Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1870-07-15
General Items.

The vinten population foots up
2, 500.
The State Of Indiana, like Iowa,
is out Of debt.
Bloomington, Ills, has popu
lation of $4,000.
Peter Cartwright, the venerable
Methodist preacher, leotured in Du-
buque, two nights this week.
The Rev. Mr.. Demorest Is actual.
" on trial before synod, at Newark.
" PA ,for preacifing dry'and unin.
teresting serlnons." f''
A desperate riot occurred between
Irish Protestants aud Orangemen, In
New York on the 18th inst. Four
persons were killed.
The Senate Judiciary Commit |
tee, to whom was referred the sub |
ject of female suffrage are as a unit |
against that movement
The fifth annual camp meeting |
Of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
opened at Darlington, near Havre de
Grace, Md, yesterday afternoon.-
Nine hundred tents are already up.
The Common Council of st. |
Louis has passed an ordinance pro-
viding a medical supervision for
houses of illfame, and establishing |
other regulations similar to the
European plan.
There is strong probability |
that Motley will be called home, and !
ex-senator Freelinghuysen succeed
him at the Court of st. James. For
what good on the part of the Presi-
dent, no one knows.
"A New Hampshire shoemaker
arr his wife were both found dead i'm |
their bed, on Thursday morning of
last week. An examination showed |
that the husband had died of apo |
plexy, and the wife of feart disease.
An erfing Indiana hen was re
Gently found in the back part Of II
hardware store, where the misg guided
fowl had struggled for three weeks,
trying to hatch out half doz.n
white porcelain door knobs. She
IA y.,rx, m, -,rh rs.In,.a1
About the checklist thing yet
done was by IA passenger on u MIssis-
sippi steamboat, who tried to get IA
free passage up the river, lied to the
bar keeper for free whisky, and died
from It's effects before m"rning-giv-
ing the boat people the trouble of
him overheard.
There is woman in Indiana
who don't do things 10y halves, but by
fourths. On the Fourth" she was
married to her fourth. husband, ut
four o'clock, ia the Fourth street
bad four bridesmaids, left |
iouI huuio ihtSlt anu "iAA Wv " '"Si
Week bridal trip. She is going il OH
all fOurs.
The crops In Kansas are very |
The wheat is gathered |
in excellent condition, ana is a fine
crop, of the best quality. The corn
crop promises a large yield. Late
rains throughout the State have been
beneficial to the gardens. Field
crops generally have not suffered for
rain.
The warm weather In England
is interfering with the operations of
the iron furnaces aud rolling mills
the puddlers being unable I" work |
over half time. The consumers Of
pig iron have also been compelled To |
countermand deliveries. in conse-
quence of the inability of the hands
to use up the usual amount of ma
terial during the oppressive weather.
"A Michigan man, who some
time since separated from, his wife
after several years of married life,
recently advertised under an asstlm-
ed name for q wife, and as IL hap
ptned, the woman answered the adj
Letters passed, and
finally they met, with mutual sur
prise. But all ended happily as
they resolved to forget the past, and
try again determined to be happy
together.
A lad IL years old. at Blairstown.
was sent into well 10y his father on
last, in spite of his earnest
pleadings to the contrary. He had
descended but few feet when the
foul air suffocated him, and he drop
ped into the water a corpse. A sec.
Dni son was let down by rope to
see what had become of his brother,
when he, too, tainted and was with
4 Itiic.lty restored to lite. The
lhtuei . naihe ID Ipii laiil Isooei tSoh'
An insurance agent down South
Is about 10 employ Il number of
young ladies to canvass
for the company he represents.
These fair solicitors will not approach
the sterneI sex at all upon the sub
iuct, hut will confine themselves
strictly TO working on the fears OF
their owl sex who may be married
,r dependent. 1t is thought that
they will ST. fill the mind OF the wife
VI your bosom about the necessit! of
your having your life insured. thrt
you will never be allowed to have
peace around the domestic hearth
intil you are fully insured for good
rpand sum for the benefit OF your
future widow-and whoever she may
elect to succeed you.