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The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-05-29
From Marseilles.

Marseilles ILL.,, May 2Sth, 1SsG-At last
the bridge is open, The commissioners
hold meeting next Wednesday. Pending
the formal acceptance the company have
posted notice that they will not be re-
sponsible for accidents.
Mr., Ed, Allen and Miss. frankie Irwin
were yesterday united in marriage by Rev.
Mr. Howard, they got at once into their
own house and begin life under very good
auspices.
The programme for decoration day is
somewhat long, A new feature will be an
exhibition of collection of relics of the
late war. A large number are promised, Il
committee of ladies are to take charge Of
the gems, looks found on the battle fields
or any thing of interest will be carefully
watched over and returned to the owner
after decoration day. They may be left
at the store of d. n Shepman.
A. J. Thurbur is now painting and fitting
up his addition recently put on his house
The Pitts company recently turned out
some fine castings of CRATES to go to Chi
cago.
Rev. Munroe, pastor of the Congregation
al church has accepted call to Ogden
City Utah,
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From Ransom.

RANSOM, May 81, 1SS6-Mr. O'Neil, of
Reading has moved to town and is buying
grain in the place formerly occupied by
M J. Lane.
Richard Bros. are building residence
tor Mr.. Barnes.
Miss Emma Shoemaker Is home from
Geneseo Ill, where she was attending
school
Mr. Motif will soon begin work on his
new house. When completed it will be
one Of the best In town.
Rev, Wayman, of Morton, is in town, the
guest Of W. II. Collisen.
Miss Mary Steven, who has been teach,
ing for sometime In the Normal school at
Geneseo, is at home.
James McClintOck and Pat Herbert ar
rived in town yesterday from Marcus Iowa.
They came 10 see Mr. Tom Herbert, who
is very sick
Jim Devine and Jim Smith went to Chi
cago Tuesday Devine will remain in the
city some time, and Smith long enough to
see the wonders Of the place.
Roll of honor of the Ransom school for
the month ending May Goth, 1886, contain
ing the names of pupils whose attendance
ance and department have been perfect and
lessons creditable. Mr.. Mclntyre's room
Maggie Steinhardt, Dora Lane and Aggie
O'Mara Miss Philips room; Dora Thor
son, Eda jacob, Maggie Joyce, Emma
Miller Grace Fisher, Herman Wide Mag
gle Thorson, Frances Raebel and Mary
Raebel. Total number enrolled, g.
Dick Lee, of Chicago, made flying trip
to Ransom Tuesday to take orders for Tol-
man.
George Steinhardt came home from Chi
cago Tuesday. He says his brothers. eye
is improving rapidly.
too fond of home to make good travelling
salesman. SCRnTOR.
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SUGAR SrATIsTlCs.-The worlds pro
duction of sugar Is probably we'll towarC
eight millisn tons year OF this British
India and China produces an themselves
consumes over million tons each of cane
sugar, their exports being small and these
Of very low grade sugar. The estimated
product of all countries available for expor,
was in 1879, year of large production
2, 1862, 900 tons Of cane and no less than 2.
j57 800 of beet sugar. 1t Is estimated that
the cane.sugar crop marketed this year
will increase TO 2,2lSD00 tons, and that the
beetsugar crop will fall of 520,750 tons
partly the result of a lower acreage result.
ing from the low prices oflast year. Cuba
produces more than quarter of the whole
export supply of cane sugar, last years
product being 627 900 tons, while this years.
will probably equal her largest crop (1S75),
which was 500, 900 tons. OF this more than
halt I'm 1885, 339, 536 gross tons) come to
this country which gets half its total sup.
ply for refining from that island Of revolu.
lions Louisiana produced last year but
"a, 900 tons but It's normal product Is nearer
900 tons to which Texas, our other
chief sugar growing state, adds 10000 tons
more. Five other States contribute some
cane sugar. The Sandwich Island crop,
under the stimulus of the treaty which per
mits its sugar to enter duty free, reaches
5000 tons, but ii is said that the available
land and the poor quality of native labor,
the prohibition of Chinese, and the high
price of white la3Or fix the limit at the
present figure. OF the beetsugar supply
Germany produced last year ,l55 900 tons
Austria 551, 900, Russia 10000, France 300
GOO, Belgium 10000, and Holland 10000
tons Oar chief contribution to this crop
is from a factory At Alvarado, California,
producing about 900 tons but it is believ-
Ell that this will become an important Pa
cidc coast industry. Beet sugar IS largely
imported into this country for refining pur-
poses, and We get also some date palm sug-
ar, called commercially date jaggry.
Our yield of maple sugar, in which Yer
mont still leads, WAS about 2j,9OO tons last
year. Sorghum. although large quantities
Of syrup are made from the large acreage
at the West has not yet come into the mar
ket as an important commercial source of
sugar, the largest crop having
been but 5000 tons; our scientific agricul- |
turists, who gave good reasons for looking
to this as ore Of the great American crops
of the future, have yet to Justify their |
faith by their works. The manufacture of
glucose, or artificial starch sug- |
ar, has of the late years reached enormous
in this country, amounting in
value to a third of our cane gugar crop.-R.
BOWER, in Harper'S Uaga2tne for June.
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rsxcitpuent in Texas,

