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The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-01-05

for some reason was not present me ola
fellows spen, the day IN recalling and
talking over "reminiscences OF the oiden
time and IN the evening were banQuc,cd
by the State Bar Association, which had
met ia Springfield on the same day,
The convention ~ 1877, besides doing
much other good work, was chiefly notable
for its courage, at Il time when the state
was believed 10 be hopclessly bankrupt and
the only recourse population q. It's cnor-
nous lebi, in providing for the two mil!
tax by which in a few year not only the
intcres. of The debt was paid but uumatc-
" The principal
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-01-05

Hon. Gee. w. McCrary, once member
Of the Hayes cabinet and appointed from
thence by President Hayes one OF the U.
8. Circuit Judges for the 9Th circuit, IN
Guiding Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, ETC., has
resigned that high position to accept the
attorneyship OF the Atchison, Topeka &
Santa Fe Railroad Company. HIS predc-
cessor Judge Dillon, had resigned to en-
ter the service OF the Union Pacific Rail-
ROAD Company. A better salary and less
hard work were the Inducements IN both
cases. Thus one by one the best talent of
the country Is gobbled up By the great
monopolies, while the government Ia
Obliged TO content itself with second rate
men
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-01-05
THE FREE TRADER.

With this number oil the FREE TRADER
10 added 10 the firm engaged IN it's publ
cation the name of WILLIAM II. OsMAS,
our younger con and brother. His name
was omitted when the ne" firm Was formed
wear and a half ago only because he vas
not at the time 81 years of age.
We have also the pleasure to announce
that we have just sent of the or1er for a
NEW DRESS for the FREE TRADER, so that
II will ia a week or two appear IN hew and
shining cOlors to commemorate the add
ton TO the firm.
Aud now word appropriate to The sea
SON." Sitting ID our chair editorial IN
this opening OF the new year, /. is pleas
ure to think OF the homes the FREE IRA,
DER visits, and to wish heavens best bless
lngs on them. We hope all--yonng and
old-have enjoyed merry Christmas and
happy new year. Surely the FREE TRADER
ls in hearty s. mpathy with parents in che
rearing OF their lilllc ones; IN providing
for their families the comforts OF life; and
IN the intellectual and moral training OF
their children. We are in sympathy with
the children. the young men and maidens,
and the old folks as well. We appreciate
the noble toll, the thoughtful study, the
ready help, the blessed cheer, and the heav
enly affections which characterize those
many households to which the FREE
TRADER IS weekly visitor. We DO not
know all their names, but 1t is pleasant to
think that we may bring some tribute to
them, help them to knowledge OF the
worlds affairs, its progress In good: that
we may help to scatter seeds OF good prln-
clplcs, Of virtuous and successful lives.
During the coming year, under new and
pleasanter auspices, we shall! hope to do
more and better things for our friends and
patrons In La Sale county than IN the past
1t Is our vocation to give news. But we
would nurture all true life and stimulate
70 what 10 noble and good. We wish to
Gerry good cheer wherever we go that the
FREE TRADER may be recognized as the
true friend, beloved and welcome. and
priced by the whole household. Our ben
,sOn on every reader IN every home.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-01-05
on ,hc 9th ul,. Col. Henry b. Ralhbone,
q we'll known and wealthy citizen of Al

on ,hc 9th ul,. Col. Henry B, Ralhbone,
we'll known and wealthy citizen of Al
bany, ". Y, and connected with and NOV
ing IN the highest New York and Wash
ington social circles, and travelling for the
last year or two IN Europe for his health,
accompanied by his wife and two children,
in III OF insanity IN his hotel al Hanover,
had murdered his wife and then attempted
to kill himself, but although the wound
Inflicted on himself Is dangerous, he was
a, last accounts still alive. Col. Rathbone
was N the same box IN Ford's theatre in
Washington with President Lincoln the
night of his assassination, and Il - said
his mind was SO shaken up" by that
event that he mas. ever since been some
what off" his lailiug hcolth for the last
few years greatly increasing his tendency
10 insanity.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-01-05

