Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1869-08-20

an eventful month, having an eclipse.
five Sundays, five Mondays and five
Tuesdays.-Mrs. DR.. Walkers trous-
ers are pea green--The real. estate
owned by individuals in the United
States is assessed at nearly five hun.
dred milIions--A card has been issu-
ed by Cubans saying they do not de.
sire annexation to the United States.
Brick POmeroy will be candidate
for United States Senator from New
York next winter-Omaha has 16, 900
inhabitants-They are complaining
of drouth in Maryland-Letters
from Georgia represent that the APP
prehensions are great of danger to
the cotton on account of long dry
weather-Susan b. Anthony is labor
ing in the National Union at Phila-
delphia-California pears are sold in
Chicago six for q dOllar-Some of the
farmers in Indiana are having their
wheat cut and thrashed on shares,
giving half the crop therefor AT
WilliamspOrt, Indiana, is q spring
by the side of the railroad which the
company were obliged to wall up with
rocks TO keep the water off the track.
An explo sion, as of gas, took place
at the spring q few days since, by
which the wall ond earth around
were thrown up to height of sever
al feet. Some of the largest stones
were landed on the bank above, and
the wall was entirely demolished.-A
paper published in Palmer, Mass,
says: Whoever rides through the
mountain towns of our state during
the present haying seasons will see
scores Of women at work in the field
The Same may b. seen in Iowa
Weston accomplished his feat of
walking so miles in 10! hours at the
Dubuque driving park but made a
failure in DavenpoTt-Thc Wright
County Monitor comes to us with
Baby Billy Smith as editor. Billy
is the youngest editor in Iowa-The
DEBORAH Republican il printed ON O
new power press. The Bailey Bros
get up spanking good paper-A. T.
Stewart says his business never was
better than this year, and that he
never advertised so much before, lie
gives his advertisements credit for
keeping his trade lively in dull
, times; yet less successful men than
he Insist that advertising don't
pay pa woman in Marion county
was made crazy By the eclipse-It is
rumored that General George NJ.
Dodge has been offered the position
of Secretary of War-Gen. Rawlins
health being so precarious as to COM
pell him 10 resign-Keokuk has o
population of ll,T54-An inhu-
man fight occurred at Steamboat
Rock last week, one man nearly
killed-The longest trail at the
Seventh Regiment ball at Saratoga.
was worn by New York lady, and
measured twelve feet-It is reported
that some of the Lynn shoe bosses
are considering a proposition to run
their factories with Chinese labor
Upper Iowa Conference of the NJ. E.
Church will be held at independence
commencing Sept. 22d-An Eldora
Lawyer has been Off practice SO long
he has got the Jim jims. New
York has the Cholera Morbug-In
Oakland, Miss, DR.. Lott shot q law
student, named Barnes, dead, Mon
day. Remember Lots wife once be-
fore figured in the column of salt
The Potato crop in Maine is injur-
ed-Total taxable valuations on prop
erty of Boston $549, 51l ,GOO-Real es-
tate in Philadelphia is reported on
the decrease, and building materials
also-It is claimed that Great Britain
has now such extra facilities for shin
building, that in case of any emer-
gency, she could send out an IRON
clad daily from the work on the clyde
alone-A New York paper announ-
ces that the inmates of q Blind asy-
lumare going to see Niagara Falls,
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WHY MARRIAGES ARE DECLIN-
ina A FH Stav,o,t l,o, o.rl .--.