The Iowa transcript. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1858-1866, 1865-09-13
The population Of the United kiudgom

England, ireland and Scotland-is stated
at 90, 172, 900 in the middle of the present
year
The cigar steamer, ithas been asserted,
will be worked by steam, and not smoke,
as has been supposed. Punch says It is .
remarkable sea ''wecd'
A marriage between the crown prince
of Denmark, and the Princess Louise Of
Sweden, is beng negotiated.
Another prize fight for the champion
ship Of England, is TO come Oft Wednesday,
the LIST of November, between Jem Mace
and Joe Wormald.
The Petersburg Express says that so
many negroes are being haptised in the APP
pomattox, that the water is becoming quite
black.
President lohnson's family consists of
his wife, son, son LAW. two daughters
and n number Of grandchildren.
The famous Thames tunnel has been
sold for million of dollars to a railroad
company.
Indianapolis. Indiana. is suffering from
an Eruption of the sawboncs fraternity.
There are already 800 rracticing physicians
in that city, and more are coming. Every
army surgeon settles in Indianapolis rs soon
as mustered out.
An interesting widow of Fifth Avenue,
New York, is the leader of movement in
that city, to introduce dress for ladies, to
be 'founded on the principle Of biturca-
ton"
There is a woman in Charleston, N. H.,
who has II collection of tame toads in her
yard. They know their mistress, follow her
about, hop into her lap TO be fed, and are
tenderly cared for.
The new steamship Queen, which arri-
we'd in New York from Liverpool last week,
brought the largest human cargo which has
ever crossed the Atlantic ocean ~ 500
souls.
Henry A. Wise has addressee letter
Of thirty toolscap pages to Gen. Grant, re-
monstrating against a decision Of General
Terry, which gives all of his abandoned
property to the Freedmen's Bureau.
All the branches of the State Bank Of
Iowa. have wound up, with the exception Of
the one at Fort Madison, The National
Banks are supplying their places
By statistics it is announced that one
man consumes 5000 pounds Of solids and
fluids in year
The Homer Ma1 is the classical name
of lively and incorporating Union pa
per, started in the town of Homer, La.
-Biela's comet is soon expected around
again.
Noiseless steam street cars are being
tried at ST. Louis. They make fifteen miles
an hour easily.
Chattanooga is to be made first class
military post. About s., 100000 worth of
property is 20 be stored there
A newspaper on a grand scale, to be
published simultaneously in London and
Paris. is about to be started. 1t will be
called The Cosmopolitan.
The cattle disease continues serious
matter Of discussion in England.
A great deal has been said about Death
on the Pale Horse, but in view of the rail
road mortality, people are now beginning
to talk about Death on the Iron Horse.
Moses Vernicc, 81 years Of age, was
arrested in st. Louis the other day, charged
with attempting to commit rape on a little
girl five years old.
The census returns in Rhode Island
show that nearly all the agricultural towns
and especially those in the western part of
the state, are decreasing in population.
ALL sentences Of death in case Of SOL
diers..convictcl of desertion, have been COM
muted by the president TO Imprisonment for
term of years.
A Mr.. Campbell, in addressing an as
semblagc of Fenians lately in New York,
said .thc crash will come, and before six
months are over. Ireland will be free ordic."
a woman was killed at Laramie's sta
ton, on the Pennsylvania Railroad, recent
ly by being run over by passenger train.
1t seems that herself and husband had got
off the train and seated themselves on the
cross ties, and when the train moved off,
she was by some means carried under the
wheels, and crushed to death. The engineer
saw her position, before starting the train,
but supposed she was far enough from the
wheels to escape injury.
During the late heavy storm in Phla-
delphia two children were found floating
about in a cradle in a cellar which was near
ly filled with the still rising water. The moth
or was nearly frcnzied with excitement, but
the babes were finally rescued by tearing up
portion OF the floor, against which the
cradle was already knocking.
During the past four years, of the rebel
lion, Indiana furnished 1892 troops, and
Wisconsin SO, 600. In the latter state over
$4,000, 600 was raised for bounties to sol
diers.
Two men (black and white), sat down
on the open prairie near Lawrence, Kansas,
last Sunday afternoon, Sd inst, to play a
game of cards, the stakes being their pistols.
The negro won, whereupon the white man
nj hn Had hnlr
holding the cards. The affair was seen by
people at distance, but the murderer stole
the negro ) pony and made good his escape.
"A Memphis paper relates the case Of a
southern female refugee, who had only one
faded calico dress which she wore upon her
back 4 benevolent gentleman had collcc-
ton taken up for her which realized thirteen
dollars She at once repaired to dry goods
store, where she paid thirteen dollars for a
lace collar.
The newest thing ont is '.plumpers, for
hollow checked damsels The plumper is
made Of porcelain, pear-slaped in form, flat
on one side, and bullying out on the other.
They fit the insides Of the cheeks, giving a
round, plump, appearance; hence, doubtless
their name.
The capital Of the Hudson River Rail
way is four million dollars. OF its IA
miles, l2S arc supplied with double track.
1t has "a first class engines dummies, 1O4
first class passenger cars, II second class,
IS baggage, mail and express cars and go
freight cars.
- The excitement about custom house
Offices in New York, has ecilpsed Ketchum.
LITTLE TOO RlPE.-As many Of our
readers are doubtless aware, it was the GUS