TuE BOND TRIAL. The long trial of
the men Montgomery, Pet,is and Clemen.
Il, at Iiilsboro, In this state, for the outrage
on Emma Bond, tho school teacher, near
Taylorville, IS months ago. terminated on
Wednesday in verdict of not guilty The
defense was most ably managed by ex.Su.
preme Judge Anthony Thornton, who
created no little sensation in his closing
speech by denying that there WAS any
proof that the alleged outrage had been
committed q, all, much less by his clients.
The verdict Is not only against the popular
sentiment and expectation IN the neighbor.
hood, but against the judgment of the press
by which the evidence in the case from
gay to day was printed. There is strong
talk in Christian county of lynching the
accused. and though the matter may not be
carried to that extreme, the three men IN.
volved will doubtless find public sen
timent strong enough against them 10 reE-
der Il expedient To leave those parts and
Ego west TO grow up with the country"
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From Texas.
WACO, (Texas) Dec, 23d, 1883.
making pc

DEAR FREE TRADER: Once more we
sit in the twilight OF the old year, and alas
how few can say another leaf has been
added to my history, all unsullied by the
hand of SIN. But enough; goodbye, old
year; record our virtues and foiblps as
thou hast found them.
The weather 80 far has been The mos. ia
vorable on winter grain | ever witnessed,
and as result full fifty per cent. more
grain has been planted this season over
last. With an open winter the oat yield
next year Will be enormous.
Receipts of cotton are falling OFT rapidly
with but little advance In prices.
Our little city has been under consider
able excitement under the proposed cree
ton OF an extensive wooden mill. The
city gives bonus of $4,000 to the com
pany to induce them TO locate within the
corporate limits. The awakening to such
enterprises as this will doubtless prove
very beneficial IN building up the citys
interest. The G. C. s. 8. f. road running
from Galveston to Fort Worth, propose ex.
tending their line to Kansas City, which
will give Texas the fourth competing line
to the North.
The song of the fence cutters still cor
tinues to be heard along our border eOun-
ties. The click of their wire nlppeis
rings almost within hearing of our legis
lative halls, where an extra call OF the leg.
islature is now in session, tor the purpose
OF solving the fence question. There is
existing a great luminosity between the
little ranchero or ncstler more commonly
called, and the big stockmen who own and
fence IN immense tracts OF land.
In despite of the rapidity with which
the district court now IN session, dlspOses
OF the criminal docket, onr jail Is still full,
containing some 30 or ~ prisoners, ten Of
whom are charged with murder. Crooks
and sharpers seem TO re on the increase.
Scsrcely a week passes bu! what some one
falls victim to their sharp tricks.
The State University buildings at Austin
are sufficiently advanced TO admit the
school to its permanent abode, Ithss been
conducted since September in temporary
building.
One case of small pox Ii reported in
San Antonio; but it IS TO be hoped the
Alamo city will escape the terrible scourge
OF that lOathcsome disease IT underwent
last year.
A gang OF silver dollar counterieiters
were arrested at Mastersville, a little town
IS miles south Of here the other day. A
United States detective had been shadow
ing them some time, and with the AID Of
two or three county officers took them in.
They were four in number and seemed
flush with their base money.
The grand jury has Just closed its ses-
sion after long aud arduous routine Of
labor. Many indictments were found, es.
peoially in the gaming line.
The new Speaker elect Of the House
seems TO meet with general appreciation
throughout the State. Every Texas Con
gresham went solid tor Carlisle. As to
VIVA, effect Carlisle's election will have
upon the presidential campaign, is anx-
,ously awa,,ed BY the democracy OF the
South. LITTLE Texan.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-01-05

The come. 10 in tho northwest and early
in the evening is about half way between
the horizon and the zenith. Look Tor i;
between the Northern Cross anu the Great
Square of Pegasus, and nearer The latter
You will no, be likely to find II without a
glass, although i, Is visible 10 the naked
eye. A good opera glass will show II
easily. Its right ascension is about 81 hours
80 minutes. and Its declination 90 deg. Is
min. north,
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-01-05

The Pons comet Is said to be now visible
TO the naked eye early IN the evening in
the constellation of Cygnus, bu. possibly
because thu moon ~ now quite consp.c-
uous at that time nobody about here has
yet been aDlc 10 make OUT the comet,
though according 10 Professor Swift, OF
Rochester, it is quite conspicuous IN a
small glass and flourishes two tails,
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-01-05

The Western Union Telegraph Company
have made new scale Of rates Tor spec
ials" to newspapers throughout Illinois,
On all day messages one cent word, and
on night messages one halfa cent. Between
the state capitol, however, and all other
points IN the state, the latter rate only will
be charged, either Tor day or night.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-01-05
County Talk.

