Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1870-12-09
State News.

Midland Railroad is completed, and
cars running over the same. f.asaf
Cue, of the Northrcst, is going
lively for stray Jackascical yankee
who has been writing slanderous let
ters about Iowa, to the Springfield
Republican. '......
The Ottumwa Courier thinks n
cast Off garment ora pair of shoes
more efficacious and useful i'm reliev.
ing destitution than the most elo.
quent prayer.
The Secretary of State has just
finished sending to the members OF
the last Legislature twelve hundred
copies of the Photographic proceed
ings of that body, not printed till
now. ..... ...t ....... '.. ~.
A we'll known physician at Coun-
Gil Bluffs is implicated in the death
of Miss Lizzie Gates, Of Hampton,
franklin county, from the effects OF
mechanically induced prem ature
labor. s...
An old lady ir Keokuk can't go
to sleep till her husband snores.--
When he Is away from home it is
necessary to work a coffee. mill for
half an hour. This produces the de.
sired result.
The Davenport Democrat says:
"a Kilkenny cat. fight, with two he's
and she on each side, to settle the
female suffrage question, is To take
place atWaterloo, OH the 7th of next
month";" "5 .E SOB """'."@
The members of the anti Masonic
socities recently organized in this
State, are instructed mot to vote for,
trade with, buy from, employ, OIL
have any other business relations
with, Free Masons."
All the towns on the line of the
road from Dubuque to Sioux City
are consumers of the Fort Dodge
coal. The Central Iowa R. II. which
was at first projected To open the El.
dora coal field now uses 90 tons per
month of Fort Dodge coal. ra
Hunter of the Hamilton Free.
man says: the GOODNESS with which
some men treat the presentation of a
printers bill would make an Esqui-
mauX shivcr in Alaska. This thing
of throwing grass will soon play
out ut "these headquarters" ="
john B. York was last week tried
at Marshalltown for the seduction ol
Eliza Barnhart. He alleged that the
woman was no better than she ought
to be, and that they were living to,
gether by contract. The court held
this contract To be valid marriage
and dismissed the prosecution.
Tho Des Moines Statesman re.
sumes publication as a weekly. The
new proprietors are DR.. Cole, Mr.
Stull, the former editor, who takes
the editorial charge under the new
regime, Mr.. Eaton, the former fore,
man, who now takes charge of tin,
mechanical department., and Mr.
Squair, who takes the business
charge. The new firm will be Cole
Stull g. Co.
In place of DIR. Craig, resigned
Col. j. Ill. keatley, of Council BlufTs
formerly editor of the NOnpdrcH, has
been appointed 10 the Revenue AS
sessorship of the district embracing
Cass and Pottawattamie counties -
The Colonel will fill the place admi
rabIy, and would fill post ten times
more important aud arduOus still
better. Iowa has few men OF better
capacity, clearer head, or warmer
heart. We hope some day TO write
him down Governor or "a Congress
man, aud expect to have ths privi'
lege.-iStdte Register.
w. f. McCarron, q. w. p. of thu
Sons Of Temperance occupies foul
columns of the Maquoketa Ercctsio,
with "card" on the influence fol
good of that and similar organiza
tions-in which lie states that lows
sold S35, ,5S2,e ,e95 worth of intoxica
ting liquors in one year, that low,
citizens pay for alcohol just twenty
five times what it pays its teachers
that I'm 1867, of 766 convicfs i'm tn,
State AGA were saloon keepers or pro
prictors of gambling houses, and tha
the money spent in Iowa in drinks
ia a year, would give every family In
Iowa $l6l.27. |r.E te
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