The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1870-03-12
CREAM OF OUR EXCHANGES.


which, according to the Rtpg5licra, "is one of
the most interesting and useful societies ever or
ganized," and discusses, in a thorough manner,
all the leading questions of the day" The
leading question Of the day" TO be discussed
at the next meeting is, Whether 2 spendthrift
is of more benefit 10 society than the miser Z"
We suggest as the leading question ofthe day"
for discussion by the same society, (which is
the wusstest, scoding wife or smoking CHM
ney y
The same paper gives two colurnns of CORES
pondence from Joliet lady in Paris who de-
scribes play witnessed in the gay city, in the
last scene of which there ga brilliant assem-
blage of fairies, some in airy gossamer covering,
floating about through space; others reclining
upon flower beds, with scarcely an Ewes apron"
as an apology for clothing. There were num-
Der of peculiar things interviewer in this play
decidedly "Frenchy," and to which I could
scarcely allude, without shocking American
taste. Her husband, it is proper to remark, was
with her.
The Iowa Enterprise refuses to support AS a
candidate for representative "a man who is
whisky barrel in the morning and - barrel of
whisky at night
The editor of the Roundout Freeman, in MOTTO
ing the receipt of the wedding cards of Mark
Twain and Miss Olivia L. Langdon, of Elmira,
says; He is to stop iecturng, and for his sake
We hope she wont commence"
Miss Tennessee Clafin, the wonderful child"
and female Wall street broker, at the age OF six
teen eloped with fellow, by whom she was
abandoned after three days of married life
That's where she got her knowledge of selling
short
The Cleveland HeraM says in ten years the
taxes in that city have increased seven fold. and
that local taxation this year is equal to sixteen
dollars head on every man, woman and child
in the city. In two years the municipal taxa.
ton has increased fifty per cent. Well may the
Hera'd exolaim: "Where are we drifting?'
Aurora has just elected to the mayoralty of
that city MIR. Walker, foreman of the blacksmith
shop in the Burlington Il. r. car works. The
Herald says this should teach our young men
the fact that honest, intelligent mechanic
may occupy as high place in the esteem Of the
people as men with whittier hands, who think it
necessary to adopt some profession in order to
secure the respect of their fellow men,
Boshl Heavy honor to be mayor of Aurora.
The wonder is they didn't elect nigger.
The Schuyler CtNZca says that it is the general
opinion among farmers in that county that the
winter grain is badly injured by the freezes and
thaws OF the on.
Two drunken men incarcerated in Jail at Can
ton, says the Fulton Ledger set fire to the straw
in their CELL and were so badly burned that one
of them will die and the other will bear 4 dis
figured face the rest of his day. There's
warnin.
Hamlin, the Wizard Oil man, deserves a pre-
MUM for inventing the last advertising dodge.
He has hired first class quartette club of singers
who go about giving free concerts, singing the
virtues OF the OIL Of course. crowded houses
attend them everywhere, and the sales are tire
MENUS"
woman, in Lee county, says the Dixon TEL
1grdpt, gave her child pill of opium, and the
child went dead"
Every one your own doctor sometimes will
Work as III tllS case.
Our devil says, when he was baby and
got sick, his mother never gave him any weaker
medicine than "good spanking" and 10! now
he is a fat, stout boy and lives bully"
The Chatfed (Minnesota) Democrat states,
that the people of "a certain town in the western
portion Of Iowa were astonished TO receive their
mail several hours earlier than usual, one day,
owing to the TACT that pack of hungry wolves
chased the mail carrier fourteen miles, TO. a
lunch. The Dem0crdt recommends the gov.
eminent to put wolves on al the stage lines in
that region.
The citizens of La Sale are to have BRIDGE
across the Little Vermillion. Says the Peru
Xerald:
:. The bridge at Peru is about completed. Re.
hglous revivals are exceedingly numerous A
frenchman, at La Sale, tried to suicide, but il
Is thought medical aid will save him. When he
gets WELL let him be changed
The above paper is vigorously ienouucing the
jury for not hanging Murphy.
The Mendoza CA,oni,d. almos, zoe. into d,.
R'um Trn'chS at the mention of Mendoza whisky.
Well, it ought TO know,-it's been long enough
in its midst to have had 'cm every day.
The Tazewell Registers avs: NORTH Bronx.
field has baby born with only one ear" Who
il Mrs. North Brooktield!" or does the b,hv
belong TO an entire town