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Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-10-03
WEDNESDAY, OcT, 10th.

At IL o'clock an address will be
delivered by the Hon. Mann Page.
At P. NJ. parade of cattle, under the
management of the directors of this de,
partment. Trials of speed begin at 2
o'clock
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-10-03

IF you suffer pricking pains on NOV
ing the eyes Or cannot bear bright
ligh5. and find your sight weak and
failing, You should promptly use DR.,
j. II. McLean's Strengthening Eye
Salve 25c box. For sale by f. A.
Bond.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-10-03

There will be no end to the means of
accommodation The grounds are
ample and conveniently located tor
every possible purpose.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-10-03

The 29th annual fair ofth North
Carolina State Agricultural Society
will commence at Raleigh on October
18th and 18th inclusive
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-10-03

A large number of side shows will
be at the fair.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-10-03
THE FAIR PROGRAMME.

The Program for the coming fair
will be unusually elabo%ate and inter
esting. Each year we asn to produce
multiplied attractions fresh, bright,
dazzling, and engage as many eIeva-
ting and instructive Exhibitions. Games
and amusements, as can be secured,
and all Of the rare and striking novel
ties that the genius of the times has
been able to invent to enliven and en-
rich these occasions. and have power 10
educate, amuse and enIighten the pee
pie, so far as they are available and
consistent with the character of the
Fair, will be exhibited, thus assuring
an unusually attractive and elaborA te
program Of everything that can lend a
charm or fascination to the great fair,
or that will appear conspicuousy
grand, attractive, instructive and
amusing The ambitious aim of the
managers is to strive to make every
day banner day.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-10-03
TUESDAY, OCT. 2Sth.

At 10 o'c ock the Fair will be for
mallY opened by Hon, T. G. Skinner
and w. R. Capehart, President of the
society," assisted by Vice Presidents,
Ex-Presidents and other distinguished
citizens, and attended by the Chief
Marshal and his staff.
Officers will be present to receive
all articles and stock, This will be
known as children's day. Donkey,
goat, bag and other races, and many
sports and games, especially designed
for the young folks, will be the order
of the day.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-04-12

Rockford after doing along half a
dozen years with two or three sleepy
daily evening papers, is finally to be
walked up by the clarion notes of live
morning paper. OF course it costs
more money, requires more hard work
and "git up and git" to publish an ac-
ceptable morning paper than it does
to get out one of those droning twi-
light concerns; but what man, after
having taken in all the important
events of the preceding day and night
with his morning coffee and toast and
caught his cue for the days doings be-
fore him from his morning pepper, cares
to doze over a somnolent rehash OF
substantially the same events in his
after-supper negligee and slippes, ex-
cept as soporific to hasten his eve
ming snooze? The evening paper is in
journalism what the mule is to horse
cars. 1t is behind the age, which de-
mands the lightning flash Of the NOR
ming paper and the propulsion of cleo
tricity
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-04-12

Howard A. Evans, who was in the
exporting business at Rio de JaneirO
for number Of years, says in CONVEX
sation about the coffee trade:
The people of the United States are
so busy looking after trusts that they
don't see the biggest monopoly in the
land-the New York Coffee Exchange.
That institution costs the people
over $50, 100000 a year. This extra
amount would not be expended were
the market only governed by the laws
of supply and demand. The cost Of
producing barrel Of flour in this
country and bag of coffee in South
America is about the same. The
Brazilian planter pays us 81 for the
-four, but owing to the exchange
we pay him four times as much for
the coffee. From 1880 to 1887 the aver
age price for a medium grade of Rio
coffee was II cents pound. For the
same article you now pay 20 cents.
The coffee supply for this year Is es-
timated as IN excess of last years crop,
yet the combination forces the price
Of the medium Rio up TO 20 cents,
which is nine cents higher than ten
years ago.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-04-12
The Presbytery.

