Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1870-04-29
Iowa Itcsns.
IN new mOlIO
N'Late to bed, early 10 rise
Never get Highland advertise

Never get Highland advertise
The Scott County Fair will be
held this season in September, COM
mencing on The 9Th. ... .u.. ....s
John p. Irish gives racy ac-
count of his return to his constitll~
ents, from the Legislature. ". s..@
The Legislature had eleven hum
dred dollars worth of pictures taken
in Des Moines during its last session.
In Des Moines the saloons are
closed, as result of the decisive ma
jority-more than 800 votes--given by
the people for IN license - a.a.a
"A new county comprising the
three northernmost tiers OF towns
SHIPS of Kossuth county, was created
by the late Legislature, and named
Crocker, in honor of General M. NJ.
Crocker. ' i
AT Vinton, on the 2lst, Mrs. Geo.
NIhNA WV" AtAs lluSbHuN
with a pair of twins whose aggregate
weight was 20 pounds. The journal
wants to know what family in Iowa
can beat this, We cant just now
think of family that wants to.-Er.
The new Court House of Clinton
county, between Clinton and Lyons,
is an island according to the geo.
graphical understanding OF that
term-being entirely surrounded by
water. Over which the Dewitt
people croweth muchly.
The Clear Lake Observer says
'Fourteen buildings have been erect.
ed since our last weeks article was i'm
type, making total of sixty-one.-
Pretty good for small town, and
under such unfavorable weather az
last winter was for such kind of
work" ..s ...
-Four boys at Keokuk fastened
their skiff to she rear OF the ferry
boat for n free ride across the river.
While crossing, the rudder of The
boat struck the skiff and overturned
1t, throwing the boys into the river.
Two Of them caught on tho ferry
boat and enc clung to the skiff' ana
were saved. The other, Geo. w.
Bennett, fourteen years old, was
drowned. "a u. @.U ~t aa..
L. d. Tracy has retired from the
Cedar Falls Gazette, and falls back
upon the magnificent farm he owns
in Grundy. This would do for man
not "A good editor, but. for Tracy IL is
n step in the wrong direction. Any
one who can make as good "a news
paper as he can, ought to keep at 10
luIl he's too old to work or rich
enough to quit. We hope to spe him
soon at the head of another good pa.
per, The gazette Is now in the hands
OF Bro. Snyder, who will keep it up
to the notch OF high reputation at
which 1T has so long stood.--State
Register. N.Y.. ..... ........- .......
by the Hamilton Freeman we
/ learn that our next Congressional
Convention In this district will most
likely he hely at one of the follow
ing three places Fort Dodge. Web
ster City, or EIdora. The time has
not yet been agreed upon. The fol-
lowing gentlemen comprise the Com.
| mittee: Ii. II. Cue, of Webster Go. !:
ID. w. Dow, Franklin; S. Barp,
Black Hawk; ]. w. Card, Cerro
Gordo; II. l.. Huff, Hardin; DIR.
smith, Woodbury.; Jackson Orr,
Boone; j. II. Ross, Story; ID. ID.
Miracle, Hamilton. Bldora is the
place for the convention. President
Gilman will half-fnre all delegates,
we know. E2dora Ledger.
Tho Grundy County Aaas has
the following story of switch turn
ing itself into a tree: "In 1860,
Hon. g. II. Clarkson, of this county,
cut a Lombardy Poplar switch for a
riding whip, at Bucknoi's, some
three miles from his place. When
lac arrived home, he stuck il i'm the
ground. That sprout is now a tree
tifty-five feet high, by eighteen in
chcs in diameter at the'base, and
from it have sprung n mile or so of
other trees, many nearly as largo as
the first. Nr. Clarkson. by the way,
has had better success in growing
trees, especially Evergreens, than
any other man we know OF.
Below will be found O table show.
ing the receipts and losses of our
home Insurance companies last year,
gathered from Mr.. Auditor Elliott's
report:
Name. Risks Written. Premiums. Loegea