The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1877-01-13
CURRENT NEWS ITEMS,

Gov. Colou,t of Georgia is Jealous Bap-
tist, and breaches every Sunday TO the negroes
whom he employs.
Mr.. Alexander Ii. Stephens is said to think
that Congress will no. decide that FLORIDA
vote may now be cast for TIlden, ous that II
has not cast any electoral vote.
The President has pardoned another of the
Missouri whisky thieves, Major John l.. BIT
finger, who has been serving gu, h,s sentence
in the county Jail at 81. Joseph, NJ.
| The Streator Free Press inquiries "Who
is dong anything towards paying for the sol
diers' monument that the county still owes
form Somebody will probably wake up on
the subject about the time the contractor be-
gins to take the monument down.
The time for shooting prairie chickens and
oua,ls has expired, and the law protects these
birds until next August. 1t is the duty oil
every sportsman TO see that the law is strictly
and faithfully observed.
Mrs. Baldwin, wife of Hon. Elmer Baldwin
of Farm Ridge, in this county, on Tuesday OF
last week sustained severe injury occasion
ed by a fan in which the hip bone was bro
ken.
John Mccall, the man who murdered wild
Bill" nickock IN the Black Hills last Aug.
ust has been sentenced to be hanged on the
first of March.
| The Streator .H0nitOr mentions the case OF
Mr.. Caleb Miller, plascrer and member OF
the S,reator Guards, who died on the 18th ult
congestion of the bowels, and wko, "when
the Gypsr Us were mere last fall, visited their
camp and had his fortune told. The Gypsey
told him he would leon the 18th OF December
This prediction no doubt, worked powerful
~ on his mind, and lie did actually die on
the 18th of December"
The people of Lacon having become dis
satisfied with their postmaster, applied to
Congressman Fort to have another man ap
pointed Mr.. Fort, lacking the nerve 10 de-
eide between several applicants, told them to
hold an election and he would have the man
appointed that got the biggest vote. The
election was held and J. B. Forbes got double
the vote of any other man. But the cautious
congressman is in a worse fix than ever, for
! Forbes is democrat
The radical papers having published a
statement that Wade Hampton was a climi
nal bankrupt, his principal creditors unite in
denouncng it as a malicious falsehood and
state that Hampton's Indebtedness was in
Cured before the war, when his property was
worth ten times his debts AS 1t is, he has
not only given his creditors every asset Of HI:
own, but has also given them his wifes prop
erty. The settlement he made, they say, "wa'
honorable, and though the creditors suffered
they retained their respect for the man who
was reduced from aifluence to actual power
Iy."
The Californans are complaining OF sever,
!, drought For the first time since the AmeIi
can settlement, December passed without
drop of ram. The crop raports received from
+ all quarters indicate that in the extreme soutl
the drought has already had, to some extent
a disastrous effect on grain and feed and il
some parts of the San joaquin Valley III
crops are suffering.
3. The latest case of bulldozing that comes N
from Louisiana Is that of n patriotic loca
Judge carpetbagger, who had bridged tn
bloody chasm dividing the white aud blac
races by taking to his heart and home a
ebony-hucd concublne, and living with her /
open adultery. Inspired by the "inferna
spirit of CASTE" the decent white resident
of the neighborhood exhibited a disposition
to make things uncomfortable for the adul
erous pair. These demonstrations wer
e charged up to political account, of cours'
and were doubtless considered good caus
tor throwing ont half dozen parishes.