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REMOVAL.
This office baa been removed to the new
'olwell-Sherwood Block, just north of Post
Ofllce. on La Salle St.
Current Events.
The Count of Paris, wliowat In dunger
of Mag entirely f irgotten, lias issued ho
other manifesto, lie predicts b r-stoiaio.i
of monarchy In Franch, with hlin eit a
king. ,
The RritUn Parliament was prorogued
on Friday until November :I0. The queen's
speech declares tual aer msjesry n inimin
with foreign powers continue friendly ; e.
presses sitisfnctlon with tb results of the
recent colonial congress at London; says
that the condition oi the commercial and
Industrial interests of the kingdom are ltu
proving, but that agriculture Is still de.
pressed, ami acknowledges with gratitude
the manifestations of (aipular loyalty made
upon the occasion of the Jubilee. The
hope Is expressed that recent legislation by
parliament "will gradually effect a com
plete restoration of order In Ireland, and
give renewed encouragement to peaceful
industry" (Slc). Her majesty announce
that lie has " agreed w ith the 'resident of
the I'nited States to refer to a Joint coin
mission the dllllcult questions respecting
the North American fisheries, which have
recently been discussed by the two nations."
On the day following the queen's speech
a party of Orangemen, passing through
Greeucastle, near iteilast, lind an encounter
with nationlst residents, ibdnforcenietits
to tll local (nil ice were necessary to quell
the riot. Anyone but the government can
seethe gravity of aifairs ic Ireland, audi
1 1 iiiim HiinLruiiin Iimi i to, a coiitiuuanci'
of disturbances through the winter.
The M .issaohusctta democrat met in Slat
convention on Tuesday la-t, nt Worcester
and nominated a Stale ticket. The platform
adopted congr '.ulatc the people on the re
suit of the CI .eland administration, which
has been good in a business as well as pain
otio view. As Id the civil service, the plat
form says: " We believe all the important
oflk'es in the civil service slniul I be tilled by
competent person in political sympathy
wiih the administration; that all other
cilices, not representative in character
should be title 1 by person selected for their
fitness, capacity, and integrity." The other
plauk at e n follow :
4. We believe that ihe power of Congress
to tax the people is limited by the cotistitu
lion to the requirements of the government;
that any system of taxation which produces
a revenue beyond that is unwise and danger
ous. It throw unnecessary burden on the
neonle. and enhances the cost ol living. It
encourages needles and extravigaut appro
priatious by congress, and, by withdrawing
from general circulation money that should
be actively employed, embarrasses trade,
and may be the cause of disastrous financial
crises. We do not advocate free trade, but
favor and desire a revision f the present
uniust and burdensome tariff laws. We
heartily approve of the following rccom
men tation of the president: "The increas.
lng and unnecessary surplus should be re
leased to the people by an amendment to our
revenue laws, which shall cheapen the prices
of the necessaries of life, and give free en
trance to such imported material as may be
manufacturtd into marketable commodities.
We believe the income derived by the gov'
ernment from the internal revenue tax
should be applied to discharge the burdens
imposed on the people by the late war.
5. We cordially approve of those acts of
congress which forbid the importation of
contract labor, and require the return of dis
reputable, vicious, and criminal persons.
Hut we welcome the honest and industrious
immigrant who comes with the intent to se
cure for himself and children a home, and a
plane of refuge from despotism.
The sixth plank extend liberty to Ireland.
The seventh demands the abolishment of
the poll tax in the Slate.
8. We acknowledge our obligations to the
wage-earners, and pledge to them our earn
est efforts in procuring such legislation as
will best promote their interests.
!). The veierans of the Union army ami
navy are entitled to liberal consideration in
appointments in the civil service of the gov
eminent. Those who are helpless, and the
widows and minor children of those who
have passed away aro the wards of the na
tion, and such should receive from the peo
ple that generous care which will protect
them from waut and suffering.
The ninth and last plank indorses the can
didates. Plank ten indorses the candidates.
The oflicial timo table of President Cleve
land's western trip ha boen announced. IIo
will leave Washington on Friday, September
30th, be in Indianapolis October 1st: St.
