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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-26

Hoas-Receipts, 1850; Shipments 500. Quail
ity fair Market opened weak with strong
downward tendency; few sales early at 81. 27a0
4. 80 for light. One of choice improved Ches-
ter Whites, raised and fatted by VIM. Bateman,
of Ladoga Ind. average 298 pounds, sold to Her
man Meek. city butcher. at 81 37a, being fully
20 cents above the market price for heavy hogs.
Later trades ruled slow at quotations Wequote:
Select light "a 2O04 25
Select heavy. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 1004.l5
Common to fair light. $1,000. 90
Pigs and heavy roughs 32503.75
SHEEP AND LAMBs-Receipts, 200; shipments,
-. Market strong on best grades, while com
mon continue dull We quote
Good to choice grades. So 100 o3 40
Common to medium grades ....... 2.OO0275
Spring lambs NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 3.OOO375
Bucks per head. Observation-Disclosures. 2OO03.00
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Louisville. New Albany & Chicago.
Cincinnati, Wabash & Michigan Railway.


Depart-Indianapolis and Grand Rapids Elk. 400 am
Michigan Express l1U0 am
louisville and Wabash Express. 7:10 pm
Arr;vaWabash and Indianapolis Express. 11:25 am
Cincinnati a. Louisville Express 2:05 pm
Indianapolis and ST. Louis Express 1918 pm
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-26

Indiana, Bloomington & Western
PEORIA DIVISION
Depart-Pacifc Express and Mail . S:15 ann
Kansas and Texas Fast Line, T. c.. $50 pm
Burlington and Rock Island Elk.
press, daily, c. and Lilo pm
Arrive-Eastern and Southern Express,
daily r. c. and s.....---.--... $50 am
Cincinnati Special. r c. HOO am
Atlantic Express and Mall 345 pm
EASTERN DIVISION.
Depart-Eastern Express Mali, daily g.. re. Alb am
Atlantic Express, daily. S. and c. C. 4:05 pm
Dav Express ............ 800 pm
Arrive Pacific Express daily, s. and c. c. !45 ana
Western Express. 445 pm
press daily 5. and r. 1885 pm
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-26

1896; Jamaica So ~ brl. Dates-Fard, in boxes
SN1Oc; frailed, &c. Figs-New, 1601Sc. Cocoanuts-
So 06 " hundred. Prunes-Turksh. 506c.
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LIVE STOCK.
Light Supply of Cattle for Local Use-Fancy
Prices for Choice Grades of Hogs.

CATTLE-Receipts, 90 shipments, -. Very
light supply Of local; quality only fair. Market
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1885-04-04
Arbor Day in Pennsylvania.

It is now becoming the pleasing and useful
fashion for the various states to have given
holiday for tree-planting throughout their
jurisdiction. Gov Pattison has named April
16 as treeplanting day in Pennsylvania
These words from his proclamation on the
subject have touch of wisdom:
ITO aid in the systematic encouragement
Of tree-planting throughout our various COM
munities; to awaken and cultivate among the
young a taste for the study Of nature and
some knowledge of the necessity, profit and
delight of agricultural pursuits; to arouse
public attention to the necessity of preserv-
ing and perpetuating to proper degree the
forests Of the state, that we may escape the
threatening peril Of their wanton destruc-
ton; and to carry out the concurrent resolu-
ton of the general assembly, recommend
that the people of the commonwealth do, on
the day named, plant trees along the streets,
by the roadsides, in parks and comm 1ns,
around public buildings, and in waste places;
that they distribute information in regard to
trees, shrubbery and forests, and that they
encourage tree-planting in every way pos
sible.n
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rob.cco Iulp for P.per Making.

