Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1870-10-07
NUMBER 2s.


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Gencrnlities.
The receipts of the Michigan
State Fair were about $4,000.
--Calffernia paid $4,000 bounty
for gopher scalps last season.
The census just taken gives the
total population of Boston mt 25I, ,924.
The population of New Hamp-
shire Is sl7,602. Loss in ten years,
$40.
Hendricks County, Indiana, has
happy welded couple weighing
just 600 pounds.
The census shows that st. Louis
Is lnrger than chicago-the former
has sO2, 900, and the latter 296. 900.
In point of growth Lat:rosse In
the first city In Wisconsin aud I'm
population 1t ranks as the sixth.
The female school. teachers of
Crawford county, Indisna have
pledged themselves not to wear cor.
sets.
The expenditures Of the Grand
Lodge Of Odd Fellows, last year,
were So, 800 and the receipts $40, SAL
moro.
"A lady In Pomerania had her
husband and three OF her sons killed
in one day Of the recent battles of
France.
The census shows that the hog
population Of IIlonois is 2.2I2,g70-
not quite enough to go round and
give every one porker.
"A lndy In Oshkosh amused her
self in church on Sunday, ty count
ing the different styles of doing up
the hair, and found fifty.one.
Gov. Palmsr's withdrawal from
the Senatorial contest In Illinois,
leaves Gen. Logan, ex-Gov. Oglesby
and Koerner as the m.,st prominent
candidates.
There are two vacancies In Union
Square, New York, for statues, and
as Gen. Washington aud President
Lincoln are already there, 1t Is pro-
posed to represent the navy and ju-
dietary 10y Farragut and Marshall.
In Indiana, two years ago, two
brothers by the name OF Kelch, had
n quarrel concerning the ownership
of barrel Of salt It was decided
last week by the Circuit Court, mt a
cost to them of s352.57, besides the
lawyers fees.
A Kansas lady, on retiring TO her
room one night, found It literally
filled with martens, which had flown
In during her absence. Instead of
harshly turning them out into the
cold, the kind hearted lady captured
nearly all Of the little creatures. and
had them served up next day In a
pot pie.
The Prusslan Govern mept cons
siders brandy an excellent drink for
the army I'm the field, and even com.
pels every soldier TO fill his flask be-
fore he leaves camp. The TASKS of
the privates hold rather more than
an ordinary claret bottle. But the
men are temperate In the use of tho
liquor, and no harm from IL Is re-
ported. .....
A congregation I'm Wisconsin
was almost driven TO the brink of
despair, on Sunday last, In conse-
quence of the unexplained absence OF
the pastor, when the sexton arose i'm
his seat with awful solemnity and.
said: "There has been duplex ar
rival Of the mail. Our worthy shep-
herd has had two little lambs added
to his flock. Twins. brethren,
twins! Let US pray,n
1t appears from sfrfciar statistics
that OF the total imports into the
United States for the fiscal year end--
Ing June 30, 1870, $4l5, ,s47, ,2i3 worth
were dutiable, and SAG, sos, $50 free of
duty S26s, ,4sl ,274 worth were enter
ed for consumption, and $la3, ,s74 $3.50
were entered for warehouse. For
eign vessels carried nearly 90 DER
cent. OF the whole imports in 1869,
and 6T per cent. In 1870. or the total
exports 65 per cent. In 1869, and 62.
per cent. in lS70, and of the whole.
81 per cent, In 1860, e4i per cent. In
fs70.
"A rumor is circulating In wen
informed circles In Berlin, London,
and st. Petersburg that Napoleon III.
has revoked the renunciation which
he issued on the surrender Of Sedan,
OF the decree creating the empress
regent OF France. This would re-
store the empress, and resume impe-
rial order In France, provided the
FreIch army and people would sus-
tain 1t. Napoleon evidently assumes
that the miseries which the French
are enduring, though caused by his
own previous mis.governmont, will
disgust them with republic and re-
store their devotion to Imperialism.
The special correspondent OF the
London Telegraph with the Prussian
army before Metz, writes August 81:
A letter from Marshal Bazine, COM
manding the French army In Metz,
has just fallen into the hand of the
PrussiaDs. It Is addressed TO his
wife, and Is sufficiently interesting.
He says: "As far as am concerned
I shall await the course OF events.
My army Is entirely with me, and 40
soon as Napoleon shall have heen
dealt with as he deserves, shall I've
prepared to disclose certain PROPOSE
tions which he has made to me, that
will at once place me In proper POI
sition with the new government"
| The telegraphic account Of the
occupations OF the late Emperor of
France at Wilhelmshohe contains
one touching feature. His ex-Majes-
l ty Is represented ss "bloated, bilious,
and yellow-eyed," and be il faint,
tired. and expressionless,n while his
movements are slow, awkward, and
mechanical .his face being abso-
lutely devoid OF expression Bv