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for ny length of time at the regular raw :
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I. T. Vah Dobiw, Grand Kldge.
feioBOi H. Hibobr. for Troy Grove, Oplilr and Wal
tam. Addrea. Troy Grove.
A meeting of the iron manutacturers at
Pittsburg on Wednesday, after examining
into the condition of the trade, ucciaeu
that it was healthy and that the prospects
for the next season were unclouded.
The Citv Dank ot Rochester, N. Y., rated
an amone the strongest in the city, sudden-
Jy suspended on Wednesday, the cause of
the collapse being that O. E. Upton, its
president, had stolen $H50,000 of its
money and lost It in stock speculations,
Thomas Doyle and Katie Morgan, a
runaway couple from Oneida county, New
York, having reached Rochester and taken
a room for the night in a hotel, blew out
the gas on going to bed and in the morn
ing were found dead from suffocatior.
Even Vermont received such a scare for
the safety of the "grand old party" from
the election last fall in Kansas that its leg
islature a tew days ago voted down a pro
position to submit a prohibitory constitu
tional amendment to a vote of the people.
Albertl & Palmer, who contemplated
utarting another Sunday paper in Ottawa,
have changed tbeir plans, and moved the
new project to St. Taul, Minn. Tho paper
will make its appearance as a Sunday sheet
nbout the first of February.
The National Committee of the green
back party met in St. Louis on Tuesday
and favorably considered a proposition of
Mr. De La Matyr, of Indiana, to dissolve
the party andall a national convention of
all the elements opposed to the two great
national parties and organize a new party
mainly on tho anti-monopoly basis.
The effective means to stop the recent
war between the railroads from Chicago to
Omaha was found in the gobbling of the
Omaha road by the Chicago and North
western. The latter monopoly now bo
tomes the greatest railroad corporation in
the world, controlling 4.730.33 miles of
road, or 333.38 miles more than its greatest
rival, the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. i'aul
Oen. Curtis, who, while an officer ot the
New York custom house had collected po
litical assessments of the employees and
was indicted for it and found guilty, toon
an appeal to the U. S. Supreme Court, and
that court now decides that tho law pro
hibiting the assessment of Government em
ployes by Federal officers, tor political
purposes, is clearly constitutional. Co lell
Hubbell.
Some of the ingenious prlsouers in the
county jail have been engaged In making
caws, Ac, from steel shanks taken from
their shoes. Articles of this description
were found u few days ago in the posses
sion of one of the men. And Sheriff Milll
i;an has determined that in the future all
prisoners must wear shoes furnished by
the county, which will contain no contra
band material. This removes the tempta
tion to the prisoners to try the Garrity
McGowan dodge.
The newly elected officers of the Utica
lodge of Odd Fellows will be publicly in
tailed on Wednesday evonlug, January 3d,
Dr. J. O. Harris, of this city, acting as
Grand Master. Following the installation
ceremonies Itev. Mr. IIazeltlne,of La Salle,
will make a short address and then the
company will be invited to engage in a
social dance. The society at Utica have
purchased a lot and propose to erect there
on a hall, the proceeds of the dance going
into the general fund for that purpose.
Chicago was tremendously excited last
week over what seemed to be au abduction
case like that of the Hennecke girl in Mil
waukee, the supDosed victim being Annie
Loftus Jackson, who was last seen in com
pany with a Dr. lluddington, and who was
arrested for his supposed connection with
the case. On Saturday night, however, the
girl returned from St. Louis and explained
aer strange disappearance by the story that
Dr. Duddington had taken her to the Clar
ence. House for improper purposes, but
failed to wrong her, and to conceal her
identity she pretended to be from St. Lotus
and sympathetic guests rinding l 1 (li
ter ted raised money and mm her to St.
Louis.
Wji.l Not Contebt. The Joliet Signal
of Tuesday states that Mr. Haley, although '
strongly urged to do so by the Democratic
Congressional District Committee, has de.
cided not to contest the election 1 Mr
Cullen to congress from this district In
vestigation has satisfied him that he could
'easily prove the casting of 100 illegal votes
by students in Du Page county, and that
the returns of the town of Sheridan, in La
Salle county, which gave Cullen ICS ma
jonty, were so grossly irregular that any
committee tearing the contest would have
to throw them out, thus electing Mr. Haley
OTTAWA
by over 100 votes j yet, "while the evidence
against Mr. Cullea is thus Tar Htronger than
thai under which scores of democratic con-
gressmen have been ousted trom their scats
by republican congressional majorities, he
believed that no citizen should be depriv-
ed of the elective privilege because of the
failure of the judges of election to com-
ulv with the strict letter of the law In con
ducting tue election and making out their
returns of votes cast."
