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The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-01-25

The nomination of Mr.. Clark to tho
Chicago collectOrship has been re-
ferred by the Senate to the commerce
committee, of which Senator Cullom
is chairman, and who has stuck it
into his inside pocket. Whether it
will ever come out or not depends, it
is said, upon the decision of Cullom
and Farwell, after carefully feeling
the pulse Of their constituency,
whether it will be safe or not to make
a fight on the president. Whatever
their decision, they have no fearOf not
being backed by the Senate.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-01-25

There was at least one sensible ut
terance in the negro convention at
Chicago Saturday. Mr.. j. M. Town
send, a prominent cOlored man of
Indiana, said:
1t is said that we are Republicans,
and that party being in power we shall
be protected. Have we been? Has
that, or any other political party, ever
even attempted to protect us, except
in empty resolutions and vague and
meaningless declarations? have no
faith in any political party doing any
thing for us. | have less faith in Con-
gress. Your only appeal Is to the en-
lghtened public sentiment and con-
science Of this country, both North
and South, regardless of party poll
tics"
You are mighty right" Mr.. Town.
send. The Republican party Of the
North cares nothing about you but to
get your votes and couldn't helpyOu if
it wanted to, for it is not at the North
but the South where you need help,
for the South and not the North is
your home. The South looks upon the
Republicans of the North as enemies
and hates the negro only on account
of his political alliance with them.
Drop politics and that hatred will dis
appear.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-01-25

Is the millennium at hand? At Chi
cago on Thursday Mr.. and Mrs. j. w.
Sprague, a newly-married couple, were
ordained by ministers Of the Uni
tartan church. No prescribed form
was followed, but the services were
participated in by two Unitarians, one
Methodist and one Congregational
clergyman, and Jewish Rabbi. All
made remarks, generally in praise OF
the tendency of the times towards re-
ligious fraternity and the abandon
mcnt of creeds and dogmas.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-01-25
appear.

At least one of the forty or more
contested election cases in Congress
has suddenly collapsed. ]. Fl. Nc
Ginnis, Republican, undertook to con-
test the election of John ID. Anderson,
Democrat, in the Charleston, w. Va,
district. In hunting for evidence of
fraudulent Democratic votes he
stumbled upon incontestible proof OF
Republican frauds in Mcdowell and
Mercer counties to the extent Of 30C
to 400 votes. He incOntenently threw
up the sponge.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-01-25
SUNDAY.

The surplus will be reduced this
session if Congress is given half a
chance. The demand for public build
Ings is not the least hopeful way of
assisting to that end. They come from
all parts of the country, and about on
a par with the demands from Illinois,
which includes buildings worth $780,
600 at Monmouth, $lO0, 1000 at Aurora,
$4,000 at Sterling, 100000 at Rock
Island, and three at Galesburg,
amounting to $l57 300. Requests for
200 similar buildings, aggrcgating $780,
600, OOO have been made. The com
mittee intimate that some OF the
amounts may be reduced somewhat!
Little johnnie kunze, OF CrOnin
murder nOtoriety, has been released on
a bail bond of 5000, furnished by
dime museum men, under whose man
.agement he will make a tour as a
'freak."
Fifteen deaths from influenza were
recorded in Chicago yesterday. The
deaths for the week run up to 6l5, as
against 497 for the previous week.
Christian G. KOhlsaat was appointed
Judge of the Cook County Probate
Court yesterday by Gov. Fifer. to hold
until Judge is elected.
The New York banks hold 81, 78l l25
in excess of the 3 per cent. rule.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-01-25

ent strata of limestone and issuing
from the ground all over Mr.. Shenk's
farm, so that match applied will set
it on fire in hundred places. or
course the farm of some 300 acres is
ruined. The well is owned by the
Diamond Plate-Glass Company of
Kokomo, that greatly needs the sup
ply in its works, but the expense OF
controlling the gas and water is so
great that the whole will probably
have to be abandoned.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-01-25

II Lester A. Roses own defense of
himself, in his own columns, during
this week are not of themselves suffi-
cient to stamp him as a dirty dog, a
natural born and bred hlackguard,
who writes with the pen of a scoun-
drel words that could only emanate
from the mind of ruffian, man
beneath the contempt of every decent
man, to support whom is as bad as to
scatter the small, nothing further can
he said
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-01-25
A SAMPLE CASE.


