Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1870-07-22
State News

State News
The Nonpdrtei office at Council
Bluffs Is soon to run by steam oil
except the editorial department.
Judge Chase and District. Attor.
ney Bradley, Of the llth Jadicial
District, were re-nominated at Eld-
ora, last week. .......... ....
"A Sioux tity tinsmith offers TO
wager $3.50 that he can make twelve
dozen six quart milk pans inside of
ten hours. ....s.
A German in Washington county
buried his wife one day last week, but
was comforted by marrying another
four days after.
The Webster city Freeman has
been enlarged. Bro. Hunter 10 a good
newspaper 'or any other msn." any
way you may take him. ....-. ..
"A Dubuque county COW gave
birth to calf on the 25th of June,
and on the 4th ofJuly became a mot
her again. Both calves are alive and
and frisky. ....
--Des Moines farmers who were
harvesting last week report the heat
straw light, but the grain heavier
than the average. The recent rains
have benefited corn great deal and
oats.
On the fifth Of June, at the poor
farm Of Harrison county, Iowa. VIM.
p. Chapman was married to Mrs.
Mary E. Warner. Their united ages
Is one hundred and seventy-two
years. .a.. su.... ...
The people of Cedar Rapids are
raising $50, 900 to secure the machine
and car shops of the Burlington, Ce-
dar Rapids & Minnesota Railroad.
They talk OF voting tax to aid the
scheme,
"A. Blossom. Esq, of TT. Dodge,
informs US by letter that on Friday
night last the Treasury OF Buena
Vista county was robbed OF some $4.-
400 In currency. Efforts are being
made to find the thief Dubuque
Times.
"A stranger i'm town attempted tn
commit suicide by jumping off the
bridge while under the influence Of
| ta,, .,,a h.w
stroke. He would have gotten wet
had David Clark not restrained him.
-- Warerky NeUs. ....
DEAD ISSUES. s.-The Des Moines
Statesman urges its readers 10 aban.
don dead tissues"
The Statesman IL the deadest issue
we know of.-Burlington Gazette.
The dead burying the dead - OF
tatnlwa Courier.
The Democrat of this city has
suspended publication indefinitely.
/ This Is a bad county for democratic
papers. MIR. Shurley will have our
best wishes for pecuniary success
wherever he may Decordh Yen.
tildtor.
What has become of the tyrepres-
sibie Charles p.
The North Iowa Synod of the
Presbyterian church meets In Water
loo on Wednesday, October 9th, and
will continue in session several davs.
This is a large body and the number
present will probably exceed one
hundred. Our citizens will open
their houses to tho members of the
Synod, without respect to member.
ship i'm any other church.
Here's a warning to discontented
Iowans. IL Is clipped from the To.
ledo Republican: ...
Our old friend, A. Tompkins, OF
Otter Creek township, has returned
Kansas whittier he went last year
hoping to find better State than
Iowa. He acknowledges himself dis
appointed The climate there be says,
Is not so good rs the climate of Iowa.
nor is the soil there 90 good as that oi
Iewa; there being no county I'm Kan.
sas that viii average such good soil as
the soil of Tama county. Timber II
verv acarce there, too. On the Who'll,
he proposes TO stick TO Tama county
State or Iowa.
SPoT HIM.-The Sioux Eity Times
has description of what IL calls car
accomplished dead beat" in other
words sandy whiskered gentleman
one A. +. Chamberlain, who 1t char
ges, goes around the country as o
knight Templar swindler on the
Masonic order. 1t tsays: "He repre-
sented himself here ms q Knight
Templar OF the Masonic order, and
where this was doubted he proved uI
by the necessary sign, grip and word
and so used influential Masons here
and elsewhere, to become, IL moi
parties, at least dupes and victims o.
his operations. His mode Of opera
tion is simply this: He Is generally
I'm need of money-has plenty In
bank in Winona and elsewhere, bui
just happened to get short of littl,
money-generally from 500 to S5Ot
would not find his friend and Bro
knight recognize him at the bank
} where he desires TO get check cash
ed -and. the resultis,the check comes
back protested and somebody loss tn,
amount