The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1857-07-25

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TIE CLERK Of the weather is treating Us
to some pretty spicy connections, just NOS,
prepared Of such condinents - the hottest
kind Of sunshine, breezes heated to boiling
point, and dust enough to smother one. In
this latitude, July seems to be the month
for hot weather, and We can now congrasu-
late ourselves that it Is almost over; then
comes another month nearly - warm, and
then we may hope for cool days, pleasant
breesss, and all the beauties OF
ELECTION DAT Is near At hand, and dill
pen, ot;ee-.eekers and hot-headed polisi-
r;ans are having An interesting time, for
rbs. with the warm weather without, and
the palpitations of heart within, their case
can be no very snviable one, and it is tcbs
hoped the approaching crisis will afford
them some relief. But as in matrimos!,
and all other games Of chance, SO in politics
some must draws blanks, and the defeat
ed ones can at least have that fact to console
them in the disappointment occasioned BY
The CIR ORDINANCE to close all drinking
"ins,i,utions" on the Sabbath is decidedly
good idea, and the improvement eonse-
auen, shereupon, was last Sabbath plainly
visible in the quiet and order maintained
Throughout. the entire city. May the ball be
kept in motion, till not only upon the Sab
bath, but upon every other day, it shall be
q violation of law, to retail ardent spirits.
Too long already, has the plea that this is a
border town, and a mixed and changeable
community, been the excuse for immortality
and disorder. We are fast becoming set
tied and permanent community, and there
is no reason why we should not adopt all
the rules of morality and virtue that govern
The County We learn, has purchased a
site for the new Court House about to be
built. The lot is on the South side at Low
er Broadway, and is fine one, being seV enty
six feet front, and cost over $500. Verify,
in this land Of lawyers, and lawsuits, we
do need new Court House, and the pile OF
cottonwood logs that has SO long served the
county for all such public purposes, will no
doubt be consigned to some ignonlnlous
fate, such as was visited upon.
The CITY HALL, we notice is progressing
finely. Workmen are now engaged on the
foundation, and though not ''foundsd upon
a rock" we notice plenty of rocks are used
in its construction, and we imagine it will
never share the fate of the house we read
of that was built upon the sand. The struc-
ture when completed will be fine affair,
and an ornament to
The MANY FINE BUILDINGS that are going
up this season, are certainly an index that
we are thriving people, and musttend to
dispel tho objections often waged against
Council Bluffs, by those who visited it two
years ago-that it contained so many poor
log houses, and 50 few good buildings
Those old log hu,s are fast giving place to
fine substantial brick buildings, and by
another year, we shall expect to see shade
trees, and shrubbery cultivated more gen.
orally, and more attention given to
A BAND of negro MINISTRIES have been
holding forth in town q day or two past,
but not having particular penchant for
that species of amusement, we have not
visited them. We notice however, that they
draw good crowds, or at least large crowds
Of men and boys, bat ladies seem as by COM
mon consent, to eschew visiting them, and
for that reason, if no other, we would not
like to vouch for the morality Of the thing.
But they will doubtless flourish for n time,
as every thing in the line of amusement does
here, and having sung all their songs, danced
all their jigs, and recited all their connum-
drums, dozen times over, will depart for
some other quarter, there to 60 through
with the same interesting performances,
entertain other audiences, and amuse chill
dren and MORE ANON.