Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1869-08-27

Springfield, Illinois, has ropula
tion of % 600.

covered hear Cheyenne.
The number of emigrants who ar
rived in New York direct from Scot
land this year, is l5.712.
In Oshkosh they turn women out
of the church for giggling. Another
"inailienable right" in danger.
A temporary bridge used i'm repairs
at st. Anthony's Falls, Mimi, was
swept away by the current ON the
l4th inst, and three laborers were
drowned.
A man i'm a Pennsylvania stone
quarry had several tuns of rock
pitched OH to him, and, as local re-
port said, was taken out considera-
bly, exhausted. ..aL
The Helena (Montana) youth who
had too successfully challenged a
rival lover to mortal combat, shrewd.
Iy avoided the dreadful duel by poi
soning himself.
Horace Greeley's knowledge of
agricultural affairs Is said to be inn
proving. The turnips which he
raised last year only cost him one
dollar and bit each.
Us Grant LII. D., and Phil.
Sheridan, LII. D., are the only Doc
tors that can kill at long range more
successfully than any other two Doc.
tors i'm the country.-Chicdgo Post.
A young miss i'm Norwalk, CT, lost
her life in consequence of the eclipse.
She lighted u match to smoke a
piece of glass, and unfortunately set
fire to her dress in throwing the
match away.
There is young lady in Harris
county, Georgia, who has planted,
sowed and cultivated without help,
five acres of cotton, and has crop
nearly ready to harvest.
A new and singular phenomenon
has been recently witnessed in the
South, being no less than the strik-
ing and blighting of cotton fields by
lightning. On descending the fluid
seems to spread over wide area.
w. U. Sanders, a negro, has been
appointed special agent, or detective,
of the Post Office Department, at a
salary of 81, 200 per anum, and So per
day as subsistence. This Is the first
negro man ever appointed to such a
position.
Frank Leslie, the publisher. has
been unable after suit of two
years, to get a divorce from his wife,
and Is condemned to the melancholy
fate of paying her fifty dollars per
week alimony out of his income Of
100000.
1t is reported that the drought in
Virginia is very severe. In many
places farmers are cutting up their
corn for fodder, having given up all
hopes of its maturing. Similar COM
plants are coming from all parts of
Mary land.
Said Baptist to q Methodist: 81
don't like your Church government.
1t isn't simple enough There's too
much machinery about It," at is
true" replied the Methodist 1--WE
have more machinery than you, but
then, you see, it don't take near so
much water to ran it,"
A minister writes from Saratoga
1.-The belle of the season wears q
dress valued at the amount of my
salary for tW o years, and set of dia-
monds equal in value to the cost of
a comfortable mission church, with
attached, gas fixtures
and cabinet organ included"
A gentleman travelling inside
coach was endeavoriug, with consid-
,rable earnestness, to impress some
argument upon fellow passenger,
who appeared rather dull of compre-
hension. At length, being slightly
irritated he. exclaimed, "Why, sir,
its's as plain as A. b. c." "That
may be-" replied the other, "but
am ID. f. F."
A physician examining his stu
lent as to his progress, asked him :
Should u man fall into q we'll forty
ieet deep and strike his head against
me of the tools with which he had
'eer digging, what would be your
course if called in as surgeon
The student replied, al should ad-
Use them to let the man alone and
Ill up the well.
The fashionable bathing dress for
aides in France, now is, "Some-
hing tight and short, not lower than
he knee, and clasping the figure
'ith equal grace and flrmness."
That is the account given of it in
he fashion journals. Consider the
fleet of water on that costume.
Is Paris proper place for decent
eople to go to for fashions?
A Syracuse woman seated herself
n the sill of second story open ,
'indow in vain effort to keep cool,
he other night, and losing her bal
nee, fell. Fortunately, she struck
n awning ten feet from the ground,
nd, sliding off that feet foremost,
er garments were inflated like
alloon, and she alighted almost as
racefully as bird. The sight had
ttracted q large crowd and she
'orked her way indoors just as soon
possible.
n small paper Dox was opened at
he Toledo Post Office q day or two
90, says the Toledo Blade, because
nstamped, when small swapping
lrtle.stuck up its head and opened its !
louth, as If thinking that the time
ad come for receiving rations from
ncle Sam. 1t was discovered that
Il its caudal appendage a postage
amp was properly affixed and after
short stop, for rest and refreshment
he little snapper was forwarded ac-
,rding to directions.
Brady, of the Indianola Journal,
no is a Methodist preacher, and,
ne of the best in the State, tells the