The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1871-03-04
MaYaaillas.

with and Filling Hotel out OF three square
meals, to say nothing OF cigars As street cars
are not fashionable in that settlement our jour.
ney about town was on foot, and having travelled,
in the course of the day, some 200 miles, more or
less, ye local found himself too tired to write an
extensive notice of the city, and instead gives the
public his shorthand notes;
~ A. NJ, hash at Beckwith. Hash of unknown
ingredients, but of satisfactory TASTE coffee, the
pure quill; butter neat and sweet, waiting girl,
ditto; Beck. and Pill. good fellows. Went about
town considerably; collected some stamps and
some MIR cum arouse Saw the P M which his
name is Schlagel. He is bachelor, unmarried,
single, mo one to love" he should be 'put in his
little bed" Saw Amin, grocer. Amin sao u.s.
He was in : mood, and cussed the man who
stole his Times. Interviewed Frary. Daniel is a
clever man. Mr.. Towls, Jr, never towled his
love; but will keep vs. posted hereafter; we
towled him to. DR.. De Mott is man of much
patients. Not is French for "wOrd," therefore We
say good mot for him. Saw p A. Smith. We
knew he would P. A. US, and he did. We saw
Brown, Norton j. Co. Norton was not dressed
in Brown, hence to call him brown Norton is in.
accurate. He was dressed in black, and his whis.
kers died gray. He called fellow a gentleman,
and was thsreupon promptly sued for $4,000
damages defamation of character, -served him
right,-it1l learn him something He is in trou.
BILE now. because he can't prove what he said to
be true. Unhappy Norton We don't mean
Josh 2d-the youngsr,-but "Josh" middle, as
there are three Josh's. Mr.. Black is the ragged.
est man We ever knew Of He has 10000 tons Of
'em at his paper mill, and can't make paper Of
them as fast as he gets them. He ought TO buy
the cotton mill building west of him. The man.
ufacturing company Of Adams, Tillotson h Co.
is ru shing business. They have on hand cult.
vators, harrows, Sc, enough to supply all La
Sale county, but they have orders from all ever
the west. Woodward l. Mason are not behind
in q similar way. They have q splendid sstab-
lishment, and are doing large business.
Westward of these are the ruins of Howells
stainery. The walls have been taken down and
the good stone picked cut to be used in the new
building. Workmen were engaged in clearing
up debris Of the fallen building, and in digging
for the basement of the extension north to the
canal, sixty feet, and getting it ready for the
walls. Some others were digging ont machinery
from the ruins, the whole OF the inside space be.
tween the walls. under the many tons upon tons
OF stone, being fall Of all sorts Of machinery,
Mr.. Howell personally attending every day to
the work of getting cut this mashinsry, to be
shown in evidence on his trials sgaius. the in.
sarance companies, to prove the character and
value Of his machinery that was burned
In our rsmb!es We saw most of the bushes,
Iasn of Msrse,ll-s, including Mes,rs, Dow &
Till,on, Of the bank; Mars,ou, newsletter
Laing, furniture; McCslls, general stock; Waite
drugs; Blawis medicine man Hosgs branch
OF his Seneca butcher shop; Ryall, the attable
ticket agent and telegrspher, who is very yener.
Gus on all matters but railroad tickets. These
he is very slow about giving away, somehow.
Our blAndest smiles and most insnuatiny hints
Oh this subject we're oil in vain. We even
threatened to stay in Marseilles all summer il he
would not give US a pass home To tina, he
merely replied, "Stay and b. -" Fearing
the alternative he suggested, we bought tickle.
and left We dropped into the office of Mr. Tn.
derhill, the President Of the Land and Water
Power Co. He is putting up a large warehouse
near the place whese the Pekin and r. 1. rail.
roads cross. He gave US curiosity, petrifed
frog, found in the rock where the dam was built.
1t is frog of the male persu aston, and has been
pstri6ed 80 many years that he turned to iron.
How he stood it so long in the rocks We can on.
ly imagine. We have loaned it to Bowman, who
will photograph it and pass the "views' around
Respecting the Pekin d s. w. R. r. We learn
that there are $4,000 yards Of grading to be
done between Chicago and Narseilles, and
$4,000 between Marseilles and Pekin, all of
which can be done at Is cts, leaving the ordina.
nary profits. The bridge at Desplaines will cost
$4,000 more; Marseilles bridge 10000; draw
bridge across the canal at Marseiles, SOS, 900.
The total cost for completing the grading and
bridging of the road will be about 100000.
There are 100000 unsxpended subscription
money, 100000 of which is tied up by the
Pekin ring, now seeking 30 get control of the
road. a. l.. Durham. the grade boss, will begin
on the lst of April, with gang Of men. to fin.
lsh the work between Marselles and Chicago,
when the track.layers will follow from Chicago,
going towards Pskin. We get our facts on this
subject from perfectly reliable source
We me. several Ottawa people here, on bust.
ness, and are informed every train brings and
carries away number Of our business men
We mention this to show that, though Marseilles