The Iowa transcript. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1858-1866, 1866-09-28
Domestic Paracraphs.

One million dollars worth Of cattle is
on its way East from Texas. Cattle ore
selling in that State at only SIS per head.
"A horse has been imported into New
Jersey from Belgium, which is said to
weigh 1868 pounds and to be twenty hands
high.
Seven horses were shipped at Chicago
the other day for New York, and their
united value was put in the bill Of lading at
$500 Among them was the running
horses Asteroid and Kentucky.
Grave diggers at the Petersburg crater
recently uuearthed, in an excellent state of
preservation, the body of white woman.
dressed in the Federal uniform. She had
been shot through the head.
Thirty three thousand three hundred
and eighty-five hogsheads of tobacco were
sold in Louisville, Kentucky, last year-a
decrease Of three thousand hogsheads from
the previous years sales.
Several new Episcopal sees are to be
established by the Roman Catholic Church,
and bishops appointed to preside over them,
ythe second national council of the Church,
which is to meet at Baltimore on the first
Sunday OF October.
-Sixty-two passenger trains, generally
well filled, arrive and depart from Chicago
every day, except Sunday, on the different
railroads leading into the city. The num-
Der of freight trains considerably exceeds
that of the passenger trains.
-Alittle girl in the employ of the Wolcott-
vile, Connecticut, Manufacturing Company,
possesses most wonderful arithmetical pow
ers. She counts 1000 percussion caps and
puts them in twenty boxes 600 in each) IN
one minute, and never makes mistake.
"A young lady now employed as COM
positor on the Montgomery Adrertiser had
300 bales Of cotton burned during the war.
Instead of repining over her misfortune
she now goes to work at business most
congenial to her intellectual taste. Her he
roic self-reliance is truly commendable.
According to the last census the average
value Of the different churches in tie United
States, is: Mormon. $4,000; Catholic.
$4,000; Unitarian, about SIT 200; Spirit
ualist, $3.50; Methodist, about $1,000;
Presbyterian, nearly $4,000; Episcopal,
$4,000; Dutch Reformed, $4,000; Con-
gregationalist, $4,000; Baptist, $1,000.
Hon. Erastus Corning, for SO many
years President of the N. Y. @. R. r., and
widely interested in the railroad interest Of
this country, especially in the Northwest,
is now convalesccnt.. He has been very ill
at Sharon Springs, SO that serious fears
were entertained; he has, however, suffi-
GENTLY recovered to be removed to his home
in Albany.
"A singular strike has taken place
among the clergy in Buckeyedom, where a
number Of ministers of the Ohio conference
of the Methodist Protestant church recently
held 3 meeting at Sabina, and resolved.
after earnest discussion, that they would
decline taking appointments the coming year
unless they were assured Of salary Of at
least 81 900.
In the Eastern Express office in Port
land, Maine, the head accidentally falling
out Of one Of the three barrels Of peas sent
from Lowell, Massachusetts, marked free,
for the destitute Of the sufferers by the late
fire, note also fell out, saying to the con-
signee, "Sell for the most you can get, and
forward the proceeds"
In clearing away the ruins Of the Canal
Bank building, Portland, a few days since,
the workmen came upon the remains of the
dog Of the bank Waterman. On the night
Of the great fire, Trays master being alb
sent, assisting in taking caro- Of the treas
ure, the dog refused TO leave the banking
room where he had SO often kept guard with
more than human fidelity. Coaxing and
threats were alike unavaiing, and the faith
full brute persisted at hispost.
"A certain preacher was holding forth
to a somewhat wearied congregation, when
he lifted up his eyes to the gallery and be-
held = youngster pelting the people below
with chestnuts. Don. inie was about to ad-
minister ca cathedra sharp and stringent
reprimand for this fragrant act Of impicty
and disrespect, but the youth, anticipating
him, bawled out At the top Of his voice !:
" You mind your preaching, daddy, and I'll
keep EN- awake"
Some time since, horse, belonging to
Mr.. Hugh Carbon, of Morris, Grundy county,
Illinois, departed this life, or, in other words,
died. His funeral and burial services were
neglected from day to day, until one Of the
neighbors, Mr.. James Bennett, notwith-
standing the fact that it was "none Of his
funeral" thought he would make it such,
rather than endure the perfume arising from
the carcass. He accordingly buried the
animal, and then brought suit against the
owner for twenty-five dollars for the job.