! correspondent of the Country Gentle
man writing from Duchess county, N. T.,
saws that the town Of Armenia, In that
couuty, has tried with marked success, the
plan of keeping force of four or five men
a. work on the highways through most OF
the year, under the supervision of an exps-
rienced AID skillful builder Of roads, who
gives his attention constantly TO the work
Every part of the seventy-iive miles OF
highway in the town is In good condition,
ana the expense OF keeping 1t 80 has been
much less than 1t could have been by the
OLD method. The new plan has greatly re-
licved the farmers, who have not been
called TO work on the roads at time when
other duties demanded their attention.
New York has law which directs that the
voters of any town may elect to adopt THIS
plan of b ring force of men and compe-
tent commissioner to make and keep IN
repair the roads of the town, but the plan
once adopted must be followed for not less
than three years. 1t has been found that
by the method described the roads have
been kept IN better condition than ever be
fore. and that the cost of the work has &C
tually been less than that OF matchmaking
by the old way.
An exchange says: "a gentleman Tho
is interested In the Peru Farmers lnsur-
snce Associations, being oas II ne oticen-
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-01-05

that died In Philadelphia on Monday, but
another Joseph Murphy, an old stage man
ager IN that city, and whose real name was
Joseph Murphy Donnelly. He was no
relative nor connected IN any way with the
great Irish Comedian who is expected at
Ottawa with his company in few weeks
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-01-05

Newark, Nj, had couple Of hangings
who murdered boy in fit Of anger in
1881, and Robert Martin who some months
ago killed his wife and child.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-01-05

This is the "open winter" the weather
prophets predicted las, autumn. We don't
know what they meant by "open," but we
do know they ought to shut up. With the
thermometer last nigh, ct 20 degrees below
zero, the usual January thaw seems just
now IN the dim, dreary distance.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-01-05

Fourteen live negroes were elected To-
the Mississippi legisla,ure last fall of whom
IL are republicans, and as all have quietly
taken their seats in the legislative halls 1t
looks NJ If the trace war" in that state is
making poor progress.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-01-05

When Clement, one OF the persons ac--
Quilted In the Emma Bond trial. went TO
Irving, near HillsborO, the next day, he re-
celved hint that II would be healthy for
HIM to leave tina, town IN just ten minutes.
He showed that the allowance Of time was
unnecessarily generous and that two min
utes were enough
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-01-05

Society circles in New York and Wash
ing.on have been terribly shaken up du-
ring the week over fearful tragedy of
winch the cablegrams bring an account q.
having transp!ree at Hanover, 10 Germany.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-01-05

Professor Swift, Of Rochester, N. T., says
the present red sunsets arc undoubtedly
due 70 matter which has come In
TO our atmosphere and which reiracts
the red rays OF the sun. but he thinks that
matter, whatever II may he, is not the re
suit of earthquakes or volcanoes.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-01-05
CALAMITIEs AT HOME.

