Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1861-01-25

Foundling.-On Sunday night last, on the
East side OF town, two men appeared at the
door Of Mrs. Dow. who asked permission to
be admitted into the house. She very polite
ly informed them there was a "hotel just
across the street." They replied that they
didn't care anything about that'-they want
ed her to open the docr-they would do her
no harm-they had watched her movements
for some days, and that they knew her to be
kind mother, &c. They attcm pied to open
the door by force. At this she became some
what frightened, and told them they had bet
ter leave, or she would load a gun and blow
their brains out. She accordingly loaded the
gun and fired through the door, but missed
them, and went through the bar-room window
of the hotel to which she had referred them,
coming within few inches Of taking effect
on man sleeping on the lounge. After dis
charging the gun they left, stating that upon
opening the door she would find something"
on her door steps. She dared not venture to
open it for at least two hours after they left.
| On opening the door she discovered bundle
and proceeding to unwrap it, to her surprise,
a new born (nakcd) infant made its appear
ance. Two horse blankets were wrapped
around the little fellow. and a small piece of
paper bearing the following inscription -
Pleas take good cere Of me Cali me Olracsr
Tuist." -. ... .....
The child lived until last evening. The
rough treatment the child received before
Mrs. Dow came in possession Of it, was pro-
badly the cause Of its DEATH Waterloo Cour-
Ter 18th inst
We learn that the paternity Of the above
founding is charged upon DR.. HARPER, of
Waterloo. Upon investigation before the
proper authorities, the proofs were consider
ed strong enough against the gentleman to
hold him to bail in the sum of $500, to ap-
pear before the Circuit Court at the next
term. The mother is Mrs. LYNN, also of
that place, whose husband has been absent
at Pixies Peak, for two years or more.
The Saoac.-We have had two mails from
the East, since our last issue. The snow
lies very deep upon the ground, and high
winds have drifted it so as to completely
block up the railroad, as we'll as all other
roads. AS fast as tracks could be cleared
they would fill up, and be as bad as ever
Every farmer who comes to town has to break
his own road, for in few minutes after
team has passed the track will be entirely oblit-
Grated. From the Dubuque Times we clip the
following account of the tribulations of the
Railroad:
The SNow.-Aft,r four or five DAYS of
fruitless endeavor to send train through to
Jesup, on Saturday the railroad men got
their backs up and made a mighty resolve to
60 through or die a-trying. Taking two To-
comotives belonging to the Western Railroad
and little switch engine, they attached them
all to the snow pillow, which had been stand. |
ing useless for the last four years, and start.
ed out. Conductor Cummings, Mr. H. B.
Clifford, Messrs. Gelpecke and Young, be-
sides several others, accompanied the expe-
dition, and away they went with big head
of steam on. 49,
The snow-plow worked admirably ripping
through great drifts ten feet in depth with a
perfect rush. The large locomotives snortcd
and charged along the track, shaking the lit
tie switch engine after them like a whiffet
tied to 2:40 horses tail.
By-and-by they ran into drift and stuck
then every man Of the gang, officers, Mickies
and all, had to get into the snow and work
like Old Scratch. Again they started on and
before they had proceeded far they smashed
into another diff that had filled up cut and
become so hard as entirely to razee the pillow
taking off the nose of the plowshare, the cab
standing on the same car, the smoke stack of
the forward engine and filling the cab of the
engine full of snow. In this condition they
ran four miles farther to Independence.
Conductor Northrnp was out through
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday,
with thirty passengers. He had arrived
nearly to Independence when the snow plow
overlook him, and would have got through
in the course of an hour or tvs more. ii
had number of laborers with him and had
succeeded by great deal of work in getting
almost through. The citizens of Manchester
turned out in body and helped him through
a cut this side Of their town,
They went through at last and returned
yesterday safe and sound with the exception
of being more or less frost bitten. Tim Kel-
logg says he lost over 800 pounds of flesh on
the trip. He don't weigh half so much as he
did, if that's the case.
The joke Of the last paragraph is, that TIN
weighs about ninety pounds with his over
coat on.