The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1870-03-05
CREAM OF OUR EXCHANGES.

Marsnall county yer the euitor OF tho I<P"0se-
can, at that place, "still lives
Strong religious revivals at Henry and Lacon,
Gays the Home Jo'rrnal.
The editor of the same paper says lady IN
Montana wants his paper, and will remit gold
afor it. He says, 'al right; ship us quart or
twor
In another paragraph he does not want to sell
out. Will quarts buy him? The same paper
continues "The female seminary of Henry has
been sold to the German Reformed Church."
Did the females need reforming?
The ladies of Rochester, near Lacon play bill
lizards and drink lager. Verify, women have
rights.
The Wenona Index says that town is going to
have a mill. "A milT-pray, with whom
How many rounds, and what is the fighting
weight of each?
The Morris Scholastic, school journal, edited
by N. C. Dougherty, of the Morris, Grundy Co.,
Classic School, is before us. 1t is creditable
production, as well in literary as typocraph-
ical point of view.
The Sycamore Ncus says there are only twenty.
four lawyers in De Kalb county. Happy county.
The Ne,rs and Republican, of the same county,
are calling each other pet names. One says the
other is "bass wood editor and the other re.
torts by calling the other the "dirty ink singer
of the slop-bucket." That's business
We greet among our exchanges, with feel.
ing akin to that one experiences on the return
of a long absent friend, the Tazewell Journal, at
the head of which "hoats" the familiar name of
John Mcdonald, formerly of the Pekin Regiaer,
as publisher But Mac always was rather prosy
as writer and to cure this defect of the old
Register, he employs as editor of his new paper
one E. NJ. Whitney, who reverses the old style
with an emphasis. In fact, his editorials are, il
anything, trihe too fine for common comprehen.
sion, to say nothing of everyday newspaper wear
and tare We give few specimens:
Silent are the footsteps of angels; more silent
are the footsteps of God and silent are the vxvs
OF those that do His will, and that by their shin.
1ng example feed the understandings and hearts
of men.
The responsibilities of calngs in here. in some
sense IN the nature OF the things done but more
IN the character of the men who have stood in
them, and the way in which they have done
things. N"'
Eighteen centuries have not been idle because
.he hlneteentL outrnns them all. The crest that
beats upon our beach is not the product of the
hour alone.
All which is very fine indeed, but what in
thunder does it meanY
coming down to sublunary things, however,
we learn by the same paper that the new church
in Washington, Tazewell county, recently erect
ed by the christian" denomination, was DESTROY.
ed by fire on the 18th inst. Los. about $4,000.
The Macoupin Times has three column arti.
tie to persuade the tax payers of that county
that they are legally and in honor bound to
pay for their elephantine new court house,
which cost the trihe Of $2,OOOOOO. 1t would
have been better to have settled the question be.
fore the court house was built.
The Cambridge, Ill.,, Democrat mentions do.
nation visit to tie Presbyterian clergyman Of
that villageIa. which the attendance was So large
that 'the floor of the sitting room gave way,
dropping about foot Two young ladies of 25,
In their fright jumped out of window, landing
in a rose bush. They were SO frightened tina.
both have ceased growing-youngsr.
The Tonica Register is the name of . newspa.
per Just started at Tonica, in this county, BY o.
). s. W. Dimmick. 1t is got up On tho cheap
plan OF Chicago outside, and very little inside;
though'in the present case the inside gives prom.
Use OF being above the average Of its class. The
people of Tonica can make it an interesting and
useful home paper or not, just as they please, by
giving it liberal support or withholdingi it.
The Fulton Co. Ledger states:
"Jsmes Kimble, of Eugene Knox county, com.
.nitted suicide few weeks since, becauee he
found the girl he loved was said TO be of = dis.
reputable character"
The Galesburg Free Press denies that Revels,
the colored "cuff' from Africa, who now rerels
In the Senate at Washington, ever graduated at
the Galesburg College.
The First National Bank Of Decatur has ex.
ploded.
The Indianapolis Journal learns tina. a New
Albany girl tainted in church, the other night,
but speedily recovered when she found that the
wrong man caught her when she fell.
From the Peoria Rerieao we obtain this:
Enough zinc ores are now being raised in the
vicinity of Hazel Green, Wis, for q regular shin.
ment OF ten tons per day from the roasting furna.
ces ut La Salle."
And from the same source this item:
'Rock Island is clarifying over the sntcipa.
ted removal of the La Sale glass works to tina,