The Iowa transcript. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1858-1866, 1866-08-01
Domestic Paragraphs.

Domestic Paragraph.
A green pea Smelling machine. What
next?
The ten drinkers Of this country con-
sumo 30, 10000 pounds annually.
-Watermelons have been selling in New
York at dollar and half each.
Rev. DR.. Howe, appointed to the Epis-
copate Of Nevada, declines the office.
Seventy children have been born in
tents at Portland since the great fire there.
The shrek of locomotive so frightene ed
little boy in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, that
he died.
A gentleman in New Hampshire, aged
so years, has been sued for $4,000 breach
of promise.
A Cleveland judge has decided that
shaving on Sunday morning before church
is work of necessity.
One of the performing elephants at
tached to Bailey & Co.'s menagerie died in
Belfast, Maine, July 10. His value was
$4,000.
A colored girl has brought suit for
breach Of promise against negro in
Georgia. 1t is the first case Of the kind
known.
The old 74-gun ship Delaware, one of
the war vessels sunk at the Gosport navy
yard, at the outbreak of the war, has been
got afoat.
The New York police picked up q sick
man in the streets on the 18th, and while
they were conveying him to the hospital one
of his ears dropped off.
"A Tennesseean appeared in st. Louis
brokers' Office on the 18th with $4,000 in
gold, which he stated had been buried for
nearly FIVE years.
The Portland Star tells story Of a
man in that city removing the ruins of his
house and finding his cooking stove, from the
oven of which peeped the cat with her fur
slightly singed.
Oil City, Pa, with its twelve to fifteen
thousand inhabitants, has no public or pri-
vate cemetery for the burial of the dead.
A Brooklyn woman applied to the Mar
shall recently for permission to kill noble
Newfoundland dog which had scratch ed her
son slightly while rescuing him from drown
ing.
There are said to be at this time TWEEN
ty-one candidates for the position of Rep
resentative in Congress- thirty two for Gov
ernor, and eleven for United States Senator
in Kansas.
"A negro in Galveston, Texas, while
smoking his pipe near an open keg of gun
powder in grocery store dropped spark
amongst the powder, the result of which
was that the negro was blown to pieces, and
Galveston had one grocery less.
While passing through piece Of woods
in the town Of Sutton, Vt, last week Mr..
Charles s. Taft was fiercely attacked by a
large hawk and considerably hurt before he
disabled his feathered assailant.
DIR. Fred. D. Huntingdon, of Boston,
who has been chosen Bishop of the Maine
Diocese, rice Bishop Burgess, deceased, was
a candidate for the Bishopric of the Diocese
of Pittsburgh, at its first annual convention,
when Bishop kerfoot was elected.
A young lady in . seminary at Kent's
Hill, Maine, was SO greatly mortified the
other day by being detected in pilfering,
that she ended her life by poison. Her
character was good in other respects, and
she was to have graduated in two weeks.
Over 200 persons are sick, and one
young man has lied. at Arlington, Mass. i,
from the effects Of lemonade and refresh
ments partaken of on the 4th Of July. They
were poisoned in some unknown manner.
A Coroner's jury is investigating the case.
The Nashville Press and Tunes tells of
an insult to the flag on the 9TH. at Gallatin,
Tenn. The flag was torn down, one end
tied to the tail Of COW, and the other tied
to the tail of dog, and the animals were
then driven through the streets by mob Of
bowling sco1ndrels.
"A large crowd was attracted at Jones'
Wood, N. j., on the 4th TO witness a man
drive six trained geese, harnessed to a wash
tub, across the river. A paddle was used
to steer the tub and also to tap the geese
on the head when disposed to leap out Of
harness.
The Ironsides, on recent trip, took
| down to Detroit the largest mass Of copper
that ever left the mines Of Lake Superior.
1t is from the Cliff mines. and weighs Is, 80
pounds. or little over . tons 1t is esti-
mated that In this mass there is fully ninety
per cent. of pure copper.
"A Minnesota paper gravely tells the
story that, from bed of peas planted on
June Sd there were taken peas fit for use on
the 2lst of the same month, eighteen days
after planting We have known peas fit
for use, to be taken from bed the same
day they were planted-the chickens took
them.
1t is stated that the magnitude Of the
late conf gration at Portland served to
check the progress Of the fire along the
northern side Of the city. The great vol
ume of heated air rising caused the cold air
to rush in with so much force. to fill the i'm
mense vacuum that it had the effect of q
contrary wind, and blew the fire back.
"A man named Huss erman tore down a
U. s. letter box and kicked it into the street
at Cleveland, o., because his letter was re-
turned to him, notwithstanding he had
pitched three cents promiscuously into the
box with which to pay the postage. The U.
s. Courts will look into the affair.
They do things in hurry in California
as witness the following programme Of a
"pleasaut little affair." San Juan Nevada
stage robbed at q. m. of $1,000; reward
| offered at q. m. robbers shot and all the
money recovered at p. m. coroner's in
quest at p. M. funeral Of the thieves at
= p. M.
Geo. +. Moody, Of Greenvillc. Conn,
an agent Of the Travellers Insurance COM
pany. is under arrest on the charge Of hay-
ing placed Instructions on the track Of the
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