The Iowa transcript. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1858-1866, 1866-02-28

INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS.

The steamer Winchester, running be-
tween pittsburg and Parkersburg, was
burned on the morning Of the sd, with the
loss Of fifteen lives.
A fire at Peru H., on the Esd, consumed
the distillery of Messrs. Delaney. Loss
So0,o00--no insurance.
The Indianapolis Journal, Of the odd,
gives these particulars On last Monday, a
desperate named Azrael w. Flynn, had ma.
tured plan for the murder of six OF the
citizens of Medora. in jackson county. He
went first to the store Of ar. Emery, and
there tried TO provoke quarrel with Ste
phen Emery, who was one of his intended
victims. In the course OF the alteration,
Emery told Flynn that he was a robber,
counterfeiter, etc. Flynn told Emery that
he would kill him before night. Flynnthen
went to the store of Mr.. Holmes with the
evident intention Of numbering Mr.. Holmes
and his son but before he could carry out
his plan, stephen Emery came in and found
Flynn sitting on chair, and said to him !:
II am told that you intend to kill me, and
you said so yourself now, d-m you, do
it," Flynn turned slightly, as if he would
draw weapon, and just at that instant
young Emery fired. The pistol ball took
effect in the side Of the neck, just behind
the left car, and passing obliquely, cut the
carotid artery. As soon rs the first shot was
fired, Flynn started up, when he received
shot in the left eyebrow, and then one in
the forehead directly above the nose. Flynn
then fel. against the counter, when Emery
shot again, the ball taking effect about an
inch above the right nipple. AT last Flynn
fell on his face on the floor, and Emery
closed the scene by shooting him for the
last time in the back of the head The pub
lie opinion Of the community is SO much in
favor Of the course of Emery that, up to
last adyices, he had not been arrested, and
most probably never will be.
On Thursday evening last, Phillip Nc
Bryde and his wife, of Putnam township,
Fulton county, H., on returning home from
a visit to his father, about two miles from
his residence, discovered, on unwrapping
their babe, about three months old, that the
child was wrapped up 100 close to keep it
warm, and was smothered to death.
The eight o'clock through Washington
train of the New Jersey railroad, being de-
tanned by fog, on the morning of the I'D,
ran into wood train which was switching
across the track, out of time, at East New
ark. The locomotives were both demolished,
and two cars of the Washington train were
badly smashed. Three brakemen were Sc
riously injured, one having both legs shock
ingly jammed, and another, it is feared, is
injured internally.
John S. Pearson, who murdered Walter
Greg ny in the town of Waikiki, Orange
county, n. Y, on the oath of last September,
was executed at Goshen in that State, Oh
the 22d.
A fire at Grand Haven, Mich, on the 1st
destroyed fourteen stores and q dwelling
house. Loss $4,000
A man named Oben Silkwood, nea,
/ Grand Pass Landing, in Green county, ILL.,,
died on last Sunday morning from the etfec
Of pulling one of his teeth. He pulled The
/ tooth himself and bled to death.
A young factory girl, named Mary Shcri
dan, met with terrible death, at Fulton
bridge on plank which was slippery will
ice, and under which was shafiing which
revolyed one hundred times q minute, She
slipped and fell, and was torn to pieces in.
stantly by the machinery.
At st. Paul, Mimi, on the 18th, young
man named John Babelin was caught be
tween the cog-wheels of planning factory
and cut in two, killing him instantly.
At least thousand persons have persisted
| in the storms Of the sea off the English
coast within the brief space Of the last few
weeks.
ORIGIN OF CERTAIN HABITs.-Many Of tho
most pernicions habits were contracted
originally for the sake OF health. Wine and
distilled liquors are taken to strengthen
tobacco, opium and lasheesh to relieve low
spirits card playing to amuse. But toe
often, the persons who innocent]y acquire
such habits know not how to limit the ex-
tent Of the indulgence, or to abandon them
entirely when found to be prcjudical. The
dose Of excitement must be increased; habit
exerts its sway; we are incloscd in its net
and happy is he who is able with resolute
effort to extrcate himself from it.
......That was not an empty remark of the
old lady from the country, who, while on .
visit to her city daughter, saw waterfall
for the first time. " hat do you call thai
| great etntlcd bap Mary 2 y ssThat'S n wa