The Iowa transcript. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1858-1866, 1866-01-03
GLEANlNGs.


go, 900, Of which only $4,000 are gentle
men or merchants; the rest are Indians or
Lepors, who throng the streets as fruit
sellers, vendors of small wares, water and
pack carriers, etc., etc. There is . seat
display of fine carriages ani elegant equl-
nares The hans.s Of the wealthy are most
barba, &c in splendor. The ladies at the
opera dress very elegantly, with profusion
of jewelry. No lady wears bonnet An
elegant mantilla is thrown over the head
A young man named Parson S. Para
mour was fined five dollars for saying he
would be id on the streets Of Indianapolis,
last Friday.
The advocates of prohibitory liquor
law in Canada, are urging what is called
the Dunkin Act" similar to the "Maine
Law The "voice of the people is taken
upon its adoption, and in many places the
majority is largely against it. At Puslinch,
Wellington county, recently, after an over
whelming negative vote, the villagers had a
grand blowout, and burned the protector Of
the law in ehgy.
-Audubon's "Birds of America" was
produced in 1910, it being then pronounced
"the most magnificent monument ever raised
ny art to natural science" A few years
since copies could be purchased for from
$500 to $500. Now well bound copy will
cost 81 500. Only one hundred copies were
printed.
An old silver dollar Of 1894 sold in
New York for $152.5O.
The internal revenue from cigars sold
in the United States during the year 1866
amounted to $3,OG9, 448.
Isaac Scudder, of Randolph county,
H., roughly used his son for not wishing to
20 hunting with him, the boy being i'll.
The son subsequently died, and though the
physician said that the treatment Of the
father had nothing to do with the death,
remorse drove the father to commit suicide.
In New Haven, on Thursday, the spire
Of DR.. Cleveland's church was rocked 50
violently by the wind, that for hours, crowds
of people watched to see it fall.
"A Company with $685. capital, has
been formed at st. Paul, to demonstrate, by
actual experiment, whether the Minnesota
gold mines north Of Lake Superior, lately
discovered, can be probably worked.
The preachers Of Philadelphia are hav-
ing an animated correspondence with Col.
Forney, of the Press, relative to the publ
cation Of his paper and the running of tina
I street cars on the Sabbath.
"A Paris letter mentions as an instance
! Of the folly and extravaganza prevailing in
that city, that baptismal dress for an in
FAINT has been prepared, T exquisite en-
broidery and lace, at an expense Of eighteen
I thousand dollars
In 1860 Illinois had a population Of
| LII, 95l, and produced "a, 159, 500 bushels
nc, IA I al
/ The same year we raised 115, 298,779 bush
els Of corn, being 81 Ito per capita.
The State debt Of Illinois is less that
$40, 0OO, 900 and will hereafter be reduced
by the surplus revenue, at the rate of about
1850, 900 yearly.
An old bachelor says the most Difficult,
part Of surgery is to take the jaw out Of a
woman.
There was serious rebellion in dis.
trict school in Kittery, Me-, the other day
three Of the scholars killing their teacher
by beating him with stone One Of them
has been arrested.
Virginia is fast recovering from the
terrible effects left upon ner by the war.
But few traces are now seen upon the re.
nowned battle fields at Bull Run. At Ma
mass Junction the Notifications have almost
entirely disappeared-a scarcely distin.
/ guishable line alone marks their existence.
\ At Bristow, the graves Of the fallen are lev
eled with the ground, and the ties Of the
long line Of stockades from Dukes Station
to the Rapidan, have been made into rail-
road ties. From Alexandra to Culpepper,
however, the country is still barren-almost
q desert, but at Orange Court House, new
houses are springing up, and fences fill the
places Of those destroyed.
Female pickpockets are said to be doing
"healthy business in Philadelphia.