Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1866-12-28
CHIPS AND spLINTERs.

/, A clergymans daughter in. Eng
land has eloped with her groom
i-bride-groom. dtit. .'t' mas 't, '9''
The friends of Robinson, the circus.
rider, have given him a pitcher. lie
is II tumbler. himself. q ~ ht@.'
hi4 Southern Kansas is growing cotton
with success. IniGotliet places they
grow it with guahosTa mo1H aoH =.
--Rumor shysylthat General Tom
tTllumb7wiil have, before long, another
Thumb Oh his hands. ay. III +. .tirgr
The Knoxville Republican adver-
tisesl for two female eompositers, to
set type" upon that paper, yais brrr
The Supreme Couft of Mississippi
has decided that that State was, never
out IF The riii6n. An! .,..
Il is ,ruIaoged that Fred Douglass
and his son IRE g6inS Is start 4, cQlorcd
paper ri at Alexandria, Virginia. +
A gentleman III counti7l BIpH pro-
poses to start n paper mill that rsiiall
supply the wunisflofI westernGIowa
See NQFpareQ.r!s. ...t-e.,:... ~ TulNlgy
. 81 AFTER a hard struggle offourwdcbs'
duration. the. Common Council d of
Washington have voted, l.. to g.,
that liqnor shall not be sold on Sunday.
A whale, thirty-fve fcetln length,
which had been run into by a steanl-
ship. Iriited ashore OIL the New Jersey
beach the other day. -" 30" #nd1
The most astounding fish story
yet told, is the statne,t by Prof Ag.
ASST that in, Bra4,l they have q SPECIES
Of fish which eal, climb tFec5aa5 td,u
~ Mr.AiIls, of Des Moinss, has in
vented u brick machine which costs
81, 200. and turns out $4,000 brick
per day. The Register calls it a per-
feet success. l.--' o.. -er~ u atu3uI1gu .
Mr.. and Mrs. Brockly Jcnkins,
Of Oiiville, Kentucky, are the pardnts
,0f2 children, %, o. who,n are living
among tiitn. - " '''', I've" ga IN
-, We learnhy late. California papers
that d Chtiiest newspaper IS shortly
to be e.tabiisite'4il SAN Francisco. Tie
Chinese type. and typefsetteis froln
tihlna have been SECURED. fafsr "A n,l
1.-THE revived Clarlestoir} .'ferolry,
traditional champion Of CalhOuuian
admits that the war destroyed the
.ticory OF State rights. 1t Is, further
advanced than President Johnson.
. Rev. Isaac Craw, of Kelloggsvillc
county, n. " has celebrated
his hundredth birthday. he voted
for Washington 9 for President, and
has been baptist preacher for more
thar eighty years. '.''.''.- .''".'' '''"
The lasG great tclegraphic feat
,is tie ordering Of W!!rat By d London
hoGbc of one in s;alF Francisco. and che
receipt by the former, on the SAINT
IlI, of The intelligence that the order
bud been filled.
.. --.According to the Adjutapt Gen
erals report, to be. submitted to the
leg islature, III. furnished $50, 23T, men
for the war There ATE now 377, Bal
men enrolled in illinois for military
service, iii case osnerd, ....,.e tl......t ~
AT the last MEETING Of the French
Academy OF rcisnce an &Nnouacement
of Tie discovery, of Il new te'escopic
Il has been named ANTELOPE, ninctieth
Of the series. The same planet has
also been Observed ut Berlin. s..... g..
The most astonishing septence
in the English language, at least for
its. great length, is probably The
seventh section ofthe British Foreign
act, which is composed OF single sen
tence containing ve:y nearly 6p9 words.
OF the 900, 7223 foreign Immigrants
who arrived at the port of New York
since January ist, 22.S03 were destined
FOX Indiana. 1885 Tor Illinois, II ,li7
for OHIO, 1928 for WISCONSIN, 1913 for
iowa, 3.247 for Minnesota, ana $,260
for Missouri .# .n''1@.
Ono ot the Massachusetts districts
furnishes q signal example Of loyal
preponierance OF voting popRlatiOn.
In The Ninth Congressional District
Mr.. Washhurn, the Republican can
iate, has 1881 majority in vote
off,! sal. A vote ofnetirly ten 20 one Z
--The chambcr of Life Insurance.
in New york, passed a resolution in
favor OF Il Congressional enactment re.
q,iiring annually a proper test OF The
assets of life Insurance companies, in
order to protect the public against
unsafe and fraudulent schemes. erssN
"-Three scholars in succession from
family AT y ew buryport have attended
the High Srool in that city for a term
Of four years each, and during the
Whole time none Of thcni have received
marx either for ;.l,stfce or tartiinrse
A fourth pupil from the same family
is just commencing tile same treadmMl
round. .,.,...... ..s. .......l
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