The Iowa transcript. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1858-1866, 1866-02-14

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GEO. II. SYLVESTER, a boy Of II years Of
age, who was stolen by tho Sioux Indians
on the plains, some five yeprs since, but re
Gently escaped from captivity, passed
through Springfield. III. lss, s,ndsy,vth
ents reside 10 orcgsa, and suppose him bag
since dead. A4 aa
Ex.sxsAroaI %. n. Arr rsos, ofsaissouii,
is now a resident Of Kentucky, and getting
rich rapidly. lie has also left oil aelhking
and swearing.
heaviest banking house in America -Four
new partners entered the firm Jan. lst
A WASHINGTON LErrER-wnlTER tells n
drol story Of tho President, by which IL
would appear that he was being shaved the
other day, when the barber accidentally
twcaked his nose little too hard. "Par-
don me-" said the barber very naturally.
@ Put your hand in my coat pocket and pull
out one" rcjoincd the kind hearted Chief
Magistrate, "and I'll fill it out for you when
you've done"
Ex-Gov. IoLpEN has resumed the editor
ial control Of the Raleigh Standard. 3,
TnE Providence Press makes the incredi-
bic statement that n Hartford photographer
has succeeded in taking a picture of him
self, trundling himself home In wheel
barrow.
NEARLY all the shoes made at fIaverhill,
Mass, are made by steam, anu every part of
the business is carried on Independent Of
the rest. One shop turns out the heels and
stifninss, another uppers, IN another sole
leather is cut, and finally the goods arc
made up by steam power exclusively. A
number of new Establishments have been
lately started, worked by steam power
/ entirely.
Mn. JonN MoTT. Of Contra Costa county,
/ California, near Danyille, has invented
new and ingenious double revolving pillow.
| The plows, two in number, arc placed one
above the other, upon horizontal axis,
under the beam and parallel TO it. Its ope-
ration is as follows: After the pillow has
passed across the field, and turned for the
return furrow, by the touch Of sp-ing the
pillow not in use, and which turns an opro-
site furrow, falls down from where it is sus-
pended, while the team, in starting, brings
up the one which has just been in use, and
places it in a position where ii is locked,
awaiting the next turn Of the team. The
invention is very simple one, and promises
to be Of great value for blowing gardens or
lands which have been fenced, as well as
ground where dead burrows are objected to.
An ITALIAN INVENTOR, named Casolari,
has recently produced y mechanical press.
by which, il is said a speech may be printed
while tits being delivered, and be all ready
for publication at the time the speaka or
leaves the platform. A public trial Of 1t re-
Gently took place at Modena, when FIVE
stanzas of Dante's great poem, together
with learned commentary of the same,
were read and and printed from the reading
in lines containing each thirty letters, In
the space Of nine seconds.
A New INVENTION, styled the pistolo-
graph, has been put in operation in London.
1t is picture in glass obtained in the first
instance by an Instantaneous flash, and made
permanent by fire. II was found that by
inclosing Photographic picture between
two plates Of glass, and subjecting the COM
pound to heat short of that required to
melt glass, for defiriie time, the hree sub
stances eventually formed but one, as hard
and as homogeneous as single piece of
crystals equally unaffected by damp or
moisture-and as capable Of being cut by a
lapidary into any required shape, while the
original lustre Of the indnrated picture
would continue rs unchanged as the innate
veins OF pouSneu agate.
GEN. GRANT has contributed the sum Of
$1,000 to aid in the erection Of the Metro
politan Methodist Episcopal church in
Washington, an enterprise which was begun
a few years ago.
OssIAN +. DoDGE, the quondam pcripa-
etic humorist, has become treasurer of the
vermilion Mills Gold Mining company, Of
st. Paul.
IT is whispered that a new magazine a. to
be started in New York, with Hurd 4
Houghtcn, rs publishers and Bayard Tay
lor as editor, which is expected by its SAN
gnine projectors to cast the AHanhc Monthly
far into the shade.
FURTHER DETAILS of the duel between
Prince Achille Murat and M. Rochefort,
confirm the report that the Prince had his
Shirt torn in the encounter, and inflicted q
slight wound upon his antagonist. where
upon the honor Of the parties was declared
satisfied.
SIR CHARLES EAsrLAKE, President of the
British Royal Academy, was bed to deaf h
by the Italian physicians, who bleed for
everything-but their county. His grave
is near Mrs. Browning's, ut Florence.
Mrs. SwIssHELM is trying to print q
weekly paper at Washington with female
compositors, but says that the Print rs'
Union throws obstacles in her way, which
she is determined to overcome.
IT is stated that Mr.. II. II. Stoddard is 10
edit the new magazine, Torn and Country,
to be started in New York in the spring
The chief stakeholder in the New York
Tribune is DR.. James c. Aver, of pill cele-
brity. A late New York correspondent say
that Greedy has been rc-appointed editor Of
that paper at q salary Of 5000 a year.
On Thursday morning Capt N. c. Wash
ington, of the historical Virginia Washing
ton family, was married, in St. Louis to q
Miss Mary A. Soulard. The wedding and
reception were the fashionable sensation Of
| the city.
On examining the personal effects of
Homer G. Hnbbell, the missing cashier Of
the Missisquoi Bank, at Sheldon, Vt, in
order to prepare for selling them at auction,
1t was found that he had an extraordinary
amount Of clothing and boots-such us
| twenty-five pairs Of pants, twenty pairs Of
boots but very little worn, fifteen vests, and
q number Of overcoats. In his safe, which
was broken open, was discovered q $500
| United States bond
GEN. GRANT has contributed the sum Of
5000 to aid in the erection Of the Metro
politan Methodist Episcopal church In
Washington, an enterprise which was begun
| few years ago. -.
"A MAN named Aaron Bcdbug, 81 Lewis
county, KY, has petitioned the legislature
to change his name. lie says that his
sweetheart whose name in Ol;via - ,,nu3l