Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1870-02-04


Handle Road scooped up a calf on
the track, carried it seven miles, and
delivered it In Steubenville unhurt.
A crazy man recently escaped
from the Mlddletown Comm asy-
lum, and is travelling in that vicini-
ty with live skunk in his arms. If
his wants are not quickly supplied,
he sings the skunk at the unfortu.
mates.
"A South Carolina paper declares
that n young man who lost his wife
last week, married another while
friends were making preparations
for the funeral, and with his bride
followed the remains sorrowfully to
the grave.
A near-sighted man walked off
the bridge into the Kennebec river,
and upon being miriaculously saved,
was "darnation glad he didn't loose
his cane and specs"
Lieut., Gov. Cumback has been
confirmed minister to Portugal.
kansas wants to have the nation
al capitol located at Leavenworth.
Only forty-nine cities yet to hear
from.
"A Concord clergyman, rather
than get up in the cold to marry an
anxious couple at midnight, told
them to come in the morning and he
would date the certificate back one
day.
The Detroit Tribune says: "Com-
positors in the New York Tribune
office are fined 10 cents for each pro-
fame word uttered on the premises,
the money so gathered being given
to the poor. Some of the paupers of
that city are growing rich from the
funds so collected from compositors
who set up Greeley's manuscript"
"A woman getting off the cars at
Knoxville, Tennessee, with babe in
her arms, forgot one of her bundles.
The brakeman shouted to her to
catch it, and the poor, perplexed
creature dropped her babe to seize
the flying bundle.
The Minneapolis Tribune is re-
sponsible for the statement that in
Wright county there lives girl who,
at the age of ii years and months,
gave birth to a fine healthy child,
and at last accounts both were doing
well. The husband of this smart
young female is 10 years of age.
-Spurgeon's nose has become O
matter of London newspaper COM
ment.-1t is as much red as his SER
mons.
An old lady at Windsor, England,
was saved from burning to death by
her pet parrot, who, seeing her in
flames, called QUITO her sleeping son,
Harry, get up"
In Salt Lake City crowded meet
ings are held on the Sabbath morn
ing and evening, in support of the
new movement OF the MOrmons
against the authority and polygam-
Gus doctrines of Brigham Young.
The movement is assuming formula
bic proportions
Ohio has the champion hog. 1t
is three years old, and weighs 1000
1t is nine feet long six feet four inch
es around the heart, and four feet
high.
There is said to be O man in the
west part of town so pious that he
won't permit the freight to dance
on the hearthstone.
The population of Germany is
now IS, 800, GOO, of which the North
Confederation numbers 29,404,47
and the Southern States, S,SO7 ,52S.
Mrs. Hunter, a colored woman,
is lecturi1g in Louisiana.
An Eastern paper notices the
fact that Byron, Minnesota, has a
new elevator, and adds that its
thought ByrOn's elevator was Mrs. |
Harriet Beecher's toe.
-"Send us brief statements of
every successful doing of women"
says the RcUOIutiOn, and the Newark
Courier reports: 1--WE comply with
pleasure. A Newark woman has of
late successfully done her husband
out of 81 800, and eloped with another
man,
Resolutions have been introduced
INTO the Kansas Legislature, and re-
erred to special committee, re-
testing Senators Ross and Pomer0y
o resign.
"A negro member of the South
Carolina legislature has introduced a
ill compelling planters TO make
heir fences "horse high, bull strong
md pig tight"
Philadelphia has an estimated
of $4,000 souls which
makes it the fourth city, as regards
ize, in the civilized world.
"A brother editor asks his readers
o excuse the looks of his paper, as
e is in bed from effects of fight
With delinquent subscriber.
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