Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1861-12-20

He don't be afther doin' it Id quick I'll
smash in the winde, an once come till the
cursed, stinkin', ould dthrayman, I'll grip
the poker and soften his haid for i'm, 80
will'' AT length, on promise Of good be.
havior, her " ould mon" admitted her; but
no sooner was she within doors than she pro-
ceeded to carry out her threat of " "softcnin'
Johnny's haid, and "Johnny" gave her
really bad, brutal, beating About week
after this, one Mccormick, who knew them
both well, met Johnny" and asked: "And
how does the old woman do now days, John
ny9' "Very well very well indadc, Mis-
ther Mac! l broke broom handle all to
smithers over her haid, the other night, and
kicked her while in the ribs--an' she's do
in very well lndade now, Misther Mac,
thank yep
I promised in my last to say something of
a theatrical troupe about to visit us. Well,
they played here last night, and the night
before The company is composed Of the
following actors: Mr.. James Stark, who has
very good California reputation as trage-
dian; Mr.. Stevenson, not above mediocrity
in his profession; Mr.. Griffith, quite IA
vortc on the California boards as comedian !;
Mr.. Brown, torlerable performer in some
parts; Miss Isabel Hamlin, passable, here !;
Miss Douglass, barely so, and Nellie Brown,
quite pleasing comedienne. Nellie is good
singer, very good looking, dances well, and a
piquant and dashing actress-she will speed.
lily gain the favor of our Nevada audiences.
Mr.. Griffith is very good delineator of Irish
character, and is not bad in anything he un-
dertakes, but is too Insignificant in size to
appear in tragedy. Nellie Browns song of
the Railroad Keer" elected immense ap-
plause. She can get off the daeown east
twang as slick" as "amost any on EN-"
and in any part requiring dash and deviltry
always ready to "get up and dust" Our
theater is not altogether perfect in arrange
ment, and the most glaring and noticeable
defect is in machinery for hosting the cur
tain. Last night, after several bad balks,
the rag became seriously "stuck," and
for full fifteen minutes obstinatcly refused to
be " histcd." Here was most excellent
opportunity for the young men who consider
themselves witty "shoot of their mouths"
and they improved it to the utmost The
poor fellows tugging franticaIly at the drop
curtain, were exhorted in sailors phraseolo-
gy to- haul away on that lnainsheet, you
lubbersr' "Lay out on the yardarm and
reef it up, you dogs!' and five hundred other
like orders. One of the "show fellers," !" be.
coming exasperatcd at last stuck his head from
behind tho intractablc rag" and cried out ):
"Avast, there! the only cruise you lubbcrs
ever took, was across the plains in Pike
county gunboat!' This hit some of tic au-
diencc, and the noisiest, too, pretty hard,
and they "dryed." When at length the
"rag" did go up, its rising was greeted with
thunders OF applause.
Ihaye just returned from fire. The town
is saved again; we have been looking every
day for this place to be laid IN ashes. The
fire was in the dwelling house of Mr.. Cat
ten, a cousin to the Gattens of Muscatine
county, Iowa, and the house, framed build
ing of one story. with everything it contained
was consumed, leaving Mr.. Gatten and wife
nothing in the world except the clothes they
stood n;-hard for newcomers. During the
tire great number of teams were blocked in
on the street, and had the wind suddenly
changed great many of them would inevita-
bly have been consumed, as well as the whole
lower part of the city. -..a e.. ..
Hundreds and thousands Of teams are dai
ly rolling along the streets it is said that
there is no road in the United States on
which there is so much heavy teaming as on
this, from Carson to Virginia City. OF lum-
Der alone, it is said by heavy lumbermen
who are posted, there have been sold in Vir-
gina thirty million feet during the past year
and Virginia has only had her share with
her. sister towns. To produce thi, amount
of lumber there are forty saw mills running
in the timber ranges of Carson and Washoe
Valleys. The ruling price of this article du-
ring the past year has been from $50 to 1925
per NJ. The present price is about $3.50 and
the demand exceeds the supply It will soon
become necessary to bring all the fire wood
and steam wood for mills from the Scrras,
y to 1G miles distant, unless some of the
numerous late coal discoveries prove of real
value. The vein known as the " Whitman"
is at present the most promising, and have
seen some really beautiful specimens from
this mine. Yet + do not believe ANYTHING
has been found to justify the enthusiastic
Of those owning the mine
The specimens examined by me were of the
species called Ignite, and the deposit there
Tore not likely to prove Of great extent. All
the specimens saw were distinctly fibrous,
showing the ligneous formation quite as
plainly as common charcoal. Many thou
sands acres in the vicinity of these new coal
fields have been claimed and surveyed; no
company being contentcd with less than four
to sixNuarter sections. am of the opinion