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The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1889-01-16

the responsibility, it must also have the
right to demand information. The Liber-
ais did not question the validity OF tka-
German treaty with Kamaherero. The
negotiations with Great Britain related
solely to the legal question whether the
reservation contained in.the treaty with
Lewis held good. II fresh demands
for money were suddenly made there
must Of necessity be permission to ask
questions. The Chancellor was always the
first TO impart heated tone to a debate.
The truth was Prince Bismarck attended
the Reichstag so seldom that he came 10
believe that he had only to deal with his
subordinates in that House. 1t was I'M
just to ascribe the hostilities in Samoa to
the rejection Of the guarantee. They
arose from the Colonial policy of the Gov
eminent. The Reichstag and the German
people must not embark in adventures.
Bismarck replied that Richter had only
to critcise, while he had to bear the heavy
responsibility. In the English Parliament
the opposition carefully sbstained from
any unreasonable attacks, and man who
failed to comply with this rule was deemed
unpatriotic. In Richter a demoniac love
for Fatherland fought with dislike for the
imperial chancellor. As for Bamberger,
he simply said TO himself, there the sore
point OF the government; that's where we
must rub" [Cheers.]
Official reports hadn't arrived from
Samoa. kilograms were costly and occu-
pied a fortnight in transit As soon as the
Government received the reports it would
take steps. Since Herr Richter declared
that the conventions with Kamaherero
were doubtless valid in law, he found him
self in the agreeable position Of being able
TO cite the authority OF Herr Richter to
the British Government Laughter. On
the other hand, Herr Richter had by his
doubts disturbed diplomatic steps. Ger
many was looking in London. A motion
TO close the debate having been adopted,
Herr Bamberger repGdiated Prince Bis
marck S suggestion that he might alter the
shorthand report as an insnuation affect
ing his honor.
Soon. after Prince Bismarck departed
the vote was agreed TO, and the House
adjourned until Thursday
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1889-01-16
aas
The Effect Ian England.

LONDON, Jan. l5-The Daily Ncis
commenting on yesterdays debate in the
Reichstag, says; We hope this debate
will open peoples eyes in England TO the
part Lord Salisbury is really playing 1t
becomes too painfully evident that he is
mere creature and cats paw OF Bismarck.
The German Liberals, to whom the thanks
OF both England and Germany are due for
their manly and outspol;en criticism,
drew from the Chancellor frank avowal
that the pretence OF suppressing slavery
Is a mere device for leading Salisbury into
a trap. IL is time the country spoke is
mind in regard TO Sallsbury's muddling.
The Standard, referring TO the debate in
the Rechstag yesterday, says il was not
delicate sword play, but good, honest isti-
cuGs England, the Standard remarks, has
every desire TO promote the German policy
so far as she can without sacrificing tho
plain rights OF her own subjects
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1889-01-16

TnE Philadelphia Telegraph is a good.
sound and reliable Republican newspaper,
but II has no use for the carpct.bag clo-
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1889-01-16

There Is as much rs thrcc feet Of snow
on the plains Of New Mexico, and stock is
suIlcring LrighlIuLly.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-12-28
SUNDAY.

The news comes via London that
Gen. Fonseca. chief Of the new Brazil
liam government, is dying. The ques-
tjon of his successor is an important
one, and the Englishmen conversant
with the situation there fear that his
death now would cause serious cOmpli-
cations. 1t would, indeed, be singular
if Brazil should make so radical a
change of government without any
internal troubles.
A new theory has been advanced to
"account" for Juror Culver's behavior
on the Cronin jury. 1t is that he is
insane! that he was depressed by bu3i-
ness affairs, and was physically unfit
for jury duty when taken, etc, etc.
Speaker Reed announced his com
mittees yesterday. Henderson, of
Bureau county, is chairman Of the
River and Harbor Committee.
Preble & Co., New York account
book makers, have failed for million
Congress has adjourned to January
q, 1890
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-12-28
EHE NEWS.
SATURDAY,.

