The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1855-08-04
Illinois lfelnS.

30 acres Of wheat this season, which yielded
thirty. three bushels to the acre. lie exhibit
ed to us specimens his white and red wheat,
and the grains were full, sound, and such as
we would pronounce "strictly prime" Mr..
+. is an industrious, scientific farmer, and de-
serves to be thus rewarded for his labor. The
farm on which this wheat grew was formerly
owned by DR.. E. Byrnc, Of ST. Louis Can
ton Republican.
The La Sale Waterman learns by letter
from Mr.. Laugblin Doyle, that his wife and
little daughter were so badly burned on
the Goth ult., by the carless use of camphine
in attempting to light fire in the cook
stove, that they died ON the 2lst Where
does Laughlin Doyle liver
Some six or seven persons have lately
died on Beaver Greek in this county, Of a
disease said to be chOlera-several more in
tho same neighborhOOd are now sick of the
same disease The names of some Of those
who died are Robert Hester, Polly Hester,
Joseph Brady, Smith, and . child Of
Henry Jones. --Iroquots Co. Press 2lst.
The citizens Of Batavia, Kane Co., have
held 4 town meeting AMI resolved ulani-
mously that they Twill not permit intoxcr.
ting liquors as bevease" to be sold in that
town, and appointed committee of 80 to
enforce the resolve at all hazards
Jcrseyvile, H., contains population of
1866 persons-males $40; females 49l, col
ored persons 32.-ho. Rep.
,Ionesboro, H., contains population of
l276-malcs COS; females GEO. and nary
niger. One hundred and twenty children
attend school daily.-Jonesboro Gasette
CAIRO is destined to be city. "Thc de-
mand for lots" says the Times, is now
more active than it has been at any time
heretofore. The hot weather is not consil-
cred now any obstacle to building ,--Loca-
tons are wanted for factories, and other like
establishments, and it is necessary that the
second division of the city plot should be
laid out immediately.
MENDorA.-Thc growth of this new city,
in the northwest part Of our county, is one
of the marvcls Of the day. The last Press
says the prospect is fair, that another steam
grist mill is soon to be erected in Mendoza g.
and that there will be plenty Of business for
the two that will then be in operation. Mr.
Blacks,one's mill is fapidly verging to com
pletion, and the other will probably not be
finished before next spring. 1t is to be on
Vests addition, at q spot where i. is said
there is such an exhaustlcss spring, that the
digging to the depth Of ten feet will furnish
permanent supply
W. W. Danenhower, Of Chicago, has is
sued the prospectus Of the -fmericdn Ctt-
zen, the Know Nothing organ, to be cs,ab-
lshcd in that city, in pursuance of an ar
rangcment made by the late State Council
ACCIDENT AT EAELvmLr.-Thc Republican
learns that young man named Norton came
to his death last week near Earlyllc, by the
accidental discharge Of gun in his hands.
He attempted 10 pull the gun through some
bushes with the muzzlc toward him, when
the hammer was drawn back suficicn, to
cause the discharge Of the gun. The charge
entered his side, mutiating one or two ribs
and portion Of the lungs notwithstanding
which hc lived about three days.
joins BAKER, for many years permanent
lawyer in BclIcyillc, ILL.,, has changed his
residence to Chicago.
During storm, on Thursday Of last week,
a school house near Ringwood, McIIenry
county, was struck by lightning, and two
children instantly killed and nearly all the
others more or less scoroh Cd oaa,bsesHise
s .%iFFsd TBS, h9 S"stltatc Of propcr con-
ductor.
CHOLERA AT SuLLrvAS.-Thc cholera re.
Gently broke out at Sullivan, ILL.,, and among
its victims were Dr. Kcllar, his father, and
Mrs. Reese and daughter The Decatcr Ga.
zette says:
" We have been informed that those who
were able to leave the town have deserted il.
Business Of every description is suspended
storc.houses and taverns closed There are
not enough Of well people left to bury the
dead! DIR. Bcrch, formerly of Shelbyville,
is also supposed to be dead"
MAD Doc SToRY.-The Jonesboro Gazette
pronounces the story Of man having been
smothered to doath between to feather beds.
40 miles north Of Cairo, while laboring un.
der an attack Of hidrophobia, a hoax. The
Erans mentioned as the sufferer is the derH
in the Gazette Office, and probably the au
Their Of the sell.
The POETRY OF PuYsrc.-Doscs have al.
ways been associated in our minds with
wry faces, and medicine has seemed from
the days of childhood, another word for
nausea and disgust Its rerndies were the
worst part of sickness, and pain was not so
hard to bear as the revolving potions we
were compelled to swallow for is relief.
Dr. Ayre's preparations herald another era.
His Cherry Pect0ral is like honey on the
tongue, and healing balm in the stomach.
His Pills' Try them--they are sweet NOR.
sells to the taste, and glide sugar.shod over
the palate, but their energy although wrap.
ped up, is there, and strikes with telling
force to the very foundations of disease
Gin. CH, q.