Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1866-04-27

up, and the little 'un offered to 60 down
back'ards, and he did, and came out
dir0tly after, saying that he could feel
a mans head with his toes.
That policeman has had many glass
at my expense since, and hope he'll
have a many more; and when he tells
ME the story, which like to hear--but
always take care 1t shall be when Pol
ly's away--he says he knows 1 should
have liked to see how they tore that
drain up in no time. To which there's g
always such an echo in my heart. that
1t comes quite natural to say, You're
right, my boy!" . .a.' .... ...-
Laws OF the Eleventh General Assembly.
The following is list of the more inn
,portant laws enacted at the last session
of the Legisture of this State:
5. An act to authorize Sherifis to ad-
minister Oaths in certain cases.
10. An act to prevent the importation,
running Mt large, and sale, of horses,
mules or asses, diseased with nasal
gleet, glanders, or button farcey.
"a. An act to protect the earnings OF
married women.
q. An act to repeal section ., of
chapter 43, Of the acts of the Tenth
General Assembly, and section 3, of
chapter II, of the acts of the regular ses-
sion of the Ninth General Assembly,
relating to the duties of county Treas
urers.
33. An act changing the corporate
name OF independent schools of district
townships. ..t..-....
43. An act to provide for the educa-
ton and support of the blind. g..
53. An act providing dockcts for JUS
tices of the Peace. ..
55. An act to secure the back pay
due the First Iowa Cavalry.
81. An act fixing the salaries of the
District and Supreme Judges.
~. An act fixing the salaries Of cer-
tain State officers.
40. An act to provide for the collec-
ton and settlement of the notes and
mortgages received by James ID. Eads,
for money loaned by him out of the
permanent school fund, ind Of judg-
ment thereon. .... ..-'
ton OF the geological survey of the State
of Iowa. ...' ." ..s#
80. An act to provide for the pay
ment of the bonds of the State of Iowa,
maturing January /, 1868, and to issue
State bonds to the permanent school
fund. IT
81. An act making an appropriate ton
to complete and repair the buildings OF
the State University.
IS. An act providing for the election
of q Clerk of the Supreme Court.
80. An act providing for the election
of Reporter of the Decisions of the SI-
preme Court.
.92. An act regarding soldiers or.
phans.
SO. An act to provide for the publ
cation and distribution of the laws OF
the Eleventh General Assembly of the
State of Iowa.
9S. A proposal to amend the Consti-
tuition of the State of Iowa. Joint Res
olution.)
lOl. An act to provide for due refer
ence and publication of proposals to
amend the Constitution of the State OF
Iowa.
107. An act constituting the Mayor
and Council of any Incorporated town
or city, or the Trustees of any township
not Incorporated, o Board of Health,
and defining their powers.
los. An act to provide for the taxa.
ton of the shares of the national banks,
100. An act to amend section No
the fees of County Surveyors.
Ill. An act tapportioning the State ol
Iowa into Senatorial Districts.
112. An act making an appropriation
to complete the Agricultural College
buildings. 81
lis. An act providing for the erec-
ton Of a building for Adjutant Gener-
ais and dQuarterpnasterG Generals 8 offices,
and for Il State Arsenal, ..... 80
llS. An act to provide for the publ
cation of general and certain local laws,
and of the proceedings of the Board of
Supervisors in the several counties.
~. An act exempting soldiers from
military duty. -.
1913. An act to provide for the re-
funding Of certain moneys to the I'd
and 3d Regiments of Infantry. .
l24. An act in relation to the man
ner of redeeming lands sold for taxes,
after three years.
127. An act to provide for establish
ing private roads In the State of Iowa.
12s. An act authorizing County sub
scriptions to County Agricultural Soci-
cites. .5..
1876. An act to require owners of
thrashing-machines to guard against
accidents.
1876. An act to permanently locate
the Institution for the Deaf and Dumb
at Council Bluffs.
1877. An act to prescribe the mode of
filling vacancies in the office Of Justice
of the Peace, Constable, and members
of the Board Of Supervisors.
l4O. An act apportioning the State
OF Iowa into Representative Districts.
l42. An act to authorize incorporate
cities, towns, and villages to discontinue
their corporations.
lab. An act to amend chaptor 172 of
the acts of the Ninth General Assembly,
passed April Z, 1862, in relation to
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A FATAL HABIT.-Irresoluti is a
fatal habit; 1t is not vicious In itself,
but 1t leads to vice, creeping upon its
victims with fatal facility, the penal
ty Of which many u fine heart has paid
at the scaffold. The idler, the epicuri-
nm, the spendthrift, and the drunkard,
are among its victims. Perhaps i'm the
latter Its effects appear In the most hid
eous form. He knows that the goblet
ne is about to drain Is poison, yet he
swallows it. He knows, for the exam
pie of hundreds has painted It in riar-
ing cOlOrs, that it will deaden ali his
faculties, take the strength from his
limbs and the happiness from his heart.
Dppress him with disease and hurry his
progress to a dishonorsd grave; vet he
drains it. How beautiful, on the CON
trary, Is the power of resolution, en-
lbling the one who possesses 1t to pass
through perils and dangers, trials aud
temptations. Avoid the contraction,
then, OF the habit Of firresolution. Strive
against 1t to the end.
TERRIBLE PUNIsHMENT.--A young
man named Francis Stark, says the
Quincy Herald, who had succeeded
N seducing two young ladies under
promises to. marry them, was recently
seized by the brothers of the ruined
iamsels las is supposedly and forever de-
prived of the power of fre-committing SO
lenious crime. He is likely to sur,
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