The Iowa transcript. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1858-1866, 1865-09-06

breckenridge and Mason are expected in
Canada in few days.
Prince Alfred, second son of Queen
Victoria, came Of age on Sunday, the 9th
inst.
| -s'lIamlct," the translation by Alcxan-
der Dumas, is the attraction ut one Of the
Paris theatres.
A woman running down stairs in Lon
don, caught her foot in her hoop, fell and
broke her neck.
A little boy in Allegheny City set fire to
his mothers house because she refused to let
HIM go to picnic.
Queen Victoria is said to be gricved at
the obstinate affection of her daughter Hell
ena for British subject.
1t is epidemic in New York for we'll
dressed men to throw themselves from hotel
windows.
Since the LIST of January, there have
been lbs railroad disasters. attended by DIG
fatalities to life, and |. l09 injuries toperson.
A government train Of 500 wagons of
army supplies. drawn by 5000 mules. is on
its way from Washington to Lcavenworth.
MIR. Colchester. the juggler, has invited
the jury which has recently sat in judg-
ment upon his case to ''scance" with him.
Thomas Jefferson Randolph, grandson
of Thomas Jefferson, visited the White
House on Thursday, and was cordially re-
ceiyed by the President.
A convention is to be held at Clinton,
Iowa, on the 10Th of Sept, to adopt meas
ures for the organization ola State Sabbath
School Convention.
Twenty four serious railroad accidents
have occurred in the United States during
the last seven months. most Of them being
attributable to carelessness
The Spaniards having blockaded the
ports Of San Domingo, the Dominicans are
about to retaliate by fitting out priyateers
to prey upon Spanish commerce.
A stage coach was run into near Bos-
ton last week by a freight train. One Of
its occupants was killed, and all were more
or less injured.
A cotemporary published last week an
advertisement Of colored woman in Paris
who has 100000 and wants q white hus-
band.
Mrs. Mary Hughes, young married
woman in Brook n, having been charged by
her husband with Inconsistency, denied the
charge, and committed suicide . few days
since.
--Advices from South America state that
the Paraeuayans have met with severe re
verses at the hands of Brazilian force. los
ing seven hundred men, three hundred horses
and two flags.
7 A French printer has succeeded in
making gas for lighting from the pomace of
apples used for making cider The gas is
superior TO that made from coal, as it emits
neither smoke no smell.
A Philadelphia merchant put So, 600 in
1908 and sos in an old rubbish box in
his store for safe keeping The rubbish
was empticl and the bonds either lost 0,
stolen, the merchant is in a quandary to
decide which.
A report from England by the last mail
states that the Great Eastern is to be i'm
mediately dispatched from Sheerness to
Newfoundland to fish up with grapnels por-
tons Of the discovered cable, and that an.
other cable will be laid next year.
Last week, there was collision OF
trains freight and passenger accommoda-
tion) on the Buffalo and Cleveland lake shore
road at Conneaut, Ohio. Both trains were
badly smashed up, and several persons in
jured.
of the wool trade in Harrison county
o., the Cadiz Republican says: ''Of the 800,
900 pounds of wool clipped in this county
the present season, not over 10000 pounds
have been sold. This amount has been
purchased principally at prices ranging at
1Oa75c
1t is given out that a company has been
organized in New York to construct tele-
| graphic cable from the Capes Of Florida to
the island Of Cuba, connecting with Porto
Rico st. Thomas, Brazil and Panama. The
surveys for the Florida line are complete
Good men are said to be in the enterprise
"A horrible tragedy occurred on the LIST,
at Dedham, Massachusetts. Dir. A. Mars
ton and his little daughter ten years Of age,
were murdered by Mrs. Marston, his wife,
who completed the dreadful deed by shoot
ing herself. The wretched woman was
laboring under an alteration Of mind.
A young woman, widow of Wisconsin
soldier, was heartlessly abandoned at Gil
bertville, Black Hawk county, Iowa, last
week, by a rascal named Watson, who after
marrying her, took the bounty money and
back pay Of her former husband, with every
cent she possessed, and left her destitute.
The sensation on Wall street, on FRI
day, was Virginian family in wagon in
which they had ridden all the way from
Culpepper, Virginia. The party consisted
Of man and wife, three small children and
a span Of horses, aud were bound to Brook
! lyn to find their relations.
The Steamboat Inspectors Of the De-
I troit district, who have been engaged in
investigating the Pewabic disaster, have
! agreed upon report LAYING the resDOnsi-
bility upon the Captain and Mate Of the
Pewabic, and excuipating the officers Of the
Meteor.
! A fellow in Cleveland named George w
Smith, stole guitar from a young lady who
| was boarding at the same house he did was
arrested with the instrument in his hand
was committed to prison; has since ssgot re-
ligion, and been visited by the young lady
prosecutor and they are going to be married
With the thermometer at 100 degrees,
the people Of New Orleans had been with
out ice for two weeks, until the 2lst ult.,
when the happy arrival Of two Boston yes.
leved their distress, and the blessings OF
Massachusetts meltedup all their tongues.
-Werz has placed in the hands Of his
counsel, documentary evidence showing that
all Of his acts were ordered by Gen Win
der, and Seldom, the rebel Secretary Of
War. Boston Corbitt's testimony, has been
rejected by the counsel upon the ground
that he is monomaniac upon the subject
of Andersonville.
We find in our exchanges, various &C.
counts of the movements of rebel leaders.
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