The Ottawa free trader., 1875-04-17

elected. Which seemI TO indicate that hum
bugs take better among the cute nutmeggers
than the stolid Buckeyes.
Engineer Fitch, the son-in.law of Gen Sher-
man, though his wife was presented by the
khedvc of Egypt with diamond necklance
and earrings worth half q million, "still he
yos not happy" Congress passed special
act to enable Mrs. f. to receive the present,
but omitted to say that the gift should come
in free of duty. The consequence is that the
custom house rutiians demand tax of ST..
500 before delivering up the trinkets, sum
the engineer does not seem TO have in his
wallet The next congress is to be appealed
to on the subject.
The following harmless Gf hard hit We
find in one of our English exchanges. The
" doctor" referred to, il will be perceived, is a
reverend doctor:
cannot praise the doctors eyes,
never saw his glance divine;
He always shuts them when he prays,
And when he breaches he shuts mine.
1t must be very pleasant to Parker Pills
bury, who writes for the Earlville Trans.
cyfpt,' to find himself, (as published in the
TranScrtpt,) quoting from sermons of that old
Massachusetts divine, Cotton MattheD" !!
Wonder if Parker is still ready to assert that
the orthodox doctrine of a hell is allie"
There are strong and well founded hopes that
the peacn crop in Union county has not been
nearly as much injured as was supposed by
the winters severity. A fair crop may be
expected.
Eber Young, much respected citizen,
superintendent OF construction on the new
zinc works al La Sale, was found dead on
Sunday in the loft of his barn, and an exam
nation of his body revealed the fact that he
had committed suicide by Sevcring his jugu-
lar vein with pen-kniie, He leaves wife
and daughter
Now, then, the end of the grasshopper
plague is very near. Some Washington sGr-
cant has discovered way to utilize the insects
by converting them into oil and fertilizer.
If the crop this year is anything like that OF
last wear, 1t is expected to make piles of mon
ey by catching them. Turn them to some
profitable account, and the grasshoppers will
soon be scarce enough.
Yesterday was the day appointed by the
Second Adventists for the coming OF Christ
and the destruction of the world. What u
sad disappointment it must be to them 10
have this pleasant prediction so often mis-
carry.-KendaN Go. Rec.
1t was no disappointment to several hun
dred thousand people, however, 10 whom the
end of the world came yesterday sure
enough, and "the end of the world" comes 10
as many more every day in the year. How's
that for News Items!'
While the French and English engineers
are worrying their brains devising plan 10
cross the British channel by some other means
than a steamer or sailing craft, with its dem
milton horror" of seasickness, Mr.. Paul Boy
ton, the agenl.of New Jersey life preserveF
manufacturing company, solves the problem
bv swimming across. He actually performed
that feat last week in one of his strange india
rubber bags The distance is about % miles.
Advices from Key West and Havana coz
tradIct the previous alarming reports con
cerninc the prevalence of yellow fever al
these ports. There have been bat few cases
AT either place, and those were merely spora
die. The original reports were eX'gSela'e''
mainly to furnish a sort OF excuse iOr lne
bursting up of the proposed senatorial eAcui-
sion to Mexico.
According to statistics lately publlshed'lta ap-
nears that IN Washington city the negroes are
dv,rc off at the late of 40 per 1000 annually
while among the whites the mortality reaches
h,, 10 A per 1000. The general death rate
of tho oorntrv is % per 1000 annually. While
the loss of the negroes at such fearful ra'e
is sad enough, the exceptional immunity from
d eath enjoyed by the whites OF Washington
the sort of people most OF them
are, is inexpressibly more So
po,b branches. of the legislature of MIchi-
,o, have united in the passage of resolution
amending the constitution of the state by
striking out the section which prohibits the
LEGISLATURE from passing any act authorizing
tho grant of license for the sale of intoSica-
ting liquors. The amendment is TO be sub
mitted TO the people at ;he general election in
November, 1876.
Maine has finally given up prohibition a.
impracticsble, and her Legislature has Jus'
adopted "local option" law.
Our old friend, Col. d. F. Hit, has got to
be "blarsted monopolist," or something Of
that sort, for he now owns railroad ina
portion eff the rOsd-bed of the Fort Wayne d
Kankakee railroad lying between Srea'or ane
Hennepin, in Putnam county, was ssld az
sheriffs sale last week, and was knocked or
to Col. D.F. HIT for $500. He had con
tract on the road, We believe.
At spelling school In Rhode Island last
week The ..propoun,lerr undertook 70 give ont