The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1875-03-06
NEWS ITEMS.

l. tons that at least pay better
Says the Joncsboro Gazette, "The fruits ar
not all killed. \ few budded peaches ar
left, and about oncfourth of the seedlings
5 About half of the cherries are still alive, an,
: the apples, pears, plums, gooseDerrles, grape
and blackberries seem to have passed through
the cold snap without injury. The Concord
Y grape was the only kind examined"
= A New Hampshire paper tells this story
. At Portsmouth boy, while fishing years
ago, broke the barb of a sh.hook off in hi
right thumb The barb, after circulating
J through his anatomy for seven years, much
; to his discomfort, finally came out at the
left shoulder in the form of pimplc The
victim of this barbarous joke saw the poin
at once and extracted it,
} Governor Coles, who filed the office OF
Governor of Illinois, in 1929, is still living in
Philadelphia, at the advanced age of eighty
eight years. He married lady in that city
in 1888, which induced him 20 remove from
his home near Edwardsville to Philadelphia
I-DirOn Telegraph.
Five or six years ago the papers announced
the death, at Philadelphia, of Gov. Coles
then said to have been some SIS years old
The Telegraph is certainly mistaken in stating
that he is still living.
The Bloomington Paragraph tells the
monstrous story that shoe dealer in that
city has in his possession shoe actually
made for and fitting the foot of Sandusky
belle, that was IA inches in length from toe
! to heel and six inches across the broadcast
part of the sole. The lady is said to weigh
but So lbs. and has been engaged to 60 to
Kansas next summer to tramp grasshoppers.
II looks as if spectators about Sioux City
were determined to get up gold rush to the
Black Hills when spring opens. Every few
days they send out an associated press dis
patch ike this:
Parties returned from the Black Hills re.
port that country as tecming with gold. Dig
gers are making over $25 daily in the mines,
ana when spring opens an immense emigra.
ton to that section may be looked for.
These are dark days indeed for journalism
when Ben Butler says that "the newspapers
are of no utility anyhow and the debating
society of Salem, Oregon, resolves that 1.-THE
public press of the United States is a NUS
ance, and ought to be abated.'
Mrs. Ann Egan, of Amboy, has recovered
$1,000 damages, IN the Lee county circuit
court against William Frief saloon-keeper,
and Adam Schubart, the owner of the build
ing in which the saloon was kept, for furn.
ishing her late husband, Patrick Egan, with
liquor. Egan was killed in a row in the sa
loon of the defendants
An Iowa woman ends her views on female
suffrage with: You may look at this mat
ter in whatever light you will but simmer il
down and it is but a quarrel with the Al
mighty that we are not all men"
Miss Emma Abbott once a resident of Men.
dota is to make her debm as a cantatrice in
London, in June, under the auspices of Miss
Kellogg, the great American prsa,a DONNA
Miss Abbotts stagename will be "Alfretti, -"
ana II is claimed that she is musical prodl.
gy of very rare promise and is yet destined
to take high rank in the musical world.
The prohibitionists OF Ohio are again in
the political field, having already nominated
their candidates for next October. Jay Odell
Is the candidate for governor, II. A. Thomp.
son for lieutenant governor, s. Adams for at. |
torney general, and Belmont Locke for au.
ditor.
During 1874 seventy -four thousand emf.
grants fsom the United States landed at Liy.
nrpool. The republican domination, which
has now continued for fourteen wears, has
changed the country from Il country Inviting
to Il country furnishing emil.
grants.
When the house of representatives, last
passed the force bill, Mr.. Buffing.
or, a republican Of Massachusetts, who vo.
ed against the bill, took his hat and marched
'ut OF the hall, remarking that "such legis-
alton might carry Louisiana for the third
erm, but it wouldn't carry Massachusetts,
The surviving law partner of Mr.. Lincoln,
Hon w. IL. Herndon, addressed very large
audience in Springfield, on the cath, his sub.
ect being 1.-THE Two Vultures of America,
and deprecated rag money
The Joliet city election on Tuesday result.
ID in the election of W. A. Steel, the demo
ratio candidate for mayor, and the demo.
ratio ticket generally, over the peoples
Ticket"
Stewart, Jacobs & Co., of Plano, H., be,
ieve they have, in observer" the fastest
rctter in the world. He has, within few
months, at private trials, equaled Goldsmith
Maids time, aud his owners are confident of
'eating it before another year goes round
This remarkable animal, as we stated on
ormer occasion, was bought three years ago
f a farmer, who was working him at plow
or $50. Twenty thousand dollars wouldn't
NV HIM now. i