The Iowa transcript. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1858-1866, 1866-05-16
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Donsestic ParagrapAs.
Statistics sh ow that the cost Of living
in San Francisco has diminished one. hall
within the past year. $50
Mrs. Palmer Of Cincinnati has sued her
husband for $4,000 damages for putting
her in q mad house. ISIS
1t is estimated that It's different styles
Of hats may be counted on the heads Of the
fair sex any dne dsy in Broadway. n
"A rich man in Albany recently pur-
Joined two eggs from farmers wagon, and
paid 800 to have the matter hushed up.
Tho San Jose Courier says that the peo-
pie OF that town frequently hear the firing
| Of cannon in San Francisco, forty miles
distant.
A New Jersey lighthouse keeper put
| out the lights at midnight, on the ground
that he thought all vessels should be in the
harbor at that time.
Gilbert Pearcefeld, for the murder Of
John Tanner in March last, has just been
tried at Columbus, O., and sentenced to 81
years imprisonment.
"A woman named Eva Glance, eighty
years old, was brought up before a court in
Philadelphia, charged with Assaulting Maria
Calender, seventy Eight years old. Girl.
hood is ever impulsive.
| "A gay newsboy, ten years old, who had
read the papers, put his arm affectionately
around peanut girl at q stand in Philadel
phia, the other day, and deliberately kissed
her. The damsel had him arrested, and he
| was locked up for six hours.
| The Council Bluffs Nonpareil has the
following official: Married, at the resi-
dence of Mr.. Ben. Jarvis, in Marshalltown,
Iowa, by the Rev. Mr.. Wiley, Joe Baugh,
chats u.s. and Miss Mary c. Swanson,
(lhats more Of US.
| --Easterbrook, Jr., Of Camden, Me-, in
sured his life for So, 600 some time ago, and
afterwards became deranged and committed
suicide by shooting. The insurance COM
pany refused to pay the policy, but the
Maine Supreme Court decides that they
must pay the $4,000, and the costs besides.
"A boy born in Brownfeld, Me, has
neither hands nor feet, can feed himself
without assistance, thread needle, tie q
knot in the thread, and sew on button with
1 considerable dexterity. He gets on and of
his chair, hobbies around the roem and up
flight Of stairs, nearly as quick as though
he were full-limbed. He can also write a
good and legible hand. His name is Walter
H. Stewart.
One Of the features Of the metropolitan
police system Of New York is the Lost Chill
dren Department, presided over by lady.
During the pleasant summer evenings, when
children are apt to wander away from their
homes, as many as 65 or 70 are sometimes
brought in by the police from the various
1 ofo ~hn,, hn 80
stored to their parents through the medium
Of the telegraph.
A singular wedding came of in Dedham
1 Jail, near Boston, not long since. Two
men were imprisoned for assault upon Ger
man woman. Toprevent her testimony, one
Of them proposed to marry her, and the Ger
emory was performed, the couple not join
ing hands, but answering the questions Of
the Justice from distant parts Of the jail
rotunda. 1t was sharp dodge Of the de.
PENDANTS counsel, who saw no other way Of
escape for his client.
A business firm in Memphis detected q
thief quite adroitly, recently. They had
missed money from the till for some days
amounting to $3.50, but could not detect thu
guilty party. The cashier emptied into tn,
drawer cup filed with nitrate Of silver
The thief went to the till to make his eve
ning's capital, and in abstracting the money
covered his hands with the nitrate. which
he wss unable to get off, An examination
pdws, or thief's, and the guilty party wa
arrested.
A Milwaukee lady was lately bigamis
for day. She had been married, but hat
| applied for divorce. Her lawyer assured
her the papers should be concluded ant
signed on certain day. Trusting to this
she was married to husband No. 2. Unfor
tunately the judge was taken sick and could
not sign the papers; moreover. he had
doubts, on hearing the evidence, whether be
ought to grant the divorce at all. The con
sternation Of the newly-married couple al
this stage Of the proceedings can be imag
| ined. But uron the fact of the marriae
being made known to tho judge, he waived
his scruples and granted the divorce, the
day after the wedding, greatly to the relief
Of the woman.
Personal and Literary.
EDWIN FoRREsT arrived ct San Francisco
on the Sd.
THE Empress Eugene was 40 years ole
on the 9th inst.
ANTHONY TRoLLopE, who is travelip,
/ inspector for the postofice. writes the great
er part Of his novels while travelling BY rail
way.
MRs. GEx. Tox THUMB is st the Clifton.
super Bristol, England. It is said "that
she is preparing for little event that usu.
ally makes quite commotion in family
WILLIAM HUrcHIS1s, tie last surviving
Revolutionary soldier in the State, and the
/ last but two or three in the Union, died
Thursday, in the town Of Penobscot, Maine,
aged lO2 years.
ARrEMus WARD has instituted an action
against the publishers Of the funny ~ book
called "Betsy Jane Ward-husbsnd of Ar.
| temus," to restrain them from issuing it.
He says il hurts his fair fame and libels his
fair flame.
AN anecdote Of Rossini is circulating il
Paris to the effect that one day visitor
found him at his piano, evidently engaged
in deciphering the "Tannhauser." ssMaes-
troll" exclaimed the visitor. "you have got
the work up side down" EYES," good
humorelly replied the author Of "Guil.
laume Tell" . I tried it the other way, but
that wouldn't do.
TnE Washington correspondents of III.
New Toak Express says: = President John
son works from 8 a. m, to II and II p M,
often receiving delegations from 10 in the