The Iowa transcript. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1858-1866, 1865-12-27


week was remarkable. On the 18th, the
thermometer in Chicago ranged from deg.
below to 10 deg. above zero. and people were
not particular which was which. all degrees
being alike uncomfortable. At Milwaukee
the range was from ~ deg. below to deg.
above; at Madison. ~ deg. below At Green
Bay, 20 deg. below: at st. Paul. 70 deg. up
to 3 deg. below, and the cheerful despatch
says everybody was out Safeguarding; ut
Dubuque. 6 deg. below, river frozen over.
and the ice bridge complete for the winter;
at Lawrence. Kansas, deg. below, with a
few inches of snow. and promise Of more.
At Cincinnati the lowest mark was deg.
above zero, and that ut New York and Balti-
more the mercury reported 80 deg. above.
The jail at Louisville. Ky, is full Of
prisoners awaiting trial for various crimes.
There are over hundred of them.
Quite number Of plantations near Au-
gusta, Ga. have changed hands lately The
purchasers are mostly from the North.
In Japan you can buy first class
house for thirty dollars, and live comtOrta-
bly, in il for two cents day. Servants
charge fifty cents month"; and a horse and
groom msy be had for the same time for one
dollar and fifty cents
Herman. the magician. calls his business
man his prestidiyitorahs:ical agent.
The Lord Chief Justice Of the London
Court OF Queens Bench is member Of the
Church Of England; Mr.. Justice Blackburn
is Presbyterian: Mr.. Justice Mellor a
Unitarian; Mr.. Justice Shee. Roman
Catholic; and the fourth judge presiding
over that Court, Mr.. Justice Lush, Bap-
tist.
Tho Neilghcrry Excelsior draws a
strange picture Of the life led by the Rajsh
of Mysore. His palace is filed with upwar
Of 500 people. "Therc are fifty wives OF
his Highness, with about four attendants on
each; and among the remainder are night
watchers. prophesying Brahmins, aud Off
GERS Of the zenana."
A new sect has lately sprung up in Ber-
lin. lis members call themselves 1.-The
Cogitants." DIR. Edward Lowenthal, the
founder. has published book abon. his
opinions, which he calls u religion without a
confession. The Cogitants also have their
magazine, bearing the following motto: sour
knowledge is our faith; our dignity is our
morality; our worship is life and our re-
ligion is---our secret" A few of their doc
trices and practices are as follows: Neither
theft nor fraud can be punished with i'm
prisonment. Women are to have part
in the church government. Only the lower
part Of coffin should be buried in the earth
All good Cogitants are to have a good dinner
for nothing, and to dine in public, on Christ
mas Day. Easter Sunday, and Whit Sunday.
The head Of the Cog tants ia to wear black
camlet cloak, with upright collar, and three
silver stars on il.
"A young lawyer of Memphis seems to
have had very singular experience during
the war. He was captured with other rebel
soldiers at the battle of Tishomingo Creek.
aud. after six weeks Imprisonment al Alton.
Illinois, was sent under guard to Johnson's
Island. Disliking durance vile extremely,
he took the risk Of jumping out Of the win
dow Of the car in witch he was being trans
ferred from one prison to the other, and
escaped with slight bruises, finding himself
tn the middle Of a prairie. He walked to
the first station, and having thrown away his
uniform jacket, was engaged by the colonel
Of Union regiment at home on fmrlough, ms
was very distasteful to him, but hunger was
imperative, and he worked steadily until he
found, after three days toll, that his employ
gone for guard to arrest him. lie, of
course, fed. and, finding sympathizing
friends in Chicago, was enabled to escape 10
Canada, whence he ran the blockade into
Wilmington. He joined his command. and
fought the war through. A few weeks ago.
he met the colonel for whom he carried
bricks, and obtained from him without diff :
Guilty the seven dollars due him for labor
nprformed het ore his Nivht
Hon. Philip Allen, Ex-Governor Of
Rhode Island and afterwards United States
Senator from that state, died recently at
Providence.
ID. X. Locke, Esq, better known to the
reading public as Petroleum V. Nasty, is
announced rs an associate editor Of the To :
ledo Blade
-"Well, my boy. so You are going to try
your fortune in the city, tell you it is a
dangerous ocean to launch your craft on
said y man to a neighbors son. ''Yes, sir, i"
answered the lad, taking his Bible from his
pocket. "but you see I've got safe compass
to steer by"
George F. Cleveland, the mate Of the
Inflated steamer Pewabic, was arraigned be-
fore the United States Circuit Court at De-
troit, on Tuesday. to answer an indictment
brought against him by the Grand Jury for
manslaughter, the action of the jury finding
the alleged blame of the collision Of Cleve-
land. The case was continued over to the
next term of court.
The Madeira wine crop which for seve-
raj years was destroyed BY disease Of the
vine, was success this year About 1900
pipes Of wine have been made, and the pros
poets for the next years crop arc even more
favorable.
Southern lawyers are reaping abund-
ant pecuniary harvests by their charges for
drawing mp petitions in behalf Of southern
applicants for pardon. One attorney in
South Carolina is said to have forwarded up
ward Of Q thousand petitions TO the attorney
generals office, for each Of which he receiv-
the fee Of $25.
The new building Of the New York
Stock Exchange WAS opened on Friday for
the transaction Of business. The edifice il
Of white freestone, and fronts fifty feet on
Broad street, and eighty four feet on New
street. 1t is one hundred and eighty feet in
depth, and four stories high.
The French newspapers announce a. q
curious piece of news that shop for the
sale of horsefiesh az food has just been open
ed in Paris lby permission Of the authori-
ties.
The Hardness we'll in Parkersburg Va.
is yielding daily average Of about 800
barrels. The average during the week has
been q little over 300 barrels per day. Tween
twenty zone hundred barrels Of lubricatina
oil in seven days, worth at the well one hun
bred and five thousand dollars.
The editor Of the Boston Commonwealth
meeting Gen. Banks by chance just after
the election said 81 nm very sorry General