The Iowa transcript. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1858-1866, 1866-04-25
HxJyl MARY OF THE WEEK.
General Ensc.Ii-cnce.


Of s., 900 or $4,000 have come to light il
Chicago. .
A case OF trichina is reported at Dewitt
Iowa, and quantity of diseased pork dis
covered.
Never since the first of the war has there
been so much activity manifested at the dit
fcrent navy yards as at the present time.
The heirs of the Revolutionary General
land situated near White Sulphur Springs,
Ohio.
The Washington people were excited
over a report that goldbearing quartz had
been found on the Potomac, IA miles from
the city.
Two hundred and forty Sioux Indians who
have been two years in confinement at Dav
export, have started for their new rcserva.
ton on the Niobrorah river.
The Montreal Gazette of the 18th inst,
says: ''We learn by atelegram from Quebec
that Ole Bull, the celebrated voilinist, died
in that city yesterday morning"
There is no official evidence that Louis
Napoleon is Withdrawing his French troops
and that Macmillan is substituting French,
Austrian, and Bel ;an recruits.
The United States Treasurer lately re-
ceived from an unsophistioated individual a
counterfeit fifty certificate note with re-
quest to send a genuine one in exchange.
The death of Senator Foot. the Pater
.Senatus. leaves the honor Of oldest member
to be divided between Senators Wade and
Sumner, who have each been there sixteen
years.
The Lawrence Tribune says that it is COM
puted at low estimate, that the number Of
people now coming into Kansas to settle is
not less than one thousand per week, or two
hundred families.
The Postmaster General will soon issue a
postage stamp Of the denomination of fifteen
cents. 1t bears the likeness Of Abraham
Lincoln, and will be convenient in paying
foreign postage.
A mule rinderrest prevails in Upper
Louisiana and Mississippi Entfalo gnats
are killing off mules and horses. On one
plantation 50 were killed in one night; on
another %: on another, 20.
The strike OF the New York car drivers
Is ended by compromise allowing them
81 90 per day for ten hours work Prior
TO the strike they received only this amount
for twelve and fourteen hours labor.
The American Consul at Aspinwall in
forms the State Department, under date Of
April l, that disease similar to the rinder-
pest has broken out along the Panama rail
road, quite number Of cattle dying daily.
The notorious muraerers, Terrell and
Writer'S, were rescued from the Spencer
county, Ky, Jail on the 18th, by party Of
seven disguised and armed men, who
threatened the life of the jailor on refusal
to unlock the cell
Mrs. jeff. Davis left New York on the
18th, en- route for Canada. where her two
elder children, mother and sister are tenn
porarly residing. She has not been to
Washington, nor has she been able to obtain
permission to see her husband
The steamer Virginia arrived at New
York on the 18th, from Liverpool, with
l,O43 passengers. During the trip there
were 3S deaths on board disease being
similar to that on the steamer England.
There was death from cholera at Portland,
Me-, on the 18th.
The lists of dead Union soldiers are COM
pleted, numbering two hundred and eighty
thousand seven hundred and thirty nine.
Ninety one thousand men and FIVE thousand
officers were killed in action or died from
wounds and one hundred and eighty-tive
thousand died from disease.
Judge Balloon of the New York Supreme
Court, sitting at Binghamton, has decided
that the law relative to the State Inebriate
Asylum is unconstitutional and void All
parties committed to its walls by order of
the Supreme Court are entitled to be re-
leased.
The steamship England, which put into
Halifax some two weeks since with the
cholera on board, has arrived in New York
lower bay. She has on board a crew of
l22 men, sixteen cabin passengers, and POP
steerage passengers. The number who have
died from the cholera is 200 All are now
doing we'll.
Edward w. Green, the murderer Of young
Converse, at the Maiden Bank. about two
years ago, was executed on the 18th, in the
Jail yard at East Cambridge, Mass. Be-
tween two and three hundred persons were
present within the walls and an equal num-
Der outside. Green behaved with compare
tive calmness, and died with hardly strug-
gle.
W. NJ Jackson, United States Consul at
Halifax, writes that the physicians, after
further developments Of the disease on board
E lgland, and fuller consultation, concur in
pronouncing it Asiatic cholera. The pas
sengers are detained at the quarantine
ground, and other precautionary measures
have been adopted to prevent the disease
from spreading.
The coroner's jury in the case of the muir
dered Deering family, in Philadelphia, have
returned verdict that. in their opinion, the |
sohole eight came to their death at the hands
Of Anthony Probst The man arrested at
London, Canada West, on suspicion Of being
concerned in this eight-fold murder proves
TO have been ia Madison, Wis, all winter, 7
and Of course entirely guiltless.