Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1869-12-24
Newsy.

1T is reported that Beecher is he
ing dropped Ivy indignant lyceum
boards. He will doubtless appreciate
the fall.
The President has removed Hon.
J. NJ. Ashley from the Governor
ship of Montana Territory and APP
pointed Gen. Potts of Ohio.
The Chicago Post alludes to the
Congressional Globe "a "that expen-
sive machine for grinding out i'm.
mortal oblivion" ...
Syracuse papers says. the pro-
prietors of the Cardiff Giant have
received over SIS. 900 from the admis-
sion of visitors. Iowa gypsum is
valuable.
The Democracy have but little
to condemn i'm the Presidents mes-
sage, except that he made no allusion
to the Byron scandal. the Richardson
Tragedy or the Cardiff Giant.
Maine papers are disc ussing
whether Sunday school in Bangor,
which requires the constant presence
of two policemen TO preserve order,
is success.
The london Saturday Repie,U
has an editorial on the Richardson
Mcfarland tragedy. The writer pro-
nounces the Aston House wedding
grotesque, nauseous, and blasphem-
| Gus.
George Francis Train found the
doors of the Cooper Institute shut in
his face. recently, by order of the
board of trustees, and his expected
lecture, therefore did not come Off
He sets his damages Mt $25, 900.
AT Bingham Mass. the Meth
odist Rev. w. r. Alderman, who
was sick and unable to of1iciate i'm
his church, Sunday, sent his wife a.
Il substitute, and the accounts relate
that she preached better sermon
than her husband ever did.
A Philadelphia lawyer addressed
the jury T. us: And will you con-
Wet this man upon such testimony -
To which one of the jurors responded.
Certainly not; he il not guilty"
whereupon the Judge fined the juror
500 for IAN act Of improperly.
"A Cairo paper cons ratulates itself
| upon tie changing of the place al
| meeting uf the state Teachers Asso-
citation from Cairo to Ottawa, becauS.
| il says. the teachers excel MethOdists
circuit riders as chicken eaters. No
sour grapes around tai'o-not a
grape. National Democrat.
what the people of Virginia
want now" says the Richmond Ec
dn,jaeI', more than anything else, is
money"
The same will apply to Iowa. When
men cease To want money, there II
I've some pretty sure indications of
the coming Millennium.
The Postmaster General is going
To show the country what the frank
ing privilege costs. lie will weigh,
each day for six months, all the
franked matter sent from Washing
ton, and show the actual postal loss.
There will De some rich develop
ments.
The other day i'm Buffalo,, an ex-
cited individual. with carpet bag
i'm one hand, an umbrella in the 9TH
er, and a shawl hanging over his arm.
accosted one of the street gdHins
with the question "Say, bub,
which's the quickest way for me to
get to the Erie railroad depot 2"
"Run" was the laconic response.
They have fellow living i'm La
fayette, Ind, who is humility per-
sonified. The other evening he asked
a young lady if he might "be allowed
the privilege of going home with
her." and was Indignantly refused
wEereupon he inquired, very hum
bly,, if he might he allowed to sit on
the fence and See her go by?"-
Secretary Spinner says that pre-
viOus to December, 1868. no separate
account was kept of money that had
been wrongfully taken and returned
to the Treasury. Since that time
there was received from various per-
sous, mostly anonymously, and in
amounts from one cent upward, to
the present time, $l13, 99l. 81, which
the Treasurer suggests shall be turued
into the Sinking Fund.
"A pretty young Quakeress is
making sensation in Indiana and
Ohio by her visits to prisons and
charitableinstitutions of those States.
Two Sundays ago she called at the
Indiana State Prison and conversed
with its inmates. In the evening
she conducted religious services L.
the cell-house. A correspondent de-
scrihes the effect of her eloqupnce as
something marvellous. The hardest.
hearted criminals wept, and some of
them were not content until they
had touched her dress At the close
of the service, the beautiful angel in
drab was invited to call again.
The Oconto Lun6eTna0n tells of
a contest between an Indian and
bear near Pine river. fatal to both.
The Indian shot the bear i'm the head
with bucksliot, blowing out an eye
aud otherwise severely injur!ng him,
and then bounced upon him, expect
ing to dispatch him with his dirk
knife. Bruin Rugged the Indian,
and both fell To the ground, when IA
struggle for life ensued, which must
have been terrible one. as the bel
ligerents were both badly manned
and lying dead within two rods of
each other when found.
There is IA station on tire Pitts
burgh, TT. Wayne Il Chicago Rail-
road called Hanna. i'm honor 0f u de-
ceased citizen of TT. Wayne. A
train stopped there the other day.
and the brakesman, after the manner