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

w" pVAAAA1 tuAS III usl DISCRIMINATION to on An
unrebukedP
According to q Philadelphia reporter, recent
rain descended alike upon the just and upon Jer.
soy.
A Jones county Qowa) girl, upon her appoint.
cd wedding day, was offered five dollars by An.
ether fellow to play of on No. l, and take him.
self instead She did it, and tho bereaved brevet
husband went and married her sister,
10 AMANDA.
Amanda Craig that gushing girl.
May now dismiss her scholars,
Since she has won from poor old Sprague
A hundred thousand dollars.
--Cticago tribune.
TO ELISHA.
Elyshs Spraig, eve bad CID cg,
Whoo can't spell wurth dern,
Yew termed yer bal to Mandy Kraig,
And now yer nlunny's hern.
Down with yer grrenbax, let EN- trott,
30 Mandy Kraig may buy
A luver who no tuners gott,
Nor week.-mrs. OF the j.
-Cticago Journal.
The Supreme Court Of Georgia, on the 18th
inst, rendered decision that the negro is eligi.
bic to Office. Judge Brown and McCoye, in
favor, and Judge Warner dissenting.
At the grand Knight Tenslars celebration in
Philadelphia on tho 10Th, fifty one commander.
les marched IN tho professor, gathered from
half q dozen Of surrounding states.
New Orleans is manufacturing its own ice,
and selling it for one cent pound. 1t ia said TO
be superior to tho 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 4. N. to Or, NJ, and
the fare for the nine miles drive is fixed at 25
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.
franchsed, but that he is TO be the real officer.
'fou are voting for me-" hc says, "that is, for
my benefit. am to receive all the pay, if my
brother is elected"
oDonovan Rosa, the Irish patriot whose
vito is in this country giving public readings,
has suffered greatly in Lis Imprisonment, and
was lately kept five wooks with his hands mana
cied behind his back, night and day. Rosa and
iive companions were in Cheathain Jail, at Dub.
lin, at last accounts
They have in Mendoza curiosity in the shane
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 tho grain markets Of Germany as pur.
chaser of cereals.
The Peoria Transcript learns that the chinch
hug has Inado its appearance IN that vicinity.
About two months ago, o dog was Slipped by
a gentleman in Cincinnati to relative in Du.
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
Wen! Another, that it was a wurt! Another.
that it was boil Another, that it was PIN.
pie! And thus the public mind ia harrosed and
pcrploxed by the inacouracy of reporters.
A Dir. o. A. Osborne, of Cairo, has inventeda
spring to DO attached to the feet, by means Of
which person is relieved Of tho labor of walk.
ing to great extent. Ho 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 gentlcmrn renders himself un-
pleasant to his family by yielding to the hallu.
'ination that no is commissioned to chop his
vile into small pieces.
There will DO an Irish Convention in st. Louis
IN September 1st for the purpose Of establishing
'migrant aid societies for settling the Irish on tho
Western prairies.