The Iowa transcript. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1858-1866, 1865-09-20
Lander Harvey, a boy IA wears of age,


and was smothcrcd to death before he could
be extricated
1t is stated that the French troops on
the Rio Grandc have been superseded by ma
tive Mexican forces, on account of the dispo-
sition of the former to give and take offence.
There is scarcely any more delightful
emotion than that which we feel when
! friend who has sacrificed our esteem, by
some noble act RECEIVERS il with interest
A correspondent of the Boston Post has
unqualified pleasure in mentioning the fall Of
the waterfall, n monsrous invention of the
enemy of beauty, which should have died at
! its birth. A rather pretty fashion of dress
ing the hair, which venture to call the sta
1 plc-and ring style is getting in vogue with
the danes, while ringlets for the girls have
| quite superseded the ugly plug attenuation
which wagged behind them. like a beavers
! tail. few weeks ago. Among the really
\ fashionable women you might as well look
! for u cataract in the eye as waterfall mt the
! back of the head.
In one Of the New England pin factories
| 1920 of those useful little things are
made. papcred and packed every hour. The
proprietor's wives must have plenty Of pin
money
English papers think the mismanagemcnt
of the Atlantic cable is distinctly proved by
the admission of those on board the Great
Eastern, that they left it in charge of huoys.
| An eastern paper says that the new
counterfeit - cent fractional currency in
circulation may be readily detected by the
superiority of its execution over that Of the
| genuine.
| A follower of the lamcnted weather sage.
Merriam, resident in Central New York, and
evidently with no interest in the lightning
rod business, declares that the prevailing
droughis in that section are due to the large
number of lightning rods put up Whereabouts.
lie says they attract the electricity from its
| legitimate pursuit OF getting up rain falls,
and that the earth suffers in consequences
The Boston Post says that the holders Of
/ Confederate bonds in London are holding
meetings and it is about the only tangible
thing they do hold.
Disastrous fires have been raging in the
woods III Maine causing great destruction of
property.
A hanlcutfed counterfeitcr, named Fas-
sett, while being conveyed to Rochester, n.
Y, under arrest, on Tuesday, made fright
full leap from the cars. When tho train was
short distance east of Spencerport, running
about thirty miles per hour. Fassctt asked
the sheriff to give him drink Of water
The sheriff stepped to tank near by to get
It. Fassett threw the irons from his wrists,
placed his hands upon the backs of two seats.
and threw himself out at window feet fore
most. The sheriff saw the motion and grab
bed ut the prisoner, making fast to his coat
sleeve near the shoulder The sleeve was
retained by the officer, but the prisoner
he a1 a..
stopped. The sheriff got off and went in
search of his prisoner. IIe found his hat
but not his man.
There arc three brothers, two of whom
live in Mcthnen, Mass, who have had in the
aggregate IL wives. One of the gentlemen
is a widower. Here is Il chance for an en-
terprising Young woman.
Professor Lowe the aeronaut, is making
balloon ascensions at New York. lie takes
passengers at $40 head.
The Albany Journal is printed on paper
made of bamboo cane. We wonder if that
doesn't bring it under the head of a JOINT
stalh concern
A well known pickpocket (name not
gyen) recently died in New York, leaving
property to the amount of sixty thousand
dollars, all Of which he accumulated within
the past six years in excursions through
various cities Of the Union.
A census is being taken of the colored
people of Memphis, and enough has been
developed to show that the aggregate number
Of blacks will ovcrreach 10000; it is said it
will reach $4,000
AT fancy ball at West Point the other
night, a lady appeared as '.Bazique, Her
dress was studded with cards, and it was
also noticed that the effect had been very
carefully studied also.
A horse was poisoned to death, few
days ago, in Boston, by chewing green house,
paper, which was lying in a barrel He
died in few minutes.
John Peck of Haverstraw, N. j.. sold a
five year old colt for $4,000 the other day.
The Southern Hotel, built and furnished
at a cost of S1,25O,OOO was opened at st.
Louis on Wednesday.
During May, June. July and August,
| 5,5OO,OOO three cent pieces were coined Mt
the United States Mint in Philadelphia.
A man with scolding wife, being asked
what his occupation was, replied that he kept
| a hot-house.
The Jackson Mississippi) Neps, mean
| ing to be in season, has hoisted the name Of
Andrew Johnson for the next President
A citizen Of Washington owned very
ugly and vicious dog. He named the cur
..Wirz," and then shot it.
"A British army officer-Captain W. A.
Baker of the Royal Bombay Engineers
In a work just published in England, cnti-
tied "The Day and the Hour: imparts a
considerable amount of information, which
is certainly .simportant il true" The day
of judgment, he tells us, is fixed for Sep
TENDER 20, 1878; the hour, sunset; the
Translation Of the Saints having previously
taken place, at one o'clock in the morning
on the 10th of January 1875.
/ Nor As MODEST As HIS FATHER-Thcro
appears to be young Grant, son Of the
Lieutenant General, who has high appre-
citation Of the merits Of his father, and an
estimate that is not reduced by shrinking
modesty of the consequence of the family
In substantiation Of this we quote from the
Quebec correspondent of the Boston Adper-
tiser:
"The people at the Waterville station
were SO intently employed in staring at the
General, that they forgot all about cheering
until little Jesse Grant-the pet Of the fam
lily and Of the party-who was standing be-
hind his father on the platform, flung his
hat mp and screamed out in his shrill, child
ish voice; s'Three cheers for General
Grant and family!'' This loosed the ton que
of the people, and the cheers were heartily
given"
| Ar THE Keystone Bank, Erie Pennsylya-