Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1861-12-20
Letter from Dan Dc Ouille.

SILVER CRY, N. I. Nov. 10, '61.
DEAR GAZETTE In my last | wrote all
about our mills, etc, I have now nothing
new in that line to speak of-and but little in
any line. Yet am sufficiently presumptous
to think | can fish up something that NAV
serve to amusc your fcaders but what it's
to be, don't see, as yet.
There Is great rejoicing throughout this
Pacific region at the completion of the over
land line Of telegraph. Hereafter we will
have any great events transpirng at the seat
of war as soon as they can be known any.
where; and, in fact, in advance of you at
Cedar Falls Why don't you try for line
of telegraph to the Fslls9 1t is our great in
stitution here-we don't see how folks can
live or keep house without a telegraph line at
the door. And, now it comes into my head,
| may as we'll tell it: A merchant at Grass
Valley, Cal, has line from his store to his
residence, some half-mle out of town-how
nice! His wife can say Dear John, come
home quick-baby's got the colic!' or, "Dear,
I've just put on the potatoes s-supper in
twenty minutes" John can say: "Jane,
Brown will come up to tea with me-slicl,
things up little,"-that is, supposng "Jane''
doesn't always keep " things slicked up
Success to the family telegraph ....
We have two dailies here-the ,Silrer Age
published at Carson City, and the Territorial
Enterprise, at Virginia City. Beside these
a great number of California and Atlantic
papers arc sold here; you would be aston,
ished TO know how many We are contnu,
ally hungering and thirsting for news. There
is always grand rush when the mail or ex-
press coaches arrive. Our p. Ms here, on
receiving mail, call off all the letters, and
any one hearing his name sings out, Here ~
Anxious ones frequently call out with such
fervor as to raise laugh in the crowd. Then
all manner of remarks are made, as: There S
your letter at last, Jim !" Or" Bob, the old
gal hain't fooled you this time !"
| thiik hinted to you in former letter
that | have some rather unpleasant heighbors
in fact, know | did. Well, the young
gentlemen who aspire to become proficients
on the "brazen" instruments, are at this
time in all the agonies of Yankee Doodle.
think they must be striving to "locate" it in
all its "dips, spars, angles, and rariations"
God send that they may improve with the
utmost possible rapidity!
AS for the loving couple, of Hibernian ante
cedents, they, am happy to announce, are
advancing at a killing" pace. About twice
a week the cry Of murder is to be heard issu-
ing from their do,nicile, and hope the fate
OF the Kilkenny cats may yet be theirs. In
their last engagement the old man rather
his worser-half and succeeded
in fastening her out of the house himself
being strongly intrenched within. The old
lady beat the house with clubs, stones, and
boards in vain. Her most promising daugh-
ter, aged thirteen, chip of the old block,
Notwithstanding. she is fresh from San
Francisco convent, assisted her in the opera
ton of battering the house finding they
were not making headway at this, old one
changed her tactics and urged her daughter
to: Scream, Lczza-bcth scream, ye little
divil y and thus exhortcd Liza BETH set
up series of ear-piercing screeches that
would have put to shame the most elaborate
vocal efforts of Black Swamp "painter.'
Finding this procedure unlikely to produce
The desired effect, the little imp struck ou. in
an idea of her own. In high key, with
drawl, she cried: 1.-The God
above is good, mother! He'll perteckt us an
Hell punish him" The old ono thought
this might be good dodge and essayed it;
crying out in loud, sanctimonious tone:-
: Viz, ndS d.rlcr, Coed Is ri u-de. He'll