Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1866-01-19
SIGH KLA IN MISSOURI.
About Grant City..-The Price OF Land
.'-Sigh on a Wife.hunting Trip.
His Impressions at
Marriage Feast.

M0fEINAC
Correspondence of the cedar Fails Gazette.
ST. JosEPH, Mo-, Jan. 10th, 1866.
Bro. GEo.:-Are yoti aware that there
are other counties than "Pike" i'm Mis-
souri,? So it appears; and as Iwander
ed well up toward the Iowa line, last
week, found that Worth County had
lately been "struck Off" Gentry Coun
tv. and had for its capital. Grant City
Scarcely week has gone by, however
since their capital was burned, and still
the citizens assured me by their words
and actions, that, ere long, another city
will be granted them.
Scattering settlements are to be found
all over the county. The old settlers,
who have lived here from ten to twenty
years, are gradually selling out, and the
unimproved lands, ut present prices,
will soon change hands, so that "now
is the time" for those who desire a
"new thing" in the way Of a healthy
climate, cheap lands, good water, rich
prairies and splendid timber, to immi
crate. Good farms can be bought for
from five to fifteen dollars per acre,
wood, water, &C., good and convenient.
Unimproved lands, timber fifteen dol
lars, prairie from two to five dollars per
acre. A few of the native residents de-
clared themselves from that noted coun-
ty and township in Indiana, some were
originally from Yillinor," but q large
majority wandered hitller from that
land of heavy fugs-"Ahiah.'
Wherever I introduced the subject OF
marriage (the object of my expedition
by the way, found the girls were "on
it," and the old men talked likewise.
oval, when Peter got married / gin
him the best SOW in the whole outfit,
and as Mary Jane is getting purity well
along l suppose I'll have to do some
thing for her when she concludes to
pop Off" According to my calculations
the old gents figures would fall consid-
erably under my aspirations, SO bidding
them hasty farewell l hurried on to
the next neighbo.'s. The next neighbor
happened to be an ''old cOuntryman,
just come oyer" and as l neglected my
German reader while attending school
l was forced to pass on after few mo-
ments spent in pointing, winking, nod
ing and grunting. The sight that met
my gaze as l mounted the next hill was
well calculated to make q fellow, in my
calling, slightly intoxicated. Oh! now
don't be too certain that "Sigh saw q
whisky barrel well hooped up "an' a
that" because didn't; but | did see a
row of girls On the east side of large
log house, and they had no hoops OH
guess-for they looked very tall and
and were all dressed in mixed
blue and white homespun, one breadth,
SO many yards long, according to the
actual wants of the subject. The south
side of said mansion furnished back
ground for the following photo: -
Thirteen young men in thirteen differ
ent positions busily engaged in flip
ping small stones at rail in the fence
close by, and as they Flip "wonder what
the girls are talking about" Suddenly
I" Sigh K!a' is noticed and then there's
. punching up" and as 1 touch toe
and heel, toe and heel, to the best of my
knowle lge, it appears to excite admira-
ton among the ladies and my checked
shirt envy among the gents. Inquired
for the 'man of the house." and he in
formes me that by waiting three hours
and paying quarter | shall have a seat
at The first table of a wedding dinner
Whew! / am astonished! get the old
man to point out the married couple,
never give the bridegroom the slightest
cause for jealousy, swallow large
amount of turkey, and march back to
st. Joe minus not one jot or little of my
affection for Bro. Geo.
Rain, rain, rain, consequently, posi-
lively muddy, comparatively six-foot-
er is knee deep in mud, and superlativc-
" speaking there is nothing but mud.
The river is open for miles above and
below, Lut some places are still blocked
up between Atchison and Kansas City.
Times are dull just now, and probably
will be until spring, but during the hol-
idays st. Joe was lively enough for me.
SIGH KLA.
WA