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The Iowa transcript. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1858-1866, 1866-04-25

eGES 8. GRANT and Butler are again on
GOD terms with each other, and it ls pre-
umed that the latter will now withhold
from publication the vindication which he
had prepared for the press.
Mn. AND MBs. CHARLES HASKELL, of
West Gloucester, Mass, celebrated the six
,ie'h anniversary Of their wedding few
days ago. Mr.. Haskell lives in the house
where he was born, SO years ago.
WALTER H. STEWART, of Brownfeld,
Maine, has neither hands nor feet, but he
can feed himself without assistance, thread
needle, sew on buttons, 60 up and down
stairs, and write good, legible hand.
IT is said that The wife of Thomas Carlyle,
becoming tired Of her hus stands absorption
in his history, tod an inquiring friend the
other day, that she wished the great Fred
ericb had died when lie was baby.
THE aged Indian Ska dyoh -gwa- deb, or,
as he was more Familiarity known, Philip
Kenjockety, died April l. at Newton, n. r.,
ON the Ca,taraugus Reservation. His age
was unknown, but generally believed to be
from 100 to $50 years.
COMMODORE VANDERBILT is seventy, but
active as ever. He has built and paid for
gest owner of railroad stock in the United
States. He controls both the Harlem and
Hudson River Roads, while his interest in
the New York Central is not less than half
a million.
WILLIAM CRAFT, famous rs fugitive
slave in Theodore Parker's days, is 'ahorin g
successfully in Africa, both commercially
and philanthropically. He has established
lawful commerce and large school at
Wbydah; and the King of Dahomey testi-
fes his appreciation Of himby sending him
present of tx slaves.
AT Liverpool, recently, Mr.. Charles
Mathews, the actor, said TO friend: "By
the way, it is exactly sixty-two veHrs since
| made my first appearance in Liverpool.
Dear me. in what character was that ? y
asked the friend. In the character of 0
baby" was the reply, :" I was born in the
next street just sixty-two years ago"
An exchange recently announced that DR.
Winship Of Boston was 100 years old
weighed pound and a quarter, and could
lift ~ tons. Next week the editor gave the
correct version as follows:
DR. Winship, of Boston. now weighs one
hundred and sixty pounds, is thirty two
years of age, and can lift ton and 4
quarter.
In one of Brigham's sermons, he said +:
g The man that sells liquor, and thinks to
escape damnation, fools himself" He has,
however, changed his sentiments on the
subject, and has determined to save The
whole class OF liquor vendors from their
hard fate by taking the damnation upon
himself alone. He has forbidden all ia
| sell, and has opened bar himse the only
ore in Salt Lake City. He claims and ex
s4IRes the sole right to sell LIQUOR BY
whu esale and retail.
The Iowa transcript. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1858-1866, 1866-04-25

Domestic Paragraph ..

Strawberries were being sold in Phila-
delphia, last Friday, at three cents piece
"A census of Indianapolis, Ind, is just
being completed. The population is about
10000.
that We ever heard was from q man who
aaid he wanted some one to part his back
hair for him.
The former "Tndian wife" Of jeff.
Davis is living at Kenosha in Wisconsin.
She is said to have lived with him when he
was stationed at Winnebago.
The editor Of an Eastern paper says !:
~" We h We adopted the eight hour system
in this Office We commence work at eight
in the morning, and end work at eight in
the evening"
The Brinsley brothers, who have been
astonishing the San Francisco people by
performing all the usual acrobatic feats on
horizontal bar attached to balloon, 900
feet in mid-air, are coming east.
The Boston Journal reports the case Of
man who left off chewing tobacco, and in
few weeks gained twelve pounds of flesh,
and had an enormous appetite. The Provi-
dence Press has similar case in its office.
speaking of moving" family living
in Springfield, Mass, has " moved " fifteen
times in the last seven years and is getting
ready TO do 1t again. There's no place
like home" but home" is sometimes
rather miscellaneous rs to locality.
As large maple tree was being sawed
into stove wood at Lyndon. Vt, the other
day, stone, measuring nearly four by six
inches, was found imhedded within it. The
stone was about l6 feet from the roots of
the tree, and l20 annual layers Of. wood had
grown over it.
John Blair. resident Of Jackson coun-
of May next. He was a soldier Of the revo-
He never received a pension. can walk 10
miles per day, keeps his eyesight, and loves
70 converse with strangers.
A boy brought an egg to school lately
in Linn county, Iowa. The teacher broke
it over the child's head, and told him to 60
home and have his mother wash his hair
Boy did 50. Mother came with club, hit
the teacher with it over the head, and then
closed one eye with her fist.
The Cincinnati Gazette says that pure
Essence Of Golf e." is now made in that
city out Of the !" cheapest, dirtiest and mast
lest molasses," which is boiled until il ropes,
cooled in pans, and when hard broken up
and pulver,sed. Ground rye is then mixed
with it, after which it is boxed up. each box
being sold at eighty cents, and labeled
Pure Essence of Coffee
A man in Bay City, Michigan, lost his
wife by death, and in twelve ho.rs had
married his servant girl, who was one of the
principal mourners at the funeral Another
man IN Davenport, forgot all about his APP
pointed wedding, and on being sen. for by
the friends who had gathered for the cere.
mony, was found in bed at his boarding
house. He complained Of having his sleep
disturbed, but got up and proceeded to the
appointed place, where he was speedily
| married.
The Iowa transcript. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1858-1866, 1866-04-25

