Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1865-11-24
Iowa Items.


The State institution for the deaf an,
J, dumb, Mt Iowa City, contains 65 pupils
Captain A. NJ. Hubbard has been ap
pointed Judge Of the Eighth Judicia
District Of Iowa.
Hon A. w. Hubbard, Member of Con
gress of the sixth District of Iowa, c.
route for Washington, and Peter Melen
dy, President of the Iowa State Agri
cu'tu. al Society, are in this city to-day
| stopping at the fremont Household
cagO Journal, 2lst. .-e-
| A Soldiers monument was inaugural
ed in Hopkinton, Iowa, on Friday last
in commemoration OF soldiers who hat
fallen during the war, formerly stu
dents of the Collegiate Institute of that
place. . .....#
/ The Iowa Central railroad is being
! pushed forward with great energy, and
although just begun, it bids fair to be
one Of the first completed roads. 1t re.
ceived much of its impetus from st.
Louis, which city is wiser in promoting
railroads through the rich valleys OF
Iowa than in breaking down Mississip-
pi river bridges.
On Wednesday afternoon, David
Evans, harness maker, while at work
in his brothers shop, two doors west of
the Post Office, cut his throat with a
knife, while in fit of temporary insan-
ity. He nearly severed hiswind pipe, but
did not touch the large veins or arteries.
He is still alive but no hopes are enter
tanned for his recovery.-Ph@nis 18th.
Those ten new freight ears that con-
ductor James Robb went after to Mich
igan City arrived on Thursday of las.
week via the Clinton bridge and the
Southwestern road. They are marked
" ID. & st. p. r.. r. and will run be-
tween Waverly and Waterloo, thereby
relieving that number of cars for the
use of shippers on the d. d S. c. II. r.
dubuque Herald. .
Plat Smith, President of the Du-
buque and Sioux City r.. II. has lately
been up the line of the Cedar Falls &
Minnesota Road as far as Floyd. He
says it will cost SG50O00 to build the
road from its present terminus at Wa
verify to Charles City, and that the
work will be pushed forward as rapid
ly as possibie.-Ib.
The Fenians of Iowa City publish an
address to their brethren through the
papers of that place. The Catholic
Priest of that city, Father Emons, gets
pretty sound castigation for his HOSTILE
ty to the fenian movement.
The Anamosa Eureka says Asa q
Bowen, of Bowen's Prairie, in that
county, has made IL 500 lbs. of cheese
from thirty-tive cows the past season.
A young lady named Valentine was
drowned, a few days since, while at
tempting to cross the Iowa River in the
southern part of Hardin County.
The Board of Canvassers convened at
Des Moines on the 9th. The returns of
the State not being all in, only portion
of the votes We're examined. The fol-
lowing is the soldiers vote on the State
ticket: ....
Union. 'Possum.
supt. OF Pnbllc instruction ss5 i25
The Board OF Canvassers adjourned to
the first Monday in December, to COM
plete the returns for Senators and Rep
resentatives.
Letters have been received in this
city by the friends of Geo. Hesse, the
prodigal youth who eloped the other
day with his Mary Ann and more or
less funds belonging to his father. The
letters were written in st. Louis, where
George was married and living in fine
style, occupying first class apartments
in one of the first class hotels of that
city. He said that his Mary had a check
for 5000 which he got eashed at bank,
and with the $500 that he held they
were able to live EAST for several
months. He also added that by the
time his letter arrived here lie would be
in New Orleans, and when the last cent
of their iil-gottOn gains We're all gone
they both intended to blow out their
brains and end their existence, That
would be rather Frenchy" taken all
through; it would make q capital story
founded on fact, for writers of yellow
covered literature to exercise their wits
upon.-Dubulue Herald.
Yesterday morning thirty orphan
children from the New York Juvenile
Asylum passed through Chicago ca
route for Pennington, Van Buren, Co.
Iowa, in search of homes. They are
under the care of Mr.. I'll. ID. Perry, and
went west Uia the Chicago, Burlington
and Quincy railroad. Mrs. Experience
Bailey, inatron of the st. Lawrence
County Poor House, Canton, y. Y,
having in charge twenty-one orphan
children from that institution, arrived
in tho city on Wednesday evening"
They were met here by the Rev. Mr..
Townsend, of Iowa City, to whom they
are indentured during minority, who
will take them to his large farm, and
provide for them till he can procure
hpn1na for Them apnnp o. forn,ora nf that