"boodler" officials have, in all cases,
except that of Milligan, still in litiga-
ton to determine the amount due,
paid up the amounts of shortage found
due from their defaulting principals,
in this county. Many men thought at
the time, and still think, that in those
cases the bondsmen should have been
held responsible only for such short
ages as were found to have occurred
during the last six months-Or such
time as had elapsed from the date of
the last settlement with them up to
the finding OF the shortages, the Board
having repeatedly passed on their re-
ports and "found them correct" at the
end of every six months up to July
1886. If the report Of committee of
the Board Of Supervisors 1.-THE only
men who can settle with county Of
flcer), find that an officers report "has
been examined, compared with the
books of the Office, and found correct"
and the Office is thereupon declared
straight up to that date,-if such a
report means nothing and does not re-
leave the bondsmen up to that time,
what possible use is there of making
such report at all, and when can a
bondsman feel that his principal is
not involving him in liability?
A case in which this point, with
others somewhat involved in the late
boodler furry in this county has just
been decided by the Illinois Supreme
Court at Springfeld:-Ihe County Of
Macon .. Foster Foster, says short
report OF the case, in Chicago paper,
was the sheriff of the county and did
not report to the county board the
full amount of fees received by him
during his term OF Office. He also
claimed balance due him, which was
paid by the county board before ascer'
tanning the true facts in the case.
The board brought suit to recover
from the sureties and was awarded
Judgment In the lower court. The
Supreme Court reverses and remands
the case, holding the sureties are not
liable, and the county board cannot
recover from them the amount over
paid the sheriff. The opinion further
holds, however, that the sheriff is in
dividually responsible for the payment
to the county board of all fees received
by him; that they are emoluments OF
his Office and must be accounted for
This is pretty near the Milligan
case. 1t was almost incidental with
the Bartels case; and is interesting to
La Sale county on that account. 1t
seems probable that IL the bondsmen
Of any OF the 'boodlers" had fought
their ground, they could have forced
a settlement on the basis suggested
above. That they did not, entities
them to the highest respect for honesty
Of purpose to do their whole duty to the
county.
The decision, however, ought to be a
lesson to the Board, as, indeed, the en-.
tire boodler hurrah in this county
should have been. Had the County
Board, prior to 1886, done their whole
duty, no boodler business would ever
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-01-25

AS the case now stands, the Chicago
appointments have developed into a
game Of hang-up. There are four or
five other important appointments to
make. besides collectors Of the port
and internal revenue. "If you hang
up Clark's appointment" says Harri-
son to Cullom aud Farwell, 81 will
hang up all the rest" Apparently, in
that air little game, the President
holds the biggest trumps.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-01-25

The Negro Convention at Chicago is
growing sarcastic. In response to
Senator Browns proposition to APP
propriate $5,OOo,OO0 to export South
ern negroes to the Congo country. the
convention gets up a petition asking
Congress to appropriate 800, 1000, 600 to
deport the whites from states In the
South in which the negroes are in the
majority. Both propositions are about
equally sensible and feasible.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-01-25

the saloon will 60. 1t Is doubtful II
it will go before that time, In spite Of
the fact that all men, saloOn-keepers
included, know that Sunday liquor
selling is a willful and deliberate vio-
lation Of the law for which no living
man can plead ignorance.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-01-25

Sailors report an unusual amount
of ice afloat on the ocean. Usually at
this season everything is frozen solid
at the north, and the fields now en-
countered hardly even appear before
March or April. The phenomenon in
dictates an open polar winter.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-01-25
the "wiZzard of

Edison, the wizard of Menlo
Park announces as his last great in
vention an electric motor for street
cars that does away with the over
head wire and the Faure battery, and
is not near as dangerous or compli-
Gated as the electric motors now in
use.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-01-25

Since the death of Walker Blaine
his father is said to be subject to such
frequent uncomfortable paroxysms of
grief that his health is very seriously
affected, and fears are openly en-
pressed that the secretary cannot long
survive the loss of his favorite son.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-01-25

have been heard Of, for an examina
tion Of the books, by competent per-
sons, at the end Of any six months
would have disclosed the facts found
at last at the end of three, four or ten
years.
Bondsmen have some rights that
even County Board ought to be held
bounden to respect.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-01-25


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The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-01-25
for Infants and Children.