The Sianal adds most truly: "This is
democratic and iu accordance with tue
democratic system of doing business; and
should Mr. Haley bo brought before the
people of this district again as a candidute
for congress, which he certainly win oe ai
the proper time, ho will be seated without
the necessity of a contest"
CUBIOUS LETTERS.
The New York Herald of Monday pub
lishes what Horace Greeley would call
"mighty interesting reading" in tho form
of a lengthy pnvato and confidential cor
respondence between Gen. Garfield, L. P.
Morton. Chauncy I. Filley and others, and
Stephen W. Dorsny, the star rout hero.dur
ing the campaign of 1880, and continued
between Garfield and Dorsey up to the form
ation ot the cabinet in 1881. It will be re-
niembcred that when, in tho spring of 1880,
Dorsey was made secretary of tho Republi
can National Committee, there was consid
erable grumbling on tho part of some of
tho party leaders and journals. When,
later, public rumor assigned him nn im
partant part in Garfield's confidence and
counsels, and after tho election reports
from Mentor represented Dorsey as one of
the President's most influential and trusted
advisers, it was generally resented by the
republican press and politicians, and mot
with indignant denials.
This correspondence, which is but a
small nart of ouires of the same kind
which Dorsey has in his pigeon-holes, cer
tainly justifies all tho claim Dorsey ever
made as to the closeness and cordiality of
his relations with Gen. Garfield, not only
during the cuiiipaign of 1880, but before
and after it. No Damon and Pythias ever
loved each other with a more sincere and
gushing affection. Garfield had forycars
been on friendly and intimate terms
with Dorsey, in the army and in congress,
and had a thorough knowledge and pro.
found appreciation of his talents to plan I
and manage a political campaign. It was
through Garfield's influence that Dorsey
was made Secretary of the Republican
National Committee, and afterwards, al
though Jewell was chairman and nominal
head At the committee, when the campaign
opened with Garfield as presidential candi
date, this correspondence shows that it was
upon Dorsey, and not Jewell, that Garfield
relied to conduct the campaign. Especially
in the management ot the October cam
paign in Indiana, upon which "all depend
ed," was Garfield urgent in his appeals to
"My Dear Dorsey" to take all upon him
self, and to spare- neither "conscience or
money" to secure a successful issue. Gar
field himself was constant and profuse in
his advice to Dorsey in that memorable
trugglo. His calm recital to Dorsey of
the way his corcligionalres, the "Disci
ples" in Indiana, were to be "worked" to
get their rotes, and his queer congratula
tions to Dorsey on his victory "your work
in Indiana has vindicated itself j nothing
succeeds like success" this, and columns
more of this correspondence, is certainly
most curious and suggestive reading-
It is all plain enough, after reading those
snatches of correspondence, why no serious
prosecution of the star-route thieves was
feared by Dorsey while Garfield was alive,
and if he were alive to-day, does anybody
imagine Dorsey would be on the defensive
in a Washington court?
The now criminal code of New York,
which went into effect on the 1st inst.,
makes an attempt to commit suicide a
criminal offense, and the first case under
the law terminated so happily that it is
likely to become popular. Dora Ruber, a
pleasant faced German girl, was brought
into court on the charge of having at
tempted to kill herself by swallowing the
phosphorous of a bunch of matches dig.
Bolvcd in milk, because her "young man"
had gone back on her. As the justico was
about to sentence her to the penitentiary
the young man suddenly appeared and set
tled the business by marrying the girl,
who left in company with her new hus
band as happy as a cricket.
C0NGBE8S.
The Pendleton civil service reform bill
still hangs in the senate and will not pass
before tho holiday adjournment. A test
vote on Wednesday, when Sherman pro
posed to lay it aside and take up his bill
to extend the time for whisky to lie in
bond, which the senate refused to do,
showed a majority of ten or fifteen in ite
favor, so that the bill will doubtless pass,
but 111 such a form that its fate in the
House will be doubtful.
