The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-09-02
CREAM OF OUR EXCHANGES.

GEEA u VI WIN EACHANULo'
Tie Chicago TijJune has for several weeks
pastbeen issuing campaign supplement, which
the New York Times pays somewhat sinister
compliment in this way:
We accept 1t as very emphatic compliment
TO the arrangement of our supplement that the
Tribune should have copied SO closely our des-
cripton of contents. Lest our western irlends
who have already ordered large quantities OF the
Tunes supplement should be misled by the sim
ilarity of arrangement into supposinS that there
is nothing new in the matter presented in the
Tribune we NAV assure them that there are sundry
articles reproduced from its own columns, as
well as from those Of the Chicago Times.
People proposing to hunt prairie chickens in
The front yards and gardens of Peru, are advised
by the La Sale Independent TO get permission
Of the owners" (of the chickensg, for, adds that
paper, A number Of citizens of Peru have placed
q notice in the local paper offering reward OF
five dollars for the conviction OF any person
found hunting on their premises" Just so.
"The daughter OF a widow woman" etc.-Di1
o.. Telegraph. We are glad that the editor has
explicitly stated that this widow is woman
There are so many chances now -a.days OF a man
being Observation-Disclosures Gazette.
And then to have left room for the inference
that this woman without husband, and having
a daughter, was not a'widow," might have made
i awkward too
One gets wde-open, gaping glimpse at the
true inwardness of Chicago upper-tcn life by a
familiar incident" which we cut from the
Journal:
"Why, husband" exclaimed Chicago wife
not long SINCE "there goes our old neighbOrs
Fa,,iIp in hrap rit nd
eoachman. Has he gone into bankruptcy again.
mo, he hast gone into bankruptcy" replied the
husband, knowingly, but you remember he was
elected to the City Council last year,"
In Rockford it is contrary to law for man to
get drunk and if he does he gets arrested wheth.
er he is noisy or not.-Iolo Press.
How do they find out that the man is drunk I?
Does the law compel temperance officers to smell
his breath?
Where hae We been a day,
rutherford, my love?
Where hae ye been a day,
Ny weak ard witless Hasey?
I've been the voters for to WOO
The carles that Wilma believe me true;
The fellows leauched and crook'd their mOu',
And cried Ava wi liasey!'
-C03ier-JOurnn.
Postal things are again as they used to be, and
now
cent an ounce for a circulaire,
a cent for IL two-ounce newspapalrc,
Three cents, as of Old for sealed lettairc
so, brothers, stamp and stamp with cairo
Whenever you send your mail mattarc.
Susan o. Anthony comes out solid for Cooper.
She says she knew Peters grandfather two hun
bred and seventy five years ago. and has known
Peter one hundred and twenty-five years, and
proposes to vote for him if she is again cast into
prison for it,
Gov. Booth, of California, is making stump
speeches in Indiana for Hayes and Wheeler. In
California he was esteemed man OF pretty good
sense, but being native Of Indiana, when he got
back there and began to breathe the old air, alas,
his old infrmity returns. 1t is very sad.
When Babcocks and Belknaps
For justice are picked,
the way to convict them
.s-not to convict.
Get Robisons millions
Of plumber, we can't
The way to restore II
ls-still stick to Grant.
When Hayes means more Babcock,
The way, | expect,
To smash the ring party
ls-not to elect
Thellnen travelling Ulster is much abused
garment. A man looks like Munster in IL. i
Connaught be done to improve ity-iater. Ocean.
"They csmc here said Artcmus Ward Of the
Puritans, that they might worship in their own
way and prevent other people woIshlpring nl
,her'n."
" Republic1nsm is constantly climbing up
ward, like a thrifty yinc"-RtlublcGn PAPER. I'll
seems to grow best around trading posts, freed
mems bank buildings and crooked distilleres. |
But leaves have their time To fall and this fall Is
the time for that vine to leayc.--NdJtyiNc Imeri
a young man named Powers living in lucas
county, bit himself with a rattlesnake ore day
last week. The doctor treated the young man
by hlling him up to the eyes with whisky. IT.
saved his life, but II made the worst Democrat
out Of him you ever saw burlington Ha,ckeyn-
Apropos Of Eaton, 0! Conaecticut, and some.
body else, The Springfield Republican says: sen.
stors of the United States should not get drunk.
The same remark applies to presidents Of the
United States, however"
1.-THE democratic canvass in this city has re
eeiyed check says The indianapolis Journal Is
il signed "S. J. TildenY And II so, isn't il a.
pretty good thing for the democratic canvass to
hayey
Fitzpatrick seemed to think SO In his letter to
Hayes. And still the country yearns to see Hayes
answer.
The occasional appearance OF man wearing
duster with small demjohn in one hand aud
package In the other, containing a copy of
Songs for the Sanctuary" and cuchrc deck
shows that the camp meeting season has arrived
-NOrWch Bulleit.
The rag bahy party are trying TO dcude the
honest Hooslers into the belief that Peter Cooper,
The New York millionaire, is a working man, by
calling him the "bar'l maker
Whether Brother Moody feels quite certain
about inherlting that mansion In the skies or
not, he has the dead wood on that $40, 900 man.
sion he has Just built at Norwich, Massachu-