The most prominent disasters OF the year
have been as follows: January, mine ex.
plosion at Coulterville, H., 10; burning
of the Newhall House, Milwaukee, go;
powder explosion at Point Clement, Cal,
80. February, foods on the Ohio River,
SO; the BraidwOod mine disaster, n;
panic in NewYOrk school, IL. March,
flood IN Arkansas, 12; burning OF board.
ing house at townsville. MIMI, II. April
fall of a Texas hotel, IA; tornado In Ark.
ansas, 10; tornado IN Texas, 20; and lorna
do IN Georgia and Mississippi, $50. May,
tornado IN Central Illinois and Wisconsin,
81; tornado IN Indiana, 20; Brooklyn
bridge panic, IA. June, flood IN Nebraska,
II. July, tornado in Dakota, IL; fall OF q
pier at Tivoli, Md, TO- August, tornado
in Minnesota, so. September, explosion of
powder.mill al Styes, Cal, 40. October,
fire at Savannah, Ga, II. November. tor.
nado in Missouri, 10. December, snow
slides in Colorado, 90.
1t is Creditable TO their management, that
with large increase IN business the rail
roads of this country show decrease IN
the number o! disasters ana killed and
injured for the year.
In crime the last year was the wors. tie
hes ever known, the murders foot
ing up 1907 against 1867 tor 1882, while
the haugman strung up l07 against l2l in
1882, and 90 In 1881. But whatever re-
missness the hangman may show for the
year is more than made up by the activity
of Judge Lynch, who strung up l59 vic
tins during 1888, against less than half
the number in 1892 The suicides for the
year reported by telegraph IN tine u. s foot
up 127, and Losses by fire during the year
S43,000,0O0,
No attempt IS made at detailed iIst OF
marine disasters AZ home or abroad, but
that they were fully in keeping with the
direful character Of the year otherwise IS
apparen, when it is mentioned tba! fully
100 craft were lost with 200 lives during
the autumn storms on the great lakes, and
with the further mention of the loss OF the
steamer CImbrl, IN the German ocean, 43i
lives; steamer Black Watch, Welsh coast.
26: stesme. Kenmore Castle, Bay OF Bis
cay, 81; steamer Grappler, Pacific coast
20; bark Pimpoa, off Faval, 30; White
Star steamer Ludwig, Sc; November gales
on Grand Banks, 1880: brig Rocoby. 49,:
stesmer St. Augustine. Bay of Biscay, 3S;
steamer IRIS, Off Cape Villand, So; steamer
Navarro, German Ocean, IS; fifty fishing
vessels ON English coast, 1913; French fish
ing vessels lost on Grand Banks. "a; hnr-
ricane a. Nassau, 100; SIXTY vessels lost IN
Gulf of Finland. 80. So far as reported
about $500 lives have been lost upon the
ocean, 200 upon the lakes, 7o5 BY railroads,
l,73s by disasters IN this county, and IFS.
9i6 in the Old World, or a grand total Of
1o4.164.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-01-05

Gen. Ward Il. Burnett who, though q
graduate OF West Point, WAS IN hs earlier
DAYS an engineer on the illinois and hich'
loan canal ard res,,ien, &c Ottawa where
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-01-05
A YEAR OF CALAMITIEs.

The FREE TRADER had occasion more
than once in the progress OF Tho year OF
grace 1888 to remind Its readers that i, was
marked by an exceptional number of dire
calamiues in the form Of earthquakes,
cyclones, floods, explosions, shipwrecks,
&c, to say nothing OF an apparent notable
| increase in crime; out il Is not until the
close OF the year, when some sort oi footing
up can be made and comparison ins'i-
tu'ei with other years, that the hideous
totals begin show 10 the year 3 really direiul
character. Necessarily such tuoiings, at
so early & date, must he, hastily made and
far from perfect. From The old world, es-
peclally, only the most disastrous ca!aml-
ties are reported on this side, yet that
they maintain a far proportion, in all de-
grees, 20 those on this side, IS sufficiently
apparent from the suhjoined list We
avail ourselves of the patient 'oll of soma
melancholy scribe, Who has Compiled the
figures in part given below apparently
from the files Of one Of our large CITY
dsiles:
cALAMITIEs ABROAD.
In January ferry boat vas sunk IN
Germany, drowning 81 people, and floods
in Germany and Hungary drowned l4O
more. In the Polish circus fire 26S persons
were burned. by a powder explosion IN
Holland 40 were killed, and ~ were
drowned in o New South Wales NINE. In
February 30 persons were killed in apanic
IN Bombay. In March $50 persons were
overwhelmed by an avalancheon Mt.Ararat
In April 81 persons were killed by boiler
explosion at Dxier, France, 40 by pow
der explosion at Passe Cornese, Italy, 134
by mine explosions in France, and 10 by
fire at Warsaw, Poland. In May % per
sons were drowned in Milan. In Jane
there were $50 victims by a powder explO
sion at ScntarI, 202 by the panic at Sun
derland. Eng. and AZ by theatre fire in
Italy. In July $50 persons were killed al
the launch Of the Daphne, in Glasgow, IL
by the explosion of bomb at Trpoll, ~
by fire in Hungary, 0 by powder explo-
SION at st. Petersburg. 35 by mine explo-
sion IN Sicily, and 1000 bv the earthquake
in Ischla. In August 12 were lost IN a
Cornwall NINE, about 10000, according TO
the best authorities, by the Java earth
quake and volcanic eruption, while during
September the cholera carried Oft about
$4,000 victims in Egypt and 10 600 IN India
and China. In October 21S lives were lost
by earthquakes near the Greclan Archipel
ago, and % by mine explosions IN Eng
land. In November mine explosion
killed SO IN England, and 20 were drowned
in Lake Geneva bv a steamboat accident
In December 40 persons were burned IN a
Turkish schO0l-house. The whole list
sums mp 1896, as against 2,0s5 in 1882.
CALAMITIEs AT HOME.
In our own country the following table
gives list OF disasters occurring from va
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-01-05

way ,hev reveal SD much, what could moi
Mr.. Huntington tell II he were subjected
to rigid cross. examinatio AT the hands Of
competent investigators?
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-01-05

An exchange says: "A gentleman Tho
is interested In the Peru Farmers insur-
sace Association, being oas If 'ts odicen,
The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1884-07-12
Exposition Notes.

