Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1869-10-08
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bcihS uSIupuiateu'
Goodwin Smith will return t,
Europe this Fail.
Governor Wells, Of Virginia, re
turns to the practice of law.
Vermont's total assessed valuation
this year is 500, PSI ,073,
The gold mines on the Nurmillion
Mimi, have been abandoned.
Illinois towns and counties have
$50, 100000 railroad debt,
The owner of the Bull Run farm il
tearing down the breastworks.
Governor Haight is a candidate fol
United States Senator in California.
Georgia planters will make this
year $iO,O 900 on. cotton.
Syracuse Episcopalians have given
Bishop Huntingdon so, 800 house.
After Christmas, marriage of first
cousins will be legal in New Hamp-
shire.
The marriages average two hun
dred in Paris on Saturdays, which is
the marrying day.
Two saloons have been squelched
out at Ainsworth because the people
did not want them.
The Linn Baptist Association has
been held at Anamosa-it being the
thirteenth annual meeting.
The Iowa Fails Sentinel says wheat
is yielding well in that vacinity-
twenty to thirty bushels per acre
being the score.
From the land sales at Sioux City,
Iowa during the last three months, ii
is estimated that the population OF
the State has increased fully $1,000.
The Kansas Agricultural College
is in its fourth year Of successful OPP
Grafton. Ladies are admitted, and
the catalogue shows 70 ladies to OF
gentlemen.
Horace Greeley says the darkest
day in mans career is that wherein
he fancies there is some easier way OF
getting Il dollar than by squarely
earning it.
A Vermont farmer paid 5000 for q
blO0ded bull, and he had no sooner
got him home than he proved his
worth by putting his horns through
q 81 900 horse.
1t is estimated that the cotton crop
of Arkansas for 1869 will net 500, 00C
bales-worth $3O,OOO,0 900. The corn
crop will be the largest ever made in
the State.
In Mississippi the Democratic can.
didate for Secretary of the State is q
negro. Wonder how Mississippi
Democrat would like to have his sis
ter marry that "nigger.
The managers of n county fair in
Massachusetts substituted a trial OF
cooking stoves for the usual trial OF
the speed of horses. There were a
large humber of entries, but the bet
ting was not lively.
The number Of cows in France Is
more than 100000. In Paris the
consumption of milk is nearly 1000, 000
quarts day. Milk is sold at from
ten to forty centimes a quart accord
ing to the locslity and the quality.
\ young man under age applied
at a Minnesota land Office for a farm
under the Homestead law, but was
denied on account of his not being
married. He returned in just an
hour with a remedy for the difficulty
hanging on his arm.
A gentlemen seeing an Irishman
fencing in a very barren aud desOiate
piece of land, said: What are you
fencing in that lot for, Pat? a flock
of sheep would starve in it," And
sure, your, honor, wasn't | fencing
it to kape the poor bastes out of it?"
replied Pat.
Many q mans fortune has been
the result of what the wife of Gener-
al Grant called "Obstinacy"-the
holding on to an idea or q point,
even after the chances seem altogeth-
er desperate. Faint heart mere won
fair lady" nor ever accomplished
anything worth mentioning. Get a
good thing, and then stick to it, 'if
it takes all summer"
The young lady who rises early,
rolls up her sleeves. and walks into
the kitchen to get breakfast or assist
in doing so, and afterwards, with
cheerfuluess and sunny smiles, puts
the house i'm order without the assist
anee of her mother, is worth a thous-
and parlor beauties, who from want
of exercise, almost die of laziness.
The former will make a good wife
and render home paradise ; the lat
ter is useless piece of furniture, and
will to the annoyance of the house
hold, go whining to her grave.
The Rev. VIM. A. Milburn, the
" blind preacher has recently re-
turned to New York, after sixteen
months residence abroad, whittier
he went for the purpose of submitting
to an operation for sight, by the emf
nent Giraffe, of Berlin. The expert
ment was not n success. Mr.. Mil
burn, during his absence, has pre-
pared two new lectures" What a
Blind Man Saw in Paris" and "A
Blind Mans Experience in Search of
Sight which he proposes to de-
liver during the coming lecture sea-
son.
Henry Keep left property to the
amount $4,000, 600. His will, which
is published in the New York papers,
makes bis widow, Emma A. Keep,
residuary legatee, after hestowing
upon his daughter Emma $500, OO0
worth of Northwestern stock; his
sister, Mary Kenyon, Sl85,OOO and
two farms, making up 5000, 900; his
sister, Martha Fuller, 100000, and
his wife's four sisters 100, 900 each.
Nothing goes to benevolent objects.
The will is dated July 8th, 1869.
The Times gives the following
synopsis of "Col.n Gillaspy's speech