"Cessssaa d % wen adapted 70 children that
recommend IL - superior TO any prescription
Known 70 me-" H A. AlCHxR, H. D.,
III 90 O1ocd g.. Brooklyn, NY.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-01-25

| Ceetoris Cures Collie, Cooseipa4ioa,
Sour Stomach, DiarrhDa, Eructaton.
KILLS Worms, gives sleep, and psonoO -
wheoUs injurious msdicat;oa.
TIE CKxrAUR COMPANY, a Murray Street, N. Y.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1890-07-23
THINGS NEW AND OLD.

A Baltimore man has been convicted of
stealing lot of gold-filled teeth from
the museum of the university.
The floods in Indiana drove birds and
animals out of the bottoms, and hunters
killed lots of animals
While one of Pittsburg's mounted po-
Hcemen was chasing criminal his horse
suddenly lay down. The policeman got
off. and so did the fugitive.
DIR. Kuhneman, of the university OF
Berlin, has figured it mp that railroad
train of fifteen cars would be required TO
carry the food and nourishment a man
of moderate appetite would consume
from the time of his birth TO the age OF
20 years.
The crews of the United States war
vessels composing the squadron of evo-
luton were attacked by the influenza in
mid ocean and forty eight men were
prostrated. This experience indicates
that atmospheric causes produce the dis
ease.
DIR. Oliver Wendell Holmes, in the
preface to book on visions, says with
all scientists conservatism that once,
watching by death-bed, the impression
was conveyed to him that something
that is the word used by him-passed
from the body into space.
A young lady in town of Minsk, Rus
sia, purchased pair of gloves la Sara
Bernhardt Immediately after putting
them on her hands began to itch. The
next day her arms were covered with
sores, and a week later she died Of
blood poisoning. The doctors suppose
that the skin belonged to an animal that
had some contagious malady.
Medicinal rings were at one time seri-
ously believed in. Physicians were wont
to wear finger rings in which stones were
set, and these stones were credited with
the possession of many virtues. Some-
times the patient was simply touched
with the ring sometimes he put it on
his finger for awhile. Many patient
has worn such a ring to stop hemorrhage.
If the desired result followed the ring
was unreservedly regarded as the heal
ing agent; if the cure did not follow wa
are told nothing about it.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1890-07-23

He looks like blonde Salvini. His
motions and style and the savagery of
his tragic and passionate expression are
exactly those of th great actor. He is
a good naturel. jolly, happy hearted fell
low. who looks his audience in the eyes,
accepts their homage as the greatest
pleasure, responds with enthusiasm and
grace, hugs the grrat bouquets that are
thrown him, drags back his companions
in song with every recall, as though he
could well afford to be generous, and is
more like great happy blonde school
boy than a S3,0O0-a-night singer. He
looks more like a German than an allan;
would seem so quiet. indeed, save for the
eyes being placed closer together. indi-
eating the ideality of his nation, and the
slight point to his beard suggesting the
finesse. In singing he has way of fling
ing his gestures and his tones into the
audience, and he has way of flirting
with his voice in the higher passages that
thrills one through and through and
keeps lump in ones throat the whole
time. II Pittsburg Press.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1890-07-23
HINTS FOR SHAVING.

Never use warm water, which makes
the face (of sbavers) tender.
A piece of soft plate leather should
always be kept with razors to wipe them
with.
Always wipe your razor clean and
strop it before putting it away, and
always put your shaving brush away
with the lather on it.
In cold weather place your razor
(closed, of course) in your pocket or
under your arm to warm it.
Never fail to wash your beard with
soap and cold water and to rub it dry
Immediately before you apply the lather,
of which the more you use and the
thicker it is the easier it will shave.
If you only once put away your razor
without stropping it, or otherwise per-
fectly cleaning the edge, you must no
longer expect to shave well and easy,
the soap and damp 50 soon rust the fine
teeth and edge.
The razor, being a fine saw, should be
moved in a sloping or saving direction,
and held nearly fiat TO your face, care
being taken to draw the skin as tight as
possible with the left hand, so as to
present an even surface and draw out
the beard.
The practice of pressing on the edge Of
the razor in stropping soon rounds it !;
the pressure should be directed to the
back, which should never be raised from
the strop If you shave from heel to
point of razor strop it from point to hteI !;
but if you begin with the point in shaving
then strop it from heel to point.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1890-07-23

