Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1869-12-10
News and General Items

L
Senator Sherman In q conversation
with the Washington correspondent
OF the New York Herald, recently
said that the time had not yet arriv
ed for the resumption OF specie pay
ments; that 1t was dangerous to com
mercial classes, and should be grad.
ual.
Louisa Muhlbach, the German Ro.
mancist, is said to bs In the last sta.
ges Of dropsy.
The latest wrinkle In the fashion,
able world Is to give morning read
Ing parties, to which gentlemen are
invited.
A Mr.. Williams, Of Clinton Il hap
Ply In the possession of the flrst
greenback ever printed. An how
much happier will be the man who
shall hold the last.
A girl Of eighteen is about 10 Le
beheaded at Gocrlitz, Prussia, for
murdGing her parents.
An old man In Connecticut. last
week, was buried In the suit he had
worn at his own four weddings.
A charming girl of Boston 10 about
establishing female barber shop
TeL sylphs are being put through a
tuitionary course of lather for the
opening. A sweet shave will cost
twenty-five cents, aud a serpahic
shampoo half a dollar.
They say in Berlin that the King
OF Prussia desired to be present at
the Inauguration Of the Suez Canal,
but that his mistress, young ballet
girl, spirited, but not very prepro-
sessing in appearance, was so decid.
ediy opposed to his going that he
abandoned the project.
Miss Burdett Coutts has taken a
step to solve the difficulty of trans.
porting cattle long distance on
railroads, without tortuing or starv-
Ing them. This Ia done by new
cattle-car, provided with convenien.
ces for eating and drinking, and pro-
tections against jolting. It has been
some time patented, but dealers are
slow to incur the expense Of adopt.
ing 1t. Miss Couts has sent some
animals from Edingburgh to Lon.
don by the improved cars, with the
result Of their arrival at market in
such excellent condition as to bring
high prices.
On "Wednesday of last week case
of love at first sight occurred at the
Smelling House, st. Paul, which re.
suited In matrimony q few hours af-
ter Introduction. Mr.. George Rich.
ards, from Austin, Minn., had come
to st. Paul to transact a little busi-
ness, and was stopping at tho above
named house. On Wednesday
morning he was introduced to Miss
Kate johnson, an American girl OF
Swedish extraction, who was em-
ployed as dining-room waiter In
the house. Both were much pleased
with each other at once--in two
hours they were lovers-in three
hours they had sworn eternal con.
stancy-in four hours they had
agreed to marry-in five hours the
license had been procured-and, In
little less than six hours, the cere.
mony had been performed and the
two were made one. They left fol
Austin on the evening train, where
they go to housekeeping at once.
The financial statement for No.
vember shows that the national deb
has been reduced by $7,571 asa dur.
ing the past month. But the 5-2t
bond debt was reduced. in the same
period, $4,000, 900. The Secretary
commenced purchasing $50 bonds in
May last. During the seven months
since then he has purchased the fol.
lowing amount of them:
For the sinking fund gao. .4fs, ,0st
oh aooouh.,,' '....'.,........... 6,4s6,2Ot
Total purchase ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS SIG. .se6, ,23s
The $50 bond debt has, therefore,
been reduced 81, 7,000, 900 since May
last, and the Secretary has announc.
ed his pupose to buy So. 900, 900 more
this month. The gold interest saw
ed by the purchase of those bonds
amounts to 81, ,820, 900 per annum.-
The purchase OF bonds announced
for this month will carry the amount
up to $s6,0o0, 900, and the purchase
for January will make II fun $100.
100000. BY the 4th of March next
General Grant will be able to shake
In the face of the Copperheads and
repudiators $1l5 ,OO0, 600 of purchased
and cancelled $50 bonds.
II Is said the House Committee OH
Ways and Means propose TO strike
off the tariff on debts, not produced
In this country, this will reduce the
revenue about seventy millions ol
dollars, and to that extent reduce
the indirect taxation now imposed
upon the people.
Chicago proposes to have new
mammoth hotel, covering the whole
square, bounded by Clark, Jackson
LasselIe, and Quincy streets, 1t Is te
cost $l,000,0O0 The Times, says Il
will be commenced in the spring
and occupy two years In building.
For the past two months great ac
tivity has existed at the Feniar
Headquarters In New York aud 9th
er cities, and immense numbers O
men have enlisted, who have beer
assured that before long they wouIt
find work to do in achieveing the In
dependence of Ireland.
The Freedmans' Bureau is soon I,
be mustered out. Its total cost dur
ing its existence has been over $l3,,
100000.
The sales Of land by the Illinois
Central Railroad for the nine months
ending September 30th, 1869, wer,
In round numbers 1000 acres.--
These lands were sold for $742, 72s.s 81
or on an average $l1 per acre.
AS New Haven horse, driven b,
a boy, was drawing some long plank
ON Tuesday, one of the planks struck
tree and was crowded over upor
the hersc. The boys strength wa