The Iowa transcript. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1858-1866, 1865-11-08
Summary Or THE WEEK

whites and blacks.
South American advices state that there
had been no severe engagement between the
paiag,iayans and the allies lately. About
5000 Pn,ag''ayans had shut themselves up
in the town Of urquyana, and were hesieg-
ed by an army of 10000 allies.
The cholera in Spain is disappearing. and
only few cases are reported in Germany.
bishop Lynch passenger by the Europa.
which arrived al New York from Havrc on
the sd nlt. states that the cholera in Paris
isnot an epidemic
No further deaths are reported on the
quarantine steamer Atlanta. The filthy con.
,lition of the boat was one Of the principal
,muscs of the disease. which is confined to
The Storage passengers. Several new cases
have broken out. Not = case has occurred
among the first OF second cabin passengers.
or among the crew Of The ship.
An Internal machine was thrown into the
window of dwelling house in Chicago on
The Both, nearly blowing up the house, hut
fortunately lnlllrlng no one
The Chicago Repubiieon of the 9TH sivesssa
report from Washington thnt jeff. Davis is
moi 10 be tried al all. hu, exied to Europe.
instead of being sentenced to orr rope.
Jeff Davis evidently does not expect to he
executed this winter, as he has ordered q
new overcoat for his own wear. A Washing
ton despatch TO the New York Tribune init
: mates that Davis will escape without punish
ment.
Al Chattanooga on the 2"i ut,. there
were 80 cases of small rox, and he disease
was spreading
Mt Hood. volcano is now in a state OF
eruption The bursting forth of its lava is
thought to have occasioned the earthquake
lelt in California
The victims of the ST. Johns disaster now
foot up thirteen. The mos, disgraceful
Genes OF robbery transri,ed during the
fearful disaster The cause of The ex-
plosiou was an imperfection in the boiler.
monument Of Italian marble. twenty
eight feet high. designed and constructed by
Il. w. Volk of Chicago, and costing $4,000.
h." : been erected in the public square al
Girard, Erie county. Pennsylvania, in menu
cry Of the officers and soldiers from that
county who have died in the defense of their
country The monument is the gilt Of Dan
Rice the Snowman. whose residence is nj Gil
rara. |, was publicly dedicated on ,he Isl
lust, with addresses by Governor Curtin, ex-
Governor Tod, and others, and excursion
trains from Cleveland. Buffalo and Pitt -burg
brought in thousands Of people 10 enjoy the
occasion For the benefit Of these thousands.
Dan gave an exhibition Of his trained ami
mails, and closed the seasons business.
The steamer City of Boston brings the
news Of tbs death Of Lord Palmerslon. Pre-
mier OF England, aged eigh,y-one. lie was
bern in Hampshire county. Oct. Goth. 1874.
entered public life in 1907, in which with
few and short intermissions, he has contin-
ned until the date of his death without
alilites Of the highest order, lacking con-
sistency in his views and measures, distrnst-
tel in his domestic policy by all parties, he
has yet by his attractive personal qualities
and dexterity in shifting position as the pub
with his vigorous foreign policy, managed
10 keep himself in power during the greater
part Of his long life, and we suppose must
lie considered TO have been the most popular
n1alr
sentative Of British hatred Of the North
during the late rebellion, and 10 him we are
in great part indebted for the tricks of
craftsmanship which added 10 natural Brit
i.h inclinations. raised such clamor for
war in 1861. and resulted in forcing upon rs
thai most humiliating act, the surrender Of
Mason aud Slidel. His successor is not yet
named. though EarlRussell the present min
i-ter Of Foreign Affairs is as likely as any
one 10 succeed him.
The lower house Of the Tennessee legis-
lature has decided that no rebel shall col
lect debts from Union men.
Reports from last weeks storm report a
heavy fall of snow in Wisconsin and Mime
sofa, 10 the depth of six inches at La Crosse
hut that the snow was disappearing rapid
". The ST Paul Press says that the
storm there was q mixture Of rain, sleet and
snow. which raised the river three or four
inches, greatly to the benefit Of navigation.
At GAINESVILLE Wisconsin, the fall Of snow
was sufficient 10 load down the trees and
break many Of them, At Davenport, Iowa,
there was light fall of snow, AMI al Bur
lington forty hours Of continuou. rain. II
is rarely that snow has fallen thus early in
the season, only two instances being on rec
ort al La Crosse.
One Of the most fearful and heart rending
accidents occurred las. week in the planning
mill Of James A. Hair & Co, No 49,, Wells
street, Chicago A young man by The name
Of Henry Winfield, an employee in the mill,
while in the act Of taking belt from cyl
inder, which was rapidly revolving. caught
his hand in the machinery. and it was torn
from his arm, drawing the muscles and
tendons down from The shoulder in the most
iirigldfnl and horrifying manner The hand
and the cords which clung 10 il. vas thrown
to the ceiling by the rapidiry of the revalv-
ing cylinder.
The latest samples Of quartz from the Min
nesota gold region. j, is estimated will yield
slUO 10 the ton.
Overland emigration to Oregon this year,