Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1871-01-27
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Generalitics.
--Redpath of Boston, offers Goue h
$4,000 In gold, and sll expenses
paid. to lecture ten evenings in Cali.
fernia.
1t has been definitely ascertained
for the 9,9a9th time, that the mur.
dercr of Benjamin Nathan, las been
discovered.
--B. *. Seaman of Iowa Falls, of.
fers 50 to any young person who will
spell $50 words correctly, according
to the rules of phonetics.
A confiding Kansas City husband |
handed his wife SlOO TO buy herself
= Christmas present. She selected !
young clerk and flew to other ciimes
with him,
--I'onch thinks 1t would be real |
blessing To mothers If some ole
would invent snap that would ell.
able mammas To get their daug hters
off their lands.
An exchange says: "Greely has
u parrot that does the swearing when
he isn't In. Ii is spoken of as a
competent bird, and visitor hardly !
knows when Horace IL really out"
An Ohio man says that business |
In his county was never better thau
this year. AS an evidence OF this |
fact he says the delinquent tax list is
yearly double the usual size, this
year.
The American Merchants Union |
Express Company advertise reward
of "a 900 for information which VIII |
lead To the arrest aud conviction OF
the party who robbed and attempted
10 murder their messenger while |
crossing the bridge at Albany, n. Y.
recently.
The Board of Supervisors OF
Cherokee are "on the retrpnch.n Al
their last meeting they reduced the
salary Of the county auditor from
eight hundred dollars to fifty. The,
say ii he don't like the office Oh
those terms, lie can resign 1t to some
one not So particular.
1T is currently reported that Gov.
MnrFIll nIl st-it "a Al
Peni;entiary commenced a speech 4"
the prisoners by remarking that he
was glad to see 81 many there !'-
This was followed by no applause
on tile contrary by an awkwarG
pause-and then the Governor tooh
back what he had said, with what
grace he could muster.
"A subscriber has handed an ex-
change sure cure for chilblains, ana
we are sure the great nunhsr whu
are suffering from them will thank
him for the receipt; Take tw"
ounces of muriatic acid and diluT,
with One-third water, and with h
wash the chilblains previous 10 ~
firing. Two or three applications
vii. he sufficient. Let the applica.
tion dry ON the feet.
"A Chicago woman asks for O oil,
voTce on the ground that her hus.
band has never. I'm all their seven
years of married life, kissed heI
once, How hungry she must be Il,
fhIs time! But the husband com.
plains that, though he may have
neglected his duty b. that line, h,
knows of forty or fifty other met.
who haye kissed her enough TO make
IL oil up.
"A certain young lady who be
longs to certain temperance lodge.
said the other night: Brethren AND
sisters, cider il u necessity to me.
and 1 must have it. LII il is decideu
that we are not to drink cider, shuIi
eat apples and get some young man
to squeeze me, for | can't live with
out the juice OF the apple" We re
fuse to mention names for pruien
tial reasons.
AT telling big stories those Keo-
kuk fellows eau beat Jim Fisk. Just
listen to this one told by the Gatc
CITY with all gospel grace: "On
Monday, January 10th, 1861, Billy
MAIDEN, boss of the aughtering de.
partment of Goldman & Bros. porL
house. placed on record the follow.
Ing transaction in hog killing. which.
10 lie best yet reported. He states
that with half crew, four scrapegs
and four silayers, he slaughtered !,
l76 hogs la y! hours"
Gov. Fairchild, of Wisconsin. In
I'm his message, shows that tie re.
ceipts Of State Treasury, for fiscal
year, were $3.50 600 II; the dIsburse
ments we've S9O6, ,32o.5s. of which bn,
S3l9. .3S0,3l were for ordinary expen.
ditures, the remainder being mainly
for State Institutions and in,uresl
on public debt. The amount OF the
puhlic debt has not been e,iauged
during the year, and reaches s.. .252.
057. Tne resources of the State
for me present year are put ut 81 .066
923 80, aud the expenditures 81 ,oi4,-
756 "a.
The swindling banker OF Alhia
III. X. Steele. who was foolish enongl,
TO return among the people he hati
vietiniized, has berh having IL made
lively for him. The Ottumwa Couy
ier says that on Tuesday last ''hi-
creditors aud others collected TO tn,
amount of tlIiee hundred, and
threatened 10 commit personal vi0
fence upon tine gentleman, and as
consequence, TO save himself. lie
has. through his relatives, placed by
deed and otherwise, into the hands
of his creditors, property to the
amount Of $i8,0O0. Our informant
said that when he left. the popuiace
still held him as hostage for fnrth
er revelations
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i THREE years ago nm Iowa girl was
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