TRIcHINA AaAIN.-The committee of the
Chicago Academy Of Sciences report that
trichin@ have been found in swine slaught-
cred in that city, and that, out Of 1894 ex-
amined. %, or about in SO, were infected.
They also report that persons eating this
meat render themselves liable to contract
trichinasis. and that in their opinion cases
Of such disease have occurred in Americe,
although very seldom. And in conc ludng
they unanimously declare that swine may
be kept from contracting the disease if not
allowed animal food; and that pork may be
used without the lightest apprehension if
the following conditions are complied with !:
That every portion Of the meat cooked ex-
perience y 4 temperature Of ct least 16O de.
grees Fahrenheit; or that it be properly
sailed and smoked for ten days; or that it
DO thoroughly dssicoated. Picking, It up.
pssrs. produces but slight eject
The Iowa transcript. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1858-1866, 1866-04-25
Foreign Gossip.

Flour is S45 per barrel in Mexico.
sand seven hundred and eleven public bill
lard tables.
The British army in England is 10000
strong, in every regiment of which arrests
for Fenianism have been made.
Louis Bomber died recently at Nieuel-
Ia Dolent, La Vendee, France, at the age of
one hundred and six years. He served in
the armies Of the first Republic for many
years, was subsequently married and be
came the father OF seventeen children, and
to The last retained all his faculties, being
remarkable for the correctness Of his mem
ory.
One of the British officers examined on
charge Of cruelty toward the blacks Of
Jamaica when putting down the insurrec-
tion, tried to be grimly humorous when he
alleged that he logged twenty negroes a
day out of pure Kindness. which they ap-
preciated SO highly that they came to him
regularly with shirts off, saying. Here,
massa. me ready for fog."
"A funny illustration of the difficulty Of
understanding nicknames in foreign lam
guages is found inyictor Hngo's new novel.
He translates Henry Clay's popular title of
'the Millboy Of the Slashes" TO mean the
mill-boy Of the scar, supposing Mr.. Clay TO
have received in the early part of his life a
slash from some sharp weapon, which left q
scar upon his features.
A man in mask recently left at the
door Of . Paris theatre four act vaudeville.
accompanied by letter in the following
words:
.Sir. if you open my piece you will read
it; if you read it you will put it in re-
hearsal; if you put it in rehearsal you will
play it; if you play it you will have great
success; if you don't play it will murder
you. Ahquis."
A Waterloo soldier who was supposed
to have fallen in that battle, and whose
the monument of heroes at Wiesbaden, has
returned to Europe from America. whittier
he emigrated while the battle was raging,
and has had his name erased from the mon
ument. His name is William Wust. and he
was in the Nassau force attached to the
English army.
-Hattersley's type-setting machine has
been in operation for the last six months in
the Office of q newspaper in Hull. England
It is said that by the use of this machine a
clever composilor can set up and justify at
the rate Of betw en- three and four thousand
types per hour, and that much larger
number per hour can be set up By those bet
ter accustomed to the manipulation Of the
machine. 1t should be underst God that the
English method Of measuring type is by the
IN" instead Of the "m;" the m being
considered the average size Of the letters of
the letters Of the alphabet This English
machine. therefore. sets about one half the
amount per hour which is accomplished by
the Alden machine, an Anne. lean invention.
The Iowa transcript. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1858-1866, 1866-04-25
Malaria Everywhere.

