The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1871-03-18
HOME MATTERS.
PEPPER, SALT AND SPICE.


Going to Aurora, lately, . lady entered the car
carrying in her arms that most de.es,able of all
naisancss, lap dog. In getting seated she hurt
the little brute, and it yelped. Bowman, sitting
On the opposite side Of the car. turned very
deliberately toward the woman and said in
very friendly way: "You ought to grease that
dog so it wouldn't squeak" Well bet that woman
hasn't got done being mad yet We went to din
ner at the Fitch House, and Bowman deliberate
iy pulled out Clifton Hotel bill of fare, showing
the Fitch House bill Of fare one side, and began
ordering his dinner from his own bill of fare, re.
marking, shat having eaten from that, (hi. bill
OF fare,l he preferred it, as he knew Just what
Kind OF hash lie was getting, and preferred not to
change diet" Our long-haired poet is suffer.
ing from severe cold in the head. He sere.
naded his lady love the other evening thusly:
Cub, o cub with be,
The hood is beabjg;
Cub, o cub with be,
and all around, abobs,
With beauty teabig
Boodlight hours are best for lub"
-. we met a young man yesterday limping
down the street, and Carrying kero.en. can.
Hello" said we. shave you can sir?" No.
answered he, with horrid contortion Of his face,
"Hain't got no cancer, it's corns.~. Song OF
garden seeds, "Put me in my little bed" Song
OF "seeds' who loaf around saloons. and who have
pawned their couch for drinks, 1--WE put my lit.
tie bed into me" 80. We have q watch makist
here who IL a terrible man ~ shoo.ist. He
tells of killing two ducks that were 90 fee,
apart, in different directions, u, a single shot,
he covered one duck long enough to hi. tina. i'll.
fsted bird, and suddenly. before all the shot had
left the gun, he whesled and covered the second
duck, killing that also. Fact, 50 he ssys The
question, rs to whether fish have tongues, is no
longer mooted. We saw one at the fish market
the other day, with its tongue on. more than q
foot. 'lolling,' and itwasn't hot day either.
go The man who was sent mile to measure q
cows horns, and when he got there found the
COW 10 be a ''muley," is fixing up an April fool"
trick on the fellow who sold him Pete, the
bailiff, was directed by the court to call jury.
man, Elias Day, and therefore Pete, electrified
the coArs by shouting Liza Tay, Liza Tsy, Liza
lay .....The democratic salutatioa, instead Of
Good morning" is, Have You heard from New
Hampshire" The republican answers, New
Hampshire be-. 80. According to the Rep,l5.
lean, Scott, Houtz i Co. are entitled to III.
credit of discovering q new "kink" in the way Of
material. for making carpets. That reliable rad.
ical paper, which. by the way ha. not ye. heard
from New Hampshire, says: Carpet Wesvers,
and all who intend to make carpet this spring,
are invited to SEQ our prime live geese feathers,
put up from 10, to 100 lbs, in muslin sacks. 4"
WAsHERwoMAS DIES FROM Iyrox1CA.
TIoS.-Mir.. Ellen DuAlavy, widow living
near the round house Of the Chicago, R. l. i 2.
K. X. at Peru, in this county, va. found dead
on Sunday morning last in q saloon kept BY .
young man named John Moran. near BY An
inque.. was held on the body by Coroner Bry,
when the following facts were elected That
the woman had entered the saloon =. about 10
o'clock on Saturday forenoon, and bought pint
OF whisky. At the time three young men were
in the saloon, sitting at table playing cards
Mrs. Dunlavy stopped and looked on, and At the
with the party, also taking occasional sips
from her bottle, until she became 90 much in.
toHicased that Moran, the saloon keeper, induced
her to 10 up stairs and lie down. When the
men got through their game, they left. locking
the door, and leaving the widow alone in the
building, and paying no further attention to her.
Next morning Michael Moran, father Of the ca
loon keeper and owner Of the building, went to
the saloon, and entering it, found tho woman up
stairs, lying on her back on the floor, dead. An
inquest was thereupon summoned, and Patrick
Mcmahon and Patrick Donnslly, two Of the three
that were present when the woman WAS sent nd
stairs, testified to the facts as stated above.
Young Moran, the third Of the party, had disap.
pesred, but was next day found at Tiskilws,
whittier he had gene, he Raid, from fear Of .
threatened ,hrashing from his father He told
the same story with the others. The jury re.
turned for verdict, that the woman had died
from suffocaton, caused by into1ication and
neglect The report that the woman had been
outraged by the three young mon appears to be
without foundation. They have all, however,
been brought to Ottawa and committed to the
county Jail The woman leaves three small,
helpless children.
ATTRACTIvE-The windows of Scott, Houtz
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