The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1870-01-29
Enformaticn.
CREAM OF OUR EXcHANaES.

The Earlvllle Gdscue says, sPicnoAo Ao1~s
saddle and bride were stolen from gentleman
living at Leland. in this county, last Monday
week ago The thief vas so closely pursued that
he found himself obliged to abandon his piander
at Norris.
The Gazette. further being interviewed, says:
"I.evi Hiscock. wealthy individual OF Earl
Vile, votes the republican ticket" Well, what
credit is that to him
The school directors of Earlville have adopted
Q new plan to compel regular attendance at
schools, by publishing the names of absentees in
their local paper, in large type. The last three
months show 113 delinauents. One enterprising
youth managed not to be there 621s days.
The Morris Herald says:
sThe Chicago tribune, now huge frog in the
political puddle, has forgotten the days when it
was only tad POLE"
There is no knowing what little animal the
Tribune may call the Herald, and yet not get
even with it,
The Herald says, the pardoning of Walsh by
Governor Palmer was mistaken clemency."
Wasn't it mistake-in-P Palmer? At any rate, it
is mistake that Walsh does not want rectifed.
Two professional Jail birds one night lately
made their appearance at the Morris Jail, and
demanded admttanco on the ground that they
were unable to procure shelter from the storm
elsewhere The sheriff tslegraphed to Chicago
to know who they were, but no answer coming
in reasonable time, they were released. Suisse
quently he learned they were couple of villains
fleeing from justice. ..........
They arrest Charivar parties at Morris and
put them in the calaboose 'for one night only,
and no rostponement on account of the weather"
Agood idea.
The Henry Republican hints:
"Clothes-ine thieves are securing their winter
linen. People who want their weeks washing
CLEANED out" have only to leave it OR the line
over night"
Also,
''There is fellow about town of such punctual
habits, that he carries his watch in his coat tail
pocket, SO as to be always ahead of time When
he sets down he is ION time"
The above paper is very mad about chose
wicked men and boys who chew tobacco and spit
in church" They expect-to.rate too high for
that editor.
The Joliet Republican is still sore over
the defeat of the Chicago "barnacles," and
the refusal of the leading republican newspapers
to go the entire radical hog at the last election,
sarcastically speaking of "Storeys fourpapers-a
dailies." The radicals are beginning to recog-
Mise Storey as man of some influence. 1t is a
hopeful sign when they begin TO learn something.
An Elchange says that they are having great
sensation in Chicago over the disappearance of
Gustav Fischer, the sheriff, who is supposed to
have taken with him women not his wife. This
country editor ought to know that little matter
of that kind is no cause for a sensation in the
"Garden City" If Gustav Fischer had left
town aotM his own wife, then indeed would there
have been q sensation. Chicagonians accompany
their wives only to funerals and church on Su n
day mornings.-I5N
The same paper also states, that prominent
citizen of Mokena is engaged in the laudable un-
dsrtaking of pursuading his wife to become
christian, such as he is. His argument is mild
and coaxing, viz: horsewhip,
Schenectady justice lately decided that a
verbal contract required stamp.-Ex.
Where would he put t? Ans. On the parties
mouths.
The Woodstock Sentinel says a Mr.. Henry
Vanute, brakesmen, fell beneath the cars and
was instantly killed, last Monday. He leaves a
wife and child. Brief and sad obituary. Alas
just like SO many others we see see in every paper
the only difference being in the name of the
victim.
The Bloomington PuatagroyM is satisfied that
the corn crop of Illinois, gathered last fall,
lis not more than one.third of crop, taking the
state together" and generally of an inferior
quality" And, as if this were not bad enough
to contemplate, the editor is 'assured that not
one bushel in five will ever germinate, and that
next spring it will be matter of difficulty to
obtain corn fit for seed"
90 A woman in Chicago recently seized man,
and, before he could SECURE assistance, brutally
married hin.-EE.
He has gone to Indiana for divorce.
The Lacon U0me Jour,Da! facetiously remarks
"The papers say that Boston has one cen
store Lacon can go two better than that We
nave three scent stores, without counting Fish.
ers packing house."
eae W hlch Is the most sce,.ted! sar .-, s-.
'fhe same paper, III the same strain, observes
wv e are negotiating Tor ten cylinder garden
nee, ana when 1t arrives, expect to enlarge on
paper, and obhge all our corrcspondents
Inns Is an improvement on the Hoe press and
should he fail in this enterprise let him 20 ia
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