Rarely has there been q season as fruitful
this OF malarous diseases Not only in the prairss
and in the valleys " the West: not merely in all the
old bauns of Fever and Ague and Bilious Remittent
Fever have these Frustrating diseases been unusually
viruent; but they have extended TO towns cties
before ne, ted with ,hem and have even ascend
ed the mountains and attacked thousands Of people
supposed TO have been placed by the laws OF Ma
above their reach. Hence No compelled to admit
that fatal eeMent pervades the Universal Air this
season. and should at resort to the only approved
preventive of its conse sequences,
uoSrErrER'S STOMACH BlTTERS,
tonic potent, anseptic, pc feet, Alternative
irresistible aud sniant pure that II enables the
human system to and battle all the predisposng
causes Of disease. With the confidence clothed
Ia incombisble garments might move among blazing
buildings the who arms imsef against malaria
with this powerful, defeHsire medicine may walk
ever-scnurged district fearless Of 1T Gsauhrous a.
mosphere The intermtents and remitte Ut present
general ia all parts the country may DO tbs FORE
runners of deadiier seonrge 90 its way westward
from the far East Prepare the system with
HosTETrERS BIrTERS
tor successful battle with the mephitc Of az
epidsntc, Be wise In time. Sold svsrywhsEs.-Nas
Ysrk Wsr,d, Nos. 9. lseS.
The Iowa transcript. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1858-1866, 1866-04-25
METROPOLITAN HorEL.-A hotel where the

comforts. the quiet and privacy of "home" be
osed is always desideratnm to the traveller Such
preemnently is the Metropolitan Of Chic go convent
emil, located in the heart of the metropolis. ths
corner Of Randolph and Wells streets lis proprietor
he popular 3. Skinner) is Of the most generous
Of nroriders, ana his clerks, gentlemen in the best
acceptatin Of the term. Guests fare sumptuously
there srery day the substanias and delicaces Of
the season, which always well cooked and admira
bly, served. Good food. clean beds and mf5rtabls
rooms furnish convincing proof that mine host" Of
the Metropolitan "knows how TO keep hotel; J" and
no who has stopped there will hesitate to
admit the truth Of this statement.
The Iowa transcript. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1858-1866, 1866-04-25

J. ADAMS AL&ES. NJ. D., L. L. D Profess
sor Of Principals and Practice Of Medicine In Rush
Medical College, and Editor Of the Chicago Medical
Journal, writes as follows:
Dr. SWANS Bourbon Bitters are vast improvement
on the Heterogeneous mixture in vile half distilled
whisky or worse rum, generally ptlnei upon the
bnlous Invalid public. Tne manufacturer ex-
hitits praiseworthy confidence in the character Of
the menstruuu he employs by giving publicity to the
formula.
Most of the Bit'ers in the market are but adrcft
combinations to disguise the ply steal properties Of the
worst possible Alcoholic, Tinctu,es Of Fusi. Oil.
The Iowa transcript. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1858-1866, 1866-04-25

To ALL persons suffering from Rheums-
tism, Lumbago, Neuralgia, Nervous Headache &c. We
say procure bottle of Morrelrs Electro Magnetic
Fluid See advertisement. and If your Druggists
not supplied, order from Oh c,go
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1866-01-21
CROSS PURPOSES.

Unaved by congressional pressure the
President appears to be quietly exercis-
ing the plain p~rerogatives fhis high
Office in the work Of restoration. He
dos NOT seem TO swerve an inch from the
nlain psth that he has marked out for
bimself He is gradually Withdrawing
H. troops from the South, and little by
Ii+tIa is ~re-investing the States with their
constitutional authority. There are GER
tain concessions which he demands from
the states, which the adoption Of the
constitutional amendment and the
proclamations Of his predecessor render,
in his opinion necessary. These
demands met, he quietly restores the
Commonwealths to their old places in
the Union 50 far as the Executive has
Constitutional power TODD it, and to-day,
with one or two exceptions, the Southern
States are inpossession of all their rights
exeept that Of representation, over which
he disclaims control; and they are free
70 govern themselves except 50 far as the
Freedmen's Bureau is concerned, an in
stitution organized by law, and thus be-
voud his reach. The Representations from
The Southern States are fully rec
ognized at the executive depart
ments. They have the ranking privilege,
andare~ requestedto nominate candidates
for the military and naval schools.
These are small rights, but they are all
the President, according to his under
standing Of his duties, has the right 10
confer. They are Of vast Importance a
indicating the views and purposes Of the
administration.
Favored by the President, we viii es-
cape the thousand ~tyrannies which rad
ical vindictveness would nfiict upon Us.
Even the Freedmsn's Bureau will be
controlled and kept within the strict
limit Of its duty, and thus be impotent
for serious mischief or annoyance.
But, alas for Tennessee. She has q
more terrible source Of oppression than
that at Washington, owe which, we
fear. the President has no control. The
more fully u State is restored 10 her
rights, the more viii those of the majority
OF her citizens b~eendangered. The Legis-
lauure of Tennessee is indispOsedtO do jus
tice to either the white man or the freed
man. Denyingt the negrOhis rights in the
courts, and the white man his privileges
al the ballot box, the majority throws
itself in the scale against the President
in his plan of reconstruction, and seeks
to retain within our borders armed men,
who are only potent in creating distur-
Dances, and discoUraging labor and de-
moralizing the freedmen, and to main
tain in this state, in all its assumed
abuses, the Bureau which is proving
itself, every day, injurious alike to the
employer and the employee.
The radicals at Nashville are seeking
for new tests by which other citizens
may be disfranchised. We trust they
may find them. 1t is hoped they viii
prune the franchise, until they them
selves are the only voters, when, though
the operation Of that part Of the Consti-
tuition which guarantees TO every State q
republican form Of Government, they
may be ousted from the positions they
have disgraced, andlose the power which
they are abusing.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1866-01-21

