Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1871-02-10

uniform row OF houses in the Four,
teenth Ward, says the Philadelphi;
Sunday Dispatch, was the reason
why he WAS unfortunate. One moon
light night last week the noise made
by the cats on his roof was simply
awful. Mr. Oliver lay IN bed trying
in vain tn get to sleep, and grind
| ing his teeth in rage, until at last tho
uproer overhead became unendura.
Hie. Mr. Oliver crept out of bed soft
ly, so that his wife would not bt
aW aNened. lie pat on his slippers,
| seized II boot with eSch hand, and
clad in the snowy robes of night, he
opened the trap door, aud emerged
upon the roof, There we're thirty or
forty eats out there holding a kind
Of general synod in the cool OF the
evening, enjoyiag the brscing air
and singing gleeS. A Mr.. Oliver
approached. the cats moved over to
the next roof Mr. Oliver advanced
and flung "a boot st them. They then
adjourned suddenly to the summit of
the adjoining residence. Mr.. Oliver
projected another boot and went over
after the first one.
III this manner the synod reti eated
and Oliver advanced until the last of
the row of twenty houses was reach
ed, when the cats arranged them
selves in line along the parapet.
rufiled up their fur, curved their
spines, and spat furiously at Oliver.
The bold warrior gathered up his
boots and determined to retreat
He walked back over u dozen houses
and decended through n trap door.
He went down stairs to his bedroom
aud opened the door. There was o
man in the room in the act of walk =
ing up and down the room with a
baby. Before Oliver had recovered
from his amazement the man flung
the baby on the bed, aud seizing IA
revolver began firing rapidly at Oli>
yer. 1t then dawned upon Oliver
that he had come down the wrong
trap door. lie proceeded up stairs
suddenly, the man with the revolver
practicing at him in paiuful man.
ner. When Oliver reached the trap
he shut it quickly and stood upon it.
The man fired through the board
twice and then hooked the door ups
on the inside. A moment after Oil
yer heard him spring watchman's
rattle from the front window. As
soon as the neighb0rs knew there
was man on the roof they all few
up stairs and fastened their trap
doors, and Mrs, Oliver fastened hers,
with the firm conviction that some
predatory villain had entered while
she slept aud stolen her Oliver
When he tried the door it was fastcn.
ed, and Mrs. Oliver was screaming 80
ilercely that he could not make him
self heard. BY this time The street
was filed with policemen all of whom
were blazing away 1T Oliver with
their revolvers. while the Young men
I'm the hnuse8 acrDss the street, kent
uD a steady fire with IistoIs. shot
guns and miscellaneous missiles. .-
Oliver, with every advantage for
forming am opinion, said that Gettys-
burg waa mere skirmish to Il. lie
hid behind the chimney, and Law up
against the bricks to keep warm,
while he policemen stationed them.
selves around to capture him when
he should slide down one Of the wa
ter-4pouts.
But Oliver did not slide. He sal
out on that ro"f all night. with the
bitter air circulating through his too
triiliug garments. listening to the
bowling eats and the occasional
shouts from the picket line below
ara ,hintiry or tLa oId Ta,.a ,yho
use" |" pray from 'ne'r h"""e '"iS'