The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-06-04

One knows the spring Is coming;
There is whtewash; the lamps are smashed
There's rags on the husbands iorefnger
And he often remarks he'll be dashed
But ever there is a carpet,
For him to shake out and pound;
Or a tack TO step on and swear at,
Or a hammer that cannot be found.
Married Poet.
Some Marscillcs fellow Is hard up and writes
at would pay the business men Of Marseillcs &c
pay from three to five hundred dollars to hire q
circus TO come here, II the people turned ont at
well rs they did to Ottawa yesterday. Nothing
to say against anyone going TO a circus if they
have squared up their little bills at the groceries
meat markets, and other places"
As the day for the festive picnic has arrived
the following may be useful: "rhe poison IVY
and the innocuous kind differ In one particular
which is too easy OF remembrance to be over
looked. The leaves of the poison variety grow
In clusters OF three and those of the innocuous
variety in hves -nickers will take due notice
and govern themselves accordingly"
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RAILROADS.
There Is no one like u country newspaper for
railroad building. Now here's the Mendoza Re
porter, which annhilates Ottawa with IA dash
1--WE wish the prominent citizens" Of Ottawa
would induce the road [Plumb'sl to strike OF
tawa but have very little hope OF their making
any effort in that direction. If the projected ter
minus OF the road to be Rochelle, the point fOI
them 10 start on a bee line north for that place
would be Mendoza and we know of no short
piece Of road which would pay better than from
Mendoza 10 the county seat. If Mr.. Plumb wish.
es 10 make his road coal road he can tap the
Illinois Central at no other point than Mendoza
This scheme may have some connection with the
Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul project men.
toned elsewhere, but will not take the place OF
the route from here TO Kankakee via Seneca and
Braid wood" But not content with that IL bur.
les the same unfortunate city with this: "The
Kaakskee & Western Il. II. mentioned above
will not have q western terminus, either TEN.
pory or permanent, at Seneca, nor will 1t strike
Ottawa at all 1t is link in the great cham OF
roads under the name OF the Chicago, Milwaukee
u st. Paul. II will be extended to Mendoza from
Seneca thence to Rochelle and Rockford, and
the the northern connections OF the corporations
mentioned, 20 the Lake Superior region, and the
grain fields of Mime sofa. 1t will be used tc
transport lumber and wheat to the south and the
seaboard without paying tribute to Chicago, and
TO carry coal mined In the conpany's mines in
VIII county 10 the north. at Mendoza this line
connects with the Illinois Central, making con
tisuous passenger line from the Lake Superior
country to New Orleans and Florida, making q
direct route for large class Of our people who
tpend their winters south and summers north ~
Ottawa stocks are much depressed. AT this rate
the Reporter will 'out Gould" Gould soon!
Leland Come: "Parties arrived In Leland
Tuesday last. surveying the route from Paw Paw
10 Leland. Said route Is the one contemplated
by the c., B. & @. Co.. who are In the future 70
take up the track from Paw Paw to shabbona
known as the Rock Falls branch, and connec,
the same with the main line here.
There was considerable many men In Ottawa