The House was all week until Thursday,
occupied with the post office appropriation
the i-hi'T contention being oyer the
li.iptMutu in reduce letter postage to
cents and over Robeson's amendment to
compel the laud grant railroads, especially
the Union and Central Pacific, to carry the
mails at half their former rates, the other
bait to be credited on tbeir indebtedness to
the government. The debate showed that
the indebtc&ness of the PaciQo railroads to
the government, which two years ago was
IW.OOO.OOO, has swelled to $104,000,000
an average increase ot $2,000,000 a year.
The Robeson amendment will reduce this
rate of increase half a million a year.
Tho tariff reduction bill is still in the
hands of the ways and means committee
and no report is expected from them uatil
the middle of January.
FREE TRADER; SATURDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1682.
While the House has now passed six of
the eleven chief appropriation bills, the
senate, on account of the halt over the civil
service bill, has thus far passed but one.
The House committee on pensions has
icported iniavorof allowing peusions to
the veterans of the Mexican war all ex
cept Jeff. Davis.
The heroic rosolvc ot the House on Mon
day not to adjourn over tho holidays, and
to Impose a fine of $50 a day on all ab-
Bcnteescame to sudden grief on Tuesday.
So many members asked for and were
granted leave of absence that it became
evident the House would be left without n
quorum, whereupon the resolution not to
adjourn over was rescinded and another
adopted to adjourn over from yesterday
22d to January 2d. The senate, however,
has thus far refused to concur iu the reso
lution. SUGAR FROM 80BGHUM.
Can sugar be made from sorghum on a
scale of commercial success? The first
half of the question has been answered;
a good article of a sugar can be made from
sorghum aud even from the stalks ot com
mon field corn. The other half of the
question remains: Can it be made on a
scale of commercial success?
It is now some twenty years since sor
ghum was first raised in this country, aud
although in that time a good deal of syrup
of uneven quality bus been made, it is
only within the last half dozen years that
any real advance has been made towards
converting sorghum juice iuto a marketa
ble sugar. That the molasses would granu
late inU sugar was hoou discovered and
that the crude sugar thus formed, with its
rank, unpleasant taste, could be so clarified
as to convert it into an article equal to the
best southern sugar, was also long ago dis
covered, the only problem left unsolved
being how to do it by such a cheap and
simple proccfis as to make it profitable.
Towards the solution ot that problem not
only vanons state legislatures made occa
sional appropriations, but Mr. Le Due, as
tho head of the Agricultural Department at
Washington, got congress to make liberal
appropriations to the same end; but al
though ho succeeded in making good sugar
both from sorghum cane and the stocks of
common held corn, the process was found
so expensive as to be of no practical value.
Meantime, however, his investigations
had so largely improved the manipulation
of the cane as to bring about a decided im
provement in the quality of the molasses,
the difficulty attending this improvement,
however, being the tendency of the mo
lasses, in exact proportion to its improved
quality, to granulate into sugar, or "mush."
This "mush," by means of a common cen
trifugal machine, was readily convertible
into sugar, but the sugar still retained the
objectionable sorghum taste, which virtu
ally ruined its commercial value.
This objectionable taste was found to
result lrom the presence of a gum in the
syrup, which could only be eliminated by
an expensive process. Simplify and cheap
en this process, and the success of sugar
making from sorghum was assured. It is
here that Messrs. Weaver and Scoville, of
Champaign, claim to have made their hit.
While connected with the state agricul
tural college at that place and engaged at
the expense of the state in experiments
with sorghum, they claim to have made
Ihc important discovery so long sought,
but instead of giving the state the advan
tage of it, they withdrew from the state in
stitution and had it patented in their own
name, and at an expense of some $25,000
erected sugar works at which, during last
season they made some 150,000 lbs. ot sugar,
entirely free from the objectionable sor
ghum taste, and which readily sold whole
sale at 8 cts. a Dound. about the same
price that first class New Orleans sugar
brings, and a price at which the Cham'
paign parties claim they can make the
sugar with a handsome profit.
