The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1870-02-19
CREAM OF OUR EXCHANGES.

The Peoria Reri,c thinks the controversy be.
tween Dawes, Butler, Truubull and the othei
great guns, indicates /. new lease Of hfe-"re'
newnd lease of life for the republican party
Yes, thu: hectic flash which Immediately PROCEEDS
the death of the consumptive.
We advise you to wind up your affairs, Messvs
Radicals, for dissolution is at hand.
The Earlvlle G.-ette publishes petition ior
division of La Sale county. That is, to cut OF
the northern tier q township of Sale and the
southern tier Of lie, nd DE- Il lib counties, and
make new county tLereoi. This would make
Earlville county ssD-, AMI everything would
be ''hunky." e
The Ne,ional Guas{ p, Oregon, Oxle county,
perpetrates this:
"ln the days when was hard up
For want Of food and fire.
used to tie my shoes up
With little bits of wire
The Morris U,r0ii sides with Dawes in the
fight against Butler. That winds up" old Ben
The same paper says:
There is devout professor in our city, who
objects to skating On ihe ground that he might
"backslide." The editor of the Ottawa Free
1rdder will not be permitted to leave out the
"i' In ba'kslide for the purpose of 'joak'"
Then you'd better give us one ito boot
The Fulton Co. Ledger has . political squib
with point to it;
Hon Clark 1ngersoll gave notice, Oh Tues.
day, that ne would introduce resolution pro-
posing an amendment to the constitution, that
Congress shall have power to issue United States
notes, and make them legal tender in payments
The RAIDS seem determined to tinker at the con-
sttution until they get it 30 that one of the old
patrlarchs, were he resurrected. would not know
the document"
The editor Of the De Kalb Ne,os acknowledge
the receipt of four sacks of flour, all from one
mill. a generous contribution for a puff"
Liberal mill Happy editor Hope our rnillers
will take warming
The Sycamore Republican tells this pleasant
story Of rapid progress in educa,ion-of char.a-
BILE labor we'll expended, in De Kalb In the
family Of Col. s. WAS q Swedish domestic
who had desire to learn to read English The
family aided her in leisure moments, and she
proved so apt scholar, that, last fall, one wear
from the time when she was totally ignorant,
she had acquired such proficiency a. to be able
to pass an examination and procure u certificate
as teacher; and she is this winter engaged in
teaching school of little suckers in their native
tongue. There is, in this success, IL valuable
lesson to those who have ignorant hired girls in
their employ.
Speaking OF taxes the Ne,cs says:
'ot the S25c59O to be collected by the tax
men this winter, In De Kalb county, scarcely
one-fourth had been paid "a week since @, rLe
$ll4,@6l, the amount of state and county taxes
to be paid into the county treasury before the
10Th inst, only trife more than $4,000 had
been received on Wednesday week MANY of
the towns bad not been heard from. Such a
backward state Of affairs regards taxes has not
been known before for many years"
There is young 'squirtibob" perambulatinr
the country, hailing from Wheaton, and his
great object in life is that of the destruction of
the Masonic Fraternity. He is delivering himself
OF haTanSues in the northern part of the state,
which he is vain enough to call "leetures." The
writer is not OF the Masonic fraternity therefore
knowing as much about them a. he we we'll not
attemptto denounco what we do not know to
be criminal or baneful, and We do know Masonic
teachings and practices are morally and relig-
iously right
AS we expect Blanchard here soon, we give
him the benefit Of this handsome notice.
The Freeport Bulletin is full of the .'doinys,
at a great New Workers. reunion which occurred
there lately.
Quincy, how is that D. B. theatre Of Kingsley'.?
The Wenona Inder records railroad accident
tuesday, the 9Th inst. A passenger train going
south was ditched near La Sale. Engineer Pat
'erson had his foot crushed so badly that ampu-
tation was necessary. No one else was injured
The train was running at the rate of thirty mile,
an hour, and stopped in just its length, and
within ten feet of an embankment, down which
1t would otherwise have plunged 100 feet into
the Nermillion river. 1t was = miraculous
escape.
The Livingston Democrat is edited by Mr.. r.
II. Organ We rather enjoy the music of that
Organ. Wonder how the RAIDS like i,p
The above paper copies an item from u. AVID
explains
Inc Livingston Democrat object, To IN. ,so
OF the expression "and.so.iOrth, Yin mnkiny ant
bills, as being indefinite and uncertain usro
we understand it as the same "a "sundrv dr;nL >,
&c.-Ottaud Free Trader. ""'
The tax payers or this county arc n vereror.
people, anc don't object to furnishing tbo;r sn..
wants with reasonable amount az u.nd
forths," in view Of their over worked cond;t;or
and small salaries. But when they are taxcd