Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1871-01-27
Late News.
--Ottumwa is lighted with gas.

Snow is twelve inches deep at St.
Paul.
Matches, Miss, has q colored
mayor.
Michigan has abolished capital
punishment.
F. F. FrelinghIysen is elected
Senator from New Jersey.
Snow is 81 inches deep in many
places near Goodrich, Canada.
The thermometer at Montreal
stood at 26o, on the 23d inst.
Senator Harlan, of Iowa, paid a
high tribute, in the Senate, to the
late Representative Smythe.
Another terrible snow storm vis-
tied Milwaukee on the 23d inst, &C.
companied by terrific whirlwinds'
During the week ending Janua-
ry 2lst, Chicago consumed 1868 cat
tie, "a calves, lies hogs, and 4,lsl
sheep.
The Senate committee on terri
tories has decided to report oil to
enable Colorado to form a state gov
eminent.
The bill proposing the organiza-
ton of the State Of Utah does away
the right TO vote now possessed by
the Mormon women.
The parsons College" has again
been lOcated--this time At Dies
Moines. Other places are preparing
to entertain it over night.
Poor Beecher! Twenty thousand
dollars a year have been forced upon
him at last, 10y his admiring congre-
CATION, and in spite of his heroic re-
sistance.
"A man in Braintree, Mass, ex-
claimed on Tuesday that his fortune
was made when he was told that his
wife had presented him with -four
fine boys at abirIh.
The following display lines an
nounce the dispatches from Paris:
Great GissensiOns in PariS-Ge7.
7rochu Resigns lie is succeeded By
q triuDaUiate-A revolution prO6a5{e.
THE suit of the St. Anthony
Falls Water>P0wer Company vs.. the
MilIers' Association, for damage
caused by the break of the water ill.,
| to the tunnel. laid at $3.50, 900, has
beer decided for the defendants.
The House Foreign Affairs Com
mittee nave agreed 10 report in favor
of the aspiration of S. 900 10 Robin
son who saved the life of William IL.
seward, when he was attacked by
Payne; also q medal.
The last heard Of II. X. Steele
the defraul:ng Monroe county bank
.r, he was in the hands Of his cred
itors and is supposed to have been
made way with, hut tie rumOr can
not be traced to any reliable source.
Anna Dickinson says that "alr
women marry for love To which
the New York CUnlN1eTciat takes ex.
ception, saying: Anna is mistaken.
The statistics of domestic happi-
ness show that nearly One-ha.f of
them marry for revenge"
The census returns from Utah
show the population of the Territory
to be Sc, 7S6. Great Salt Lake county
contains Is. 337 inhabitants, aud Utah
county l2,243. Salt Lake City has n
population Of 1882, Of whom 1924
were born in the United States, aud
7,OG8 i'm foreign countries; hut among
tie former are included of course, q
great number Of children born in
This country of foreign parents. Pr
ute county is returned as having no
population, its Inhabitants having
been driven out by Indians.
A young gent in Jefferson took
it into his head that gold watch
ANA chain would be mighty nice
thing to carry, and fine gold rings On
his Gngers. He sent to New York
for the above named articles, Is car
ats fine, and waited anxious days
and nights for their arrival. AT last
they came. Our hero was shouting
happy. To the express Office he
went, paid 81 charges, and took his
precious treasure. He opens the
box, nti'0btic dtctU his jewelry turns
into two pine blocks. TAe gent
thinks that those New Workers are
or the swimdic. He
doesn't want to investi in gold watch