Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1869-12-24

Cedar Rapids claims to have the
champion pianist i'm the State.
! Iowa State tax is two mills on
the dollar-Illinois rejoices in thir.
teen mills.
MIR. l.. M. Holt, late of the Tenn
/ peroace Standard, has gone to
California to seek a newspaper loc.-
ton.
The last offices of Clinton coum~
ty have been removed from Dewitt
to Clinton. The Jail is still at DE.
Witt.
Two hundred million feet of pine
logs came down the Wolf Creek IN
Wisconsin during the season of 1869
l7s,CoO, 900 last year,
John Fleming has been arrested al
Union City, Union county, ON q
charge of having murdered his wife
and child. He was admitted to bail,
and Immediately disappeared.
Our own glorious State of Iowa
has now balance of $3o3, AGA. 81 In
the Treasury, and will begin the
new year with larger fund than
ever In the Treasury, and no debts to
pay.
| During the past term, ii Is stated,
that the students of the Iowa Agri-
cultural College have earned at least
half their board. The entire work
has amounted to $500, and tile
board to 5000.
Mary Harris, of Burlington who
shot Burroughs in Washington, has
been discharged from the Insane AS
ylum, pronounced to be perfectly
eured-and is now employed In the
Philadelphia pnstoilice.
| The Hamilton Freeman says, "the
| trains on the Iowa Central Railroad
are now making regular tiips from
Ackley tn Alhion--u point six miles
north of Marshalitown. The Com.
pany expect To have the road COM
pleted To Marshalltown 10y the last OF
this month. ..... ...a -..aea
j, w. Doughty, agent for Dix
on's Valley and shadow says the
sale of the work has reached its fifth
! edition-some 4, 500 volumes having
been disposed of altogether. As the
work sells u. Sl.75, the gross receipts
oi the sales SD far have betn over
$1,000. With Il portion of this
amount Mr.. Dixon has purchased
him II snug home in Marshalltown
i where he now resides. So far, Mr..
Doughty's canvassing has been con
fined mainly To Central and North.
ern Iowa. aa a.a. ....... +
The Office of the Treasurer OF
Fama county, at Tana City, was Ell.
tered by two men last week aud rtb-
bed of $1,000. The Republican says
tue robbeIs at first asked for some
stamps. MIR. Camery, treasurer
turned to get them, when they
caught him 10y the throat and knock.
ed his iead agairst the wtrll, and
stabbed him three times; they then
seized $4,000 that lay in the safe, ana
ESCAPED. Ii is feared that Camery Il
fatally wounded. Should the rob.
hers re caught, they will be lynched
beyond u doubt.
The Sioux City Journal os the 9th
says OF the progress of the work on
the west end of our railroad "rrack.
laying on the Iowa Falls and Sioux
City Railroad has reached u point
within three or four miles of Chero-
kee Cherokee county, and regular
trains will soon be running TO that
I place, which I'm sixty miles east oil
Sioux City. We understand it l.
proposed not to extend the track
farther east than Cherokee during
the present winter. The labor oi
preparing the road.bed, we presume.
III the weather is not too unfavora.
ble, will be continued. There Ii nc
question but that the entire distance
will be completed aud put in opera.
tion early in the spring of 1870"
The mcanest man has been
heard from, in the person of Cyrus
Crider, who left this city ON Friday
last, with $3,440 which didn't be.
long To him. IL seems that he in.
duced the woman he was going to
/ marry to sell her little place oi
Rock Island street. and 10 intrusl
him with the proceeds, also, witt,
every dollar she had, amounting in
all To the above sum. under the pre-.
text of his going to Quincy TO open O
store with the money, arter which,
he was to come back, marry her, and
together they should 90 and be hap.
py In their new home. Alas, for the
meanness of this specimen of tile
sterner sex. he babe her nn affection.
ate farewell and left. Not To carry
out their plans for future happiness,
but To prove himself as he is--the
meanest of the mean-to spend her
money In Pennsylvania. riotously
perhaps, while she was left 10 strug.
gle with poverty, aud the unsympa.
thizing charity of selfish city
Davenport Democrat, lith.
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