The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1872-04-20
CREAM OF OUR EXCHANGES.

CREAM OF OUR EXCHANGES.
The Elgin Gazette appreciates the misfortune,
of Aurora and expresses the sympsthies Of the
county as follows:
DR.. Young was defeated - . candidate for
Alderman in Aurera, ard now proposes to con-
test the election. Will some one put him in 4
metallic coffin and sink it few days, thus
greatly obliying an entire county,
A demeAted literary fraud has psrpetratsd
this absurdity:
Mr.. T. Wrinkle having married Miss Starr, in
mixes the pair with IT. Wrinkle, T. Wrinkle, lit.
tie Starr"
Mr.. Henry Hummel, oi Decatur, has in his
house jar of jelly given him b, his grandfsth.
er many years ago, made by the hands OF Mar.
countryside.
golly, how we'd like that jelly!
They have Justice OF the Peace in Peru who
grants divorces. He granted one 70 man in
this county short time ago, bat Judge Rich.
mOnd did not consider it binding, aud did it
over. We knew our Legislature had passed u
law increasing the jurisdiction of Justices, but
we were not aware that it included the power to
grant divorces. and that, too, in another county.
Putnam Record.
Sho that's nothing. Tell you what, ", ...
do anything here in Peru especially in H., !.
of divorces, we Can out.rival Chicago OF I..,.
ana. The parties, justice as WE'LL were all Gs..
mans. we are informed, and that was tho reason
why Judge Il. couldn't sec" the legalitv of the
absolution. He couldn's understand the Ian.
guage-Peru Herald.
The only remedy would be to elect "us" as
Judge We speak Dutch, Greek, Irish, Nersk,
a couple of words of WEIGH, and have Just be.
gun the study Of Heather Chinee. For small
salary per annum We will cheerfully divorce
every couple in La Sale county.
II. X. Boyle, democrat, has been elected Mavor
u Ottawa. without material eppositisn.-ino-
~ Heac0n.
Material isn't good word in the above par.
aeraph. Don't you call Fish Ames, who re-
eeivcd two votes, some "materia:" And how
about Ira. whose fighting weight is $50 pounds,
and who received eleven votes?
There is a new postothce in Iowa called "a ard
Times, and the postmaster is in great distres,
for money letter.-E1.
We know an ex-ediior who ran a paper there
years, and was always in the same fix.
a radical paper says Monday was all.fool's
day in Connecticut" And the fools had their
own way.
Chicago has quit relieving its able.boded
c'tlzens; LOOK out for heavy emigration
| west-Er.
The above aecounts for the presence lately in
onr city OF so many healthy bummers, wearing
plaid pants loud neckties and brass jewery.
We give place to the following. which goes to
show that 'some' women in Ohio know their
rights, and knowing. dare maintain:
A lady of Zauesville, Ohio. has instituted
suits against five liquor dealers and the owners
of the property which they occupy, for selling
liquor to her husband, formerly cashier of a
GAINESVILLE bank and alleges damages in each
case at $5,0OO-S coo in all. -, 80
young man, evidently not very we'll posted
on newspaper affairs, called at the wellington
CO., Enterprise sfiice the other day, to have them
print him New York Ledger, No.. g."
little girl not u thousand miles from here
says size doesn't "wsnt to be an angel and have
feathers growing out all over her shoulders"
! ~AN|"S'"'neo soAcSA opu o1Aoo 10 SlOolnK ltbelf
of loafers. A box running the full length Of
the front Of the Office ON the outside has hither.
to furnished n tempting seat for the Aabisues.
This has been covered with zinc which has been
connected with the batteries that were contained
in the box person sitting on the box with.
out touching his hands thereto will not feel the
electricity but if his hands drop on the bsx, or
he puts them thereon to assist him in rising, he
receives such sudden and astonishing shock a.
sends him an unbelievable number Of feet toward
the lofty roof and the adjacent river Any good
day person may sea some OF these unfortunates
unexpectedly struck with this dome,ticated
Lightning, describing fifty feet parabols in
the air. ....
Judge Of the Supreme Court Of Indiana hal