Louis, Oct. 1 1th; Chicago, Oct. fi, from it
a. m, to Oct. Gih nt 10 a. m.; Milwaukee,
Oct. 6-7lh; St. Paul. Oct. 1 0-1 1th ; Omaha,
Oct. 12th; Kansas City, Oct. l"th; Mem
phis, Oct. 14th ; Nashville, Oct. 15-17 ; At
lanta, Oct. I'.Hh ; Montgomery, Oct. 20th,
returning to Washington, Oct. '2!M. No stops
will be made except as mentioned. At Chi.
cago, preparations will be made for a fitting
welcome to the city.
On Monday morning last, two passenger
trains on the C, M. & St. Paul road collided
near Dubuquo. The locomotive, and mail,
baggage and smoking cars were demolished,
and (We employes of the road were killed,
and five or more passengers injured. The
blame lies with the train dispatcher.
On the same day, two freights on the Fort
Wayne road collided near Forest, (., killing
a fireman and fatally injuring two other men,
On Thursday Hon. Samuel J. Randall and
Gen. A. E. Stevenson made speeches at the
Woodstock fair. They were of a purely
vegetable cast.
E. 8. Wheeler, the insolvent iron importer
of New Haven, was arrested on Thursday on
it charge of obtaining money by false pre
tenses. The charge is brought by the bank
which discounted his paper two days before
the failure. The failure is for two millions
with nominal assets of $160,000. The affair
now looks like a skin gamo. His branch
house appears to have been figure heads for
raising money like the 111. liarbed Fence
Wire Co. of Joliet, which is reported to have
no legal existence. Yet the Illinois company
is said to have exchanged large block
of paper with Wheeler. Wheeler's social
standing was very high, and he was promi.
nent in church and Sunday school circles.
A number of additional warrants, it is ex.
peeled, will be Issued against him at once.
On Tuesday, Captain Black made a motion
In the Supreme Court In this city, to with
draw the record in the anarchist' case for
thirty days, to enable him to submit It to as.
eociato counsel, and if advised to to do to
submit Uie tame to some Justice of the Bu.
premt Court of the United State upon an
application for writ of error. The necessary
affidavit were made by 1dm. The motion
iras argued in the morning, but titer recess,
at noon, the Court by Justice Sheldon, denied
the motion on the ground that, though such
application! hud often been made, It hd
never been grunted, and the Court would not
make thl esse a precedent. Captain Black
whs very much worked up bv the denial of
bis motion. The record is a very Urge one,
and a etipy would cost iu the nulhlioibood
of ?.IXM).
During the w eek, Parson published a loiiu'
protest iiifwlnst the decision. He want full
'liberty or death;" will not consent to any
clemenev, or any compromise which will in
clude the Idea that be ft done ai.ythmg
wrong. Tim world would he content to take
him ut his word and end the mutter by hang
lng him with the rest of them, and doubtless
w ill do so whether he consents or not!
In the meantime a petition bus been circu
lated, and Is, of eutir-e, obtaining thousand
of signatures, i.rujlng (iov. Olcsbv to tjrunt
executivu cIciih nev: ui il the Amnesty u-x.i-ciallon
Is endeavoring to secure the passage
of resolution to the same effect by labor or
guiiixiitiou In Chicago and clsw lieie. A
number of these bodieu have adopted such
resolutions. (JoV. (Iglesby Is delugeii with
corresondi.'iice relnt lng to tl:c anarchists At
meetings of their sympathisers in Cleveland
and New York resolution were adopted pro
testing against their execution. l'r nir.i,
ihe central executive committee of the I tiioii
Labor party of t'inelnnat I lias refused to in
tercede In behalf of the condemned men.
There was some speculation as to the prob
able counsel tlmt would lie employed for the
Wa-hinetoti hearing, and us Hen. Butler made
his appearance in Chicago early in the week,
he was credited with being the man; but It
appear that lien. Koger A. l'ryor of New
York has accepted the use. He Mid the con
stitutionality of the Illinois Jury law will tie
ai'ai ki d iu the 2uprcmc Court.
KICKIN0 THE GOADS.
