The Iowa transcript. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1858-1866, 1866-05-16
Western Matters.

The salary of the governor Of Caliio rnia
10 $4,000 in gold.
The organ Of the Fenians in San Francis
co, Cal, is printed in green ink.
Edward P. Eastman, the head Of the
Chicago Branch Of Eastman's Business
College, died on the 10th inst.
An infamable stone has been discovered
in La Fayette county, Wis, which is Of .
clay color and burns like bituminous coal.
Jacksonville, Ind, has been announced
to be the principal depot in the Quarter
masters Department in the place Of City
Point, Va.
Three ministers we're arrested at Palmyra,
Mo-, last week, and placed under $1,000
bonds each, for preaching without having
taken the new constitutional oath.
Horace Rublee, Esq, Of Wisconsin, has
been nominated by the President as United
States Consul to Rotterdam. Mr.. Rublee,
10 editor of the Madison Journal.
William B. Shoemaker, Sheriff Of Gentry
county, No., was found dead in the road, .
few days ago, with pistol-shot in his
head. He is supposed to have been muir
dered.
The steamer Enterprise was wrecked on
Rock Island bridge on Monday. She sunk
close to Davenport, Iowa. Loss estimated
ct $4,000.
A negro man ct Cincinnati, o., sued the
judge at an election for refusing his vote.
He claimed $4,000 damages, and the jury
gave him one cent.
The city government Of Louisville, KY,
pays one cent each for every dead rat
brought to it, killed within the city con-
fines.
Mrs. Elizabeth Draebing committed sui
eide in Cincinnati on the 10th, by cutting
her throat with carving knife. This
makes the seventh case Of self-destruction
in that city within two months.
On the 9Th inst, nan names Drenin
Nichols and his two children, living in Hi.
nois, nearly opposite Muscatine, were
drowned by the upsetting Of skiff. His
wife made narrow escape.
Thurlow w. Brown, the well-known pio-
neer Of temperance, to which cause he has
devoted nearly his whole life, died at Fort
Atkinson on the 4th, Of consumption from
which he had suffered year and half.
A rabid dog bit some 40 fine merino sheep
1t Galesburg, Mich, some three weeks
since, and within the last few days symp.
toms Of hydrophobia appeared among them
and IL died in the course Of day or two.
On the night Of the 7th, five fires occur
red in Chicago, oceassioning $3.50, 900 loss.
At one Of them, barrels Of kerosene ex-
ploded with noise like cannon, and the oil
running on Chicago river, gave it the ap-
pearance of stream Of FIRE.
Fort Goodwin, Arizona, has been captur-
ed by the Indians, and its garrison, num-
bering one hundred and twenty-four per-
sons, massacred, with one exception. It is
thought the Indians gained admission to the
fort under pretext Of entering into treaty
Of peace.
A Convention of Railroad officers was
held ct Indianapolis on the 10th, and . new
schedule Of freights, making considerable
advance in prices, was adopted. Nineteen
railroads were represented. The new rates
make the following charges: For -four from
Cincinnati and Chicago to New York, all
rail, $l.lO; from Louisville, $l.3O; from
St Louis and Quincy, $l.4O; from Column
bus, 81
Sterling King, = notorious horse thief. and
who made confession some time since de-
claring that he was an sccomplice in the
assassination Of President Lincoln, died
yesterday on board the steamer plying be-
tween Louisville and Cincinnati. His death