The Iowa transcript. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1858-1866, 1866-02-07
GLEANINGS.

A Miss Randall living near La Crosse, |
Wis. last week succeeded in poisoning
wolf. the largest Of the kind ever taken IN
that region. The bounty and sale OF the
hide brought her $l2.
The Houston papers are now receiving
telepraphic dispatches direct from Wash-
ington and New York, through Iioksourg
and shreyeport--the first in the history OF
Texas journalism.
Different sounds travel with different
degrees of velocity. call to dinner WIN
run over 10 acre lot in minute and .
half, while summons to work wlli take
from five to ten minutes
The John Brown song seems to have
been adopted in the British Navy seri-
Gus disturbance recently took place on board
Her Maiesty's steamer Leander, at Nalpa-
raiso which began by the men refusing 70
come up when the watches were called, anu
beginning TO shout and yell in chorus,
..We'u hang Commander patten to an old
apple tree etc.
Tho Germans at Cincinnati are vio-
lenly opposed to permitting their country
men to 90 South under contract with plant
crs denouncins such contracts rs species
of slavery Some forty such laborers were
coaxed off from the depot there the other
day. Col Lee, late Of Joe Johston's stall,
has engaged ninety Germans IN New lork
for his Arkansas plantation, but he finds 1t
q mixed question whether he can get them
through Cincinnati, though their passage is
paid TO Memphis.
There isn't single printer confined in
any of the N. Y. State prisons. What
good lot they L ust be- Yhs is particularly
striking, considering the number OF derils
employed.
notwithstanding the expenses Of the
war. the State debt of Pennsylvania is
nearly 100000 less than it was five
years ago.
There are Two daily papers At Denver
and two more in the mountain region.
The Massachusetts Legislature has full
" recognized the right OF q woman regular
" ordained in the ministry, to legally sol
emnize marriage.
The Salt Lake Tiaette says that "funny
freaks occur in Utah." A short time since
Mormon was frozen between two wives.
1t turns out he was engaged in hauling
wood between the respective cabins OF his
first and second wives.
The population Of Topeka, the State
capital of Kansas, and the present termi-
nus of the Pacific Railroad, is from $500
10 $500.
The Lawrence, Pa, Journal confirms
the truth of the story in reference to finding
of the young girl, Louisa Black, in a hay
stack on the farm of VIM. Cornelius, in
Lawrence county where she had remained
without food for twenty-three days. When
found she was in dying condition from
starvation and exposure-both feet were
badly frozen. Her physician found it ne
cessary to amputate both feet, and the Jour
nal says when last heard from she was still
living, but it is very doubtful if she recov-
ers.
The Tunisian and Siamesc Ambassadors
had hardly left France, when those Of Mo
rocco made their appearance at the Tuiier-
les, to present to the Emperor six Arab
horses and tiger, as gifts Of his MAJ esty s
ally in the Barbary States.
Mr.. VIM. Hatton, a young man residing
in Shippensburgh, Pa, one day last week
vomited u live snake, about is inches long
and more than half an inch thick. He
swallowed it while drinking from pool in
Idaho abort four months since, and has suf-
fercd great distress in his stomach ever since,
complaining especially Of sensation OF
| GOODNESS.
The Temps of Paris says':-" Bull
fights no longer suffice in Spain. A fort
night ago the Plaza dc Toros, at Ubida, was
the scene of an entirely new kind of repre-
sentation. An elephant, Of the name Of
Pizarro, fought bravely against two young
bulls. Wounded in the trunk, he at first
drew back, hesitated, then, seizing one OF
the bulls by the neck, he sent it rolling
away like ball, and meanwhile, crushed
the ribs of the other under his enormous
feet. The antique sports are thus again the
order Of tho day. Elephants now. Panth.
crs anon.
There are several newspapers in Mexi.
co. The Times, edited by Ex-Gov. Allen, Of
Louisiana, is altogether the best, however
Next comes the Pajaro Verde, published a,
the capital, and prominent journal
Printed on dirty white paper, in very mar
row columns, it is chiefly occupied with
official documents and manifestoes. e.
Noticioso, published at Vera Cruz, is neatly
and legibly printed, and contains consider
able news. The Estafetts is a journal much
quoted. The Ranchero, of Matamoras, is q
"real live newspaper" and can whip ter
times its weight in wild cats any time.
of GOO men mustered out Of the 1Ols
Colored Infantry, at Nashville, Tenn, the
other day, $50 made contracts to 20 into the
country to work. on farms. As each mar
took with him family averaging three
persons, about 800 colored persons left the
city within single day.
This year Ash Wednesday falls on st.
Valentines day, and Easter Sunday on cal
fools day list of April.
- The name Dubuque should not BIZ
written as it sometimes is, with capital D.
it being simple and not compound word
Mrs. Jennie Varney is now living il
Ossipee, New Hampshire, one hundred and
two years old. Her mother lived to be one
hundred and four. Jennie means to SEE
her and 60 one better.
A stout and healthy couple at Boston
have an infant five months old which
weighs only three pounds. It weighed
twenty-one ounces when it was born.
- The Journal of the Immaculate Coneep.
ton, at Rome, has hit upon new dodge ia
obtain subscribers, offering a months Gin
diligence" or pardon of all ones sins for
thirty days. This inducement is a little
ahead Of the Paris paper which promises to
each new subscriber o fine obituary in case
Of death.
An instance is related where kerosene
was applied to thirteen horses for the pur.
pose Of Kidding them Of lice. The result
was that five out Of the thirteen died.
| A Pawtucket man lately accused a wo.
man OF larceny, caused her arrest and i'm.