The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1875-01-23
NEWS ITEMS.

! flsHe-otokes affair, is now in Chic, stop
ping at the Sherman House. arlottc
! Thompson is also in Chicago, ID the
Holmeses spiritual humbugs) ara their
way there. Chicago is "a sewer lhaihes in
/ any kind OF filth.
! The State Of New York is abouo take
measures to have the mountainousirts Of
the Adirondacks converted INTO Sc park
The area that would be included, uld be
about 600 square miles.
There is much complaint of woIyin LeeI
County. Every year large number Sheep
turkeys and pigs come to an utimelud. III
is thought the coanty bounty of SIS hot daz
cling enough to induce gunners to Ger on :.
war of determination.
Railroad building in Illinois has 1t beef,
entirely arrested by the hard tim. Thd
Chicago & Pacific Railroad is nowullt al
far west as Genoa, Dckald County, nd Tho
workmen commenced work on the ivislofI
west of that town on last Monday.
Waukesha, Wis, where valuable nineragI
springs have lately been opened, glvesigns o
local prosperity The P!aiHdealer say, with
Providence and a Republican newspaper do
ing all they can for its success, our twn ha,
a good show ahead n
Illinois last year paid into the funt of tn,
American Bible society $44,2S525. ut ons|
state paid larger amount. If Write wer,|
not its own reward the above would b an cyl
celIent subject for flowing panegyri. Il
At Lincoln, Nebraska, street laborcp get Ss|
aday in city scrip and teamsters with toms $h|
Us this is not enough to pay for board All
tobacco ard whisky, the boarding houe keen
urs suffer. II
The Freeport beet sugar factory is at laa
successful, and turns out a very goot graCs|
of sugar. 4
Hammond, the rcviyalst was recently il
'Galesburg, and lady correspondent says 4
him: Hammond dressed himself in LONG
red stockings and low buckled shoes, put q
a high paper hat with red tassels-a regul,l
dance hat-and rode through the street,
shouting to the people to come to the NEE
ings and find Christ. He had also lot 4
women following him helping to revive It'd
folks d
King Kalakaua spent last Sunday vii
Gen Sherman, in St. Louis, and in the eveE
ing went to low variety theatre, !
The DeKalb members of the 8th Illinos
cavalry have commenced suit against TT
county for their back pay" having huntor
up an old resolution passed by the supervia
soIs thirteen years ago, granting eac
volunteer 500 bounty, $50 of which Tho
have already received. There are $40 "a
them, and $4,000 will be required to pay q
the CLAIMS with the accumulated interest
Avein Of anthracite coal is said to have bee
struck, day or two ago, near Georgetow
q few miles south of Bellville, in this STAT
by parties engaged IN sinking coal sha;
near there. II is the second vein OF coal, ana
was found at the depth of about - feet troi~
the surface.
The Cairo & st. Louis railroad Is no
within two miles of Jonesboro, the residen,
(which place are preparing for grand joll'
flcatoa when the Ink connecting them wit
Cairo Is completed.
Martin Sweet, farmer living near .Arinl-
ton, Bureau county, H., drove to Peru o
Saturday last, and, when about to start 70,
home, concluded to driye over to the SlOugl
where the ice.harvesters were at WORK, ant
get load of ice to take home. Thoughtlesl
ly entering upon new, thin ice, his horsest
valued at $500, broke through and dorwneCs
Through the assistance of the iceharvester,
Mr.. Sweet and his wagon were saved.
Mr. and Mrs. Sartoris lett Liverpool by tn
Republic on the 14th inst, and will be mt
in New York by the President They wi
winter in Washington and return in tllt
spring. c
A prominent Universallst of Earlvillc late
ly remarked: I'VE have our church pait
for now and Grover can go TO hell" There
upon Grover, Of the Transcript, gravely re-
monstrates with his unversalist brothc'
against this restoration of "hcll' to theil
creed. He'll he tells him, was abolished
by the universalists chiefly for their Ow;
good, and ifthey restore it, they will be tn
first to feel its fires. Go slow, brother.
Among the wee presidents OF the recenI
meeting in Boston, to protest against ting
Grant.Sheriden outrage at New Orleans wer
President Elliot, of Harvard college, Charlie
Francis Adams, and Ex-Governor Bullock'
These are names that should carry weigh.
al over the country.