Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1868-08-21

rs is now asccrtained that the peach
and apple crops of New Jersey and
Maryland are almost total failures.
The political excitement i'm Ills. Is
raging high. Over--ten thousand
people were at the Republican mass
meeting held at Galena on the 18th
inst. Gen. Grant was present.
| 1t is estimated that the divorces
granted i'm Indiana number 5000 per
annum.
In building the Union Pacific, four
rails go down minute. There are
! ten spikes to q rail, three strokes to a
spike, four hundred rails toa mile,
and eighteen hundred miles to San
! Francisco. Consequently tventy-one
million sledge- hammer blows fasten
the great iron highway; and more
than half these blows have already
done their work. -... ..t
A dispatch from Denver states that
the gold receipts for the months of
June and July are greater than the
entire shipments of the proceeding
year. All the crushing mills in the
Territory are in active operation.
There was q railroad accident near
Pittsburgh, in which passenger was
thrown through the glass door of the
car in which he was standing, over
the platform and through the door op:
posite into the other car, swhefe 1t
found himself somewhat astonished
and scratched q little by broken glass
but not otherwise injured.
A reporter ut Omaha giving Lieut.
Gov. Bross' speech, represented him
as saying that Buchanan lived sew
enty-five years with woman and
never loved her." while what the
speaker really said was that "Bu.
chanan lived seventy-five years and
never loved a woman"
A party of American ladies now in
Copenhagen, called on the Queen oil
Denmark. They were somewhat as
tonished on observing that she wore
n cheap dress, and that, on rising to
receive them, she laid on her work
ing table o cotton stocking on which
she had been knitting.
Philadelphiaus are paying eighty
cents q pound for butter. 1t ought
to be good and strong at those fig
ures.
The Dcs Moines Register says it
has been ascertained by actual count
that Five Hundred and Fifty-two
| former Democrats i'm that Township
have declared their intention to vote
for Grant and Colfax. And so itgoes
all through the country, except in
the South. The best Democrats in
the Northern States cannot support
Seymour and Blair.
A three column article in the New
York World purporting to be written
by distinguished General, against
Grants military capacity is declared
to be forgery made in the World
office. No wonder. That's purely
Democratic tactics.
Mrs. Senator Trunbull died in
Washington on the 10th inst.
Thaddeus Stevens was buried al
his home in Lancaster on the 18th
inst. The number Of persons In the
procession, and at the ceremony, was
estimated at $50, 900.
The Democratic papers have tried
all sorts of ways to ruin the reputa'
ton of Grant and now they are try
ing TO make the people believe he
took breakfast with Frank Blair the
other day at Leavenworth.
The Democrats have very simple
recipe for making political capital.
1t is to get up a riot, an insurrection
or war, and then charge the expense
and trouble ofputting it down to Re.
publican extravaganza. This is the
sum and substance of all the char
gos against the Republican party.
That the rebel spirit of diabolism
'still lives is very apparent to those
who read Southern papers. AS @
specimen, the Atlanta (Ga.) COnstitu'
ton, the principal newspaper organ
ofthe Seymour and Blair party o.
that State, announces the death Of
the Hon. Thaddeus Stevens with ex-
pressions of exultant delight. II
opens the announcement thus
"Mourn, ye RAIDS, for ace rejoi""
Weep, We dirty dogs, for we sm::e y,
Democrats are anxiously inquir-
ing why the portrait of Brick Pome-
roy occupies the place belonging to
that of Mr.. Seymour on Seymour
and Blair banner recently flung to
the breeze up town. The rumor
that Gov. Seymour had withdrawn
in favor of Judge Chase now gives
way to the more probable report that
the young champion of the Democra-
cy is to relieve Mr.. Seymour of his
unwilling candidateship.-2fibune.
The following conversation recent
ly occurred between two sons of the
Emerald Isle, in New York.
LIST CtiEcn-Hurrah for Gineral
Seymour!
End Citigen-Hould there, now !;
Seymour is no Gineral at all
LIST Ctizen-Och, thin, and wus MT
he Gineral of the Riot, shure?
The last achievement of p. Il. Bar.
mum was that of winner in foot
race on the White Mountains.
Gen. David Il. Wilson of Dubuque,
a life long Democrat has taken the
stump for Grant and Colfax.
The wheat crop in some parts of
Wisconsin is reported to be partial
failure.
An economical farmer who couldn't
afford to grease his wagon wheels,
was gayly driving his bounding steed
along in front of load of hay, in AL
bany, Friday, when the friction of a
wheel set the hay on fire, and it was
destroyed with all it's contents"