A new invention Of great interest to paper
makers and tobacco growers is announced
from Waverly, N. Y. w. w. Bennett, OF
that place, has discovered a process for utiliz-
ing tho hitherto useless stalks and stems OF
tho tobacco plant as substitute for wood
pulp In the manufacture Of paper. The idea
Is comparatively simple, and If the results
are q striking as represented, will prove
Of great value to manufacturers, the to-
bacco pulp, it IS claimed, producing o
much stronger paper than wood, at much
smaller cost. Samples Of paper made by
this process under favorable conditions show
comparatively few defects, and the strength
Is said to have been successfully tested by
lifting Q 100pound boy on single broad
sheet A great point in the manufacture OF
the pulp Is the fact that only the ordinary
machinery found in every paper mill is re-
quired-beaters, rotary and grinding ma
chines-while wood has to be skinned,
strapped, relieved Of knots and rotten
parts, and grated. The average quality
of wood used loses from sixty to eighty per
cent. in waste, and the most expensive chem
ical process of reducing it to pulp brings the
amount of waste down only to fifty-two per
cent. Tobacco stalk, however, reduced by
purely mechanical process to bone-dry
pulp, shows waste of only five per cent II
the new invention proves successful it will
be hailed with delight by tobacco farm
ers as well as by paper makers; for the
tobacco stalk has always been bur
den, good for nothing save manure. A thou
sand and one unsuccessful attempts have
been made to utilize it for almost every con
ceivable purpose, and the patent office con
tains the relics of numerous chimerical In
ventions. Now, however, the farmers car
have the stuff taken off their hands, and cal
secure as much manure Us before from tn
| juice extracted in the process of reduction
The tobacco plant. as is known, furnishes on
of the toughest of fbres.
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SCIENCE zYRonREs'S


Telegraphing from Railway Train.
An important invention has been perfected
by Mr.. Lucius j. Phelps. 1t is an arrange
ment Of machinery by which running rail-
way train is enabled to telegraph from any
point on the route to any station behind or
before it. Thus collisions and dangerous
accidents may be avoided. Passengers will
also be able to send messages as easily as from
q station.
The principle of which Mr.. Phelps has
availed himself in this invention Is based upon
a curious fact It is known that, however
perfectly electric wires are insulated, GER
tain amount Of tho fluid always escapes.
Further, il two wires are placed alongside
each other, without touching, and an electric
current is passed through one wire, q current
will also pass through the other, in an oppo-
site direction. Thus the complete circuit,
which must always exist in electrical trans
mission, establishes itself between the two
wires This communication Of electricity
from one wire to another through which no
current has been passed is called electrical in
duction. By means Of electrical induction
the system Of telegraphing has been applied
by Mr.. Phelps to trains in motion. An IN
sulated telegraph wire is run along the rail-
way track. 1t is boxed up in wooden boards
and placed in the track midway between the
two rails. as seen in the illustration.
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J'HE FASHIONS
New Mother Hubbard Dress.

A very pretty Mother Hubbard wrapper
lately worn had q yoke and sleeve cuffs of
pale blue velvet, polka dotted with cream
colored silk chenille. The full skirt, OF
cream-colored camel's hair, was laid down
the front in three wide box plaits, which
reached from the yoke to the foot of the
skirt. The skirt was gathered TO the yoke in
the back. An inside belt, tackled to the back
and side seams, and fastened snugly to the
waist next to the lining, gave trim look to
the figure Of the wearer, and four-inch rib
bon of pale blue velvet, fastened to the out
side on the side seam, was brought forward
and tied in bow, the long ends low on the
front of the skirt. The style of this wrapper
for stout and rather short-waisted person
is about the only Mother Hubbard which
such figures can dare to adopt. The original
Mother Hubbard was too volumnous for any
but the most slender forms.
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-=s "a md % @l @a
THE CAR.

Thus every railway car becomes a movable
Geographic station.
1t is exceedingly interesting also to note
how the telephone has been utilized in this in
yention. At the end of the line in the rail-
way station Office telephone receiver is
placed, SO that to the operator there the buzz
zing sounds made by the spelling out OF the
Morse alphabet ON the car come through the
telephone
These are the main features OF this inven-
ton. It's first practical appliance has been
on the New York. New Haven and Hartford
railway. 1t is operated between the Harlem
river station and the New Rochelle junction,
a distance of IL miles. Three miles of the dis
lance are trestlework, and the track crosses
two rivers by drawbridges. This route was
probably selected because it presents natur-
ally every obstacle to the success of the plan
that would be apt to occur. Yet the final
experiment was wholly successful. While
the train was moving at the rate of 40 miles
an hour the conductor telegraphed message
to Mr., Phelps at the end of the line, and re-
celved his reply.
Thus one more noble appliance for the
safety of railway trains and passengers has
apparently been perfected. Had it been in
use when the Tay bridge went down in the
storm with loaded railway train the world
might have known something about that
frightful disaster.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1885-04-04
EASHlONlETS.

