The Iowa transcript. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1858-1866, 1864-06-02

officials. The committee began the ex.
animation Of III, books of Mr.. Mullen,
the County Treasurer, and the result,
vas that be paid over several hundred
dollars, which he had made while in
office, by a mistake. The Excelsior
says, Noxt, Mr.. Wyckoffs books came
up for investigation-here the com
mittee found solne more crooked fsur
ing, and when the books were footed
up, he came on behind nearly nineteen
hundred dollars-and has since paid
into the County Treasury between
eighteen and nineteen bundled dollars.
LEE CorNry.-Mr. McFetrlige, of
Fayette county, Ills, was in our city
yesterday, making inquiry az to the
whereabouts Of his children, which pas.
sed through here about month since
lie tells us that in January last he
rented his farm to a Mr.. Williams and
went down the river. In his absence
Williams sold of all his stock aud fm.
niture, and taking the wife and four
children Of McFe,ridge, started to
come to this State. He has traced
them to this point and learns that some
teamsters found his poorchillreh stand
ing a, deserted camp Gre, in this
county. and crying for their mother
ana home. They took the childrep
with thsm somewhere in this part OF
the State. and not far from the camp
fire found the body Of the mother who
had been cruelty murdered. Ths Is
certainly mysterious case and leaves
no doubt that Williams murdered the
N other and deserted tae children. The
bereavel father has been on Tie hun,
for his children for neatly month and
any information sent to this office will
be thankfully received Constitution.
Brig. Gen S. A. Rice arrived IL
K eakuk last Wednesday a week II
ia still suffering from the wound be re
ceived in one Of the battles during G il
Steele's retreat.
Solomon Kohnstamm, Of New York
who has inst been convicted offraul o.
the G,vernmep', i. estimated
10 have made $500 900 clear in alb
two years.
The wife Of George Bender. a prom.
inent citizen Of Toronto, Canada, threw
h 'rself into the Niagara river on Thurs
dry, in fit Of temporary insanitary,
sd was carried over the falls.
We understand ,ha, during The storm
Of Sunday evening, M. G. w. Sells, Of
this piece, in passing from his house to
+ barr, was struck by tightening. the
schock completely paralyzin his sys-
tenn, and rendering him speech!e.s, in
which condition he remained when Last
heard from on Tuesday evening.
We are also informed tina, on The
same evening, Mr.. George Webb, liv.
ing at another end of,he town, while
sitting at one Of the windows Of his
DIV cling house, received shock tina, |
raised considerable Of bunch on his
forehead, without doing him further
damage. His house remained nn,ouch
ed, singular to relate = Vi1ton Eaglc
Noy 26th.
West Point Academy was founded
in 1902, since which time the total
number Of cadets &C ually admitted to
lis privileges was 1 GIG. Of this nun
Der the State Of New York supplied
$50, Pennsylvania 42f, Virginia $40.
Ohio 24s, Massachusetts 232, Kentucky
l96, Maryland 10, Tennessee l76, $.
c. l59, Georgia 1879, Connecticut lo2
and those appointed at large number
$50. The actual graduates amounted
in all TO ,02o.
Ia Sweden and Norway mems minds
are made mp ior the absorption Of even
Juiland into Germany at no distant day
and just as Finland was suffered 70
merge inch By iuch into Russia, through
: series Of encroachments.
TIE annual emigration from San
Francisco to the mines is going as
briskly as ever this spring.
SLowNEss OF WAR-Park Goodwin |
at war meeting held in New York 70
Gently, said:
eur ,pe says that the great Yelling
ton took six years to drive Napoleon
out Of Spain, country as large as Vir
GINA, and then he retired because Of
reversce elsewhere. Four nations Of
Europe took two years to occupy the
Crimea, q country abont ~ large as