The Tuesday session of the Presby-
terry was devoted to routine business.
A call was presented from Paw Paw
for Rev. ii. A. FurgcsOn, a recent
graduate of the Mccormick Theologl-
cal Institute at Chicago, who will be
ordained at $40 o'clock this morning;
The Rochelle church presented a call
for Rev. Mr.. Fleming, OF SPARTA
which was allowed Rev. Mr.. VIII
hanson, OF the Portsmouth, ONO
Presbytery, and Rev. Mr.. Wheaton,
of the Bloomington Presbytery, were
received, and Rev. Sydney Allen was
dismissed to the Presbytery OF WOOD
River, Utah.
Rev. r. II. Nye, of Sandwich, was
elected delegate to the General Assem-
bly of Presbyterian churches, which
meets at Saratoga in May.
The chief event Of the afternoon
session was the presentation Of the re-
mort of the committee on revision.
The committee filed It's report al z
O'Clock, recommending that some or
the phrase0logy OF the third and tenth
chapters of the articles OF faith be
modified to conform to the modern
teachings of the church. The changes
recommended, of course, effect the
doctrine of Select" infants in the
tenth, and of the select" OF the race
in the third. According to the Pres
byterian doctrine, as it now stands,
some are born select" and have the
especial protection of the Lord
Rev. Mr.. Magner, of Morris, opposed
the report. He said that the prevail
ing spirit of the times was unfayor..
able to a disturbance of the articles or
faith as laid down bv the founder of
the church, John Calvin. There was
too much of destructive rather than a
constructive spirit in the air: 1t was
not so much an epoch of creed-making
as of creed breaking. This movement
was in the line of giving away TO a
spirit of liberalism and radicalism. The
modification of the Calvanistic doc
trine was not to be treated lightly.
The clamor of infidelity should not be
deemed force of sufficient strength
to cause the custodians of the creed TO
waver or diverge from the beaten path.
The articles of faith had been great a
conserver of orthodoxy for decades
gone by and had served as a break
water against the tide of infidelity
which had ever asSailed the church
and her teachings. He disapproved OF
tampering with the creed even IN the
slightest particular.
Revs. Pollock, of Mendoza, Whea-
ton, of Waterman, Williams, the
evangelist, and Force, (retired) OF Ot-
tawa, spoke in favor of the adoption
of the report. They urged that the
wording of these articles of the faith.
where they referred to 'elect" infants
and "the elect" had subjected the
church to much unmerited criticism.
Times unnumbered persons who were
kindly disposed toward the church
had refused to become members on
this account, and the church had
lost many opportunities for progress
through the condition of affairs. The
reverend gentlemen were in favor OF
revision in order that the articles OF
faith might conform more to the adj
vanced teachings of the ministers OF
the church.
The question of the adoption OF the
report was put to vote and was car
ried by vote of IS to g.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-04-12
The Highway Commissioners.

The suit of the Town of Dimmick v.
The Highway Commissioners OF that
town, now waiting for trial in the
Circuit Court, has been again
brought to public attention in OF
tawa through the publication, in the
Republican of yesterday, of the report
of a Citizens committee who investi-
gated the books of the commissioners,
OF the merits of the controversy
between the town and the commits
sioners. we have nothing to say. A
declaration has been filed by the town,
and an answer by the commissioners:
and in process Of time the issues will
be Joined, the cause heard, ana de-
cided upon the merits.
Granting, however, for the present,
the claims made by the committee or
Dimmick, and the charges made OF
crookedness, in Ottawa by those who
are at ''Outs' with our own commits
sioners, the results complained of in
each case were, as the committee OF
Dimmick says, largely due to the neg
lect of duty by the town auditors in
auditing their accounts. If there is
any croOkedness in Ottawa, it was the
duty of that body to find it here, as it
was in Dimmick.
Just how many other towns might
be found, on enquiry, to be running
along in substantially the same way,
does not appear at this time,
but no one, we apprehend
would be willing to wager much in
the immaculacy of any similar body in
any town in this county. 1t seems to
be generally understood everywhere
that the road and bridge fund is to be
"blOwn in" anyhow, and if the tax
payer sees on the roads one dollar out
of ten he has paid he generally con-
graduates himself on the efficiency of
the road commissioners of his town.
The system itself is at the bottom of
the trouble. The town of Dimmick
may sue its commissioners of one year;
but that suit, if in favor Of the town,
can bring no assurance that the COM
misSionerS the year following, or next
ing generally, of course. The legal
fool knows that.
Besides that, the commissioners
generally are not road builders. The
fact that Mr.. Heating works on the
roads his own team and draws pay
IOT tIlclll, COuul dly w O1c ICUtcl VI Uilc
law, is not a very serious thing, per Sc
for his teams may work as well as any
other mans. 1t is not half so serious
as the fact that the commissioners do
not comply with the law requiring
that they shall build permanent
roads," Yet they may be ever so
honest and obey to the last detail the
letter and generally the spirit of the
law and still not build foot of per
manent road" The roads must be
taken out of the hands of this kind of
a body las found in every town, which
is practically irresponsible, and turned
over to body or an officer that is as
responsible as county officer, say.
This has long been advocated by such
men as Z. G. Lewis, who have taken a
hand in road building and know, and
have called attention to the failure of
the present system as machinery for
the building of permanent roads.
The taxpayers have the right to
kick at waste and fragrant violations
of the letter of the law, as matter
of course: but why would IL not be
better to strike at the root and abolish
the commissioner system entire and
place the roads in the hands of a
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-04-12
Brewer & Strawn and J.J. Conway,
<H0,TesS.
STATE OF ILLINOIS = LA SALE
= COUNTY, SIN the matter Of the Estate Of Mary

