The Iowa transcript. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1858-1866, 1866-05-09

Domestic Paragraphs.


The new paper shirts are to be sold 70
twenty five cents each.
--Sententious epitaph in q Scoobe
i Miss cemetery: Tho rottin, not forgot
ten"
The Protestant Methodists, Wesleyans
and kindred chnrches. who believe in Ia
representation, and do no, believe in B:sh
ops, are to hold a Convention in Cincinnati
commencing May 8, 10 continue ten days.
The author of tho "Hard Shell Ban
| list" sermons, which created consilerab,
amusement some years since, has recent
turned out to be William P. Brannan, o
| Cincinnati, 0.
The municipal authorities Of Bosto,
have enacted tina the bowling aud blliar,
saloons of that city shall be closed at te,
o'clock every evening except Saturday, ant
| from SIX O'Clock on that evening until owe,
Sunday.
The Chicago Tribune is pleased to lear,
that each city scavenger has only an aver
age Of thirty miles Of streets to attend to
and that if no moro filth is deposited. tn,
present refuse may, BY hard work, be re-
moved in six years.
The rapacious New York landlor Is hay;
oversh OF the mark. Since the moving tins
Of April l. there are many houses for rem
and no takers. Four hundred houses are
noted by one newspaper as labeled "Fo,
Rent"
"A man n,msd Fleming died at Lock.
port. Will county. recently, aged TO- years
having been born in i764 Was never .ich
IN his life, not even to the extent Of o head
ache or toothache, aid was never 9 suffere,
from anything in the way of accident.
"A Homeopathic Life Insurance Com
rany is about to 60 into operation in AL
bany. It proposes to Issue policies of in.
surance upon the lives Of persons who arr
patrons Of homeopathy, at ten per cent
less than the rate imposed upon persons
employing allopathic treatment.
A prominent undertaken of Indianapo-
lis, Ind, is busy making very large stock
of collins, in view Of the approach of the
cholera, and appears to be enjoying himself
very much Among the hundreds of wood
en- overcoats there is not one that fits the
proprietor. Is that suggestive Of life insu-
rance?
lin the months Of January and Febru-
airy the excess of passengers west Of Chi
cago above those returning to the East, was
estimated at 8 BOD each month. In March
the excess Of travel West was 5,40O. and
for April it will probably reach 10000,
showing that the emigration westward is
increasing at rapid pace.
Two boys in New York recently stole a
tin box containing nearly $1,000. They
had been reading the papers and probably
intended to " compromise" with the owner
or the detectives for half the money. They
made one mistake, they did not steal enough.
Had they taken hall million dollars, or
even one hundred thousand, there would
have been hope for them. AZ it was they
went to jail
The owner Of large dog at Grand
Rapids. Mich, few days ago placed q one
hundred dollar looking-glass before his
canine to worry him. The dog few around,
barking and growing. The owner was de-
lighted and cried "Sick 'em;' the dog
"sicked;" the mirror and the "other dog
disappeared at the same time. The Joke
rather turned o n the owner.
THE following public journals are edit.
ed by co'tr d men:
The Cotgred Ieanesseeda, Nashville: the
Commuaicator, Baltimore, Maryland; An.
Glo African. New York; Christian Recorder,
Philadelphia, Pacific appeal. San Francisco,
California; Coiored Citizen, Cincinnati
New Orleans oTlbuns: Natonlist, Mobile,
Alabama; Loyal Georgian, Augusta, Geor-
gia.
The Cleveland Herald tells Of q young
German. recently married in that city, Who,
on the goth, was taken suddenly i'll, and, as
was supposed. died on the 22d. While
watching by the corpse on the Esd, his wife
perceived motion Of the body, and soon
after q second movement was observed By
others present. physician was called, re-
storatives applied. and the young man saved
from the dreadful fate of burial alive.
A sycamore tree was cut down a few
days ago OF Ferry Point, Va, and in maui
ing it up lock Of hair was discovered in
the centre Of thet tree. about four feet from
the ground. The hair appeared to be
curl from female head. and must have
been nut in it's position some fifty or sixty
years ago. A hole had been gouged to the
heart Of the tree, the hair put in and the
hole plugged up. The place had afterwards
grown over, and the cavity was found to be
in the heart Of the tree. The hair appear
ed to he as fresh as if lately Gu. from the
human head.
The Newburyport Hsrrld publishes a
statement of Charles II. Golden, in Jail
there on charge of burglary, in which he
claims to have been very intimate with Mrs.
Cunningham and her family, and knew all
about the projected murder Of DR.. Burdell,
in Bond street, New York. several years ago.
He says, among other things. that Mrs. Cum
ningbam offered him SIS 900, and her
daughter Augusta in marriage If he would
murder DR.. Burdell, by whose death Mrs
Cunningham would sc, $4,000. He lie
clined the job. but took Augusta to the the
atre, returned with her 10 Bond street, and
slept in the house that night. knowing. be-
fore he went 70 bed. that the murder had
been committed, The confession looks SEN
sational, bu. may be true.