The Iowa transcript. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1858-1866, 1866-08-08
CURRENT ITEMS.
Personal and Literary.

RR EMIT ITEM Is.
Personal and Literary.
$4,000 for last year.
QUEEN VICTORIA has just had the whoop-
ing cough, taking il from some Of her child
rem.
THE wife Of William Cullen Bryant died
Of her residence, on Long Island, on the
28th, in her 10th year.
JAMES G. Aver Of Lowell, Mass, returns
IN income Of $Gl.862 Gen. Is. f. Butler,
of the same place, $28,552.
P. 7. BARNUM hopes to be the next Gov
ernor Of Connecticut His pluck, ambition
and brass are good for even that.
ON DIT, that Thurlow Weed and Joseph
Howard, Jr., propose to start an evening
newspaper in New York, on or about the
LIST Of September.
GRANT took the oath and received his
commission as General on the 2sth. His
new insignia Of rank will be metallic
shield, worn upon the usual place for
shoulder straps
GEoRGE ELLIOT miss Evans), after seeing
her last book, "Felix Holt" out of the
press, took the money she received for it,
$4,000, and went abroad to avoid reading
disagreeable notices Of it.
j. M. PERRY, editor Of the st. Peter,
(NIinn J Advertiser, died at his home very
suddenly one day last week, Of heart dis
ease. Mr. Perry was one Of the oldest ed
itors in the State.
CHARLES A. DANA, formerly Of the New
York Tribune, then Of the War Office, then
Of the Chicago Republican, and now Of
nowhere in particular, talks Of starting a
radical morning journal in New York.
New YoRK reporter, who Is accompa-
nying George Peabody over Canada, writes
to his journal that that gentleman has gone
to the Saguenay river with "all the neces-
eary articles wherewith to vex the lively and
resistant salmon from his chosen and aque-
Gus home
A New York paper, speaking Of the copy
right bill recently introduced into the Brit
ish Parliament by Lord Lyttelton, says that
1t secures to an author Of work Of fiction
the exclusive privilege Of dramatizing his
own novel "during his life and for seven
years after his death.''
A dispatch to the New York World from
Saratoga, July 26, says: "A telegram was
the sale Of colt Of the bay mare Pocahon-
tas, for $4,000 Robert Bonner was the
purchaser, and j. Bardwell the seller. The
figure is considered rather high by the
horse -fanciers here"
Mr.. D. G. ELLIOT is publishing in parts
"The Birds Of North America" comprising
all the species not given by Audubon. Each
part will contain five plates colored by hand,
AsnA <hA ~
size Only 200 copies will be printed, and
after these have been struck off the draw
in9s will be erased from the stones. Part
l. is now ready.
Mr.. Horace B. CHAPLIN, Of the model
city Of churches, returns the comfortable
income for the year 1866 of one million two
hundred and ninety thousand dollars (cents
not counted). This gives that estimable
gentleman $4,000 per diem for the three
hundred working days Of the year, leaving
the odd ninety thousand for benevolent en-
terprises on Sundays and jolly enterprises
on holidays.
The New York Herald says: "Head
Centre Stephens has been arrested in Bos-
ton for debt; released on bail; surrendered
by his bondsman; put in Jail and bailed out
again. Where are the army and navy Of
the Irish Republic while the Head Centre is
being subjected to such indignities Where
are the Fcnian bonds with which the Head
Centre could pay his debts if he had them?
And why is the Boston Jail so much more
difficult to escape from than that Of Dublin
AT Worcester, Mass, . number Of lads
hung like squirrels to the sides and windows
Of the car, joining in the call Of !. Sherman"
Sherman" The civilian dressed General,
rising, pointed the boys to . military gen.
tleman in the car, dressed in uniform,
whereupon bright eyed urchiu responded.
"Can't come that, General. Cant fool US
up here. We take the papers. We know
you !" and, convulsed with laughter, the
General was coerced to the platform.
Hon. JAMES s. THoRNE, member of the
New York Assembly, and city editor Of the
Troy Times, died on Saturday morning last
ct five O'clock Of consumption. II being
known that he could not live more than
few hours, his obituary was prepared by
Mr., Fonda, one Of the editors Of the paper,
but by fall from q window strange and
sorrowful as is the fact, Mr.. Fonda died
frst he expiring at three o'clock on Satur-
day morning, two hours before the decease
Of Mr.. Thorne. An associate in the Office,
filled with strange presentiment, rs he
states, remarked to Mr.: Fonda, as he was
preparing the obituary article, "Well, old
fellow, you will die before James,
Domestic Paragraphs.
"A hint to delinquents: D6r in what
u. o.
"A citizen Of Worcester, Mass, had all
his hair fall out few nights ago.
-"Cholera bullets is the ft name given
by the Philadelphia Ledger to unripe green
apples just coming to market.
The total number Of alien emigrants ar
rived in New York thus far this year is