The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1868-03-28
Current News.

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The Dss Moines, Iowa, Register says, that the
grass-hoppers have already come out of the
ground in the meadows of Taylorville, by bri.
gade nillions-the surface of the ground literally
crawling with the insects.
A curious incident is noticed in the Owens.
boro (Ky.) Monitor. Some time ago Mr.. Toby
Asderson was killed, one Sunday, by the dis.
charge of shot gun. On last Sunday, a Mr..
Lewis, while using the same gun, was also acci.
dsntally killed
Mrs. Elizabeth Danogh has been appointed In.
spector OF tobacco, snuff, and cigars in the 4th
Indiana district, and successor to her late hus-
band -......
The Astor estate is valued by one who pro-
fesses to know, at $144, 100000
The Upper Mississippi is now open as far up
as Dubuque. Navigation from below will be
resumed at once. .,,.- ...........
On Thursday of last week Morris was visited
by another destructive confagrati0n. The block
including the old American House was swept
over. Some half dozen stores and number of
other buildings were consumed.
Francis W. Hall, the fehd who murdered his
wife near Morris by kicking or stamping upon
her, last September, was tried in that city last
week for the horrible crime. The prisoner was
defended by j. P. Southworth, Esq. States At
torncy Mum and A. r. Jordan, ESQ., appearing
for the people. The trial lasted several days
and resulted in the conviction and sentence of
the murderer to the penitentiary for life.
1t is now generally conceded in Radical quar-.
tiers that Jeff. Davis will not soon be tried. The
party have about as much as they can do trying
their own President.
A young Yankee school Inarm," at Charles
ton, Va, is charged with having got possession
Of considerable sum of money to build school
house, and then decamped to Boston.
Messrs. Turner & Bland, of Canton, No, cap
tured eighty hogsheads of buffalo fish at one
haul in the Mississippi, off that place, Saturday
Rather fshy. sF3Itt
A farmer in Nottingham, England, choked to
death while trying to swallow an oyster recent
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small.
The Winnebago Chief warns farmers against
purchasing Putnam's Patent Corn Planter and
Hay Rake" rights. 1t pronounces it huge
swindle.
The advertised fare between Chicago and st.
Louis, via c. L. l. g. P. K. Il. and Peoria steam
ers for 1863 is eight dollars. The steamers
connects daily with the night trains, leaving
Peoria fer down the river every morning The
fare includes meals and berths. , -, --. ,--
In 1S4S, piece of land in New York, known
as the Talman estate, was offered for sale by its
owner for $1,000, without finding purchaser
On Tuesday last was it sold by auction in lets,
and realized 8, 24O,30O
David Wilmot, of Pa, whose name came SO
prominently before the public in 1S47, in con.
nection with an amendment he offered to terri.
torial bill in congress known as the "Wilmot
provso," died at Towanda, Pa, on the 10th inst
Gen. Cary caused not little squirming at
Washington, the other day, by making the re-
mark, in a speech at Cincinnati, that radical
member of congress confessed to him that he
voted for impeachment under compulsion. The
house threatens to make him name the man
which means simply that he will only he called
upon to do it in case he can't. F5 "Ff.