STATE OF ILLINOIS - LA SALE
y COUNTY, SIN the matter OF the Estate Of Mary
y Rourke. deceased
To Mary Crawford nd Elizabeth Crawford
You will take ce that on the eighth day OF March,
d. 1884, there fled In the Probate Court OF said
county certain instr ment of writing purporting TO
be the last Will ana testament OF Mary ORourke,
deceased, and on the id date there also hled In
said court the petition OF Margaret Lynch, praying for
the probate Of said will and the appointment II herself
as admnstratrx OF said estate With the will annexed.
and praying that dedins potestdium or commission
may issue VI and under the seal OF sAd court to
take the deposition OF one Mary Z. freddy, formerly
ORourke who is now residing at or near Quick. From
tier county Nebraska Of the subscribing witnesses
TO said instrument touching the making and pub ish.
ing OF the same. And thereupon on motion said
Msrgaret Lynch. by Brewer h str wn and j. j. Con-
way her attor eys the court SET said petition down
for hearing Satur ay the twelfth day OF April A. D.
1880, AT the hour OF ten o'clock NJ. at the Probate
Court Room Ia the city of ottawa IN Id county. at
which time and place you and each OF may appear
and fe nierrogaories TO be propounded To said
witness, II You m ~ do and take such other &C.
ton In the matter may he proper.
Dated Ottawa. Illinois, Mar 81, 1890
inch % 2w HENRY HELMlG. Probate Clerk.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-04-12
NICHOLSON d sEELEY,

IItOFNtVS az LIU.
AIOTICE.-Esl AR or CHARLFsJ j. BoRCHsESIUs
~ DECEASED Notice IL hereby given that the under
signed executrx OF the last will and testament OF Chares
a. Borchsenius late uf the county Of La Sale and state
of Illinois, deceased. will appear before the Probate
Court Of said county, the third Monday being the
18th da,) OF May, 1890, Ut the Pr0bae Court Room,
in Ottawa. In said county when and where all persons
having claims demands against said estate are n0t
ed TO attend and present the In writing for nd.
justment -
Dated this 18th dsy OF March. A. u. 1890
MARTHA NJ. B0R~ HsENIUS,
inch 22Sw Executrlx
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-04-12
A. /. WILLIAMSON.

NOTlCE.-EsTATK OF CHARLES HAGsNBucH. DE.
~ CEAsKp.-Notice Is hereby given that the under.
signed. executor Of the last viii and testament OF
Charles agenbuch late OF the cousty of La Sale and
State OF illinois, deceased will appeal beiOr, the Pro-
bate Court of said county, the tnii Mond being
the 18th day. May 1890 the Probate Court Room.
In Ottawa In said county. when and where all persons
having claims demands against said estate nUthed
10 attend and present the In writing for adjust
ment
Dated this 10Th day Of March, A. u. 1850.
ALBERT I. HAGENBUCH.
mi 2w ExecutOr
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-04-12

Streator has park upon which she
has expended some money and in
which her people take just pride. 1T
is shaded by fiue spontaneous growth
of oaks. hickories, elms, &c, and has
some nice long gravel walks and drives.
and now that the streets of the city
are still in semi-quagmire condition,
of course her people take especial com
fort in drive over the smooth, solid
gravelly ways of the park. Well, they
just don't. Why not? The park is UNI
der the control of commissioner and
he has locked the gates and persistent
ly keeps them locked. Why? His rea-
son must be a particularly provoking
and exasperating one, and it is certain
~ a wicked one, for it has driven our
good, meek, pious friend of the Ind:
Times to profanity: he calls it id
fOolishneSs :"
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-04-12
rHos. @. FuLLERroN.

