The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1855-06-02
Illinois l.cnis.

maine offGeorge ballard, who has been EN-.
ploycd to carry the mails between Metropo-
lis City and Jacksonville, has been arrested
on a charge Of having robbed the mail, and
is now in johnson county Jail. He had been
in the habit Of robbing the mails for u long
period
The fLY.--Thc Niinois Journal, Spring.
field, says that reports from the country are
not SO iiaitcriug rs they were week or so
since in regard to the wheat c op. The fly
and bug have destroyed several promising
fields in this vicinity, and in Logan, Chris
tian, and Mclean counties, wo are Informed,
their deprcdations have been more general
than in this county.
VINO WAS TIE LrcKY MRNpER?-Thc
Charleston COLES COZ Conrier abiding to
the low wages oGmombcrs ofour legislature.
says il never knew but one man to make
anything by going to that Body, and he was
from Cook Co., and got splendid gold watch
aud chain for vote upon some home local
matter.
The Galcna Advertiser says the number of
miners at work in that vicinity, is not as large
as usual the present spring, butin proportion
to the force employed, tho yield is good.
Such are the temptations to farming, owing
to the low prices of land, and the high pri.
ces Of everything that farmer can raise and
sell, that the influence is powerful to engage
in that employment rather than in (minib.
Those who are engaged in digging, have
mostly the advantage oflong experience, and
the average product per man is undoubtedly
above the average of former years.
lloEsE TnIEyEs.-J l.. Bower had q fine
horse stolen near Joliet last week The
Signal Of Tuesday says, 1--WE have heard of
several other horses beng missing in this
section lately, and VIC would advise every
man who owns horse to keep sharp look.
OUT
JoLEr USIoN ScnooL.--ln noticing, a lew
weeks ago, the dedication Of the fine new
school house at Joliet, our figures lied prodi-
gously in placing the cost Of the building at
some sir thousand dollars. II should have
been SrteeH thousand instead We doubt
whether there is another union school bull.
ding out Of Chicago, in the state, more capa-
cious, or in every respect more admirably
arranged. The city has been fortunate in
procuring the services Of Prof j. /. Hodges,
as principal, who is aidcdby six efficient as
sistauts The perfect system and good or.
der maintained in school of some three or
four hundred children, evidences that pecu.
liar talent for teaching which is as rare as a
right talent to govern a state or command an
army.
CHICAGO IrEvs.-Thc Press notes the arri
val in that city, to join the excursion on the
Aurora and Military Tract Il. Il. to Burling.
ton, on Thursday, of Gen. Cass, Judge VIII
kins, and Mayor Lcdyard, Of Detroit, and of
some fifty editors from y, York, Boston, &c
GUS ASp SrEECnEs Something less than
hundred guns were fired on the lake shore
near the Park, last evening, in honor of the
result Of the election in Virginia, and j. l..
Peyton and 5. y. Douglas each made a
speech IN Dearborn Park.--I'rcss Wciaes.
day.
lScrDEST ~ THE CRY CoUSciL.--WLile
the council was waiting for the report of some
committee, AID. Sexton having dispatched a
boy for pitcher OF lager bier and u loaf of
bread, was made the happy recipient Of the
refreshing articles, in the destruction Of
which he was joined by several other nom
bcrs of the Council --Prcss ....r
JUDGE RASDALL,-Thc viii judicial cir
cult seems less blessed with aspirants for ju-
dicial honors than our circuit. Up To week
ago the office Of circuit Judge went begging
for candidate, until finally the lawyers
succeeded ii coaxing Judge Randall TO take
It for the next term. Judge L. hal accepted
the appointment from Gov. Matteson to fill u
vacancy for year occasoned by the death
ofthe previous incumbent, and had filed the
position with SO much satisfaction that nobo.
dy would ran against him as long as there
was chance Of his accepting il.