The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1868-08-29
Political Items.

The Hon. H. G. Webb, Republican State son.
ator, from the Twenty Ninth district of Wiscon.
sin,-composed OF Waukesha, Marquette, and
Green Lake counties,-has abandoned the rad.
ical party, and issued an address declaring his
intention OF supporting Seymour and Blair
The largest political meeting ever held in the
Chippewa valley, was held by the Democracy at
Eau Claire, Wis, recently. Judge Ira Mead,
heretofore prominent republican, and man OF
influence in that part Of the state, was called to
preside over the meeting.
Under the caption, Strengthening the limo.
cent" the Memphis Ledger reports the shooting
OF negro thief in potato patch last Saturday,
and the killing of a negro burglar the night
previous while caught in the act
At the examination of one of the publ;c
schools in Great Darlington, Mass, few DAYS
since, the following dialogue took place between
the teacher and geography class Of small schol.
ars:
Teacher-"Are the resources Of Mexico fully
developed"
Class--"Now
"Why notP"
because the country is badly governed
"How is that-isn't the government republic
| CAM"
After hesitating q moment q small boy re-
piled, swell, no-I guess it's Jaeobin or Rad
ical"
As evidence of the feeling of the New York
canal men in this campaign, the sale of boat
nags Ind badges is very gratifying. A crippled
soldier has been at the collectors Office in Buf
falo, selling both flags and badges Offering their
choice, anxious to sell all that he could. He
sold -
Flags-Seymour and Blair 2G5
flags-Grant and Colfax ........, 4
ino"r''. ........ ...... ..... .5o0
Badges-Grant. q
1t is proper to state that the Grant flags were
sold at reduced prices, as it was deemed best BY
the seller to work off his stock if possible.
Drums are now ornamented with the likeness
OF Grant A better man to beat does not exist
AChareston democratic paper gives one Con.
gresham elect from South Carolina the follow
ing first rate character; "He is q murderer.
forger, liar, and a gambler" AL of which, it
says, can be proven.
Notwithstanding the action of the Garnet bao
Legislature of Florida, the democrats have placed
an electoral ticket in the field
A cheap and ingenious way to keep q board.
ing house-Start Freedmen's Bureau.
Mr. Colfax's home organ comedies the three
large states, New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio.
to Seymour, but claims that Grant NAV be elect
ed nevertheless.
A "trooly loil' darkey in the Alabama legis.
laturc, on Saturday, "arose and said -
Il moves de char dat five hundred copies OBJ
dis yer legislator be printed"
Horace Greedy was the first carpet Dagger
In lSGG, at the Chicago convention, he was the
delegate from Oregon.
Natural Hair-That 4 the Radicals stands on
end with fright at the huge proportions of the
democratic majority in Kentucky for in it they
see torerunner of the results in Pennsylvania.
Ohio, and Indiana
What sort of villains are sent to the North
Carolina Legislature may be Judged from the
fact that on July 2 a Senator Wayne, from
Franklin county, asserted that there were not
iive respectable men IN Franklin who supported
the republican ticket, and that not more than
that number would recognize him when he re.
tnrned home Such outcasts make laws for
nearly million of people.
Stewards Cough Cure, heals incipient con.
sumption.
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