The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1869-08-07
CURRENT NEWS.

Ann Rafferty,, agirl in the employ Of Mr. Smell,
at Wilmington, Ill, was burned to death by a
kerosene explosion from attempting to kindle q
fire by pouring kerosene upon live Goals.
Weston, the walkist is to walk 30 miles In
10)a hours, for wager of $3.50, on the Will
County fair grounds on the 18th inst. One-half
mile Of the distance he is to walk backwards.
Pollard, in his volume upon the war, says
General Lee carried on the war coldly, as pain
full matter of business, regarding secession as a
mistake from the beginning.
The owners of orchards in New Jersey are ad.
vised TO thin out their peaches and prop up the
limbs at once. The fruit is exceedingly abun.
dant.
The township Of Dwight, Livingston Co., sub.
scribed $4,000 in bonds to the Kankakee and
Illinois River Railroad.
The Dixon Qll) Democrat says that tomb.
stone in the cemetery in that city bears simply
tho suggestive spitaph: "Gone up"
Good strong tea, cooled with ice and favored
with lemon, with the addition of very little
sugar, is an excellent drink for hot weather.
A California theater has adopted the plan Of
furnishing room where babies can be left
checked during the performance. In case any
are left uncalled for, they are sold at auction
the next day.
A portion of Virginia is at present afflicted
with a severe drought. A letter from Hanover
says: Within the memory of the oldest inhsbi.
tant no such drought has ever visited our section
as this. For As or more days no rain has fallen
to wet the earth, and during the whole time
there have been blighting winds and scorching
suns.
A little boy named Willie Van Deusen, son of
banker in Chicago, met with shocking death
ct the Sherman House in that city, on Monday,
by falling through sky light in an upper hall to
the Office below-some 60 feet, dsshing out his
brains and killing him instantly.
The Chicago Commercial party rot urned from
their California trip on Monday, bringing with
them two Chin ese merchants, named respective.
" Sing aud Chew-names singularly suggestive
the Times, intimates, of the principal occupation
OF the party while gone.
correspondent Of the Anti.Slarery Standard,
calls on that journal to note the fact that John
Browns hymn was entirely omitted from the Bos.
ton Peace Jubilee programme.
The time Of holding the J. Milton Smith Horse
Fair at Mendoza is changed to Sept. 7th to 18th
inclusive. instead of October, as noted In our
last.
An attempt was made by an incendary to burn
the Rust block, large, three story brick build.
ing in Mendoza, one night last week.
A former member of Ben. Buffers staff has
decamped with $4,000 belonging to somebody
else. The firm which intrusted money to man
who had graduated under Butler, is certainly
among the greenest productions of the planet.
The friends of the plundered men should have
them shut up in an asylum.
Mark Twain, at the Parker house, Boston, rang
for "a copy of the laws of Massachusetts" 80
Gee if there was anything to prevent him from
drinking ioe-water"
A prominent physician Of Jacksonville, Ind,
states that reports about the sting of the tomato
worm being poisonous il bug bear. He says
that the tobacco worm and the tomato worm are
one and the same insect, and it is entirely harm.
less.
The floating bridge was replaced upon the Iii.
nois river At Peru on Wednesday, and transit re.
sumed across the bottom, after suspension Of
nearly two months Duration In Consequence Of
high water