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

very day on which he was captured. This
is about to be published, and will prove
new and important link in the conspiracy.
1t shows beyond n doubt that Mrs. Surratt
was one Of Booths advisers, and was one of
the principal conspirators, for on certain
dates in this diary Booth has noted down n
memorandum like this "March l5. Mrs.
Surratt does approve OF suggestions made
to-day" etc. 1t is thought somewhat sin
gular that this was not produced on the
trial of the conspirators.
The garrotcrs of Memphis are mean
SGT of fellows Last week they robbed
man of IS and then kicked him nearly to
death because lie had no more. similar
brutality was exhibited by them in Chicago
few weeks ago.
Some years ago native Of Newhury-
port, now residing in Boston, met there
man intoxicated and in want. The man
sand he had been led away and was desir-
Gus Of assistance. He was taken in, and
when sober, money was furnished Lin to
return to his homc in New York. Recently
that man. ever after sober and respectable,
died rich, and recollecting the kindness
shown him by the ono who acted the part
of the good Samaritan, bequeathed him
$4,000.
A well-known manufacturer in Bcrk-
shire county went to New York in November
last, and bought \ quantity Of cotton, and
the next morning, just as he was taking the
ears to return, he was offered $4,000 for
his bargain. Thus in one night he made
this amount just in the rise of cotton.
OF all the smart" instances Of Yankee
ingenuity, perhaps the smartcst is the trick
,,la al bn NTH nf Na,x- Rrunc
wick after their recent offer Of So for the
snout of every bear killed within the colo
nv. large number Of shouts were recent
" brought in, chiefly by Indians, but in
course Of time it was discovered that most
of the trophies were limitations only. cum
ningly manufactured OF India rubber and
gu,ta percha, by clever manipulators in the
State of Maine, who sold them to the Indians
at half dollar each.
"A father and son put UP at the Juneau
house, Milwaukee, the other night, and up
on going to bed blew out the gas instead of
turning it off, When discovered they were
senselcss and pulscless. DR.. Crugom was
called in and by his assistance the lives of
the two men were saved, although they had
very narrow escape.
At the suggestion Of the empress, the
French government has decided that a GER
tainAumber of young girls educated at the
imperial school for orphans of military men
shall be provided with places in the tele-
graph Offices From % to 30 pupils are
practicing daily on Morse's apparatus, with
view to qualify themselves.
Young men in Lawrence, Kansas, have
to marry 10 get shelter from the weather;
landladies there take none but married peo
pie. The unfortunate youths say it is con-
spiracy between the young ladies and the
boarding house keepers.
The burning well, twelve miles below
Franklin, Penn, on the Allegheny, still at
tracts good deal Of attention. 1t contin-
ues to burn with undated fury, lighting up
the country for many miles. Each night
its brilliance is noted at Franklin, Reno,
Oil City, Clarion, and all the neighboring
towns. The steady heat which i, produces
has produced singular effects in its immedi-
ate vicinity. At q distance where the tenn
perature is suitable, circle of green and
beautiful grass has rapidly grown up, and
is now from two to four inches high. Some
hickory trees, standing within range, have
commenced budding in oil the luxuriancc OF
summer. The scene is spoken OF as one OF
the most magnificent, and ut the same time
most interesting which can be conceived.
A family at Tuftonboro has the follow
ing queer makeup: Two grandmothers,
three mothers, one father, three sons, three
daughters, two aunts, four sisters, four
grandchildren, two cousins, two brothers,
one neice, one nephew, one daughter and
one sister-in-law.
An old bruiser, on the verge of delir-
ium tremens, attempted to butt out his
brains in the county Jail because he fancied
they were going to hang him. Backing out
like goat, he took six square drives at the
wall striking as if shot from a catapult,
"but weakened on the seventh, conclud-
ing that he either had no brains to dash
out, or that the shell was too hard to crush.
The largest army ever assembled ut any
one time during the revolution was that
commanded by Gen. Putnam, on Long Is.
land. That numbered 1900 men of all
arms. The next largest was that with which
Washington captured CORVALLIS at York
town, when he had 10000. Our largest
army assembled in 1872 was commanded
by Jackson at New Orleans, and counted
but 5000 Coming down to the Mexican
war, Taylor won his victories with a force
never exceeding 5000, and SCOTS largest
force never exceeded $500 The largest
army prior to the late war was, therefore,
that Of Putnam, at Long Island-l7,OoO.
"A Boston gentleman paid $500 recent
ly for q special train to take him to Port
land that he might catch the outgoing Eng
land steamer.
r-Dan Rice, has just returned from a tour
through the Southern States, with his
menagerie and circus, and the Erie Dispatch
1,nl1 ,yst
the subject. He states that "except at Gov
eminent institutions, at soldiers barracks
or officers headquarters, the United States
flag was rarely seen. No steamer below the
mouth of the Ohio flies the flag, no hotel in
the Southern cities spreads it to the breeze,
and no menagerie or circus even, which
usually displays the flag of all nations,
raises it. The mcnagerie with which he
was connected was made an exception at
his own request"
"A young man and young woman in
Berkshire county, Mass, went to clergy
man to be married, the other day, and stood
up to have the marriage ceremony perform
ed, when the enquiry was made by the
expectant bride, if the young man would
ting liquors. This he declined to do, and
the parties went home unmarried.
Some friends of o widow washcrwo-
man, who owned a bit of land at Pit Hole,
got her consent to sink well upon it, and
the result is barrol of oil every ten min
utes. She had several offers of marriage
Immediately.
"A "food preserving company" has been
organized at Baltimore to operate under q
patent process by which is claimed
oysters, meats and fruts1oAn be preserved