bT- The Secretary Of War, in compli-
once with the Senate resolution, gives
information OF officers and men Of the
regular army, how many, and officers of
volunteers. II seems there are yet in
the volunteer service, forty-seven Major
Generals, and one hundred and forty
seven Brigadier Generals. OF the for
mer, three are commanding districts,
seventeen commanding departments,
five are on special duty, n is on leave,
and twenty-one are ordered to be mus
tered out. OF the latter, twenty-three
are commanding districts and depart
ments, six are on court martial, six are
Assistant Commissioners in the Freed
mems Bureau, ten are on other special
duty, four are on leave, and one hun
bred and two are ordered TO be mustered
out. This leaves in the service twenty
sis Major Generals and forty-uine Brig
adler Generals, The highest rank in the
regular army are as follows: Lieut.-Gen.
Grant, Gems Halleck, sherman, Meade,
Sheridan, and Thomas. The Brigadier
Generals are Irwin, Mcdowell, Williams,
Rosecrans, Phillips, St. George Cooke,
John Pope, Joseph Hooker, w. S. Han
cock, John NJ Schofeld, o. o. Howard,
A. II. Terry, and J. A.. Rawlins.
The total number Of officers and men
IN the regular service is, one thousand
one hundred and twenty-four officers,
and twenty-three thousand seven hun
bred and n~inety-five men, making an
aggregate of twenty-four thousand nine
hundred and nineteen. OF the officers.
one hundred in the cavalry are absent.
n hundred and thirteen in the artillery
and three hundred and sixty-eight in tbe
infantry. OF the men, five thousand
four hundred and s~eventy-two are re-
cruits, asst gned since astreport. All the
regiments except the seventeenth are as
signed to military department ts, and as
fast as recruits are received, u%norganized
companies are formed, and put ca route
for places of service. Companies already
organized are receiving recruits. About
three thousand per month are being en-
rolled.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1866-01-21

HA- Judge Field, Of California, re-
ceived by express, on Saturday, a small
box with q printed address which came
from San Francisco by the last steamer.
Not knowing its purport, he proceeded
TO open it, with the ordinary caution
which curiosity inspires, in the presence
Of Judge Lake, who is also temporarily
here. Upon u~nscrewing and raising the
lid about half an inch, Judge Lake caught
sight Of several little copper wires, and
instantly suggested that it was an in
fernal machine. Further operations
were suspended, and the box placed in a
tub Of water until yesterday, whenitwas
taken 10 the War Department, where it
was opened, and twelve large metallic
cartridges, with heavy balls nicely ad-
justed with eliminating powder, so as to
explode upon the raising Of the lid, We're
found.
There was a single line written upon
the inside of the lid as follows: Last
October you decided the Puebla case.u
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1866-01-21
From the Evansville Courier.
TERRIBLE FXPIOsTnN

Yesterday we received the startling in
teliigence OF the explosion Of a portable
steam saw mill on Blue Grass creek, near
MilleTsburg, about fourteen miles from
this city, on last Saturday, in which al
most an entire family lost their lives, or
were horribly mangled. They were
buSiiy engaged saving a pile of wood,
anxious 10 finish the job before the day
ended, and forgetting to try the water
gauge, they Were unaware that the sup
ply of water had become exhausted.
Suddenly the boiler exploded with a ter
rifle noise, spreading death and destruc-
ton around.
Those killed outright were an old man
named Jake Steinmetz, Mike SteinmetZ,
his son, who was found about fifty yards
of, lying against a tree, with a large
piece of iron e him, having been car
Tied that distance by the force of the ex-
plOsiOn; Henry Dennis /; a man whose
name we could not learn, but who was
long and favOraoly known in the neigh
bOrhoOd as a quiet, industrious and hard
working a
The wounded were Mr.. Klein, a piece
of the wreck having struck him and
lodged in his heart, the wound is mortal;
George SteinmetZ, slightly in the arm /;
George Steinmctz's grandfather, slightly
in the head, 1--WE We're unable to learn his
name.)
The funeral of the unfortunate men
took place on Sunday, and was attended
by a crowd of sOrrowing friends. All
five men were buried in n grave.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1866-01-21