That Herr Zanzig. of 7V . ' SiU
('unity rn.l'l, should denounce the Supreme
Court of this Slate for tillinuing Ihe judg
ment of tiio Cook County Court, in the case
of the anarchi-ls, Spies, t iidden, I.ingg, etc.,
might well have been expected from his gen.
erally pugnacious and erratic character, and
n ii i form propensity to take the side of th
" under dog," right or wrong. A bit of sur
irisc, however, is manifested to find the
usually staid, dull, and inoffensive tt,ri
i!lnl,r array itself on the same siue. Hut i
must be remembere 1 that the (iln-f is hi
organ of the prohibitionists a prty which
in its justification of the use of force to ac
omplish iis ends where the law stands in
the way, has much in sympathy with the an
archisis. To assail a saloon with mob vio
lence, empty its liquors into the street, and
burn or blow up the building with dynamite,
is the same in character, if not in degree
with fighting the police with dynamite bombs
while in Ihe discharge of a lawful duty. Iu
principle it is hard to see the difference be
tween the anarchist attempting to overthrow
a law by forco which protects the ownership
in "unreasonable" amount of private prop
erty, and the prohibiliouiKts using force to
overthrow a law which protects the owner
ship and sale of the poison-laden products of
the still or the brewer's tub.
Yet Ihe objection of the o'oAc, as well as
of Ilerr Zwanzig, that, " except as teachers,
the evidence fails to show that they (Spies,
Lingg, etc. ,) hal any connection with the
death and maiming of the unfortunate po
licemen,'' is not well taken. Whoever has
taken the pains to read the summary ami
analysis of "the evidence'' by Judge Miigru
der, in his magnificent "opinion'' in the case,
cannot honestly make such a statement, lie
not only makes it as clear as sunlight that
theso gentlemen (with many others, it is
true enough,) were engaged as teachers,"
le idcrs, and promoters of a gigantic conspir
acy to accomplish unlawful ends by the
shedding of rivers of blood, if necessary,
but that in the particular case of the Hay
market massacre they planned, advised, and
with their own hands made and placed the
deadly bombs by which the massacre was
wrought, to be used specially and specifically
at the time and place where they were used.
The law makes the accessory to a crime as
guilty as the principal, and these men who
made theso bombs and placed them in the
hands of others to be used specifically at the
Haymurket meeting, if the police appeared
there to disperse or disturb it, were as guilty
of the murder caused by the casting of one
of the bombs, as if each one had cast it by
his own hand. That is unquestionably the
'law and evidence" of the case. If the law
is wrong, there is but one way to repeal or
amend it, ami that is through tho ballot box
and the legislature not by denouncing the
judges and jurors, upon whom may devolve
the unpleasant duty of its administration. I
RIVER IMPROVEMENT MEETIh?).
It is a truism, trite enough in all con
science, to say that tho improvement of the
Illinois river, and the making of It a navi
gable stream, is a subjoct of more than usual
uiportauce to this country. It is a work in
which all the groat West is interested. It is
a work that must be accomplished. Tho de
mands of commerce aro urging it ; common
sense is urging it; and tho common interests
f all States bordering on tho Mississippi,
from the Ohio north, urge the completion of
this great work, of which so much has al
ready been completed.
Tho people are interested in this work,
not only because the Illinois river traverses
ho country from east to west, but because
her farming and manufacturing interests
would be benefited by the work, in common
with the rest of the West. It is of interest,
also, because this county has of late years
lone more to keep the present canal in the
public mind than almost any other county
that could be named. It is of interest, also,
because this county voted by a large major,
ity to give the Illinois It Michigan Canal,
and the improvements already completed in
the Illinois river, to the National Govern
ment, if that power would accept and com
plete the work.
This county should not be willing to allow
that grant to be defaulted. That disaster
must not be allowed to occur. Yet it will
occur, unless immediate action is taken and
th subject forced upon the attention of Con
gress in inch a formidable manner that it
cannot longer ignore it as has been done in
the past.
That is the object of the Teoria meeting of
October 11th : To memoralize Congress, and
appoint committees and devise meant for the
accomplishment of the work to far a Con
grvst Is concernel. That meeting baa been
called with a pro rata of representation by
delegates ample to form a grand convention,
should all the contemplated territory be rep
resented. The danger is the territory will
not be reprp.enled, slnoe what is left to
many to do Is done by none.