What that improvement consists in is of
course a secret. It Is discovered however,
that while they follow the ordinary Louis
ana method in making sugar in the main,
they differ atone point, to wit: at a certain
stage the syrup is filtered through bone
black, and this may be the whole secret ot
the elimination of the objectionable gum.
That the manufacture of sugar by the
Champaign process is a success there is no
doubt, as is evidenced by the fact that
Messrs. Weaver & Scoville are so well sat
isfied with their success last season, though
the most unfavorable for cane there has
been in many years, that they have doubled
their works and contracted with farmers
to raise over 1,000 acres of cane for them
next season at a remunerative price.
Of course if the success at Champaign
remains signal and indisputable, the little
company there will not be allowed to mo-
nonolize the business and confine it to
their limited locality. Mills must soon
spring up at many other points, and it is
no idle dream to predict that in less than
ten years Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, all the
prairie states, In short, will be dotted over
with cane plantations and sugar mills as
thickly as certain localities now are dotted
with creameries and cheese factories. As
tho sorghum cane is proved to be fully as
rich in saccharine matter as the best Lou
islana or West India cane, when the pro
cess of extracting the sugar is rendered
equally cheap, there will be no limit to
the amount the prairie states can produce,
and the heaviest part of their industry may
soon assume that form.
The well kuown Iiuliaua congressman,
GoJIove S. Orth, died at his home in La
fayette on Sunday lat. He had been in
ill health for some months, from a cancer
ous affection of the neck and jaw, which
was found to be beyond medical control.
He was born in 1817 tn Lebanon, Pa., and
educated at Gettysburg college, graduating
in about 1837. Then studied law, was ad -
mlttcd to the bar In 1830, and migrated to
Indiana, where he resided until his death,
having represented the state for a number
of year in congress. He also commanded
a regiment in the war of tho rebellion for
a year or two, aud served two years during
Grant's administration as minister to Aus
tria. Yk k's F1.0K.U. Guidk. Mr. Vick, the
great Rochester Florist and Nurseryman,
favors us with a copy of his beautiful an
nual for 1883, so well known as "Vick's
Floral Guide." It Is embellished with
ihreo splendid colored plates, and with cuts
of all the plants in which, or the seeds of
which, ho deals. Its chief value of course
lies in its being a complete "guide" to the
proper treatment and culture of all kinds
of flowers and vegetables. A copy is sent
to anv address, postpaid, for 10 cents.
C11 icAiio JouuxAi.. Attention is called
to the advertisement of the Chicago Jour
nal, on our 5th page. For nearly forty
years the Journal has stood about at the
head ot the daily press of Chicago and the
northwest not but that others have put on
bigger airs and made more, noise, but none
have been more complete and reliable in
giving all the news, or have exerted a wid
i.r unit more healthful intlueuce. Its week
ly is the best and cheapest family newspa
per for general reading printed west of the
mountains.
InHuruiice Meeting.
The annual meeting of the Rutland and
Manlius Mutual Fire Insurance Company
for the election of officers will be held, as
usual, at the Loring school house in Man
Tni.dav. Jan. 2J. 1S83. at 10
o'clock A. f.
The Hoard of Directors meet at the
house of the Secretary on the Saturday
previous at 12 o'clock m.
Masonic Waltham Lodge, A. F. & A.
M
will have a public installation of its
newly-elected officers on St. John s day,
Wednesday evening, Dec. 27th. The ad
dress of the evening will be given by 1.
W. D. Crane, ot this city. It is expected a
number of the fraternity of this city will
attend.
Supervisor Garland, of Ophir, is dead.
He was born in Ireland in 1831, and came
to this county in 1850. lie owned a farm
of over 300 acres, and was known and re-
pected as a good farmer and honest and
straightforward business man. On the
Beard he was a useful, though a member
who did more thinkine than talking.
The Illinois State Teachers' Association
meets at Springfield Dec. 20 to 28th, in Rep
resentative Hall. A very interesting pro
gramme has been prepared.
HOME MATTERS.
1'ersoual Menlon,
Home. Miss Kittie Hamilton Is home for
the holidays.
Moss. C. L. Mos3, of Grand Ridge, is in
Kansas.
Ltncu. Tom Lynch Is home for the holi
days from Ann Arbor.
