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The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1870-08-27

We all know how much superior is fish pre-.
pared for the pan soon a. it is caught, compar-
ed to one that has been allowed to die. Few,
however, are aware of the cause of the difference
The reason 10 this: The fshed transferred
to the pan from the water is killed before 1t is
cooked. while the one that dies. is diseased. and
its body is not in proper condition to eat when
brought to market. The difference between
them is exactly that between an animal killed
by the butcher and one that has died Of fever
for the supply of oxygen that the fish receives
when taken out of his native element is SO great
as to induce fever of which he perishes. The
superiority of the fish OF Holland Is remarked
by all who eat then-and the reason is that as
soon al they are caught, the Dutch fishermen
stick an awl in their heads, and they are not
brought to market with aabby, fevered flesh, as
in England and this country.
Not only is the flavor Of fish thus killed far
superior to those that die of fever but the effect
upon the human system Is not injurious. How
common 1t is to hear the remark that fish make
people feverish. So they do, as would the flesh
of any animal that dies of fever.
We trust some of our fisherman will soc this
article and profit by it. Let the fish they take
be each killed with an awl driven into the brain.
1t will not take second to do this, and it will
be found that the flavor of their killed fish will
be 80 far superior to that of those which die Of
fever, that they will be bought in preference,
and that after = while people will buy no fish
but those that have been killed.-Chd1lest0n
Courier.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1870-08-27
A Nice Little Story.

Once upon time there was a young lady who
had three pretty new teeth in her mouth. She
bought them of n dentist, and they were fast.
ened to a beautiful, patent, vulcanized rubber
plate This young lady could eat almost any.
thing with her new teeth, and she felt proud Of
them they we're 80 useful, and looked we'll
when she smiled. One day she was eating din.
ner just rs fast AS she could, and she got choaked
with a piece of bone. Then she ran into the
wood-hed and coughed until the tears came iu-
to her eyes and her father came out and pound
cd her shoulders and her mother made her drink
pint of water, and finally she was better, but,
alas. her new teeth were gone.
so herself, and her father, and her mother,
aud her two sisters, and her big brother, and the
servant girl, and the neighbours little boy, look
ed all over that woodshed for those teeth, but
they could not find them. Then the young lady
was scared, and she said to her mother: ooh,
mother, I felt something hard in my throat
when / drank that water, and l have swallowed
my teeth and shall die, know shall! die. and
what shall do 7" That scared the mother, and
she put the young lady in bed and sent for the
doctor. Well, the teeth made her very sick.
You know how thin people set sometimes from
the gnawing of reinorse, and of course the gnaw-
ing of three patent porcelain teeth would be
much WORSE The doctor could do nothing and
the young lady kept getting worse and worse,
until the doctor said she could not live more
neighbours little boy found the three lost teeth
| in the back yard, where they had been thrown
| while the young lady was coughing. He took
them In. and showed them to the young lady
who said she felt good deal better, and got NJ
and dressed. She 10 we'll now; but She nlwayt
takee out her teeth before eating dinner bhco
| Nr1k
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1870-08-27
Humber.

UMBER, LATH, LIME, &c.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1870-08-27
Odd Environments.

With special reference to human frailty, there
is business reduced to a system in Paris, EN-.
ploying "a number of discreet deputies, who go
around to liquor shops and places of public re-.
sort at night, and accompany, or otherwise assist
to their homes for consideration, inebriate gen.
tlemen, who would otherwise fall into the hands
of the police. In that city there is, also, at al
most every alternate street corner, that almost
invaluable of messengers, the commlssinaire
Licensed, and amenable to strictly enforced PEN
alties if he over charges defaults, even blum
ders, he is yet your servant for the occasion, cap
able, for reasonable compensation per hour, of
the greatest variety of service. He can produce
for you ball ticket, order your dinner, and
summon your company, ascertain the wherea.
bouts of a book in public Libraries or the shops !;
perhaps even collect bill, or serve you in vari.
GUS other ways. He is frequently employed by
a jealous husband or wife to follow and report
upon the movements of the suspected party, and
occasionally the same agent ia hired by both the
partners in domestic intelicity.
A business has grown into formidable dimen-
sons within a few years in London which it is
impossible to regard with complacency. The
nearest approach to it in this country is the AS.
ISOLATION for the Suppression Of Gambling,
which, with wOrther motive, adopts somewhat
similar means. "Private Inquiry" Offices are an
invention to the credit of which England is per.
fectly welcome, and we devsutly hope that no.
| body on this side Of the water will copy or in.
fringe upon their pecul:arities. Employing
great numbers of young men and women appar-
emily engaged In other pursuits, as house SER
wants, clerks &c., to collect and communicate to
central Office all gossip scandal, and PERSONAL.
ties that they can pick up and acquire in the
families or firms where they have such opportu-
mites, these establishments obtain information in
vast quantities, which is carefully recorded and
tsbulated. This information, these family
secrets obtained by infamous bribery and espi-
onsge, are for sale. To these offices husband
or wife proceeds in search of evidence when
thinking Of applyingHor divorce. Thither, al
90, go morbid wretches in search of food tor eal.
ousy partners who doubt each other employ.
era who suspect their agents.
And so widely spread are the qualifications by
which this institution has penetrated the privacy
of British households, that it il said an appli-
cant rarely calls at an Office without finding
that there are at least some details already
"booked" respecting the object Of his inquiries.
But no profit which may accrue to employers or
employed can compensate for the utter loss of
selt.respect involved in such an occupation.--
| UayDer's Ndgdsine.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1870-08-27
S\V AND FRESH


