Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1864-04-29
IOWA NEWS,

IOWA NEWS.
The Anamosa Eureka Of last Friday no
tees the shipment Of forty.onc barrels Q
potatoes from that place to The Northern 10
wa Sanitary Fair, and says the Ladies' All
Society few weeks previous sent $50 i,
cash. Jones County is evidently going to d
her duty to the Sanitary Fair at Dubuque.
The Iowa negro regiment, commanded b.
Col. John G. Hudson, now known as tn
Goth U. s. Infantry, A. D., and now on gar
rison duty at Helena, is highly spoken of a
an excellent regiment, well disciplined an.
drilled.
The Dubuque Times has raised the sub
scription price Of its weekly to 81, 90 . year
FRox the Mason City Republican we learr
that on last Saturday drove of one hundred
and six working cattle left Clear Lake fo
Sioux City to be disposed Of to Idaho emf
grants. The cattle were purchased in Worth
Winnebago, and Cerro Gordo counties, ant
the purchaser expects to realize from thei
sale the neat little profit Of s., 900 to g., 500
STEPS are being taken in Cerro Cord,
County to assist the Northern Iowa Sanitsr,
Fair.
The Third Iowa Battery had ball in theil
honor at Dubuque on Monday evening ant
started for Davenport on Tuesday morning
A new battery and equipments await then
at st. Louis.
The Davenport Gazette of the 10Th inst
says: "Six hundred aud ninety. six recruits
have been received and mustered in at Head
quarters in this city since the first of April
Most Of these had enlisted prior to the sus.
pension of payment of the $500 bounty
Since the reduction to 800, as formerly,
volunteering is not quite so brisk, but is
slowly keeping up nevertheless.
The Sioux City Register says that Fred.
Pattee, brother Of Lieut.. Col. Pattee, and p.
Tennis We're recently murdered by Sioux In
dams about forty FIVE miles above that city,
on the Big Sioux river. They were trappers
and we're coming down the river in small
boat with furs. '
THE Cedar Rapids Times says that one
hundred and thirty families passed through
that city last Sunday for Dakota Territory.
A MAN exactly answering the description
of Sheriff O'Hair, the leader of the late Cop
pcrhcad riot in Coles county, Illinois, va,
arrested on Wednesday Of last week at
Knoxville, Marion county. We trust there
is no joke OIL any one but the identical
O'Hair.
The sth, 18th, 18th, 18th, and 18th Iowa
regiments have returned to the field.
LIKE the Pharisee of old, we can be heart
lily thankful that we are not as other men
are, married.-Local Of the Nuscatine Jour-
nal.
If you were, you would probably pray
the prayer Of the Publican.
The Des Moines State Register speaks as
follows Of Jacob Rich, editor of the Inde-
pendence Guardian, and Chief Clerk of the
late House of Representatives
"Mr Rich proved himself in his admins
tration ofthe Chief Clcrkship one of the best
officers who has ever filled that position, and
was deservcdly popular with the entire House.
He was systematic and always at his post, a
good reader an excellent writer, and withal
fellow generally
TnE last number of the Anamosa Eureka
q communication from DIR. l..
French, formerly Assistant Surgeon of the
3lst regiment, in which he gives valuable
truths from his army experience of the bene-
fits accruing from the Sanitary Commission.
He says Of this institution that it "carries in
itself almost the very life ard health Of our
friends in the army" He urges people to
be self sacrifcing and do to the extent of
their ability in relieving, through this chan
mel, the sufferings of our soldiers. We were
in the service with the Dr., and by his daily
calls on us at the regimcntal hospital at Hell.
cna formed some acquaintance with him, and
are willing 10 endorse his statements to the
full.
A Catholic Church is being built in Inde-
pendence. The building is to DO Of brick,
md 45x75 feet in size. .
TIM Ladies' Soldiers Friend Association of
independence refuse to work for the North
ern Sanitary Fair through the Buchanan
county organization, and having been re-
fused distinct department in the Fair,
therefore give notice in the Conservative, in
not very conservative style, that they shall
do nothing for the success of the Fair.
ORION Brothers Circus gave the first en-
tertainment of the season at Independence
on Monday, and on the day following went
to Manchester. During the winter the Com
pany made head quarters at Independence.
A young girl Of seventeen at Marshaltown
recently, in order to procure marriage H.
cense, took an oath that she was over 49,
She had slip Of paper in one of her shoes
on which was written IS! She's old enough
TO marry.
We are in receipt Of another new paper
from Delaware County-the Sentinel, pub
lished at Sand Spring, by T. II. Bower. Nc
Creary tried to keep alive one paper in Della.
ware, and gave it up with wall of despair.
Now, if two neat, live Union papers succeed
him and flourish, is not there joke some.
where on Nc? You must carry your sails
close reefed, gentlemen, for these are squally
times for newspapers. We trust the Sentinel
may live as long as the Union, and the Union
perish only with the last echoes of Gabriels
trumpet.
The Office Of the Bellevue Argus has been
removed to LYONS, where il il il to be used