Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1865-11-17
70 Wayerly and Back.


doing violence to our feelings, refuse
courteous invitation from our friend
b. Powers to take seat behind his dap
! pie grays for whirl up to Waverly an,
back.
i 1t was lovely, rolling along over tn
smooth prairie, famed by the grateful
air, now looking out at the great field
of unhusked corn, the broad acres o
stubble, the cattle, sheep, horses, hogs
now by the roadside, and again far OF
in the hazy distance, and then resting
our eyes on the even-going nags, who's
backs rose and fell like the prairie w,
traversed.
Thus we ratified over the bridge a
GAINESVILLE, and came to ourself in tina
reality of life which requires water fo
horses. AS Powers brought the wate
and we held the lines, we took peel
over GAINESVILLE. A good Touring mill
saw mill lit looks like), a dam Will
one end of it washed out, tasty schoo
house or church on q hill, some pretty
dwellings, more homely ones, a pleasant
| location, and-"All right :" the whiI
touches the flank of the off horse, and
away we go.
Powers told us the story Of the man
who was once up for Sheriff in Wright
County. We wondered why these mud
holes weren't fixed and this bridge re.
paired; and SO we went down a steer
hill and into Waverly. The off horse
got touch of the whip again, and
Powers and We Strengthened up to re-
ceive the wondering looks Of the PEG.
pie. Over the bridge, up the business
street, and the grays come round with q
scientific turn in a young lake to the
front door of the Bremen House.
This is Waverly. A block or two
east of where we have been dropped is
the Court House. 1t has basement
for Jail and Sheriff's residence, and two
stories on top of that for offices and
court room. A special term of court is
in session, for the trial of criminal
cases. Judge Fairfield presides. Judge
Collins is OH trial for robbing the Floyd
County treasury. He was deputy
treasurer ut the time of the robbery,
and for many years was County Judge.
The safe which was blown open occu-
pies place OH the witness stand. Forty
or fifty Floyd County people are in at
tendance.
We went to see Maynard, the good
fellow who has to do with the pn..y,,,,.
and the Postoffice. re gave us cigar.
He ::.a we sat down then to discuss our
individual blessings and troubles. We
hadn't got SO far as the troubles, when
Capt. Bagg and Powers joined us. We
proposed to treat. The conversation
Jagged Immediately. We insisted on
treating. Powers stopped talking en-
tirely. We urged Maynard to direct US
to place where we might treat. They
were all on their feet in moment
Soon after, we were asking a German
lady to Civ us some beer" Maynard
treated. A temperance lecturer follow
ed suit. Then we all concluded not to
drink any beer, but take sweet cracker
and an apple from the kind lady and go
home. So we went away, and the grays
were ordered out. | a
Waverly is very much improved since
We were there before. A great many
fine buildings have been put up, and
others are in process Of erection. A
block being built by Mr.. Curtiss struck
our eye. The merchants seem to be
driving a brisk trade, aud the grain
market appears lively. The people
complain, however, that they canno
get cars since Warnock took charge O
the railroad, and consequently the mar
ket is not what it should be. The depot
stands about a mile from the Bremen
House Oh the west side of the river, and
of course there have sprung up east and
west side rivalries. The east side has
altogether the advantage at present.
Here are the grays. We bid hasty
farewell to our jovial friends, pay fifty
cents for poor dinner, take seat be-
side the Attorney, who shakes the rib.
bons, says Whey, boy" to Charley
and hits Bill lick with the whalebone,
pulls into the.road, settles back in his
cushions, and remarks to us that he
feels better since supper. So we are
started on our evening ride for home.
Beside the horses we had but little
to look at except prairie fire which
cleaned up brightly perhaps twenty
miles away. At times we could see the
dancing Of the flames quite distinctly.
We We're home at last, and" Whoa
there; what the thunder's up?" We
were on the race bridge, and Bill, the of
horse, was fiat on his side, and strug-
Cling to regain his feet, which with one
or two pretty active movements he &C.
complished. The horse had stepped
into hole. A slight injury to the har.
ness and the breaking of the neck-yoke
were the only unhappy results. Bill
might have broken his leg as easily a.
not. The City Attorney thought about
the duty of the City Council. The pol,
was strapped up, and the grays walket
slowly to their stable. We ran into the
Postofflce to get warm. a...
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CHANGING ITS MIND.-The Dubuque
Herald seems to DO changing its mind
in regard to President johnson. The
President advised the Georgia State
Convention to repudiate the rebel debt
and the Convention did it. The Herald
doubtless considers that the rebel deb
should be paid, and evidently feels dis
gusted with the "subjugated" condition
of the people Of that State. The Her
aid says:
1--WE have no respect for the convention
composed OF the representatives of the peopl
OF sovereign state, that at the mandate o
power votes to repudiate an Indebtedness con
tracted by the State In good faith, even though
II be by the close vote OF 1873 to III II the Stat
of Georgia Is subjugated let 1t put on no SHOW
gary quietly sink to its place as a province.-
! II the Presidents will Is law there, Georgi