The Iowa transcript. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1858-1866, 1865-11-22
GLEANuNGs.

The Western papers generally comment
on the abundance of walnuts hickory nut.
and hazel nuts this fall.
One result of the New Jersey elections
was that democrat in Washington on Wed
nesday. was OBJ iged TO wheel a Republican
from the Capitol to the White House.
A new thing in New York is the New
York City Messenger company. Its men
may be seen about the street with scarlet
caps bearing the name Of that company
Their duty is to go on errands, deliver pack
ages, sweep sidewalks, put in coal, and dc
other things necessary for the convenience
Of citizens. The company pledges them.
selves as responsible for the honesty Of the
messengers.
A crusade against advertising in polit.
ical journals has been started in Paris by
NJ. Arnould Fiemy, in a work entitled lie
Revolution du Jouraalisme. His argument is
that advertisements encroach to such des-
political extent upon the space of the jour.
nails as to impair their political usefulness
and their intellectual force and dignity.
A bashful young lady in NJ inc says
when she gets married, she intends to take
chloroform.
Surveys and estimates have been made
for water-power canal from the Cedar riv.
er at Moscow to the Mississippi at Musca
| tine, distance Of fourteen and one hall
miles. The fall of water is eighty -four feet
affording an immense power, unequalled by
anything of the kind in the west The es
timated cost is $75O,O0O, including 1921 ,OO(
for tunnel S.4OO feet long
MIR. C. L. Moses of Saco, Me-, U. s. con.
sui for Borneo, has become the possessor
(for twenty years. of >, 400 square miles oil
the richest and best territory in that Island
together with the neig hboring islands OF
Balabec and Calawarc, and is going extern
sively into trade with the United States, the
staples of his big farm being gutta -percha,
rattan, camphor and betel. Pearl fisheries
and coal mines, (the latter very valuable for
commerce) are part of his speculation,
and the native taxation alone is worth $7O,-
600 year.
The Florence correspondent Of the In
dependence Beige, says that a singular dis
covery has been made in a church in one of
the faubourgs of Milan. A statue Of St.
Magdalen, which has long been famed for
weeping in the presence of unbelievers,
was recently moved in order to facilitate re-
pairs on the church. 1t was found that the
statue contained an arrangement for boiling
water. The steam passed up into the head
and was there condensed. The water thus
produced made its way by couple of pipes
to the eyes and trickled down upon the
cheeks of the image. So the Wonderful mir.
acle was performed.
"A Mr.. Whitney of Galesburg Illinois,
had a squash vines this year which bore
LIP pounds of ripe squashes.
The National Armory at Harper's Ferry
is to be rebuilt;
The entire expense incurred by the
government in constructing, equipping and
maintaining the war vessels in our navy
during the war amounted TO less than $780,
600, 900, tho result being that we have bet
ter and stronger navy than any other nation
in the world.
A government detective who had not a
cent when the war broke out, has recently
put up hotel in Lansing, Mich, which he
rents for S4.76O FER month.
james Townly, farmer living in Wind
scr township, Shelby county. H., has in
formation from England that his uncle,
Lord Townly, died recently, leaving him the
snug fortune of $ll,OOO,OOO. Mr.. Townly
has ''gone for" the money.
The New York Daily Ners has the fol-
lowing from its Baltimore cores BON dent !:
.While General Joe Johnston was in Balti-
more recently, young gentleman Of the
city who had know the General before the
war, renewed his acquaintance on the street
with the remark: General, | regret that we
were obliged to surrender to overwhelming
numbers but rejoice that we are not,chip-
ped you have d no active participation
in the fighting, believe 2 inquired the Gen
eral. NO sir 'Cnder those circumstan-
ces,' rejoined the veteran, you are not whip
ped, but I am =
The Boston Advertiser calls editorial
attention to a project for ''pocketing a
church" in that city. 1t is proposed by the
parties to sell valuable house of worship
built by past generation for pious purpos-
es, and distribute the proceeds, amounting
to some $4,000 among about fifty propri-
etors, and dissolve the corporation. This
will give large profit to some of the own
ers, who bought their pews for small sum,
such transaction.
The comptroller Of the currency is in
favor of removing his bureau from Washing
ton to New York.
The secretary of the Swiss consulate
general at Washington, called upon Captain
Wirz, to offer him the services of the official
representative of his country in case he
wished to present petition for Communication
Of his sentence. Wirz declined to avail him
self Of this offer, on the ground that the
Swiss consul general had injured his case by
declining to receive contributions for his de-
Tense.
"A large number Of detectives are now
in Washington awaiting the division of the
reward offered for the detection and arrest
of those engaged in the assassination of
President Lincoln. The amount involved
is near $250,OOO, including $lO0, 900 in gold
offered in California.
The vintage in Northern Italy is very
abundant this year, and wine will be plenty
and cheap. During the last four or FIVE
years, the crop has been almost an CENTRE
failure, and drunkenness, vice once almost
unknown:sin Italy, had greatly increased. In
the absence Of their healthful stimulant, the
people took drinking villainous brandy
at first called .'little champagne" but now
loosely known as petroleum.
A writer gives the following sensible
advice to business men:
If you are wise,
Just rub your eyes,
And 60 to work and advertise.
The plan Of preserving meats by infil-
tration, has proved an entire failure.
A southern paper says that if all the
telegr aphic reports be true, Of what the
president says to different individuals, in
their "interviews' with him, Mr.. johnson
has the most views Of any man ever heard
of.