The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1875-04-10
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NEyxs ITEMS.
The grasshoppers on the opening or spring
in Missouri and Kansas, are already exhibit
ing astonishing vivacity. Wherever a pile OF
chips or bark are disturbed, a few days OF
sunshine hatch out the eggs by thousands.
They have been found in Missouri TO appear
thus as far east rs Lewis county, on the Miss.
issippi, and as they rise thousands of fees IN
the air when at full estate and fly many miles
before stopping, there is no reason why the
states east of the Mississippi may not be
largely invaded by this scourge the coming
summer.
The Indianapolis "!Sentinel denies by au.
thority the rumor that Governor Hendricks
had engaged suit of rooms IN Washington
in which to establish his campaign headquar,
.ers during The next winter,
A genuine Enoch Arden case excites Quin.
cy at present Six years ago, John Bimpson,
a wealthy manufacturer, left for Europe with
two daughters, and sailed on the United
Kingdom, which was never heard from un.
til now, when news has come that Bmp.
son and his daughters are alive and en- route
home. In the meantime Mrs Bimpson has
collected $1,000 life insurance, is married and
has child by the second husband.
This is one of the way in which the civil
rights bill is circumvented by Georgia
saloon keeper:
Owing to circumstances which | neel
not recount, shall be forced to al opt in the
future the following rates:
Beer by the glass %
Whisky toddy ................... Is 90
Brandy straight. 1900
and so on in proportion. To regular custom
ers I will make a liberal discount
In other words, white men can have their
drinks al the usual rates and miners must
pay the above prices, So much for the civil
rights bill.
Rev. 7. n. Morrison, OF Pekin, and Rev.
j. r. Hoist, pastor of the Episcopal church a.
Streator, opened mission" at that church
last Sunday to continue during the present
week, There were daily prayers and preach
ing every evening.
The spelling school mania RACES among such
notabilities as Rev. Arthur Edwards, Bish-
Cd Cheney, j. Y Scommon, John Wentworth,
w. F. Coolbaugh, Henry Grecnbaum, Rev.
Robert Collyer, and others
At Paris, KY, on Monday, at stallion
show, Goldsmlth's famous young stallion
Abdallah was run into by sulkey, the shaft
entering his breast and coming out near the
lap of the shoulder, causing death in few
minItes. The horse was valeed at $4,000
The Chicago Post and Nal has inaugural
ed new enterprise of startling proportions.
1t now issues an extra sheet each evening,
within 10 minutes after the close Of the
Brooklyn court for the day, giving all the
evidence of the day in the great Beecher
scandal case. The Post and Mail makes this
a permanent arrangement for all summer.
A colored congregation in Dayton, Ohio,
after lengthy trial, decided to forgive their
clergyman for betting on three.card monte
and losing 500 of festival money One o.!
the deacons remarked: I'VE is all human,
and de game is VERY exciting
There was frightful accident on Monday
at Tyrone, Iowa, on the Iowa division of the
Burlington & Missouri railroad. Two trains
attempted to pass each other on single
track with the usual result. Four passep.
gers were killed and six or eight badly injur
ed. The accident is ascribed to the careless
ness of Telegraph operator.
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