Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1860-05-11
Scissored and Scrubbed.

| The English public at present have in their
hands 81 I, 500, OO0in Bank of England notes.
The Masonic orders in the United States
now embrace 4,792 lodges and 1915, 10 mem.
bers.
The trial of Judge Terry for killing Sena.
tor Broderick has been postponed until next
june
The Dubuque Times is informed that the
new Code of Iowa, will be printed at Hart
ford, Conn.
The "gulch" dust from Pixies Peak is
found at the mint to be worth 1888 pei
ounce net
F. P.Blair Senior, and VIM. l.. MARSHALL
are delegates at large to the Chicago Conven.
ton from Maryland.
The Emperor Napoleon is said to be grow.
ing very round shouldered, and on horseback
resembles hunchback.
"Old Bigelow," the veteran counterfeitcr,
has been convicted at Chicago and will wind
up an ill spent life in the States Prison.
Robert J. Walker has written sharp let
ter in reply to the articles against him in the
government organ. 1t is said that the Cab
met wish they had let him alone
Gov. Allston, of s. Carolina has given an
order to Mr.. Phelan for the manufacture of a
splendid billiard table, which he intends to
present to the State Lunatic Asylum at Co.
lumbus.
During the recent session of the Circuit
Court at Covington, Kentucky, Judge Moore
decided that divorces granted in Indiana to
citizens of Kentucky are not good in the lat
ter State.
The Washington correspondent of the
Philadelphia Inquirer says the newspaper re-
port that Col. Forney is about to resign the
Clerkship Of the House of Representatives, is
not true.
The st. Paul Pioneer, of April 26, an
nounces on the authority of the contractor
that the telegraph line from La Crosse to St.
Paul will be completed and in operation by
the first day of August next
Mrs. Burdell Cunningham and family
were passengers by the last steamer from n.
Y. to Aspinwall, en- route to California. She
was travelling incog. but was recognized by
parties who know her well.
In the district court of Erris, County Mayo,
Ireland, 10000 people are said to be in
state Of absolute restitution, and the able
bodied of both sexes are running from the
famine stricken locality.
The Madison, Wisconsin, Aryus says that
the number of mortgages on farms to rail-
road companies in that State, is $500, the
average of mortgages is 81 POO, and the total
amount, $5,4Oo,ooo.
The Acting Mayor of New York, on May
4th, sent message to the Board of AlGer-
men, stating that he had received official in
formation that the steamship Great Eastern
will make her first trip to this port.
The Springfield RepW5liGdn OF the 10Th
ult., relates that an Irishman decamped from
that city lately on the eve of marriage, with
800 which his intended had taken out of
the savings bank and trusted to his safe keep
ing.
The Boston Commercial Bulletin says the
great manufacturing interests of New Eng
land never stood better than ut present, and
thinks some, or many of the mills there, will
make such exhibits in June as will surprise
people, and remind them of old times
The Editorial excursion over the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad will be a very large one
On May Sd, over 200 editors were at
Wheeling Va. ready to start the next day
for Baltimore and Washington. The excur-
sion is in charge of Nh; Prescott Smith
The st. Louis & Cincinnati Packet Prairie
Rose, Capt Fenton, bound from Cincinnati
to St Louis, with full cargo of furniture,
iron, and assorted merchandise, was sunk at
the foot of st. Genevieve Bend, in the Mis-
sissippi river on Sunday morning, the Goth
ult.
The editor Of the Sioux City Register has
been presented with hens egg measuring
six inches in circumference one way and
and eight inches the other.
The steam road locomotive lately invented
at Hannibal No., has been adding to its use
full AUCTIONS the power of driving plow The
owners have already engaged to "break up
1000 acres of land in Macon Co.
1t is costly to be profane in Worcester,
Mass On Saturday Joseph S. Hill. was
fined So and costs, amounting in all to $l5,-
10, for "profanc swearing"
The Pennsylvania papers say that already
two hundred oil wells have been found in
that State, and that speculation is increasing
with each newly discovered deposit.
The Buffalo printers who are on a strike
for living wages, telegraphed to their brother
craftsmen in Chicago for pecuniary assistance.
The members of the Chicago Typographical
Union rallied TO the rescue, and sent them
an exchange on Buffalo, per telegraph, of
over forty dollars.
Hon. Eli Thayer of Massachusetts,, has been
elected delegate at large to the Chicago Con-
.vention from Oregon, compliment to him
for his services in securing the admission of
that State.
In Keokuk choice butter is worth "a cents
per pound; chickens $500 to 81 20 per doz.
business dull, says the Gate.
John Browns family is likely to be rich.
It has already received upwards of forty thou
sand dollars, and the report is still the money
comes.
&C. Townsend, proprietor of the Orphans
Home of Industry, at Iowa City, acknowl-
edges the receipt of S25317 from more than
one hundred contributors.
The recent frcshcts in Ohio are said to have
damaged the canals Of that State to the
amount of 100000.
thAbout fifty emigrant wagons pass daily
D rough Council Bluffs en- route for Pixies
eak. So says the Bugle.
The county elections in Minnesota have re-
suited so well for the Republicans that the
Winpna Republican cXultinyly promises f.