Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1860-05-04
Scissored and Scrubbed.

SClSSof60 ana 0Cr1DDleo.
In 1s5H1he3American coal trade reached
&c, 100000 tuns. .-.,7-- -s---
The fruit prospects was never better in
Henry County. h..
The Chicago Times estimates the popula-
ton of that city at lao, 900.
A monument to Father Matthew is about
to be erected in the Central Park N. Y. .
There has been over 14O Republican Clubs
formed in this State.
An Irish paper ndvertises, Wanted an
able. bodied man as a washer-woman."
There are 165 soldiers of the Revolution
still living. The youngest of them is s9years
old.
The Virginia treasury is deficient some
5000, O0O-just the about. amount John
Brown cost them. ~
The Davenport Domootat SAYS the Treasu.
ry of that city contains just one dollar, and
advises persons holding orders to make q
rush. ..
According to the Fort Dodge Sentinel,
that place has lost hundred Of her inhabi.
tants by the Pixies Peak fever.
The ladies of Rockford, Illinois, are engag-
ed in the very laudable work of setting out
shade trees in the park Of that city:
Boston, says the 7rareler, has two humid
red and fifty ships in the India and Pacific
trade at the present time.
Dr. Wrangles, Republican, has been elect
ed Mayor of Kansas City, No., by 115 ma
jority. This is the Kansas City chat was
once the hot bed of border rufiianism.
A daily line of fourteen first class propcl-
lers has been placed on the route between
Buffalo, Clcaveland and Chicago, and will
hereafter run between these ports. a
In Clay county, Indiana, few days ago,
a woman, obtained divorce from her hus-
band, and married another fifteen minutes
afterwards.
Col. Joel w. Prouk, Of Ohio, has been
confined in q luralic asylum. His malady is
peculiar one and chiefly displays itself in
looking after needle in hay stack.
In Philadelphia, few days ago, a drunk
ell scoundrel, while passing along the street,
seized child, only seven years old, and
dashed its brains out on the side walk. When
arrested the only excuse of the ruflian was
that he was drunk.
The Minnesota River drains one of the most
fertile regions of Minnesota State and is nav
igable, 800 miles, to Patterson's Rapids.
A veteran named Ezekiel Barns. who died
recently in Ohio, voted fer sixty-nine years
consecutively.
The Louisiana papers state that a very Sc
we're drought is prevailing in that State, and
vegetation is suffering much.
Another highest mountain peak has been
discovered: It's Kenichinginga, on the wes-
tern range of the Himalays in Asia. 1t reaches
the enormous altitude of twenty-eight thou
sand feet.
Mr.. r. Lowell, of Syracuse, n. Y, has
adopted a novel method of renting houses.
He has a number of houses, and to each ten
ant he offers the induccment of a daily news
pepper.
There is a noble organization Of women in
Philadelphia, who under the name of Rosine
twelve years rescued and restored to their
friends, six hundred and eighty -four fallen of
the female sex.
$25,000,000 of goods from Europe by the
Canadian lines OF steamers had been landed
at Portland last month, and the Hungarian
had more when she was wrecked. - Il
A premium of fifteen hundred dollars has
been offered for the best stallion, by the St
Louis Agricultural and Mechanical Associa-
ton. This will attract to the annual Fair a
magnificent collection of horses. .
The Duchess of Leeds, recently subscribed
FL 900 in aid of the Pope. This lady is an
American, and one of the grand daughters of
Charles Carroll, of Carrollton, one of the sign
CTS of tie Declaration of Independence.
Solomon Sturgess, Of GAINESVILLE Ohio,
advertises over one hundred thousand acres
of land for sale in Indiana, Illinois and Iowa.
The Iowa State Medical Society will hold
its next arual meeting at the cityeof Dubu-
que, on the second Wednesday of May next.
The remarkable feat of reducing to six
days the period required for communicating
between London and Calcutta has been ac-
complished. ..-
The New York Methodist Conferences have
been engaged in an exciting debate on slave
ry.
The census takers of the United States are
to commence their work on the 1st Of June
next.
Elk Gov Corwin and Francis P. Blair, IT..
are to address the Virginia Republican Con
ventiop, which meets at Wheeling on the I'd
day Of May.
The Chicago papers state that intelligence
has been received in that city of the death of
+. Johnson of Philadelphia. He was at the
head of the oldest Type Foundry in the Unit
ed States, and printers everywhere will hear
of his decease with regret. His type was
noted for its durability, and his establishment
for the beautiful styles it originated.
The Co.ode Congressional Investigating
Committee (says the Washington correspon-
dent of the Cincinnati Gazette has made
more striking discoveries of corruption in the
book-binding contracts. Even Judge Black
himself declared if certain testimony was
true, the conduct Of the President was Sin
famous" The same testimony has since
been corporated by five competent and relia-
bic witnesses. The testimony referred to fix
es upon the President the direction of profits
on the binding contracts to support papers
and influence elections in violation of law in
the same manner as was done with those
from the printing contracts.
The Committee Of Public Expenditures. of
which Mr.. Haskin is Chairman, is about to
investigate the whole subject of the transpor-
tation of army stores to Utah, during the diff
culties there for the last few years. Look
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