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The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-10-02

Freight trains car-;.pc 1ass.'E'rs leave ottawa ~
follows: For Earl, 40 Pm; for Aurora, 1905 A.
:. Streator 5 " 4. n 5.CS p -. and 10 4. y.
Morning train makes close connection \ aafGt isl
~ points east and Test.
PuIl.ran Palace Sleeping Cars, r. Q. Drsw'.s
.ODr. cars Horizons Reclining Chair Cars and the &
u 4 O. Paiace Dtuins Cars. ny This route All tAfOrBa
tnn .bout rates Of fare sleeping accommodations
and time tables vii be- rhperfu " gwen nv Supplying
PERCIVAL LOWELL
General Passenger Agent, Chicago
H. y. STONE, - ~
General Manager Chicago. GEO F.. ROE,
Agent al nttava
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-10-02
CHAPTER III.
WHO CLAIMED 1T.

HE fog had already
'loAed in on Monte
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-10-02
CHAPTER ~.
WHO POCSD IT.

ONCIIO wns so i'm
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1886-02-28
Tng IxTERNATiONAL CONVENTION

The Iuternali ional Editorial Conyen.
| ttos met III Cincinnati yesterday. The
| faiiowing Louisiana newspaper men
asere HI attendance: Leon Jaslremski.
Pr@ssdent Louisiana Press Association
ana ssslitor of'the Capstolian Advocate
OF Baton Rouge and Mr.. +. Samools
Jones Of the same paper: r, w. Read,
A,nite Cit.s Independent; J. W. Hyams
ofilhe sugah Bowl; John Mccormick,
OF the Lsko charles Commercial; L. a.
|sandox, ope!,Ausas Courier; y. 2.
Bentley OF the )onaldsonville Chief;
j. w. Carew, of thas Hahnville Herald;
Noses Fort, ofthe M{htien Demacrat.
T.ibune; Mark 4. Bie&ey, Of the City
item and Mrs. Eva HtlAlebrand Of the
Hre,ra Courier and several other
editors. " no joislpd the parry At inter>
mediate poinis, The Lols &aae Press
Conyentiou il, should be remembered
wili meet in this city In June NEXT and
nnr peaple. should thus early Pegtn
making preparations for the Proper
entertain tnent Of the visiting "in0tst>
ders of public opinion'' who VIII gtace'
tha orcasion by their presence. we
suggest that our lady friends interest,"
/ themselves in the matter, MS the STATE
press convention will be largely a1ten.
ded aud an opportunity viii be amor
ded to demonstrate the genialisy q
onr people toward strangers. our
business men would also do well TO
nrenare for the reception and enter
tainmpnt of these ladies aud gentie-
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1886-02-28
FROM wASMINGT0N

WAsutNoToN, Feb. 25.--ln tue
executive session Of he senate rsso'"
tinn from the commerce commute
was adopted calling on the !ecre'afy OF
the .rensury for The papers IN relation
to the suspension Of Customs Collector
William Wells, of Vermont.
Senator Morgan yesterday reported
an a,oent!men TO on appropriation Oil
accepting The offer of the government
of Japan to this government OF site 10
the ci,v OF Toxic for legation purposes
and a C llntnended N appropriation OF
s25. coo for the erection OF su'tap's
building.
In answer 20 reqaest from sno
committee of the House committee
ways and means for Information cou
cerning the reeripoci'y treaty WIN w
, Hawaiian Island, Mr.. j. u. 'oeasie1
IT.. one Of government commis9'o'ei
, who visited the islands, has returned
statement of fac!s ascertained IN co''
rection with his visit. He says II w
had made the island present oil ever
do1lat's worth of goods they bousf
from this country and collected o"'''
ON their sugars we SHOULD have mao
IN loss AZ To the effect of the tfea'
ON this country, Mr.. Seariessa TN
y the price OF refnea sugar IN oa
FRANCISCO since tho treaty wen, III
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1886-02-28
raE NORTH ANly soura ROAD.

