Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1869-10-15

TINc CldteS, iO"ar lhuialiay o'i"f
Pennsylvania and Neraska, held
their elections last Tuesday. The
Boston advertiser thinks there is at
present no necessity for our military
officers to pass sleepless nights in de-
vislng ways to repel the assaults of
Spain i'm case she should declare war
against us.-Hon. Chas. Sumner
made a speech at the Massachusetts,
State Convention recently, in which
he took the ground that we have no
right to declare Cuba belligerant
power, however much we may SYM
pathise with them.-The New York
Tribune regrets to perceive that the
ladies of the Suffrage Association
have taken to making ugly reD,arks
about one another's clothes; tits
cruel. Faragut is lying
dangerously ill at the Sherman
House, Chicago.-The corn crop near
Rockingham Va, is failure.-Anna
Dickinson appeared in public recent
ly dressed in bleemers and wore q
gentleman's overcoat; an eye wit.
ness judges the number of her little
boot to he two and q fraction. The
Indians are again making trouble Oh
the frontier,-The papers unite In
the statement that the recent freshet
in the eastern states was one of the
most disastrous ever experienced
! Forest is about taking his one hum
dredth farewell of the stage. -
The earnings of the Union Pacific
Railroad for the month of September
were $743, 1926; an increase over
August of $l75, 000.-Jeff. Davis is
again on American soil, having ar
rived at Baltimore on the 9th inst
4 terrible hurricane visited Eastport
Maine, on the 5th inst, the town
was nearly demolished.-S24, 900 were
collected in New York city for the
Avondale sufferers.-In twenty-five
years'the population Of Iowa has in
creased one hundred fold, from 1O,-
531 to ,05S, 114.-Snow has fallen i'm
! Vermont and Nebraska-A landlady
in Boston makes her biscuit so light,
that the dodgers see to go to bed on
them it saves KEROSENE" Linken-
sale" in q letter to the Chicago Post
and speaking of the prospective leg
islature Of Iowa, says John Russell
will be elected speaker.-President
Gilman has negotiated the fl rst mort
gage bonds of the Central Railway
of Iowa for $4,000, OOO.-In Delaware
County they are imprudently trying
to repeal law which compells a
man before marrying to give bonds
in 5000. for good ehaviour.-Greeley
is in favor of women voting if they
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Greeley or any other man make them
vote if they didn't want to.-General
Sigel has been nominated for Secre-
tary of State by the Republicans of
New York.-All quiet on Wall street.
-Brunetts are coming in fashion
this season.-A colored mail agent
distributed the mail so Deliberate
ly in Mississippi that he complained
that he did not have enough to go
round.-A man in England tired of
life, lately fred some corn stacks for
the sole purpose as he declared that
he might be transported.-The En-
peror Napoleon has recovered from
pain in the bowels, the cable dis
patches say.-Bears are eating up
hogs in the north part of Minnesota,
and the bulls are eating up the bears
on Wall street, In 1912 there were
800 Baptist in Iowa; now $780,
Seventeen men control the 10000
Pennsylvania miners.-Gough is
writing the last chapter of his auto
biography.-The Mt. Pleasant Jour-
nal says one of the best scholars in
the Freshman class in the college in
that city, Is a colored Boy who was a
slave five years ago. Democrats pre-
pare to bowl.-New York city is dull
with a tendency downward.-Des-
patches say money is easier in New
York it is easy enough spent any
place.-A negro girl sixteen years
old gave birth last week to four chill
dren all in one pile, at Walton Ky
Susan Ii. Anthony drinks Coffee
Fisk's modesty kept him back so
much during the late excitement in
Wall street, that it is proposed hence
forth to call him the Rear ADMIRAL
II is reported that Lucy Stones
trousers and her husbands hoop
skirt, were stolen from a sleeping.car
the other night.
Fighting the Lion at
Home. Is
\ despatch to the Chicago Tribune