Great excitement has been caused IN the
vicinity of Paris, Texas, by the remarkable
recovery of Mr.. j. +. Corley, who was so
belpless he could not turn in bed, or raise
his head; everybody said he was dying Of
Consumption y trial bottle of DR.. King 5
New Discovery was sent him. Finding re.
lief. he bought large bottle and box OF
DR.. Kings New Life Pills; by the time ne
had taken two boxes of Pills and two bottles
of the Discovery, he was well and had gained
in flesh thirty six pounds. r
Trial Bottles of this Great Discovery Tor
Consumption free a, D. Lorriaux.
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Earliest Methods of measuring Time.

The story is that King Alfred has on bet
ter way to tell the tine than by burning
twelve cances, each of which lasted two
hours and when all the twelve were gone,
another day had passed. Long before the
time of Alfred, and long before the time of
Christ, the shadow of the sun told the hour
of the day, by means of a sun-lial. The old
Chaldeans so placed n hollow hemisphere,
with n bead in the center, that the shadow
of the bead on the inner surface told the hour
of the day, Other kinds Of dials was after
ward made with a tablet of wood or straight
piece of metal On the tablets were marked
the different hours. When the shadow came
to the mark TX, it was nine o clock in the
morning. The dill was sometimes placed
near the ground, or in towers or buildings.
You see, in the picture, two sun-dials that
are on the Gray and Black Nuanery in Otta
wa, the capital of Canada. The old clock on
the eastern end of Faneuil Hall In Boston
was formerly a dial of this kind; and on some
of the old church.tOwers in England you
NAV see them to-day. Aside from the kinds
mentioned, the dial now in existence are in
tended more for ornament than for use. In
the DAVIS when dials were used, each one con-
tanned motto Oh sOiuc hiiu, INV NhN0N'
,Time flies like the shadow; or, 81 tell no
hours but those that are happy.
But the dial could be used only in the day
time; and, even then, it was worthless when
the sun was covered with clouds. In order
to measure the hours of the night as well as
the day. the Greeks and Romans used the
clepsydra "The water steals away"
large Jar was filled with water, aud hole
was made in the bottom through which the
water could run The glass, in these days,
was not transparent. No one could see from
the outside how much water had escaped.
So there were made, on the inside, certain
mark that told the hour as the water ran out
or else stick with notches in the edge was
dipped into the water, and the depth of what
was left showed the hour. Something the
water dropped into another jar in which a
block og wood was floating, the block rising
rs the hours went on. Once in while, some
very sich man han a clepsydra that sounded
musical note at every hOur.-from "frH'-
tire Clocks" BIZ Friedrich G.. MATHER,
p,pYl4r ScieHc Nout5ig tOI Jms.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-05-29

The Carnegies of Pittsburgh, have
bought land within the city limits with a
view Of erecting two of the largest and
finest blast furnaces in the world they are
puttiEg up one of the largest heating fur
naces in the world in one of their Pitts
burgh mills. Their Homestead Mill is turn
ing out 10000 tons per year, their Edgar
Thompson plant is turning out 100000 tons,
and their other two mills 100000 each, max
ing total of $4,000 tons. They have seven
blast furnaces in operation-tive at Brad
dock, 12 miles east, which are turning out
100000 tons, and two Lucy furnaces 100000
tons. They need two more, and propose to
erect them this season, and make them EN-.
body the very latest and best improvements
in blast furnace practices.
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THE COURTS.
Circuit Court.