The undersigned desires 10 Inform tho pubic that he has
purchased the Juyca Mills situated Indian Greek, and IL
now prepared TO grind griss with despatch and nom slong
eXpcricnC IN the milling business firmly believes that no can
make his min Of the best custom and merchant mls ts
water enough TO do good business the year round Hc "
tends 70 keep his dam tight and repair tho roads nrproachnE
the mill 40 that II will bc and no Will put orh
Sveryf Nudahlc effort 70 merit liberal .au q patronage:
good stock OF purc Minnesota wheat -four, corn n1Nk
bran md shorts hand and for sale vt lowest prices
Highest market price In cash paid Tor old spring wheat
Jane 4, lB10-tr JOSMH CAIA.OWAII
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1870-08-27

A correspondent of the Country Gentleman
says: 'If any of your readers are troubled
with lice on cattle, tell them to try brine. 1t
is the easiest and surest remedy that ever
used. My hogs I found covered with ticks
this summer, something never heard before.
Salt water twice applied cleared them.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1870-08-27
Drugs

NEW DRUG STORE.
STRAVN ( POWELL
Have just opened, at the corner of
Main and La Sale Streets, mills
old corner,) a DRUG, PRESCRIPTION
AND FANCY GooDs STORE. Their
Stock is perfectly fresh, and COM
prises full line of Drugs, Medi-
cines, Chemicals, Patent and Pro-
prietary Medicines, a carefully Sc
lected assortment of Fancy Goods,
Coudray's, Rimmells and Lubin's
Perfumery Soaps, Pomades, Face
and Sachet Powders, Fine French
and English Brushes, full line of
California and Imported Wines and
Brandies for medicinal purposes, a
complete stock Of Paints, Oils and
Dye Stufs, Carbon and Lubricating
Oils. Particular attention paid to
the preparation and dispensing OF
prescriptions, according to the legl-
innate rules Of pharmacy.
Ottawa, April 9th. 1870.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1870-11-03

AN OLD ACQUAINTANCE Judge
B., of New Hampshire, was what Arte-
mus Ward would have called " sociable
cuss" off the bench, and was noted for
claiming acquaintance with any one
whose appearance happened to please
him. Entering a crowded car on the
Boston and Maine Road one day, his
honor found the only unoccupied seat to
be by the side of smartly-dressed and
rather good-looking young woman. AS
certaining that the seat was not engag-
ed, the Judge settled himself comfort
ably in it, and turning with his accus-
toned bland, fatherly smile to his fair
companion, said:
"Your face seems familiar to me, my
dear; think must know you"
II should think you might" said the
unknown, in hoarse, whisky, contralto
voice, turning vindictive pair of eyes
on the astonished judge. 81 should
think you might; you sent me to the
House of Correction for three months
last winter, you internal old scoundrel.
The Judge did not press his claim fol
acquaintance any further in that quarter
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1870-11-03
AN AUTUMN SONG.

