Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1869-08-27
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organ tor the NehlTat NfesDy teii"i'
Church of Des Moines.
A farmer was flceced of $40 by
three well-dresscd, polite, young men
at Dubuque last week.
A Mr.. Crosby has been offered
$1,000 per AMMAN ter accept the super
intendency of schools in Davenport
One night last week Julius Reeves, q
marble cutter, absconded from Cedar
Rapids, owing his fandlady and 9TH
ers 1915.
A little boy near West Union was
lately poisoned by drinking the
water in which fly paper had been
soaked.
A DGbuque merchant was swindl-
ed out of $3.50 by young man the
other day by cashing forged check.
The swindler was arrested
Two hundred and thirty.eight car
loads of grain were shipped from
Clarence over the northwestern road
from the LIST to the 10th Of July.
State Auditor Elliott has issued q
certificate to Miss I. A. Eary, of Will
ton Junction. as. insurance agent
the first of her sex in that line in
Iowa.
One Martin, popular Council
Bluffs landlord, has been arrested
and taken to Ohio, on requisition
from the Governor of that State.
No explanation was vouchsafed of
the grounds of the arrest, whereup-
on Council Bluffs is excited.
The MuscatiEe Courier says all off,
Ger from La Porte, Black Hawk coun-
ty,was in that city, looking for wo-
man who recently eloped from La
Porte with man, taking with her
her husbands horses and wagon, two
trunks containing valuables, and her
daughter.
A Benton county family going to
Belle Plaine on the day of the eclipse,
were badly frightened at the sudden
darkness that enveloped them. ard
the women, jumping out of the
wagon, rushed frantically toward
town, crying that the day of judg-
ment had come. They don't read
the papers.
The Government detention o! the
tobacco factory of J. III. Henderson
& Co., at Keokuk. has become q seiz-
ure. The examination resulted in
bringing to light frauds, in the shape
of mutiliated stamps, to the amount
of q thousand dollars. The clerk
who bought the stamps and mutiIat-
cd them has run away.
The dwelling of Frank Hardy. i'm
Mitchell county, was struck by light
ming, on the LIST inst. His little child
was sleeping on lounge, at the time
of the shock, her dress and hoops i'm
contact with the floor; the lightning
set fire to the dress and melted the
hoops, but the little one fortunately
escaped without injury.
J. Il. Matthias, farmer resident of
Marion, Linn county, was murdered
in Grundy county, Mo-, on the 18th
ult., by some person who represent
ell that his team was stuck in the
mud. When about sixty rods from
his house the william fired, shooting
him in the back of the head and left
side. The supposed murderer was
arrested and placed in Jail.
COOP TIME.-The Iowa horse,
KIrkwood, made mile heat in the
$500 race at the great meeting of the
Buffalo Park Association on Thurs
day, in 2:24, which was the best time
made i'll the race, the winner Idols
best time, being 2:27.-" Kirkwood
at once became prime favorite i'm
better circles" says the Chicago Trib-
aRe correspondent. Dan Mace drove
him. Kirkwood will show his feet
at the Scott County Fair i'm the third
week in September.
The Vinton Eagle of recent date
has the following characteristic, N. b:
Our friends WHO drop In to look
over our exchanges are particularly
requested not to carry Off our latest
papers to read, or for the children to
play with. Any such trifles as sort
ing over our copy drawers, looking
into our letters, reading private cor
respondence, occupying all the chairs,
leaving us to sit on the floor and let
our feet hang over, or reading copy
or proof sheets, we can pass over, but
We want our dailies when they come.
The Manchester Union of the 10th
says:
Last Saturday night, DR.. Bradley |
received a dispatch from DIR. Horr, of
Dubuque, requesting his presence
at the depot on the arrival of the
train from the east. When the train
came i'm, DIR. Horr, who was going
West, turned lady patient over to
DIR. Bradley. She had been taken
with labor pains almost Immediately
after leaving Dubuque. The doctor
carried the patient to the hack, and,
with her husband, accompanied her
to the Clarence House. In due time,
and with the customary ceremonies
incident to such occasions, a four
pound babe of the male gender was
safely born"
SURE CURE.-In several of our ex-
changes we have of late noticed nu-
merous instances of death caused by
rattIe-snake bites. This is the time
Of year when they are the most dam
yerous, being blind they snap at the
least noise. The Marion Co. Demo-
crdt has the following receipt, which
Is said to be a certain cure: "One
of gun powder one
of salt; the yellow of
one egg; beat them all together, so
us to form plaster, and apply to the
A yell"w water will issue,
and when the plaster becomes soaked
with the poison, it will fall off. Re-
new the plaster until it will adhere
TO the wound, which Is evidence that
The poison has all been drawn"
The Maquoketa Excelsior tells the
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