The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1872-08-24

Had he not winked at fraud and crime,
He need not hear this truthful rhyme,
Garry the news to Hiram
PAT MALLoY.
The Ottawa FREE TRADER with its last issu.
commences its SD volume Mr.. Osm IN has stooG
by its helm for years, gaining notoriety vel
worth envying by those at the very head Of the
editorial corps.-OdeN Weekly.
The Sandwich Go.ete is responsible for the
following;
A fellow was locked up in the calaboose the
other day for being most too "heaviy burdened'
with whisky. a lot Of boys gathered around
the CRATES, as usual, and one OF them asked him
why he was imprisoned. He replied "Oh
lhicl Ihic1 ate too much green [hic] corn, |
Thicl guess. Mother told [hic me to stop on the
third The year.
The La Crosse Daily Democrat of one day last
week says:
Mr.. Milton e. Barlow. living on farm about
three miles from the city, LETT in our Office this
morning large watermelon, on the side of
which had grown the name "Greeley" The
melon is really curiosity, showing a queer
freak Of nature. 1t can be seen at this Office un.
less the LedGeT folks come over and tease US TO
cut it. Anything to beat Grant," if we have
The Ell Psso Jouraal lie Of the deepest radical
dye, but its editors head is level on some points.
This is what be thinks Of that cherished idol OF
the radical party, thai "life.long democrat"
Ben. I. Parks, of Auroia who il now On the
stump for Grant:
We used to know of Parks more than dozen
years ago, in Aurora, where he was blathering
democrat, snd ioul-mouthed and iutemperatc
His haraugue did very little good. But isn't it
cruel satire the glorious record Of u noble
party which has been triumphant in Illinois
since 1856, By majorites steadily increasing from
1000 to $4,000, that, in this year Of our Lord
1872 seven years after the rebellion was squelch.
edit is necessary in order to secure SUCCESS to
haye the worst blatherskite dCmocra, in the
business perain bulntins the state, and pronounce
euloyy Oh the defun0t and time dishunored
Democrat party aud its principles 70 republi.
can mas meeting and in republican wIgwam
Demo3r.,s who do not wish to vote iur old
Horace Greeley should remember thu. genuine
democratic convention !. u b. held at Louisville
Kentucky, IL September; End that they will
yet have IL Glance 70 vote tor democrat for
president Il they 80 desire Cdri,nrWe Delnocr0t
From the tenor OF the foregoing il would nat.
urally be presumed that the Dem0crw! Was d
mOuth.piece oi d section Of the democracy. Be
not deceived The Carlinviile sheet is rank rad.
ical, aud the above is gwen as specimen of the
anxiety which is displayed by administration
organs 70 secure the success of the Louisville
farce.
Collins, recent defaulter for 500, 900. thinks
Grants defeat will be bad thing for the ooun.
try fIsncislly.-EE.
That's what's the matter with scores of other
discovered and undiscovered Collins No man
fears the reign OF honesty more greatly than the
thief, who is first to cry: "GreAt Is Diana of the
Ephesians"
"a dinner thar everybody thought tir.,-olas.,
and not second TO any"
1t is scarcely necessary to add that the fore
going is an elegant extract" from the Ottawa
Republican,
Miss Anna News recently graduate first in At
class of eighty at the Michigan University, IN
medicine. She vii. practice ut Newport
M,N lVcekH
It ~Gs quite natural when Miss News wished
to enter upon new sphere she should de,ermin,
upon Newport In the meantime somebody
ought to "cArry tue news to the young men OF
Newpor. that Doctor News was coming II i.
morally certain, il the practitioner is young and
handsome, they will all at once be convenient,
stricken with some disease or other
Psraerarhs from the Louisville Courier,
.J0UyHdl:
Ben. Butler says if Greeley is elected sal
that was gained ~ the war will be lost" Blu
IL evidently getting uneasy about his spoons.
radical crgtn says: "Thc Greeleyi,es con
tinue TO gnaw f.: the record Of the President. I
doesn't hun, The record much" No, but i. is
on the man vino made il.
The Nashville Banner" says: "Tbe Amer,
can people viii oert,inly abolish hell IT they ca,
do it by elec,ing Horace Greedy president" n
they won't. There must be somewhere TO
Grantism to 90 when it dies.
During the Presidential campaign of 1876
what are the leaders Of the Radical party von
to do for seventy.fve thousand dollars worth q
rebel documents" with which to blast the hope
OF The opposition
Grant has boon absent from Washington on,
third OF the time since his Inauguration, an
there are great many people who are Of III
opinion that the public business would hAv
gone on more satisfactorily than IL has done
he had been absent the other two.tbirds also.
The "northern lights" were beautifully bri
liant on Wednesday evening. Aurora displaye