The Iowa transcript. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1858-1866, 1866-04-11
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Domestic Paragraphs.
The City Hall belh New York weighs
$4,000 pounds.
Taunton, Mass, ,oasts an Irishman
| 1O3 years old, and al to saw wood and
drink whisky.
The Nevada Transipt tells Of loafer
who has slept in horse, where he had
lodged every night for eeks
Mrs. Rowley recehy died at Tuscaro-
"a, steuben county, N. !, in the hundredth
year OF her age, leavlg nearly 200 direct
descendants.
The colored populaon of indianapolis
are having great rival of religion.
Eighty-three converts we're baptised on
Sunday by immersion.
- 1t has been decidd that "deserters
from the enemy duringthe rebellion, tina!
enlisted in the Union any, are not entitled
to Government bountiea'
The number of dSths in the United
States army during the ebellion, exclusive
of those who died from wounds and other
causes after reaching thir homes, amounts
to 253, 600.
Cameo buttons forfadies' jackets are
now the rage. They arepf immense size fire.
quently no two heads at alike. Steel and
silver chains-called Batons-are profuse-
ly used on bonncts.
The fin ding Of thu gas metre in the
ruins of Plies opera buse, at Cincinnati,
turned off as stated bVhe private watch
man, leaves the origin { the fire greater
mystery than ever.
At a temperance Meeting at South
Reading, Mass, on SundU night, the keeper
of the vilest liquor-holei in the town came
forward and renowned his business, and
pledged himself never use or sell rum
again.
-Philo Chase Of Litch cid, Conn, died
a few days ago, aged sscnty-fve years.
For the last twenty five yars his daily diet
has been three pints Of uilk and one of
whiskey. He adopted tht diet from the
conviction that solid food ijured him.
The Commercial List sys that Phila-
delphian, who, few yearsago, had reve-
nue. Of $4,000 per annum, and cut large
splurge among the bon To- of our city Is
now an attendant in an ating saloon in
New York, on salary Of few dollars
q week.
The Enquirer Company Of Cincinnati
have purchased all the prperiy on Vine
street, between the gas Ollie and Mozart
Garden, on which they win erect magni-
fcent opera house, with printing offices in
the rear.
1t is proposed to doubl the present ca
!, pacity of the Erie canal byhuilding a rail-
road track on each bank of ne canal so that
locomotives may be used 70 towing boats.
The present capacity Of the anal with horse
power is 5000, 900 tons for aseason Of ght
months.
A. 7. Stewards new residence in New
York. now nearly completed will cost 81,
| 5oO,0 900. Its ground size Isles by 90 feet.
| Height Of ceiling. first floor, feet; second,
- feet third. Is feet, basement 10 feet.
II will be altogether the mot elegant and
expensive building in Amerio.
A family Of five persons 'esided upon q
farm in Derry, New Hampshire, for period
was neither q birth. death, G marriage in
the family. Neither did thy during the
! time put letter into the lost Office, OF
take newspaper.
Helen Western, somewhat noted as ar
actress, was advertised to appar in 'elever
characters and clog dance at Pitts
burgh theatre. VIXEN we Rad of all tn,
new inventions for the .'make up" of fash
ionable ladies at the present line, 10 Nd
so difficult as might otherwis. seem for on
person to appear in SO many larts.
] "A Chicago correspondence the Spring
field Republican, speaking of he remains o
bodies found in the first named city, says
-. 1t is pleasant to know that bodies are
dissected and thrown into he lake from
which we draw our water for consumption
It must be pleasant for peoplewho have re-
Gently lost friends to reflect thlt in drinking
their tea they may be imhibig mild de
coction favored with tinctte of the one
lost"
On Saturday last Judge stowe, of the
Allegheny County Court, sentdced young
man named Noah Rea, to tufty-oae gears
in tae Penitentiary on threi charges OF
burglary and assault. Tweny one years
Of solitary confinement! Tht is a fearful
illustration of the barbarism 4 the system
in vogue in the Pennsylvania aate prisons.
Twenty one years without siglt of single
human face or hearing his own tame called
"A great 1st Of April hoax was perpe-
trated in Philadelphia. A mrning paper
published correspondence between President
| johnson and a suppositious President of a
| johnson Association in that cit, in which
the former promised to come to he city and
make a public address on that da Accord
ingly many people visited the lotel where
the President was supposed to We, and the
church at which it was ANNOUNCED that Sc
cretary Seward and Senator CGan would
accompany the President.
"A reporter. who was gettinaup an ac-
count of the mock-auction establishments of
New York for weekly paper, Aw in one
of the shops person whom he tok to be a
countryman bidding on watch He step
ped up to him and said, whispering in his
ear, "Do you know where you ire = This
is mock-auction concern" he fellow,
with an innocent look, replied, Il guess
not" and kept on with his biddig Going
by the place again on the following day, the
journalist observed the same fellw occupy
ing his old position and still hiding as a
"stool pigeon.
Foreign Gossip
1t is stated that the plays ofSophoclcs,