The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1875-07-10

In sentencing two murderers TO be hanged The
other day, Judge Reed, of Charleston, s. c.
dropped into the following selection:
This world is all feeting show
For mans illusion given.
It's smiles of JOY, its tears OF woe,
Deceitful shine, deceitful flow,
There's nothing true but Heaven.
The victims Of the law failed TO look consOled
An exchange very truthfully says that I'll
doesn't pay TO be an Indian these days" And il
will never pay to be an Indian until it quits pay
ing so well to be an Indian agent.
Twenty five years ago Missouri boy left his
home and started out to become President of
the United States. That boy is now one of the
best shoemakers in the Ohio Stase Prison.
Brooklyn Argus.
Parson Brownlow having been called "a dis
reputable old Tennessee politician" by a South
Carolina editor, proposes to fight him in an
open.top hog. pen after hard rain, with dung
forks
It's an awful thing TO stop and think about
eternity or failure in the peanut crop-Fult0n
Times.
The new building for the Louisville Courier
Journal will have a handsome maidstone 'front.'
-Bi.tcdakee Sentinel.
A Mobile music dealer announces 4 new song
entitled, "Smilc Oncc Again" Thank you; don't
care If we do,
A story comes from Boomin gton, H., that Il
hen recently laid an egg with the words "Friend-
ship, Love, and Trust" engraved upon it. Send
her TO Brooklyn. In week she would be nest
hiding in Plymouth pulpit aud laying eggs with
Grace, Mercy, and Peace" on them for Henry
Wards breakfast.
Col John Mcintosh, Of Evansville, lnd claims
nat he can read the character of man by look
ing at his shoes. He excerpts the shoes of one
mantle small talker Of the Co,VirJOurHdi.
Life isn't long enough to enable him TO do jus
tce TO the whole Of those ponderous volumes.
Bessie Turner has made $3.50 out Of selling her
photographs, and that offsets great lot Of
ruined reputation and blasted character--De
tr0I Free Press, Besides she is going into part
nership with q hardware man. He is said to
lave brains and she'll furnish the brass-enough
for whole foundry.--Chicdgo Times,
A rascally exchange adds that the white soul
cd Elizabeth will enter the same firm as a
partner 1t doesn't state, however, what part of
the stock she viii put in.
The London Post has an advertisement inyit.
able fortune, for the hand of an English baronet
Of the earliest creation"
The bulwarks of the nation are its mothers
and daughters.-St. Louis DiSpdtch. Their breast
works certainly afford succor to the infantry
ST. Joseph (UoJ HeraM.
Mr.. Carpenter adzc his testimony by making q
plane statement on saw subjec.-EL.
Yes, and it doesn't auger well for Beecher
either does it?
The Brooklyn 4rgus publishes the following
spiritual etiusion under the caption of
EvANGELINE.
She sat alone with folded hands,
And neither turned to right nor left;
so mute and sad she looked like one,
Or hope and home and friends berct.
Poor thing | thought, and dropped tear,
Thy loved ones have gone before
Have sailed away DER Deaths dark stream,
And left thee pining on the shore.
gladly would have cheeIcd her but
A stern, cold voice held me in check
There's nothing ais her much" IL said;
She's got boil upon her neck
The man who can sit contentedy on a dry
goods box, chew gum, white, and wait for
something to turn up, will never be rewarded
until his toes turn heavenward.- Whi'ehdU Times
Don't be discouraged, boys. Twelve years ago
Terre Haute young man worked during the
day, studied law at night, and is now on the
bench-in shoe shop, cobblins. Marshall
-Iesseager
\ country paper heads an article thusly: a
Struggle in the Dark-The Danger Of Keeping
Money in a Country Store We should think SC
almost as dangerous as a savings bank. w
always keep our money in circulation.
a man who can fuently speak seven language
has been ruined by New York faro bank. Thu
will be apt 10 PAT check on compulsory educa
on.-NOIr'sf0rrR Herald.
4 warning to Junius Henri Browne: \ maj
who spelled Henry with al ! was hanged las
week
Just think Of it! 4 couple 0! song .and-1anc
men ouarrellng as to which does the most braii
work Next the dry goods clerks will get at i
The yicksburg Monitor says IL has no othe
capital than the ability with which it is cou
Quoted No dividend has yet been declared
y. q. R,pHJ.'cdH.
Aman in Lawrence, Kan, adyertises hiRse
military attorney lie probably belong
20 the class Of heroes who were political ger
erals dunng the war.
Apropos 10 the disputed hotel bill Of the pre-
dental party al Boston, the Cincinnati Connie
.;al relates that the clerk of the magnificent Pa
ker house, early in the morning, when the pre-
ideht and cablnent paused IN Boston, Ga ro~e y
Lexington, was accosted by democratic poI'
clan. who asked the impertinent question; r
which branch OF the government OF the Unit
states was that gigantic cocktail prescribe
that lust saw in the bar-rooms II was thr
inches solid gin" The clerk gravely sausb'
the anxious inquirer, saying ae would have
20 elsewhere TO get tie valuable Information