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

botany sad Latin than he did.
They claim to have papier.mache church in
Germany. They also claim to have a paper
mashsr church in New York, and Rev. Froth-
ingham runs it.
Horace Greeley in the Independent asserts that
the temperance party, as political organization
is dead failure.
Dent carried three counties in ssissippi-
an index VI the importance of being on friendly
terms with relatives in high places.
The government is some what embarrassed at
the claim of colored soldiers heirs, as sometimes
four or five women will appear, all claiming 10
be the widow of the nuke. 1t is now gen.
orally believed that the colored troops hal to
fight nobly to support SO many wives.
There is libel going the rounds that d Boston
Those yankees are sometimes eccentric, but they
are not such fools as all that comes to.
Henry Ward Bsecher has been dropped from
the "Star Course Of Lectures" at the Academy
OF Music. Blood will tell.
California wheat is SO dry, that in coming East,
through and INTO humid atmosphere, it gains
greatly IN weight by absorption. This is quite
an element OF profit to the shippers.
Gov. Palmer refuses to appoint Mrs. Nyra
BradwelI, of the Chicago L4ga! Nc,rs, notary
public, on the ground that, being married wo-
man, she is unable to give the proper bonds,
The conductors on the Pacific road, poin, out,
as romantic spot, the place where a grizzly
bear deyoured New York dandy People like
70 see it.
1t i perhaps not 50 strange, after all, that
Grant and Butler should have become recouciled
There is only this difference between them: The
first received his presents; the other tooE them
Prentice says savayey, 'f the fellow who stole
eight hundred dollars from Gen. Butler. had an '
conscience at an, lac would 90 to New o. ms
and restore the money 10 the rightful -
Morgan county has been the scene of another
murder Two brothers, Thoma. and Samson
CAntreil, hvi.. mile. west OF Jacksonville, got
into drunken quarrel, when Thomas drew a
large knife and stabbed the other 80 that he died
Morris has had another mad dog excitement.
On tuesday rabid animal appeared on the
streets, collecting large crowd to witness his
antics, when the marshal came up and despatched
the brute before any body was hurt
a steam boiler in mill at Bethel, Morgan
county. exploded and was thrown quarter of d
mile through the air 1t WAS picked up and re.
turned to its place almost entirely uninjured
The boiler weighs $500 lbs. 1t is one Of the
mos. singular cases of the kind on record The
explosion did not materially damage the build.
ing, and hur, nobody.
A Mrs Stanton, of VIII county, sold hog a
few days since weighing 700 To-. The IadfDea.
d.nt says: Mrs.. S,antons fat contribution to
the wealth OF the Kankakee valley incontestibiy
proves that if women are net allowed to vote,
they can at least make the most OF a hog"
California on the eth Dec had another Sc.
we're shaking up by an earthquake. 1 was
severe.t in Eastern California and Nevada At
Virginia city walls were thrown down. clocks
stopped, dogs howled, and general CONSERVATION
prevailed.
The first nstament of Chinese laborers, num-
berins over 800, arrived via Pacific r Il. at st.
Louis on Tuesday. They arc engaged to work
on the Houston Texas Central X. X.
At La Sale, on Monday mass of slate rock,
weighing several toes, fell from the roof of the
Taylor coal mins, frightfully crushing and in
stantiy killing miner by the name of Michael
Connors. Deceased leaves a wife and two
children.
At Cincinnati on Monday, couple of Irish
men got into drunken fight, when one OF them
drove the blade of a large jack knife to the hilt
into the temple of the other The knife stuck so
tight that it took three strong men, with heavy
pair Of ton-s, TO draw 1t out The strangest part
of the story is that the man is still alive and do.
ing well and will in all likelihood fully recover.
O'Doaovan Rossa, who was recently elected to
the British house OF commons is still confined at
the Chatham prison, and his principal occupation
is that Of darning the stockings of the convicts
Mrs. Stanton thinks Sickles should be sent to
prison for the rest of his life, and wants to know
what would have happened to hi. wife if she
had gone about shooting all his mattresses.
The London SItu,glay Rrie,o has an editorial
on the Richardson. Mcfarland tragedy. The
writer pronounoes the Aston House wedding Alb
soutely groteslue, naseous and bl.sphemous.
A Chicago paper is authority for the statement
that Mr. j. Robb, of st. Louis. has presented to
the Chicago Historical Society the bronze eagle
which, prior to the war, surmouted the Capitol