The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1875-01-23
From Mendoza.
MENDOZA, January Goth, 1875.

MENDOZA, January 2Uln, 1870
1t has often been source of wondcrment
10 your many friends in Mendoza that your
journal did not have some one here to hove
up" n few remarks Tor you occasionally. We
fiattcr ourselves that we form no inconsldera
bic item in our pondcrous county and do our
share TO keep up the expenses OF the county
seat as we'll as furnish an occasional sensa
ton.
Never seeing any items from our end, which
is the chief end, l am pursuadcd to I'LL this
deficit pro ten.
Among other useful and ornamental insti-
buttons, we have mad doctor, who to use a
vulgar phrase, has been sup on his ear" ever
since election
He is greatly cnraged at everybody in gen
eral and his neighbors in particular about
his defeat in the late senatorial contest, where
IN he was elected to stay at home.
1t had became mania with him that The
safety of the country and particularly the cx-
istence of the Republican party depended
apon his election but the dear people, espc-
cially large portion of his ncighbors, blind
30 this necessity, failed to vote for him, and
he is left to ingloriously pcddlc pills to cure
The ills of humanity instead of becoming a
statesman and minlstcring to the national
wants. Now his defeat would not have OK
cited any particular comment, if indeed a
ripple in the political puddle, if lie had not
taken every occasion, proper or improper, TO
display his disappointment
At Lyccm, recently, where he was the in
vited guest of a literary society, he took &C.
caslon TO grossly abuse various parties whose
only crime was TO oppose him during the
campaign. No one brought up in decent
circle of society can have any idea of the eX'
tent OF his breach of the rules Of common de
cency The disgust Of the large audience
vas very apparent, and the result is that the
poor doctor has become the target for all the
wits in town.
Our papers are tecming with humorous pc
ctry, whcrin all his foibles and weaknesses
tand they are not "A few arc held up to the
world in all the ornate eilulgcnco Of dogger-
n, SO that the poor Doctor has descended
rom his political pedestal and is the laugh
ing stock of every school boy in town. :
Speaking of newspapers, reminds me that
we have a new tledgcd candidate for jour
nalistic honors yclept "Hcadctd NcrS." You
doubtless have il on your exchange list and
viii perceive il is a bright and newsy sheet
Its editor and proprietor is L. u. Ford, form
~. a - 6 Al,
Both the papers--such is the rcvlvifying
Effects OF compCtition-are much better than
Has the BnVctiR alone.
The artcsian well is at a stand STILL some ,
H7hat more than one-third ola mile deep. \
Over $4,000 have been sunk in this enter. +
prise, and the nouacccssibIlity of flowing !
water in Mendoza pretty well established
One of the sensations of our vicinity is the
commencement Of breach of promise SUIT
ogainst DR.. W. G. Houtzc, Homer, in which .
s. is reported $4,000 damages arc claimed ,
The Doctor has just taken to himself wife
and 1t seems others of the fair sex set up al
claim to him. So much for being rich and il
Consequently good looking. I
The mother of our townsman, Esq. Castle, 5
died last week She was 30 years of age, and J
leaves numerous descendants, consisting of =
children, grand children and great grand :,
children, many Of the latter being now men v
and women. II
The recent fall Of snow amounts 10 about a
six inches here, and lies as even and level as q
sov ypl conducted ooetorn enow ctorrn q
novelty on our broad prairies.
VIM Liycrs, our new T. NJ, has beca duly
confirmed his appointment gives general
abstraction, but the clerical force is wretch.
ely deficient, aud much disappointment is
expressed at the manner Of distributing the ,
mail matter If not soon bcttcrcd urgent
steps will be taken to improve things In that I
erection u. MUTT i