The Iowa transcript. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1858-1866, 1865-10-11

The Hon. John l.. Harvey, wealthy
and eminent lawyer of high social standing
at Dubuque committed suicide in a sleeping
car Of the Great Western Railway, on his
Journey to Boston and Brattleboro, having
been subject for years past to fits OF despon-
dency and insanity, hereditary in his family.
Some time elapsed before his identity could
be established
An English iron mill has succeeded in
making a sheet of iron 50 thin that trcquires
!, 800 sheets to make il an inch in thickness,
thus effectually beating the Pittsburg iron
workers. who made sheet so thin that 1t
took |, 900 Of them to make an inch. and
CHALLENGED all England to beat it, if they
could.
An ingenious Ercnchman has made a
mosaic landscape composed Of insects. 1t
contains more than $4,000 beetles, besides
big and little bugs of various hues.
Nicholas Van Vert, Of Troy, N. Y, aged
seventy-six years and four months, living on
the 'burgh .green' with we'l-beloyed wife.
aged sixty-four years and two and hall
months, has just been blessed with twins.
The railroad projects Of the English
capitalists, who recently visited the West,
are summed up in double track on the Erie
road from New York to Salamanca, the con-
struction of bridge at Buffalo, and the OK
tension of the branches of the Atlantic and
Great Western road.
Upon the occasion of a marriage in Fall
River, Mass, recently, of a son of Col. Rich
ard Borden to daughter of DR.. Nathan
Durfee, the officiating clergyman, Rev. Eli
Thurston, received marriage fee larger than
was ever paid before in Massachusetts,. The
families of Col Borden and DIR. Durfec gen
erousy extinguished mortgage Of $500
which rested upon the homestead Of the
parson.
The Indian names which designate so
many of our naval vessels are the subject Of
transformations by Jack. lie calls the Wis
sahickon the :. Widow Higgins the Miami
the " Miasma;'' and now the Miantonomoh
has been christened by the same authority.
!" My -aunt-knows -no man,, and the Shock
ockton the Shocking corn"
The Palladium press At New Haven, Ct,
was recently stopped by an eel which had
crawled into the water pipe which furnishes
the power for the wheel.
1t is stated that no flag of a Vermont
regiment was ever in the keeping of the enc-
my during the war.
The Taunton Ga1ehe says that Boston
has been rewarded for its increase in popu-
lation
Rev Z. Erskine, late of Sterling, ILL.,.
now financial agent for the proposed new
college of the Presbyterian Church of the
Northwest, is about to publish a new religi-
Gus weekly in Chicago, to be known as the
Northeastern Presbyterian The paper is to
be the religious organ of the Presbyterians
to be printed on large sheet, and to be
gotten up in a neat and handsome form. Mr..
Erskine is to be the editor and proprietor,
seconded by an able corps of regular con-
trbutors
1t is proposed at Lewiston, Maine. to
have an exhibition of the different styles of
bonnets worn within the past twenty-five
years. very large hall will be required.
A California editor speaking of com.
plant by his readers that he don't publish all
the local items that they desire to see, justly
observes that it is often their own fault in
not sending the facts. He says he don't like
to publish birth after the child is weaned,
a marriage after the honeymoon is over, or
the death Of man after his widow is mar
ried.
Census returns fix the white population
are $4,000 dogs in the State which with
the wolves have destroyed $50, l4S worth
of sheep.
The great fire at Constantinople destroy
ed 5000 houses, more than three hundred
palaces, eight mosques, two churches and
five khans Over $4,000 people were made
homeless.
The New York Herald is quite merry
over the theatrical managers of New York
who have Withdrawn their advertisements
from its column because it (the Herald re-
fused to publish the advertisements of the
opera and Mr.. Barnum's place of amuse
ment. 1t likens these two to the fox in the
fable, which, having its own tail cut off in
duced the other foxes to submit to the same
painful operation,
A manufacturer in Manchester, Mass,
has been heavily mulcted for making false
returns of the amount Of his business. An
investigation showed conclusively that some
eleven monthly returns did not show true
statement Of his business, and he was as
sessed 81 200 extra to cover the de6cien-
cies, and fined 1000 for making fraudu-
lent returns.
The number Of printed volumes in the
English language in California, which in
1S41 hardly exceeded 800, is estimated in
1865 at about 10000 900, progress unpre-
cedented in all the annals Of literature.
The barbarous practice of carrying liv-
ing calves through the streets packed in
carts with their feet tied and their head
dangling over the end board or against the
wheels, has been summarily stopped in New
York by the arrest Of a butcher man, and
the imposition Of an exemplary fine. Serv-
ed him right.
When the inn-keeper at Neufchatel
catches an Emperor, he makes the most of
him. His bill for entertaining Napoleon
and the Imperial suite thirty six hours, was
$1,000. lie is almost up to the prices Of
American hotels.
One Sunday, recently. six thousand
people visited Sydenham Crystal Palace.
The usual amusements there were suspend
ed, and instead of them lectures were given
on Egyptian and Assyrian antiquities
The Vinton, Iowa, Eagle says that Mr.
John W. Mather, of Benton county, lost his
power of speech two years ago. The other
day, while blowing, one of his horses be-
came entangled in the traces, and rs he
stopped over to adjust matters the horse
kicked at him, which frightened him SO that
he instantly began to yell out " Whoa!"
The official report on the race between
the Winooski and Algonquin states that the
economical performance of each vessel was
equal, and that the arrangement Of the
Winooski machinery is the completest and
most convenient possible, and its economy
is fully equal to that given by the very COM
pick design Of the Algonquin.
The discovery of what is true, and the