The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1870-02-05
OTTAWA FREE TRADER: SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1870

and proceeded to cut his bread and eat his sup
per with the same knife that did the bloody
deed
Ihe murder was unproveked enough, bu
Rodgers being a Niger, of course Gov. Palmer
will pardon him
We have not received the Daily Springfield
Register, according 10 promise, in consideration
for certain advertising. It's of no consequence
ct course, yet it would have looked better had
the publishers fulfilled their agreement.
The Yorkville Record reports debating soci.
ETY. at Plano deciding that "polyyamy is
right" That settles it.
The Aurora Beacon joins the complaint against
the Constitutional Convention for wasting time,
saying
More than forty days of the Constitutional
Convention have passed. and work is just begin
ing to be turned off their hands. A very con-
siderable time has been spent III useless debate,
and quarreling over savings, where the econo-
mics contemplated have been doubly over
sloughed by the expenses of the Convention
while debating them,
And so forth. This sort of complaint is sheer
nonsense. If the Convention spends less than
six months in making the new Constitution, the
chances are the work will be botched. The
Pennsylvgnia Convention of 1886 was in session
months, and the New York Convention had
two or three sessions of three or four months
each.
The Beacon gives u remarkable instance of the
tractve power of IA sick horse, saying, "a sick
horse on the street fronting our Office on We'd
nesday, drew large crowd Of people, though he
couldn't draw himself
Also an instance Of the attractive power of a
sick married lady with handsome husband
who within week has been visited by thirteen
eligible widows
The publishers of the Fulton Ledger, like q
good many other publishers in the state, were
badly swindled by the Kingsley theatrical troop
That Kingsley is about the brassiest scoundrel
we ever encountered.
The Cambridge Democrat tells a pretty tough,
though true, story of a farmer in that vicinity
named Herriett, whose horses were scared by
passing railroad train and ran across the track
just In time to be struck by the locomotive.
"The engine struck the hind end of the wagon,
making complete wreck of it, and throwing
Mr.. H. number of feet into the air, and landing
him upon the engine in front of the smoke stack,
from which place he was taken in a senseless con-
dition. Upon examination, however. it was
found that, although very much bruised, no
bones were broken and no serious injuries sus-
tanned"
The Pekin Register gives an account of the
freezing to death of a German named Earsman,
who had been to Washington trading, got drunk,
and starting homeward, gave the rens to his
little daughter who drove home safely while he
lay in the bottom of the wagon and persisted.
His wife was so affected that she is raving
maniac.
Another man, afflicted with the name Of Pop-
kiss, was horribly mangled while telling trees in
the timber. A tree fell across mis- ankle, crush
ing it to Jelly
The Peoria IraylSc14p, tells this curious story !:
Yesterday morning a white cow entered the
furniture establishment OF ComstOck d Avery,
on Main street, and coolly stepping inside of
fine bedstead laid down and began to chew the
cud of contentmeEt. There was nobody in the
front part of the store at the time, and Mrs. Cow
was not noticed. Another of the bovine tribe
who had probably watched the success Of her
friend and was enboldered by it. attempted to
enter through the open door, but the clerk esped
her and drove her away. The other cow lay
there for an hour or more, before she was discov-
cred by one of the clerks. His establishment up
on viewing the mild faced bovine, quietly repos-
ing within the bedstead may be better imagined
than described.