The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-08-28
CLEAN NGS.
Sterling is to build a $1,000 city Jail.

Sterling is to build a $4,000 city Jail
The Aurora Light Guards attended the en-
campment of the 81 regt., |. n. G., at Rock,
ford this week.
The Rockford packing company has put up
10000 pounds Of cherries this season, and now
proposes erecting new buildings.
BY the Joint action Ofthe hardware and iron
trade of Chicago, nails have been advanced TO
a 1925 card, with abatement Of l0c, per key
for Car lots, and . per cent off for cash.
Rockford's city taxes foot up the neat sum
OF 500 700, an increase over last year OF SIS
There are now in existence in this country
$1,000 miles OF railroad The gross earnings
of 1879 were $530,000,0OO
Joliet city taxes foot up S5S,5S0.
The corner stone of the capitol at Washing
ton was laid Sept Is, 1893
At the late election of the S32 Illinois towns
voting on the liquor question, 6i5 were carried
for anti.license.
The Chicago SPiritUdl JoulHoJ explains
that Tanner did not really fast. Impalpable
spirits fed HIM imperceptlble food.
Otscgo is the best stocked lake III the coun-
try. Six or seven years agoa few residents cs
tablishcd = hqtching house on the shores, and
turned into the water therefrom 10000 bass,
and nearly rs many trout The State hatche.
ries subsequently afforded them their annual
supply. Altogether, they have put INTO the
lake more than 100000 arulcially Matched
fish OF various kinds, not including 1000 land
locked salmon and 800 lIackcnsack smelts,
which as vet have given no account of them
selves. Private individuals expended over
$1,000 4 Mr. Thayer took twenty-onc lake
trout in June that weighed fifty pounds. Rock
bass, perch, pickerel, and an occasional black
bass are now the bulk OF the anglers catch,
one man alone taking lG5 at one sitting.
The following is good description of the
Mcssina quail now being imported to many
of the states by sportsmen, The habits and
appearance OF the bird are as follows: In size
1t Is about one-half as large as the European
partridge (PerdiX elnerea) and three iiiths as
large as our -partndge-(Or viz
ginianus); IS very compactly built, with great
speed IN running and a powerful and long
continued flight enabling it to cross large
bodies Of water in its migration. The bill is |
longer and more slender than Is our OrtyX
The color is brown, striped with |
on the upper parts of the body |
the head is darker than the back, the throat
reddlsh-DroWn and the region OF the crop red
A pale ycllowish line passes
from the base of the upper mandlble over the
eye and down the sides of the neck across the
throat, where it Is banded by two narrow dark
brown lines. The blacklsh brown primary
quilts are spotted with reddish yellow in such
a manner as to form stripes. The first quill
has also narrow yellow border. The reddish
yellow tail-fGathcrs have white shafts, and are
spotted with black at their edges. The length
Is ~ inches, and eXpanse Of wing - inches.
The tail Is / q inches long This IS the male.
In the female all these colors are comparative
ly lndistlnct. The bird is very hardy. These
have been three months in the packing crates
and none have been lost All seem to be in
vigorous condition. As a food-blrd it is cX-
cellent, and in Europe esteemed a great deli
cacy. 1t lays well before the dog and gives
fiae sport for the sportsman, and he who kills
them on the wing must be !quiek and true.
The species is very prolific, and, under favora-
BILE conditions, it Is expected they will become
one of the bird features of this locality The
nest Is made on the ground, like the partridge,
md fourteen or fifteen white eggs are de-
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