The Iowa transcript. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1858-1866, 1865-09-20
PERSONAL.

QUEEN VICTORIA has gone to Germany
to make match for one Of her daughters.
IRA ALpRlDGE, the celebrated mulatto
actor, who has made great sensation in
England, and on the continent as Othelo
and Shylock. and other famous characters.
and who has been decorated with orders
and marks of distinction by the King of
Prussia, Emperors of Russia and Austria,
and King Of Sweden is engaged TO reap
pear in London at the Haymarkct Theatre.
Mrs. Aldrilge is not coorcd lady.
THE editor of French paper, in speak
ing of the dedication of a cemetery near Ly-
ons said that M. Gascoigne had the pleas
urc of being the first individual who was
buried in this delightful retreat"
Thu expedition of Professor Agassiz TO
Brazil, promises most important results to
science. particularly in the discovery Of
glaciers, and in the departments of mine
ralogy. geology, botany, ichthyolcgy and
natural history generally.
LuclE MAuREL GRAss.u a French ac-
tress, died recently at the age of 20 having
been during 81 years actively engaged on
the stage, and with considerable success
She was native Of Lyons.
JUDGE HALLIBURTON, DelteT KNOWN as
''Sam Slick, from his humorous work en-
titled, 1.-The Clockmaker, or Sayings and
Doings of Samuel Slick of Slickvillc, died
at the end Of last month in England, at the
age Of g. years He was native of Nova
Scotia.
JUpAH p. BENJAMIN, the notorious rebel
who, with his usual cowardice. made his
escape while his master, Davis, was being
captured. has arrived ut Southampton,
where his co.religionary, the mayor of
that city, will probably invite him to his seat
in the synagogue. lie is one of the worst
specimens OF the tribe Of Benjamin. and is
very appropriately named after Judas
COLCHESTER, the Spiritualist. took out
license as ...iuggler, in Buffalo on Saiur-
day last. He paid $50 for it. and is allowed
10 practice until May next.
TnE Hon Horatio Seymour is one of the
delegates to the Episcopal convention which
meets in Philadelphia in October.
TH,r grim old hero worshipper, Thomas
Carlyle. has left London for Scotland to re
store his health which is worn out by hard
work on his history of Frederic the Great.
Carlyle is now seventy years old, and has
always been dyspeptic and atrahilous
MISS HANNAH L. GouLp, the poctess, died
at her home in Ncwburyport on Tuesday.
She was born in the last century, the first
volume Of her poems was published in 1892
and she has continued to be a prolific writer
both in prose and verse until quite recently
Her poems are characterized by strong re-
ligious sentiment, and she has written much
and acceptably for children.
4 CvFfiN was lately discovered in Sussex
England. in the course of excavations near
BOSNIAN church, which il rcpntea by English
aniiquarians to contain the remains of the
youthful daughter of Canute, the first Dam
ish King Of England.
\ correspondent states that Mai Gen
Hooker was 10 be married On September II.
TO Miss Groesheck of Cincinnati sister of
Judge W. s. Groesbeck, cy-member of Con
gress. Miss Grocsbeck enjoys an income Of
100000 per ann,tm.
MARTIN FARouAR TurrER, has turned
on his enemies the critics and punsters by a
pun which would do credit to the best of
them. lie calls their attacks upon him. ..Ni-
Excellent, Martin.
THE Hon. Samuel Hooper. NJ. c., Of Bos-
ton. one Of the wealthiest and best men in
Massachusetts,, has just given $4,000 to the
Harvard University to found a school of
mining and practical geology. II is to be
opened on tho first Monday in October.
THE Hon John Van Buren, is now on an
extended western tour Very probably he
will 60 rs far as Nebraska.
GEN JAMES SHIELDS, formerly of Illinois.
is at present visiting San Francisco after an
absence in Mexico of two years, during
which time he has been Superint endent of a
mine in the State of Sinaloa. lie will soon
visit the Atlantic states.
SEVENTEEN autograph letters Of Cardinal
Richelieu, six efthem to the celebrated Ma
rion Delorme, who figures in Bulwcr' drama
have been discovered in Paris. They were
found in a secret drawer of an ancient piece
Of furniture.
JENNY LIND has founded a subvention
of 1000 rixthalcrs for worthy artists, to be
awarded annually for the purpose of study
ing music.
john {. BRECKENRIDGE, the rebel, is now
so;ourning in Canada, exchanging sympa-
thes with George Sanders and other skc-
daddlng conspirators and traitors.
Mn. +. c. DAILY of Barkhamstcd. a clerk
in the treasury department at Washing
ton, was the happy father Of pair Of twins,
which weighed when born, one pound each.
One died, and the other, now seven weeks
old, weighs two and one half pounds. lie
is probably employed in the fractional cur
rency department.
CALEB CUSHING is in Milwaukee, being
engaged as counsel in a railway suit in the
United States district court in that place.
OLE ANDREAs HANSEN, the Russian giant
formerly a curiosity in Barnum's museum,
went on 'sa spree" the other night in New
York. He is eight feet, one~inch tall and
large in proportion, SO that his capacity for
beer drinking rather astonished the inn keep
ers whom he patronized. He finally went
TO sleep, and was then arrested by a single
bold policeman.
On Friday evening, Edlle Zanfretta, one
Of the female riders in the New York circus
exhibiting at Jersey City, while riding d
double act, fell from the horses, and was
badly injured by the animals trampling on
her neck and shoulders. The flesh was con
siddrably lacerated but no bones were bro
ken.
BENNETT of the New York Herald is sew
enty years old.
GEN. Fremont is turning his attention to
Missouri, and designs establishing at ST.
Louis, the manufacture Of railroad iron,
railroad engines and rolling stock. He is
President Of the Missouri company, a corpo-
ration chartered in 1864 by the Legislature,
and that company will as soon as the proper
can be made, enter into that
business.
A BOY Of fifteen lately committed suicide
in London because the servant maid took
away his candle while he was reading
spi cE xvcL pan Mr. nickana el,a,l1