Secretary Fries of the Exposition is al
lotting space to such counties as have
made plication-beginning wisely in
good time so as to be able at any stage of
the work to know what space is at his
command.
Definite information will soon be pub
lished about the accommodation of vis-
tors by private citizens of Raleigh There
need be no fear but Raleigh will accom-
modate with comfort ten times as many
persons comfortably as are usually enter
tained here without great comfort.
Who will build temporary hotel on
Moore S uare and make round sum and
be public benefactor 2
The newspapers Of the State are all do
ing most excellent service, stirring up the
people, making practical suggestions and
publishing cuts of the Exposition.
Frank Lesiie's Weekly last week con-
tanned good view of the Exposition and
portraits Of Mr. Primrose and Mr. Fries.
accompanied by an explanatory article
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FOrsyth's Vigorous Capital.
Qpecin{ G,,.y-p spo,ldpuce n( The (NrOnicf

WINSTON, July 9.-The new warehouse
(Messrs. Brown Il Carter has been begun.
1t will be mammouth brick structure 2O0x
80 feet, with a floor unobStructed by roof
supports, perfectly lighted, with first-class
wagon approach and shelter--in fact an
ideal mammouth warehouse, which will
cost $1S. 900.
The Orinoco Warehouse likewise is un-
der way which will be structure similar
to the foregoing. Winston then will
have three gigantic brick warehouses, be-
sides the Hannah and the Piedmont, of
wood.
There is much building going on of other
sorts, too-the Methodist church for in
stance, and half a dozen residences of pre-
tention and elegance besides many smaller
ones. No foundation of new hotel,
however, has yet been laid or begun. The
Belo House in Salem is hotel event for
that part Of the twin. But it cannot sup
ply Winston's own demand for another
hotel
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A Dead Legs Conscience.

A one-legged exConfederate soldier
from one Of the mountain counties was
i'll Statesville few days ago, and he got
into 4 political conversation. He has al
ways been Democrat, but in 1892 a little
cold on the trail a parcel of fellows got
around him at the polls, persuaded
him, and almost before he knew it he had
voted for York. ''That night" said he,
II dreamed that the leg | lost at the bat
tie Of Sharpsburg got up out of its grave
and kicked me all over the county. | had
the same dream two or three nights in
succession, and SO help me, that lost leg
having let up on me at last, will never
have reason to kick me for the same
CalSG y
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The High Point Fire.

The Willow Brook Manufacturing Cos
cotton mills at High Point We're burned
on Friday, the 4th Within half an hour
the main building, with its thousands of
spindles and other me- linery, besides n
large quantity of cotton and cotton goods
was in ruins. The dye houses and new
weaving mills alone We're saved. The fire
originated through friction of the machin-
cry. The loss is fully SO, 900, upon which
there was an insurance of $50, 900. There
were 1900 spindles and 300 looms, and
there were 100 hands on the pay roll The
mills will be rebuilt immediately
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ing above the mad pillows and lighting up
the way for the sea-weary sailor. To the
left Of the lighthous is Shackelford's s
Banks where the natives raise ponies and
have made pony penning a noted amuse-
meDt.
Nature has certainly done her level best
to make Morehead attractive, and only a
few days sOiOurn here is necessary to see
how well she has succeeded in making it
so. CHR O. NICLE
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One of our Valuable Resources.
From the atlanta Constitution.


Near Buzzard Roost, North Carolina, is
Il peculiar mine of white rock. This rock
Is ground up into fine powder and ship
ped to New York where it is sold for about
$3. 80 a barrel. The coarser quality is
used to adulterate granulated sugar. This
escapes without detection us it is said 90
per cent of it can be mixed with sugar
without discovery. The finer grades of
this powdered rock are used for pulveriz-
ing sugar and family flour. This rock
now makes a leading element in all of our
fancy candies