Therefore, In this county, a meeting ha
been called to meet September L".'th (next
Thursday;, for the appointment of delegates
to re; resent this county, and to offer sugges
tion as to the method of procedure to so
0 mtilish the end sought, Tiik Fhkk
Thapkk cannot, therefore, urge too strongly
Its readara to attend this preliminary meet
ing personally, and take part in the pro
ceedings. CANAL MEETING.
Attention is calle 1 to the following resolu
tion, adopted by the Hoard of Supervisor at
its lat session :
Rrxilrnl, That inasmuch as La Salle coun
ty is more directly interested than almost
any oilier portion of the State in ibe main,
tenance anil improvement of the Illinois and
Michigan Canal, a mass meeting bo called to
meet here, in the supervisors' room, at 1
o'clock p. m., Thursday, September L".iih. to
appoint delegate to a meeting to be held at
Peoria October 11th, in the interest of the
above object; that a committee of three be
appointed to draft resolutions and bring the
matter prominently before the public and
give notice of sai I meeting.
In accordance, therefore, wilh the abovo
resolution a mass meeting will be held at the
time aid place above set forth; and the
public are urged to make a special effort to
attend sai I nice I in aul lake (art in iis
proceedings.
V.. IIOWLANO,
For the Committee.
The great world of politicians is all torn
up by an alleged snub of Gov. Foraker l y
Mrs. Cleveland at a reception at the Phila
delphia centennial on Saturday. The story
g jes thai .Mrs. Cleveland omitted to shake
hands with (isvernor and Jlrs. Foraker,
simply bowing coldly, and accentuated her
conduct by greeting Adjutant General Ax
line and his wife, who were the next couple
in line, with effusive warmth. Now, of
course, if all this is true, and there seems to
be a conflict of testimony, it is going to make
a tremendous stir in politics; and ir the
army isn't brought out to suppress the little
lady, it won't be Foraker' fault. Hut after
all who can blame her. There are not very
many self respecting women in this world
who would shake hands with a man who
had publicly likened her husband to a
whipped spaniel," and who hail afterward
publicly declared that he did not compare
that husband to a dog because he had too
much respect, for the dog. Foraker certainly
should not complain of her conduct. Hut it
will be noticed that it all depends on whose
ox is gored. All the republican papers now
are full of "this spiteful break." Hut a
few weeks ago the same sheets applauded
flip threats of Kairibilil Foraker. Ttittln.
' '
al, to insult the President if he dared visit 1
St. Louis during the G. A. R. reunion. It is
perfectly right to insult a democratic Tresi-
dent; but it is a crime to snub a "tuppen
ney" republican governor of Ohio.
While Foraker amuses himself insulting a
yaller dog, as he says, by comparing Presi
dent Cleveland it; while Fairchild listens
gleefully to the echo of his palsies; and
Tuttle howls himself hoarse reading parti
san resolutions for Iowa posts o promulgate,
the "rebs'' in the South persist in backing
patriotio remarks about the Union wilh pa
triotic deods, and, so far as heard from, no
one in the South has come out with a palsy.
ng protest to the return of captured battle
flags to Northern regiments. If this course
is continued, the republican leaders will
have nothing to live for, particularly if the
advice of the Anniston, Alabama, Hot lilaat
is followed. Tho editor is the author of
"Maryland, My Maryland," which " fired
tho confederate heart," in days of yore.
Commenting on the return by tho Montgom
ery (Ga.) Hlues of the colors they had cap.
tured from the Sixteenth Connecticut volun
teers, he adds :
Tho example of the Hlues will no doubt be
followed by other Southern oompanies. The
South docs not want any cause or memento
of civil strife, and we suggest that on
Charles Sumner's birthday every captured
flag in this section be returned to the North.
The State Democratic Central Committee
has opened headquarters nt tho Palmer
House, Chicago, where W. J. Mize, secretary,
will be in chargo until after the election in
1888. Democrats are requested to put them
selves in communication with the committee
through him, and to give him, from time to
time, such information as may be of benefit
to the party.
In response to the circular issued from the
treasury department, Wednesday, bonds to
the amount of $-1, l'J 1,700 were offered on
Thursday. The action of the treasurer ap
pears to have had a wholcsotuo inllucnce
upon the money market. It is generally be
lieved that the scare which has obtained
such a grip in financial circles is largely the
result of manipulation.
