Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1871-01-27
Shirt of the Press.

The Journal says three new
churches are to be built Immediately
in Elkader.
Rev. Mr.. Milburn, the blind
preacher, is lecturing in some parts
of the State, on Paris Bombarded.
The Des Moines Tdteman wants
the democracy of Iowa to organize.
They have been demoralized SO long
that it will he no easy matter.
A writer in the Cedar Rapids
Times calls the Parsons College a
"miserable abortion" 1t proves to
have been such to Cedar Rapids.
"A correspondent of the Chicago
Evening Journal, writing from Ce-
dar Rapids, says an organization has
been formed of capitalists in New
York and st. LoIis to construct a
railroad between Cedar Rapids and
Ottumwa.
The Lincoln Journal says that
DR.. Miller, of the Omaha Herdid,
always feels sighted when a public
man passes him by without booting
him." That ID owing very much to
the manner in which the boots are
presented.
There is n paper printed in the
Cherokee nation in the native dialect
An Arkan. as editor says: 1T il the
worst srecimen of picked tongue
We ever saw. It looks ~ though q
nitro glyctrine explosion had occur
red in type foundry"
The Cedar Rapids Times says:--
REV. c. w. Copeland has resigned
the passionate of The Methodist church
At Cedar Rapids. He preached his
farewell sermon Sunday evening"
Rev. \. B. Kendig will fill the pull
pit for the balance Of the conference
year.
"A traveller asked an emaciated
Georgian if the climate of the rice
swamps was unhealthy. wall,
no." replied the loyal native, "taint
! -" -, : beatty; we have fever a. d ague
all the time in these parts, but then
we enjoy powerful undertow OF
health
The Dubuque Telegraph denoun.
ces the Grand Jury system, and APP.
pIauds the people Of Wisconsin for
its adjustment. The Telegraph
calls it at best but superannuated
relic of feudali-m in jurisprudence,
copied from England, and ought to
be dispensed with in free America.
1--WE learn from a reliable source
that Mrs. -, o. Spiilvilie. in tbs
county. gave birth To four children
two boys and two girl--nne day this
week, and that the mother AMI chit
drcn are all doing as well as could he
pxperted," says the DEBORAH Press.
W. certainly DO not ste who could
expect any of tie parties-and espe-
cialiy the mOrher-tO do any better O.!
- Dubuque Times.
The Council Bluffs NonparcN is
di-pleAspd with the statement In the
Des Moines Rcgtstcr that Hon. John
A Elliott was favOrahly mentioned
in CONNECTION with the next Repub-
Iiean nomiration for Governor of
Iowa. The SIOUX City Journal takes
up the cGdgel in defence Of Mr.. Eiii-
oft.
The Decotah Tentii0tor proposes
that the press and people of North
eru Iowa should erect monument
to the memory Of the late Col. Rich
ardson, OF the McGregor Times. The
Dubuque Hcroid Eavors it, but says ::
Col. Richardson in his life built Tor
himself the most worthy monument,
in establishing one of the best weekly
newspapers In the country"
The Mitchell County, Iowa,
Board OF Supervisors nave been i'll
vssting in an elephant in the shape
of a county safe, which will cost,
by the time il is in position, about
s3,000. 1t weighs ten tons. The
doors on the side % the Court House
will have 10 be takes down in order
to get il in. Then lis weight is such
that it will be- necessary 70 tear up
the floor, put stone foundation un-
der, and lay new floor, in order to
prevent its breaking through. When
i'm place it viii open into but one of
tice. TIE NetCs suggests that the
safe he set in the Court House square
and Il new Count House built around