
candidate for Assessor for the town of Ottawa
We ase authorized to announce LOTHRoP PERKINS
as 3 candidate for Supervisor for Ottawa township.
We are authorized to announce G. W. MATTHIAS as a
candidate for Collector for South Ottawa township.
Wa are authorized to announce the name of D. HoL
Locker as q candidate for the ofsce OF Assistant 81
pervisor for the town Of Ottawa.
We are authorized to announce that SAMUEL DREl
FUSS IL candidate for Assistant supervisor for the
town Of Ottawa
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-03-29

Henry Miller and wife have gone N
Olive. Kan, to reside. Their residence
was purchased by Herman Hoffman
Billy Wenner is at school in NaperVilie
Harvey Short goes to Dixon next week
Sam Gift, jr., has rented the old Alder
Smith farm near Dimmick station and
now resides there,
Billy Budd can be seen on Our streetsa any
day. He is hale and hearty and says he
will 20 to Iowa in the spring As people
there are civilized.
Any one in want o. Nchoolmarn can
get full supply in Homer, as there are
six new ones.
Lots of fun in town running for Office
W. H. McNally and brother Frank nc
conpanied by Jennie have taken up then
summer quarter, on the old Mitsc TrainoI
farm.
Insurance men think in this vicinity
fresh subjects are getting scarce.
PEDRO Il Co.
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From Ophir.
JOsHUA Pussy

OPHIR, March %, 1SS4.-Spring is now
upon us and the average granger gets his
plows sharpened, etc, preparatory to com
mencing work.
Our sleepy town of Homer is now awake,
The new railroad that is 10 run from Peru
- Belvidere will hit the town, hence all
are happy and property is advancing. Our
motel for the past two weeks has been
crowded with surveyors.
Sam Deaner, of Waterloo, Ia has been
he guest of his sister the past week
Pedro is laid up with neuralgia. He has
nj eaten square meal in six days, so he
is in deplorable state.
The sketchist that travels with the sur
veyors took sketches of the young ladies
in Homer Sunday. He will have their
photos next spring to label cars with
A brand new style Of dress is now raging
in Homer Here is description of 1t a,
seen by Pedro. A dark lower piece, sur
mounted by red figured waist, straps run
ming over the shoulder to keep the lower
part up and the upper part down, the low
er part of the dress is wide, very wide, bu
very narrow where gents arm should
make band. We hope our girls will no
get loving and support this style. 1t should
die young.
Mr. Frank Reed will press cider will
three new hydraulic presses this summer
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Probate Court.

ow's REIMBURSEMENT and inventory approved.
Estate of Bertha Watterwcll Administra-
| tor ordered to cancel mortgage.
Estate of Canutc Watterwcll, Same order.
Catherine Fishbern, adm y, &c, v Francis
W. Loshburn. Administrators ordered to ex-
ccute deed to purchaser.
Estate of Abraham T. Armstrong. Public
sale of personal property ordered.
Estate of Bernard Carlin, Annual report
approved.
Estate of Edward Fogarty. Claims OF
S94 IS allowed, and report of sale of real es-
tate approved.
TIC. Fullerton ct al v Richard j. Fullerton,
distracted. Petition for the appointment of
conscryator. Jury return verdict finding
the defendant Il drunkard and in consequence
of such incbrety appoint John d. Coy son
scrvator
Estate of Susan Moore, Inventory APP
proved.
Estate of Lambert Hellstern Inventory
Improved.
Estate of Henry Bansct. Inventory ap-
proved.
Estate Ellen McGowan, Inventory APP
proved.
Estate of VIM Roth. Inventory and wild
ow's REIMBURSEMENT and selection approved.
Estate of VIM. Marcus. Inventory APP
proved.
Estate of Gideon Mace. Claim of $500
allowed.
Estate of Henry Schad. Final report APP.
proved.
Estate of Emma c. Buell.. Estate settled.
Estate of Daniel L. Chapman. Final re-
port approved.
Estate of George Wohlend. Same order.
Estate of Chas Dixon Same order.
Estate of Anna Maher. Estate settled.
Estate of Ludwig Schcidenhelm. Same or
der.
Estate of james Spence. Same order
Estate of Elizabeth Ford. Same order.
Estate of J D. Brown. Reporc of sale ap.
proved
J'riah ). Painter V, Anna Ilanley Petition
for appointment of conscrvator. jury
finds defendant lunatic and unable to take
care of her property, and that a conservatol
be appointed according to law.
Estate of David job IN. Administrator
ordered to sell property at private sale.
George W. Ravens v Margarctta Seller
Petition for appointment of conservator
Jury fni defendant distracted and that a con
servator should be appointed.
Estate of Nathaniel Pierce. Report OF ac
counts approved.
Estate of Ellen Holland. Appraiscmen
bill approved.
Estate of Aaron Brown. Report of account
approved,
Guardianship of Ella A. Hoag ct al, Ap
praisement bill approved.
In the matter Of the conscrvatorshlp o
Lewis G. Willard. Conseryator authorized
make loan of 800.
Guardianship of Isaac Stouder. Report c
accounts approved.
Guardianship of Chas. Z. Eastwood ct a
, Inventory approved.
l Estate of Susan Bombard. Administrator
report approved
Minnie Wiget, admX., &c, ". Jacob Wig'
ct al Bond for sale of real estate to pay deb
{ approved.
Estate of Catherine Jaeger. inventory al
proved.
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What IL did for an Old Lady.

