The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1869-06-19
CURRENT NEWS.

e"&AA uSOOonucu oAiAo uPou tlc JuSt anu upon Jers
soy.
A Jones county uowa) girl, upon her appoint
cd wedding day, was offered five dollars by an.
ether fellow to play off on No. I, and take him.
self instead. She did it, and tho bereaved brevet
husband went and married her sister.
TO AMANDA.
Amanda Craig that gushing girl,
May now dismiss her scholars,
Since she has won from poor old Sprague
A hundred thousand dollars
Chicago Tribune.
TO ELISHA.
Elysha Spraig, eve bad old eg,
Whoo can't spell wurth dern,
Yew termed yor bak to Mandy Kraig,
And now yer niuniy's hern.
Down with yer groenbax, let EN- trott,
30 Mandy Kraig may buy
a luver who no tuners gott,
Nor week.-mrs. OF the j.
-CAicago Journal.
The Supreme Court of Georgia, on the 10Th
inst, rendered decision that the negro is eligi.
BILE to Office. Judge Brown and McCove, in
favor, and Judge Warner dissenting.
At the grand Knight Teuklars celebration in
Philadelphia on tho 10Th, fifty one commander.
les marched IN the PROCESSION, gathered from
half dozen of surrounding states.
New Orleans is manufacturing its own ice,
and selling it for one cent pound. 1t is said to
DO superior to the northern ice.
A capital carriage service" has been initiated
at the Central Park in New York. The vehicles
are new and elegant; tho drivers, who are uni.
formed, arc on duty from A. N. to 2, NJ, and
tho fare for the nine miles drive is fixed at %
cents.
A curious card appears in Texas paper. A
man adyertises that his brother is candidate for
Sheriff OF the county, because he himself is dis.
iranchised, bu. that he is to bo the real officer.
"You are voting for me- he says, "that is. for
my benefit. am to receive ell the paw. il INV
brother is elected"
ODoncvan Rosa, the Irish patriot, whose
WHO is in this country giving public readings,
has suffered greatly in lis Imprisonment, and
was lately kept five weeks with his hands mana.
cled behind his back, night and day. Rosa and
five companions were in Chcatham Jail, at Dub.
lin, ct last accounts
They have in Mendoza curiosity in the shape
of a cat with litter Of young rats and kittens.
Letters from the Baltic ports contain the i'm.
portant news that the Russian government has
entered the grain markets Of Germany as a Dur
chaser of cereals.
The Peoria Transcript learns that the chinch
bug has made Its appearance IN that vicinity.
About two months age, 2 dog was shipped by
gentleman in Cincinnati to relative in On.
buque. Only tive or three days since the dog
turned up again, at the residence OF his former
master. very weary and very iootsoro, having
walked all the way back, distance Of nearly
GOO miles.
Adelino Patti has had something taken from
her head. Ono account asserts that it was q
wen! Another, thet it was wart Another,
that it was boil Another, that it was PIN.
pie! And thus the public mind is harrosed and
pcrplexed by the inacauracy Of reporters.
A Mr.. o. A. Osborne, of Cairo, has invented
spring to DO attached to the feet, by means Of
which person is relieved OF the labor OF walk.
ing to great extent. 10 claims his invention
will enable man to walk ten miles per hour
with ease.
Tho contract for building tho bridge across
the Illinois river at Peru has been let, the
bridge to be finished by the LIST of December.
A Louisville gentleman renders himself un-
pleasant to his family by yielding to the hallu.
cination that no is commissioned to chop his
wife into small pieces.
There will be an Irish Convention in st. Louis
on September LIST, for the purpose Of establishing
emgrant aid societies for settling the Irish on tho
Western prairies.
The Frecpo't Independent, lively paper by
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