The Iowa transcript. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1858-1866, 1866-10-19

Domestic Raragrapbs.
"A drunken man in Alexandria hid
$4,000 where he could not find il when
sober.
"A Petersburg, Va, reporter has been
presented with two lovely young rattle.
snakes.
A Mobile paper says the streets are
regular milky ways, there are SO many COWS
in them.
Two boot blacks of New York are to
have trial Of skill for "The Championship
of America"
An Albany laborer found two 500
greenbacks sewed up in the sleeve Of coat
bought at second hand store.
Forty eight millions Of gallons Of pc
troleum oil have been exported from the
United States in the last year.
The appointment of large number Of
Generals to sinecures with large salaries,
is what burst the National Express Com
pany.
The explosion Of keg of yeast at
Freeport, Illinois, the other day, carried q
forty pound bar of iron lying upon it.,
through the ceiling.
"A man forty years old committed sui
eide in Philadelphia, last week, because
was dangerously ILL.,
A Ash was caught in the Ohio river near
Cincinnati, last week, the stomach Of which
on being opened, was found to contain q
two dollar bill, and q valuable diamond
ring.
The Detroit Free Press says: "Justice
Kuhn informs ms that, out Of 2l8 couples
that he has Joined together as man and wife
w in In In 81 4 I'd
now living together"
by suddenly starting up his team to
avoid u passing train Mt Detroit, recently,
Robert Walker threw his wife, who was on
the back seat, out on the track, and the en-
tire train passed over her body
The largest single plank ever cut is now
on exhibition in New York city. Its di-
mansions are as follows, viz: Length, Il
feet; breadth, feet 4 inches; thickness. 3
inches; without split, knot, or imperfection
of any kind.
The work Of cutting street through
Front Hill, Boston, which is densely popu-
lated, has recently been commenced, and
two thousand poor people have been COM
PEELED to vacate the premises occupied by
them in consequence.
The receipts Of lumber in Chicago from
January ] to October 6, 1866, were as fol-
lows: Lumber, $50, 377 900; shingles,
3lS 926 900; laths, So. 1893, 900. The annu-
al product of the State Of Maine is placed
at four hundred millions Of feet
"A child in Bethlehem, N. T., was sup
posed to have died last week of diarrhea,
aud was prepared for the grave, and laid in
its coffin. But its father heard noise in
the night, and to his inexpr essible JOY found
the little fellow alive
MIR Burr Andrews showed to the editor
Of the Davenport Democrat basket Of 100
apples which weighed l25 pounds, or an
average OF twenty ounces to the apple. He
offers to wager 500 that this cannot be beat
by any orchard in the United States.
The funeral of woman of bad char
acter in Boston on Sunday, was disturbed
by collection Of roughs who interrupted
the services by hoo,ing and grooming, ana
went to such lengths that it was found
necessary to detail police to quar- the coffin.
The manager Of the Nashville Theatre
was perplexed the other night The stage
carpenter took laudanum, and the low
comedian took the cholera. The play was
commenced, however, and presently some
body started false alarm of fro, and thus
emptied the theatre.
The Postotiice Department ind increas-
ing trouble in New England, owing to re-
fusals by railroad companies to carry the
mails at established rates. From Boston to
Lowell and Nashua the mail is run by horse
power, arriving in Lowell fifteen minutes
after the cars.
"A project is on foot for sup plying the
city of New York with gas manufactured at
the coal mines in Pennsylvania, and then
conveying it through iron pipes, a distance
Of $50 miles. to the city. 1t is asserted
that it can be furnished at much cheaper
rate than is now paid.
"A monster trout, measuring four and
q half feet in length. three feet around the
body and weighing 20 pounds. was caught
in Lake Erie, Is miles from Dunkirk, last
week, by q Buffalo gentleman. 1t is the
largest trout ever caught in the lakes of
which we have any record.
One night last week, two loyal Kansans
stopped Missouri negro, who was driving
team, at Turkey Creek Bridge, over in
Bourbon county, Mo-, and demanded his
money. The negro gave the rascals his
empty pocket book, with which they left.
This is about as mean as " stealing coppers
from dead negro's eyes
The United States Commissioners have
made an examination of the Union Pacific
hAllrOAu, y ASLeC0 DlvlSlOu, W the one nun.
dred and thirtieth mile post. The track is
laid within three miles Of Fort Riley. The
road was completed to junction City, two
and one-half miles west Of Riley on the
10Th instant.
The extension of the Northwestern
Railway TO Council Bluffs, Iowa, will be
completed in about three months, and ar
rangements are being made for the grand
opening. Messrs. Tsppan, Patrick and
Brown Of the Northwestern Railway, have
left Chicago for Omaha and Fort Kearney,
to make the needed preparations. The ex-
tension will be invaluable to Chicago, con-
Meeting us directly with the western part of
Iswa and Nebraska, and indirectly with
vast extent Of country hitherto reached but
with great difficulty.
The Supreme Court Of Erie county, New
York, has been occupied at Buffalo for three
days with very ridiculous case. For the
third time jury has been summoned for
the trial Of the case, which seems to be in
terminable. The only question involved is
the title of a little piece of land in the town
of Newstead, the value of which is not
more than fifty dollars at the utmost. Each
party claims 70 have the fee simple, and the
land has been surveyed and resurveyed by
q dozen civil engineers. Altogether it is
said the costs Of the litigation amount to
over two thousand dollars, but both parties
are determined to fight it out on this line If
it takes forever. The action was begun in
1859, and has thus already extended over