Below the headland with its cedar plumes
A lapse of spacious water twinkles keen,
An ever-shifting play of CLEANS and glooms
And flashes of clear green. ~.
The sumac's garnet pennons where lie
Are mingled with the tansy's faded gold
Fleet hawks are screaming in the light blue
sky;
And fleet airs rushing cold.
The plump peach steals the dying roses red ;
The yellow pippin ripens to its fall; ..
The dusty grapes, to purple fullness fed,
d Droop from the garden wall
And yet, where rainbow foliage crowns the
swamp,
hear in dreams an April robin sing,
And memory, amid this Autumn pomp
Strays with the ghost Of spring.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1870-11-03

An Arkansas "Local," becoming in
censed at some remarks of a brother
quill-driver in the same town concerning
his personal appearance, launches the
following tubful of Arkansian editorial
lightning at his eOqtrere'S head; "The
volcanic, pimple-headed, blister-brained,
owl-faced, spike-nosed, weasel-faced,
web-footed, pig-legged, lllliputian, fog
gy pettifogger of the Bugle Horn of
Liberty does not like our personal ap-
pearance. Until this foul-mouthed,
brazen debaser has been run through a
seive, a filter, secured, scrubbed, swabbed,
sponged, and disinfected, until he is a fit
object to enter decent society, we will
forbear having anything to say about
him."
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1870-11-03

A few nights since Mrs. Curtis, of
Stratford, Conn.,, a woman over so years
old and who has been, for the last five
years, so infrm as to be unable to go
about tine house, arose from her bed in a
somnambulistic fit, dressed herself in an
old suit, and proceeded to the river, a
quarter of a mile away, where she pro-
ceeded to indnlge in bath. The cold
ness of the water soon awoke her, and,
very much surprised at her singular sit
ustion, she hastened home and quietly
retired.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1870-11-03

A Western editor, from whose mind
neither the war in Europe nor the fear
full atrocities that daily occur here and
elsewhere have erased the idea of the
coming Chinaman, predicts dreadful
fate for the single women of Massachu-
setts. He is sure that State will be
overrun by the pig-tailed gentry, and
that the forty-five thousand spinsters
there residing will " first endure, then
pity, then embrace" the pagans. In
other words, the Cinnamon will marry
the Puritan girls, and race of beings
of the most singular character will be
propagated. '" $500 "A"
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1870-11-03

A woman went to a circus in Terre
Haute, Ind, accompanied by eleven
children, and when a neighbor asked
her where the old man was, she said he
was at home taking care of the children.
Another neighbor called at the house,
and seeing the old man trying to amuse
nine young ones, asked where the old
lady was. He said he had let her go to
the circus with the children. .f,
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1870-11-03

The telescope used by Washington at
the battle of Germantown, Pa, is in the
possession of the academy in that town,
and is in good state of preservation.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1870-11-03

By provision of the Maryland con-
stitution, no minister or preacher of
the Gospel" is eligible as senator or
delegate in the Legislature.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1870-11-03

Detroit has just named one of its
streets Napoleon" to the great disgust
of the residents upon it, two-thirds of
whom are Germans.
The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-04-07
The Northeastern Railroad.

The annual report Of this company, print
ed in another column, shows that the condi-
ton of the road is slowly but steadily i'm
proving. The freights are about fourteen
per cent. larger than in 1868, and there is
no doubt that the opening of the Savannah
and Charleston Railroad will considerably
increase the through passenger travel. Ad-
ditional rolling stock and depot accommo-
dation are needed, but these wants will be
supplied in such way that the road will not
be embarrassed. Highly satisfactory pro-
gress has been made in exchanging the ma
tured bonds for the new mortgage bonds OF
the company; and the Acknowledgements OF
the company are made to those who have 30
promptly accepted the only propositlon
which could be made for the readjuStment OF
the debt.
The report is cheerful and confident in
tone and the steadily improving condition
OF the agricultural and other interests OF the
country through which the road passes, JUS
tifes the belief that from this time out its
most lucrative business will steadily increase.
The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-04-07
TERMS OF THE NEWS.

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The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-04-07

10 the moor Jews, whose family income is Is. Id.
per week. Many Mosems and nominal Chris
tians are in the same position. What Is most
dreadful to contemplate Is the fact that the
springs near Jerusalem are drying up. But there
is another more terrible calamity still. The To-
Gusts are spread over the mountains Of judah
and Samaria, in the valley OF Jordan and in the
plain OF Sharon and Galilee, having come to lay
their eggs, which will be hatched before the mar
vest, and as the Arabs say that each couple lay
two hundred eggs, countless millions VIII appear
eating every green thing. poisoning the ground,
and thus preventing grass growing for the
CATTLE"
Under the heal OF "Aid to the Cotton Plant
ers"a Washington letter says: "The Committee
Of WAYS and Means have agreed to add the fol-
lowing to the free list-machinery manufactured
expressly for spinning cotton into yarn may be
imported free of duty fer twelve months from
the passage Of this act; provided, that this ex-
emptlon shall be limited to the importation Tor
any one manufactory OF no more machinery than
is necessary to operate 10000 spindles" This has
been done at the urgent appeals Of Hon. c. W..
Buckley, OF Alabama, in order to aid the test OF
making fine warns for export and home consump-
tion instead Of sending all cotton and Importing
the yarn and manufactured cloth. The AlIbam
planters say that If this indulgence is granted
them they feel certain Of success In the competi-
ton with England for the export trade in fine
soft cotton yarns.
The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-04-07
Eorks.