Moroan. J. E. Mergan flourishes a com
mission as commissary sergeant, 4th Regt.
noME Mrs. T. K. MacKlnlay and Miss
Belle Gibson are home from their Kansas
trip.
Mackat. Jabez Mackay, of Osage, has
been appointed a deputy sheriff under Wm.
R. Milligan.
Parr Miss Sallio Parr is home for the
holldavs iust in time to see that niw
brother.
Lock wood. Miss Minnie Lockwood has re
turned from New Yorit, where sbe spent the
summer and fall
Montana. G. A. Campbell, who has been
In Jefferson City, Montana, for the past yean
has returned to Ottawa
Ratmond. County Treasurer Raymond
has been suffering for a few weeks past with
asthma, but Is recovering.
Judob. Hon. C. S. Miller left Ottawa on
Saturday last in quest of a new home la the
Northwest. He will visit Minnesota, Dakota
and perhaps Colorado.
Convalescent L. M. Chamberlain has
so far recovered from his attack of lung fever
as to be on the streets aeain, but is not able
to engage in business.
Marvin. Mr. Thos. II. Marvin, of the C,
B. & Q. depot, has been suffering for a few
weeks past with rheumatism and was
confined to his home for some time.
Dickey. Judge Dickey, while descending
from the stage at Apollo Hall, on Saturday
night, where he had listened to a lecture by
Hon. Isaac N.Arnold, fell, striking on his
head, receiving severe if not dangerous
wounds.
Ooino. Mrs. N. B. Fish and daughter
Minnie, who have been the guests of C. D
De Lapp for the past four months, will leave
for their home in Syracuse, N. Y., on Tues
day next.
Harmon. Joliet . to int.- "Charles Harmon
who has been employed for some years In
the drug store of J. II. Brown, has resigned
his position there for a more lucrative one
with Forbes A Lorrlaux, Ottawa, 111."
BorflUT. John Cowles returned from
Southern Kansas on Wednesday evening
last. Having purchased a farm near the Use
of the Indian territory, he will go out there
for a permanent resident, lu two or three
months.
Booth. W. P. Booth, whoett severe Inju.
rles were noted last week, Is slowly recover
ing under the treatment of Drs. nathewsy,
of Ottawa, and Fiolen, of Stroator. As soon
as he can be removed he will be taken home
to Evsnsville, Ind.
8 ALE EXTRAOKDINAKY.
Tlie Otnlnt Value Ewr Onra for the
Money in trie foamy.
The sale of winter and holiday goods at II
1 miiati'a. announced bv us as begun, two
weeks ago, may justly be regarded as the
most Important sale of dry goods announced
In the county for many years
For this is not a stock broken up by a long
and severe winter season and a brisk holiday
trade, but a stock full nd complete in a
lnrtment. The season has been a short
one and as a more than usually enormous
n Vl,a been put on the shelves a large
portion of It remains which must be turned
Into money regardless of values.
This sale will Include all lines of seasona
ble dress goods, silks, velvets, plushes,
clonk, shawls, flannels, blankets, and all
other winter goods, and also holiday fancy
goods, notions, hosiery, lames' and gents'
underwear, knit goods, Ac., &c.
No line of seasonable goods will be rescrv
ed, all will be Included in the sale, and it
may safely be said that the house is to-day
offering the greatest value for the money to
be had In the county.
This sale Is genuine, and sweeping In Its
extent; and the reductions are such that all
can readily appreciate them..
The house invites all to call and examine
this stock and prices. They know they will
save you money and want to prove It to you.
Full lines of boots and shoes and a com
plete grocery stock, making the largest and
best general stock In this city. Country
produce bought at the highest cash prices.
Gullver'a Utttiir.
One day early this week Fiske & Beem re
ceived an order by wire to send an expert to
measure a man for a suit of clothes. They
sent their best man for the business, and
when he arrived at the place he found well,
it is dilUcult to say just what, only he was a
Man (spelled with a capital M)ln every sense
of the word. These are some of his measures:
9 feet C'i inches tall, NO Inches around the
breast and 1 Inches around the waist, (think
of that, ye aldermen !) It takes 17- yards of
cloth for coat and pants and 3 yards for vest.
They also made tho socks 34 Inches around
the ankle and 34 inches in length of foot.
