The Iowa transcript. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1858-1866, 1865-04-06


by the State Sanitary Agency. Those
interested vii take notice and govern
themselves accordingly.
Mr.. Thomas Branen, who was
sentenced at our last term u the Dis.
trict Court, to the peni<snt,syy for five
wears, has removed his case 10 the
Supreme Cont and given bonds in the
sum Of 1000.
Owing to considerable rain our
farmers have bees abs to nov bat
little wheat.
-. As goods are declining in the
East, our merchants "follow suil' ard
mark down their price,. W. observe
tha. Galley Il Johnston have received
quite large stock Of spring goods;
also Mx. II, Zehrnng = new stock OF
goods aud GROCERIES. Mr.. Armstrong
has also received at his Drug Store .
fresh supply Of Drugs, medicines,
pain,a, oils &c.
-. Post y ffi,-s are great institutions
They are soit OF pockct.trier, and
soul tester that We cannot we'll dispense
with. While they cannot accurately
measure the in6nItcsi,na; souls thai,
spm"limes v,slt them, they viii come 80
neAr j. TIA. any man can - = within
four rows Of apple trees by moonlight
'hat they are q, best but very weak
extract of nonen,ity highly 'inc'nrca
with nothing 4 number Of proofs It
what we assert have ,a,ely accumulated
A. the Pos, Oficc IN this town
Almost daily persons xiii rqs W.
3 cent stamps AMI rrrseEt IN nayr,,a
a five cen, script, assertin, the, haze
no more change. or they guess that
will do.
A short time ago tasE asked IL.
clerk what he charged to senl letter
20 Iuks. two anil half miles distant.
After being answered 3 cents, he said
Ia would not stand that because he
could get a letter asnt clear to Indiana
for that, and he wouldn't be gopged in
that way. He said he had cent
stamp on his letter and positively re.
tnscd to pay the other pehny; 40 the
letter Vas aent charged cents in add
tinn 10 the etaslT on it, to fill the re.
qniremants Of the law.
Another person handed the Clerk a
rapsr to b. sens through the mail. lie
was told it required two cent stamp.
To bluff the Clerk he presented zen
dollar bill from which TO take the two
cents. The clcsk toll him he could
not mako the change and If he wanted
the paper sent he had better xas the
Two cents. lie then aaid lie had :
three cent stamp but he did not see
how no was going 70 GET the odd cent.
Finding he cosld do no better he al
last concluded to put tho three cent
stamp on the vsrsr mourning over u {
'loas Of hia departe'l penny.
Another deposited two unstamped
letters in the office. He was told thai
:if the postage was not prepaid that they
would be charged double postage, te
he paid by the person receiving them
After rejecting upon It awhile he or
lcrcd two three cont stanps to b
placed upon them, but failed to pay 70
them. . rcmissncss Of which he was re
minded before he left the room. Hi
reply was the man to whom Ahs letter
we're directed would pay for them. !
w.s explained TO him that this gam
would not work and Mnless they wer
prepaid double postage must he chare
ed. Still he Eonld not pay the po.tag
on them; The stamps were rcmoNe'
ma tho letters charged do,rssle postage
Another indWiAMai deposited tw
Le,tera in the Office, one Of which Y
anirssi double usual postage, and II
waa 40 informed. His reply was ih:
the other letter was enough lighter
make them average right. lie WIS i
formed that the Post Office did NJ
do luainess in that way, AUD that cxe'
letter must be weighed separately. n
replied, that WAS not faM and N,e you
not be "gouged" III thsst kind OF y va
lie refused 10 tho last to lDay The ext
postage and 40 Of course il was rhaSyt
on the letter to be paid by tbs reeei,
Another inst Rncc wasthat nf 6 parst
depositing le,tar i, tho office havi'
upon it two 2 cent s'asSps, and dcman
.Hlu OF the clork penny, tor over pm,