Max Mantwill, German laDorer
was found murdered in the basement
of his house yesterday, the body being
horribly mutilated. The tragedy Is
complete mystery: for although his
wife and children were in the room
above. where the struggle should have
been heard by them, the woman says
she heard nothing, and has no sus'
picion of the murderer's identity.
Two British steamships in the
eastern trade, the Cleddy and the Isle
of Cypress, collided near the Isle OF
Wight. The Cleddy sank and thirteen
sailors are missing.
Judge Longenecker is now at work
on the jury-bribing cases, and prom
Uses to treat the public to even greater
surprises than he did on the Cronln
case itself.
Mr.. VIM. O'Brien has been released
from the Galway prison, where he had
spent two months for holding a pro-
claimed Nationalist meeting.
1t is now said that Portugal Is
anxious to have Dom Pedro move
again, as the example of Brazil is STIR
ing up the radicals in Lisbon.
Alfred Cowles, publisher of the Chi
cago Tribune, died yesterday from
apoplexy. He leaves an estate valued
at 100000.
Silcott has been indicted for grand
larceny and forgery, but the trial will
probably be postponed until he is
caught.
An English syndicate is negotiating
now for the purchase OF the Buffalo
grain elevators.
Same old story from the signal SER
vice man.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-12-28
TUESDAY,.

Removals from the Chicago police
force have been so frequent of late
that the slaughter has ceased to Oc-
Casion comment any longer, as rule;
but the announcement yesterday that
Chief Hubbard's head had been de-
manded by the mayor was somewhat
of a surprise, the place to be given to
ex-U. S. Marshal Marsh and Chief II.
to be reduced to captalncy. The re-
publican papers claim that the change
is due to politics" but it appears to
have been "A part of the mayors plan
Of reorganization announced at the
beginning of his administration.
Jem Smith, of England, and Frank
Slavin, Of Australia, fought near Brus-
sells, Belgium, yesterday, fourteen
rounds, at the end of which Smiths
friends, seeing him about to be beaten,
behaved 50 outrageously that the
referee called the fight a draw and
left the grounds on disgust.
Henry w. Grady died at his home
at Atlanta yesterday morning of
pneumonia.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-12-28

The surveyor general of Arizona,
General II. A. Johnson, says of "the
great Peralta grant: ut is fraud
through and through" AS he made
a thorough examination of the title
during his former four years service as
surveyor general of Arizona, he knows
what he, is talking about.-Inter Ocean.
The fraud of the Peralta grant was
uprooted and exposed by John Hise,
late surveyor general of Arizona, and
Johnson's successor four years ago.
But for Johnson's removal at the time
and Hise's subsequent exposure, that
grant would probably have been con-
tirmed, a result for which Johnson's
Thorough examination" had gone far
to prepare the way.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-12-28

The Art amateur winds up the year
in royal fashion, giving as one of its
two colored supplement plates SUI
perb picture of pears, over a foot high
and two and half feet wide. 1t is a
perfect fac-simile of the original oil
painting, and framed, it would deceive
any one. 1t is really marvellous how
such a picture, which would cost many
dollars at any art store, can be given
away with a magazine for thlrty-five
cents, together with all the other sup
Elements and scores of illustrations
with the letterpress, treating of every
kind of practical art work. NO more
suitable Christmas or New Year pres
ent could be found than a subscrip-
tion to The Art amateur, which is
really invaluable to all having homes
TO furnish or decorate, or wishing to
learn oil, water-color or china paint
ing. wood-carving, brass-hammering,
book and magazine illustrating, and
art needlework. Price, S4.OO a year.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-12-28

If the Supreme Court of the U. S.
sustains the decision of the Supreme
court of New York, dissolving the
various corporations constituting the
sugar trust, what them" asks the
Inter Ocean, "will the greatest and
most oppressive trust do to re-establish
ITSELF" and the L. o. answers:
at will leave the state Of New York
and its Republican legislature and will
reorganize under charter granted by
the Democratic Legislature of the
Democratic state Of Connecticut"
The presumption of the later Ocean
on the ignorance Gifts readers amounts
to a gross insult. 1t knows perfectly
well, as every intelligent man knows,
that Connecticut has not had a demo-
cratic legislature in twenty-five years.
As in New York, so in Connecticut,
though the popular vote is persistently
democratic, the state has been so
gerrymandered by previous legislatures
that in neither, though the popular
vote is two-thirds democratic, can the
Democrats ever carry the legislature.
If such thing were supposable of the
Inter Ocean as feeling of shame, its
editor should blush down to his heels
to talk of the democratic legislature
of Connecticut"
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-12-28
DITCH OR SHIP CANAL.

