Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1870-05-20

Gen. Belknap, 1t is said will de-
liver the Grafton at the Soldiers Re.
union. .a... .... ......-..

union. .a... .... .....-...
The debt of the city of Des
Moines is only $40, ,Oo0-all in war
rants and interest on same. ~" "@#
"A woman entered barber shop
in Burlington last Saturday, sat
down in manlike style, and was
shaved like a man.
DIR. l.. ID. Wilson left Iowa City n
few years ago without settling prin-
ter's bill. He was recently hung in
South America. A fearful warning
to quack doctors. ... ..
Two citizens of Ottumwa have
been awarded a 1900, 600 contract on
the North Missouri Railroad. They
build from Hannibal to Wentzville,
q distance of rs miles.
"A Mcfarland divorce case has
just been concluded at Montana. -
The Democrat asks whether il
wouldn't be best to have a term ol
court expressly for divorces.
We hope the editors of Iowa will
not beg an excursion over the Union
Pacific or any other railroad. 1t is
entirely beneath their dignity to so
humble themselves. Such courte-
sizes, If accepted at all, should come
wholly unsolicited. .--BurI'toa Kdapk.
eye.
We endorse that sentiment.
The Missouri editors are going TO
Fort Scott, the Illinois editors to the
coal regions Cf Lake Superior, the
Wisconsin editors to Omaha, and
| probably 20 Salt Lake, and the Iowa
editors t0--stay at home and mind
their own business Davenport Ga.
zcttc.
"On! that will he Joyful"
The TT. Dodge Nogfh- West says
that $4,000 worth of Lyons county
bonds were worked in the back room
of a house in Pocahontas county,
and $4,000 in Fort Dodge. II. NJ.
Sacra was the man who bossed the
job. Recently the Sheriff "went for''
the swindler, but he had flown.
Here's more of It! Des Moines
county has Sheriness! Her name
is Mrs. Lofty. She act as deputy for
hel husband-faces desparadoes who
attempt TO escape, flays prisoners who
are boister0us and idecent, and takes
cnnvicts TO the penitentiary--aIlt this
single handed and alone! There's
| iatty.tude enough to suit Anna Dick~
enson.-Ddregport Ga@ettc.
Miss .Callie Cline, young lady
engaged for four years in the Center
willie LoyaL Citi2en office, was mar
ried few days since at the residence
Of Gov. Walden. That paper adver-
tises for another "young lady of solid
sense, and not marriageable for three
or four years." to take Miss Cline's
place In the Office.
The Madisonian tells Of some of
the meanest acts at Ninterset of
which men can be guilty. The city
has put veto on the sale of intoxi.
eating drinks. The night before the
new regulations took effect the doors
of some of The most active prohibi.
tionists were smeared with filth,
signs carried off, and other like per-
formances, worthy of the perpetra-
tors. ...... ...-.,.
focal editor Of cate Ctty married
to an Oskaloosa lady,; must he u
! prosperous Office that enables it's
local to indulge in such costly rec.
reation.-fo'oa city Press.
If that's what keeps you from en-.
joying the same luxury John p. we
advise you to call and take counsel
of that young man ia one Of the
southern counties, the other day,
who obtained wife for ten dollsrs.
That n ehign0n may be useful. II
not ornamental, was demonstrated n
lew days since, as we learn from the
Davenport Journal A young lady
of that city, one OF the Good Tenn
plar exeursionists, while on the boat
and walking pear the hatch way,
missed her footing, and was precipi.
tated head foremost to the bottom OF
the boat. She was taken up in an
insensible condition, but upon exam
ination 1t was ascertained no bones
were broken. 1t Is positively assert
ed that had not the young lady been
provided with n chignon of ample
dimensions, her skull would have
been fractured. 1t was a narrow es-
cape from death. h.--Des Koincs Butte
| tin. .-a
The enormous proportions OF those
now used will keep an ordinary lady
from touching ground, if she should