The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-07-09

then, and not till then, will ! submit to such.
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MarseilIes.
MARsEILLEs, July :.
pERsoNAL.--M. A. Adams, Of Sandwich,
Is visiting friends in this city,
Mrs. Alex. Bruce and daughter, Miss Mag
gle are spending the summer among the
White mountains.
M. +. Maloney paid our city visit one day
this week
Harry Robinson spent the 4th here with his
friends.
w. H. Pitts, of Chicago, is in town this
week
Orlando jackson was in town this week, a
guest of A. f. jackson.
Barrister Dan Nicholson, Bickford's silent
partner, escorted large party 20 Ottawa on
the 4th.
John Drultt, of Bushnell & Druitt, paid our
city professional visit last week.
Mrs J. g. Scott has been quite sick with
the ague the past week.
John Nef has bought the Springfield paper
mill This makes just 900 mills he has owned
this season
A. j. Bruce, jr., is the guest OF his brother,
l.. Bruce.
Harry Lewis, of Chicago, III the days lang
syne connected with Mitchcll's of this city,
spent last week with his many friends here
Joshua Norton, once a prominent mill
owner here, is spending few day in the
Lowell of the West
Capt Preston is In Chicago, where he will
purchase the new prayerbooKs for the board
Of trustees.
Mrs. w. A. Morey is spending the summer
at Buffalo, n. Y.
Judge Eldredge was in town last Saturday
Robert Pitcher and wife spent the 4th in
Joliet
Ed. Wells ana wife went up to Minooka to
visit friends last week
Charley and Rec Thompson are home from
Chicago on visit.
Doc. Montgomery had dream that he
would discover process by which he could
change ordinary brick into gold. He ls now
laying brick sidewalk in front of his resi-
dence, so in case the dream should prove true
be would have some brick to experiment on :,
you know
r. c. Griswold, OF Seneca, paid J. G. Scott
h visit last week.
Will Woodruff is again on our streets, after
having a siege with the ague.
NJ. Mccain was In Chicago last week attend.
ing the races.
A young man by the name of Allen, and
who works at Pitts, had his hand badly
crushed by machinery last week.
Ed Varney Is happy 1t is a girl
Lutte, John and Robt Clark, of South Bend
Ind. formerly of this place, spent Sunday with
their mother, Mrs. X. Clark.
A rather peculiar case of the miscarriage of
Il letter occurred to a couple OF interested par
(es who reside in Marseilles. About six
months IN the re,rograde OF time, there resided
in this place two young men who were quite
intimate friends. Recently one of them moved
TO Iowa. They kept up correspondence,
which resulted in q manner that Is causing
the postoffice department and some other peo-
pie much anxiety. The young man who re-
sides here wrote letter and mailed II TO the
young man in Iowa. Three or four days after
the above occurrence, the letter, enclosed in
another envelope aud directed to young man
who formerly kept photograph gallery here
was received at the post-office in Marseilles
This young man turned the letter over TO a
gentleman who runs a meat market, whose
daughter formerly kept company with the
young man in Iowa. Why the letter never
reached Its destination, and why 1t was re-
turned to party that could not have known
Of Its existence until he had taken it out of the
postoffice, and why he turned it over 10 the
young ladys father, are questions that the
people of this village would like TO have an.
swered.
A curious exhibition of intelligence IN the
lower ANIMALS was witnessed by number of
people on Main street Tuesday afternoon. In
front of Gains paint shop dwells a colony OF
black ants, and around the corner of Trow-
bridges drug store, about half block away,
Is colony OF red ants. About 3 o'clock in
the afternoon of Tuesday last people who do
business In that vicinity noticed large num-
Der of red ants going north. Watching them
they found that their destination was the home