The Iowa transcript. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1858-1866, 1866-07-25
CUR BRENT ITEMS.
Domestic Paragraphs.

10000 persons daily-men, women, and
children.
A balloon which broke from its moor
ings at Hartford, on the 4th, travelled to
Stratford. N. H., 800 miles, in two hours
and forty minutes.
Plumb LOOMS has returned to his home
in Oneida county, New York. He is putting
up new buildings on the site Of those recent
ly burned by the mob.
Henry Ward Beecher's congregation at
Brooklyn, N. T., on the next Sunday morn
ing after the fire, raised ST. 200 in few
minutes, for the Portland sufferers.
"A gentleman Of Oquawka, Illinois, has
taken steps to procure n patent of a new in
vcntion to dig potatoes. l. not only digs
them, but puts them into the basket.
The Groenport, l.. l., Watchman states
that by some dcccase in Germany, poor
family residing mt the East End of the name
of Scalk, have become heirs to 81 500, 900.
"A Western horse.tamer advcrtises a
performing horse that viii kick cigar out
Of any ones mouth, OF the audience, who
chooses to let him, without touching their
face.
Immigration increases. 15,4S1 emil
grants passed over the Pennsylvania Cen
trail Railroad during the first six months of
this year, against 1885 during the same
period last year.
Figures, received from Chinese sources,
give the Chinese population in California as
numbering $500 persons. one-fourth Of
whom arc employed upon the Pacific Rail-
road improvements.
"A discontinued individual procured five
cents worth of ansenic, II few days since, at
New Albany, for the purpose Of suicide.
The quantity was insufficient, and the in
yestment dead loss.
Two men in Covington, Kentucky,
Peter Murphy and Henry Harrimen, re-
Gently fought across table with revolvers.
Nine shots were fred by both parties, but
without fatal result to either.
A New Hampshire man, having lost his
wife, caused stone TO be raised over her
grave, which, in the depth Of his grief, he
had ordered to be inscribed: clears can
not restore her; therefore weep"
Mrs David Smith Of Lebanon, Tenn,
recently gave birth to four children--two
boys and two girls - each weighing six
pounds. The mother and children are
doing well, and all are likely TO live.
A California lion, on exhibition in San
Francisco, thrust its paw through the bars
and seized u little boy near the cage by the
arm, drew him close to the cage, and then
tore his head horribly with the other paw.
The wife Of John Michaels, Of Bethany,
New York, flushed hoeing potatoes on Fri
day, and on Monday gave birth to three
daughters -one weighing II J. another III
and third 1O4 pounds-all as lively as
Guinea pigs.
A gentleman nemed Taylor, at Kalama-
zoo, Mich. came near losing his life, on the
Both ult., by catching his foot in lady's
"tilter" as he was passing her on q stair
way. lie was was precipitated to the bot
tom, and picked up insensible.
The Savannah Board of Aldermen has
adopted an ordinance prohibiting colored
persons from entering the public park, I'm
less nurses having white children with
them. Policemen ut the gates will enforce
the order.
In the Philadelphia criminal court,
recently. d colored woman named Elizabeth
Wilson was convicted Of the heinous crime
Of setting q colored boy, five years of age,
on stove and burning HIM in horrible
manner. She was sentenced to a fine of $50
and one years imprisonment.
1t is said that there is cave in the
mountains Of Schoharie county, New York,
which has been explored for distance Of
% miles. Parties are generally carried
four and half miles. 1t has fine halls,
splendid stalactites, and the usual wonders
and curiositics Of subterranean galleries.
On Monday evening three Catholic
priests and two students were drowned in
Annapolis Bay. They had started out on
boating excursion, when one Of the party,
Father Classens, accidently fell overheard,
and in attempting to rescue him the boat
was carsized. Only two Of the party were
saved.
-Smugglcrs on the Canada border have
been mixing castor oil and alcohol, and
entering the compound as preparation,
bearing duty Of so cents per gallon. The
ingredients are readily separated, and the
alcohol left pure, whereby the duty Of 81
per gallon on that article is rather neatly
saved.
Miss Emma Barth of Diamond Lake,
ILL.,, was seized with every symptom of
hydrophobia on the | lth, and is not expected
10 recover. Some three years ago, this
young lady was bitten by dog, but little
was thought Of it at the time, and yet,
after SO long an interval, the poison shows
ITSELF
1t is reported that o marked change in
the Horse Shoe Falls, at Niagara, has oc-
Cured within few days. Large portions
of rock have given way in the center of the
shoe, giving it a more triangular appear
ancc, which is said to add to its beauty. It
has been demonstrated that the falls recede
ten or twelve inches year.
Among the sad occurrences incident on
The late Portland fire may be mentioned the
fact that an old gentleman, IA years of age,
who, on the Sd inst, WAS worth at least
$40, 900 in real estate, is now one of the
daily applicants for rations, which he OBJ
tains in tin pail He wears to the city
delivery the only suit Of clothes he has
left.
At Mobile, few days ago, an inquest
was held upon the body Of Timothy Dris-
coll. The evidence before the jury was that
Driscoll, who was a Waterman, complained
on Thursday night that he did not feel well.
dnd the mosquitoes bothered him, and added
that he was going where they would not
disturb him. He had not been in good
health for some time.
The identical cannon which fired the
first shot in the late rebellion, passed
through Cairo on the 10Th, in charge Of
four members Of the 15,h United States
Regulars, en- route for Washington. It is
six-pounder. with a smooth bore, and was
used on Morris Island, in firing into the
steamer Star of the West ut the entrance Of
Charleston harbor on the 9th of January,
1861. II is an interesting rebel relic to be
added to the many already at Washington.