The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1870-11-26
CREAM OF OUR EXCHANGES.

for congress IN the "a district, says: 11er9'
after we will take Stoughtou in ours"
That il because Farnsworth isn't something
stronger"
The Amboy Journal thinks the great "lesson"
taught the radicals by their late defeat in this
state is that "the radicals must hereafter nOmi.
nate Only men for office III whom the people have
confidence"
Yoo are rigAr, old (Am-) boy and to do this,
it would be well to cOntine your nominations
entirely to men who are good democrats.
When "a Montana mau gets to ''h,ukeriny for
Office right smart" they elect him Sheriff, aud
he lives just two days.-En.
We have good many radicals hereaway who
ought TO go to Montana.
Az editor who seems to need "a few moro sub
scribers," solicits them in this way:
Brca5hea there man with soul 10 dead,
Who never to himself has said,
will family paper take,
Both for my own and children's saksT
Ii such there be, let him repent,
And have this paper to him sent.
The Macomh Eagle states, with solemn gravi.
ty, that "a couple of ladies' passing barber
shop the east side, Saturday evening, and
seeing pale looking man in chair with .
large towel around him. aud enc of the opera
tors engaged vigorously in tanning him, were
greatly concerned - know what was the matter
with him, bat appeared relieved when they dis
covered he was only getting his moustache dyed"
Some graceless newspaper scribbler gets of
this wicked squlb on Beecher:
- sF,t h, ;cko
outh Church that there is no hell His doc.
trine may be true; but It's sad to think that
there is no hereafter fol- him or his flock.
This is the way editors allow themselves to
be "whaled" in Indiana
u lawyer at Terre Haute lately went to an
editors Office 10 cane him. The doctors have
dug three bullets ont of his frame, and say
there is another one they can't find. which will
probably kill him.
The Bloomington Leader thinks the Sth of
November not "a good day upon which to hold
elections
1t wasn't this year for the radicals.
The Clinton Register thinks:
The man who wrote "the melancholy days
have come, the saddest OF the year. must have
- been Il defeated repuhlican candidate
Jefferson A. Davis is the democratic member
elect from Woodford county, Ill. His name
Will make him popular amoug his party friends.
Joliet Republican,
The editor of the Republican, eoho did not go
60 the war, is still 80 mad about JEFF Davis, that
he cannot refrain from abusing every man who
happeus TO bear the name.
Suppose it had been Jeff C. Davis, would not
the above paragraph have been equally applica.
bic md equally silly and malicous2
Here /, something for "old stsgers" who de.
vote their time to the instructive game of seven.
up"
During the past six months, two old buffers
oiJolrj, IL, have played 10, 500 games of seven.
up aud the victor was only four games ahead
We hnd the following story in the rounds of
the exchanges:
a man at Ottawa, Illinois, recently hanged
himself because his wife refused to cook mutton
for BIS supper.
We will give quarter of that same mutton
for the discovery of the wretch who perpetrated
the above libel.
= lady il Sacramento killed her husband
lately, just because she found him riding out
with another woman. Are we men TO have no
protection IL our h trmless recreatons?
1t seems not. We know man here who, un
til rev days ago, had flowing locks in profu.
sion, and now his head is as bald as a billiard
BALL because lac threw kiss at the servant
glri, when his wife happened to see the reaec.
tlon OF 'tAtt mtuoeUyer" il looking glass in
another room,
Olive Logan, speaking of the fifteenth amend.
ment says 1t Is time we lifted the white woman
to our lips
we have very often felt like doing that little
trick, but never before knew 1t was caused bv
the 10th amendment. Under these circum
stances We shall support the amendment and
proceed TO 'lf,"
An editor in New jersey recently published
long obituary notice OF an uncle who died out
IN Australia and lett $500 100000 to his only
nephew Ice intimate acquaintance of the ed.
'or reg rdol this story AS the preliminary msa.
sure u " carefully devised scheme to get trusted
Tor couple of winter undershi,.s
The Wenona Iader gets off the fllow;n,
good one on the Henry Republican, rad:
Below we give what the Henry Rep,,Jlicaa
knows about politics In their issue lust bro.
Vious TO the election they say:
- Z. lngofsoll win be reelected bv abopt
5000 majority "''"'
Ihey came within 1929 of telling the truth.
Suite distance from the mark but nothing
unusual tor the IaagJiican. '"e
An exchange speaks of a man "who spe,, =,