Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1866-12-07
CHIPS AND SPLINTERS.
-Kossuth, old and iniirm has fixs
his permanent residence ut Turin.

--kossuth, old and intirm has fixed
his permanent residence ut Turin.
"A lad of fourteen died i'm Taunton,
Massachu>ctts, last week, from hard
drinking.
An official census shows that there
is still an Indian population OF 29j, I9l
in this country.
"A colorcd committee in Boston
have arranged a colored course of lee
lures to be called the :" John Brown
Course
The Monticello Express is begin
ming to work for the removal of the
county seat from Anamosa to Month
cello.
Returns made at the recent Baptist
State Convention show sixteen tnou-
sand Baptists in the State of Iowa.
"A Troy hen belonging to n hotelkeep.
cr, recently Matched brood of seventy
eight chickens. nShe is doing rs we'll
rs could oe expected"
The national debt on the lst of this
month amounted to S2,55l ,3lO, ,0D5, ,72--;,
reduction Of SD ,O26 ,935, ,0U since October
first.
In the United States there are
more pigs than human population. In
England there is only one pig for every
nine human inhabitunts.
Tho wOolcn manufacturing inter
est at the East is now i'm Il very de-
pressed state, and many mills now
running arc said TO be doing 80 at a
loss.
"A dog fell into pit ten feet deep,
at Bennington, VI, recently, and lived
| there twenty-five days on roots and
grubs, before he WAS discovered and
rescued.
The Washington Star, the most
extensively circulated paper ut the capi-
tai, and locally influential, has come
out for the constitutional amendment.
The foreign news rc3orts :" Mr..
| Lincoln and daughter mt Boutwell,.
scotland. The Scotchmen are evident
~ the victims OF an imposturt.
VIM. Hale, of Cedar county, Iowa,
has passed his one hundrcdth wear,
and i still hate and hearty. He uses
no tobacco or AID mt spirits, though
indulging in tea and coffee.
1t is sad that General Scots eldest
daughter died in a French convent of
u broken heart, because her fathe:
would not consent to her marriage
with Il French officer.
some rowdies who pitched, the
other day, ints n religious meeting,
in Ritchie county, Va, were cleaned
out by the brethren, on the principle
that " a church worth praying for,
was worth fighting for"
Secretary Stanton has notified
about forty newly appointed Licuten-
ants in the army that IL their letters
OF acceptance are not received BY the
Department. on or before December 1st.
their appointments will be Cancelled.
A woman in Detroit married seven
years, recently gave birth to four chill
drcn ut a time. She has attained her
progression, producing one, two, three
and four IN regular gradation.
"A man applied tobe registered in
Newark, n j. last week, and pres
ented what he called his naturalization
papers, which realIyproved to benunited
States license as II liquor dealer. 1t
was found that he really voted ut the
late charter election OH the authority
of that paper, and that it bore the in
dorsement of the inspectors. ...s
Last week, ut Delhi, Mr.. Robert
NJ. Patterson was united in marriage
to Mrs. Ella Givens. Mr.. Patterson
was Mrs. Givens' first husband, but
from some cause was divorced, aud she
married Il man named Givens, who i'm
II short trme died. Now the first loves
are united. s......