The make-shifts for relieving the pressure
of the money market, by bond purchasing by
the treasury, can be made to operate tempo
rarily ; but first of all, as tho only step to
permanent relief, must come a reform in the
revenue system by which the treasury need
lessly absorbs such a fearful amount of
money, to lie dead in its vaults. Hundreds
of millions of dollars are there to remain
until provision Is made for unloading it a
sum which will 'appreciate very rapidly un
less means are devised for directing it from
the treasury into legitimate channels of trade
and investment. The thinking business
men of the country have been giving this
matter their close attention for months past,
and they have reached the conclusion that
fair and equitable reduction of the surplus
it a prime necessity. All parties reoognlae
this fact every thinking man, except Hro
Sapp of the li'puhlinin, admitt it. The re
ductlon of reveuue must come, and It must
come quickly. It is altogether likely that
.t a result cf the Washington conference,
the democratic lenders will, at the next ses
aion of congress, present to the country a
plan by which this much to be desired end
may be reached without practical injury to
anyone. The abolition of the tobacco tax,
with a corresponding reduction of customs
duties ou those articles which are most gen1
er illy used, will probably constitute the es
seutial features of this plan. This plan will
not interfere with the protection theory;
and while iu that regard it may not go as far
as the extremcists could wish, it will never
theles relieve tho country of a vast amount
of excessive taxation, and give relief to the
money market as well.
Supervisor Dwyer of Oituwa has handed
in his resignation to the town board of audi
tors. Iu an interview with tLe Tuna man
he says the reason is that the town board in
sists on paying the assessor for I'M days'
work while Mr. Pwyer thinks he 1 entitled
to only OH days' pay. The controversy
docnt seem to be iu itself a sufficient rea
son for the Supervisor's resignation, which
certainly is a surprise to Ottawa voters. He
could save his record by a protest. After
the fuss made iu his behalf and by himself
last spring it would seem to most common
people, that having been elected over a bet
ter man he ought to have tho '"slaying"
quality lo hold the office until his year had
expired. However, Mr. Hwyer has proba
bly learn1 d something in the past few
mouths. He has found that he can't get
along with the auditors, who, he says, are
all "down on him." That is not a very seri
ous matter, however, for a "reformer" to
have staring hitu in the face certainly not
enough to cause a "hustling reformer" to
give up the ship at the first broadside. Then
he has found that the lot of a poor master is
not a happy one. And no love between the
two was developed by the refusal of Hol
lccker to take the job off hU hands, the lat
ter very naturally remarking that reformers
who start out to "run the machine'' without
pay just eut of pure public spirit, and
no boodlerism, &c, &c, ought not to "give
down" and back out of an unpleasant pre
dicament after barely five months' experi
ence. Mr. Hyer has found, too, that there
are equally as great men on the Hoard as
himself, and lhat a man who starts out. to
lecture a body of that kind and whip them
over to voting his way, by means of a sharp
tongue, does not, as a rule, unless he is a
vastly bigger man than Mr. Dwyer, succeed
to any marked extent. And Mr. Dwyer has
not succeeded. After the first spurt of suc
cess he enjoyed with the rest of bis clique in
I ho organization of the Hoard, his influence,
on them, has departed never to return. He
had become a cipher. He is, fortunately,
a.r.ayi
v..w6.. I-
further thumping in the way of hints and
steps out spnnked. Mr. Dwyer os a Su
pervisor has been a failure; the great won
der is he had the nerve to resign and put
the anti climax to the absurd claims of the
wonderful things he would accomplish when
elected Supervisor for Ottawa. As a speci
men of ridiculous "flat-out," this resignation
takes the palm. It is absurdity in the
superlative.
P. S. After the above was in type Mr.
Dwyer announced that his resignation hav
ing been illegal in form, &c he thereupon
withdraws it. "We're sorry we spoke."
However, the show has been pretty good
3 far "wonder what he'll do next."
County Gossip.
The village on Dloomington street, sixteen
miles south of this city, persists in the no
tion that it is a city. Only the other day,
one of its papers broke out in an item about
" a prominent German living on Main street,
five miles east of the city." Great guns I
Next we will have Chicago claiming resi
dents on Blue Island avenuo, eighty-five
miles southwest of the court house.