The vest will be 44 Inches long and the coat
04. The suit will be made in the latest style
dress coat, Ac.; coat and pants of black,
and vest of blue cloth . A force of tailors are
at work aud will probably finish the suit In a
day or two. The expert who took the meas
ure was compelled to use tivo nuaMtrm, one
not being long enough to go around. This
same expert had so far recovered as to be on
duty again last evening. Our reporter saw
the pants and stockings last evening and
knows whereof he writes.
This Man Is expected to travel this way,
but our hotel keepers and butchers need not
combine to raiso the price of provisions be
fore Monday, for he has engaged to cat his
rhristiniia dinner in another town. He is a
hearty eater (think of those 88 Inches!) and
his relatives are kept in constant tear 01 tue
poor house.
Tim i-n mnn lieL'an harve&tine th elr annual
crop this week aud Ice about a foot thick was
stored away rapidly nntil about the middle of
the week when the thaw came and checked
operations.
1. O. scales.
Pnrann wiuhinL' to uroeure a nice pair of
postofllce scales should inquire at the Ottawa
postonice.
W'avteo J. D. Hammond wants one copy
ol Fheb Trader dated Nov. 5, 18SI, and one
ot Aug. 3, 1873. We will nay 10 cents eacu
for them.
Th Vnrsellk's Catholics hold a grand t
next week, beginning on Christmas.
Till lMfl'lPA of the M. E. church of West
Snrpnn will have an ovster suppur in me
church on Thursday evening, Dec. 28th. All
are invited.
Lunch of ovsters, stewed or fried, pigs feet,
tripe, boiled ham, tea, coffee, Ac., at Pier-
gue's.
On Thursdav at noon Mr. Theron D. Bush-
ell and Miss Alhe Shuler were married by
Kev. M. K. Whittlesey at the residence of the
bride's father, II . A. Shuler, Esq. The wed
in:r was a very quiet one, auenaea oniy oy
relatives and a few Intimate friends. After
the ceremony the hsppv couple left the city
for a short wedding trip, and In February
will leave for Minnesota. We wisn tnem
many years of happy wedded life.
More Light,
Scott Bros. & Co. have put in two more
electric light burners, which give them six
of these dazzling illuminators, ana manes
theirs the most brilliantly ugntea ary geoas
house in the state of Illinois. Their goods
as displayed for the holidays show off to
trreat advantage ana attract crowns 01 cus
tomers and sight-seers.
They have a very iianasome biock, bdu
especially in the line of silks and all sorts of
fancy articles sucn as are in aemana jusi
now. Call and look at the new goods by the
full flood of the electric light, which brings
out the colors as perfectly as sunlight itself.
At Bowman's Gallery
Can always be found choice articles, consist
ing of velvet and gold frames, novelties, sc.,
for presents.
Those knowing themselves to be indebted
to Mrs. Sarah Uregir will please can ana set
tie their bills by the end of the year and
oblige.
Christmas.
I have a larce line of hats, caps, gloves,
mittens, mufflers, collars, cuffs, hosiery,
robes, shirts, underwear, silk and linen
handkerchiefs, and a fine lot of butlalo robes
and fur goods, and they must be sold by Jan
uary 1st.
Call early aud gel a Durgam.
J. M. French,
Successor to Hull Ai Uartels.
The Art Loan Exhibition, with the plan of
whlchthc public are somewhat familiar, is set
to bee-in onlvtednesdav. Jan. IMth. I9s.. ine
officers have been elected, and thirteen com
mittees anDOinted coverins; every Drsncn 01
art work, whose business it will be to solicit
loans of art works coming within tue scope
of the committees respectively. Ihe exuiot-
tion promises to be one of unusual interest.
Next week we Bhail be able to give a more
extended notice of the details of the work.
What evirvbodT ssvs must be true: Pier-
gue's home made candies, '.20c. per pound,
are the best.
TheDavton Sunday School have a Christ
mas Tree Festival at the new school bouse.
In Dayton, on Saturday evening, Dec. Sid
The nroc-ramme includes addresses, music
iVc. Tfie puDiic are coraiauy invucu in at
tend.
Kxcki.sior Diaries, for 1883, in all slaes
and styles of binding, at Hapeman S Gra
ham's.
