Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1866-02-09
News Items.


Seventy horses were burned in New
York on saturday night by the destruc-
ton Oi the BECKER street and Fulton
Ferry Horse Railroad Company's sta
bles. .." ...
Another terrible steamboat disaster
has taken place. The steamer Lady
Carter exploded her boilers near Vicks-
burg, while on her way from Louisville
to New Orleans, killing a large number,
among them Mrs. Jacob Hoifner, wife
of one of the oldest and most estimable
citizens of Cincinnati.
Richard Colburn, of the N. Y. Tri-
buae, and George r. Knapp, of the st.
Louis Repubiicon, have been arrested
for libel, at the instance OF A. I. Stew
art the dry goods millionaire. The al
legged libel is contained in II letter writ
ten to the Republican by Mr. Colburn.
An emigrant ship reached New York,
after tempestuous voyage OF 10 days,
from Hamburg, having had 33 deaths
on board while at sea. ..8-. ,
The Canadian frontier is much excited
over the anticipated invasion of the
Fenians. The military are under arms,
ready to repel the enemy.
Freedmen are being placed on ship
board by the reconstructed rebels of the
South, under pretence of going to Flor
ida to labor, and conveyed to Cuba and
sold into slavery.
The removal of the State Capital of
Kentucky from Frankfort, is said to he
a foregone conclusion. 1t will be located
either at Louisville or Lexington.
The extensive paper mill of o. M.
Butler, at st. Charles, ILL.,, was destroy
by fire OH Sunday night. Loss SlOO, 900
insurance, $4,000. -H
Hon. James Harlan, Secretary of the
Interior, oneevening last week, presided
at IL meeting OF MethOdists i'm New
York, on the occasion of the celebration
of the one hundreth anniversary of the
establishment of that denomination in
! this country.
On the lst of February, according to
the official statement. the total nation
al debt amounted to 81, S24 ,39l 800. II.
the Treasury, and the amount of the
| Indebtedness is 50, 716, sos, 152.63. The
increase during January amounts to
| 100000. F..
| The John Brown song seems to have
been adopted in the British Navy. A
serious disturbance recently took place
on board Her Magesty's steamer Lean
der, at Valparaiso, which began by the
men refusing to come up when the
watches were called, and beginning to
shout and yell i'm chorus, =" Wen hang
commander Patten to an old apple tree
LAST Wednesday noon three men
walked into the office of Frank Skinner
d Co., real estate agents, in Spaulding' 8
Exchange, Buffalo, and one of them
inquired of the boy left in charge. a lad
about some sixteen years old, for the
proprietor of the office. He was told
! that he had gone to his dinner, and
would be back in about an hour. While
this conversation was going on, one of
the men managed to get near enough
to the boy to catch him by the throat,
and hold him fast, while another placed
a gag in his mouth and bound him hand
and foot. Meanwhile, the third took
from drawer the keys of the safe,
opened it, and distracted therefrom
nearly 81 900 in bank bills, with which
all three escaped. .
| Two youthful ruuaways from Balti-
more--a boy of fourteen and girl of
fifteen--were found last week i'm Wash
ington, where the boy was engaged in
selling papers at the Capitol, and the
girl had secured a situation as a house
servant at SIS per month. The girl
stoutly protested against being sepa-
rated from her. companion; said she
loved him, and if she hadn't she
wouldn't have spent her S. in coming
there with him. She said they We're
young, but not too young to love, and if
they sent him to the House of Refuge
they would have to send her too. The
boy took, his arrest rather cody, said lie
liked her, and would run away with
her again. They We're returned by the
officers to their respective homes, and
in Difference to the parents their names
are withheld.
THOUSANDS in the West place their
confidence in the Red Jacket Bitters,