Color plays an important part in fancy
dress bonnets.
The new evening gloves are as long or
longer than ever.
Soft s,lrah sashes are worn around the waist
under zouave and Eton jackets.
Punched waists, high shoulders and big
bustles are ultra fashionable now, and they
are frightful.
Braid trimmings in lace patterns or very
open designs are shown for trimming various
parts of dresses, forming plastrons, revers,
side robes, entire tabliers or front breadths,
pockets of jackets, cuffs and collars, bretelles
and waistcoats.
The general style for spring costumes will
be short basques, plain skirt, and drapery
long behind. The bayadere style will be very
popular with the broad stripes at present In
vogue for skirts. "Bayadere style" means
simply that the stripes run around the skirt.
But it will not be very pretty for the short
and fat.
The hustle and pouf-back draperies are
conspicuous features in all kinds OF gowns.
The side robes appear on some, and the gen.
eral effect is not bouffant, save in the back,
although the box-plaited breadths all around
are the feature that Is most observable.
Some Of the models are trimmed with lace
and a profusion Of scarf draperies and rib
bons in bows and loops.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1885-04-04
TRACK TELEGRAPH WIRE.

The boxed-up telegraph wire runs along the
track the whole length of the road.
That is the first part Of the plan. The
second part consists of the arrangement within
the car. Between its forward and rear trucks,
full length, underneath the floor, the other
wire, called the induction coil, runs. This wire
is of copper, coiled many times 80 times in Mr.
Phelps invention, so as to make strong trans
mitter or receiver Of the electric impulses. The
oblong coil of wire is covered with rubber hose
It is then put inside gas-pipe and placed In
position beneath the car, Immediately over
the central track wire upon the ground. The
distance between the two is about inches.
So strong, however, were the electric i'm
pulses passing between the wire upon the
ground and that underneath the car that In
the trial trip, upon double track, a message
was sent from the car over wire upon the
other track, though it was four feet below
that on which the car was running. We are
only in our infancy as far as knowledge OF
the possibilities of electricity goes.
The induction coil runs wire up through
the floor in corner Of the car. There the
telegraphic receiving and sending machine Is
placed, and there the messages are clicked
out that run to and fro. This is polarized
relay instrument, also designed by Mr.. Phelps:
It is SO finely constructed as to catch and
transmit the most delicate electric impulses.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1885-04-04

The process by which mild steel is made
has produced revolution in metal work. 1t
has been found that in the manufacture OF
mining steel can be largely substituted not
only for iron, but for lead, brass and copper
as well. Five years ago it occurred to the
president of company that manufactured
brass and copper seamless pipe to try whether
mild steel could not be substituted for those
metals. He experimental on the matter with
perfect success Drawn steel pipe was made
bv the same process and same tools
and machinery employed for the brass
and copper pipe. Steel was cheaper than
either brass or copper, consequently seam
less steel pipe began at once to be sub
stituted for tubing of those metals 1t will
hereafter be used instead of iron for gaspipe
net being subject to leakage, as iron pipes
are. The steel Is so much stronger than iron.
1t has been found. too, that the mild steel can
be used most advantageously in the manu-
fact,1re of milk cans A steel milk can is O
novelty worth seeing, and it is said to be as
useful as 1t is new. No amount of whang-
banging can hurt it. The new process is also
being applied to the making Of clock springs.
But that was not all To the surprise of
the experimenters, it was found that the
process of drawing the tubing changed the
character Of the steel. 1t became regularly
tempered and elastic It would spring back
when compressed, and rang like bell when
struck with hammer. Tests showed also .
marvellous increase in strength Of the cold
drawn steel The metal Of q steel boiler only
one-thirtieth of an inch in thickness bore q
pressure Of 600 pounds to the square inch.
Then all at once it occurred TO the expert
menters to wonder whether q gun-barrel
could not be made OF this unique new process
steel. That, too, was tried. 1t was so sue
cessful that then it was determined to make
large-szed siege-gun of steel. One advan-
tage will be the lesening of an enormous
weight in large cannon. The cannon was at
length made. Its strength was so wonderful
that it sustained o water pressure Of 5000
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1885-04-04
The New Costumes.

