The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1878-09-28

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on Saturday evening and Earlvile ON Monday.
VIM. Scherzer, of Peru, student at present in
a college in Switzerland, has won the first prize,
says the HcraId ut the Turner exhibition ut the
Paris Expositlon that Is, the first prize in three
different divisions Of the Turner exhibition.
Music:
SLOW doth the American eagle
Flap the strawberry mark on his wing"
On the ninth Of October the Northern Illinois
Conference Of the Methodist Episcopal church
will convene at the NJ. L. church in Streator Be.
tween 800 and 400 ministers will be in attendance.
Last Sunday week the Lutherans Of Leland,
Earl and Mendoza held an ali day meeting in the
woods adjoining Earlvillc. Most Of the services
were in German with an earnestness worthy the
! followers of the great and good Luther.
Last Sunday week the Mendoza Catholic Church
Father Cronauer's) took up collection OF S49
for the relief Of the yellow fever sufferers. II has
been forwarded to Memphis.
Princeton is a temperance" town. No licenses
are given for the sale Of beer; and for many day
the town has been set up as a model, and alluded
to in glowing terms us an edifyng spectacle of
an upright neighborhood. And yet the La Sale
Press, in writing up the Eliel Il Co. Brewery,
says this town has consumed $500 worth of Eli.
els beer in the past four months.
Maj. Townsend spoke at Earlvie last week,
but met only small audience.
Charles Townsend one of the oldest settlers in
this county, died at his residence three miles
northwest Of Strcator, on Monday night.
The employees Of the Matthiessen e liegcler
zinc works ut La Sale have forwarded $3.50 for
| the yellow-fcyer sufferers.
j. w. Adams, agent of the Chicago and Alton
road at Blackstone, was chloroformed and rob-
bed of $50 last Sunday night.
H. b, Chapman, the express driver who was
robbed of $l4, 600 at La Sale last Saturday week,
has been arrested by the express company. He
was examined on Wednesday and Thursday. He
was held to the Circuit Court in bonds of IS, 600.
| Bond was furnished
Dr. Kbbe, who died of yellow fever in New
Orleans on Tucsday,was for many years previous
TO 1874 practising physician at Streator.
A dispatch to the Chicago Times says that ne
sotiations are in progress between capitalists of
Pittsburg, Pa. and citizens of La Sale city for
the erection Of large plate.gla works, with n
capacity Of four thousand feet of plate-glass a
day. If the negotiations are successful, the
works will be commenced at once. They will
cost S300OO0 eight or ten acres of land, and
| give employment to four hundred men.
! Gen James Tecumsch Cunningham is "mana-
ger of emigration bureau, real estate, railroad,
steamship and insurance agent,"-so says the
Directory. The same publication puts him down
| rs publisher, in Ottawa, of the " Emigrant Blu
reau," " Emgrant's Guide" New Southwest"
all monthlcs! 1t was through his advertise
ments in suburban papers and by bills, to the
above effect that he became known to Mr. and
Mrs. NJ. H. Hcwer, Of Grand Ridge. They were
Door. Mr.. II. was section hand on the railroad,
an employment severe enough but not rcmunera-
tive to an alarming extent. Seeing the Generals
advertisements they called upon him. Promises
of cheap fare to Texas and plenty Of work when
he got there, led him to the resolve to go thither
to better his condition. Before leaving for the
west lIewcr decided to Cunningham Is wife) his
house and lot in Grand Ridge, which he was TO
sell to the best advantage and send the money to
him at Jefferson, Texas. lIewcr in company
with young man went to Texas; but like all
who go to Texas without money or situation
to step into, found work scarce Notwithstanding
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work on the Texas Pacific at Sl.10 day. But
they were taken sick, and after great hardships
got home alive. Now, however, comes the eli
max When he got home he found his house
and lot in Grand Ridge sold. Ii surprised him,
! for he had received none Of the purchase money;
nor could he get any out of the General. There
upon he brought suit before Squire Weeks
against Cunningham for cmbczzlcmcnt. The
property in Grand Ridge, he claims, was worth
$50 ut least; aud Cunningham claims TO have
received but $50 for it. Before Weeks the prose-
cution forgot to prove the Venue and were thrown
out of court. Then IA new trial was held before
Squire Fisher when the above facts were brought
out Cunningham admitted getting $50 for u
lot to be true; but he brought in II bill for
services rendered in making the sale and other
items enough to make Hcwcr still in debt to
him some $40 or SO. Cunningham was dis
charged, the court deciding that the prosecu.
ton had not made out case Of cmbczzlcmcnt.'
| The Morris Iadeplndcnt is the only one Of the
three Morris papers that gives Il respectable nc.
count of their fair The WJ0n,ah doesn't Seem
to have been aware that such an affair took place
at all. The independent pcrpctratcs the following
as to the 18th Battalion:
The members of this battalion arrived on Tues
day, and at once made their way to the fan
ground. pitched their tents in the northwest por
ton of the grounds where they remained unit
the heavy wind of Wednesday tore down the'
tents and threw the camp into confusion. Aftcl
the rain subsidized the soldiers marched To the
Icourt house, where they spent the night The
boys claim that they Jared rather poorly on Wed
lncsday, on bread, coffee and cabbage soup, bu
m he. ia