Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1869-02-05
iowa News.
Council Bluffs has 1872 widows.

Iowa's record Is clear on the subsi-
dy question.
The State Penitcntiary contains 2lS
convirts.
The Etna Live Stock Insurance
Co. has failed.
A revival of religion is in progress
at Apamosa.
They have an election for Post
Master in Manchester.
The next Iowa State Fair will not
be held at Cheyenne.
Dixon will soon issue another book
--on the Rum Driuker.
The census of iowa for 1869 will
soon be commenced.
Susannah Johnson, Of Webster
County, is a widow Of the Revolu-
ton.
i. F. Taylor lectures i'm Montana
on the llth of this month ON Fail.
IRE the A lrhahe of Success"
1t is rumOred that the Cedar Rap.
ids World material is to be brought
into republican Use at Iowa City.
The State Christian Convention
which WAS to have been held this
north has been indefinitely post
poned.
375 school houses were erected in
iowa in 1863. The amount paid
teachers during the past year was
81 ,O0t ,623, s27.
Andrew Johnson bas ju.t been
sent to Jail at Murshaltown in de.
fault of bail for stealing money
What's il a name.
The wife of Rev. c. G. Truesdell
had her jaw broken and was other
wise injured 10y falling from car
step in Cedar Rapids last Friday.
The Burlington Huwkeye, one of
the leading papers of our State, pro-
nounces the Department of Agricul-
ture a: Washington ilumbug.
The Soldiers Friend Of Davenport
has recently been enlarged and is
now one of the han''somest rsper- in
the State, as well as one of the very
best.
The Benton County Board Of SUI.
pervisors have refused longer to pay
hOunties ON gopher scalps, after ex-
pending $20,WO in that line of luXu-
ry.
Charles May. of Lansing, was
killed by his cousin on the 24th of
last month. The difficulty WAS caused
by the division OF some grain. The
murderer has escaped.
Adiutant General Baker il desi-
rous Of obtaining az Iowa Forest
Tree from every County in the State
to ornament the grounds about the
Adjutant Generals office.
Des Moines proposes to give 50. 000
to secure the State Fair this ycar.--
twenty other towns are bidding for
il with ms much actual prospect a.
Gear Falls has of securing the L. s.
Capital.
The Ucr0l1 sa's registered pack
age from Chicag" 10 some point west
passed through tie Dubuque Office,
on Thursday, which weighed nine
teen pounds. The contents of the
package were of cou,se unknown.
A fine blue eyed hoy baby was left
on the door step of prominent Bur
linvton citizen last Monday night,
done up i'm a market basket, with the
following earl pinned on it, breast {:
II want YOU to get good home for
this child. It's father won't do il
and | can't"
The Democrat says the City Coun-
iii of Montana have enacted an ordi.
nance In"rea~ing the license for beer
saloons from $25 To $40 Racquet
proposes To publish the "scalawag.
list at the end Of the presrnt vol
uine. Those who have run away
without paying for their paper will
compose it.
The Wintcrsetters in consequence
of their distance from Washington
have been compelled to organize Il
Moot Congress. As Congress un-
dertuok to impearh the wickedtst
man i'm the United States. we pre-
slime the "Mnnters" OF NVintprsptt
will find it necessary to bring before.
their august hOdy the dirtest man ia
iowa-Ifenry Clay Dean.
The Dies Moines Register says that
there is family living eight or ten
miles west of that city, in which
there are thirteen children. all nf
whom are deaf and dumb. The fam
lily il "a good one aud one much re-
spectcd in The community. We doubt
If there is another family ON earth
with as much silence in il as this
one.
4 yOunE laIy i'm Tcnue-aee has h nd