The Iowa transcript. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1858-1866, 1865-11-15
GLEANINlsS.

1ou'ueIH ucHlanu. j ne prices GuafSeu III
Washington for presswork are 90 per cent
mere than in the Northern cities Three
fourths of this immense number Of books
going South are sold to negroes.
A novel feet arrived AT Omaha, Nebras
ka. recently, consisting Of about fifty craft
containing some GOO men from Montana
territory. The boats are kind of tiatboa
built expressly for the purpose, with a few
skitfs along for packing wood along thu
shore. making reconnaissance, etc. The
party embarked on the Yellowstone river
500 miles from its mouth. and only five miles
from Virginia City. They were twenty
seven days reaching Omaha, distance o.
$500 miles, They had no difficulty will
Indians found plenty Of game and enjoyed
good health.
Pat wants to know why his pipe is like
the figures 10. Because il comes just after
attea'.
The Nashville Press and Times says thai
from the first Of July TO the present time
10000 letters have been sent from the Nash
vile post office, to the dead letter office, hay
ing nothing on them but the name Of tho
person to whom they were addressed. with
out town, county, or post Office, or without
any address at all, or with revenue instead
Of postal stamps. Many Of these letter.
have been mailed by class business men
Cause, carelessness.
indianapolis has been designated by tn.
war department as department depot, ant
Col. J. J. Slocum, has been appointed chic
commissary.
Asa Fitch, the Connecticut millionai ire
made his fortune in business in the city OF
Marseilles. France. He built village
Fitchville-in his native state He was q
bachelor, and left S5.OOO,OOO.
"A letter from India to London paper
states that the monkeys Of that countr,
seem to be firmly persuaded that the tele.
graph lines and poles in that country were
erected for their special use and behoof in
performing gymnastic exercises.
Some Of the enterprising iron and lead
founders in Birmingham, England, it is said
have been driving quite brisk business in
casting heather bronze) gods, and shipping
them of to India where they meet ready
market.
appended to a marriage notice in New
York, are fireworks. ''plen,y Of cards
The statement is made officially that
Lees and Johnston's armies numered at the
time of their surrender, the former $4,000
men, and the latter $4,000 men.
"A woman with a waist sixteen inches
around, writes in the Edinburg Reciew in
favor Of tightlacing.
The grave announcement that the prince
imperial will hereafter dine with his mother
and not in the nursery. occupies a prominent
place in the French court journal
The Emperor Of Morocco has permitted
telegraph wires to be laid in his dominions.
The 9TH of December has been appoint
ed Us a day Of thanksgiving by the Govern
ors of Pennsylvania AMI Michigan.
The next central eclipse of the sun in
the United States, will occur on the eth Of
August. 1869, and will be total-the first
since Nov. 40, 1854.
The commissioner of agriculture re-
ports that the deficit in the wheat crop is
II. l72, 1874 bushels. The increase in oats
is $4,000, 900, bushels and in hay more than
$1,000 900 tons. The corn crop is the largest
ever known in the United States.
During the rebellion, the deaths in hos
pital were only nine per cent, whereas in
the Crimean war, the deaths in English and
French hospitals were 50 per cent.
Michigan City has recently taken new
start in trade and enterprise. The liberal
sum of three hundred thousand dollars has
been subscribed by discriminat: ng capital
lists, for the purpose of improving the har-
Dor. When that work is completed, great
quantities Of coal. plaster, iron, lumber and
produce, will be brought by rail- and sent
to other points Of trade and transportation
on the lakes.
An absurd story is going the rounds of
the papers, concerning man who pretends
that he has not slept a week since 1867. One
paper in giving the story, naively remarks,
sit is possible that he may be humbug"
Quite so.
Rev. Morgan L. Dix preached a sermon
in New York few days since, in the course
of which he stated that there was perfect
unity between the Northern and Southern
branches Of the Episcopal church at the re-
cent convention in Philadelphia.
The recent dinner given by Sir Morton
Peto in New York, cost SAC, OOO-SlO0 to
each person who sat at the table. "a kinds
Of wine were drank, and some Of it cost $50
per bottle.
Fifth avenue, New York. is Mortified by
the publication of a sanitary map, showing
that the cholera is likely to attack the fash
ionable portion Of that city, where houses
are built upon made land, and sewerage is
imperfect.
"A Providence paper referring to the
outlandish and utterly abominable words
constantly coined by telegraph operators,
says: "The Associated Press pours a
stream Of cold poison into the English Ian
guage every morning. We hear of build
ings being .burglarized' and 'incendiar.
ized,' of steamers colliding and oil wells
'confagrating,' and the other day we were
told an actress had sdebuted with success
There ought to be law against such afro
cities"
About three hundred female physicians
have been graduated from the Woman 5 Col.
lege Of Physicians and Surgeons, in New
York.
The authorities of Detroit are about Il
commence the erection of q new City Hall
to cost, when completed, S35O,OOO.
A highway robber, named Poole, wa.
lately hung at Placerville, California. TIL,
offense is so rank and common in the Pacif,
States that the sharpest of punishment il
necessary to awe it.
The Canadian distillers can't make
living, not even by cheating the government
out Of the taxes, and so they are leaving thu
business. So much the better for the Cana
dams, as they will have less poor liquor Il
drink.
A fortunate well owner at Pithole City
who has amassed fortune, declares his de
termination to "see where the Id stuff
comes FROM" and has commenced sinking 9
shaft, II feet by 90, down into the earth.
THE TIN WEDDING.
few weeks ago, Mr.. Tilton OF Brooklyn, NY, ha,