Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1868-12-11

Iowa cast more votes than Wiscon
sin in the recent election.
Three hundred dollars was tn
marriage fee lately paid d New Iorl
clergyman.
A. r. Stewards store Is the largest
i'm the wrr!d. He employs six hsn
dred male clerks and as many wo
men in the manufacture of goods.
Chicago in 1887 had n population o.
4,l70 and but one loafer. 1t now has
a population of nearly 100000 anu
400 drinking saloons.
A quarter of million of Gree'ey't
American Conflicts have been sold.
1t ia announced that Senator Nor.
ton will introduce ut an early day, ii
bill for the purpose Of returning to
specie payment.
Am Dickinson. Olive Logan, Til
ton and Collysr lecture Mt Mt. Pleas
ant this winter.
Miss Marian Champlin, of Water
loo, has the reputation of being the
hest post master in the State. She's
post mistress, nevertheless.
Schenck is reported to have the
Ways and Means to play practical
joke on Washington young lady by
marrying her.
A little boy in Maine was told by q
lady friend that he must study hard
at school or he wouldn't be Presi'
dent of the United States. Eyes,
ma'am," "bu: | don't expect to be
I'm a Democrat.
Hon. E. B. Washburn, on arriving
in Washington last week, found
himself the father of a lively little
boy, which was born just before his
arrival.
A Kickapoo, Kansas girl who
eloped with a chap and came to St
Joe and got married, sent word back
with her pursuers, Tell ma it is toe
late"
The London Times uses eleven ton:
of paper daily. That beats us.
After marrying a couple, Louis
Vile Clergyman exclaimed: Forgive
them, Lord, they know Eet what
they do"
There are more Irish i'm Americs
than i'm ireland.
Rochester, New York, has over
$500 inarriageable old maids.
Chas. A. Dana is said to he yearn
ing for mission to Venice. There
are more men than Dana yearuinl
for mission.
The Chicago Tribune says: "Out
of the months of babes and sucklings
thou hast ordained praise" is scrip
ture fulfilled, the other day, in thi.
city. A little fellow of four or five
years, in his usual evening prayer
remembered younger brother, who
was very i'll, thus: "Oh Lord dc
lat Iitfln hrnt lnr l;A I.l,
DIR. S., oh Lord, to make him we'll
though his parents are Democrats p
The excuse of the eighty per cent
Of Names population who do not at
tend church Is, that they either can.
not afford to rent pew or to dress
sufficiently well.
The soldiers of the great West or,
to hold their reunion on the l5ti
inst, in Chicago. Generals Grant
sherman and Thomas will he pres
cnt.
1t Ia estimated that Missouri has
gained $50, 900 In population since the
war.
A little boy who picked up $500 in
the streets of Albany, n. Y, the
other day, and restored it to the own.
er, was offered five cents by the CRATE
ful owner, which he refused.
In Boston, on Tuesday, while a
clerk was passing out of the Bank oil
Commerce with $1,000 in his hand
"a man threw black pepper in his
eyes, snatched at the cash and escap.
ed with 81, 400.
Before the war a youthful resident
of Elk River, Minnesota, was ie
trothed to lady of that city. TIL,
lover enlisted, was shot in the heal,
aud returned to her former home be-
reft of sight, taste. or smell. Like a
true man he offered to release his af.
danced from the engagement, but the
noble girl told him that she loved
him still, aud they were married.
There is now gap of only 4O0
miles between the two Pacific Rail.
ways; the Central Pacific is compile
ted to u point 435 miles eastward from
sacramento.
Tie Chicago Times publishes re-
port of the buildings erected in that
city during the past year, showing
the number to be over 5000. the total
cost of which is not less than TWEEN.
ty-tive million dollars. Twenty-ti, e
have been bailt, at all ag-
gregate cost of twenty-five millions.
In this city OH last Saturday. says
the Milwaukee Sentinel, u gay and
frisky young gentleman OF sixty
led TO the altar blushing
bride who had just celebrated her
eightieth birthday.
six Radical Counties.