Ey~ The Legislature Of West Virginia
organized on Tuesday. The former Off
GERS were reelected. The Governors
message recommends a fostering care of
free schools, and liberal legislation to
facilitate the completion Of the James
river and Kanawha canal, and the Gov
ington and Ohio Railroad. According
the Adjutant-G Generals report, West
Virginia furnished thirty-one thousand
men to the United States army during
the rebellion. The finances of the State
are in good condition.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1866-01-21
DIED.

MISUNDERSTANDING, at hall past i've pm,
az her residence on Market street, Mrs SARAH
L. MADDOX, aged Cl years.
Her friends and acquaintance are invited TO
attend her funeral from Wesley Chapel, Second
street, this evening at % o'clock. Services by
Rev. 4. Il. Thomas. o.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1866-01-21

81 Mrs. Mary Williams, aged one
hundred and five years, nine months
and thirteen days, died near White
House, Hunterdon county, n. j., on the
twenty-eighth ult. She never had
sick day, 80 As to be confined 10 her bed
until the last few weeks of her life. 1t i.
said that her eye-sight continued good a,
usual, lshe was always a little near.
sighted), and any one who CHANGED Ia
visit her, even after she passed the one
hundredth year, would find her assisting
her daughter in the domestic affairs.
Her faculties were retained during her
whole life. Her husband died seventy
years ago. She had five children two of
whom died before her.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1866-01-21
OFFICERS
DIRFCTORS.

AMOS WOODRUFF, President Msmphis and
Ohio Railroad.
Capt &. h. CHURCH.
R HOUGH, U.s., Collector Internal Revenue.
A. J. WHITE, OF A. j.. White 20.
JNo. u. TAYLOR, OF Taylor, McEwen, Duke
Thus X SMITH, Of Pitser Miller & Co.
J. H WAGGENER, ~. II. WagVener a ca
A. FAkIEE, Commission Merchant.
Hon. JOHN ". SMITH.
n. T.. J~OMLiNSON, Insurance Agent.
JAS 4. MERRIAM, OF Jas h. Merrtman & ca.
W. II. CHERRY,
A. LACEY, OF Lacey & McGhee.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1866-01-21

ETWe learn from the Chattanooga
Gazette, that on Monday night four mer.
chants Of Memphis, P. II. Larkin, Jos
Rockford, Mike Rine and John O'Neal,
We're taken out Of their beds at the
Crutchfeld House, and robbed Of goods
to the amount Of three thousand five
hundred dollars. The robbers pretended
TO be Government detectives and locked
their victims up in the guardhouse until
their escape with the booty had been Sc
cured.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1866-01-21

HAVING purchased the entire stock Of John
III B. Reid & Co., Ne, ~ Second street, Adams
Block, viii continue the Wholesale Dry Goods
business atthe same place, under the name aud
style OF Henry b. Edmondson & Co.
Mr. lanes II. Cochran, late OF Price, Ferris &
o., philadelphia, as heretofore. will continue
70 give ms personal attention 10 the business,
HENRY B. EDMONDSON.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1866-01-21

THIS Bank will Buy and Sell EXCHANGE on all
points, North and South, and deal in an
KINDS OF state and United states Securities;
ana IN addition TO is ordinary Exchange and
Deposit business, has opened a
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1866-01-21

Ia We learn from Capt. ]. +. Rankin
that Gen. Adam r. johnson, formerly
Of John Morgan's command, is living
upon his plantation in Burnett county.
Texas. Heis healthy and robust, though
totally blind from the terrible wound
he received.
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NEW

ITENTION. Str knights. 2
~ The stated COEclaye Of CyreBe ~
S~pmInanuery No. 1 OF "kuights~
Iempiar,' VIII be held in The Asylum, ~
Front street On Monday evening, JAM y y
III at Z O clock. A prompt attendance of All
the members is desired, as business OF Import
ance VIII come before the CemmanderN.
Visiting Sir Knights are f~raternaIly invited.
By order Of IT. LEMON
-,~ f Commander.
Nj. lGGIN Recorder sool