Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1863-11-27
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Farm Products, Fancy Goods, and Domss-
tic manpfactures-A. j. Graves and wife.
ImpIlments-J. Bradley. 49,
Fine Art Hali--D. C. Williams and wife.
Music-H. c. Hunt. s."
A good and sufficient police will be in at
tendance at all times.
The price Of membership tickets is one
dollar, which will entitle man and wife, and
children under Is years Of age, to admis-
sion to the rooms during the exhibition and
to make as many entries as he, or she, may
wish. Single admission tickets, 20 cents
each. Admission to Concert, 25 cents. =
The entertainment on Christmas evening
under the joint management Of the Agricul-
tural Society and Ladies' Aid Society is
bound to be a I" big thing" There will be
music, vocal and instrumental, tableaux, re-
freshments, post-office, g,ab-bag. lotteries,
tables for the sale Of fancy articles, &c, &c.
sE-....
The Freight Monopoly at DunleiM. We
invite attention to an article on FIRST page
fron. the Independence Guardian, relative to
the abominabc monopoly exercised by the
Illinois Central Railroad Company in the
transportation Of freight. The present con.
dition Of affairs at the river is a shameful
imposition upon the people of Northern Iowa,
and one for which there is not the shadow
of ah excuse. The producers are as vitality
interested as the shippers, for if il were not
for the condition of things which there exist,
land which are stated at length in the arti-
Gle referred to,--farmers would realize from
three to five cents more or every bushel Of
wheat they sell than they now do. The
Guardian estimates that Buchanan County
pays an annual tribute to this monopoly of
$50 eco. There are at least ten other counties
that pay an equal sum each, and many others
that pay smaller sums. This proves that the
people through the country tributary to the
Dubuque outlet, are yearly robbed Of half a
million dollars by these remorselsss como
rants. Petitions have been repeatedly sent
forward asking for redress, but no attention
has been paid to them. For the presen. we
are in their power, and they intend to make
the most out Of us they can. How long are
we going to submit TO this wrong! What
We want is another eastern outlet, and until
we get it we may expect to be imposed upon.
If we had railroad from this point to Cedar
Rapids, q distance Of sixty miles, our troubles
in this respect would be at an ehd. This
would give US choice Of routes to Chicago,
the first by our present line and the second
by way Of the Chicago, Iowa C Nebraska
road, connecting at Clinton with the Fulton
and Iowa line of the Ga!ena and Chicago
Union road. BY this last mentioned route
the distance from this point to Chicago is said
to be thirteen miles less than by the former.
If this short strip of road were built the rates
Of transportation would fall instanter, and
the state Of affairs at tho river would be
speedily Iighted.-and besides all this there
would be a promptness and accommodation
manifested in business matters, that is not
now shown. The people Of this section of
the State would save money by building
branch from here 10 Cedar Rapids themselves
If the present monopoly is to continue to
bleed them for sny great length Of time. We
can see no other remedy for the evil than the
one we have spoken.
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R- If you meet q welldressed man on
the stree. and ask him where he got his
clothes, ten chances to one, he will say $ /
got them at ELLERNAN's Philadelphia Cloth
ing Emporium, where advise all my friends