The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1875-05-29
NEWS ITEMS.
Laid over last week.

The city Of Peru must be Paradise Cor
school teachers. One day last week some of
the pedagogues wanted to go fishing, and the
school board obligingly closed for thatday 10
let them of
Mr. Henry MohT, one Of the passengers Of
the Inflated steamer Schiller, and whose name
appears in the short list of the Saved was
formerly a resident of Mendoza in the en-.
ploy of A. Hene Il Go.
Schuyler Colfax, having gwen up all 20
litical aspirations, and his harpln factory at
South Bend not having proved success, is
now travelling through the country delivering
his lecture on Lincoln" in village school
houses admission % cts The following is
given as one of the climaclic sentences of this
remarkable lecture "Slavery was the right
arm of the confederacy, and its inspiration;
and when Mr.. Lincoln LAID his AK at the root,
lac Glove it from turret to foundation
And now comes Mclean county, and sol
EMMY and earnestly says thar she is the larg-
est county, geographically, IN the State of
Illinois, having a superficial area of 1,l54
square miles and that La Sale county is
comparatively small affair, having only
I, l52, and beating Mclean but 2009D in pop
ulation.
The postmaster general has ordered the
postmaster at Cincinnati 10 pay no more
money orders sent to L. ID Sine, Tie noted
Cincinnati lottery dealer. Sine has been al
lowed to carry on his business for many years
because he is blind man, but of late the
complaints of his victims have become so
numerous that the postmaster general
deemed 1t necessary to take action as stated,
in order 10 protect the public.
The Rolling Mills at Joliet started up on
Monday under very favorable circumstances.
They give employment to twelve hundred
men, distributing among ;iiem more than
5000 month.
/ A new king OF the turf was crowned the
other day at Lexington, Ky His aamc is
Searcher, three ycar-old, hy Enquirer "hc
, in the mile race Thursday last week mad,
: the distance in li1a,-lhc best rit' INA, il
is said ever made in thi. country. y report
says: lie ran like nothing that ha. ever beer
seen before; he went around The turn like {
! fash of Lightning. After the race hr was sole
at auction Tor 5000
Daniel o I.eary, The Chicago pedestrian
r started a, the West Side riak at Chicago OF
Monday to walk 30 miles in l56 hours
Y which is over 81 miles per hour, allowing n,
a time during the e., days for eating or sleep
ing. O'Lcary may do II, but ii would Iii
f the best horse in the universe.
At the same Time Weston started at Ncy
. York to beat OI.eary best time on record
u Of walking 5l5 miles in slS days or l2i hour.
> Council Bluffs, Iowa, was made happy las
. week bv decision of Judge Dillon, of tn
Ia L. $. Circuit Court AT Dies MoineS liking III
's legal eastern terminus of the MON Paclf
road within the corporate limits Of Counc
d Bluffs.
The friends of the late Bishop Lee, of low,
Z arc proposing to complete the unfinishe
I. tower upon the Episcopal Cathedral a, ID
y venpori, and to cal! it the Memorial Tower,
in his honor 1t is estimated that beiwce
$4,000 and $4,000 will be required for til
Of work.
he ST. NICHOLAS, the popular juvenile publ
Ir. cation of the scribners, seems TO be possesse
n with the greed Of Pharsoh's lean kline. II hi
n already in Its short career swallowed u