On Tuesday there was argue" o''''
,yulse Blanchard the hatedS corp" Pro'''
iae of The People, ETC., ef REL James ''''
r.,,. o., Ice Cross, sent TO the La Shl''
c,,uaty Circuit Court from Lee count, on =,
.u,t If the illness of Judge Eus,ice. IN
,r,,y. matter arose from foot race in which
uarper took part, and fight that resulted
fran, ihe charge made that he had thro" u
me race. A justice Of the peace OF Lee
coz nty having put the prisoner in the cuS'o'
d, Of the officer to await trial, Jno. '" Blee
~,,.d o,. The writ to secure his release
Iu6e. blanchard, after hearing arguments
Sv Dir. Bles in support Of the writ anu oy
" r Snow and Z. s. B owne against its be
inr GRANTED, denied it, and the prisoner was
escorted back to Lee county to await the
pleasure Of the justice
on Wednesday Anton Rossak, Of La salle'
c,p Yicted week since Of assaul'ng Thomas
Cassidy. Of the same city, with deadly
weapon, was sentenced 10 pay fine oil 80
1v5 coas, Witch he Immediately did.
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The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-05-29

SHErPARD.--As the training season ha
opened and the horses are being prepared
for the summer campaign, it may not be
amiss to invite the attention Of the horsemen
of the great West to the fact that they have
in their very midst. at Ottawa, H., one of
the most successful veterinary surgeons of
the day, in the person of DR.. william Shop
pard, graduate of the Royal College V. S. of
England, Fellow of the London Veterinary
Medical Association, Professor of Lameness
and Shoeing in the Veterinary College of Chi.
cage, and Veterinary Editor of Dmton's
SPIRIT Of tie Turf. DR.. Sheppard is well and
fayorably known, and is endorsed by owners
and breeders throughout the West and North
west. His Office and infrmary are on Lafay.
cite street, Ottawa, lll.-Tds SPIRIT Of tie
Times.
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County Court.

Judge Gilbert, in the county court, occu'
PIE All Of the past week with jury in the
gri'l Of criminal cases.
Is PeoD's &c., yEHg0e Nyvs-IrJoymatoa
rs- assault Wih D,adiy Weapon
le defendant and the prosecuting wit
~ - sire residents of Waltham township,
AMI the evidence developed the fact that
sbare Ia, been trouble before between the
sa-s parties. The jury thought the de
fsr3ant acted on the defensive against su.
r,rior numbers, and they returned verdict
AZ n5t guilty.
III. People &c., george Attmson-IGjormd-
ton for Larceny.
Atkinson is a mere boy, and some time
aaanG last october took horse and buggy
tAst MAS hitchel in front Of the Episcopal
cSc,h IN the city Of Ottawa and drove it
90 50 to 1onica, where he was intercepted
a. arrested
Iia plead guilty to the charge, and the
aoalt reserved sentence.
4' pcoo's Sc, Clu}l, r. farar-iHict
g,ai f,t Oltcang H,aey by falsc
Pydu9
arrar is one of those patent right Iends
pEs infe.t the country and grow fat upon
$40 credulty ofthe unsu'pecting granger.
n fraudulent representations he obtained
II ,ncnt note from one II Ii. NeIdows,
d. .rrsstor, for the SUM of $50 but before
rho ame wos negotiated Meadows ascer-
tzr.sd thn he was imposed upon aud re
pgf.ap the note. Farrar still retained
r1ag cssion Of the paper and some days later
Ubrgned t loan Of $40 from one Adams, a
saloon keeper at Sreator giving in security
Gie note of $50
The evidence did not tend to show that
ssnaar obtained the loan by pedging the
sglc Is security, but rather that the loan
w. made and the $40 in Farrar's posses
~lop before The note was mentioned, and the
sury brought in verdict Of not guilty.
7He People &c., v Ho0y Mou5oa.-iaa,ct
oient for Keeping and Maintaining
Nuisance
ratFendans runs a tallow rendering esab
I1szloeut in the town Of Eagle, which has
aaaa4s offensive to the residents Of the
aeighborhood.
The jury thought it was not so offensive
rs ik.t il should be abated, and so found.
~ People &C., RosseH FtHcr-Indictmen
fer SeQRg t'nrioiesome PROVISIONS.
Tie defendant was Charged with know.
Ergiv disposing of diseased pork, but on trial
III lsrts alleged in the indictment were not
proved and, without making defense, the
verdict was not guilty,
7ks People few William BraHm-IgfoJmd
hon Jor Larceny.
DrfeE liant plead guilty to stealing some
Bxsaj an 1 provisions aud was fined 81 and
Tenieaced to Jail for FIVE days.
Tie cases Of Ambrose Betting and
Itema. Glenn, for keeping and maintaining
uuisAnces in the town Of Leland, were not
prosecuted.
The case Of Tie People T,omas Smith
xhsreeo with bastardy on complaint OF
swynne James, Of StreatOr, was dismissed
n appearing that the defendant had married
sbs prosecuting witness.
Eilen Olson, OF Miller, agel 80 years, was
sdIsdxsi insane On Friday. No cause as.
aessu.
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4 Mikdao-let.

