Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1868-12-25

They have followed close upon the
heel. of Brick.
The Boston Post says: "A Sunday
paper says it is in favor of women
voting, IL they want to. We should
like to see the man that could make
them vote, If they did not want
to-"
New York and Philadelphia church
es are declaring their seats free at the
evening services. '~ -. s-.
A young man rusticating in
Pressure Isle, Maine, caught very
pretty kitten one evening, recently,
and-he buried his clothes the next
day.
Good oxen bring a thousand dollars
yoke in Oregon. 80. ... -
A woman i'm Providence, has born
within the past eleven months, five
children, triplets III the first instance
and again twins. 49,.
A Macon, Ga, editor, was present.
ed with ripe strawberries and q wat.
ermelon last week.
Hon. Hannibal Hamlin, it Is sta.
ted, will be elected United States
Senator from Maine, as successor of
non. Lot. NJ. Morrill,, whose term
will expire upon the 4th of March
next. g., 49,
The National Police Gazette, gives
a long and laudatory notice of the
New York Independent, and says
that thet two papers Ego hand in hand"
and "are engaged in the moral edu-
cation of our people,"
A gentleman in Albany, New
York, who is somewhat envied for
his social culture and chivalry, re-
Gently had occasion to telegraph
some lady friends in New York city,
as follows: "Miss-goes down
this evening to complete her bridal
tr0useau." Instead of sending il as
written, the careless operator made it
read this way: miss - goes
down this evening to complete her
bridal trOwsers." The scene among
the ladies upon receiving this dis
patch can be better imagined than
described.
Brick Pomeroy and Nasty worked
in the same printing office together
when they were boys. They use diff
ferent shooting sticks now.
An exchange says that "a Portland
female was so enamored of Geo. w.
Curtiss, that she clipped a portion Of
his shawl for a memento. Sich Is
| fame"
We have heard of females who
were so enamOred that they were not
content with a clipping but took the
whole shawl.
The Coming man" is said to be
John Chinaman.
The youngest mother-in-law in
England is girl Only eleven years
| old.
Wendell Phillips is lecturing in
the east Oh street Life in Eu-
rope"
The value of lager was never illus
trated better than at Elgin, Ill.,, the
other day, when the new iron bridge
fell into the river. An hsnest Teu-
ton engaged in driving the cattle UNI
der whose weight tie bridge gave
way, was asked if he was on the
bridge at the time of the accident
well, vos not OH te pridge. You
see, l shust vos dry, and shust
schtepped in to git zwei glass peer,
und te tam pridge he fall down. i
likes de lager peter as 80 much NOS
SER" .
James Fisk, sem, OF Brattlebero.
W., tie father o. the notorious Wall
Street Spectator i'm Erie Stocks, II i'm
q iunatic asylum, and it is predicted
that his son. the financial genius OF
Wall street, will some time or other
bring up. in a similar place, He and
his father began life as couple of
Yankee dry goods pedlers, driving
their teams from town to town
finally young Fisk got into the dry
goods store of Jordon, Marsh & Co,
i'm Boston, from which he went with
o fortune of $4,000, to Wall Street
as stock Spectator. getting control
Of the Erie Railroad as leser to
work with. He would issue great
quantities Of new stock for specu!a-
ton, and make great "corners" by
this means end by locking up cur
rency. He has won fortune of mil,
lions for himself and ruined the
market value of the road. He is
about forty years old and immensely
fat.
Several days ago, q little Indian
boy from some point out i'm the far
west. passed through Kansas 'front.'
Ter town. bearing tag addressed
Mr.. Francois. Waverly, Mo-, {. o.
D."
Brick Pomeroy calls Reverdy John
son a "garrulous old nincompoop," q
degenerate citizen" and "misera-
ble old Flupkey," who talks "ridicu-
lous twaddle" and has made .'pitia-
BILE spectacle Of himself in his .'se-
ries of performances before the Brit
ish public"
A Toronto paper says the members
of the Legislature wish to go home
for the holidays. and kindly adds |:
"lt is a pity The hoIidays don't last
all y~sn"