The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1875-03-27

solid TO the bottom, so that all the mills arr
stopped and people 60 % miles to mill to have
their griSts ground.
Tee Joliet RepuJltcan startles US with this
item:
Mayor Wiedmer, Col. 1Iopeman, edi
ltorin.chIef of the Ottawa FREE TRADER
Capt. l.. A. Posing, j. F. Nosh, OF the FRS
National bank, and number OF other hnigh
lTemplars, of the Ottawa commandery, were
lin Joliet Wednesday, They spent then
ltimc at the Masonic hall with their Jolie
brothers.
AS Ottawa has no Knights or citizens o.
any class bearing the above barbarous names
1.-The question Is, who were these fellows tina
passed themselves off on the verdant Joliet
tiers as residents OF respectable city!
Another undertaking" medium has been
exposed. This one is Mrs. Parry, who has
been puzzing ChiCagoans for some months
past by her wonderful materalizations. The
spirits that were called up by her from the
vastly deep proved: to be nothing more harm
| full than few rubber masks, hands, and arms
which were easily concealed from curious
Investigators.
Mrs. Secretary Fish, says sentimental
Washington correspondent, has large
serious eyes, where smiles mean something
when they climb from her lips to sun them
selves there you don't believe it, inquire
of Nine. de Catacazy.
The Thames River, at Norwich, Conn, is
said to be frozen in places to the bottom. A
short time since a horse died suddenly while
trotting ON the ice, and it was thought that
the easiest method of disposing of the body
would be to dig hole and drop 1t into the
river. Tue diggers excavated a hole eight
feet deep in the ice, and there being no lndi.
cation Of water, the trotier was entombed in
the ice and covered. Such Is the story as re-
lated in the papers.
AS near as can be asccrtained, about 20
women are making all the fuss throughout
the United States about woman's rights,
dress reform, and kindred social topics. This
is remarkable illustration of woman's
power.
Jacob Branard, q German IS years of age,
committed suicide at Aurora last week by
throwing himself under a moving locomo-
tive. He was without means and unable to
obtain work, by reason of wounds received
in the late rebellion, ut Chckasaw bayou,
where he fought bravely with his regiment,
the 18th Illinois infantry He had clam
for pension pending in the United States
pension office, but could obtain no informa.
ton from the commissioners as to its pro.
gress, and in desperation put an end to his
miseres in the manner described.
A Boston woman who suspends from the
shoulders says she stands in the street and
wceps when she sees how much pain and an
guish fashionable women suffer from over
loaded hips.
VIM. A, Turney, for number of years clerk
of the supreme court for the central division
died at Springfield on Monday He was 40
gears old, and leaves widow and children
Says floating item; Every species OF
snake may be permanently driven away from
an infested pace by planting geraniums"
In this connection would ii be deemed i'm
pertinent in us to suggest to the editor of the
Courter.JoHrAdl that he plant few gerani-
ums in his boots st Louis RtpuJlicda.
The veterans of all the armies that took
par, in the war of the rebellion will meet IN
mass convention in Chicago on the 18th, 18th
and 18th days Of May. The occasion is ex
pcc,ed to bring together the largest gathering
of cx.soldicrs that has ever assembled since
the close of the war.
Romualdo Pacheco, who succeeds Mr.
Booth as Governor of California, is the first
native of that state who has reached the CUB
irrational chair lie was born at Santa
Barbara, of Spanish parents, and was fifteen
years of age when the emigrants from the
United states took possession of the soil. lie
received his education in Europe, has travel.
cd considerably, and since his entrance upon
public life has held severed offices of respon.
sibllity.
The same paper says that Mike O'Donnell
was the other day fined i've dollars and costs
for knocking down Henry Pickett, extract.
ing his teeth, caving in his chest, breaking
both his legs, dlsocatmg his cars, twisting
his arms, gouging out his eyes, and then try
ing TO sell ;he remainder to Bill IIarmlson for
sausage
The following, now that spring thaws and
Maud are at hand, is scasonablc:
\ piece of parafiine candle about the size
of nut dissolved in lard oil mt 40 degrees
Fab, the mixture applied once n month, will
keep boots waterproof
II is no longer true that you can't steal a
hole. In Crawford county, Iowa, last week,
a man named Jones was hired to dig grave,
but on repairing to the grave yard found one
already dug Tor funeral TO take place six
hours later. Jones set down and awaited the
arrival of his funeral and had the body dc.
posted in this hole, and slopcd The other
frnoral nm nrr;yino waS defaipe1 Eour LD,,,s