Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1870-05-13
THE GAZETTE,
CEDAR FALLS, MAY l3, 1870.
iowa Items.

| iowa Items.
-Gossipers are having a good run
on divorce case in Des Moines.
The Marshall Co. Times favors
Hon. John Russell, of Jones county,
for Auditor. Sound.
The Webster City Freeman says
the friends of Col. Scott deny that he
is a candidate for Congress. .
A son of James Ramsey, while
plowing i'm the field, five miles from
Des Moines, last week, was struck by
lightning and instantly killed.
A dutchman in Tama county
paid 500 for wife last week, so the
Citizens says. He was introduced to
his ''vrow" the same day he married
her and paid his money.
Col. Il. II. Shankland, of Du-
buque, President of the State Agri-
cultural Society, and Mrs. Washburn,
of Des Moines, were married on the
3d inst, in the latter city.
The Council Bluffs Times adver-
tizes its late proprietor of that paper,
Julius Silvcrsmith, as dead beat
rowing round, living on his severed
connexion with that paper.
| Mr.. Bevins has made 700 rails
and large amount of wood, from %
rods of Lombard Poplar, set only
seven years ago, Prairie men read
and ponder the above Marshall
Times.
The passenger travel over the
Northwestern Road, not only contin-
ues unabated, Int Is as great as at
any other similar period in the last
five years. The freight business is
also extraordinarily heavy.--Monta-
fa Democrat.
Some ardent student of zoology,
at Grinnell, Is desirous of buying
some skunks, and proposes to pay
fifty cents apiece for them. There is
no accounting for tastes in the mat
ters Of studies and pets, or smells
either.
Hon. G.. M. Woodbury., President
of the McGregor, has gone up on the
line of said Road to look after its i'm.
terests. We predict that dirt viii!
begin to move i'm u few weeks, at the
| farthest, on the northern end of the
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The Des Moines Bulletin claims
that the enforcement of the prohibi.
tory liquor law i'm that city is far
from being a failure" and that as n
result there has been u marked de-
crease of arrests by the police for
petty otranses.
A farmer in Linn Co. Is down
on railroad companies. lie writes to
the Cedar Rapids Times ...
II shipped one bushel of seed corn
at Cedar Rapids TO WaYerly, for
friend, and they charged him two
dollars freight. Now sir, amt this
damnable I'm with these railroad
men like an old infidel I'm Eellvue
with the Cops, If there is no hell for
them there ought to be one made aud
make Ii hot.
Now that the Superintendent of
the Pacific Railroad has invited the
Wisconsin Editorial crowd To pass
the whole length of his line, what
do the editors of Iowa think of his
refusal to take them over his road i'm
their proposed excursion last
summer? The Union Pacific don't
seem to he much Of an Iowa editors
road.-.State Register.
We call it pretty good evidence
Of railroadical jackassedness.
-Messrs. Edwards and Timber
man, of Kcokuk, visited our city last
week, in the interest of the Keokuk
d Minnesota II. II. Co. This com
pany proposes, If sufficient local aid
can be secured, to extend the road
northward via: Fairfield, Sigourney,
MonteZuma, and thence to Cedar
Falls or Marshalltown. These gen.
tlemen assure us that Keokuk Is I'm
earnest, and determined to construct
this road, If the counties through
which the road passes will guarantee
a good subscription. We hope and
believe Keokuk County will respond
literally when called upon for this
rise.-Sigou7aey NeHs.
| We saw letter from J. w. Dixon,
Esq, written at Montezuma yester-
day, In which nc says the field is still
open for our railroad project north,
through that place. There seems
however, To be some difficulty about
obtaining the road bed of the old
Iowa Central, north of Toledo. IL is
thought, however, that it will yet be
arranged. Mr.. Dixon will visit the
southeastern portion Of Tama Coun-
I ty, Toledo, Waterloo and Cedar Falls,
perhaps before he returns. He re-
ports the people wide awake for
railroad everywhere and that Powe-
sheik county will raise from $50, ZOO
to 500, 900. - Ct!umscd Courier.
Miss Matte NJ. Griffith, who has
acquired considerable reputation. as
a lecturer throughout Southern Iowa
was married at her home i'm Mt.
Pleasant on the lst of May, to Mr..
Francis M. Davenport, of Oskaloosa.
Mrs. Davenport is woman of fine
W.
AS writer, and as a speaker, she
has much merit. Quite prominent
before the public for two or three
years, as an advOcae of woman suff.
rage, 1t now remains to be seen
whether she will continue In her ca
pacity as a lecturer or will retire to
the privacy of "a home made a para.
disc by a husbands love,n as the
nn4tipnI pnaGaPa pf Ya1iffnaI
have it.-Sate Register.
She'll do it, il Matte has the good
sense her husband undoubtedly be-
lieved she had.
Judge Sewers Is continually on
the wing attending to railroad busi.
ness, but We managed to collar him
long enough to learn u few items
about the Central. He says the con.
tract for grading the road from here
to Marshalltown has been let to
Messrs. Green, Rowley & Co., and is
to be all completed by November lst.
next. The contract for the small
bridges from here to AIhia has been
let to Mr.. Noyes, of Steamboat Rock,
Hardin county. Five hundred tons
OF iron was due at Ackley on the 18th
inst, for the work on the northern
extension, and 500 tons more will
soon be shipped TO Abba, to be used
in ironing the track northward from
there. Eight thousand tons of iron
have been purchased and paid for,
and will at an early day he forwarded
to the work. For the benefit Of our
New Sharon friends we will say the
the Judge informed us that tracklay.
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