gard 10 dress:
1T is a fact. replied Sykes, that the
people i'm this country wear more cloth
ing than is worn under the equator.
admit that on my return from Africa
was shocked at seeing people wearing so
many clothing, SO TO speak, SO accus-
toned had become to the light drapery
of Central Africa.
Il thought you would have 10 admit
as much. said with a triumphant air.
But, continued Sykes, that feeling
of strangeness wore off as soon as l went
to tile theater The short dresses on the
stage and the low neck dresses in the
boxes reminded me very much of the
costumes | saw in Africa. BY the way,
did you ever visit fashionable seaside
resort during the height of the season?"
Il have been 10 Coney isi.s. .."ie
o. 50.
~Yoa should go to Long Branch or
Newport, as did, where could not see
any great difference between the style Of
bathing dress worn there and that which
prevails in the Sandwich Islands.
"Well, there is one advantage we have
i'm this country over Africa. We have
no such barbarous names for places.
When Stanley went to the re cue of
Gnin Pasha the papers mentioned the
most oatlandish names of places.
Yes. know Stanley passed through
Ujiiiiiiiii, on the banks of the Kneigh-
keeneedezeb River, and traversed the
Xylnbzujidqzi Desert after fighting his
way through the Jibimini tribe, who be-
longed to the Xylz lfjhiji-"
"For heavens sake, hold upl'
s@But how about the names in this
country Last summer l spent several
weeks in Maine at the Shawgamatunk
House. and this year am going to SUM
mer at Lake Observation-Disclosures
chopaquoddy. If there is any place in
Africa that has harder name than that
don't know where it is Speaking of
names, let me read you little piece of
poetry There are only fifteen verses:
OF mountain. lake and river clear,
From Chunkamunk TO Punkapaug,
I've heard of names that seemed absurd,
But never yet. upon my word,
One half so queer rs this one here -
manchangagogamaugh.
Il Alex +. Sweet.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1890-07-23
ONE GENT
PUCKERINOS.

Many a man never gets on the popular
aide till he joins the silent majority.
Jay Gould, says an inaccurate finan-
rial editor. ~is on record as having made
500, ,000, 600 in as many years
The man who is sure that he can't be
wrong is always the very one to find
that it is the impossible which always
happens.
II everybody believed everything that
he heard about everybody else, how much
better every man would think himself
than every one of his neighbors.
@They tell me, doctor, that your con-
sumptive patient thought a great deal of
you that he was grateful TO the last
YES, he declined with thanks.
"No use talkin' TO me bout layin' up
money for rainy day, said Uncle Ebo,
addressing an attentive group; mo use
talkin' dat way TO man wild sich luck
as always hab. Why, great Scott, if !
was to lay up money for rainy day,
we'd hab drought for forty ears. No,
sab you don't ketch dis niger in dat
sort o trap ~ Puck.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1890-07-23

A story of GaIIantry and Good Samarl-
taniSm shown by a Southern soldier
ut was the closing day at Fredericks-
lanta Constitutions, when man 10y the
name of John KirkIan came rushing into
headquarters and said: General, can't
stand it any longer Referring to the
wounded Federals lying in front Of our
breastworks, he said: Those poor fellows
yonder are crying for water-they are
perishing for water-and | came here to
ask your permission to go out there and
carry them some.
"Said l, KirkIan, you know it would
be almost certain death.
- Yes said he; but will risk it for
humanity's sake.
al don't think l ought to give youper-
mission to go, said l; but was so struck
with his he.oi ,m that l let him go. He
gathered some canteens. filled them with
water and went over the breastworks.
He got few steps, and came running
back. thought his courage hal failed
him; but he came to me and asked if he
might put up white handkerchief. Said
/: No, Kirklan: we don't propose 10 u.e
any flag of truce on this OCCASION.
"He got his canteen, and went over to
the breastworks again, and went about
from man to man giving the wounded
water. At first the enemy fired at him;
but as soon as they saw his purpose, of
course they stopped, and he remained
out there until he had given water to
every one of those poor fellows.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1890-07-23

WY YANTED-SALEsMEN to sell our Nur-
w sery Stock. All goods warranted
first-class. Permanent, profitable position for
the right man. Cash paid weekly. No ex-
perience necessary. Write for terms, giving
age and references. @. l. YATES Il CO.,
Nurserymen, Rochester, N. Y. 90
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1890-07-23
Inherited Scrofula.

swift's Specific Is. s. So cured my little
boy Of hereditary scrofuia, which broke out
ali over his face. For year he had suffered,
and had given up all hopes Of his recovery,
when at length decided 70 use ;. ). ). At
ter using a few bottles he was entirely cured.
Not symptom now remains of the disease.
This was three years ago
MRS. L. L. MATHERS, Mathersville, Miss.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1890-07-23
The Great American Chorus.