CosuoCToN STATION, n. Y, Dec. y, 1878.
GEyTs-A number of people had been using
your Bitters here, and with marked effect
In one case, a lady of over seventy years, had
been sick for years, aud for the past ten years
has not been able to be around half the time
About six months ago she got so feeble she
was helpless. Her old remedies, or physicians
being Of no avail, sent to Deposit, forty-fve
miles away, and got a bottle of Hop Bitters
1t improved her SO she was able to dress her
self and walk about the house. When she
had taken the second bottle she was able te
take care of her own room and walk out tc
her neighbours, and has improved all the time
since. My wife and children also have de
rived great benefit from their use.
w. b. HATHAWAY,
Agt L. s. Elk. Co.
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very Remarkable Recovery.

Mr.. Geo. '. Willing, of Manchester, Mich,
writes: MY wife has been almost helpless for
five years, so helpless that she could not turn
over in bed alone. She used two bottles of
Electric Bitters, and is so much improved that
she is able now to do her own work"
Electric Bitters will do all that is claimed
for them. Hundreds Of testimonials attest
their great curative powers. Only fifty cents
q bottle at Lutz & Briggs
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-03-29

Theron p Keator, editor of the TT. Wayne
Ind, Gazette, writes. "For the past five years
have always used DIR. Kings New Discovery,
for coughs of the most severe character, as
we'll as those of mlder type. 1t never fails
to effect speedy cure. My friends to whom
have recommended it speak of it in the
same high terms. Having been cured by it
of every cough have had for five years,
consider it the only reliable and sure cure for
coughs, colds, etc" Call at Lutz IL Briggs
drug store and get free trial bottle. Large
size 800.
Messrs G. E. Penney and F. L. Fiske, OF
this city, have each given Undine Hose
Co. $40 as rewards for the the boys efforts
to save the property of those gentlemen at
the resent fire.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-03-29
Circuit Court.

The bushes, of thi, court during the past
week Ia, been principally confined to Que
case, McManu, V. HOssack, wherein the
plaintiff sues for the recovery Of grain
burned at the warehouse fire. The jury dis
agreed.
Jodgo,ca'-Ransom Bullock ct al vs. VIM.
5. Gardner, 500
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-03-29