TIE NUitlti ANfX sVs1i sV ssS ~ = - s
The following we copy from the,
Shreveport Times. at will be seen;
that an effort is being nk dc to divert
The proposed North AMI soNeth railroad
and 10 have ii pass thronah@ parishes
,scst of the ouachita river. TheN writer
thinks his section ot< ountry is igicher
in mineral aud timber resources than
that east Of the Ouachita, but we ave
not disposed to agree with him on that
|qucsiion-on the contrary We take
executions. The hill country may be
healthier, but the people Of the Parishes
of Morehouse, Ouachita, Caldwell and
Catahoula will not admitthat they are
superior III agricultural resources. The
citizens of this parish should move IN
this North and South railroad and the
sooner they do as tho city Of Monroe
has done-vote The ave mill tax the
beitor II will be:
ARCADIA, Feb. g. lSs6.--Your cor
respondent has noticed several conn
municuiions in your valuable paper
recently regarding North aud South:
railroad, one projected route IL from
Hope Ark, via Homer, Gihsland,
Mount Lebanon and Sparta to Alex
andria. Another projected route was
leaving the Iron Mountain road further
|up than Hope, Ark, passing via Mon
.iroe to A,cxandria. A great deal Is
being said about these routes. Whether
they are practicable remains for engt.
Ineers to determine. The route that IL
lnow being agitated most is from Hope,
/ Ark, to Alexandria, La, which IS
)direct and passes near Homer, La,
via Arcadia and Liberty Hill, La. On
lthis either a valley or ridge route can
he obtained by either running down
near Saline bayou or down the divid.
ing ridge, which divides the Saline
bayou from the Duedemonia, dis
tance of about 100 miles, passing
through the best long-leaf pineries now
in the South without exception, and al
the same time near thousands OF acres
of fiue lands on the Dugdemonia anc
lSaline bayous-as tine lands as there
lare in the South to day, except th'
river bottoms, which liein waste. B,
referring to any correct map any ON
can see this route would be the mos
Idirect and practicable one now beini
lagitated. Ii would pass the great mar
BILE fields of Winn palish, about whicl
so riueh has been said and writer
during the late exposition at New Or
Leans: also he great salt mines q
brakes salt works on Saline bayou
which need developing. The fact {
this projected route being about on tn
dividing ridge between Red and Qua
, chita rivers, end passing through tn
country il does with the advantage
mentioned, there would be no dou'
of ii being q paying road. have b.
tore tne private letter written 10
party here by Mr.. E. A. Brakenridg
. Nor,lNsp capitalist, who is inquirit
about this roatl--whether it would
paying road if built. He speaks
the probability Of the extension OF u
Kansas City, Fort Scott and Gun ra
road via Arcadia, Ia, TO AleXandr
ana thinks this would be the mt
practicable rouIc yet mentioned.
- railroad meeting - TO be held at u
place ON The 25th inst, to take sic
in the direction of u north and sou
| railroad.
FROM WASH INGToN
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1886-02-28

Mr. Henry Waiterson, editor of the
7 .o,,isville Courier-Jo1rnai, Who mas
heen seriously I'll is now out OF danger
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1886-02-28

The wind shifted around at noon
and the ugly clouds that threatened
ri, we're driven southwark and
pleasant and sunshine evening IS inc
result.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1886-02-28

A. fellow was Indicted at tne lss.
term OF the Circuit Court OF IiPpan
county Miss, for stealing. lie gave
bond for his appearance. ana last week
was again arrested, this time JOE
Stealing the indictment In the frst case
from the Circuit Clerks office.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1886-02-28

The machine shops OF the v. .. q
p II. r., In this city have just receiv-
ed an hydraulic pressure macnine
weighing ab, ut 20 tons and which Is 70
he used for pres ing on driving wheels.
rbe pressure OF this machine Is ooo
tons Master Mechanic smith ~ nav
ing the machine placed in position.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1886-02-28
lIr. $. q. Murphy,

srxnsIARD ST., MONROE, I.A:-Having
ID recently arranged his office with special
references to the treatment of chronic iemaie
sftention to that branch of his profession.
~ Reiers to the m edical fraternity OF Mon
80, - :, ~, .i,renton. June 10, 1Sll.-f.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1886-02-28
.Iol,,, McEmery,

~..IS John McEMerys
ATTORNEY AT LAW q LAM NJ, Az i-',
40. 8 Caron,lolet ST., New Orleans.
xND RIJSINESS at the Land Offices IN
- Ia New Orleans and Washington City AZ AZ
tended to. Agency for sale and p'sa purcnasaa
%. Plantations, Farms and uhi'ipiose'
lands solicited
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1886-02-28

