The Iowa transcript. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1858-1866, 1866-08-15
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Domestic Paragraph.
A Boston dealer has cigars worth $500
aud $500 per thousand, and their flavor is
correspondingly delicious.
The Cincinnati Union says they have 0
shoemaker in that city, returned soldier,
who. having lost both lis arms in battle,
does the finest quality Of sewed work with
his toes.
The State Prison at Charlestown, Mass,
is paying institution, that is, its income
exceeds its expenditures. This can be said
Of few institutions of the kind in the coun-
try.
"A Portland man charged the clerk who
treated the fremen to lemonade, after they
had saved his employers shop from the de-
vouring element, the price Of the lemons
and sugar used in concocting the beverage.
DIR. Blackburn, highly esteemed ply
siciaD Of Cincinnati, recently attempted SUI
icide by shooting. He put four balls into
different parts Of his head, then walking up
stairs tried to dash his brains out with the
pistol stock. At this juncture some one
stupidity interfered.
A rural chap, visiting Grand Rapids,
Mich. got playfully drunk, when, observ-
ing bull pup he went down ON his hands
and knees to have little game with him.
The pup feeling cross, grabbed him by the
nose, and after much trying and twisting,
tore it of.
There are over seventy telegraph Offices
in New York city, with force Of 375 per-
sons there are now thirty wires between
Washington and New York, and nearly one
hundred wires leave the city Of New York.
The American and Western Union have
about 1000 Offices, with 5000 employees.
The editor Of Western paper OBJ
serves: "The poem which we publish in
this weeks Herald was written by an es-
teemed friend who has lain many years in
his grave for his own amusement On the
other hand an eastern editor expresses great
indignation at the manner in which q woman,
| who had committed suicide, was buried:
"She was buried like dog with her clothes
on"
A German newspaper gives the follow
i ing account Of terrible scenes" "A
carpenter returning home from long jour-
ney, found his wife dying. his child dead.
| and an order to join the army pinned to the
door. The combination of misfortune SO
overcame the wretched man that he fell to
the ground in fit and died few minutes
after. His wife's body soon followed him
to the grave"
The Oswego IN. w Times reports the
brutal whipping of q lad about twelve years
Of age by his father, a man named Euphrates
Lake, of that city. Lake is q Seventh-day
Baptist, and whipped his SON in . shocking
manner because he did not want to work on
Sunday, when told to do so by his father.
II is said that short time ago the same
man turned out Of doors his daughter, if
teen years old, because she would not work
on Sunday.
A most remarkable tempera6ce lecture
was delivered in New York recently by DR..
Crane, at the meeting Of the Board Of
Health. The lecture was as follows: Tin
the Stygiau and pest ridden Twelfth Ward
Of Brooklyn, not solitary one of the 500
members Of the Father Matthew Society,
resident therein, has been attacked by the
cholers." Mr.. Acton clinched this remark
by adding that not . cholera case had yet
occurred among the l6, 900 members Of the
Father Matthew society in New York.
The New York Nation takes the very
sensible ground that we need general
marriage law, applicable to the whole ooun-
try, 40 much and more than We need gen
ersl bankrupt law. "All American men
and women" 1t says, sought to be married.
and all American children to be born under
the same law. Itmay be added that so lax
are the laws Of divorce in some Of the
States, that the Reverend Dr.. Hovey, Of
Newton, has lately published little volume
in which the Christian law Of divorce is
made obligatory on all Christians, any in
the laws Of the States to the contrary not
withstanding. BY this rule crime or death
can alone dissolve the marriage relation"
The Beaver, penny Argus says: ~.
7. Boyd, Esq, of this place, while at work
in his garden on the ID Of May last, found
piece of gold coin which weighs within
two pcnnyweights Of an ounce, which bears
the date Of A. D. 500. This makes the
coin, incredible Is it may seem, 1857 years
old The coin itself is Spanish piece, and
was found in the ground on which old Fort
Mcintosh stood. 1t is supposed to have
been carried to this place by some one of
the officers at one time quartered in the
Fort. Mr.. Boyd has refused fifty dollars
for his relic, and prefers to hold on to it
himself. u 10 certainly quaint piece Of
money, and has an age that reaches great
distance back"
The st, Paul Press says there is sol
der in that city who has lost both arms
and both feet. His name il Benjamin
Franklin Of Blue Earth city. He served in
the one year regiment Of mounted rangers,
and afterwards re enlisted in the second
cavalry, and with that regiment Joined Gen.
Sullys great expedition Of 1864. In De-
cember last, while stationed at Fort Wads-
worth he started home on turlough, and was
caught in the great storm Of the 18th Of the
month while near Big Stone Lake. He be-
| ~ una Iot n al al foam h3a toaun 0nf Loaf and
wandered into ravine, wherein two Of his
companions froze to death. Franklin, how
ever, pushed ON with the storm, the wind
blowing from the northwest, and he travelled
eight days In his tremendous struggle for
life. At the end Of that time he was picked
up by couple Of Indian scouts, who had
been sent out by the Governn emit to look
for the lost men. On reaching Fort Ridge
~, Franklin was compelled to submit to
the amputation Of both his hands and feet