"Will ii be ditch or ship canal?''
asks the Chicago Times, referring to
the drainage service Chicago has just
elected its board of commissioners to
build. And one Of the trustees-said
TO be the best posted of the lot-Mr.
Henry j. Willing, answers the Times
inquiry by saying, of course il will
be ditch and nothing else. 81 don't
think such thing as "A ship canal was
ever intended by the legislature when
the drainage law was passed. What
the people of Chicago want is a chan
mel deep enough and with a sufficient
current to carry away the filth from
the great city, and that is all The
question Of making the channel navi-
gable will never be even considered by
the board"
The U. ). engineers, who have Just
been making about the fifteenth sur
vey Of the proposed ship canal, state
openly that its construction in CON
nection with the Chicago drainage
scheme is utterly impracticable, and
will not be considered in that con-
nection in their report.
Chicago talked" ship canal to the
legislature, and many bucolic MEM
bers that voted for it supposed some
thing of the sort was intended, but
the bill was carefully worded to leave
Chicago wholly unfettered on that
point, and she will do what she all
along intended-dig big sewer to
dump her filth into Lake Joliet and
nothing else.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-12-28

The English law of libel is a little
peculiar. 1t used to be, 1.-The greater the
truth the greater the libel:" but that
has been so far modified that the de-
PENDANT can show the truth in miti-
cation of damages. So when, the
other day in the Old Bailey in London,
the Earl of Easton appeared to prose-
cute Editor Parks, of the North London
Press, for an Infamous libel" the
editor dumfounded his lordship by de-
manding leave to prove the truth of
the charges in mitigation. The
charges were that Earl was one of the
principals in the Cavendish Square
outrages of inveigling children in
vile den to debauch them. His lord
ship didn't care to face the truth and
dropped the prosecution.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-12-28
OUT ON BAIL.
Chase and Campbell Gleim's Friends, will
Spend Xmas Where They Will.

Spend Xmas Where They VIII.
The two noted men, Chase and
Campbell, who, neatly and with dis
patch" some months ago played the
Slight of hand trick on Frederick
Glenn, the $4,000, which
he and one of the pair had, by means
of the 3-card game, won from the other
of the pair, was, by true Hermann-ic
skill. changed into brown paper,
which Glenn logged home in box
with so much care and caution,-have
at last been able to put up $4,000 as
bail, and ale now reveling in the free
air of soft Christmas weather.
The bail bond was furnished Mon
day by Nj. j. Corcoran and jeremiah j.
DAILY, both of Chicago,-the former
a well-known liquor dealer; the latter
the owner of the privileges with John
Robinson's circus for many years. Be
tween them, the bondsmen schedule
$4,000 in real estate and S2S, 900 in
personal property.
The con" men had been in Jail for
several months: and it is only fair to
say that they had become very popu-
lar-there. They Were liberal fellows,
apples and good things TO eat, with
which Doc. Norton's allowances rarely
permit the Sheriff to adorn the menu
of his table, found frequent entrance
to the inner walls through their good
offices: and what with other little re-
membranes of theirs TO their fellow
inmates, with longer terms, thicker
decks and thinner purses Tor poorer
friends) Chase and Campbells depart
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-12-28

The big Sioux chiefs who have re-
Gently been holding a conference with
the Interior Department at Washing
ton, when through with their business
and about TO be dismissed, limited that
about now some presents would be in
understanding to fill their carpet
bags so that their children might not
be disappointed when they got home.
When asked what would suit them,
one big chief wanted a plough-one
that would do the work while the
operator could ride around on it all
day-a plough with wheels and not
handles. He probably didn't get it, as
it was not in his carpet-bag when he
left.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-12-28