/" Michael Riordan, Ottawa, girl.
James King Ottawa, girl.
= Phillip Bruck, Ottawa, boy.
" Vim Day, Ottawa, girl.
" John kengsby, Ottawa, girl,
" Michael Curtin, Ottawa, boy.
- Isaac Classon, Ottawa, boy.
Michael Lonnergan, Ottawa, boy.
John Smith, Ottawa, boy.
" John Egan, Groyeland, girl
" VIM Quantance, Rutland Village, girl,
" Levi, W Kelly, Rutland Village, girl.
" John Armon, Rutland Village, boy.
A." Henry schmidt, Peru, boy,
4" Walter Bateman, Marsellcs, boy.
" Henry Moral, Marscilcs, boy.
Andrew ii Narland, Rutland tp., boy.
" Patrick T Mclaughlin, Streator, boy.
" Thos ID Bowers, StreltOr, boy.
" Isaac f. WilkS, Streator, girl.
4" Peter Wcltengcr, Streator, girl.
4" Almond \ Smith. Earlyilc, girl.
" ID W Bowin, Freedom, girl
In addition to the above were twcnty-thrce
others, filed ON the 18th inst, by one ply.
stefan, in all Of which eases the births oc.
CURED in the year, is? and lS>3.
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MARRIAGES.
N7IITI
Slec lastreport marriage licenses have beer


Size last report marriage licenses have been
granted rs follows
Charles Knapp and Joanna Singer,
Alfred Baird and Amelia llagcdorn,
Orrn p Howe and Mrs Henrietta Bigler.
John ID McNcan and Lcona Mason,
Edward W Schlcngmnn and China Walker.
Sidney |. Weller and Minnie T. Foster.
Otto Breeze and Mary Freeman,
Alfred Piles and Lavina Whalcy.
Tho, \ Rankin and Ellen Dadd
John Holmes and Hannah Guy.
VIM W Mason and Annie Worrel
John Eylic and Minnie Jesse.
Dclas DcvcrcauX and Anna VI kilingston
John W Juehlcr aud Wilhclmina Tlrich.
Robt : Simpson and Ida O'Neil.
f. B Bradley and Margaret II. Porter.
Isaac Merritt and Margaret \ Patterson
Dwight J Perry and Mrs Mary + eagle.
Henry Lutn and Della Thompson.
II Nicholson and Hattie Critics.
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=.
In the Offices.
BIRTHS.
proved.

BIRTHS.
Record of births filed in county clerks o
fee since last report;
Mrs. II Sherry, Mendoza, girl.
j + New, Marseilles, twin girls.
Richard Grantham, Marseilles, girl.
VIM l. Mackey, Streator, boy.
John James, Streator, boy.
90 Jas Mills, Streator, girl.
Ayel Landeburg, Streator, boy.
Jacob Schaas, Peru, girl.
- Schench, Ottawa, boy.
John Surman, Peru, boy.
Frank Holsnger, La Sale, girl
John Morten, Peru, boy
Gottlieb Wenzeck, La Sale, boy.
g. Frank Rosenkranz, La Sale, boy.
James y Cain, Allen, boy.
Vim Jones, Deer Park, boy.
d Stone, Marseilles, girl.
Geo W Bignale, Marseilles, boy.
Ferdinand Walling, Allen, boy.
John Sphinx, Ransom, boy.
" Samuel L Makeeyer, Manllus, boy.
Joseph Dean, Ottawa, girl.
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The poor Mans confidence.

The loss of time to many a rheumatic suf-
fercr is a worse agony than the disease Inc
remedy which Is prompt and etficacious is his
only real bcnefactor. Says Mr.. F. Smith, OF
622 S. 9th ST., Phila. II suffered so much
from rheumatism without prospect of relief,
that borrowed the money to buy bottle of
ATHLopHoRos. After seven doses had not
sharp pain or ache Have been at work
ever since. 1t is all that it is claimed for it,
and will prove sovereign balm for many a
poor suffering soul.
Tue Strcator Ere, Press has nominated
John K. Marshall, Of the Yorkville Record, for
congress. Let's see, didn't the Free Press
nominate Mr.. Cullen for second term some
two years ago:
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,Married.
ANNOUNCEMENTS.

on the 18th inst, by Arthur lockwood, Esq" Mr.
HENRY LUTIS to Miss DELLA THOMfSoN' ooth ol
Enrlyille, La Sale county. Illinois.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-03-29
County Gossip.

