The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1870-01-29

ment upon packers of hams as manufacturers,
and that upon farmers. selling their produce from
wagons as rstxn dealers. The officials do not
steal less, but they collect more to steal from
B'oonsisgton Deaoerat. 81. ~.
The Livingston Democrat very correctly says !:
"Mr. n. J. Pillsbury informs US that he is in
faver OF female suffrage, and shall do I'll that Is
in his power to bring it about. He says, do
you not think as much Of your wives, sisters and
daughters as you do of the ignorant African !?
We answer, yes and for that reason we wish
them not to mingle with such stock as the negro
suffrage party
The same paper insiaustes that the sheriff of
that county remains in the grand jury room and
questions Witnesses, and otherwise aids the pros.
ecuting attorney in making indictments stick"
Prof Wynn, late of Mendots, and nominee for
County Superintendent on the radical ticket at
the late election, beaten by Mr.. Wedgewood,
the Bulletin says is "boss" of the public schools
at Geneva, Wisconsin. as,1.a. io. ...
The Freeport Bulletin knows of a democrat in
that region who lately sold hog weighing. net,
$50 pounds The hog was radical in politics
he always took whatever he could get his nose
into.
The Whit, Hall Register says:
Hon. J. w. English, member of the constitu-
tional convention from this county, introduced q
resolution to that body on Wednesday to the
effect that, whereas white woman is AZ good
as black man therefore, if the suffrage be con-
ferred upon the latter, is should not be denied
to the former. lo ,l.a-
The above paper mentions the case of man
who got drunk and sat down upon the railroad
track, near that village, and refused to get up
when the train came along. The locomotive re-
fused to "turn out" but turned out the booty
chap, who landed off the cow.catcher some ten or
twelve feet frsm the road, almost unhurt. The
Register tries to get up "a temperance lecture"
on this incident. Guess not; had the man been
sober he would have been killed, being drunk he
was neither scared nor hurt' Where does the
"lecture" come in?
The story that Brick Pomeroy has about been
wound up in his New York enterprise, is fabri-
cation to iniure Mr. ?. He was never in better
financial condition, and Offers to bet hundred
thousand dollars that he will successfully run
his four papers during the year 1870. Come
RAIDS. Who takes it?
The Aurora Beacon says wild deer was lately
seen in that vicinity. The man who found it
said it was "a mule" and it jumped "great
high
The Beacon gives the following as a reliable
test of kerosene oil:
Take common quart bowl, fill one-third full
of boiling water, add cold water, little at
time, until a thermometer placed into it indi.
Gates 10 degrees Fahrenheit. Then put in about
a tablespoonful of kerosene stir up, and touch
a lighted match If it ignites or explodes,
reject it,"
Twelve cases of trichina have occurred in
Kane county within month, all from eating
uncooked meat. The symptoms of this horrible
disease begin with sore throat, stiffness of the
limbs, feverishness of the skin, and finally most
painful soreness of the muscles, many symptoms
lk those Of typhoid fever. As yet no remedy
has been devised.