The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1869-11-13

CURRENT NEWS,

President Grant was recently waited on by
committee from the late Louisville Commercial
Convention, TO obtain his visw. and, if possible,
his assistance in the great commercial enterprises
recommended by the convention, and much to Be
desired by tho country. Grant had no views
on the subject. nor aid to give. He was Is
silent moonlight, and not half 30 cheerful
The assessed property in Cook county, ILL.,. lin
which Chicago is stuatod) for the present year,
il $40, l6l, 822. Tho assessed value of taxable
property In St. Louis Co.. No, for the year In
over $l3s. 600 00o-uearly double that of Cook
county.
Lyman Baker, of Whiteside county, lost IS
fat cattle the other day, which broke into field
and killed themselves eating corn.
John q. Orr, late Superintendent Of the Gin.
cinnati Workhouse, is charged with compelling
the female inmates to give him model artist OK.
hibtions. This stamp. him ~ a model officer.
prominent citizen Of Belvidsre one morning
last week discovered skunk in his pantry, lying
asleep on the floor. de procured somo chloro.
form, drugged the animal, and removed him
without difficulty.
This bids fair to be an ago of youthful sovs:.
eigns. The Emperor of China, the Prince I'm.
perial, the prospective Emperor of France, and
the Duke of Genoa, would.be King Of Spain are
all boys Of fifteen.
The st. Louis Republican states that the apple
crop Of Missouri was cut down full ono half BY
the late heavy frosts. All the apples on the trees
at the time of the frost are ruined, not being fit
even for cider. The reports from Michigan are
conflicting. \
The Board Of. Education of Cincinnati lately
determined to exclude the bible from the public
schools. An induction has been served upon the
Board to compel that body to read the bible.
1t is feared that John A. Logan tried to
palm some paste diamonds on Mrs. Grant in pay.
ment for the Office of Secretary of War. which
he WAS after. AZ he did ON Mrs Lincoln.
On the petition of the pork packers. the com.
missioner has decided to suspend the tax on them
as manufacturers until January.
Ex.Gov. Wickliffc, of Kentucky, is dead, ald
when his remains reached Louisville, the courts
adjourned IN respect to his memory, and tho
members of the bar passed tho usual resolutions
of regret and sympathy.
The Mendoza Bulletin says a farmer in that
section raised 500 bushels OF onions from two
acres of ground. His crop YIELDED him 40 cents
per bushsl, amounting to $500 lliso were
evidently :" as good as wheat"
On the Snohomsh River, in Washington Ter.
ritory, is an immense cranberry marsh, 100000
bushels Of berries grow every year, nearly the
whole of which fall to the ground and rot be.
cause there is no market ..t.
An American company will lay the cable be.
tween the United States and Belgium. The con-
oession for the cable was signed between the two
governments last week at Paris.
The Davenport Journal has gone into winter
quarters. 1t announces its own suspension until
spring. 1t was delicate little plant
A letter meant for Oshkosh, Winnebago coun.
~, wisconsin, was directed to Allsquash, Ruta.
bag" county, Westkonsing, aud reached its des.
tnation.
Horace Greeley ran behind his ticket very
badly in the interior VI New York. The Ropub.
licsns account for IL on the ground that many
Radicals erased his name from their tickets and
substituted that Of jeff Davisi F
Chas. ]. Folger, Of Geneva, N. T., has been AZ.
pointed Assistant United States Treasurer a
New York City.