NOTICE. -EsTArk ov MAR0ARRT CORBI0Au.
~ DECEASED. Notice hereby given, that the under
signed administrator Of the estate Of Margaret CORR
late OF the county Of La Sale and state Of n0ia
dece ed will appear before the Probate Court VI sad
county on The third Monday beine the 18th day. Of
May 1880 NJ the Probate Courl Room, In Ottawa,
IN said county. when and where ell persons HAVING
claims or demands against said ests are notih 20
attend and present the In writing Tor Adjustment
Dated this l7th day of March. A. d 1881.
THOMAS j. RRIGAN,
inch q 3w Administrator.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-04-12

They have on the bank of the canal
near Morris place called Castle Dan
ger, and not without reason. AS a
gentleman passed there on Sunday he
saw an animal in the water which he
first took for dog in the act of drown
ing, but presently it came to the sur
face with a large fish in its mouth
which, on crawling out on the land, it
proceeded deliberately to devour. The
man stood but a few yards away, but,
tho cycling him sharply, it showed no
sign of fear, and having made its meal
the creature returned to the water and
disappeared. What was it? 1t was too
large for muskrat or otter, and the
gentleman thinks it is seal. Others
have seen the animal, and Scott john
son." says the Morris Nescs, ''has seen
half a dozen of these same animals In
the river just south of Castle Danger"
They can hardly be seal, whose natu-
raj element is salt water. Why may
they not be beaver?
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-04-12

II one had been possessed Of a good,
strong magnifying glass at a certain
hour Wedesnday and had stood with II
upon Court street, across from the
court house, he might have seen
young man walk across the street
dragging a long string behind him.
To the end which dragged apon the
ground was attached a small stone.
He halted inst below the window of
the Circuit Court jury room THAT is,
he did II you possessed magnifying
glass;. He might have been seen,
with the glass, Of course, to throw the
stone into the window and a Juror
might have been seen to draw up a
handful Of cigars.
But who says this really happened?
1t Is only a rumOr.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-04-12
O'CoNOR, DUNCAN & ECKELs,

NOTICE.-EsTArk or NICHOLAS HALEY. DRcEAsBp.
IN Notice 10 hereby given that the undersigned, sd-
illustrator Of the es ate OF Nicholas haey late Of Tie
county of La Sale and OF III nois, decreased will
appear before the Probate Court Of said county the
third Monday (being the 18th day OF May, 1884, ct the
Pt obate Court ROOM in Ottawa in said county, ~ hen
and where all pei having claims or demands against
said notified to attend and present the same
In writing for adjustment.
Dated this 18th day OF Ma Oh. A d. 1890
inch q Sw EDWARD HALEY. ADMINISTRATOR.
UCoNoR, DUNCAN & EcKKLs, Atys.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-04-12
r g, HIT.

Al A STEERS SA k..-SiATE OF ILLINOIS.
wi La SALE COUNTY. ss.-Ld Suhe c, uniy Circuit
Court. 49, go
In the matter OF Henry }. Mono!t VS.. The Utica
Pottery Company and William Z. Armstrong On bI
10 tOrecIose ~ rt00ge,
Public notice is hereby given, that In pursuance Of
decreta order entered IN he above entitled cause IN
said court. the eighteenth day OF March, ID. lSU.
l. Thomas G. Fullerton. master In chanctgy OF said
court on Saturday. the nineteenth day OF APRIL A. ID:
1890 o'clock in the af ernoon OF said say shall
sell at pubic auction The highest aud best bid.
der for cash at IN north door of the County Court
House In Ottawa in said county. thef flowing srribed
real estate situate In the county of La Sale aud state
of illinois. to wit Lots xteen 90 seventeen %.
eighteen uSl, nineteen Us). and twenty t20l. In the
sub division Of lot % In block q 10 Clarks third
addition to North Utica together with the heredta'
ments ana appurtenauCes and machinery ana Tools
thereon situate, gether wi all and singular the ten
cmenis and her, dit mcnts thereuDto belonging.
THOMASC FULLERTON.
inch 70 lw Master IN Chancery.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-04-12

