The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-09-04

Table Talk.
A farmer who lived IN Nantucket
Remarked to himself "Dam the luck, it
Is always the way;
Whenever ] pray
For shower IL comes by the bucket"
Mabel's waiting in the cleaning
For her lover, young and fair,
Gently TO herself iutoning
Words OF love, and hope, and prayer,
He is sitting by the table;
On his face sits grim despair.
Mabel's lover has been going
'Gainst three queens with two small pair.
Streator Free Press: Atkins 18th Reg't band
boys are under obligations, individually and col
lectively, to Bach's Ottawa city band, for KIND
treatment during their stay in Ottawa on Thurs
day"
II hasn't been decided as yet who is the victim
of the joke, but Brewer and Gentleman have had
an immense amount Of fun overit These gentle
men were billed ut Sheridan for Tuesday night.
They went. The weather was atrocious and the
roads heavy. And the prospects for an audience
were not improved when IL was noticed that
several deacons were whispering to every knot
Of people, that IA colorcd gentleman would lee
ture at the VI. +. church this evening" Brewer
iOIu MS 'DUHlHcSS HlHHdScT tUdt uc OusHt W
have known better than to bill them against a
coored man in Sheridan, However, the boys
had a nice audience and made II few votes; never
theless the colored man had bigger house, CON
sisting of the minister's deacons,. pioss Garfield
ers and their wives and babies. The c. m alorc
said taxed them 10 cts. per caput and then be-
gan service, opening with hymn the theme OF
which was that "HancOck's the Boy" Then
taking a text from the gospel according to Han.
cock delivered a lively sermon, which electrified
il it did not convince the hearers. Draw the
veil There was murder inside the republican
jacket
The same c. m. was up at Lisbon day or two
before, were told, and gave that stronghold Of
republicanism a few thoughts to cogitate.
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He suggested the trouble with the republl.
cans is that while they did some good things,
freed the slaves, etc, yet when they had given
the negro the ballot then they thought they
owned him and could make him vote AS they
wanted him to. But he said the negro had
opened his eyes, and votes now to suit himself.
While these things may be true, republicans
think it highly impudent for negro to travel
through Kendall county, Sheridan, etc, telling
them He ought to be more considerate of the
feelings of his lord and maker.
But the ingratitude OF the republic is pro.
verbal.
All newspapers in the county, for the first
time in history, view the new court house ques-
ton favorably, believing now the accepted time
to build that structure; but like the supervisors
and the people generally are not agreed as to
location.
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The La Sale Press is going for Woodford the
great Temperance orator, calling him fanatic.
This is bad, Woodfurd'll be mad. Or, perhaps
he'll smother his anguish by his sorrow, know
ing the base ingratitude of Web, who seems to
have entirely forgotten the trying scenes of 1879
when he was elected his own treasurer.
The opening Of the oyster season is always an
event. and every true lover Of the bvalve spells
st least nine months in the year with an "r'
However this year we stuck TO the dictionary ac
cording to Walther and began yesterday with a
can of Walther's stars" and bunch Of that
candy Every oyster was "star" OF
the first magnitude and We found the whole con-
stellation plump as cherries and as delicious as
oysters. In committee OF the whole We vote
Walthers "stars" 'Me boss"