The heating system of the court house and
jail is responsible for a special committee of
the Hoard again. The idea seems to be that
"it. costs three times what it legitimately
should to heat the court house and jail, be
cause of a defective system." But the
questions arise, Is it a defective system T or
is it defectively constructed? The city of
Lockport, N. Y., is largely heated by steam
from a central plant ; the buildings of the
Michigan University at Ann Arbor, and the
Agricultural College near Lansing, nre
heated in the samo way; as is also the capi
tol at Springfield ; Bud in those places, es
pecially in Michigan, there is no complaint.
It is not necessary to assume the system de
fective, until tho plant is pronounced imper
foot of its kind.
The investigating committee's work is hav
ing one effect, at least, that is tangible and
positive whether a good or bad one, will
depend largely on personal ways of thinking
and that is, to take all the meat out of the
sheriffs office aa a money-making concern
for the sheriff. As ex-Sheriff Mllligan was
clearly getting rich too fast, the fee and sal- j
ary committeo cut down the emoluments of
the office to the lowest possible notch, while
the Board follows up the cut by refusing
pay for any claims In excess of the allow
ances. The Board is clearly right in a legal
point of view ; but it is particularly severe
on the sheriff, who finds a big hole made in
his salary to pay traveling expenses, etc.,
the only perquisite left being the coal for his
cooking apparatus. The livery stable dodge
of the ex eheriff, at f4 a day per team, has
run nut, and the perquisites on jail account
grow more beautifully leat with each recur
ring session of the Board. The sheriff is in
a bl fix, and, if be geu out of office even
with the world, he wl',1 do at well as he can
now expect to do, unlets be bat a "good run
of patronage," In the way of prisoners to
feel; for the Hoard would not agree with
Norton to lake away bis last resource: a
chance for profit by keeping "boarding
house," with no kicking allowed from the
boirder.
The sheriff, however, will hardly uuder
take to shut up shop whoa bis appropriation
fir expenses is exhausted. He took the
office with its burdens, and the publlo ser
vice demm Is that the sheriff perform his
duties. If he can't and won't, the ouly
thing is to step down and out, and let some
one into the office who can and will run it
on the salary and allowances. Such men
can be found in the county. Though M ill i.
gun has ruined the office as a money-maker,
it still pay a good living which many a good
man would be willing to run the risk of get
ling out of it, even in the present condition
of affairs. Hut Mr. Mornsscy will not shut
up shop. He will run right nlong ; and will
go back to La Sallo, in 18 'JO, brim full of ex.
perieuce, if not with pockets lined like his
predecessor.
Very naturally, having gone into the
anarchist case, Caf t. Black desires to do his
.1 it jr by his client; and as an energetic
lawyer, does uof, and wi'l not, give up until
the hanging bee is over, probably. Aside
from taking tin interest in the case as attorn
ey, he has the further stimulus to ur('e
him to obtain if possible a reversal of the
jury's verdict in the fact that ho advised
Parsons to give himself up to justice when
he was in hiding and In all appearances
afe from ctipturo. It is pretty hard lines
for a lawyer to advise a client, to surrender
and then sec him hung.
This idea calls to mind a story fold by an
old settler of Seth Farewell, years ngo a
noted attorney und politician hereabouts
one of the brightest men the county ever
had. Jud,;e Ford was ou the bench ; tuid a
young fellow was called to plead to a charge
of horse stealing lie ha 1 no attorney; and
his Honor appointed Farwell to defend, re
marking that he should have a talk with the
man and give him the best advice he could.
So Farwell and the horse-thief went out and
held a conference on the shady side of the
old Court House. Farwell asked the young
man if he really did steal the horse. The
thief said he did. "Well," said Farwell, "is
there any one here that could prove it on
you.' "les, said tne inier, "mere is a
fellow in there who could make it go hard
wilh me." "Then," said Farwell, "my best
tdvice to you is to leg it!" And he did. By
and by, when Farwell had returned to the
court room, his Honor said, "Well, Mr,
Farwell, are you ready for the trial of that
case?" "Yes," said Farwell, "but the de
fended is not here." "Why, how's that?"
asked bis Honor, "Well," said Farwell,
'you told me to give him the best advice
I could; and after a conference I told him
to leg it. Under the circumstances, I
thought that the best advice I could give
him, and he adopted it!"
