The Iowa transcript. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1858-1866, 1866-10-12
The West.

Norman B. Judd has been nominated by
the Republicans Of Chicago for Congress, as
successor to "Long John" Wentworth.
"Old Abe," the Wisconsin eagle, has been
invited to attend the Paris Exposition, but
the distance is thought too great.
A destructive fire occurred at Mariposa
California, recently, by which property TO
the amount Of $177,25O was destroyed.
A fast young man in Monroe, Iowa, got
his store, worth 81 900, insured for $l5 200
and thcn burned it. He is in jail waiting
trial
Emma, Queen of the Sandwich Islands,
met with very courteous reception at San
Francisco, General Halleck acting as her
escort on tour Of inspection Of the fortifi-
cations.
General Mcdowell, commanding in Cali
fornia, has issued an order authorizing the
enlisting and employment of one hundred
Indian scouts to operate against the Indians
in Arizona.
Kit Carson, Brevet Brigadier General, has
been selected to command a battalion Of
New Mexican volunteers, organized for
mounted service along the northern frontier
of New Mexico.
raft containing some 1900, 900 feet of
choice pine lumber was lost on lake Huron
during the recent gale. 1t was on the way
from Saginaw to Toledo, and was owned by
Mitchell g. Rowland Of Cincinnati.
On the 10th in Chicago, there were II
cases Of cholera. with IS Deaths decided
increase, Notwithstanding the lateness Of
the season. Among the deaths are those of
DR.. Daniel Brainerd, the eminent surgeon,
and Alderman O'Sulliyan.
The lower House of the Oregon Legisla-
ture has declared the former action of that
body, in ratifying the Constitutional amend
ment, to be fraudulent, and the Secretary
of State has been authorized to transmit
the resolution on the case to Secretary
Seward
Gen. Butler had o very narrow escape at
Berea, Ohio, on Monday. The rear car of
the train in which he was travelling had
been set apart for himself and friends, and
while occupied by them an express train
coming up, and which could not be stopped,
smashed into Buffers car, making splinters
fly and throwing the occupants around pro-
miscuously. No one was seriously injured.
| The National Horse Fair at Kalamazoo
closed on the 9th. A $1,000 premium for
the best trotting horse was competed for by
Dexter and Patchen, and was won by the
former in three straight heats. Time, 2:27,
2:2l2, and 2:2l 1.-The last being the best
time Dexter ever made in harness. He
failed to obtain the additional prize Of
$1,000 offered to any horse beating Flora
Temples time Of 2:l93, though he came
within one second and q half
The st. Joseph (Mo.) Herald says with
the exception Of stragglers from the rear
guard, the grasshoppers have departed from
that section, having done but little damage,
and are now moving off in southeasterly
direction. But now comes new army from
the great plains-the locusts! They origin
ated far west Of tho Rocky Mountains,
and are moving eastward with alarming
rapidly, and in vast numbers. The ad-
vance is said to be within forty or fifty miles
of Lawrence, Kansas.
A bold and daring robbery was commit
ted on the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad,
near Seymour. Ind, on Saturday evening,
the 9th. Two robbers entered the car con-
tanning the Adams Express Companys safes,
forced the messenger to give them the key,
and one Of them opened it and took out
fifteen thousand dollars in greenbacks.
They then threw out another safe containing
twenty thousand dollars in gold, partially
stopped the train, and made their escape.
The gold was recovered, but the robbers,
with the currency, are still at large.