A quite serious accident, we are
sorry To say befell Mrs. Bonar last
nigh, at abdu, half past seven o'clock.
II appears that she was walking around
with lighted coal oillamp, when SUD.
denly and without warning the lamp
OK xploded throwing the burning ha'd
over one side Of her face and one arm.
She was quite buddy burned. ING
burning oil also set fire to the honse
hu, the flames we're extinguishei with
sliph, damage to the building.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1886-02-28

The John Howard leaves New Orr
leans Saturday evening and the ~.
John is due down Saturday ifon
Camden.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1886-02-28

G~s-4mTATNER. J. 8. ho1NiNH>
c. J. & j.. $. BoATNER,
A law. Monroe, La, will practice in all
tie Parishes Of North Louisiana, IN the
supreme Court at Monroe, the Feuerai
Courts, and in the Land Onice Depaftho"'
Sot the General Government.
sl.,,ara July 15, 1885.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1886-02-28

ss cards Of re,-s0ntsi c'tnracte'.-,shen ael-
he charged double our rega-
lar ativertisimg rates.
Z. ,i.isuary and Marriage notices WILL 9ne
..t,.rI e4l ,as advertisements.
i nv person sandingus lyo new CASH SID
s,. il,s,s, az tho same post-Oilce, will be et-
titled to q copy of THk TELEanAPh gratis
~; one. year. 80
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1886-02-28
WEST NfoNlsOE DOTS.

WEST MONROE DOTS.
FROM OUR REGULAR RnroRrER
{ Fiournoy 4 Co.. are doing 4 tlnc
business aud gaining trade daily.
Capt. Jnp. II. Mtlling wss IN town
yesterday.
Miss ,Addie Collins "a Waiting friends
in West Monroe. Il, 4
business WAS rather slack IN town
yesterday owing no doubt to the lsn-
clemency Of the westher.
The building interests Of our town
are progressing rapidly and W hope
ere long will be dcnsely popuiatsd.
We are In deep sympathy wlth the
people Of thls town Iii the loss ~
their beautiful iiag station. but would
cite them to the fect that they win
fnd iii Mr. n. @. Aby .tsse popular
agent al this place i polite and Sccorn.
odating young gentleman. ID
Mr., Robt. Endosn u entitled to3
credit for theferry equipments he hAss
placed al this point and W. extend
the same grasiouously and cougratulats
line ladies upon the fact that they can
now have the pleasure Of crossing 10
a maxnitilcient new skin.
The Ball at the skating rink last
night was .olerably welt attended.
The following young ladies and gen-s
ltlemen were present representing dttF-
erent subjects as appears below:
| Miss Matte Cobb, as Columbia
stars and stripes; Miss Lula Preston.
as a Flower Girl; Miss Bertha derson,
as a Sailor Girl; Mr.. Simon Marx, O.
Jockey; Mr. Sam Bres, as q Tourists
Messrs. Frank Moore and Noner'
5 Richardson, Tr., as Dudes and Mt
! u. NJ. Shoiars, two sons rs twin sis
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1886-02-28

The Hanna left New Orleans last
night.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1886-02-28

RIFF OF FADVEEsI1SlNS issr'' 1ssA go
Aivcrt ise,ncnts will be inserted at ore
SsSissAr and tifty cents per square to.o t.. .lo.A
1.-Two e,st for each subsequent insertion, FOR
y ,slly til.e under one month. For longer
5tsfsrisytl, :ss follows:
The Portland daily press., 1886-09-08
AID FOR CHARLESTON.