Wm. Empy Is in jail on the charge of horse
stealing at L.a sane.
Ira cream and Dure fruit Ices, made to or
der for Christmas and New near, tue oesv ai
ways at Walther's.
Librarian's Report for November.
There have been 525 books taken from the
public library during the month and SOU tisii
ors. Books issued: history, 25: biography, 5;
fiction, 4'J5; travel, 10; poetry. 10; science
and art, 3; religion, 1; essays, 1; rpiscellane
ous, 75. Kooks preseniea: not. w imams, .
AFriend.fi: Mrs. (ialvin, 1; Mrs. Suvy, 1
Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Wheeler, the Chiraijo
Tribuni Prof. D. Thorp, The Present Age
Contribution box contained f j.51.
Nice iiew, nobby, correct, stylish, icood and
cheap overcoats, and lots of them, at
Stiefel's.
Leave your Christmas and New Year or
ders for ice cream, candles, fruits, nuts, ovs
trs. crackers, fresh celery, sweet cider, at
Y alther's boss candy store.
Will F. Neely was in Ottawa during the
early part of the week on a visit. He left
Thursday for Columbia, Brown county, Da
kota whero be en tr sees In a ireneral mer
cantile business. His friends in La Salle
county wish bim prosperity in his new borne
You are from HENRY SEARS
SHAKE!
Yes, tte ai Rejoice,
For I offer the following bargain! in Pocket Cutlery:
1 Blade Knife fie
1 " Urlo Knife. ...lie
1 " Fruit " "!.'l5o
2 " " ....&c
1 niiirteUdy's Knife... SOc
'i ' 2fcj
a " n"y', - ::::!!
Five ityles. ""
2 dliule Boys' nnd Ladies' Knives- styles 80c
2 ' " 11 " toe
3 " Shell and Pearl Ladle' Kniven 35o
2 " " . 40,
2 " Men's and tJciys" Knlves-20 styles 40e
2 " " hu-ite " 5do
2 " " aliell hniHlle " ST
4 " ' pearl " " ;;"..".'."".'."!.'".'!lUC
Flue Pearl Knives, :, 40, 45. W, GO, m, 15, Wo. una tl.CO
Men's 3 Itlade Knlvnu-aliell, ebmiy, roi-oa and
still! handles, 4j, 50, (A), lii. iUaml l.'x-.
A lurve stuck of Farmers' and Mechanics' Large and
Heavy Knives at correapondinK low prices.
An clepnnt and complete line of Shell and Pearl
Handled Knives of the celebrated Henry Sears make,
which are the very best.
The Queen Uazor takes the h ad hms no enual.
E. Y. GltlGtiS.
TO OBTAIN
GOOD BOOKS!
Is now offered by
E. Y. GRIGGS.
Having devoted my paint room to Books, I offer bar
gains never extended the people of La Salle connty.
The prices asked are K to a the regular price or the
Books. These Books are not culls, seconds, nor auc
tion stock, but fresh, new goods, just from the pub
lishers, and are first-class in every particular. To Rive
a list and prices would he Impossible without great
space. I simply defy competition. I soil
Mrs. Holmes' Works for 98c.
Rev. E. P. Rowc's Works, pSc.
Pinkerton's Works, $1.12.
May Agnes Fleming's Wks, $1.12
All $1.50 Books, 98, 86 & 74c.
All $1.25 Books, 74 & 68c.
All $1.00 Books, 54c.
Wood's $5.00 Nat. History, $2.98
Wood's 2.00 Nat. History, V55
Wood's 1.50 Nat. History, 98c
Wood's 7;c Nat. History, 48c
The Finest Line of Poetical Works ever
in Ottawi, at OS- ywr Vol.
k la run nnfl u-nil seleeied stock of Children's Books
at 25 to 40 per cent, discount from regular prices. I In
vite all to Inspect my stock.
E. Y. GRIGGS.
tW Set mv 1-loliilay Stonk soon,
THE
Largest,
Finest,
Cheapest
And Best
STOCK OF
AND
CARPETS
In Ottawa
is AT
HULL'S.
Do.not take ouravord,
but call and sec ' if
what wolsay is
not true.
17. H. HULL.
BARE
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