Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1869-12-17

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ment cure In New York.
/ Mfrs. Liyermore Is going to take
her hgitator from Chicago to Boston.
Returns from sixty-one counties
In Texas gives Davis 9.077 majority.
The Ecumenical Council has adj
joarned until after Epiphany.
One dollar sufiices to purchase
1,152 cigarettes at Manzanilla, Next.
CO.
Brigham Young, Jr., Is OF st.
4 Nicholas Hotel, New York. His
family does not accompany him.
! The officers ut West Point con-
template series of balls during the
present winter season.--the cadets to
be excluded! ..
A Chicago girl had the small toe
Of each foot, amputated in order to
make her feet smaller. This beats
the Chinese. ....-.....
"A new Republican daily is to be
started in Louisville Oh or about the
Goth inst, called the Commercial.
Thomas Bradley Is to be business
manager. 't..
/ Vanderbilt characterized him
self lately. while talking to a report
er, as the 'damnelest man for not
knowing anything you ever did see"
Those who heard his testimony in
court the other day now agree with
him in that opinion. f..
Olive green cloth dress and high
felt hat was the walking costume of
some of the ladies who take part in
the Suez Canal festivities. How
long before we shall see this taste
copied in this country? .. g..
! An Anti Papal Congress, in OPP
position to the Ecumenical Council,
opened at Naples, Italy, ON the 9th,
Of which 500 Italian delegates and 20
from other countries were present.
1T il rumored that vigilance
committee, cnti;led Law aud Regu-
laiors," stroEg in numbers, has been
organized in New York City to put
down lawlessness.
i Mrs. Stevens Is of the opinion
that Mrs. Stowe and Henry Ward
Beeeher would be better peopl, and
much more useful if they had reli-
gion. .a .s
The Milwaukee and st. Paul
Railroad Company have finished
their temporary bridge across the
Mississippi from Prairie du Chen to
Nc Gregor, and trains now run di.
rectly through. F."
J AT the opening of the "magnifi-
cent new billiard hall" at Omaha
recently, 1000 of the beauty, wealth
ard fashion" of that moral city were
present. During the evening, lady
probably not belonging to the beau
tg, wealth and fashion aforesaid, ap.
peared among the assemblage, and
distributed tracts and phamplets Of
religious nature, with liberal
hand.
We observe that some of our con.
temporaries are still publishing an
incorrect statement to the effect thai
newspaper one side of which /:
printed outside the county where
published, is not entitled to the usuai
exemption from postage within thai
county. The natter has been def.
nitely settled in favor of such pub.
fishers by a recent decision of the
Postmaster General, which we find
in the November issue of the United
States MaA. to wit:
"A newspaper having known
Office of publication, notwithstand'
ing one side of the same is printed
i'm another county or State, is enti.
tied to the same privileges as though
both sides were printed at the same
Office Of publication"
The Halifax Chronicle, comment.
ing on President Grants message,
says 1t has broken down all hope OF
reciprocity, and renders annexation
more desirable. 1t admits that an
nexation is impossible unless the
whole Dominion asks for it, aud be-
lieves independence will become the
popular cry. ..- .....
THE following bulletin has been
published: ... .... ID.
| .... MARLBOROUGH House,
PAIL MALL. y. W.,
| November 26-l:30 A. NJ.
"Her Royal Highness the Princess
of Wales was safely delivered of a
Primo ess ut 1920 this morning. ..
.Her Royal Highness aud the
infant Princess are doing perfectly
well.
ARTHUR FARRE. VI. ID.
edward III. SIEvEKING, M. d."
The Kaffir Chiefs recently got up
"corner" in wives. In that print.
tive country cows are the established
currency, and wives are bought and
sold in open market. The Chiefs re-
Gently combined to lock up the vac
cine currency, aud having accom-
plished that object, suddenly flooded
the market with cows, and bought
UP all the marketable wives in the
country. These wives they are now
holding with the intention of build
ing the market until the prices rise q
hundred per cent.
The London Spectator says that
Grants programme of peace, recon
a., nction, retrenchment and honesty
must ennacce the position of the
United States "a q patton. Her way
of paying debts was last TO be quar-
relied with.
"A sensation is going the rounds
of the papers. about tongue offlame
which has darted out forty-five mill.
ions of miles from the sun, and
threatens to lick up the earth, accord
ing to the showing of the sensation
lists, this wonderful tongue has
already passed the orbit of Mercury
and that planet does not seem par
ticularly to mind it. There is not SO
much reason to fear injury to the
earth from this cause as there is to
anticipate an equally disastrous ca
tastrophe from an eruption of the
globe Of fiery matter within the
earth's surface.
The Des Moines Bulletin offers q
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