Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1871-05-05
State News.

-fneTe IL county IN lOwa-OSce-
ola-which has only Eve settlers.
There Is arush of emigration this
spring from Wisconsin to Iowa and
Kansas.
-Four hundred Catholic children
signed the temperance pledge, In
Dubuque, on Sunday last.
A prairie fire In Worth county
last week, burned to death eighty
sheep belonging to James Russell.
Mr.. James Elder and Miss Jennie
Berry, of Mason City have been mar
ried. Now there'll be crop of Elder
Berries. .--Nashud Post.
The Earlville Recorder informs
us that the Grand Jury has indicted
Duncan, the murder Of Kennedy.
Hon. B. f. Murry, of Winterset.
who has been repeatedly and favora-
bly, named for Lieut.. Governor, an
nounces that he will not be candi-
date at the Convention. ....
"A baby show al Cedar Rapids
had twenty competitors. The moth
ers decided by vote which baby was
the incest, and each baby had one
vote. The party broke up speedily.
A Montgomery county BRIDE
groom had sat down to his wedding
feast with his bride and friends, when
a Constable, sent ny "the other girl"
who had loved him not wisely but
too well, appeared on the ground and
bore him off for trial on criminal
charge.
The Pennsylvania Central has
agreed to build the Davenport and
st. Paul railroad, from terminus to
terminus, and there Is already great
activity along the route.
Andrew Thompson, who mur-
dered the Hagerty family, thirty
miles above Dubuque, in the winter
of 1859, was sentenced by the Chief
Justice of the Supreme Court OF the
State, at Dubuque, on Thursday, to
imprisonment in the State Prison,
for life, having been convicted Of
murder In the second degree.
Some unknown who occupied the
editorial chair In the Eldora Ledger
Office last week while Mcbride was
In Dubuque, sums up his weeks la
bor as follows; Editing a nine col~
umn newspaper, we find is not our
forte, but like the Irishman, for
honesty, integrity. and capacity. we
can bate the devil.'" Honesty would
"baten any editor certain. Mason
city Republican.
"A horrible affair occurred q few
days ago at Ossian. Winnesheik Co,
a woman, Mrs. John Larber, smoth-
ering her infant, three weeks old,
and then committing suicide by
throwing herself under the cars In
the night time. The bodies Of the
mother and babe were found by the
track the next morning, the first ter.
ribly mutilated.
According to Prof. Whites Geo.
logical Report the slope in Cedar
river from Moscow to its mouth Is
two feet per mile. From Cedar Falls
TO Moscow the slope Is 2 feet inches,
and from the State line to Cedar
Falls 3 feet 7 inches. According to
the same authority the slope In the
Mississippi from the northern boun-
ary OF Iowa to the confluence of the
Missouri is only @ inches per mile.
AT Usage there Is little girl two
years of age, whose ears are perfectly
sealed up, the external ear seeming
to be doubled forward. An effort to
remove the deformity by surgical
operation failed, as no openings were
found, the ears being closed up per.
fectly, not even admitting q fine
probe. The child hears some, proba-
bly, from the fact that the internal
ear is perfect, and strong vibrations
are transmitted through the mouth.
The assistant editor of the Du-
buqu0 Times, Mr.. ]. l.. MeCreary,
thinks he has paid dearly enough
'for having an ear long enough to
discern the fact that 'brooze' rhymed
with 'trees'-and also sometimes
with .sneeze'-in other words his
efforts as a poet and, consequent rep
utation have cost him something
In declining to prepare poem for
the next gathering of the Press AS
sociation, he tells President Clark.on
the following, among other things:
"Just before the last Presidential
election, friend of mine, I'm high
official position, while at Galena, In
conversation with Gen. Grant, sug.
gested me for the position of short
hand reporter for the President. MY
freud meant me no harm, but in
portraying my literary abilities, in.
discreetly mentioned that 1 some
times wrote poetry. My chances
were fair until that unfortunate fact
came out; then, Gen. Grant, after
two or three puffs of his cigar, re.
marked In his decisive tone that lef,
no room for further discussion, that
what he wanted was not poet but o
practical, sensible business man. And
there went $500 year, for four or
eight years, with all the benefits that
might directly or indirectly accrue
from such position just because II
happened to leak out that | some.
times 'lisped i'm numbersn"
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