La Sale Deu0cyut "The town oi La
Sale, having larger mining and manuiac
turing interests than any other III the
county, and able and ready 70 shelter and
give honest employment to more WORKING
men than any other town, is taxing and
has, during the present administration
taxed the county treasury double what any
other town has asked to feed and clothe II
poor, A few favored merchants and the
great dispenser Of town patronage look OF
and smile, while the rank and file OF tan
payers grin and bear it. How can we eX
pect county aid for needed improvements
like the bottom road, when confronted at
every session OF the board Of supervisor:
with La Sales pauper bills and coolly in
formed that our account is overdrawn :"
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-03-29

Streator N0nit0r.: I'VE understand that
there are parties from Philadelphia now in
the city looking after the prospects for wa
ter.works here, with view to securing IA
contract for their construction There is
nothing so absolutely essential to the pros,
perity of Streator at the present moment
as the matter of securing good water sup
ply. Manufactures of all kinds are kept
away from us on account of the impossi-
blity Of procuring water on reasonable
terms and at convenient points; and within
day or two we have heard at several per.
sons from abroad who declined to locate in
one of our suburbs because good water
could not be obtained by sinking wells.
We hope the city council will take this i'm.
portant matter into their prayerful consid-
Grafton at an early day
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Streator Free Press "The coal operators
of this coal field have been carefully con
sidering for some time the question OF
wages to be paid to miners this year, and
though there has not been positive decis
ion Of the question yet, the general opin
ion is that wages will remain the same as
last year While there has been an active
market for coal during the past year, the
prices have been so very low that scarcely
any margin of profit at all has been left tc
the operators, and the question that they
h we had to face was whether they could
continue prices as they are or whether they
would have to ask the men to accept 6
small reduction
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An Editors Tribute.

Group, the childrens enemy, is subdued by
using Downs Elixir Lutz IL Briggs.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-09-12
Animal PlnglIes.


The plague Of rabbits in our Austria
lasian colonies is one of which much has
been heard and it appears that another
European animal, the dog, is about to
follow the example of the rabbit, and
make himself a pest in place of pet.
1t appears that the number of wild or
semi wild dogs has recently increased
largely in Victoria and New South
Wales, and the consequence is great
slaughter of sheep by these nomads.
The government has already offered re-
wards for their destruction. In New
Zealand some enterprising people have
hit on the idea of importing wcasels and
stoats from England to keep down the
rabbits; but If the former increase in
their new habitat as the latter have done,
the last state of New Zealand will be
worse than the first, for plague of
rabbits must be as nothing compared to
plague of weasels, and a great increase
of the latter, from their predatory and
destructive habits, must be followed by
a considerable alteration in the distri-
button of the fauna of New Zealand.
In Jamaica, according to the last re-
port of the director of public gardens
in that colony, the planters suffered
greatly from the depredations of rats
among the sugar canes. The rat-eaten
canes were good for nothing except rum,
and accordingly large sums were spent
In poison and dogs to keep down the
rats, but apparently without much sue
cess. At last an cntctprising planter
determined to import the mongoose from
India to destroy the rats on his sugar
estate. The sugar planters, Mr.. Morris
says, have unquestionably benefited
greatly by its introduction, and at-eaten
canes are now hardly known where for
mery they were found in large quantities.
But the new importation continues to
multiply and spread not only on sugar
estates, but on the highest mountains, as
well as along shore, even amid swamps
and lagoons; and when the sugar-cane
rat Is wholly exterminated, the mongoose
will still go on increasing, and what
thenl Must the colonists find something
else to exterminate the mongoose, and
save their poultry, and so on al infnitum?
As 1t Is, negro settlers and persons not
connected with sugar estates complain of
Its ravages among their poultry and even
accuse it of destroying fruit and vege-
tables; and although Mr. Morris doubts
whether these complaints are all well
founded, he acknowledges thai the mon
goose is the cause of great disturbance in
the animal life of jamaica Harmless
yellow and other snakes. lizards, ground
Matching birds. rabbits, and many mem
bers of the indigenous fauna of the island
are likely to become extinct at no distant
ate.-Ndture.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-09-12

