The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1872-02-24
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Pepper salt ano spice.
Livery once ia . while some settlement IKE
New York, St. Louis or New Orleans, puts on
some airs about little one-horse prize fight,
such ~ between two such "bruisers" a. Allen
and lCoburn, Mace and O'B.ldwin, or simila,
FOUNDERS like suto the man of the fearful and
dangerous name OF "Red-handed Mike" or
"Dsath.on.t be. half.shel jim" Ottawa cannot
be kept under, las it were." Ottawa has men of
genia--men If muscle-men who, like Ajax,
wouldn't hesitate to defy the lightning" espe.
cially il i, we're in bottle labeled "Whi.ky."
We have some brave men here who would fight
anythiug-snsller than Il mouse. They met
these pUgiiists-not the mouss-at a certain
rendezvous-that's Cards. One is the man who
drives the "milk.white steeds," which his name
is-well, no matter, it is "Fish," and the other is
that talented warrior who thought 10 could Me
Cane the other te!low out" They had a few
words and parted-to meet in the back alley.
Red Bird" was spongist for one, and ''B r. G."
for the ether,-B. r. G. stands for we'll known
giant.-snd the umpire was Squire Grahsm's
terrific "msat hound Kizer. The battle is
still in progress Sic seanper tyran4,is .. The
editors Of the Ottawa Republican are desirous of
hearing temperance lecture to be delivered by
"Besmaa" "Be.mus" gives his compliments to
the editors Of the Republican,, aad notifies them
that "Bsemus" never casts pearls before swine.
Nv. o. Bud1 the carriage constructor, hath
taken unto him .sH y swseter half Two souls
with but single thought, two hearts that beat
- one" but how about two Budds >. We pre-.
dict fruitful .sAson. Farmers tell us that the
buds have not been killed on peach trees, and
that fruit will be abundant. .... Taylor, the
butcher, sdvertises that be sells msat at reduced
prices. He dare not 'meQt Us by moonlight,
alone With . Z 10. roast E. =. Bob Mitchell, ~
eminent glsss-slingsss, has lately got family o.
upon his 6nancs>, is economi1iny rapidly. He
bought q pair OF oow.hde shoes some time ago,
for the mild p Joe Of 1910 finishing out til.
change with three 3.cent postage clamps and
copper. Last week he discovered that one of the
shoes was worn out. He repaired himself to
back alley SD osnaker, and after long and close
argument, succeeded in getting the shoe M n to
make him one new shoe for 81 %. OF cour,e be
will require another new shoe in couple OF
weeks. The only question with him 10, "Is 1t
better to buy two shoes one ut q time " "
Markham, our City Collector, vas 70 years old
Thursday Of last week. He bsors his age we'll
While tbs fros.s Of about 20 winters have
crisped hi. hsis and whitened his whiskers, he
is hale and hearty. We forgot to ask him about
his old gray 'hoss.'. 49,. One morning lately
while vending ON, way sAnctum.wsrd, in .
meditAtivs mood, We noticed in m alley q de.
func. 'pusp," Asd farther down an inanimate
cat. Wondering whether this alley might mo-.
be grave yard Of domestic Animsls. We conclu.
disappointed. We counted II dogs, cats %
chickens and 4 hoya We think it would be ad.
visible to have tSAt alley moved ou. OF town in
the spring. -. Ed. Nat,inSer, the tremendous
man of the Ia7,.Jican, has come to grief. All
the result of taking ride on the c. B. & G. r.
&. He clamb-rsd upon the cars Of . coal train
at the Glass Works one muddy day lately, ex.
pecting that the train would atop vt the depot
Oh the west side. The train didn't. 1t went
right along about Its business. When is reached
Main street, past the depot, Ed. got a faint sus-
picisn that he was being took off, or that there
was "a man aboard who had tesn left behind"
He wanted the "durn kars to stop Finding
that they had no disposition to do so, he conclu-
ded to Jump off. He did. There is sn excava.
ton on Main street, where he plowed up the
mud, eyer 20 feet long and feet wide. It is
now claimed that he is trying 10 cons,ruc. a
branch Of the sidecut down to the fair grounds.
As he has only mile and half to go, at 90 it.
per day, yoa can easily figure when he will com.
pIete the job. Our contemporary at the P. o.
| Block says: IAN owl, evidently in search of
knowledge, was seen day or two ago perched
on the High School Building" How ovid
was that bird -. There was u sale of land at
the Court House yesterday afternoon. We
were told by bystander that SHOWS your
chance to buy real estate We thanked him.
We told him that We had "more real estate on
our Aands now than wo could pay taxes on
| BRIEF LOCALs.-George NJ. Radcliffe, form
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