The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1872-06-22
CREAM OF OUR EXCHANGES.

70 Wilmington. NOW lets Try anu oe naPPy'
Workable Neus.
A FEARFUL SENTENCE.-A telegram informs
Us that the Radical Ring robbers in Jersey City
were up for sentence Saturday before Judge
Bedle, that unapproachahle administrator of
Justice. Bumsted was sentenced to hard labor
in the State Prison for nine months Vreeland
has the brain fever from the effects of the YER
dict of guilty, and his sentence was therefore
postponed until Friday. As both of these men
were gentleman" it can be imagined how severe
q sentence to prison is, instead of fne.-Neoc
Bruasaosch MY Weekly Times.
There are good many other gentlemen Of
the same stripe who want to be administered to
in the above style.
Rather equivocal! A sign pinned to shirt
in front OF a River street store in Troy, says
"Nould you be without nice shirt for seventy.
FIVE cents ?"-TorkosNe NeCS.
Highly important from the Nenono Weekly
l,sGec:
We shook hands with A. J. Bell aud Juds re
Laws, of Lacon, on Monday last.
Hard on the parties Of the second part
F. D. Dalton, of the Streator Monitor, passed
through Wenona during Monday night How
ever, nothing suspicious enona Weekly Inder.
ton will have some such paragraph concerning
him of the Indel, and SO on these mutually adj
miriRg post masters will continue.
Dolly Warden is lying very ill at Ottawa. The
new local editor of the Free Trader dragged her
through column article. 1t was too much for
her oonstitution.-Lac0n Nlln0is Statesman.
D. V. is still alive and kicking, both in Otta.
wa and elsewhere, the Statesman to the contrary
notwithstanding, and the wonder is in what
variety of ways the vitality is displayed.
out for the little Nape boy, that goes through
money-drawers every chance he gets.--Morr2s
Herald.
That boy stands good chance of having the
nape of his neck stretched in most uncomfort-
able manner.
J. 7. Scammon is gone up. He has been
elected treasurer OF the radical state central COM
mittee, and is running the Inter. Ocean newspa.
per. He will need two or three banks to stand
the drafts of these concerns during the CAM
paign. Poor Scammon
And there are "none SO poor to do him rever.
encen
These devils" seem to be brought up with a
SAL misrepresentation of facts concerning editors,
but this is no reason why they should pour out
their feelings in such miserable verses az the
following:
If ! was lokle editur.
Wouldn't have timer
l wouldn't print cussed word
For lessen u S a line.
I'd get my grub and Ticker free,
u tickets TO the shows,
l wouldn't pay for buggy hior,
Il wouldn't / ware good closet
That compositer has his own way Of punctu.
ating lnd spelling, and this is the way he treat
ed familiar passage Of Scripture: 1.-THE
wicked flea. when no man pursueth but the
righteous, is bold as lion
The Cleveland Leoder thinks it has enough
poetry on hand to last until next fall, but il the
spring is backward, and the fires have to be kept
up, it will probably need more, which is very
consoling Tor its poetical " contributors.
An advertisement in the Allentown Gtroni.
Gle reads: "If the middle aged party who
spoke to young lady at Center square with q
blae bonnet, will call upon her brother he will
find something that will meet his eyes. Ad.
dress, Pugiisticus box 1O0l."
Thieves event through" Fort Wayne re.
porter recently, and came out with three lead
pencils, broken comb and "A dead.head circus
ticket.-Eg.
II the thieves come to Ottawa they would
even have poorer success than that
The Petersburg Inder has this singular item
"Wm. Machen, for many years past the devil
in our office, having served his apprenticeship
faithfully and conformed with tho rules of the
Office by treating all of his fellow craftsmen, is
this day considered u gentleman.
No other craft, except the printers, have the
power to convert the devil into gentleman,
hence it must be even more powerful chris.
thnizer than all the missionaries put Together.
T. very savage editor thus gives good but
weak rival the following mean parting kick.
We do not know VIVA, shall become of such
friend
The editor who was such fool IA to publish
anewsparer that made nobody mad ut him, was
obliged 20 abandon the business He is now en-.
gagged in the moro cougenal labor of peddling
SKINNED milk. There is something peculiar
oHOot thc ie!io" b CuaroCter, 30 much 80 that
every gentlemen he meets feels IN instructive
desire to lick him.
H. ). Needham, our righteous grocer, has
bought Washington Thomas house and lot on
Bridge street. Io'kcie Neus.
We should like to know what constitutes "A
'"righteous grocer" Does he put less sand in
his sugar tLan his neighbors2 Be what il may
this one is in fair way Of being like the other