Our library and school educational
globes have, perhaps, been puzzle to
many an inquisitive mind-they being so
light, so easily turned on their axes, and
So smooth as to appear more like exact
natural productions than mechanical con-
structons.
The materia! of globe is thick, pull
ply paper like soft straw board, and this
is formed into two hemispheres from
disks. A flat disk is cut in cores, or
radical pieces, from center to circumfer-
ence half of the cores being removed
and :he others brought together, form
ing hemispnerical cup. These disks
are gored under cutting press, the dies
of which are so exact that the cores
come together at their edges to make a
perfect hemisphere. The formation is
also done by press with hemispherical
mold and die, the edges of the cores be-
ing covered with glue. Two of these
hemispheres are then united by glue and
mounted on WIRE tie ends Of which
are the two axes of the finished globe ;al
this work is done while the paper is in a
moist state. After drying, the rough
paper globe is rasped down to a surface
by coarse sand paper followed by finer
paper, and then receives a coat of paint
or enamel that will take clean, smooth
finish.
The instructive portion is a map of
the world printed in twelve sections,
each of lozenger shape, extending
from pole to pole, exactly as though the
peel of an orange was cut through from
stem to bud in twelve equal divisions.
These maps are obtained in Scotland
generally, although there are two or three
establishments otherwhere which produce
them. The paper of these maps is very
thin but tenacious, and is held to the
globe by glue. The operator-gencrally
Il woman-begins at one pole. pasting
with the left hand and laying the sheet
with the right, working along one edge
to the north or other pole coaxing the
edge of the paper over the curvature OF
the globe with an ivory spatula, and
working down the entire paper to an alb
solutely smooth surface.
AS there are no laps to these lozcnge
sections the edges must absolutely meet,
else there would be a mixed mp mess,
especially among the islands of some of
the great archipelagoes and in the ar
bitrary political borders of the nations.
This is probably the most exact work in
globe making, and yet it appears to be
easy, because the operator is so expert in
coaxing down fullnesses and in expand
ing scanty portions, all the time keeping
absolute relation and perfect joining with
the other sections and to their edges.
The metallic work-the equators, meri-
dams and stands-are finished by ma.
chinery. A coat of transparent varnish
over the paper surface completes the
work, and thus globe is built.-Scien-
fj6c 4 ,usrjrIO
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-09-12
HARVEST,

The reapers sang in the shaded lane,
And the laden wagons came creaking slow,
While the kind farm mother her table spread
For the field was bare and the sun was low
The sun was low and the day was gone
The toll was over and harvest done.
looked and sighed, as the yellow store
Was borne away to the yawning NOW,
And thought of the trimming garner floor,
And the harvester's tanned and sweating
brow,
Till | sighed again in the fading light
While the tired world slept in the lap OF
night.
sighed for the tender plant that died
When the cold north wind untimely blew
sighed for the grain that never sweiled,
For the blightei sheaf that never grew;
sighed for the harvest days that seem
Like the waking mockery of dream
knelt in the dim sweet summer night,
And whispered prayer of trembling faith,
That He (who nurSeth the sleeping grain
TIL life comes smiling from darkest DEATH
Would not scOrn the scant sheaves had won,
When life was over and harvest done.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-09-12
A New Scheme to Drive the Blues
AWAY

Let any one who feels limp and out Of
sorts 90 to some hilly place where there
are woods to ill the air with oxygen, and
there sit in "A sunny spot with a narrow
bag of ice on the spine, The chest will
expand and the lungs put forth all their
power to inhale. If there be microbe
in the system $50 copiously is oxygen let
in it must almost directly be burned
up. The sense of vitality is so great
that one is under the illusion of
being youthful again. A gentle warmth
pervades all the body; the skin looks
bluer, the trees greener. London
Truth
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-09-12

"Wclls Health Remover restores health and
vigor, cures, dyspepsia, sexual debility. 81.
Hay Fever. My brother Myron and myself
We're both cured of Catarrh and Hay-Fever
last July and August by Elys Cream Balm.
Up to December 2S these troubles have not
returned. -Gabriel Ferris Spencer, n. y.
Hay-Fever. | was afflicted for twenty years
with Hay Fever. | used Ely's Cream Balm
with favorable results, and can recommend it
to an.-Robert w. Townley, tex-mayor)
Elizabeth y i
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-09-12

But she did not die. She recovered
her strength by degrees.
at is better than any medicine" she
said, "to know that Matthew is thinking
of me and for me-"
And Uncle Paul-'the last straw" as
she called him-had proved her salvation.
81 didn't want her to go as Joe's wife
did, ~ said Uncle Paul.