The attempted boycott of Harvard
University by the Protectionists, be-
cause President Elliott lately changed
from Republican to Free Trader,
has resulted contrariwise. The gain
of pupils at the opening winter term
was the largest by 40 per cent. in the
history of the institution. The truth
is, the world has reached that stage of
enlightenment that no reputable in
stituton Of learning any longer dares
to teach political economy on the Chi
neSe-wall basis.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-12-28

G. G. Clark, the new mayor of Peoria,
is genius. He has one fat office at
his disposal-that of oil inspector
There is big money in it," he says,
land about a dozen of my intimate
friends want the place. l know that
as soon as | make the appointment
I'll have one friend left and eleven
enemies. l guess shall have to let
them shake dice for it. That might
not be statemanlike, but they couldn't
blame me for the result"
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-12-28

If she asks Congress to do anything
in the matter ut all, it will not be TO
help her build ship canal, but to re-
move the dams out Of the Illinois
river, so that the additional water
from the lake may not largely increase
the overflow Of lands along the river,
the damages from which the bill holds
Chicago liable for. She will get rid of
those damages by hook or crook some
way but that is all the interest she
ever will take in the question Of high
or low water in the Desplaines or Hi
nOis rivers.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-12-28

Culver, who has suddenly leaped
into fame as the twelfth juror in the
CrOnin case and the one wise man
mixed up with eleven fools, has put
his foot into it" to the full extent of
its sixteen inches by suing the Herald
for libel. The Herald, from the way
it sails into him, is likely to double its
money in fun, though it may spend
ten thousand dollars over the case.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-12-28

The farmers of Illinois, in 1889, plant
ed about 10000 acres less corn than
they did in 1888. The yield per acre
was also but 30 bushels against 80 in
1888. The quality however, was bet
ter. The total corn crop of the year is
placed by the State Board of Agricul-
ture at 257, 9S0,5S9, against about 26O,-
600, 900 in 1883.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-12-28

The Norristown Herald justly con-
dennis the practice of drinking
behind the door" There is danger of
some one pushing the door shut before
the drink is finished. Better take the
flask into the cellar, where the drinker
is less liable to be disturbed.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-12-28
From Tuesdays Daily.
CHRISTMAS CONVINCE


Tomorrow will be Christmas re
Judge by the genial skies overhead
and the SOftneSs underneath, one
would hardly suspect it. In this lati
| tudc, at least, the idea of Christmas
! is associated with frozen streams,
solid roads, crisp, frosty atmosphere,
and the jingling Of sleigh bells. But
it will be Christmas all the samoa
green Christmas" which threatens
fat grave yards" as one saw has it,
and another, that it fOrebodeS a
"White Easter" which is nearly as
bad. But in our day we have seen
more than one green Christmas-one
quite notably so nine years ago-but
we have no recollection of an unusual
fattening Of grayeyards, nor does our
diary record snowStOrm at the next
Easter.
The unreasonable weather has un-
unpleasant drawbacks enough with
out borrowing trouble" of the
Mother Shipman sort. Our sympa
thies 60 out especially towards our
merchants, who are stocked to the
ceiling with holiday grimcracks, for
the sale of which the quagmire condi-
tion of the roads is sadly unpropitious.
Town people, of course can get about
and do their holiday shopping nearly
as well as usual, but what, in Ottawa,
does the trade amount to when the
country is unable to come in? After
all, the farmer is the mainstay of our
merchants, and when he is confined
to his premises, Christmas or no
Christmas, trade is dull.
Yet let US not be glum on that ac-
count. Christmas comes not only to
US, but to the whole Christian world,
and a very small fraction of it doubt
less is disturbed by our meteoro-
logical discomforts. Its beams fall on
all America, North and South, on
Russia, Norway, Sweden, the noun
tains of Germany and Switzerland and
Spain, the hills Of Scotland, on sunny
England and the isles Of the sea, from
Cuba to Cathay.
So let us, whether no." as the
punster Of the Chicago Times has it,
make the most of the season. Out |
with the pOcket-book! The more
merit in making Christmas merry if
old and cranky and soulless Probabili
ties forbids. Christmas obtains over
all the world. Under the equator the
flowers bloom, and still it is Christ
mas just as in old Judea where the
shepherds watched through the nip
ping and the eager air and the babe
was born in the manger. What if the
air be raw if only our hearts be warm
and our seniors with whitening hairs
remember to make the great festival
lll-enduring, all-pervading, gracious,
happy, wholesome, as joyous for the
growing generation as in our own
lime, our own younger day, we hoped
hat it would be made happy for us.
youth takes note not of the
weather, but of the kindly festival.
santa Claus may not come with rein
leers and sleigh, fur-capped and frost
breathing, but shall he not therefore
,ome? Never mind the weeping skies.
The holidays are upon us, and let us
make the most of Them
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-12-28

