Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1867-07-05
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that city last week. Addison Beach
while attempting to ride over the dam
at that point was drowned.
The New Hampton Courier says
nine half grown prairie wolves were
capturedand brought to town last week.
George Morton was the "putnamn
who smoked them from their den. The
bounty on the varmits amounts.to $40
Ia good days work, even if county
warrants are below par. The old wolves
were too smart for George. ....
The Dallas Gazette says farmer
sometime since contracted his wheat
to parties in this place ut 81, 25 per BUSH
cl. The parties sent teams for the
wheat, but in the meantime the price
went up to $3.50, and he refused to let
the wheat go as no money had been
paid to bind tho bargain. Afterwards
wheat went down to 81 .5O.--A few days
since the farmer came to town To inform
the parties that the wheat was ready
for them at So per bushel. The par
ties couldn't see it. @ .@
GRAND BOND FIRE.--Yesterday morn
ing, the 14th inst, group of gentle
men distinguished in railroad circles
was seen in the street in front of the
Office of the Chicago, Iowa and Nebras-
ka railroad. The occasion of the gath
ering was the burning of the first mort
gage bonds of that company by Hon.
A. w. Johnson, one of the trustees, in
order that the mortgage might be prop
crly discharged of record. The gentle
men present were witnesses to the thor
ough completion of the duty imposed
upon the trustee. A few minutes suf-
feed to reduce to ashes $3.50, 900 of some
of the best property of the country.
Imagine the feelings of "ye capitalist"
as he gazed on his long-prized treasures,
and saw the principal rapidly curling
up into indistinguishable embers in the
damp street of u western town, while
unpaid coupons, good as the gold when
maturcd, went kiting through the up
per air in q sense heretofore unknown
in the.realms of western railroad fl
nance. A bond fire of this magnitude
docs not often occur Clinton Herald.
Last Friday week Manchester was
visited by a rain storm accompaniedw with
vivid lightning and loud thunder. The
wooden pinnacle which surmounts the
belfry of the new school house was
split i'm two by stroke of the electric
fluid, leaving half of it standing.
The Burlington Hdwkeyc says a let
ter passed through the post office here
the other day, bearing the following
superscription:
To Knoxville, Iowa, want to co.,
sf In Marion county, / suppose you know,
And in the office want to stay,
till Robert Thomas takes me away.
The Waterloo Courier says during
the storm of Friday evening last, the
dwelling house of Mr.. Robinson, on the
east-side, was struck with lightning,
and considerably injured. The current
of electricity was conveyed into the
kitchen through the chimney above
which stove pipe projected. Passing
down the chimney it completely de-
stroyed the cooking stove in which
there was fire at the time, set fire to
the building and quite seriously shock
ed Mrs. Robinson, who was ironing at
the time. Fortunately, she had just
1Nut int a1 ni,ai i'm II
room, thus making a most providential
escape.
RAILROAD ENTERpRIsE.-A conyen-
ton of delegates from towns interested
in the construction of the railroad up
the Cedar Valley from Cedar Rapids to
Waterloo, was held at Cedar Rapids
last week, and the project fairly put in
way for success. understand that
the contract for grading the road from
Vinton to Waterloo will be let by the
close of next week, the grading to Vim
ton from Cedar Rapids being already
nearly completed, and it is expected
that within the year the road will be
i'm running order. The completion of
this road will certainly be Of great val
no to the people doing their marketing
i'm the towns through which it will
pass.-Dubuque Herald.
The city of Council Bluffs was visited
by destructive fire OH the 9th OF
last month, destroying property to the
amount of S300,0O0. ~. .a.