Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1870-08-05
Iowa Gleanings.

DE VIII mas 500 families, oOo
dwelling houses, and 1850 people,
The first new wheat of the sea-
son, sold at Davenport, brought $l.15
per bushel.
A German farmer of Scott coun-
ty, the Davenport Gazette says,
raised 1900 bushels of barley on 25
acres of land.
The State Register is printed and
folded by steam. Steam conipositors
and hydraulic ram editor are spok-
en- Davenport Gazette. .
"A boy swan the Mississippi riv-
er at Quincy, the other day, for s..
He had to swim four miles to get
across. r.. i
The population of Waterloo is
4 1885. Thus has Uncle Sam caused
the pride of its people to fall. They
can no longer say, "well our lowest
estimate is about seUen thousand p
Davenport Gazette.
A young man named Swickard,
near West Liberty, because he liked
a girl who wouldn't like him, tried
to get out of his trouble by the use
of chloroform, but q doctor pumped
the nonsense out of him and now he
says he don't care for her anyhow.
The Sioux City Journal reports
a case of Grim. eon.--the parties be.
ing a Clergyman and too-confiding
SISTER" Of his flock. The Journal
also records a shooting affray i'm
which one of the parties ia likely to
die. And there was woman in
that case, too.
A swarthy missionary among
his own folks at Muscatine, got a
nights lodging at a colored brothers
on Sunday night, and in the morn
ing rose early, and without disturb
ing his host, silently stole away
He also stole the family Bible and
photograph album.
The Council Bluffs people have
cows and cow-bells. The Nonpar-
ell has correspondents on the SUBJ
ject also. One of them closes thusly:
'As a nightly visitation, the mos
quito is soothing syrup compared
with n cow-bell; for morning PEI
nance, flies are lighter infliction.
The Marshall Times turns its atS
tention to Henderson, and hopes
Nothing will be said to drive him
deeper into the pit Of shame, but in
stead, people will endeavor to raise
hlm up and sustain him in good res
olutions-doing unto him as we
would wish to be done by"
IS 0. Butler, a prominent busl-
ness man of Muscatine, who was
sent TO the lunatic asylum ut Mt.
Pleasant few weeks since, died in
that institution on last Monday
The Journal says Mr.. Ii. lost heavily
On pork last winter, when his reason
was dethroned, and he gradually
sank away.
Ed. Chaplin of the Marshall
Times, since he has shaved off the
hair around the bald spot atop his
head, blocked out set of clustering
Burnsides, and dressed up i'm new
"toggery," is the toughest looking
old seed we ever met. Hoggatt Is a
respectable animal alongside the
Marshall grizzly. - EIdOrd Ledger.
chaplin was one of a group of edi-
tors at TT. Dodge, who sat for his
phiz, and we learn by grape vine tel
egraph, that the artist has since been
unable to Keep pace with the de.
mand for sample copies"
--B. r. Allen, of Des Moines, is
about to place his bank In communi-
cation with his residence, mile off.
A dial apparatus, with pointers and
alphabet, and keys corresponding to
the alphabet, 10 used. II is so sim
pie child can work it. In this way
Mr.. A. can announce what he wants
for dinner, when he wants IT., and
who will be there to eat 1t. lie can
order his carriage and summon his
wife with equal facility, and Mrs. A.
can communicate her wishes with
the same ease.
James ID. Ainsworth, editor of
the Denison, Crawford county, Re
ttesC, was married. on the 24th inst,
to Miss Allie M. Laub, at the resi-
dence of the brides father I'm Deni-
son. They couldn't have chosen q
better time. So the editorial excur,
sion is bridal tour to Mr.. and Mrs.
Ainsworth We didn't know that
when they passed through Des
Moines, although We thought James
looked exceedingly happy. Didn't
once think Of neutrality-suspicious.
he'd just received pay for the laws
and was going on an "excurse.u But
in the generosity of our local heart,
we forgive him for not giving us the
item when he passed down the VAL
ley. Next annual excursion proba-
bly, he'll go alone for the same rea-
son some of the bretheren went
alone this time.-Stdte Register.