Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1870-07-29

Three persons were dhowncd at
Cedar Rapids last week. s-#
The cheese factory Mt Iowa Falls
made sixty-eight thousand pounds of
cheese in June. .-. ...-.
The editor Of the Ames lRteHi-
gcaces speaks of an apple tree in that
neighborheod being now in blossom.
The same tree hlossomed at the usual
time in the spring. .... . /.
--Whitcombe, the bogus Methodist
minister, who fleeced the good peo-
pie of Iowa some time ago, has been
brought up with round turn at
Springfield, Mass. When examined
he had $4,000 in his carpet bag.
The merchants exchange Of st.
Louis voted to entertain the Iowa
editors who will visit that city on
the excursion trip the 9th, on the
occasion of the completion of the ".
Mo. n. II. to Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
One day not long since Messrs.
w. j. Young e. Co, of this city
bought $4,000 worth of logs. We
thought it was not n very good day
either for buying logs.
All our mills are supplied with
plenty of logs, and the saws are max
ing the sweetest music these hot
days,-Uinton Ago.
1T Is said that n certain orator at
one of the celebrations in this county
on the Fourth wishing to apostroph-
ize the national banner, got it!'
Forever fleet that standard shoat.n
What wos almost as bad as friend
Paulk introducing Hon. Ill. o. Pratt
rs Rev, at the Waukon celebration.
Lansing Mirror.
"A farmer in Winnesheik county
was cutting hay with mower, when
he heard n child shrek. lie leaped
from the machine to find his lit lie
boy awfully mutiliated, both hands
cut off ard one of his feet mangled.
The child was playing in the tall
grass, aud the father did not see him.
There is a four-year old boy in
Plymouth, whose head measures %
inches in circumference and weighs
25 pounds. The Sioux City Journal
says the child has grown none since
its second year, and its body is una
BILE to support its enormous head in
an upright position. The child is
unusually bright and intelligent.
Ben. Nansteenburgh, the deputy
L. >. Marshal, IL i'm town, censusing
everybody. Ben. says people are not
so old as they seem, aud marry
younger than he supposed. He met
a lady the other day only thirty years
Of age whose eldest daughter was
hcenty t,co. Several of our old bach
elors have only gained four years
since 1860. These are strange times
and "things don't go rs they used To
did. ."-Adquoketo Excelsior.
-Dea. Aaron Benedict of Water
bury Conn, has just added $4,000 TO
the Benedict Profership of the Latin
Language and Literature. IL Is n
most timely gift and its record is it..
self the best tribute which can be
paid to the donor, a noble Christian
gentleman, who is investing the ac
cumalation OF long life, for the hem
or of God and welfare of men. May
there be many such men tn bless our
Christian Colleges and so, all coming
nerations.-PoWeshck Go. Heratd.
PLYMOUTH AND SIOUX COUNTIES.
In July, 1860, Sioux county had a
population of less than fifty. The
census Of that county has just been
completed, and shows present pop
ulation of T50-.a gain OF $50 in
twelve months.
One year ago plymouth county es.
timated the total number of its I'm
habitants at 200. The present census |
will show population Df from 1900 |
to $500. The enumeration as far as
made foots up 1,400, and there are
five well settled townships yet to be
taken. The figures are tangible eyi-
dence of the marvellous rapidity with
which North western Iowa il being
d.-Des AOilcs bulletin.
The Buckeye State says: "At
the commencement exercises of the
Mt. Pleasant, Iowa. Female Semi
nary a few days ago, the young ladies'
of the graduating class, eight i'm
number, instead of being dressed in
silk and satin, as Ia customary on
such occasions, wore neat calico
dresses, made by their own hands.
This is another step in the right di-
rection, and indicates an amount OF
common sense ard independence that
ought, and we have no doubt will,
make the matrimonial fortune Of the
fair possessors.