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

try a" Connecticut carpet-bf gger"
The Chicago Post says the eclipse
was not total in that city because the
Lord was afraid to trust that city SO
long in the dark-Council Bluffs
thieves are not particular. They
steal musqueto nets and marriage
Observation-Disclosures has q popu-
lation of ,034-Californi pears sell
for a shilling piece-Ida Lewis, the
heroine weighs less than 100 pounds
"A colored girl produces the best
essay at the Portland High School
A fool is going to ride Velocipede
on a rope over Mag ara-There are
5000 printing offices in the United
States-A serious drouth in Virginia
and Tennessee-Michigan rnaks third
in the Union in the number of sheep
Eept-Over 1GS, 900 Immigrants have
arrived at the port of New York this
year to date-The Pella Blade saws
that q couple of women took poison
at Red Rock last week and died from
the effects of i'll. M. Dixon in the
MARSHALL County Times places him.
self squarely on the record against
the third party ovement-Brigham
Young and his wives are having
their portraits painted-More than q
dozen Philadelphia clergymen have
united i'm the determination to at
tend no more Sunday funerals, un.
less the necessity is certified to by a
physician-A good lady in Council
Bluffs presented her husband the
other day with triplets-The Oregon
wheat crops will prove larger in yield
than expected-St. Paul bridge across
the Mississippi is pronounced unsafe
"A. II. Stewart says his trade was
never better. He gives his advertis-
ments credit for keeping his trade
lively in dull times-Mr. Chang and
his wife King Foo are on avisit to
the United States-President Grant
smokes thirty cigars day-They
have q field of corn Of 1000 acres in
Minnesota-Fort Dodge has been
historically poetized in the Times
An association of horse shoers' has
been formed in Brooklyn. They will
continue to work on the foundation
as usual-Chicago papers say the
mortality among children in that
city now is terrible-The Grecian
Bend is called the Pacific slope in
California-Mrs. Stowe has brought
upon her head the indignations of
the press of the country for publish
ing what Lady Byron committed to
herof the separation between the poet
and his wife-The Wirterset Stn
has been enlarged. Itstill continues
to shine-A reporter calls marriage
license "a preliminary way bill to
be freighted. over the sea of life
together. 1.-The earning of the Union
Pacific Railroad from May 10th, the
time of its completion, to August LIST,
was 81, 773, l53, 97-A boy having COM
planned to his father that Bill had
thrown the Bible at him, and hurt
him on the head, the father replied;
" Well, you are the only member of
my family on whom the Bible ever
made the least impression. "-Theo-
dore Tilton, Moses Colt Tyler, Josh
Billings and Elizabeth Cady Stanton
are to lecture before the Y. NJ. C.. A.
at Mt. Pleasant this winter-A young
Canadian girl, who ran away from
home and went to Detroit, has been |
for vagrancy. When offered |
her liberty in case she would go back |
home, she showed her good taste by |
the following reply: mot any Mis-
ster; like the states in prison better
than Canada at Liberty.-I'll take
ny chances on this side. IA little
four year old had long been vainly
to pucker his mouth in.
to shape for the whistling of a ma
tional tune he had heard upon the
street, At last he went to his moth
err in despair, exclaiming: INA, Use
so little I cant make hole big
enough for Yankee Doodle to get
out !"-The Sioux City Times of
August 18th says: "A terrible rain
and hail storm, continuing a full
hour, visited this section yesterday.
The streets were literally flooded
with water and ice, and in some pla-
les the icy pebbles were six inches
ieep. Some of the hail stones were
Is large as hickory nuts, and fell with
. velocity which, had the storm been
accompanied by heavy wind. must
nave proved ruinous to windows and
breakable.
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Senator Wilson, of Massachusetts,,
writes letter in which he says that
he has served with more than two
hundred Senators, and among them
III there have been scarcely any
whom he could so much as suspect
If corrupt motive" Many" he
dds, ''are wholesome let things 60
hat ought to be arrested, out of
but to take money for