The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1869-07-03

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CURRENT NEWS. 4
The Aurora Herald speaks Of new vasisey Il
strawberries, called the Jocunda, a vhish "
berries measure flee inches In oiroumisfsoce.
That beats the agriculturals.
A swan in the New York Central Pink having
taken violent and singulss sttschmsnt 70 3
lady visiting there, the latter has conceived he
idea that desd lover, BY the process a nstsop.
sychoss, Is now this swan, and refuses 70 ~ the
gentleman to whom shs il now snsaesd end who
witnessed tho swans singular cooduct.
The first crocodile seen in this countsy wss ~
Gently captured in Florida. He had probably
Just run over from Africa 10 visit his sslativss
the alligators.
The best way to raise strawbsnies d WITH .
spoon, and the larger and stronger the spoon the
more you can raise. It may Be necessary 70 ny
that this valuable recipe IL NOT made nom any
agricultural stand point.
nRev. Jas Longhead died at Morris On The 24th
inst He had settled In Morris, about - yeazs
since, and organized the drst church In that city
Five thousand Chinese are reported d Omaha,
en- route TO New Orleans 90 labore,A
A shocking case Of fatal poisoning has occurred
al Fish river, Maine, from boiling . lizard In
the teakettle Of which the tea was made, Of which
they partook. Twelve iumbermen suffered and
died.
Dorchester has been annexed to Boston BY .
large vote of the "Hub," and bashful majority
In Dorchester.
Two cases Of drowning occurred 81 Whining.
ton, ILL.,. during the great storm on Saturday
last. One was that Of an infant daughter Of
John Hennesy, aged five months who slipped
out OF her mothers arms while crossing stream
in q wagon, the wagon becoming swamped In
the stream. The other was G. q. Alcott, on .
visit from Connections, who attempted to cross
Horse creek in q wagon with his son on Sstur.
day night.
White Pine market quotations: Fresh beef,
40 cents per pound mutton, 30 cents; pork, 50
cents; butter, 70 cents; sugar and coffee, 40
cents strawberries and cherries, 81 -four, $40
per hundred pounds; lodgings and meals, 81
each, and lumber $50 to $500 Pc, thousand feet.
A cotemporasy cautions his readers against the
large worm which infests the tomatos vines. IT.
sting is deadly poison. II Is two or three inches
long, Of green color.
eaton" Of the Harvard Adrooate reports hav.
ing seen the following inscription on grave
stone in an express wagon on State street:
1--WE can't have everything 70 plsass %,
Little Johnny has gone to Jesus"
Indiana will redeem 100000. nearly ono.
third of its state debt, in July. The remainder
win be 81, 100000, against 1900, 900 Ave years
ago. ~
Tho test oath stumps couple Of loyal negro
appointees In Virginia.
Pontiac, Livingston county, was serious suf.
ferer by the food last Sunday night. The rivsz
at the bend above towa broke through the levee,
and cutting wide deep channel, submerged
half Of Pontiac, carrying sway lumber yards,
wood piles, buildinga 90.
The high water on Monday again carried away
sportion Of the La Sale bridge.
Bailey, the man on trial at Naperville for q
week or two past for killing Laird, whom he found
in bed with his wife, has been acquitted.
Large shipments by river from Jacksonville
Ind, to St. Louis, are reported.
Keokuk has o population Of 1l,754, gain o.
1900 in two years, 1900 Of which are colored.,
NJ. Wendell Phillips is glad that the Indian,
are tearing up the rails on the Pacific road. r .