The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1867-03-23
Current News.

Mrs. Mary +. Tompkins, of Glen Haven, N. Y,
claims to have knowledge of remedy for the cat
tie plague, which has prevailed in this State TO
some extent, and mas addressed letter TO Gov
Oglesby, asking how she can communicate with
the stockraisers Of the State, &c.
Vigilance Committees are being organized in
many towns in Ohio, the people deeming them
necessary for protection against the robbers and
swindlers infesting them.
A man at Seneca Falls, y. Y, has a piece Of
linen three Thousand years old-It has never
been washed. He hasn't worn i. all this time
however
Grace Greenwood is in favor of giving the bal
lot to every woman who owns and operates a
sewing machine or wash tub. .r
GENERAL HOWARD estimates the number of
deaths among negroes, within four years, at
million.l Each of these negroes were his
tombstone properly labeled would have above
him the inscription: Died of sbalitonis,n"
A Brown county lIlls) Democrat lately pre-
sented large hickory chair to the editor of the
Lynchburg VT Union, as testimonial to a
man who had the moral courage and backbone to
print Democratic paper in the Radical State of
Vermont
SLEEPING in church is serious crime in
Rhode Island. Last Sunday afternoon a poor
freshman went into one of the churches in Prov
dence, was shown into a seat, took quiet nap
during the services and was peaceaby retiring
1T the close, when he arrested, tried and sent
to Jail for ten days.
A GENTLEMAN from Portland, Maine. who
went to Gardiner 10 attend q masquerade ball.
chose to disguise himself ape. After dres-
sing himself in the character he was passing
through an entry when large Newfoundland
Dog attacked him. and he was obliged TO rival the
agility OF real ape to avoid being torn to
pieces.
THERE is shoemaker at Lynn who makes by
hand regularly one pair of shoes imam hour or
sixty pairs in week. He has, however, when
in hurry doubled on this rate, and finished two
pairs in All hour. shoe in fifteen minute
They are said to be we'll made and durable
correspondent writing from Bavria, esti-
mates that twenty-five Thousand Americans are
living on the continent for the sake of economy.
Bishop Whitehouse. Of the diocese of Illinois,
who has been spending the last eighteen months
in Europe, returned home to Chicago on Satur-
day evening last.
The streets of Memphis must be horrible The
Appeal says that Il valuable COW WAS drowned in
the mud at the corner of Poplar and Orleans
streets, last Saturday.
A man in Cincinnati has sued another for sell.
ing him hooking bird that would not sing.
The bird will be Introduced as a witness
a These are hard times for Boston More people
are now out of employment in that city than at
any previous time for many years; building en-
terprises are ut stand.still
The Liberty Bell d workingmen's paper, pub
lished at Norwich, Conn, nominates Gen John
A. Logan. Of this State, for President in 1858.
There was q monster meeting of the Fenians
on Friday evening Of last week in Chicago to
hear an address from President Roberts The
fenian regiment paraded the streets amid the
widest enthusiasm. Two hundred are reported
10 have volunteered for Canada. One thousand
dollars was subscribed for uniforms.