The Iowa transcript. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1858-1866, 1865-10-18

Randolph county, Ill, purchased y quantity
of ca lionel from 8 druggist in chester, last
week, and administered ii to some forty OF
their raticn: 1t subsequently, appeared
that corrosive suhlimate was mixed with tho
calomel AT last accounts several persons
had died from the effects Of the poison, and
several others are not expected to live
A New Bedford lady, who was in Boston
recently, astonishei female pick-pocket
who III crowd had thrust her hand into the
laays pocket, hy turning and eoolly inquir-
ing, = Why do you PUT yQur hand in my
pocket, uhei. ] have XIV purse here in my
hand
The wife Of an o.icer in Mcclellan
army. at present residing at Raleigh, North
Carolina, visited her husband Gu tho Fanin-
! sula in 1867 While at camp party of
Confederata. made Il raid On ali outpost com
handed by her husband, and during the me-
lee an infant was shot and killed in her arms.
For moment she was frantic with grief but
( soon rallied. plunged into the thickest OF the
fray. and with her own hands despatched
seven OF the assailauts. For this fest Gov
eminent conferred on her the rank and emo
4 luments OF major of infantry SO says the
Raleigh Progress.
The tailors IL Aberdeen, Eng gland, have
commenced I'm agitation for the adoption OF
the .sten hours movement " in their trade.
The recent census in Minnesota shows a
population Of about .9p.t'ON. an increase Of
$1,000 in five years
"A Tyrolese sharpshoote, has been con.
iamnea - eight months Imprisonment irr
having Turned Il etueitx into target
mi n II IN.
riage that took place in one OF the city
churches last week. The ceremony was to
begin at eight in the evening, hut the min
lister having neglected to notify the sexton,
The couple and their friends were kept
waiting On the sidewalk until the outside
doors could be unlocked and ii was then
necessary te force hey through vcntla
tor 10 remove tie bars from the inside doors.
In july last, paper sold in Cincinnati
Al latd la1s Ii IS now isc. ana very little
Ia be had nj that Al the same time the
price IN New orl, was lie. and Yesterday
the article was Staiee al l9l, zoe Paper is
rs hioh now in this marke. as ii was a year
ago when gold vas $40. ii publishers.
Therefore, had, when paper was down. re-
ducsd the price Of subscription. they would
now be compelled to advance. or publish
their papers without profit, as was done
during great portion Of last year
a destructive FIRE occurred at Pithole
recently. BIZ which the tanks Of the Grant
well, containing four thousand barrels Of
Gil. ana thirteen engines and derricks were
consumed The loss is about 5 l5O,u 600
The French army numbers over 400, 600
men, part 81 whom are in Mexico. some in
Z Rome souta in Algeria, and the balance in
France
tima.i every country paper has one or
more notices OF second growth Of flowers
or fruit on Inc same plant this season. These
instances are most frequent on apple trees
and rose bushes, though second crops of
Strawberries are not uncommon.
The new Union Depot now teiLg built
Al cleveland will be- when hnishei, The
largest ia the nited States, being three feel
longer than The Central pepo! in Chicago
Ca lac itth ct September huge fire
Was hiniled oh the Schnec Hoppe. The high
est II the giant MOUNTAINS in Lower SilesfN,
10 eel citrate the birth OF child in "a I'M, on
the top of the mountain. The Prussian wags
say this is The .hishest- born parsonage in
the Pruasian lcminions.
A Texas letter writer SAYS " Any man
in this State who does mol own four hundred
heal Of cattle and seventy or hundred
horses and mules, il worse than worthless.
Beet sells here for five cents per pound,
hulses and uulcs from fifteen to thirty dol
lars for round lots. and are within two hun
| dreu and fifty miles OF Q good market. As
far as the eye can reach in every direction.
and as far as you may go. the country is
alive with stock
An agonizing story is told Of vain New
York young lady, who, dissatisfied with her
good bur irregular teeth had fifteen of them
pulled out to make room for a new and false
set In vain her dentist wished to spare her
eya teeth she would layethem CIT Merry
Gus prosration followed the operation, ani
she died a victim to he, pride, leaving the
set 81 false teeth she had ordered uncalled
for
The Southern papers that come our
office, says the Louisville Jouraai. seem to be
III the enjoyment OF uneSampled prosperity.
Many Of them are printed On the best paper,
with new types.
The effort for city consolidation at Pitts
burgh is taking on both form and strength,
and win be pressed in the next Legislature
Of Pennsylvania. Within radius Of four
miles from the centre Of Pittsburgh are
10000 inhabitants, in thirteen distinct ro-
liiiral communities
So traveller wishes us to explain what
sense there is Just now, ia the term rail
road securities, seeing that there is no Sc
eurity on any Of the railroads. We cant
do il
Mr.. ] G. Watson, Of Ann Arbor. Mich,
felegraphs TO the associated press that he has
just discovered new planet
--Maximilian'a Imperial decree nominally
abolishing slavery in Mexico, hut establish
ing system OF peonage in the Empire but
little legs obnoxious, elisits considerable
animadyersion there. Ii IS too transparent
bid for rebel emigration and support to
find favor Al present
One Of the boilers Of Pratt ( Co.'S
ing mills, near Buffalo, exploded recently.
instantly killing three men and seriously
wounding twenty others. some Of whom have
since died A portion Of the boiler, ten feet
long, was carried three hundred feet BY The
force Of the explosion. The accident is sup
posed to have been caused BY letting in cold
water when the boiler was very low
The artesian well, a. the western limits
Of Chicago, is one Of The great oariosites
OF our country 1t 10 bored TO the depth Of
IL feet, and is lowing at the rate Of co.,
900 gallons Of pure water daily, which is
forced TO the height Of twenty-five feet
above the ground level Two other wells
are being sunk near by one for oil, and the
other for water The latter has been drilled
to the depth of $50 feet, and about ten feet
are added to it each day
Bennett G. Burley, the Lake Eric pirate
whose escape from jail at Port Clinton, O.,