The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1875-02-13
NEWS ITEMS.

I. ministration or "postoffice" papers of tn
, country sealed orders directing that III
y action of Sheridan IN New Orleans be sustain
; ed by editorials appealing 10 the old war sen
S timent of the country.
Which explains the extraordinary ant
/, gushing zeal that all at once seized the Otta
c wa Republican and Joliet san in defence o
: Grant, Kellogg and Sheridan, and which ST
suddenly petered out.
at lsp plain says rad zeal paper, that thu
spirit Of the rebellion is still alive in tn,
= south" The rebellion" alluded to, is an in
disposition to be plundered by radical thieves
and cheated out of their right to govern them
selves. -.
Now what has Butler done: He says: "a
. want to die. Ny confidence in everything /.
gone l have long known congress was cor.
rupt; last summer my faith in ministers was
shaken and now the purity of the press has
gone have nothing left. Let me die.--E,
Pdso Journal.
Certainly, nobody in the world objects
only stop your talking and go on with your
dying.
| The date Of running the first train through
the Hoosac Tunnel was " definitely fixed
| for January 80, but as on several former oc
casions, it didn't happen However, the first
train did go through on the 9Th inst, a gravel
train. The track will not be in condition
for rag4lsI trains for some time yet
The whirligig i; time" says the Chicago
Times, brings its rcyenges, n 1866 Gov,
William G Brownow put the state Of Tenn.
essee to the expense of S4.G5 for telegram u
Colonel Forney, asking him 10 present his
compliments to the dead dog in the white
house" Now the dead dog succeeds Will
lam G. Brownlow in the senate of the United
States,
The statement made i'll Il dignitied and
trustworthy newspaper that "Gen. S!ckels
runs i heightened hash house in Paris" is
considered damaging to that gcntlcman's
character.
Mr. John II. Bryant, of Princeton, has the
finest residence in that place. Not long ago
he received visit from his brother William
Cullen, the poet, who thought he ought 10
live in better STYLE and gave him $4,000 to
fix up with. \ good brother to have,
The Aurora Be0coH chronicles the death of
Jethro Hatch, in that city, on the Sth inst, Al
the advanced age Of s. years. Mr.. Hatch,
some 80 years ago, was resident Of Ottawa.
Aurora since last Saturday has been in
4 81. tln,, ,,h
lie across the river south of the east half OF
the city. having suddenly ceased to work. 1t
is supposed 10 have sprung leak under the
river and filled up with water, or to have
frozen up S9meThere.
Henry Ward Beecher is reported as saying,
at prayer meeting of his church IN Brook.
Ign last week, in response to an inquiry
whether Plymouth Church ought not, out OF
It's abundance, to assist Brother Moody in his
missionary labors, " that Moody was 5feet one
way and Is feet the other and that he was a
calliope,' in other words, q blowhard' Ii
was n mean and ungracious thing Tor Bee
cher to say. Bcecher in his whole life has done
less for the cause Of christianity than Moody
has done in the last year.
"Hell Fire Put Out" was the subject of a
Peoria Unlversalist preachers discourse the
other Sunday night. A young lady" the
Transcript says, sang beautiful solo ap.
propriate othe occasion"
News of an appalling disaster comes from
the Chinese waters. The Pacific Mail Steam.
ship japan took fire near Yokohama on the
18th of December from spontaneous combus-
ton in her coal bins and was totally destroy.
ed Ofabout 600 souls Oh board, but 200 were
saved, the 400 who persisted being chiefly
Chinese cmigrants.
Hon. w. b. Ogden, the Chicago railroad
king and millionaire, 20 years of age, was
married on Monday to Miss Marianne f. Ar
not, of Elmira, n. Y The lady is a" shipper.
ing miss of fifty.
Unless somebody makes it his business to
hold the Springfield correspondent Of the
Peoria Democrat when these fits seize Kim,
there will yet be bloodshed Read and lnrn
pale:
-NNi'ouS h"h'o 'ouSHt IiS'OlS,
nervous fingers grasped material ink stands
and prepared for the fray. But, ere the tlrs,
blow was struck, ere the FIRST ink-stand was
split the clear, ringing voice of the speaker
fell with magic Influence upon the wild III
multuous throng; The clerk will call the
roll"
Early one bitter cold morning last week
Joliet was aroused by the alarm of fire. The
engines came cut and dozens of hastily clad
people. To their astonishmcnt, however il
was found that the glaring reflection from the
east windows of the court house, instead Of IN
dicatiag confagrstion, was caused by the
rising sun. The fire department excused
themselves from putting out that blaze, as il
was outside oithc city limits.
The daily shipments of coal fIom Sireator
are now between 900 and 5000 tons. employ