The tournure is an established fact in fash
ion, and with it, Of course, comes an increased
width of skirts; this mainly in the back,
where the skirt is usually laid in broad double
or triple box-plaits its length-these caught
by tapes underneath two or three times, In
double-fnger lengths apart, then If pressed in
place they remain in folds. There is but
little plating, putting and rufling seen; oil OF
this seems to be left for basques and round
waists The melon, the surplice, the shirred
waist, all are very popular, and vests, plas-
irons of every shape revers, berthes, bretelles,
straps, forks tongues and buckles, all serve
to build up and make special prominence ID
the upper part of the dress.
OF combinations there Is no end; even the
satins and prints have the plain and figured
side by side, as if one never thought Of pur-
chasing plain frock. .t. ...
Skirts are made with broad panel plaits on
the front and sides, with fans Of perhaps a
contrasting material or color from tho knee
down, the top of the paits ornamental
with embroidery or the new transparent
braiding that is destined to have an inn
portant place in fashions usage the coming
season. This is made of fiat worsted braid
in two different widths, arranged in open
broad PATTERNS, tnat, OlUcu VI u Wutu W
trim the panel plaits as described, are still
wider to form distinct panels, and then
formed in narrower designs for other parts
of the costume.
The transparent paneling is found to be a
very effective trimming for the princess, that
is popularity revived, with other old-time
freaks. The back of princess has two full
broad box-plaits, the broad panels of braid
trim the sides, and smaller made pieces OF
the braid form collar, cuffs, and perhaps q
vest turning at the basque line with jacket
effect to the panel sides.
The oval plastron is reproduced on botf
silk and wool suits, closing at the throat
drawn or sloped back over the bust, and
again closed at the top Of the darts or at the
waist line.
The gathered vest is still in vogue, though
it has lost the Fedora fullness or bagging o
last season.
Pockets are again added on the fronts q
basques, and ways are found once more fol
pockets in the skirts of dresses; doubtless be
fore the season is over square or diagona
pockets will be added to the sides of skirts.
Polonaises are severely plain; the front
are usually open from the basque line. Tn
back has added fullness that forms in plaits
undraped, and sometimes broad sash witt
very long loops and short ends is added
| New York Fashion Bazaar.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1885-04-04

full together. Upon the outside Of them put
a single frill Of the cashmere, embroidered at
the edge with silk. These three are gathered
Ill together and sewed around the wired edge
Of the crown piece. Plait the crown piece in
small folds to At In behind at the neck. The
material for the crown is embroidered white
cashmere. Bend the hood up to peak in
front, and fill In around the face with full
ruching. Fill in the top part, at the peak,
with the ruching and lace. Trim top with
full loops Of ribbon. Ties Of ribbon an inch
wide. This Is very pretty little hood.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1885-04-04

The headpiece also comes to a biunt pomtoV
the middle of the forehead The headpece is
plated in small folds, behind, to ht the pack
of head, and the curtain is then gathered 10
fit that. Around the face the hood Is heid IN
it's place by wire. Insertion one ana quar-
ter inch wide, is sewed around the curtain
and front of the bonnet. The inserting Is
edged with thin fold OF white satln' upon
which lace an inch and quarter VIDE Is
sewed. That forms handsome fnish oil
around the hood. Front filled In with several
folds of full ruching, in one of which are loops
of narrow satin ribbon. Upon the top 70,
settles of ruching and white ostrich tips; tied
under the chin with loops Of white ribbon.
The secord bonnet is tasteful poke for
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1885-04-04

one is the capote
shape. tits made of
white cashmere. A
curtain and head
piece are cut separ-
ate. The curtain is
made upon stiff foun-
dalton muslin, COW
cred with a proper
lining. The curtain
lis cut rounding to fit
the neck, wider be-
hind, and narrowing
to a point as it ap-
proaches the chin.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1885-04-04

pounds 10 the square inch Il seems almost
unbelievable. This dege-gun has been sens
to Sandy Hook, to the officers OF the artillery
corps there They viii try to burst 1t IN tine
usual course Of testing cannon. The gun Is
something hitherto unheard Of in military
science, being cannon whose walls are OF
metal only one inch and half thick, and yet
being able to fire l00-pound shot.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1885-04-04
NOTICE.