| The people of Charleston have appealed
| for national aid to rebuild their city This
| action is scarcely less remarkable than the
| great Hpheayal which prompted it. What
| Boston has been to one great party in the
| nations history, Charleston has been to the
other. Charleston's sentiments encouraged
John G. Calhoun, and in that city his grave
is yet honored. In the list of her mayors is
the name of the Southern orator Hayne,
| whose assertion of the doctrines of State
sovereignty called forth Daniel Webster's
most memorable effort. From Charleston
the gun was fired that put to the terrible
test the theories of nationality that South
Carolina had cherished SO long, and from
Charleston emanated no small measure of
the spirit that prolonged the struggle to
establish the principle Of State sovereignty.
That community educated in such prin-
ciples should think first of the charity of the
Federal government, marks an overwhelm-
ing calamity or great change of sentiment.
While the people of Charleston undoubted-
ly accept the result of the war in good faith
they can hardly have progressed far enough
to look to the, national government for aid
were they not in the drest straits. 1t is not
the worst of their plight that one-third of
the entire population is dependent on the
assistance of relief committees, nor that the
buildings Of the city, from the lowlieSt hut
to treasured and historic structures like st.
MichaePs church are shaken to their founda-
tions. To leave comfortable homes for tents
in the street is a hardship, the loss of prop
erty is source of keen disappointment; but
more demoralizing than these misfortunes
is the harassng uncertainty as to the future.
The people are breaking down under the
terror inspired by the shocks and by the pre-
dictions of philosophers who do not know
enough to agree. One professor has stated
that tidal wave might be expected, another
that such thing is impossible; one sciencist
affirms that the shocks will continue, predic-
ting the hour of the next, and another as
sures the people that the worst is over.
Refugees say that the women cannot sleep,
and Mr. Trenholm, son of the comptroller
of the currency, whose wife sat in the yard
holding her young babe for three nights, has
finally been forced to bring his family to
Washington. The general anxiety is shared
by whites and negroes, although the latter's
condition is the more ptiable on account of
their firm belief that the day of judgment is
at hand.
When the condition of a community is so
terrible it is little time to criticise the means
of relief. If the Federal government can
give aid it should do it. But after the imme-
date distress is over the propriety of asking
the government to rebuild the city is ques-
tionable. The government is lrich enough to
do it without trouble; but it will be more to
the credit of the people of this country if
they as individuals and communities, rather
than through Congress, shall undertake the
work of nharitV
The Portland daily press., 1886-09-08

The proceedings of the British Parliament
have not takensplace in all respects just as
Lord Salisbury proposed, and Lord Randolph
Churchill intended to carry out in the House
of Commons. 1t was announced that the
session would be very short, and devoted en-
tirely to bills of supply or appropriation
bills as they are called in the American Con-
gress If the Irish Nationalist or Gladstone
Liberals should attempt to add any objec-
tionable amendments to the address which
the House of Commons sends to the Queen
in answer to her speech, they were to be put
down as obstructionists. Lord Randolph
Churchill was confident that this could be
done; for of the $40 members of the present
House the Tories with their Unionist Liber-
al allies have clear majority of 11S. But
the sklllful mau9uvres of Mr. Parnell have
prolonged the debates on the address to the
Queen by what the Irish leader calls ''the
most important and fruitful series of Irish
debates ever heard in the House of Com
MONS Supply has not been heard Of, but
Mr.. Parnell has secured the introduction of
an Irish land bill which is intended to afford
to tenants temporary relief from the hard
SHIPS VI inc coming NlHleI L hC Dil piO-
vides for new adjustment of rents, based on
the fall in the prices of articles which the
tenant has to sell, for the staying of eject
ment processes in certain cases, and gives to
leaseholders the privilege of having their
rents determined by arbitration of the courts,
privilege which tenants have enjoyed for
several years. In getting permission to in
troduce this bill Mr.. Parnell has had two
fold object, the relief of the tenants and a
blow at those Irish members who do not be-
lieye in home rule. AS most of the latter
come from rural constituencies, they will be
forced on the debate on the bill, either to go
against their Conservative allies or take
stand inimical to the interests of their rural
constituents. This is not the only case in
which Mr. Parnells leadership has put Lord
Churchill on the defensive, and his adherents
in dilemma. The young Conservative has
found that to originate and pursue policy
of government is performance far differ
ent from leading insane attacks on plans pre-
pared by Mr.. Gladstone or Mr.. Parnell So
far the plans of Mr.. Parnell, supported by a
minnrity. have worked better than the plans
of Churchill supported by a majority.
The Portland daily press., 1886-09-08
HOW TIE DEMOCRATS TREATED
THE SHOOK BUSINESS.