The pimples that come in the spring, ira la,
Are proof that your blood is not right.
Take Hoods Sarsaparilla and Pills, ira la,
And soon you will be free from your ills ira
Ia; :,
Then all will be merry aud light, then all
will be merry and light.
And then you will feel like bird ON the
wing; :,
Your step will be light, and you III merrily
sing,
Take Hoods Sarssparilla, take Hoods Sar'
saparilla
II implies that come In the sVriug.
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irui,,i" t"uIi,

o., Tues lay l'rpnnl udge Evans render
ell his decision IN IN, matter OF the probate
NJ m, viii ct tredr,lch Wech deceased,
l.lI under consideration since its trial a
ye.k since. ludle Evans holds that the
last will made and presented WAS not valid
one. having been chained when the testat0r
v,s not capable of resisting the undue intu
ences Trough, t. bear upon him to obtain 1t.
The whole contrs. viii probably be gone
over again when an attempt is made to set
aside the deeds made about the same time
and under the same influences.
The last will and testament of Orilla San
derson, deceased, late of La Sale, was pro-
bated on the 26th inst The estate left is Of
value, and all goes to her hus-
band, Lyman Sanderson.
Under an order of tAe Court 80 shares OF
First National Bank Of Ottawa stock, be-
longing to the estate Of william Moore, de-
ceased, was sold on Monday at auction.
There were but two bidders Cashier John +.
Nash and Thos. l.. McKinlay. After num-
Der Of bids were made Mr.. Nash secured it
at SlGi5O per share. MIR. Mckiuiay's high
eat bid was $lci2j.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-05-29

Not Chinaman now lives in Lewis
county, Wyoming Territory, where there
were six hundred year ago. There are
said to be only 81 now remaining in Seattle.
1t costs Maine yearly about $4,000 in
bountes for bears. The town of Greenville,
Moosehead Lake, leads all other towns in
the bear business Last year this town drew
$500 for sixty bears killed in its borders.
The Chinaman is very fond of dress, and,
though sometimes dirty in his habits, is
scrupulously clean in his person. His relig-
ion enjoins vegetarianism and cleanliness,
His remIssness in the former matter is quail
flied by his attention to the latter.
A stick of timber 100 feet long and eigh-
teen inches at the butt and straight as pen
holder was shipped from Olympia, W. T.,
last week. 1t was the finest piece of tim
Der ever shipped down the south and was
intended for flagstaff at Port Di scovery.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-05-29

have been afflicted with rheumatism
for two years, especially in the shoulder,
obtained one bottle of Athloporos, took
it according to directions and found i'm
mediate relief from 1t. Lewis Bliss, aged
- years, Mt. Carroll, Illinois
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-05-29
MORNING.

Decoration Of Catholic, South Ottawa and
Jewish Cemeteries, aud graves of Gen. Wal
lace, Col. Dickey and Col, Erwin by Seth c.
Earl Post, g. A. r. All citizens desiring to
~ ~ arr =. quss.si W Jvin tLs Pso, a.. Lao
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-05-29

Until very lately only one copy of the
first edition of The Pilgrims Progress
was known, but recently two copies more
have been picked up in London, at s'xpence
each One was Immediately sold to the Brit
ish Museum for go, and the other to Il
to a London publisher for t25
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-05-29

The following programme has been ar
ranged for decoration day, Monday next, by
the Executive Committee Of the Decoration
Association:
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services. Post meets at 0 o'clock at their
hall on Court street
AFTERNOON.
Earl Post form in front of their hall ut
l:l5 p. NJ sharp, and will be escorted to the
monument by Co. d. 4th Regt., |. N.G,
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-05-29

Colorado offers a premium of So per
hundred for every line of trees maintained
along bitches, fences and highways and
properly cared for.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-05-29

