The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1870-04-30

thtiSs OUT says An excnange. LES, anu heI nos
bands silver will be the next "nobby thing
out-of pocket
The Woodstock Sentinel says the cats Of that
village met the other evening, to send delegates
to state convention, to form q now gamut.
That convention has been in session in the
rear of a boarding house in this city about q
week. They seem to have noisy time. Every
motion is yelled up, or yelled down, and every
speakers voice is drowned in cries. of order
o.r.r-r-d-e.r-r-r! Several delegates from Wood.
stock have been treated to storm of Misses
Their chairman has noble bass voice, but on
opening his mouth, the whole convention got
their backs up and screened ''dry up, or we'll
have a r-e-a-o-w!' -
The Quincy Herald says:
A sporting organization in Missouri challenges
the world TO a contest in any of the modern
muscular sports and manly exercises, such as
g marbles, quoits, kites, and seven up" AS a
" muscular and manly exercise seren up is
hard to beat.
The Marseilles Citizen is now run bv water
power. With both wind and water power it
ought to succeed
The same paper says, Messrs. Dow, Tilson
and others have been sodiag their yards What
is soding?
The Gardener J0arlaI is very good paper OF
its size. and we commend it for shrcwdness in
inviting business. 1t comes ont weekly with
all its columns full but three These are head
ed in glaring letters, WANTED and nothing
more is in these three columns, but space, as
white and void OF ink as so much "undriven
snow Yet it means as PLAN print, "Busi-
ness men why don't you give me advertisements
to fill out this space:"
Merriman, the republican nominee for mayor,
of Bloomington, was beaten by Bum. That
Bum made the merry-little.man sick 1t was
Bum hard to digest.
The Maquoketa iowa .Sentsnel says that po-
tatoes are so plenty in that region that farmers
do not know what to do with them
The House of Representatives, of Iowa, on
the evening of its adjournment, presented their
lady clerk handsome tea set She responded
in a pretty speech, inviting every gentleman to
husband an event she anxiously hopes will hap
pen during this year.
a young man twenty-three years of age, by
the name of William Kinney, living in Maiden,
Bureau county, has gone crazy" because he was
refused the hand of young lady in Earlville,
where he had been working on the railroad. Kin.
ney being Catholic, and the young lady's pa.
rents Prote-tants, they would not allow their
daug liter to marry him. So says the Princeton
PttriOt
Now, if the young lady will die OF a broken
heart everything will be lovely, and 80 very
romantic :"
The La Sale Press wants to known who stole
its Samuel Welcr's 'weal pie"
The Dickens
Well take anything we can eat drink or wear,
on subscription, excepting the itch-dDple Rtger
Indec.
REAsoS.-A good supply on hand Ogle Conn.
y Reporter.
What does the Reporter mean to ins,nuate?
The MENDOZA Chronicle chronicles that a little
child in that place was nearly scalded to death
by its mother Accidentally pouring II kettle of
soap over it,
We know of good many little children run.
ning about our streets, who would be greatly
benefited by having any amount OF cold soap
hot dashed over them.