The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1867-06-15
Current News.


Lieut.. Gen. Sherman has been obliged to re-
consider his intention of taking voyage to the
Mediterranean and the Holy Land, owing to the
threatening state of affairs in the Indian country
in the far west, of which he has command.
Flour is quoted at 81 and IS per barrel at
Salt Lake City, and $40 and $l2 at Denver.
AT special election in Wrdford county a
week ago. Minonk voted a tax Of $4,000 for the
St. Louis, Jacksonville and Chicago railroad.
Horace Greedy says that the Radical Abolition
party is principally composed of "blockheads."
He ought to know, for he made it.
1t is said that there are only four steamers
carrying the American flag on the ocean between
this country and Europe. The STARS and
Stripes" are becoming badly played OUT under
the blighting rule of mongreism.
Peoria Commandery has agreed to accept an
invitation to be present at celebration Of ST.
Johns day, the cath of June, at Ottawa
Joel Lindsey, of Albion New York, clerical
gentleman, who beat his little boy to death in an
effort to club him into saying his prayers has
finally been sentenced to pay fine of $3.50. AL
bion, New York, is strongly pious and unani-
mously republican precinct. 1t is owing to these
circumstances that Mr.. Lindsey escaped hang
ing.
A negro in a street car in New Orleans threat
ened to shoot woman, who had protested against
his insults, "as quick as he would any d-n
white rebel The conductor said he did not
dare to put him out as he was colored man
On Saturday last the United States Treasury
held the largest amount of money ever held at
any one time since the Organization of the Gov
eminent, to.wit: one hun lred and eighty mil
lions, of which one hundred and two millions
were in gold and seventy-eght millions cur
rency.
Mr.. Nicholas Rowle, of Joliet. week ago. had
his eye put out by being hit by a stone thrown
at random by a boy passing along the street.
The Peoria Democrat of the 9TH inst, saws
Last Tuesday night Mrs. Abraham Maple pre-
sented the family circle with a son, after seven
teen daughters. This the 18th child and only
son of Mrs. Maple, at the age Of S. is, we think,
keeping up connubial happiness witha pertinaci-
ty rarely equaled and never surpassed
NEWSPAPER CHARGEs,--For publishing an
advertisement six weeks, soliciting plans for the
new state house at Springfield, said advertise
ment occupying less space than a quarter of a
column in the FREE TRADER, the following
charges were made by the papers named
Springfield Register, $i5 Journal. SIS ST.
Louis Republican. SOL; Democrat SG6; Chicago
Times, $l20; Post, $3.50
Nine.tenths of all the reports received at the
agricultural department during the past month
agree to the favorable prospects for the COM
ing harvest. Never according to the commiss-
toner's summing up, has there been SO general an
expression Of encouragement
The heaviest carpet mandatory in the United
States, at Tariffville, near Hartford. Conn, was
destroyed by fire ON Monday. The loss is esti-
mated at 81 100000 insurance, $4,000. The
establishment turned out $4,000 yards of carpet
ing last month. Two thousand persons are thrown
out of employment by this disaster.
L. Hiscock was shot by Gen. Geo. W Cole at
Albany, on Tuesday evening last on the ground
of the illicit intercourse Of the former with the
wife of the latter. Both persons were members
of the constitutional convention.
The billiard match for Ike championship of
America, between Dion and McDovitt, at Mon
treal, on Monday, resulted in the victory of the
former
The Philadelphia Age publishes the following