Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1871-11-10
NUMBER 80.
Generalities.

0sN6Sa SahO tG1Sts
The negroes i'm Gainesville, Ga.
regulate their timepleces by wood.
en- watch used rs jewelers. Sign.
The first daily newspaper In yir.
ginia was printed In 1880, and its
subscription price was fifty dollars
per annum.
! Hercules was a model husband /;
rather than stay out late at night, he
invariably carried his club home
with him.
The orchard of ID. w. Adams,
near Waukon, Allamakee county.
yielded fifteen hundred bushels of
apples this year.
Modern parasols have to he made
ten inches longer In the hanrles in
order to allow them TO top the fash.
ionable bonncts.
A Buffalo paper says that Mr..
Gloux, clerk In the Sixth Auditors
office at Washington, lost his wife
aud five children In the Chicago fire.
Providence, r.. L.. has given $40,
600 to tho Chicago aud other western
sufferers. Yesterday S., 200 each was
appropriated 10 Wisconsin and Mich.
,gan.
Detroit papers seek to mislead
fhe poor organ-grinders Of that city
by occasionally stating that must.
clans of that stripe In Memphis make
$40 day.
The Rev. Mr.. Finney, of oherlin,
Ohio, has been pastor of church for
thirty years, and during all that
time has never asked or received a
cent Of salary.
"A Georgia man, who was bitten
by a rattle-snake last week, took
three drinks of turpentine and two
and half bottles OF whisky, and is
rapidly recovering.
Frank Roberts, OF West Union,
did two things to onee--got married
and burnt his house down. On re-
turning from church, he found his
homestead In ruins.
"A young lady who was reading a
novel was asked by gentleman how
she liked the style. "The style I? the
Estyle?" was the snswer, "Oh, sir,
I've not come to that yet"
The Chicago lake crib IL two
miles from shore, and yet
the keeper had to keep the
the top Of the building continually
wet TO prevent its igniting on the
night of the fire.
--Griswold, Fat Contributor, lee.
tured In village In the southern
part of this State for the benefit OF
the Chicago sufferers. but the audi
ence was SO small that he didn't pay
Expenses, and he claims the sufferers
are S2.75 In his debt.
"A clerk In store Mt Usage writes
home to bis sweetheart: "Can't
marry you this winter. Our firm
don't advertise business awful duh
and / will get my wages cut down
IL the firm don't bust up eltogether.
80 let us postpone till 'I2.
/ Two. white lads OF tender years
at Fort Bend, Texas, raised seven
bales of cotton and 700 bushels OF
corn, this year, without assistance,
which brought them $500 apiece -
Under the slave regime they eouldn't
have done that and been respectable.
"A sharp man Ia Ohio was lately
acquitted OF murder on the plea of
insanity. He had secured his law .
yers previously by a mortgage on his
farm, but he now repudiates that on
the ground that. by their own show
ing, he was insane when lac made It..
The Spragues OF Rhode Island,
William and Ainasa, are determined
that their family fame shall not die,
IL their ancestors have; and accord
ingly they are preparing to erect, at
an expense of 100000, family
tombstone In the Swan Point ceme.
terry.
People laugh ut the New York
Central Woman's Suffrage Organiza,
tion" for making man chairman OF
the standing committee That's
all right; every where, especially In
farry-boat cabins and street cars,
men form the standing committee,
while the women sit.
The children Of the public
schools In Cincinnati have contribu-
ted 81 300, In pennies, half dimes
and quarters, for the benefit or the
Chicago and Northwest sufferers
The first installment amounted to
$500, which was divided equally be-
tween Chicago and the Northwest.
"A railroad from London to Bonn
day 10 still talked OF In England. -
Messrs. William Low and George
Thomas. Of Wrexham and Cardiff,
have lately written q letter to Mr..
Gladstone. suggesting q route by
which they hope TO reduce the twen-
ty days now consumed In travelling
from England to India to five days.
Monday afternoon three armed
men called at the house OF William
Vinzant, two miIes north Of Centre.
Vile, representing to him that they
were authorized by the Government
to inspect money. They presented q
paper which they said was com.
mission for the purpose. He had on
hand about si.7oo In paper and $50
In specie, oil Of which was brought
out and handed to them. or course
they lost no time In making tracks,
leaving their victim not 30 rich but q
little wiser.
OFFICIAL returns Of the Ohio elec-
tion have been received from seven
ty-nine counter. In these counties
the combined Republican and DEM
ocfatic vote ID 10,s70 against 3S4, ,474