At Petersburg, Va, stealing flowers from
graves has become so common that the
police have been compelled to interfere.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-05-29

Sugar, glycerine and gum arabic are the
articles used to produce the glossy appear
auCe of ink.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-05-29

This season $50 cars of oranges have been
shipped by Sacramento to the East.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-05-29

A special police force is to be organized
in Rhode Island to enforce the new prohi-
bitory law.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-05-29

Stefers easy lifting oyeralls are sold by the
best dealers III all the towns around Ottawa.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-05-29

Roses seventeen and eighteen inches in
circumference are common products OF
Southern California.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-05-29

The court VII agourn for Decoration
bay ondny, lay jr nud on June ! wi'l
resume the criminal a. rudar
Los Angeles daily herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1884-1890, 1886-05-29
national city marine News.

There is bark at National City wharf
now, discharging coal, consigned to the
California Southern Railroad. She is a
Norwegian bark, commanded by Captain
Nelson, loaded with about l, 200 tons Of
coal from Newcastle Australia. She
came in drawing twenty feet of water.
A bark ia square rugged on fore and main
mast and schooner rugged on mizzsn
mast.
There has been at National City
wharf, the past week. the schooner Jen-
ME Stella, with lumber for California
Southern railroad; schooner Parallel.
lumber for California Southern railroad;
schooner Emma Utter, piles for Califor.
MIA Southern railrosd company; steamer
West Coast, commanded by thequeerest
old salt ahoat-old Captain Higgins.
He has been sailing the seas ffiy.six
years, never touched drop of intoxi-
eating liquors in his life, never used to-
bacco in any form, never was in a thea.
tire or other place OF amusement. he
is known in every port Of California as
the greatest old kicker pardon the ele.
CANT expressionl on the coast. That be
Is soured on the world, is a natural con
sequence of the way in which he has
lived
Los Angeles daily herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1884-1890, 1886-05-29
AyoVuER RAILROAD SURVEY.
A new section of Country 20 be
nnamea.

A new section of Country 20 ne
Opened.
A special dispatch to the HERALD was
last night received "a follows:
'' US ~ 49, g., ~. 40 1919
LANoAsthn' ISL .'
To The HERALD;-Ihe arrival OIL
Chalmers Scott and party OF surveyors
here this morning overland from the
coast caused considerable excitement.
They were joined here by Mr. w. H.
Lawrence, who arrived by team, aud the
party started towards Gorman's station.
Their intentions are not definitely
known, but it is thought they are run
ming preliminary line for the Atlantic
and Pacific X. =. through the eeuter OF
Antelope Valley to Lancaster.
This survey has long since been lore.
Swallowed in the columns Of the HEEALp.
Whether it is conducted BY the A. 4 2.
K. R. or the s. p. r. r. is not known,
but that some company will build road
through Antelope valley and the Lieyre
to the gold mines is certain. After
reaching the mountains the line can pass
through the cations which extend to the
Santa Clara river and reach the Camulos
rancho and San Buenayentura by as
near q route from Lancaster or Rosa.
mond as by the present line through the
Soledad canon Via Newbail to those
places.
Several routes are available from
Germans station to the Santa
Clara valley. The line would open up
vast amount of farming land, some 300,-
600 acres. to settlement. q portion Of
which ia in fact now being settled west
ward from the present railroad for 20
miles. lima from f3orman's station
can also pass north Of Frazier mountain
and through the sierra Neyadas at far
lower elevation than Tehachepi, and
pass bv the Antimonv mines in the San
Emieio mountains into the southwest
side Of the San JOAQUIN valley Such e
road would be well watered, and pay
from the word 90.
The proper place for the junction of
the A.AP with the s. p. X. r. is at
Rosamond instead Of Tehachepi, and the
road from the s. r. through Antelope
valley sbonI,i start from Rosamond. on
account OF the superior water facilities
at the north side OF the valley.
AT present there is great scarcity of
water at Mojave, the supply from
the little pipe and spring be.
inc totally INADEQUATE to supply
the increased amount used by the two
great railroads that meet there, As a
consequence water trains are running all
the lime TO supply the town and the en-.
gines Of the railroads at Maiave station.
This ia very extensive business. By
making the junction at Rosamond plenty
of water can be had from flowing wells,
and the line west through Antelope
would have Abundance of water from
the snur Of the Tehacbepi mountains on