The Cedar Co. news-letter. [volume] (Tipton, Iowa) 1853-1853, 1853-11-12
ITEMA.

kayIt is already proposed in Boston
% give Koszta, on his arrival al that port,
public reception.
etA-Com. Stewart, odd Ironsides,
is said to be dangerously i'll at his resi-
dence, Bordentown, n. J.
nE-The Cholera has been making
fearful ravages at Havana, Mantanzas
and other points.
Esy- Seven thousand copies of Mr..
Choate's eulogy Of Webster, j, is said,
have been sold.
Ecy- TIE orator for the next Com
mencemen, a, Yale College is to be
William II. Seward--the poet John e.
SAKE.
esg-The height Of the Washington
National Monument is now one hundred
feet and another course viii be commence
ed in a few days.
E1yAn unjust acquisition is like a
barbed arrow, which must be drawn back
with horrible anguish, or else it will be
your destruction.
IsJr All false practices and afectations
of knowledge are more oaioas to God, and
deserve TO be 50 to men, than any want
or defect Of knowledge can be.
eDW We regret to learn that Brevet
B.igadier General Thos. Childs, OF the
army OF the United States, died at Tampa
Bay, Florida, Of yellow fever, on the
ST.. ult.
Esy-The Portsmouth Chronicle states
tina. in a garden in that city, is "a st. An
drews pear tree, which has borne three
crops OF pears the present season, and is
now ia-bud for the fourth crop.
fTThere were 69l books published
in the United States during the SIX months
ending June 30, Of which 1863 Were re-
prints of English books, and II Original!
translation from the German and French.
ryThe War Department, it is said,
has contracted with the owners OF the new
steamship San Francisco, to convey six
companies of United States troops to
California and Oregon, from New YORK.
nayDr. Young, the newly appoint
ed Catholic Bishop Of Pittsburg, declines
the appointment. DR.. GROCERY, ap-
pointed to the new See Of Portland, Me-,
likewise declines.
$50 The great race between a night
mare and ciothes-horse came off yes
terday. The man who entered the mare
WASH. wide awake so the horse took
the prize.
ra-Sorrow ought not to be the DO
INVESTIGATED guest OF our souls, as much
as ioy and pleasure; and He who counts
al tears, who dries our hearts-He
Knows well whJ. we weak mortals are
fitted to enlure.
KEY-noLE TEsrIMoSv.-Miss Cline,
who has Just recovered $500 Of Mr.. Suy-
dam, uidowcr in New Jersey, for breach
OF marriage, proved her case BY female
friend, who to crafty her curiosity, list
ened and overheard the contract through
4 hole in the floor.
nrThe Bank Of Lucas s Simonds
of Springfield and the City Bank OF
Quincy, Illinois, have determined to wind
up, and for that purpose give notice TO
bill holders to present notes for payment.
There must be something ID the wind to
produce this result. Dubuque Herald.
Eg Profit or pleasure there is meme
in swearing, nor any thing IN mems nat
ural tempers TO incite them 10 it. Though
some men pour out oaths as freely as Il
they came naturally from them, yet
no man was bora oil swearing consti-
tuition.
ayThc mos. elevated and pure souls
eanuot hear, even from the lips of the
most coatemp,ihle men, these words,
Friendship, seas,bit,ty and virtue with
out Immediately attaching to them all the
grandeur OF winch their heart is suscep-
,i5le.
SsssAt last accounts most fearful
fire was raging in the Woods about De.
noit and Annarbor in Michigan, spread
ing over upwards Of 10000 acres Of
swamp, destroying houses and barns
obstru3iing railway trains and filing tn,
city oil Dcuoit with the densest s.anhe.
tssg-TSa Irishmen got fghtlng al
Ellsworth, Maine, last Sunday, Ia Which,
one Of the eomhatauts bit OF the Others
nose ard swallowed il. while the Per
petrator Of this act vas a his way to the
lock-up, he attempted TO cut his own throat
with pentnite.
nGs There arc upon tue Illinois Cen
trail Road II 900, 900 acres OF private
Land, which sell at an average ol seven.
dollars, where they would no, IN iS3!
bring three daliafs--a rise OF at least
81 100000 already. based upon the
availability Of the produce for market.