The Iowa transcript. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1858-1866, 1866-10-05
domestic Parayraphs.

-Ine new 1 OrK I1tOHHc Claims 10 nave
gained $4,000 new subscribers since the LIST
Of August
"A man in South Carolina sends boy
! every day 80 miles on horseback to get his
daily paper.
+ 1t is said that drained land is generally
at least ten degrees warmer in summer than
that in which water stands stagnant.
The Raleigh Progress has begun pub
fishing the initials of the young uen who
misbchave in the Raleigh churches.
| There are published in Boston one hun
dred and twenty newspapers, of which
eight are daily. In New York there are
about two hundred, Of which seventeen are
daily.
| Tho Civil Engineer Of the Chicago,
Burlington y Quincy Railroad has arrived
at Quincy with corps of assistants to take
observations for the site of the proposed
bridge across the Mississippi at that point.
The New York papers, with one excep-
ton, wish to raise the price Of their jour
nails from four to six cents for single copies.
Bennett alone obstinately blocks the move
ment, and il is hoped even he viii soon
yield.
The rascal who counterfeited the
United States los was o modest man. PEI
| terson's Detector says "the toes of the
female on the right end can scarcely be
seem" 1t is difficult to count her toes on
this counter feet
Tho Portland Transcript tells story
illustrating the thieving carried on at the
fire. 1t says that man and his wife, who
were burnt out and went over to the Cape to
board, on being shown to their room found
it furnished with their own furniture.
| The Lincoln Monument Fund has
reached $4,000. It is invested in Govern
ment securities, and the interest ia being
added to the principal. No design has yet
been adopted, and here is an excellent
opening for some artist to show his taste and
genius.
+ A Maryland farmer tried to start q
balky horse attached to q wagon filled with
wheat. by firing sheaf under him. The
/ horse kicked the blazing sheaf into the
wagon, which was consumed with its con-
tents, the horse being narrowly rescued
from like fate.
Martha Grinder, the incarnate fend
who killed the young and beautiful Mrs.
Caruthers land it is believed others) at
Pittsburg, Pa, by slow poison, subjected
the victims husband to the same terrible
treatment, with even worse result. He
is now a raving maniac.
The Episcopalians Of New York arc Sc
| riously debating the extension of the Epis
copatc, particularly with reference to the
erection of one or more new Dioceses under
the jurisdiction Of the present Bishop Of
New York, whom, in such case, some Of the
clergy and laity would favor creating Arch
bishop.
Underground travelling increases at .
surprising rate in London. In the first six
months of 1868 the number of passcnge
carried on the Metropolitan line was 4, 1913, :
437 in 1864 for the same period, it was
500, 1856 in 1865, it was !, 462, 1913, but in
the first half Of the present year it rose to
lO,303,395
A singular strike has taken place
among the clergy in Buckeyedom, where q
number of ministers of the Ohio conference
Of the Methodist Protestant church recently
held . meeting at Sabina, and resolved.
after earnest discussion, that they would
decline taking appointmentsthe coming year
unless they were assured Of salary Of at
least ST., 900.
"A correspondent of the Selma Messenger
describes the ice mountains, eighteen miles
| from Romney, West Virginia, as hill some
800 feet high, at the foot Of which issues a
stream of ce-cold water, while on the side,
by turning up the loose rocks, ice may be
found in the middle Of summer, the writer,
as he states, having personally tested the
fact.
At the sinking of the Linnie Drown, a
planter from Kentucky, bound to Washing
ton county, Ark, when awakened, seized
his carpet sack containing eight thousand
| dollars and rushed into the cabin, where he
saw lady struggling in the water. He
threw away his carpet sack and money,
aad, selling the lady, carried her to place
Of safety.
The city editor of the Cleveland Plain
deale, has received the present Of "little
stranger" snugly packed in basket, with
| note attached requesting that "the child
| be taught to be an editor" The Plaindeal-
! er man doesn't consider such thing as pro-
perly belonging to the perquisites of his
office, and, to place the child beyond the
corrupting influences of the dead head gang,
has turned him over to the infrmary.
| A certain preacher was holding forth
to somewhat wearied congregation, when
he lifted up his eyes to the gallery and be-
held youngster pelting the people below
with chestnuts. Dominic was about to ad-
minister ca cahedra sharp and stringent
reprimand for this fragrant act of impicty
aud disrespect, but the youth, anticipating
him, bawled out at the top Of his voice !:
"You mind your preaching, daddy, and I'll
keep 'em awake"
Less than year ago, Sarah Ready, q
young girl employed in one of the upper
| rooms Of the Atwater block, at Cleveland,
was descending the stairs, and playfully
leaning over the banister, lost her balance,
fell to the basement floor, and was instantly
killed. On Wednesday evening last, Miss
Maggie Stockinger, who was employed in
the room, while descending the stairs, fell
over the bannister to the floor aud was in
stantly killed.
i In addition to samples Of fractional
currency, the Treasurer Of the United
States, Gen. Spinner, is now prepared to
furnish sets Of perforated postage currency
first issue). The cost of set Of the per-
forated currency is ninety cents, making
the total cost Of a specimen Of each issue
| of postage and fcac,innal civ dollars and
sixty hive cents. There is scarcely . mail
in which there are not number Of letters
applying for specimens, from all sections Of
the country.
A verdict was recently given in the Cir
cnit Court in Jefferson county, Wisconsin,
by which the administrators Of Francis l.
Bishop recovered $1,000 from the Chicago
s. Northwestern Railroad company rs dam
ages for killing the little girl Of the deceased,
aged eleven years. The train did not stop
long enough for her to get from the car, and
she was crushed to death in making the at
tempt. The accident har pened at Fort At