The Iowa transcript. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1858-1866, 1865-10-04
GI.EANINGS,

upon the Hudson river next summer.
Three newspaper thieves were sentenced
to seventeen months Imprisonment each, in
Philadelphia, last week
The National Bank at Concord, Mass.
was broken into last week. while the Cashier
was absent, and robbed of 100000.
A large gold mine in the Wilderness,
Virginia. is shortly to be worked by North
ern parties.
A man in Kansas raised SO much corn on
forty acres of ground that he had to hire an
adjoining field Of lGo acres 10 stack il on
-. man in London died from chambers,
contracted from washing diseased horse
when he had an injury upon one of his fin
gers.
Mr.. q. W. Thompson, of Wool!ord eoun-
ty. H.. had his eye picked out ny Il young
sanlhill crane which some boys had captured
and were exhibiting 10 him.
1t is stated that llcrschcl V. johnson is
to he IN assistant counsel in behalf Of the
rebel steamboat burning gang now on trial
at ST. Louis.
An cx-army suler who resides in lndi-
annapolis made s., 900 900 in fourteen months.
which he invested in United States bonds,
thus escaping taxation.
A French engineer has experimental in
photography until he has invented IN arpa-
ratus by which pictures can be taken in a
parlor or anywhere else.
When Wira. the Andcrsonyillc jailor,
was first placed in the Old Capitol he Dor
rowed and read Milton. pcQuincy. etc. but
now he reads Baxter,s Call, 1t won't hurt
him.
The propeller Buckeye. from Ogaens-
burgh to Toledo. struck wreck in the st.
Lawrence River on the 2ih, and sunk.
Three persons are known to have been lost
and four others are missing
Mace and Wormald pair of English
hruisers. are going to pnmmc! each other on
The Isl Of November. for the champions belt
and f20O a side The betting is understood
to be even on the two men.
Twenty five new hotels have been opened
nj New York during the last four years. and
they still want more. Two monster ones will
be built next spring-A I. Stewar: being in
tcrested in one and the Lclands in the other.
The latest Questionable" arrival in New
York is that of Partisan lady. who calls
herself an artist in nails and eyebrows. and
IL pFeHuTtu ~ iht HliiShlHg touches 10
any fair American lady's beauty.
The Boston lanecrs are TO visit Chicago
next month. They come in fun uniform and
bring their well-traincd horses with them.
During their stay they will be the guests of
the Ellsworth Zouaves
a St. Louis burglar. who WIS robhing q
room in which a young lady WAS sleeping,
could not resist the temptation Of kissing the
beautiful lips Of the lanlscl. and was caught
at it. 1t will be States prison for n Kiss.
"A patent for making shoes With wooden
Soes has been perfected. and the brooklyn
NJ y Id3t, says that the boots AMI snaes
made under this patent have been snhi ec;ed
to the severest tests, which they have with
stood even THEN friends being surprised at
their good qualities.
andrew Frank, policeman at Niagara
Falls, was shot dead las, week. as was also
another man, BY gang oi ronghs. rs way
OF retaliation, toiir houses Of i'll fame We're
destroyed. two Of them being harmed 70 the
ground. \ son of the murdered policeman
led the mob
The mine Of spathie ore, or native steel,
at Waterbury, Conn, has been sod to
Hartford company for Sioo.0oa and Il hum
works, sinking shafts, etc. This ore is said
to work directly into steel without the usual
carbonizing process.
= Returns Of the State ccnsns Of MasSa-
chusetts have been received from all but six
teen towns, and they foot up i.22l5i9a. The
missing towns. il is estimated. will make the
aggregate population nearly ~. 0oo and
the voters about pa eco The increase pop
Ilatiap 81 ..ba
The Union Bank Of New London. Conn,
has a double-barreled. forward and bacl, ac-
ton, patent combination, burglar proof loci,
on its safe. The other day il was locked.
and the password was forgotten; the conse-
quence was that neither the maker nor any
body else could open it. and the door had TO
be cut oil.
--The play Of q The Confedera.c's Daagh-
ter is having great success in one Of The
London theatres. General Butler appears in
it as the tyrant Of New Orleans makes
love improperly to the Confedcrate's dangh-
ter, but is toiled by faithful negro, who has
a fight with Butler, and beats him with a
broadswora in square fight. Butler after
wards undertakes to hang the lover Of the
said daughter, but he is reprieved Butler
is relieved from command, and the Confcd-
crates daughter triumphs. The play is
highly exciting.
"A writer suggests, in the Ner Yorl SIT
urd0V Times, that every railroad should be
provided with its private graveyard, where
its victims might be inferred at the companys
expense-a simple act of justice to surviving
relatives. Appropriate epitaphs could be
placed over the remains Of the sufferers from
each accident, stating that nobody was to
blame, etc, as the following, for instance:
COW on TRACK.
bovine waif from the dioining field
The track invaded, and my fate she sealed:
by the coweatcher caught, che flew sky-hirh
And 50, dear friends, hope at last shall l.
A little daughter Of Geo Coos, Of New
London, aged five years, few days ago was
reaching over well-curb to &c. water from
the bucket, when she lost her balance and
fell into the well, a depth Of thirty feet
She was soon missed, and her father heard
cries Of, { How cold am and immediately
went to the well and found his lost child
struggling with death. A person rescued
her from her perilous situation. She was
taken out inscnsiblc, and could not, il is
said, have lived more than two or three
minutes longer.
Some Of the late rebel Generals are max
ing themselves generally useful. 4 prominent
Major General from Louisiana has charge Of
the construction of the wharves at New Or
leans. Two Brigadiers have secured places
in the Commercial Express Company One
Brigadier is prosperousy engaged in the bu-
siness Of boss drayman. There arc other
Generals who arc spoken of as civil engineers
on our railroads Almost every store has Il
Colonel or Major. There are three distin-