The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-08-27
The Telephone.

| There was fat fellow in llarwich
Who asked a stout lady In marwch;
i But starting for church,
| He WAS lef. In the lurch,
There being room in the carwich.
|
| Either Marsces is getting to be a fearfuly
wicked place or the Efgi>tcr Is very sensitive
for scarce an issue oi that paper appears withou,
a warning Of some kind either to man drink
! ing "budge" on the sly; or married man after
another mans wife; or something OF that sort
Really, It's demorazlng to tnink Of what may
be-" In Marsclles.
| GLASS.
american Manufacture: There lie little or
nothing new to report in tho glass trade, dis.
counts and prices remaining the same. Manu-
iacturers OF pressed glass ware say that business
was never better with them than it 10 now. All
the factories on the South Side are now In opera
ton with the exception Of one, and it will soon
start" "The Window Glass Manufacturers and
the Operatives Committee were In session three
days last week, at Pitsburg, with the view Of ar.
ranging wages sliding scale. A scale was
agreed upon, it being based on last years wages,
and wages will hereafter go up and down with
the discounts on glass-or rather, when the one
goes up the other will 20 down, and vice ,ersa."
The Streator Ere Press still insists that il u
man signs In good faith an Oldur for machnery
or u receipt for money and the receipt or order is
made in the course Of time by certain doctor
ings" TO be note, that the maker has no defense
as against IAN innocent holder" ana must pay it,
Unfortunately there Is no law against mans
making fool OF himself, or the Free Press men
would long since have been hung. We trust,
however none OF readers will allow themselves
to be swiudlcd in this way the Free Press.
Quite In point here seems this, from the
Times:
AS there had been considerable discussion up
on the subject as to whether IA farmer is obliged
To pay note when his signature Is obtained by
fraud or circumvcntion, We have taken the pains
to inquire In regard Ia the matter. The expert
encc IN our own circuit court is that In nearly
every case the farmer has not been obliged to
pay. Knowing that Mr.. d. b. Snow and Major
Widmcr had figured largely in this class OF cases
we called upon them. MIR. Snow had no hcsitan-
cy in saying that in 30 per cent OF these cases
the farmer can make u good defense. Major
Widmer Is Of the same opinion.
But pshaw, what are Messrs. Snow and Wild
mer compared with the mammoth legal heads Of
the Free Press! The Free Pres men shonld trav.
el with Barnum.
Ier6um sat.
The Henry Republican says; THE scrced Of
tn. Ottawa FREE TRADER against Senachwine
lake and Its management, finds it's motive In.
spirrd by II company OF young men who en-
campcd there for several days" Not at all; but
in complaint OF dirt at the place, which was
published in the Henry Republican, verified by visi.
tors Mono will rejoice mere than Ottawa pco.
pie to learn that, as the Republican says, "this re-
Sort just exciting public attention and patron
age, will hereafter be improved and beautifed,
and Is destined TO become nm attractive and
healthful summering place. lttakes time to de-
velop the many changes that money and taste
devise, but at no distant day we expect to see 1t
equal to the wants and tastes Of the fashionable
public" True. Meantime few hours work
will dig trench for camp garbage.