Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1870-10-28

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ing received authority to that effect, /
and solieits 1000 head. Agencies
have also been established ut other |
points on the river fer the sa ne OBJ
iect. w ........ |
In the drawing for the new |
board of Supervisors at Ft. Dodge, |
the Republicans get .fve years of Su-
pervisors, while the Democracy are
cut down to barely one. The Demo-
Gratis were more lucky when Uncle
Sam did the drawing.
Mason City, Cerro Gordo county,
last week, voted 81 per cent. tax,
by an overwhelming majority, To the
Burlington. Ce lar Rapids & Mime
sofa Railroad, the latter giving bonds
to have the cars running 10 that
place by the 3lst of December, 1871. |
The census returns of Iowa foot |
up population Of I,l57,6l0, with !
Mills, O'Brien, Washington aud En- |
met to hear from counties which |
will increase the above iiguics by at
least 80, 600. So then, the population |
will aggregate l.lS7 Clean increase |
OF 5l2, FOG in ten years.
The Gate city says there is tur
key gobbler in Northern Iowa which
has four wings, four legs, three eyes,
and two bills, all of which are per.
tcctly developed. That bird should
be attendcn to at once 10y the taxider.
mist, and presented to the Iowa In.
! stitutc of science and arts.
The lady teachers in Jasper
county have . very winning way
with them. They had asked the
! Board for chairs, which did not come
along at once, aud SO they decked
! themselves out with switches" and
! visited the President Of the Board in
person, and the chairs were soon
forthcoming.
A woman near Sioux City has
been badly bitten by the counterfeit
money dodge. She sent s. to New
York, and ordered a still further
| quantity to he sent G. o. ID. The
journal says the package came and
$3.50 charges were paid on it; il.
was taken homo and contained moth
ing but paper and shavings.
There is said to he n man in
Decorah, so pcnurious that when
Smelling corn, "a kernal few into 4
wcodpile, and he removed seven
cords of wood 10 find IL. A neig ghbor
standing near dropped kernel near
where the searcher was looking, but
when he found it he said: "You
can't fool me with that small kernel !;
the one lost was a large one.
II. III. Johnston, private in Co.
I. OF the Iowa First, man who
never was in i'll humor once during
the whole OF the terrible Lyon cam.
paign. and who constantly enlivcned
marches and guard aud picket duty
hy his flashes of genuine wit and
humOr, died at Sioux City on the Sth
inst. Many of his com rades will be
4 grief stricken as they hear that this
7 genial and brave heart has ceased its
beatings.-DCuCRpOH gazette.
"A Massachusetts paper thus
paints an Iowa parsoness: REV.
Augusta Chaplin has round face Il
delicate complexion, mouth with an
essentially feminine pOut, and charm
ing blue eyes speaks in 'mascu~
line bice, with 'sibilant whisper
and cultivates peculiar roll of the
r. in imitation of Anna Dickinson.
The population Of Iowa was in
creased the other day by an elope-
NEXT which occurred in Mound City,
Holt county, Mo, on The llth. a
youth named Daniel McCan, fer two
years in the employ OF a farmer
named Jacob Grovesbeck, fell in love
with that gentlcman's daughter, a
girl of "sweet sixteen" The father
objected To the union on tie ground
of their youth. This objection they
considered could be cured as readily
after marriage as before, and accord.
ingly they departed for Iowa, where
a clergyman speedily made them of
one name.
-ThrCe miles south Of Dos Moines
on The line of tho Des MoinCs and
Indianola Railroad, aud where grad
ing for the road is being done by
Marcus Kavanagh's force Of men, a
block OF earth about 50x30 feet is
sinking. 1t lowered two feet at one
lunge u few days ago, and the work.
men on top were badly frightened.
Great cracks are in the earth In the
vicinity. The place is on the bill
side near the bank of the Des Moines.
1t is not a slide of the earth, but a
square settle. 1t is o mystery, and
If il don't stop, the contractor will
be seriously damaged financially in
making tire road bed.
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