TIE best society in Washington has
been in a tremendous flutter since
Saturday over an incident in notion
store on the Avenue. 1t is known
that ever since the "blocks-of-h fire" eX-
posure President Harrison has affected
to give Col. Dudley the cold shoulder,
who, considering that he had spent
months OF incessant toll and sleepleSs
nights to secure Harrison's nomina-
tiOn and election, regards such treat
ment as a colossal piece Of ingratitude.
Mrs. Dudley, who is a high-spirited
woman, says it was all the doing of
Mrs. Harrison, and that she would
yet get even with her, and on Satur-
day she found opportunity, when the
following occurred:
Mrs. Dudley was making Easter
purchases, when there was a tluttering
of skirts near her, and the next mo-
ment she heard the salutation:
why, Mrs. Dudley, how do you do?
am SO glad to see you"
Mrs. Dudley turned and, looking
calmly at lady dressed very neatly
who stood near her. she said: Madam,
you have the advantage of me-" and
from her eyes came all the decision
that Mrs. Dudley is so well known for
Her visitor stepped back and said;
"Why, Mrs. Dudley, you know me.
! am Mrs. Harrison"
With her steely look directed full at
Mrs. Harrison, Mrs. Dudley, with
affected contemplation, replied: liar
rison? Harrison?"
"Oh, you know very well who i am"
exclaimed the presidents wife, who
left the shop Immediately, and Mrs.
Dudley resumed her purchases. When
she left the store il was with the air
of one who had righted wrong.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-04-12

There are many ways Of earning an
honest livelihood, but if we may be al
lowed a free use of the vernacular,
Young Harry Blitz takes the cake"
During his examination before Judge
Fitzgerald yesterday he declared him
self to be san actor" When asked to
describe the branch of that noble pro-
fession he devoted his genius to, he in
formed the Court that he was "a frog
eater, a fire eater, a lamp chimney
Chewer, and tack swallower."
Later on he disclosed the fact that
he could eat 'tiye or six tacks at a
time, "chew one or two lamp chimneys
and swallow three or four frogs" with
out any material interference with his
digestion.
The Judge concluded that man
who could do all that would hardly
have time to steal watch-the Of
Tense with which he was charged
and so released him.-N. Y, Herald.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-04-12

According to the Lancet DR. Luder-
itz has recently made number of OBJ
seryations on the destructive power
of coffee upon various microbes. He
found that the organisms all died in a
longer or shorter period. In one ser
les of experiments anthrax bacilli were
destroyed in three hours, anthrax
spores in four weeks, cholera bacilli in
four hours, and the streptOcoccus OF
erysipelas in one day. Good and bad
coffee produce precisely simmllar
effects.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-04-12

''Pupil farming" has received ire
mendOus schock in England on account
of the disclosures in the Birchel case.
Judging from the inquiries that
these pupil farmers make Of their
agents, they need great deal of teach
ing. One young man recently wrote
to inquire If cotton was grown in a
certain locality in Canada, and the sa-
pient agent answered that it wasn't,
but that so important an industry
could not long escape notice.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-04-12
ALady In Texas Writes:

Ny case is OF long standing; has
baffied many physicians; have tried
every remedy / could hear of, but
Bradfleld's Female Regulator is all
that relieved me. Write the Bradtield
Reg. Co., Atlanta, Ga, for further
particulars. Sold by all druggists.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-04-12

Col. Isaac Clements, who has been
serving as penitentiary commissioner
and was recently appointed pension
agent at Chicago, gives some interest
ing statistics in regard to the decrease
of crime in this state. He says there
were in round numbers about 1900
prisoners in the Joliet penitentiary.and
about 700 at Chester There have
been as high as 1900 prisoners in the
two penetentiaries, but the number
is constantly decreasing. Before the
fall term of courts the number will be
down to 1900 and yet the population
of the state is constantly increasing.
In comparing the prison statistics
with those of Iowa, the prohibition
state, Col. Clements says that Illinois
shows greater portion of the crimes
committed were those against property,
and the perpetrators were almost in
variably sober men. The decrease of
crime in Illinois is certainly crafty
ing to all lovers of law and order.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-04-12

county engineer elected for that pur-
nose. Other states are doing this
with profit to the taxpayers and great
improvement to the roads
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-04-12

The somewhat severe criticisms Of
Schweinfurth by the Rockford press
have made him mad, and the other
day he preached sermon predicting
the speedy and total destruction Of
the city OF Rockford.