The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1855-09-22

dam at the mill one mile below the town.
The body was recovered and an inquest
held, but there was no means Of identify.
ing it.
PRAcrlcAL RsNbyoLENcE-A society has
been organized in Danyille, Nermilion
County, Ill.,, to aid the poor, and especially
the young and orphans, in emigratng from
the cities to that rich, beautiful, healthy re-
glon, where food and fuel and house room
are cheap and labor plenty and well paid.
Danyllle has population Of 200, and is 10.
Gated upon the edge of the Grand Prairie, II
miles west of the Wabash, and II from Co.
vinSton, Indiana, on the Wabash and Erie
lahal The directors Of the society will take
charge Of persons consigned to them, aud
provide them with good situations where
they VIII soon become useful members Of So
ciety. The Rev. Enoch kingsbury is Sec
rotary OF the socicty.-Ch. Dem.
r. r. AccIDENr--On Tuesday morning Of
last week, Mr.. Carlisle, one Of the managers
Of the Chicago and X. l. X. r., while stand.
ing on the railroad track at Peru, giving d.
rcctlons to a train going west, was run over
by an engine coming from the east, and
crushed and manslcd, so that he died in ten
minutes. He was lately from Michigan, and
has family. Nobody to blame, of course !;
but the Peru Chronicle states that this is the
eighth death within the year that has occur
red on this road at or near Peru, which Ger.
tanly looks as if there was carclessncss about
there.
ALTON Cl1y ELEcuoS.--At the recent char
ter election in Alton the Know Nothings
were routed by handsome majority. Last
year they had carried nearly every officer
EonBEgY AND ATTEMPT TO MuRDEG-Thc
Rockford Democrat gives an account of
dreadful assault and attempt to murder in the
town Of Chcmung, in Winncbago county, on
the ID inst. \ man named Mclean way.
laid his sOn-in-law named COcksin, beat him
so that he left him for dead, and robbed him
Of $}77. Mclean was arrested, but p.r.
sisted in denying any knowledge Of the mat.
ter until rope was placed around his neck,
and threats made to hang him, when he
confessed the deed, and told where he had
concealed the money.
RAILROAD DEcIsiov--A case u interest 10
Illinois Railroads was decided last week in
the Circuit Court Of Macoupiu County. 1t
was the suit Of patchin w. the Chicago. Al
ton and -. Louis Railroad, and involved the
liability Of the Company to pay damages for
injury to stock, occasi0ned by the careless.
ness or negligence Of their employees or
agents. The Court held that the Company
was responsible CHI Press
Half dozen Of similar suits were decided
at the late term Of our county court in favor
Of the plaintiffs, by Judge Cotton We un.
dcrstand they are to be appealed
\ SINGULAR AND MrLAxcnoLy OccrR-
RANcE--A SON Of Mr. Thomas Dcrwcnt. Of
Tyler, or 9 years OF age, was Shot in that
town Oh Tuesday, Sept. ith by young
man by the name Of John Alcox, aged Ii.
under the following very singular circum.
stances. The two boys had gone out hunt.
ing together during the afternoon, and in the
ai,e",o 'I'7 ,,,,; V'"' "o . a.9.'e' i'c
siderable alarm. and search was inma.
diatcly entered upon and continued until late
IN the night. The boy AlcoX appeared
mother to hcl;syc ,ha T,'s" ,a,p r,,,,, us
She went to his room after he had retired,
, ,'';nn MN apparently IN great distress OF
that he Ind Shot his cnmnanion hv nm ,1 ,cci.
dental discharge of his gun-and in hi,
fright had buried the body N the cellar OF an
Thc .ro, dcscry,,oJ A.
body Of the boy fnrrd Lnr;nJ m,,J' ', ,"o
rul,IisL With wound nm H. ,"'1,i, 'D, va;
IDENTITY Lv , rl.r,, If shot
Youu: Alcoy was taken int, custody. lac
Sheriff TAYLOR md l. now in i,;l Il, III, ..,,
He i, an iItrIli,cn, Iool.;n,, lgI v;,l, fn!,.
and or,iaLr cynrrssion oc co,,,,,n,,,n., a,'T
tells his s,orv in a very str,;,Lt. r,rv' ,,,
and ,ru,h.lilc manner -BociE,,J H., 10
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Inc freepor, journal, referring to the
statement OF inc tennessee Standard that
more gram was Sn'pped from Rockford than
any other town IN western Illinois, claims
mat ,, frccpoft is inc creates, grain depot in
Illinois west oil ChIcago,-Ch Pr@s
Show us your figures Ottawa boasts
in that way. and thinks slc can
hon, Won both I,ro .;,t.u -,
p',:, -" ,",S , ,'''''' ''''Po'' VI
hoeN'o'u 'n'PPou l'"o",uoo bushels OF grain
within the last year: Ii not they are down,
PRAIRIE Cry is new city y miles west
of Decatur, on the Great Western T. r II
has lint ono mr. tro bougos ro, Ln,p,
hove ,,,d.o, ' "'''
'''' ''''''''u !" YEAR
ArLANTA.-We spent Saturday and Sun.
day at Atlanta in Logan County. We he.
licye the growth of that town to be without
parallel In this country. Two ycars oro
nor within four miles OF 1t. Now the village
numbers two hundred and sixty buildings
and one thousand inhabitants The build.
lngs are all very good, and many Of them