Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1868-01-17
Sale ofa Wife foI. Three
Hundred Dollars.

This Is q world of strange ideas, and
we are often taken by surprise by the
recital of something that strikes US AS
novel. We are prepared to believe
anything that may be told us after
hearing Of novel sale recently con-
summated In this city, which is vouch-
ed for as true by reliable parties. 4!
Some years since couple emigrated
to this city from Germany. In due
course OF time they were blessed with
d couple of children, that have now
grown up 10 be respectively six and
eight years of age. S6fiie time ago the
wife and mother met an old flame from
Germany With q sight OF his face
the old passion was revived, and she
was head over heels In love with him.
Nor was her passion unreciprocated,
for he soon avowed as fervent q love for
her. He proposed that she should de-
sert her lawful husband and go with
him, but this she refused To do, declar-
ing that She would adjust matters. She
ut once went TO her husband aud told
him the condition or affairs, and asked
on what conditions he would part with
her, avowing her passion for her old
lover. She said that she ala not pro-
pose to treat him shabtily, but wanted
him TO be satisfied with whatever ar
rangement was made. The husband
was not very much taken aback. but
was unwilling to give up his legal
claim to his wife without some Iecuni-
ary consideration. He named five
hundred dollars as the price for which
he would surrender her. The lover
was called I'm, and a consultation held.
Both he and the wife thought the price
too high. They thought half the mon
ey fair price but the husband was
not satisfied. Al last, however, he
agreed to take 500 for his title to the
woman. IN
Tlfe price was paid, "a bill of saie''
made out and duly signed by all par
ties, by which the husband agrees to take
good care of the children, aud tile low
er agrees to he kind husband to the
woman on penalty that the contract
will be annulled and she returned to
her first love aud master. This con-
sumated, the happy couple started
west for Kansas, and the newly made
widower took she train for Chicago
with the intention of picking up new
mate. - lniiUoukee Sentinel.
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TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORs.--A lad in
printing office, who knew more about
| ltype-setting than he did about the
Greek mythology. In looking over u
poem they were printing, came upon
the name of Hecute. one of the lady
divinitiss OF the lower world, occurring
| in d line like this "She shall reign the
Hecnte Of the deepest He'll" The boy
thinking he had discovered an error.
ran 10 the master printer, and inquired
eagerly whether there was an Il In cat.
Why no, you blockhcad," was the
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room fffd extracted the Objectionable
letter. But fancy the horror OF both
poet and publisher when the poem APP
peared with the line--''She shall reign
the He Cat of the deepest He'll" This.
however. was not so bad as the manner
In which the printers treated Miss Lam
dor. In speaking Of it she Says, "And
when i had written IL full blown roses
the nasty things made il full blown
noses.'p Benjamin Franklin once put
| ting to press q form or the Common
Prayer, the letter Sc, In the following
passage dropped out uupereeived ly
him; "We shall al, be Changed iqq the
twinkling of an eye.u When the book
appeared, to the horror or the devout
worshipers, the passage read: I'VE
shall all be hanged in the twinkIing OF
an eye" Franklin has been suspected
Of having done this intentionally, but
without good fssson;4 ;4 4s-- 80
A LONG CoURsE.--The Dubuqtte
Times 10 responsible for the following /:
ut 10 announced thai John b. Cough
is under Q written contract with Mr..
Moody, of the Young Mems Christian
| Association Of Chicag6 to deliver eighty
lectures year, Tor the next teff years,
receiving 500 q night therefor.
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The clerk o. the court Of Washing
Il ton, II. C., isened one Thousand nine
Hundred and sixty marriage licenses IN
1857, one th6usaiid two hGndred and
fifty-one t0 whites. six hundred and
fifty Are to negroes. One was return
ed with the Endorsement, '.Hhe would