The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-07-17
GLEANINGS.
Rockford is to have glucose factory
The Rock Island earnings increased the fir
brec weeks IN June Sli0O00

tUItC NCOhs III TAfo,oSO'
Las. wear forty thousand new cars were built
in the United States. This year it is expected
fifty thousand will be added to the rolling
stock Of the country.
The Elgin Canning Company will put up
this season 100000 cans of sweet corn, 100000
of tomatoes, and $4,000 of pumpkin, sqlashes,
etc.
The new oath for the French soldiers con-
talns no reference to the Deity or the republic.
II will lie taken on the lith OF July, as fol
lows: "ln the name OF the regiment, | swear
on my honor to remain faithful to the consti-
tuition, and to defend this flag until death"
The Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas
has decided that money lost by betting on Il
race cannot be recovered through the law in
that state, which only covers money wagered
upon any game of address or hazard" The
case was II bet on pedestrian match.
The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Rail.
road company Is adjusting the claims OF those
injured at the recent accident at Meriden as
rapidly as the parties can be found and the
extent of their injuries ascertained. The Bur
llngton is congratuating itself on having es-
capped so easily, and from the nature of the
mishap the damage might have been serious.
No blame is attached to the engineer, who did
all in his power to prevent the accident
Receipts from internal revenue for the fiscal
year ended June 30, were S123,623,25l. The
customs receipts for the fiscal year were $780,
lOS,Gl1. Total, $30S,731 ,S62 Increase over
last year $l0,0G1 GAO from internal revenue,
and Sal, S5S, 5G3 from customs. The revenue
of Great Britain for the fiscal year ended June
80 were eSl ,9G2 063, equal to $500, l55,246, a
falling off, as compared with the PRIOR year OF
Il ,25S,264.
Doubt having been expressed in certain
quarters that the Hannibal and st. Joseph Co.
would build the proposed line from Hannibal
to Chicago, Times representative yesterday
interviewed several prominent Hannibal Off
Gals, and they stated that the road would Ger
tainly be constructed, and that in all probaDl'
lty work would begin by September l, and be
completed within twelve months thereafter
KansoS city Times, July2.
A hackman at Niagara barganed to carry
two men to the falls and back to the depot in
time for certain train for one dollar, He so
timed the Job as to return just three minutes
before the train started and then charged
them IS, taking it out of a bill which was
handed him He supposed they would sub
NIT to the swiNdle rather than he delayed.
But they, being lawyers, c0o!ly took rooms at
a hotel, prosecuted him vigorously for week,
and made him pay 800 in the end.
On the Elgin Board of Trade for the six
months ending with June Both, 1880, there
have been sold 93,2S1 boxes of cheese, aggre-
eating 4311 ,413 pounds and 1,214,S03 pounds
of butter, representing money value OF SSO4,-
3G3G1 The dairy business in the northwest
is but in lis infancy for it is but ten years since
our people began manufacturing butter on the
creamery plan and yet in six months the pro
duct at Elgn reaches over 100000 pounds.
A healthy growth, sure enough, but only on Il
keeping with other products of the great state
of lllnos.-IHter-OceaR
In Land and Water we read: an the ele
CANT little weighing scales in which we can
SIT and have our weights taken at cur railway
stations and elsewhere we have trustworthy
index of our health and the surcst beacon To
warn us against the approach OF lnsidlous dis
eases which steal on Us unawares, and which,
once having fastened upon rs are quite incur
able. The reason of this is that the fat of our
body Is the first to come in health and the first
to 90 in disease; so, by weighing every week,
we see that our store of fat is with us, or that
it Is being Unfortunately consumed"
The Dumas family has always been remark
able for strength and address. One night at
the play Gen. Dumas, the grandfather of Du-
mas the younger, Sung a man out of the stage
box on to the stage. Dumas the elder was of
IIerculean strength, and Dumas the younger
eXces in all games of strength and skill He
is master iuggler and he can put frame Of
knives round a human head leaning against II
board with the most consummate surety Of
hand George Sand was brilliant pupil Of
Dumas the younger, and Iii her later years she
no 70 hnrCalf for dave WI thiG nprIl-
Gus pasime,
jim Brown was Texas desperate Of the
Currie sort. He rode on horseback into n sa-
loon at Cambridge amused himself briefly BY
swapping tumbers off the bar with his whip
and then invited the company to drink with
him, adding that he would shoot whoever de
cllned. Mr.. Dawson, as it happened, had late
" taken pledge of total abstinence, and posi-
lively refused to break it. "Then I've got to
kill you" said Brown, putting his hand into
his pistol pocket; but Mr.. Dawson was quick.
est to draw, and tie desperate tumblcd dead
from his horse with a bullet in his brain.
Mr.. Stodard, second mate of the brgantine
Fortunate which arrived on Sunday from the
West Indies, reports that one night, while pass
ing along the coast of Florida, on Il recent
voyage, a singular phenomenon appeared just
after dark. Two columns of fire were seen,
seemingly about mile away. They were
about fifty yards apart and rose to height of
nearly 800 feet, when they archcd towards
each other, but did not meet They burned
with steady dullrcd color and did not emit
any sparks, but at the arching portions emitted
ucmulous rays Of pcnciings of light, similar
to an aurora boreais They appeared IN sight
all night, and gradually faded away az day
light came The weather was beautifully
clear, and not cloud was visible during the
entire night. On the following day there was
a tremendous thunderstorm, accompanied by
gale of wind but no rain.-Nen Iork SIM,
Juiy 6.