Messrs. SARGENT 4 GREENLEAF, Rochester.
New York-S,rs: notice going the rounds of the
public prints an article dated March a. over
your signature challenging me to come to Ro
chester, New York. - AGAIN pick your lock, un.
der certain ridiculous and preposterous condi-
tlons, the nature OF which preclude me from
giving your proposition one moments considera-
tion.
have picked your BEST f6dr-wheeled Automa-
tic Bank Lock In six hours and SIX minutes Mt
Chicago, FAIRLY and HONESTLY, as you well
know, and / believe can pick 1t agSInSn less
time; and l will, with the aid Of an assistant,
agree to open THROUGH THE LOCK any Safe on
which your Automatic or Magnetic Lock Is
placed, which was in use ricr to the 1st Of March
last, inside OF three hours; provided, the consent
OF any banker who has one In use can be obtain
ed to allow me to operate upon 1t, and that you
nor any other person shall be allowed to tamper
with the lock previous to the trial; to place be-
hind any such lock the sum OF $1,000, you to de-
pcsit like amount, and II fail TO open 1t In the
time specified, the amount so deposited TO belong
to you; II / succeed the amount to belong to me.
The test to be conducted under the supervision OF
nm impartial committee.
Notwithstanding your false assertion that your
Mr.. Sargent hos picked our Victor Bank Lock,
now renew my long-sLandng challenge, that
will again place $1,000 behind either my Victor,
Novelty, or Chronometer Bank Lock. as recently
did behind my Victor Lock, and which you failed
TO obtain after nine days. hard work, and allow
you or any other man thirty working hours In
which TO TRY and pick the same without Injury
to safe or lock, provided they or you place like
amount behind said lock, and In case you fall the
money to belong to me, and liz you succeed the
money to belong to you. The trial TO be conduct
ed under the supervision OF an impartiarcommit-
tee, which shall be chosen BY both parties. do
not ask the privilege OF having our principal In.
spcctor'' or foreman adjust and change the lock-
nor do limit The time Of MY challenge to twenty
days. JOS. L. HALL.
PS.-lf burglars Should become possessed OF
the knowledge OF the insecurity OF your locks, and
the short time In which they could go through
them, there would be no security for valuables
placed behind them. can open either your Au-
tomato or Magnetic Lock In six different ways,
without any knowledge OF the numbers OF your
Combination, and with so little noise as not to
disturb person sleeping in an adjoining room.
Now Is the time for you to come out like men,
and prove to the public that you mean business,
instead OF trying to loodwink them with your
ridiculous articles. JOS. l.. HALL.
Cincinnati, April 3, $50. apr7 l"
The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-04-07
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The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-04-07

TnE.l are candidates enough, in posse
and in essc, for Whittemore's vacant Con-
gressional chair. Senator Rainey (colored)
OF Georgetown, is spoken Of as prominent
opponent CT the culprit carpet-bagger.
Representative Shrewsbury, (colored) ol
Chesterfield, is nominated by the Cheram
paper. Captain Damn, an e1-oficer Of the
Federal navy and Conservative Republi-
can, is nominated by the people OF Herry.
And F. J. Moses, Jr., Speaker of the House
and Adjutant- General Of the State, is said
to have an eye upon the Federal capitol.
The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-04-07
TIE Columbia Elections.

At the elections held i'm Columbia on
Tuesday the Radicals elected their candi-
dates for Mayor and Aldermen by large
majority. 1t is of no use crying over split
milk, but NC cannot help resrettiug that our
friends in Columbia did not nominate their
candidates upon the broad platform of the
CITIZENS PARTY. This would, we believe
have given them the victory. At Camden,
on Tuesday, the CITIZENS PARTY candidates
were elected, although the odds against
them seemed overwhelming. And the same
result was accomplished, in tue same way,
at Darlington on Monday.