The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1873-12-27
Marseilles and Seneca Items.
BY BEEMUs.

settles, We scrawled our newspaper nom de plume
on the register and waited for breakfast The
time seemed long to one who had been up since
four da-half NJ, rs it was then half-past six
and we supposed us the odor of steak aud buck.
wheat cakes came through the doors into the
office, that every one would be rs hungry as our
self, but Imagine our surprise when we heard
fellow eNclam, with n tone of anguish: 80 Say.
/ want 6oNlS." We looked ut that party. He
seemed to have plenty OF room for these useful
internal machines, and 50 we wondered! His
corporosity' protruded like bass drum, and
seemed equally strained and tight and trim, but
did not suggest sonorous qualities. Again he
yelled Bowels" when a slim, sleek person re-
sponded Here" and the two disappeared tin
the basement, where the bar Is kept, Light
dawned up US. Bowels" is the name of the clerk
of the liquid hilarity department of the
I"tavernn
Though Marselles has church or two and
other moral influences, there are people there
who are sinful. Only afew evenings ago, and at
an early hour, some one smashed i'll light Of
glass in front window of Gllen's "Ottawa
Store" and at five o'clock A. NJ, on the day when
we were taking these notes, pane of glass was
broken out of Marstons drug store. In neither
case did burglary seem to be the object
On the evening previous woman went into
Parsons store and bought anumber of Christmas
goods, Her absent minded way of chucking
loose things into her bosom and pockets not on
ly attracted the notice of the proprietor but
made him feel less cheerful, and as it were, cast
4 gloom into his mind and caused him to cease
whistlmg. As that female was leaving the store
he beckoned her to remain, to converse pcnsiye-
ly awhile, so to speak, and to be delivered of
dry things, too numerous to mention, which she
had inadvertently concealed
And yet Marsces insists upon sending mis-.
sionaries to the heather in China and Stre0tor
We advise the atitudnoYs night-watch to go
at least one eyc' on that woman
Standing at the door of Lund Il Canes fine
Iiewelry store, you see across the street sign
which reads b Printing" What precedes that
B is matter of deep mystery.
Eddy, the livery man, sports diamond about
three inches square on Il ten cent iron watch
chain. Such gorgeous extravaganza and unpre-
tentious simplicity one seldom finds so neatly
combined.
| ne posi- UiusltI bNlHS w. N SulCIulus III
his Office stsyc, as the sign on the coal house
would imply.
| Mccain sounds the gong at his restaurant, to
let people know when the passenger trains are
in, Passengers find this very convenient. The
gong reminds them that they are hungry, and
are not allowed to stop for refreshments.
VIM. Hornickle has openeda saloon in his new
brick building at Marsclles, which is supcrbly
elegant in its internal contraptions.
A hundred turkeys were ratified for at Black
mans saloon on Wednesday last.
GILLEN's STORE.
! Hugh Gilleu, our wde.awakc Ottawa mcr-
chant, seeing an opening there for tirst-class
dress goods store, has taken advantage OF the
situation and put into good place near the
bank tirst-class stock Of dress goods, dry goods,
linens, wooiens &c.
Mitchell Brown and Kelly, from his corps at
| Ottawa, run the branch in scicnlihc manner, and
the new store seems to be decided success. At
noon, after boiling "a dozen raw" at McCainS,
we took the cars--Or rather the cars took us to
SENECA,
Here we found the great city gently reposing
| in the mud and snow, and full Of people. "tur-
KEY shoot" amused a crowd Of men east of the
corporation limits, while the different stores
we're crowded with women and children hunting
| toys.
! In the evening the Baptist and Methodist Sun
day schools had Joint Christmas tree exhibition
at the church of the former The attendance
was simply jam; all the prominent ladies and
gentlemen Of the city and the county far miles
| l.u oil VII ,pt
prominent. A hundred and six presents were
distributed among the little ones. We were
! present under the escort Of DR.. jackson, who
idulcfully admitted to Us that "hc took us for
! spite because his girl had gone back on him"
| and Ee wanted 10 show her how mean hc could
lLc,"
+ We had never attended Sunday school under
! the auspices of the Baptist church, but once
Iabout u years ago we attended a Methodist Sab
! bath school but don't consider ourscf member
|uf that school now as the tcachrr--a pr.ttY Gin
/ -ha, siucc become married and the school house
lis burrt down. Yet notwithstanding these, We
| drew a prize from that Sunday school BUSH Is
! sure as our name is Bcemus. II was plasl'rci
! Paris image, painted in gay coIors, Of 'atlfn-
| choly youth rcpo-iuc against 4 stump, irIidmg
his feW-larD in his hand, and by Moving IN q
Ihole In the stump your breath ,a.le out in
ianother under the boy and jAIs a dismal
whistle wa. the rc,ult-some sa,h noise as % dy.
linz, mouse would make when the cat had cramp
led +, for the last time viii her paws. Fearing
itbat thc entire miniature lunatic asylum might
Ian TO our lot ana a. it WAS getting train time
1--WE seized our hat ard paraded to the dcpo.to "a,
Ituuc Of Hey, Gin along, Gin along, Jpaey"
jplavcd upon our rlize whistle by the DR..
That abomi1ablc Dr.. y.
Purloincd our Christmas whistle
SAcddIu. tears that were quite dismal,
| and ant us sadly on uur way.
! Business 1cn'- Association.
On Monday evening last, proviain@ our
Iselrwi'h our note book and pencil, We re