The Iowa transcript. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1858-1866, 1866-02-14

m.n on his death bet confessed to the crime
FOR which Garnet suffered; the first wife,
Of her conduct, hunted him up.
her cruelty, a reconciliation was
effected, and the second wife voluntarily
gave up her claim. The first wife now lives
with her husband, and the second is liber-
ally endowed.
A couple who were engaged tifty-fivc
years ago had falling out, aud the young
man subsequently married and lost three
wives, while the lady married and lived
fifty-thrcc years, raising n large family.
The original couple recently met, revived
their first love, were married, and arc now
living happily at Lynn, Susquehanna CO.,
---Wcstminstcr Abbey has just celebrated
its 8OOth anniversary.
The London Times says, At the present
rate Of reduction, the English national debt
will be cxtinguished in about 400 years;
under these circumstances, it is doubtful
which will be cxtinguishcd iirst the nation
or the debt.
liver one million Of Webster spelling
books have been sold in the South since last
April, and the demand 10 SO much greater
than the supply, that the publishers have
sent to Europe to getit printed. Sf
The sports about Detroit and their con-
frercs arc greatly excited over n "caninc
dispute" for $500 side, which is soon to
be settled in that city, or its immediate
neighborhood. Tho dogs have been in
training for the combat about three weeks
The quiet inhabitants Of Norwalk, Con-
necticut recently had decided sensation in
their village. Sunday night the body
snatchcrs attempted TO resurrect" the
body Of young lady who had been buried
that afternoon; and succeeded beyond their
anticipatione. She had been buried while
in catalcptic fit, and upon being exposed
to the night air animation was restored.
The resurrectionists fled and she walked
home. Her parents refused to admit her,
believing her to be ghost She then went
to the house of n young man to whom she
was engaged. He took her in, and On
Monday morning they were married.
Apples impreguatcd with strychninc
are the latest mode by which the travelling
thief operates upon his fellow passenger be-
fore working" his pockets.
One of the richest merchants of Phila-
delphia commenced his mercantile career as
the proprietor OF an apple-stand, while one
Of the bankers Of Cleveland first became
known upon his present business street as
the vender Of pop corn.
A man named Dclvin. in Maine, has
playing practical jokes on him while drunk
We advise her to quit her Derlta.
The story is told of a clerk of an Eng
lish church, who, finding it very difficult Il
pronounce the names of Shadrach, Mesh.
ach and Abedncgo, which occur II times in
the third chapter of Daniel, read them only
once, and in the subsequent passage referred
to them as "the aforesaid gentlemen
A laboring man in Rochester, N. r., I
few days since tasted bitterness in his cot
fee. His suspicious being aroused, he made
inquiry at the drug store, and found hi
wife had purchased strychninc, and hat
attempted to poison him, for she loved an
other man.
Two ladies in Waterbury, CT, dressed
themselves in fantastical garments and start
ed for the post office. They were met or
the corner of one Of the streets by gang O.
ruffians who detained them half an hour
insulting them. They finally sought refug,
in q mansion near by, and were escorted
home. A warning to fast damsels.
I'm the skating ponds of Brooklyn, N. Y.
catching creased pigs has become one Of
the standing attractions.
A Washington correspondent Of tht
New York Ereniny Post severity criticise.
the fresco painting in the dome of the capl
toll for which the government pays the sun
of $4,000. He says the plaster has beer
hoI vnl a,,I Il: ahct
stretch across and dive about the picture
making the whole look as dangerous to 4
person beneath as the rain soaked ceiling O
an attic.
During the past year, conscience money
in sums varying from one cent to hundred.
Of dollars, and in the aggregate amounting
to 10000, WAS deposited in the vaults O
the Treasury Department.
The authorities of prison in Canad,
advertise rs follows: "Wanted, a respect
able man to act rs turnkey in countr,
prison. One who understands music, chi
play the organ, and sing bass, would b
preferred"
There is considerable excitement il
New York over the proposed removal of st
Paurs II. Z. Church, opposite the site 0
Barnum's former museum, and the devotion
Of the grounds to a palatial stable for tn,
care Of the horses of the several railroa,
lines which centre at that vicinity. In tn,
Broadway front, which is really the front 0
the church, is buried Gen. Montgomery
who fell at the assault on Quebec, and who's
body was carried from the field BY Aaroi
Burr; while in the yard surrounding In,
church is buried the body Of Alexander
Hamilton, who was basely assass mated
in duel by the same Aaron Burr.