Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1867-03-01
NO. 40.
The Next Congress.

2-Connecticut (4) election in April.
| 3-Rhode Island (2) election in April.
4-Kentucky t9) election in May.
| 5-Tennessee (Sl election in August.
6-California (3) electioninS September.
Here are twenty-nine members left
ont In the cold. On its assembling the
new House will contain:
Republicans, 100
Democrats, "a
When all the seats are filed, inclpd-
Ing Nebraska, II will stand: ~
Republicans, I47
Democrats, @ as
The Senate will be composed OF forty
TWO Republicans and twelve Democrats.
Among these twelve Democrats are
classed Doolittle, Norton, and Dixon.
! THE LATEST FAsIIoNs.--Sinco the
invention and successful introduction
Of the Celebrated Duplex Elliptic Tor
doublel Spring Hoop Skirt, by Mr.. j.
w. Bradley, Of New York, the ladies
throughout the country have given up
the idea of discarding the fashion OF
wearing hoop skirts, on account Of the
peculiar and graceful manner in which
tho Duplex Skirts adapt themselves to
every exigency and emergency. So
generally acceptable have these Skirts
become that the ladies regard them as a
special tavorite, in view of TIE superior
Flexibility, Lightness, and Durability
Combined In their Manufacture. They
also consider them far more Econom-
ical and Comfortable Hoop Skirt than
ever has or can be made for all Crowd
ed Assemblies, for the Promenade, or
House Dress. Any lady after wearing
one OF these Skirts will never after
wards willingly dispense with their uso.
Long experience in The manufacture
of Hoop Skirts, has proven to tho pro-
prietors of this invention, that Single
springs. will always retain that stiff,
unyielding and bungling style which
has ever characterized them, whereas
the Double Spring Hoop or the Duplex
Elliptic, will DO found Free from these
objections. notwithstanding tho
ability of the manufacturers, Messra.
Vests, Bradley Il Cary, to turn out
over six thousand Skirts per day from
their Large Manufactures In New
York, they feel obliged to request all
merchants ordering the Duplex Elliptic
Skirts, to send their orders a few days
before they are wanted, If possible, ns
they are almost constantly oyerseld
some days ahead. ....
THE New York Ersn,ng Pest asks,
"Why Impeach ?" The President, IL
says,-"is powerless. He may 10 on
appointing copperheads to Office; that
did not gain him the late elections.
He may go on advising Southern men
to resist the Amendment; they will
only regret IL, If they take his advice.
The present Congress can pass any Just
and necessary measure over his veto
and the next Congress, which will IA.
semble as soon rs this ono dissolves, Is
even more radical than this, and will
have this power during the whole Of
Mr.. Johnson's term. Mr.. Johnson
could not be reelected. He seems to
have got himself into an irretriev vuble
muddlr; and the only supporters he
has now in the country are those who
seek Office at his hands. From Presi-
dent i'll his situation, the country has
nothing to fear; but we should think
that he might hail a movement to inn
peach him ns measure which was
more likely to benefit than to hurt
him."
"A GOOD WILL.--We heard, the other
day, OF man who once lived within
hundred miles of Toledo. who was pos
sessed of large property, but like all
men be their property largeor small, he
had TO die, though dying he did what
most men won't do he left will be-
queathing half Of his wealth (being
chld!essJ to his wife, for her use as long
as sho remained single. the other half
to be given to her when she maryies
again. If such acts were more frequent,
charming widows would be more charm
ing, and widowhood much shorter
lived.
The following powerful, elegant, and
classic appeal was made In q court OF
justice recently somewhere in Ken
lucky by one of the learned heads Of
the bar: "Gcntlemen Of the Jury, do
you think my client, who lives in the
pleasant valley OF Kentucky, where
the lands is rich and the soil are fertile
would be guilty Of stealing cleying lit
tie skeins of eotting? 1 think not,
reckon not, L calculate not. And i
guess, gentlemen of the jury, you had
better bring my client in not guilty for
If you convict him, him and his son
John will lick the whole of YOU"
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The following corrects an important
miscalculatlon In statistics, and Is, also,
a very pretty specimen Of the "rctort
courteOus": Massachusetts" says tho
New York Herald, "has three negroes
III her Legislature, and three hundred
stbu -ioui III bNi tJLdtS 10
which Boston paper replies: New
York has two gamblers In Congress,
and over two thousand in her city; her
State Prisons are crowded with poor
thieves, rullians. and rascals, and her
city government with rich ones"
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There are, as appears from the min
utes of the Iowa Baptist State Convcn-
ton, held last October, at Independence,
$1,000 members OF Baptist churches In
Iowa. There are in the State six Bap.
tist institutions Of learning; the Des
Moines University, the Central UDivcr-
sity at Pella, and the Addison Collegi-
ate Institute Mt West Irving, the Cedar
Valley Seminary at Mitchell, and tho
Southwestern Iowa Seminary at Sid.
ney.
A controversy has arisen between
Professor Hall, Of the New york State
Geological Museum, and Edward Ma
guire, of Saratoga Springs, touching
the bones recently exhumed ut Cohoes,
OF mastodon, the other that they arc
bones of large show elephant that
died and was buried in Cohoes nearly
forty years since. Professor Hall
thinks the bones have laid in tho
earth 70 900 years-a slight difference.
A remarkable discovery is reported
In Italy, by which two persons may
converse by telegraph, recognizing even
the sounds of each others voice. There
was something like it here, some years
ago, between New York and Boston,
but 1t was given up on account Of the
New York operators breath smelling
50 strong of bad gin.
The Bishop Of Wurtzburg onceasksd
a sprightly shepherd boy. "what rea
you doing here, my boy?.'. "Tending
swine" How much do you get" One
fiorin week, ~ am shepard, also,"
said the Bishop, "but have q much
better salary" ''That may oil be; bu.
then ! suppose you have more swine
,,pAor your osra "