SneeziDg. snuffling and coughing This
is the mueic all over the land just now.
I've got such an awful cold In my head. !"
Cure Il with Ely's Cream Balm or IL may
end In the toughest form Of eatarrh. May
be you have eaiarrh now. Nothing is
more uauseous and dreadful This rene
dy masters II as no other ever did. Not o
snu1 nor a liquid. Pleasant, certain, ra-
deal
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1890-07-23

nIV0pCEc Speedily quietly. For parties
UlHVHVLO' in any State. Desertion all
causes. Blank application free, ROBERT
WHITE, Atty SO b oadway. N. Y. 10 I'm
ISoR RENT HOUSE on Clay street extend
Il ed Four rooms and Summer Kitchen,
Good Water. Rent chea9. Apply to ID. ".
MILLER Washington street .l6
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1890-07-23
Merit WINS.

We desire 10 say TO our citlz ns. that
for wears we have been selling DIR. Kings s
New Discovery for Consumption. DIR.
Kings New Life Pills. Bucklen's ArDica
Salve ard Electric 3 tiers. and have never
handled remedies that sell as well, or that
have given such universal satisfaction.
We do MT hesitate to guarantee them
everv time. and we stand ready to refund
the purchase price. II satisfactory results
do not follow their use. These rene.
dies have won their great p0pu larity
purely on their merits at the City Drug
store.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1890-07-23

For Pollock & Freidenrich, Ladies
hand and machine made Shoes in all
STYLES and prices, 60 to Brooks & Bar
ton, 10 Main Street. Annapolis. They
are selling them 25 per cent. less than
Baltimore prices.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1890-07-23

In the early part of last year had q vio-
ent attack OF rheumatism. from which
was confined to my bed for over three months
and at times was unable TO turn myself in
bed, or even raise the cover. A nurse had 10
be in constant attendance day and night
was so feeble that what little nourishment /
took had TO be given me with spoon. At
ter calling in the best local PHYSICIANS. and
trying all other medicines without receiving
any benefit, | was induced by friends TO try
Swift's Specific Is. s. So ! discontinued all
other medicines, and took course OF S. S. s.
thirteen small bottles, which affected q COM
plete and permanent cure.
L. G. BASSET, Ei Dorado, Kansas.
Treatise on Blood and Skin Diseases mail
edfree. SWIFT SPECIFIC CO. Atlanta,Ga.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1890-07-23
SPECIAL NOTICE.

We will insert In this column advertise
ments of Wants, For Rent, For Sale, Lost
Woand, &C., not exceeding four lines. ONF
WEEK. or less. for 2b Cents.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1890-07-23

TOR SALE CHEAP .-0 One large MULE,
good worker also one good work
HORSE, is hands high. Apply to
e27 II d. BALDWIN, l02 College Ave.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1890-07-23
FOR sALE-BARGAIN.

HORSE and CARRIAGE. Sold for
want of use A great bargain. Apply at
this Office Il
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1890-07-23

VxTANrED.--AN ACTIVE MAN for each
w section Salary go To 500, to locally
represent successful N. Y. Company incor-
Jewelry ETC., to consumers at cost. Also
Lady of tact. salary $40, to enroll members
$50, 900 now enrolled. 100000 paid inl.-
Association (credit well rated) Lock Box 90
n 5-27
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1890-07-23

TOR SALE. The LOT on the Corner of
Washington and Clay Streets. This
Lot fronts 100 feet on both streets. Apply to
20 4. EUGENE WATHEN.
Attorney-at Law. Annapolis, Md.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1890-07-23
w. Tuck LeveIy,

TUNER of Grand, Square and Upright Pianos
81 Prince George St., Annapolis, Md. T2Om
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1890-07-23

Milk Shakes, cents q glass al A.
Hart's, Maryland Avenue.