The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1868-03-21
DEATH.
Current News.

Mrs. Stoves new book, Men of Our Times"
tells something about Henry Ward Beecher her
brother. When boy Of II years he was sent to
his sisters school, the only male scholar in the
school, but latter about six months, Henry was
returned TO his parents hands with the reputa-
ton of being an inveterate Joker and an indiffsr
emit scholar"
Large numbers Of cattle are being purchased
in Summer county, Tennessee, and drived to the
bluegrass counties Of Kentucky to fattsn for
Northern markets.
From Harmony. Indiana the President was
telegraphed that Clay county had thousand
men TO join him in his fight against the Rsdi.
Gals. ..
General John NJ Palmer decidedly refuses
to run for Governor of Illinois on the radical
ticket.
One hundred Germans have settled in South
Carolina, about twenty-four miles from Colum.
bia, and are astonishing the old-fashicned
planters with the energy with which they 70 to
work.
The Chicago Post, for radical paper, is ratl,.
er hard on Grant. 1t says "The Irish have a
national harp-Americans national liar"
1t would be difficult to decide whether the let.
tiers written for the New York Ledger by "Gen.
Grants father" are real, or whether they are q
burlesque. Sensible men would incline to the
latter opinion.
10 khar al IL " 4.
Commercial "that the Republican State Conven.
ton emitted to indorse the reconstructed recon
struction policy of Congress"
Judge Underwood, jacobin, of Richmond, has
released JEFF. Davis bondsmen. That is what We
suppose the jaeobins call making treason
odious."
A correspondent in the Rock Island Arg,u
gives an account of a fatal case of trichinass
near Hampton. Five thousand of the worms
were found in one cubic inch of muscle, exam.
ined by Drs. Nelson, of Chicago, and Casson, Of
Cincinnati.
Mahogany grows in Idaho like oak in this
part OF the country. Hay is not quite SO abuad-
ant out there. 1t takes six cords Of mahogany
wood to buy one ton Of hay.
A drunkard in Charlestown, Mass, had the
horrors and was thereafter Frustrated by illness.
His wife got barrel of whiskOy put it at tho
head Of his bed, and arranged it so he could
fill himself at any time. He looked Mt the bar.
| rel day, and resolved to drink no more VOW
he has religiossly kept for three years.
Near Lake Amelia, in Pope county, Minnesota,
and about 90 miles from Sank Centre, there
lives an old lady 103 years old. Last summer
this old lady came distance Of nearly 500 miles
in an OK team, and stood tho trip much better
than many of the younger members of tho fami.
ly. She is blind, and for one of her age enjoys
good health. She has sister now living in
Maine 101 years old
DR.. Erasmus Winslow, an old and honored
citizen Of Peru, in this county, died on Satur.
day morning last, March 14th, aged 90 years.
He was skilful physician, had large practice,
and for number Of years had held tho office, Of
Postmaster at Peru.
Two of the men charged with tho murder Of
the Hopkins family, on wharf boat near Hen.
nepin last fall, were tried last week in tho Pot.
nam Circuit Court and acquitted. The third one
OF tho accused, named Sherman, has taken q
change OF venue to La Sale county,
Navigation on tho Illinois and Michigan canal
will open on the first of April.