The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1875-09-04
NEWS ITEMS.
"The melancholy days have come,
The saddest of the year."
When DOIitjcians gather ,rCund.

And get you by the ear
or the buttonhole, or some other portion of
yosr anatomy or raiment, and tell you how
great and good thing it is to go for them
how they have always been your friend, and
so on, ad nauseam.
The U. S. Post office department is said to
have given st. Louis but cool comfort in res
ponse to her complaint that Chicago instead
of st. Louis was made the western terminus
of the fast mail train service "a city, that
handles about onetenth Of the amount ofmail
matter received and distributed at Chicago
should be content TO take back seat" Is
what the =, NJ. General told st. Louis
Hon. Schuyler Colfax lectures at Oriental
Hall at Streator mex! Tuesday evening on
"Abraham Lincoln
A remarkable cave has been discovered on
an island in the Mississippi river eight miles
below Davenport It's huge cavity hewn
out of the solid rock and reached by stone
steps. AT the bottom of the cave ashes and
charred Goals we're found also bones of
animals, human skull and also an almost
complete human skeleton. But the most sin.
gular remains of all were hardened and al
most petriied leather straps, bronze buckles,
and wooden leg which continued the right
extremity Of the skeleton, that limb having
been removed about midway between the hip
and knee.
A strange story is told by the Warrcnton
| (Ga) Cltpper. Rev. Nathan Davidson, of that
place, while preaching, referred to the mira.
Gle where Christ restored blind man to sight
by putting clay upon his eyes, and said THAI
was very foolish in Christi That instant his
tongue was paralyzed and he was unable to
articuate for four hours. On recovering his
speech, he said he intended to say that it was
very foolish in Christ, viewed from world
! ~ point of view,' and then intended to show
why it was necessary. 1t certainly was ;
very strange coincidence
The farmers of northern Nebraska, Mime
sofa and Wisconsin, who during the heavy
rams Of July and August in Illinois, Indiana
&c, were on the verge of a severe drought
are now enjoying" the same excess of rain
tall they then escaped. A good deal of the
wheat crop in that northern country is still
unhoused and is beginning 70 sprout.
The man who spoke of the Indians as 8
dying race should emigrate. In 1864 they
cost the country s2G29, 1851; last year IS,
aOO ronnirnI m them
Either the funeral expenses are inconcciva
biz high or the man erred Chicago Tribune
The Industrial Age comes TO the correct
conclusion that the decision to locate the asy
lum for feeble minded children at Lincoln
ais the arrangement of predetermined pol
llticians to provide Tor pnfortunates who art
but little less feeble minded"
Jacksonville is beginning TO put on Texas
airs. On Tuesday some young people of tha
village had picnic, at which two young
bricks named respectively Cryswell and 81
lliott got into quarrel and dr,T revolvels or
each other. Fred Lesch stepped between
them 10 stop the fuss, when Cryswell sho
him in the hip, SO near the groin that his
lphysician thinks he cannot recover.
| .Goldsmith's maid is now in her nineteenth
} year, yet has probably as much speed IN he'
now as she ever had But recently she trot
lied her mile inside of 2:15 and is expected &c
= beat that time at Quincy in few weeks
Ira ID. Sankey, the sweet singer oil israel
weighs more than two hundred pounds, AMI