Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1871-01-06
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State News.

j. --rt. Dodge is 10 have q paper mill
next season. aaesra sIa g..
"A sensational novel of Iowa life
is to he the running attraction of the
State Register for the new year.
"A generous firm at Council
Bluffs, has donated ten tons of coal
for the relief of the poor Of the city.
The people of Waterloo have
been sold by representative Of the
Smith family, as we learn from the
COURIER Eaa# u vt.4ar#.. .Fa..
A disasterous fire visited Lyons
last week. The Mirror office with
some Is other buildings were burned.
Loss Is heavy. aF ....r... ...s
| "A man near Keokuk found keg
on the bank of the river, and bored
IL with n red hot poker. His friends
imagine he has gone 10 Europe by
balloon mail. #ssn.s
A book agent named Roach has
been arrested In Clinton for embez.
cling funds received by him while
selling the ''JIfer of Christ. he
must have been a jimmie cockreach.
| MIR. J. NJ, Dixon, tho Blind edi.
tor, author OF "The Valley aud the
Shadow" has assumed the partial
editorship of the Vilisca Journal,
and will thereby exert all his infiu.s
ence in the aid of Temperance.
"A homestead settler recently re-
covered S2ll In suit against A. NJ.
Dawley, Register of the u, s. Land
ONCE at Ft. Dodge, for swlndling.
II Is about time such scoundrels, as
will use their office to defeat settlers,
were removed. aas a.ag a..aesrr .
Miss Maggie Cooper, teacher In
the public schools of Independence,
saved the lives of two OF her scholars
a short time since. by rushing under
a heavy iron register which was fall.
ing from the ceiling, and receiving
1t upon her hands and arms,
The Davenport Gazette says: "a
father, at Fairfield. has got Judgment
for 500, the largest sum that could
be allowed In a Justices court.
against DR.. Wood, the great oculist
of Chicago for damage done to his
boys eyes By an operation for stra-
bismus,r ~ @aa sA1
The Supreme Court, in case re.
ported in q Iowa Reports, held that
the drinking Of Intoxicating liquor
| by one or more Of the jurors during
the discharge oftheir duty as such.
constituted suffi cient grounds for set
ting aside a verdict and ordering a
new trial. @ g pu3&a.i 81
"A man at Waverly, a chicken
man, has pullet, which was Matched
last April, that commenced laying
last October, and the other day came
from under the barn with sixteen
little chicks. all her own--which the
Neaos thinks is enterprise not 10 be
sneezed mt. tt sfsitr
= The Iowa City Republican says
the State University closed It's fall
term last Tuesday, the most satisfac.
tory term IL has ever had. Some stu
duents have been compelled by the,
lstringency Of the times to leave,
either 10 return home or for teaching,
and some will. for the same cause, be
denied the privilege Of returning, -
The next term opens on the 1911, OF
January. 8 - q
There's smart boy down ut
Muscatine. The Courier says: "A
little eight year old boy of our ac.
quaintance was walking with his
mother few days ago, when unob-
served by her he slipped and fell.
Picking himself up, be was rubbing
the wounded part OF his person, and
looking ruefully at the spot whereon
he fell, when his mother turned to
look for him, and seeing him in that
position said ,s'Wbat have you lost
George 2 'Lhayen't lost anything
only my center OF gravity
Which besides being smart, told The
story Of his misliap.n