The Iowa transcript. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1858-1866, 1866-07-18
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Domestic Paragraphs.
1T costs man 5000 in taxes year to
live in Norfolk, besides the risk he daily and
nightly runs Of be choked, garroted, robbed
and poisoned.
"A Portland man has invented q coffin
lid with mirror in it, SO that the face of
the deceased is visible to those at distance
This will help to expedite funeral ceremo-
MES.
a negro, who had abused woman in
| Floyd county, California, was caught. At
her request his captors cut off his arms and
skinned him, after which operation he lived
about ten minutes.
The Connecticut Legislature has granted
$4,000 for Homeopathic State Hospital,
which is to be paid when the friends Of the
hospital raise an equal sum for it.
Mrs Bowers. Mt Knoxville, Iowa, ad-
ministered morphine to her infant to quiet
its fretfulness few days ago. The remedy
succeed beyond expectations"-the child
was seized with spasms and soon died
MIR. Jay Cooke has contributed So, 900
for the endowment Of an additional theolog-
zeal professorship Mt Kenyon College,-and
has nominated the Rev. Dr. Bronson, rector
of the Episcopa! Church in Sandusky, to fill
the chair.
An exchange says, emo one can tell
what day may bring forth; but we can
tell what night recently brought forth to
young farmer in this vicinny-three
calves, two colts, eleven pigs, nine lambs
and baby"
In Holland, Massachusetts, the other
day, the sexton was seen driving into town
at Q brisk pace, in light trotting skeleton
buggy, with coffin strapped to the axle,
and funeral procession coming up in the
rear as fast as possible.
Two negro women were recently found
dead on the banks of the Luxapallia, east
OF Columbus. Mississippi, with bullet hole
through their heads. From the vessels
lying by them, it is supposed they were
gathering blackberries when killed.
Cornell University, at Ithaca, N. Y, is
well under way. 1t will be remembered
that Ezra Cornell gave $500, 900 for found
ing this University, and the State has
also made grants Of land which are likely
to prove valuable. The hope is expressed
that this institution will likely have an en-
dowment Of the value of $3,OO0.OOO.
The citizens of Edinburg. Ind, were
firing salute on the morning of the 4th, as
an excursion train was passing through.
The cannon was wadded with leather scra-
pings, and one Of the shots passed entirely
through passenger car, tearing hole .
foot in diameter, but fortunately injuring
no person.
In an Indianapolis court. recently the
officer sent to summon prisoner for sen
tence for robbery, by mistake produced a
..don't care parsonage named Miller con-
fined for assault and battery. He received
his sentence with great composure, and was
the party least affected in the crowd. when
the mistake was discovered and rectifed in
time to save him from entering on q term at
Michigan City.
The latest style of horse stealing.
as adopted at Middleport, Indiana,
Is as follows: The owner of the
horse makes bargain with thief
to take the horse TO Lafayette or In
dianapolis and sell him. The thief brings
name of the purchaser. Then the owner
goes and reclaims the horse as having been
stolen.
1u'rtr, at Charlottesville, writes as follows !:
The late Commodore Uriah r. Levy, Of
the United States Navy, the owner Of Mon
ticello, left, by his will, the property and
| 100000 TO establish school, free to all
denominations, at Monticello. The will
was contested by his widow and other
heirs, and has been set aside by the Su-
preme Court of the United States"
"A boy seven or eight years of age, be-
longing TO a family three miles south OF
Ma.kle. on the Huntington county line, who
had been in declining health for four or
five months, and who, in addition, had taken
the ague, took q heavy dose Of quinine, one
day last week, which caused him to vomit
| violently. In the process of vomiting he
| expelled from his stomach live snake IL
inches in length and about the size of an or
binary plpe-stem.
The Washington Star has the following:
"a few evenings since, a handsome young
lady in fashionable attire created sensa-
tion in one of the street cars by tendery
caressing great ugly brown toad which
she held in her hand, stroking it's back
fondly, and occasionally raising it to her
lips for a salute. The creature (the toad,
We mean) seemed to be thoroughly tanned
and quite Mt home, much to the disgust Of
some old ladies in the vicinity, who were
shocked at its playful attempts to scrape
| acquaintance with them"
The late minutes of the Nebraska An
nual Con ference show that there are in the
Territory twenty-three Methodist ministers,
occupying the towns and settlements along
the Missouri River from the Kansas line to
Decatur, and westward to Wood River, thus
maintaining the old glory Of the denomina-
| ton as the pioneer church. The member
! ships gathered by these apostolic laborers
now number 1,429, besides 500 probation
ers. Six churches and eight parsonages
| have been built, the total value Of which 10
! $53,395. Thirty-one Sunday Schools are
reported, having 226 officers and teachers,
and 1888 scholars.
| "A regular pond frog was discovered on
| the 18th, in the middle Of q large stone, ut
| Springfield, Kentucky. The stone was q
piece Of solid old blue limestone, which q
correspondent Of the Louisville Courier says
is the oldest stratum that crops out in the
State. The writer adds that the frog be-
gan to give signs Of life as soon as the
breaking Of the rock let in the air. In
short time he seemed eprightly and wide
awake. but soon began to show signs Of ex-
element and pain. lie was then placed in
a small glass jar, which was loosely corked.
| In this place he lived until Sunday night,
June II.
The Cleveland Herald of the 9th inst.
| gives thrilling story of brave mothers
devotion and peril. The dwelling house Of
Mr. SUIT 10 of Huron county, was burned
ON the Sd, with its contents. The parents
awoke to find their premises wrapped in
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