That reoalled in another way a more recent
curious cose in the same court. A man
from Peru (call him Schmidt) had been
fined for illegal liquor selling and the pen
alty included 10 day in the county jail. The
Judge pronounced the sentence, including
the jail sentence, " But," said Schmidt,
your Honor, dat is imbosaible; I can't go
to jail. Dere ish no one to run de tishness!"
Tho situation was discussed, and finally an
arrangement was made that the defendant
should report to the court on the following
Monday morning after he had fixed up his
business. And on the following Monday he
walked into tho court room and said: "I
vas here, your honor; I am ready to go to
jail now." "Well," said his honor, "you
report to the sheritt to-morrow morning ana
every morning until ue nntisa piace ior you
in the jail." And he did, going home every
niaht and coming back every morning, in-
sisting on seeing the Sheriff and telling him
ho was ready to go to jail, lie kept tnat up
for ten days, until discharged; but the life
of the Sheriff and of all his help was a bur
den to them until the man was discharged.
The New York Hun suggests the follow-
in
r '-list of candidates for ofllce, both elec
tive and appointive, who sooner or later
may claim the consideration of the public:
For piesldent, 11. T. Lincoln.
For vice president, F. D. Grant.
For secretary of state, Walker Ulalne.
For attorney general, Allen W. Evarts.
For secretary of the treasury, John Sher-
n. jr.
For secretary or tue interior, xiarry uar-
field. ..
For secretary of the navy, V. Alan Ar
thur.
For governor of JNew lork, Hamilton
For President of the Missouri Faclflc,
Eddie Gould.
For master workman, K. or L., Air. 1'ow
lerly's son.
For champion of America, young Sulli
van.
For president In IO.jO, Grover Cleve
land, jr.
i'latrorm (tn classic verse; :
"I'm glad I'm a gentleman's son."
"When there Is talk of Lincoln and
Grant for president and vice president,"
savs the Chicago Time. " something of
this kind is required to show the absurdity
of the son-of-a-great man business and now
far It might be carried."
The American for October keeps up its
standard of literary quality, as well as mag
nificent workmanship. Among the numer
ous articles are : An account of a climb up
the famous Topocatepelt of Mexico ; " Amer
ican Experience in China;" The Washing
ton National Monument;" Some New Fac
tors in Social Evolution;" "Longfellow's
Method," "Pittsburgh's Invisible Fuel,"
etc The issue ia one of tne best for some
time, and completed the sixth volume, with
ptge and index for binding accompanying.
Personal.
Oiliiebt Mrs. E. S. Gilbert and little
daughter returned last Saturday form a few
week's visit in Chicago.
CiLLKfi Mr. William Cullen left last
Tuesday Jafternoou for Kiusley, Kansas,
where he expects to make his heilquirtert
for a few weeks' prospecting.
Evans Lient Dahl Evans leaves for bis
station next Tuesday. He has been assigned
to Fort Lewis, ia south-western Colorado.
A. A. Messrs Charles Taylor, E. C. Kock
wood and Follott Hull leave for Ann Arbor
next Tuesday, Sept. 27. Mr. Taylor and
Mr. Itockwood enter their third year, and
Mr. Hull his first.
Pki.n Mr. and Mrs George Prindle, of
Kalamazoo, Midi, were the guests of J. E.
Porter and family lost Saturday. Mr.
Prindle returned home Sunday, but Mrs.
Prindle remains during this week.
Shaw Mrs. H. B. Shaw for some weeks
past, the guests of relations in Ottawa, left
last Tuesday for their home In Fullerton
Nebraska.
Jon Mr. Jos Kellelia left last Saturday
for Brown University, where he will remain
in school this year.
Hossack Miss Emma Hossack left last
Tuesday morning to enter Mrs. Lorlng'a
boarding school, on Prairie Avenuo, Chicago.
Amiany Messers Chas. Zickler and Con
rad Anschecks left here last week for a visit
at Albany, New York.
PoRTLit Iisg Annie Lewis Porter left
last Wednesday noon for a visit of several
weeks with friends in Princeton.
