Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1871-08-11
News Items.

meets this year at Clinton on the 9th
of September, and Bishop Ames pre-
sides.
Mrs. Sloan, widow of the REV,
DIR. s. p. Sloan, has been elected
principal of the Ladies Department
of Iowa College.
More lives were lost by the West
field explosion than by all the steam
boat explosions that have occurred in
either of the past two years.
Mrs. Collins, of Council Bluffs,
has recovered heavy damages-$l5,-
0O0-from the city, for broken limb
occasioned by a broken sidewalk.
AT the - Hotel, Long Branch
the other day, one little girl asked
another to dance with her. Indeed
I WON'T" was the reply, what do
1 want another girl hugging me
for ?"
John B. Gray writes to the Ed
dyvIlle Advertiser, that he has
stalk of corn Is feet u inches high,
and an apple tree limb seven. eighths
of an inch in diameter that has on it
II apples.
The Sioux City Times alleges
that the directory of the Illinois
Central are ready to cooperate at
any time i'm the extension of rail-
road from Sioux City westward
through Nebraska.
The Elmira Gazette remarks
1.-THE champion sardine eater Of the
world is the local of the Auburn
Daily Advertiser. He says: we
pay nearly $4,OoO,OOO annually to
France for sardines.'
Edward Russell states in his val
edictory upon the occasion of his re-
signing his position and selling out
his interest in the Davenport Gazette,
that In the sale the good will alone
of the establishment was valued at
$4,000.
Palace sleeping cars for hogs are
o novelty on our Western railroads.
Each hog has berth, with het and
cold water, meals on the European
plan, and when they get to Cincin-
natl, a Russian bath is furnished
which takes the hair right of.
The New York World demon.
mates the exposure of the frauds per-
petrated by the city government, IAN
attack upon the credit Of the city"
1t is no such thing. 1t is an attack
upon the Tammany ring-and that
is not a credit to the city.-Dubuque
Times.
Judge Frost, of the Belle PLANE
Union, well says: "Let it be pre-.
missed that, so far as our observation
goes those who are most ready to die
tate the course of paper, are almost
always those who contribute moth
ing, or next to nothing, to its ex-
chequer."
The Burlington Ha,okcye says a
farmer who had just passed over q
considerable portion of the lower
part of Henderson and the upper
part of Hancock counties, told as
yesterday that he saw thousands OF
acres of corn literally dried up and
destroyed-so far gone that no
amount of rain will do it any good.
The Cherokee Times says. at
is said upon good authority that John
I, Blair is not altogether pleased at
the way taxes are being piled up on
his lands and town lots in these
Northwestern counties. In some
townships where he owns half the
land the taxes this year will be one
dollar per acre. The Homesteaders
are just going for the old land grab
ber-and yet he is not happy.
Bishop Simpson, of the Method
list Episcopal Church, has been more
fortunate i'm temporal matters than
used to fall to the lot of Methodist
ministers. Some time ago he was
presented with a handsome house In
Philadelphia, furnished, we believe ;
and now, by the death of friend
and admirer, he has come into posses
sion of about 100000. Mr.. Thomas
J. Duncan, Esq, deceased, formerly
q we'll known oil merchant of Pitts
burgh, leaves the Bishop $4,000 di-
rect, and divides a remnant of the
property so that it will probably in
crease the bequest to 100000. Mr.
Duncan travelled with the Bishop in
the Holy Land.
The Gate City, of Keokuk, tells
this yarn: at isn't safe just now to
sleep in b room alone, where the mus.
quitoes can get at you. We knew oil
a young man who tried 1t the other
night. He fought the pesteriferous
tormentors until his strength became
exhausted, when he hurriedly wrap
ped himself up in a sheet and rushed
out of doors. A passer by mistook
him for a ghost, and fired on him.
The shot didn't take effect, but the
peculiar sensation of being shot ut
did, and the fellow retreated to his
room in good order. He has procur-
ed pair of base ball bats and is de-
termined that If he must die he will
give the mosquitoes as much trouble
as possible.