Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1870-01-07
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Editorial Spinning s.

Editorial Spinnings.
Chicago erected 500 structures
in 1S69-50S stores-9 hotels, aud "a
churches.
The National debt was reduced
nearly S. 900, ZOO during the month
of December. ....
1000 of the Western Union Tele-.
graph operators, have quit ticking
news, and gone to striking for their
rights.
"A DISASTROUS rain storm visited
the east, during the early part Of this
week. Much damage was done in
some parts. ..E.
The Hon. Benjamin F. Hopkins
Representative in Congress for the
Second District of Wisconsin, died
on New Years, at his home i'm Matli
son, after a lingering illness of COM
plicated nature. ...
The Detroit Free Press mentions,
IN an illustration of what IAN bc ac-
cnmplished by industry and perse-
Henry Thompson wasn't worth IL
cent. To day he OWNS Il hand cart,
aud does hauling at thirty cents per
| load"
| "A game of cards ut Lathrnp, Kan
sas, recently, resulted i'm murder.
There was dispute. IA quarrel, Il shot,
and one of the gamblers fell dead
One of the party, while looking at
the corpse remarked with grim hu.
NOR, "A: any rate Williams has gone
To hell with full hand.
AT marriage ceremony in
Wexford, r.. T., lately, the groom
became impatient during The extend
ed prayer. and interrupted the cIer-
gyman with Elder, amt that 'beont
'neough ?"
The Chicago Evening Post says:
IF Senator Matt. Carpenter never
utters anything further from the
truth than he did yesterday when he
said: If the liberties of people are
endangered in any one respect more
than another, il is hY the growth of
momopolies.' Wisconsin should
continue him at Washington during
the rest of his life."
The following biographical syn
opsis Of maternal prodigy is from |
the GAINESVILLE Gazette: There is n !
woman i'm this city who was married |
at the age of thirteen, her first child /
was born before she was fourteen. !
and at the age Of eighteen she had !
four children, and now ut twenty !
has seven children. r....
The National Intetti9eacer sug-
gests as the ticket 1872, Chief Justice !
Chase for President. and Gen. Rob-
ert l.. Lee for Vice President. Sucf |
a Democratic tickle, it says, would
be hard TO beat"
"A convention of temperance men |
was held in Syracuse. New York. "a
few days since, at which it WAS de-
termined to put in the political field a
new party upon "A broad aut strong
temperance platform. The new par
ty will wage war principally against
the dram-shops.
From the annual report of the /
Board of Health, we learn that there
were 6,4G4 deaths in Chicago last !
year, and 1858 births; number of
deaths by violence. 1854; number of
building erected during the year, s.
SO.
The Portland (Me,) advertiser,
tells story at the expense of "A min.
ister who Processes to be averse to all |
study, aud who once upon "a time
preached from The text. The Wages
OF Sin is deatr." He COMPOUNDED |
the word wages and wedges" and |
gave "A very lucid disquisition on the
mechanical powers, concluding with |
the differences thai death acted like a
wedge in separating the righteous
from the wicked
"A reverend gentleman In the
i ford district, Scotland, who habit
uaiiy exercises a kindness to birds |
and a2imals, receives a daily visit
from roSin red breast. The other
day the bird US usual entered his
apartment, hoprpd on to book in
which he was writing, and seized
hold OF Iris pen. holding it till writ.
ing had to se given up, and some at
tention paid To the little visitor.