AS New York will never need the
five millions she has subscribed as a
guarantee fund for the Worlds Fair,
why not turn over at least part of it
to the Grant monument fund? More
honor for New York lies in that d.
rection than in getting the Worlds
Fair
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-12-28
She WAS Completely Cured.

A daughter of my customer suffered
from suppressed menstruation, and her
health was completely wrecked. At
INV suggestion she used one bottle OF
Rradfipld's Female Regulator, which
cured her. J. w. HELLUMs, Water
VALLEY. Miss.
Write the Bradfleld Reg. Co, Allan
"A. Ca. 80: particulars. Sold by all
druggists.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-12-28

A brother of President Harrison ap-
peared in Washington few days ago
and astonished everybody by the as
surance that he was after no Office.
1t turned out that he had been well
provided with one eight months ago.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-12-28

And now comes the dreadful story
that bank notes carry the bacilla of
"La Grippe" How is one to pay his
debts? Gold is too scarce, and OF
course everybody will now refuse
hank notes!
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-12-28

1t is noted that much larger pro-
portion than usual OF the members of
Congress remain in Washington during
the holidays. Had all of them re-
manned and attended TO business the
outcome of the Silcott defalcatior
might have been still better.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-12-28
The Horseradish man on his cara Family
Difficulty.

The Horseradish man on his cara Family
Difficulty.
c. A. Bennett, the horseradish and
garden-truck man. was arrested by
Constable Dick Norris near his home
at Buck Creek at late hour last MOu-
day upon peace warrant sworn out
by his wife during the afternoon
before Judge Weeks. He was admitted
to bail, to appear for hearing at 2
o'clock this afternoon.
Mrs. Bennett claims that she and
her husband had few words on Sat-
urday, and, as finale to the discus
sion, he struck her several times,
threatened to shoot her and took her
15-mOnthS-Old babe away from her.
He then told her that either he or she
must leave the house. and she came
to Ottawa. Constable Norris ac-
companied her home last evening",
where she recovered the child.
Bennett lays the blame of the
quarrel upon her, and says that he
will never live with her again.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-12-28

pie involved is the same, be the prizes
large or small-$j0, 600 in cash, a team
of horses or town lot.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-12-28
Children Cry for Pitchers Castoria.
Children Cry for Pitchers castoria.
Children Cry for Pitchers Castoria.

ure last evening left a barren waste
within the prisons walls. Even York
ey felt a tear trickling down his manly
cheek, and this morning is suffering
from severe attack of inconsistencies.
We have their assurance, however,
that they will return-later, and dec
crate the box in the Circuit Court
room for at least short engagement
and take such medicine" as the dag
nose of their case shall call for. The
public who have time to set out a
spicy trial will await their return
with interest, so to speak. Sowill Mr.
Glenn, no doubt: and their Kendall
county friend.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-12-28
THE FRESHET.

q A HOMELESS, drifting band are we.
n Yet lucky III high degree.
For when the house was swept away
Before the freshet yesterday.
To find the bottom went the cans,
Along with kettles. spoons. and pans;
But safe above the house and mill,
The IVORY SOAP was floating still !
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-12-28
A WORD OF WARNING.

There white each represented be good the Ivory
they ARE NOT but like all counefes lack the peculiar and remarkable qualities Of
the genuine. Ask for Ivory" Soap and insist upon getting it.
Copyright Proctor anb.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-12-28

For, strange to say, It's not confined
To cleaning things of every kind.
From coarsest cloth to finest lace,
From painted walls to pimpled face.
But proves indeed the greatest prize, ~
When rain descends and rivers rise;
So while we have life to save,
Wen praise the Soap thatrides thewaye!!"