Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1870-05-20
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received his eleventh divorce.
The prevailing dry season in
California, is proving disastrous to
the crops.
A Minnesota miller prophecies
failure of wheat in Minnesota and
California.
An Ohio girl has laid by the sum
of 5000, all gained by making corn
husk door mats at ten cents each.
The Republican Congressional
Convention for the Fifth District is
called to meet at Council Bluffs on
June 81.
I'm sitting on the Style
Mary" rs the fellow said when lie
ruthles>ly sat down on his sweet
hearts new bonnet.
1t is rUmored that the Central
Pacific Railroad Company .hus pur-
chased the California Pacific Railroad
for S., O0O,O0O.
Susan L. Anthony says she for
gives Greeley for his fumkeyi sln.-
Good for Susan. Now, Horace, kiss
and make Ip.-Dt6rQne HeraId.
The New York Evening Post
says the answer TO the question:
What is house without a baby ?'
is-"Well, comparatively quiet"
--"Brick" Pomeroy informs his
constituents that if elected TO Con
gress he cant ne bribed. That would
he new phase in New York politics.
Mrs. Mcfarland Richards on
publishes her statement in the New
York Tribune, and Mcfarland says
It, is all a lie. Which shall we
believe?
-"Don't beat your carpets" says
some kind-hearted person; "try
kindness and firmness, and if that
doesn't keep them down, send for
policeman and have them taken up"
An Indiana female preacher has
been marrying couple and kissing
the bridegroom. MA.
Well, what of it? II it didn't
make him feel badly, whose business
il it.
- l. 81 Il
to edit both the Brooklyn Union an /
lie Independent, Tiltom has agreed
to give up lecturing in the country.
That's gain to his employers. ana
no loss to the country Chicago Post.
Wittemore will he reelected,
probably, in North Carolina. a
Union eX officer, named S. c. Dunn,
will run as an independent; but,
having sold no cadetship, he stands
no chance.
"A zone armed soldier" who was
begging i'm Columbus, has left for
his home disgmsted at the inquisi-
tiveness of lady, who had the Gu
riosity to feel his empty sleeve and
found sound arm underneath.
EVERY man his own ANGEL is
the way the new flying macAIne il
announced in New York. ECchdRge.
Every man for another's angel
would he an appropriate announce
ment for the free lovers of New
York.
The young man who was clone
ly since his mother died." is all right
now. His father married the
head" of large party of girls.
and they keep house for him, aud
give party nearly every night.
-Seventy.one applicants for teach.
ers certificates, in jackson county,
this State, recently, divided equally
on the question: "Dnes the Mis-
souri, river enter the Mississippi
above or below the mouth OF Ohio?n
"A man in Longmead0w, Mass,
on his way home one night had
contest with robber and pounded
him most unmercifully-according
to his story. The next day small
calf was found near by.
The Nashua Post. says: at the
examination of candidates fOr the
Annapolis Navel Cadetship, Charlie
Haskell, son of Z. A. Haskell, of
Charles City, bore off the PRIZE, he
having passed the rigid examination
with the highest credit,
"A minister in Berkshire, Mass. +,
now 81 years old, has just completed
the payment of q note for $4,000,
which he was unfortunate enough to
endorse for an unsound firm eigh-
teen years ago. The payments with
interest, have amounted to $1,000
Interest counts up fast when one
has 10 pay it.
An intelligent youth, recently
engaged in one of the commercial
offices in Oswego, made out a ship.
ping bill for ''fourty' barrels of
-four. His employer called his at
tpntiun 10 an error En tl2 srellipc Of