Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1869-08-13
IOWA News.


At burlington the other day ,
couple aged respectively siXty-si!
and sixty.hire made life warmer b,
getting married.
The next mississippi Valley Com
mercial Convention will he held a
ke0kuk on the eth of September.
Hhcre is n man at OskalOOsa wh'
fought under Napoleon in 1908, wa
in the Spanish wars, IN the war o
1912, and was member Of the Grey
Beard regiment during the rebellion
4 deficiency OF $1.550.43 has been
found in the accounts of the City
Treasurer of Dubuque, and he has
asked for time--which has been
granted-t0 straighten up his books
Three men in Taylor cOunty-a Mr.
Knuuse, and two others named Grit
fiths-got into an alteration recently
about some hogs, when Knouse shot
one of the GrllithS, killing him in
stantly, and wounded the other in
the arm and shoulder.
4 twelve years old girl in Frank
lin county was bitten by a rattle
snake, n few days ago, while walk
ing in the corn-lield with her little
brother. She afterwards killed the
snake and carried it to the house for
fear it might bite the boy.
a young lady Of fifteen or sixteen
wears of age, named Bryan, residing
four miles west of HopkintOn, was
accidently shot and dangerously
wounded recently, by q young man
who was in the act OF handling a
new revolver for examination.
1t is stated that $1,000 dozen eggs
have been shipped from Des Moines
this season. During the present year,
there have been shipped from Mar
shalitown GOO, GOO bushels of wheat,
$4,000 bushels of oats, $50, 600 of corn,
100000 pounds of pork, and coo. 900
of live hogs.
The gopher trade has been quito
brisk for few months i'm Polk Coun
ty. The Des MOines Register says
the boys of that county have had the
pleasure of shutting Off the wind"
Of tLN.,rnnI ..;x al
forty gOphers, for which the county
has paid $780, bounty on the scalps.
The local of the Dubuque Times
says: yesterday, while passing one
of our leading hotels, We noticed
fair female leaning back in q chair
with her feet upon the window sill,
intensely perusing paper which we
judged to he the Revolution. Of
course it's all right, it only looks n
little odd to an outsider"
The Ottumwa Courier informs the
Democratic press that their candi-
date for Governor spells his name
Gillaspy, and that "all attempts to
pic him are malicious forgeries,"
No matter, General, which way you
spell it, his form will he knocked in
to l)i at the corning election, notwith-
standing it Is oil "fat" natter
Davenport GH=ctte.
Two travellers stopping at the D, s
Moines House, says the Register,
came near losing their lives last week
by blowing out the gas or retiring
to bed. One of them when asked il |
lie had smelt anything wrong, re-
piled that he "didn't notice it was
any worse smell than hotels general /,
~ had"
The Davenport journal denies the
statement that Hon. Hiram Price |
will not be q candidate for United |
States Senator, and says: at will
unquestiOnable be offered at the prop
er time, and by the members of the
Legislature from this county, il
they are his friends, provided there
is the slightest show for him."
Mr.. Royal w. Hawkins and fine
team of horses were drowned in the
river bottom at Keokuk on the eth
ult. He wanted to reach the ferry at
its lower landing, and was warned
not to do it, but took his own coun-
sci and lost his life. His death was
witnessed by several persons who
were unable to reach him in time.
His body was secured in a few min>
utes.
Nearly five years ago, c. II. Robin
son ami one Clancy killed man by
the name OF Collins, in a bar-ro0m,
Ia Bellevue. The murderers fed,
aud for long time nothing was
heard from them. The Maquokata .
Excelsior Of the 22nd says Sheriff ,
Sherman, Of that county. discovered ,
Robinson was at Galena, ILL.,, last ,,
week. and had him arrested. lie
has been brought to Iowa, and lodged :
In the Jackson county Jail.
4 fellow in Davenport has tried a :
new way of making his wife more
agreeable, by taking paper Of mag
nesia and labelling it arsenic, and |
mixing it in his wife's presence, and :
sxclaiming-."My dear! I will troub- :
e you no more" swallowed the in ,
lOXious compound. The lady seeing (
.he label, rushed for the Doctor, and i
he gentleman was pumped out, not {
his statement of the ,
ease, and his objections to the con- Z
.rary. E
The Sioux City Times tells of
case of vigorous love. making, near
hat city between some of the sons {
Of Ham, and some of the graceful
daughters Of the forest; "Of late y
t has been rumored that large num-,
sers of Indians and negroes have -,
)een having high old times" i'm the ;
push Oh the west side OF Perry Creek, =,
,ear the levee. Deputy Marshal :,
Racket on last evening determined >
o investigate the matter, and the re.
ult was astonishing even to that old +,
'eteraa, who would scarcely allow /,
aimse # to be astonished at anything. q
On tie logs, i'm the bushes, and "ly- :
ny around loose" in that vicinity,
he found twenty-five squaws engaged !
N tete-a-tetes with as many very