Notice Ia hereby given that the Annual Meeting Of
tockhoders OF the Ottawa, Oswego Fox River Val
ey Railroad Company will be held at the office of the
Cjmpsny In Chicago Illinois, on "Wednesday, April z2d,
at eleven O'Clock for the purpose of electing d.
rectors and transscting such other business may
properly come before the meeting.
Chicago March 18th, lSS5. 4. o. GODDARD.
mar2SIw Secretary.
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little girls. A crown
is cut, round in front
and at the sides, and
square across the
back for gathers.
This is cut out OF the
lining and foundation
material. The crown
piece has a W ire
around the edge. Take
now two double-fold
frills of white cash
mere, twoinches deep
in front and one and
q quarter inch at the
back. Gather them
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1885-04-04

We present two very pretty ones this week
for little girls, from the time they can walk
ND to the age of or years old. The first
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Jrsap "a RuGER j. w. EBERsoL,
DUGER & EBERSOL, Attorneys T. Coun-
IL sellers at Iaw also Notary Public. Ofice IN tMt.
terer Metzgers Block, east OF Court House IeD' %
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9. r. BLANCHARD. HORACE HULL:
DLANCHARD s. HULL, Attorneys, Ar
b mOry Block, Ottawa, Ill. Horace Hull, stenogra'
pher and Notary Public ho'oo4
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q. RIcHoIsoN. ". GENTLEMAN. J. C. FINCH
% iCHOLSON. GENTLEMAN 4 FINCH, Attorneys
II and 90 unselOrs at Law. viii practice law In the
CO rrs OF La Sale and adjoining counties. Office west
OF court house, Ottawa, Ill. sep0N
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professional UarDe.
At z O r n 9 Y D.

~ w. w. BLAKE, Attorney and Counselor
". at Law Room second floor, Court House, Otta.
wa H. All legal business promptly attended to. janSl
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IN @. SWIFT, Attorney at Law Armory Block.
II. Special attention given to probate matters.
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3, " puNoAN Al. CoNoR.
HTJNCAN 4, O'CONOR, Attorneys at
~ Law Office in Futterer & Metzger's block, east
of Court house. Ottawa Illinois. lulyzY&
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urpANr r aIIBRRT JANIS II. ECKKLR.
NILBERT & ECkELS, Attorneys and
u Counsel0rs at Law, Futterer Metzger's Block,
east Of Court House. sepS,S
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w, BREwER, Attorney and Counselor al
IL. law, and Notary Public. Rooms 8, & IL, Opera
House Block, Ottawa, Ill.
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BUSHNELL & FULLERTON AT
b torpeys at Law Ottawa. Illinois. Office In Bush.
nell's block. west OF Court House. july2l-ly'
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RF BULL, LISTER II. sTRAwN. s.w. RUaER.
DULL. STRAWN Sc RUCfEEt, AttOr
ID news and Councillors at Law. Office over City
Drug Store corner Of La Sale and Madison streets o.
tawa, ILL., Janzooa
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Q. BOYLE. Attorney at Law. office With
y. M T. Moloney, Opera House BLOCK, Ottawa. ILL.,
feb2l,S0
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~ GRIGGS, Attorney and Counselor at Law.
". Office in Lynch's block, Main street, Ottawa, ILL.,
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3 nv 81 CT A N 8 .

DF2. II. w. WEBS, (Deutcher noctor,) late
~ Physician and Surgeon % the 81; Louis Female
Hospal Office over Stiefels Clothing Store,
Main and La Sale streets. Residence south bluff
ct Mrs Renzs. apps
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n, G. TRENARY, Attorney at Law. once
i. with L. W. Brewer, Rooms s, Il 10, Opera House
BLOCK Ottawa M junS
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County Superintendent Of Public Schools
q. b. STOCKDALE

VIII hold examinations ct his ONCE In the Court House
on the second and fourth Saturdays Of each month
until further notice. 'tsuH
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N McDOUGALI,A Attorney at Law, Ottawa
IL. III. Once In C}edney's Block dec2'76
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ID r. LINCOLN, Attorney at Law. Once
ID. over No 10 La Sale street, west side ~ INT
Court House. Ottawa, III. 1ulySio
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~ h. CHAPMAN Attorney and Counselor
". at Law Office with d. McDougall, ottawa. Ill.

M N. ARMSTRONG, Attorn y and Cona
VX. selor at Law, Ottawa, Ill. Notary t uDnc ounce
In Gedney's Block, Ottawa. Juno.sU