The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1870-10-01
HOME MATTERS.
PEPPER AND SALT.

ressiar LII ordder mi paper for to bee stop-p-d."
49, 'S'nce We published an item in our cream,
Few weeks ago, about that young couple who
were out very late and the door was locked and
they couldn't get in, and they stood a. the gate.
ana Doth were very mad, and she bit him and he
DIT her. &c' a couple of young men have come
to US and begged US not to publish any names.
each thinking he and his "girreil- were the
particular couple meant One chap writes ia
thusly, "Mr. Local, doant publish about me and
Mary kissing of one another at the pate that
night. Please doant for it wood break her heart
" mine-doant fer joPs sake ?" We have M ma.
thence with any one who will spell it with .
| smatl y 80. An officer of the LaSalle County
| agricultural Society lately received letter from
gentleman switch his name is GilsonSas Ar.
telpus would say. The letter seems clouded
IN fearful mystery we don't know what the
writer means whether it Is intended az a letter
OF coincidence or threat, or love, or a plot ito
| oiow up the country, or annihilate the moon, or
Is meant for lecture astronomy, we cannot
| tell. Here are brief extracts: "Esteemed
| trlend-About an hour and halt after the rosv
god OF morn had tipped the eastern horizon with
azure tints and robe auroral dawn with all the
golden gorseousness OF oriental splendor, divest.
ing night OF al! its morbid somnolency, and ar.
raging day In dazzling etfulgence, T. from my
couch OF rest and repose, arose TO meet dirty
Dill Poster asking permission (which was very
readily granted to post bills of the LaSalle
County Agricultural Society. MANY g. time and
OH doth lond recollection carry me back to
oy gone days and Pine Apple Whiskey almost
forgot, and memory combined with remem.
brance remembers with startling vividness and
intense distnc.iveness only equalled by the: re.
| memorance that memory recollects in recol.
leetions OF the past. It's sad but true that these
| things are 80. As We travel along the stony
path OF life footsore, weary, discouraged, feeling
as though heaven had ceased to ilumine our
pathway and entirely out Of tobacco, how cheer.
ing lie the thought that as person thinks
| thoughts that thoughts that he thinks most
thinkingly are those thoughts which ne does
thinkingly think. Ny wife says SO too Yours,
| ellison. Saw key OF beer burst which
was being hauled in wagon, tother day an as
the fragrant contents poured out while the d riv.
er passed along you should have seen the poor
dry chaps OF the street corners expressing their
deep regrets that much sw eetness was being
wasted in the desert air! as Pat said when he
| heard they picked hogs in whisky in GERMANY
"Begorra. how I'd like to be q Ditchmans hog"
| go. Louis b. got married few evenings since
and was cornplimented with a chrayari1
Louie "came down and furnished the beer
and they say has gone to Coyel Creek House on
a wedding t0'cer. .....r The Cardiff CANT, here
with the last show, took oysters ut jim. Gross,
| THURSDAY last. He says it is the first meal he
has eaten since he died, about 900 OJ0years ago.
He was beginning to get little hungry, as i.
were ..... 1t is reported that I" head lights
| " smoke stacks" and whistles" are - be put
| up over the - COW catchers" at the Presbyterian
church. \ kangaroo the steeple would make
it complete A hog got into Beemus' gard
| ing night lately and rooted MP all our ,ymp-
sum weeds. We shall write a series OF articles
en- titled, " What H-G nose about gardening,
The census taker in thisici,y has any amount of
troub lie. The people keep right along making
business for him. he Is Obliged every few days
to go back through some ward or other and take
census-es. Ho can't keep up with the additional
llllIc ceN-uSes no HOW. lie never Will get
through at this rate and begs the people to stop
| Il Title !......G Go to jacob Moneys and see the
81 last temptations The pictures naughty!
| naughty.-but s, nice Well watered-
the liquor in the saloons and the milk OF the
NATURALIZATION The editor of the Re-
publican must know,-he's been there . -. Poor
place for loafers-on Fox river bridge Sunday
evening.-Repujlicln. The loater of the Re.
publican and his girl had better stay away from
there . Astounding with gossip-South Of
tawa.-Repuj'jca@. Gossip, isn't the sip he
he takes ain hisn.". The bulwark of moral.
ity-East Ottawa--Repujltcan. Ii the editor
Of the Republican, lived there, it would no longer
be the Bull-work--but the calf-work of immor.
| ality--says Beemus-says he. g-heaven
and goose paradise--O Ottawa Center. -Repujttcan.
We understand the editors of the RepWltcaD
reside, from choice, in that locality. Poll.
tics flat stale and unprohtabe-litte or none
| in the market.-RpuJtjcan. OF course-repub.
| lican politics go. Grand combination of gentle
smclls-st the Rock Island epot.-Republtcan.
Certainly, especially since the editor of the he
publican was in that vicinity .... The Redubs-
can throws slips about the Supreme Court house,
claiming to dc the best job printing in Ottawa.
The reason why they Republican failed to take
the first premium on job printing at the county
| s,;r ,,,, tLot tbo Eurt, tn nru obnw,d ,nuch