Thim Miss F.lsie Trimble started Wednes
day uooii for (juiney, to spend some time
visiting and ruralizing.
Ixs Franklin Wibster of the Insuranct
Cr oniric, New York, is making La Salle
friends a visit.
Smith Mrs. A. B. Smith of this city has
becu visiting her daughter in Strcator this
week.
Mcstc ?.Iiss Olive Harrison has returned
to Ottawa to resume her music teaching it
tha public schools.
M.vdpks Mr. John F. Madden for some
weeks nn employee iu the county clerk's
office, left the city on Saturday to resume
his law studies in Chicago. John is one of
the best fellows on foot; and we hope Borne
day to see him back in Ottawa again, doing,
ns be certainly will some where, a big law
business.
L'mffb, Miss Dema Cliff has returned
from a visit to her sister in Duluth,
Willis. Mr. and Mrs, Hiram Willis, of
Detroit, Mich,, and Mr. and Mrs. Samuel
Willis , of Fall Uiver, 111., are the guests of
their brother, Prof. Seth S. WUlis, of this
place, yesterday.
Men. During the Sunday School conven
tion this week, the Misses Wiley, Pollock,
Scott, and Henry, all of Mendota, were the
guests of the Misses Gedney and Morgan, of
this city.
Eells. Mr. George Eolls started the first
of this week on a trip west, in the interest
of the Stiefcl Overall Company.
Cheeveb Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Cheever
have returned from their sojourn in the Fast.
Boss. Mr. James Ross has returned home
on account of the serious illness of bis sis
ter Mabel.
Maher. Miss Anna Maher is visiting in.
Chicago.
Fuse. M. Charles Funk returned home,
Monday, from Iowa and Nebraska where he
has been all summer.
Boyle. Mr. J. C. Boyle returned last
Saturday from a trip through California.
Bin el. J. C. Briel, a popular Peruvian,
has been appointed to a clerkship in the
county clerk's office.
Bane Jacob Bane will preach tomorrow
in the Second M. E. Church.
Bowman. Mrs. W. E. Bowman is visiting
her sister in Joliet.
IU-8. Charlie Russell has retired from the
firm of Russell & Tyron.
Alex, Alexander Vaughy, of Seneca, was
in town, Tuesday last.
C,,As. Captain S. R. Blanchard had a
finger crushed, Wednesday, in tho new pot
tery works.
Bancs. Miss Llizabeth Bangs has ac
cepted a position to teach in a seminary at
Tallahassee, Florida. Miss Bangs is an edu-
cated and well trained instructor, and will
certainly succeed in her new field of labor.
Her many friends in Ottawa will keenly re
gret her departure.
Budd. Mrs. C, Budd, with her daughter,
Lizzie, of Englewood, are visiting the sister
of the former, Mrs. E, T. Read, of Grand
Rapids.
Deoen. Nate Degen has gone to Minne
sota for a few weeks visit.
BiTLEii. Mr. 15. J. Uutier nas returned
from Morris, where he has been with some
of his blooded race-horses.
p0I.E. Miss Emma Pope returneu inurs
day morning from a three months' visit in
the East.
Bowen. Mrs. Bowen, now of Minnesota,
was in Ottawa this week. Her late husband,
Thomas Bowen, was for some years a resi
dent of Ottawa.
A Novel HeU
. . Dflt1 V T
While 1 am not a Demnj mou, nm i..
Cheney, of the firm of F. J. Cheney & Co.,
fi' .i u.nv roHtrintis dutvtomake
that fellow a bet. You see he was about
dead, and 1 guers tie wouiu ui u.
tore spring, Tf 1 had not of got him on the
bet You know some men bad rather lose
their life than lose a hundred; well, he
was one of that kind, and we both came
near being out, but I saved my hundred
and It only cost him ten dollars. How's
-i ttz aant fnr ma one dav and said the
Coctors had all given him up to die, with
the catarrh, l torn mm uiai i uum
unniw TTftlVa f!trrh Cure Would
cure him or I would give him $100 if It
failed. He took the latter proposition.
This was three months ago; wu see how
he looks mw, aomyou, j
and a danuy. American, u"i -
All the Jewish merchants closed their
.I. of business, last Monday, the occa
sion being the holiday of the Jewish New
Tear.
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