The people of this district were and are
specially interested in the cooperage trade.
All up through the district shook and head
ing are made at odd days and hours and a
great deal of otherwise waste lumber is
worked up to advantage. Hundreds of thou
sands of dollars each year come to the labor
ing men in York and Cumberland All this
is now changed. Sugars are being packed in
Cuba in British bags and not in American
cooperage packages. England furnishes the
coverings and not America. Our people be-
came alarmed /; for not only are we losing
the making of the shook but we are losing
the freights and return frcights. Mr. Reeds
attention was called to the subject and he
promptly advised that the people interested
all up and down the coast should send on a
delegation to show the committee of ways
and means the great danger the trade was
in. He then offered bill which was referred
to that committee, to put heavier
duty on the sugar which was i'm
ported in British bags. This heavier duty,
as the Advertiser very sensibly said at the
time, would have caused no increase in the
price of sugar The increased duty would
have had to be taken off the price of sugar, iif
the use of British bags was insisted on.
But the final result would have been to
cause the importation of sugar in hogsheads
and boxes and have kept our laborers en-
ployed and distributed hundreds of thou
sands of dollars in this district and millions
along the coast of the United States from
Maine to Florida. The cooperage people
had full hearing before the committee and
made out perfect case They showed the
decay of the business and the need of its
revival. They not only showed the need to
the cooper but they showed the fact that the
using up of the waste lumber made all other
lumber cheaper. As soon as the evidence
was printed Mr.. Reed moved the passage of
his bill. In order that none could say
they were in favor of some other plan of
meeting the difficulty he proposed vote on
the bill with the understanding that it was
to include any and every other method of
giving relief to the threatened and dying
industry When the vote was taken every
Democrat on the rags and means committee
This was the way in which great industry
was left to die by the last House. This
deeply affects the people of this district. If
the Democrats carry the House the same
ways and means committee will treat our
people in the same fashion. 1t is precisely
in this way that the Argus doctrine of a
Democratic tariff acts practically on the in
dustres of this district
The Portland daily press., 1886-09-08
GEN. DOW AGAIN,

Gen. Neal Dow complains in the Argus
that the PRESS has published only portions
of his past letters, and has omitted para
graphs in them in which he pitches into the
Republican party and charges it with neg
lecting its duty to the prohibitory law. The
PRESS did omit those passages, but not as
Gen. Dow appears to think, with any inten-
ton to do him injustice, or to conceal from
the public the fact that for number of years
back he has denounced the Republican par
ty in very vigorous way The PRESS is
disposed to treat Gen. Dow with perfect fair
ness. 1t is true that he has claimed that
rumshops exist at the present time in Maine
only because of deficiencies In the law
The Portland daily press., 1886-09-08

In the last English campaign, Mr.. Glad
stone made two divisions of the people of
England, the classes and the masses. He
put his opponents among the former. and
himself among the latter. Mr.. Clifford's
classification is slightly different He di-
vides the people into the lower and upper
classes, putting the laboring men in the for
mer and himself in the latter.
The Portland daily press., 1886-09-08

The DAILY PRESS will be furnished, be-
ginning with the number issued next after
the receipt of the order in each case, and
closing with the issue of September 10th,
with full returns from the Maine election,
for fifty cents paid in advance Address
Portland Publishing Company, Portland,
The Portland daily press., 1886-09-08

President O. r. Cheney of Bates College,
opposes the Third Party movement. The
Argus sets him down as an ass. The Rev.
ID. w. LeLacheur opposes the Third Party
movement. The Argus says he has no mind.
The Rev. Erwin bennett refuses to take the
stump in aid of the movement. The New
Age declares that he sold out for a ticket to
Squirrel Island. Our Democratic brethren
are terribly impatient with temperance
men who refuse to pull chestnuts out of the
fire for their benefit,
The Portland daily press., 1886-09-08

= At this distance it is impos bile to under
stand the reasons which may I'VE led Alex
ander to submit so readily to tn, demand of
the Gar. Every American is inclined to in
dulge In the human wish that the Prince
had stuck to his throne and as,.sd the Rus
sian what he was going to do about it.
The Portland daily press., 1886-09-08

Brought up in a political school that
taught that it was right for one man to hold
another in bondage, it is not surprising that
Mr.. Clifford should think that the laboring
man belongs to an inferior class of beings,
and that the upper crust is made up of the
rich and the men who never soil their hands.
The Portland daily press., 1886-09-08

Apache Geronimo has been captured again,
and at last accounts had not made the custo-
mary escape. This unusual conduct of the
willy heather is suspicious; and news of the
health of his captors will be awaited with
interest