The Iowa transcript. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1858-1866, 1866-09-14

dian, and was born in Albany. There she
made and sold moccasins. My father, who
was negro, and a gentlemans servant, } aw
| her and married her. / was born at Green.
hill, Ohio" Whilst says the London .AMe
nGum, her youth, and her color claim our
warmest sympathies, Miss Edronia Lewis
has very engaging appearance and man.
ners.
Personal and Literary.
THE crown princess Of Prussia is losing
her reason from grief at the death of her
child.
,MoLLY MoLAssEs, a sweet squaw Of 1O3
summers, IL in camp with her tribe in
northern Maine.
BEN WooD has sold his paper, the New
York News, and retired, feeling that I" with
the close of civil war his mission was at an
end"
THE Rev. Henry Ward Deecher has
written another letter explaining and mod
flying his position. He declares that he is
still with the republican party.
KETcnuM lives we'll at Sing Sing, keeps a
refrigerator, receives calls in the prison
parlor, but has to wear the stripes, march
lock step, and 60 to meals with his proper
brethren.
Mr.. LEWIS GIDLEY has lately translated
into Latin the whole Of Poe's Raven as
measure which is described as being q
hve-line stanza Of trochaic tetrameter, with
trochaic dimeter- hypercataletic. "PhU-
bus, what name! !"
HEENAN and Morrissey have become mu-
tual friends. Morrissey says he is willing
to match Heenan to fight any man in the
world for $780, 600 side. 1t is reported th at
Joe Coburn and Heenan are likely to meet
in the prize ring at no distant day for .
arge stake.
Mr.. OREN CUMMINGS, Of East Montpelier,
VT, has this season cut, cured, and put in
the barn, the grass on thirty acres Of land.
lie has done this all himself, without the
help OF any person in any part Of the labor ;
OF course he used moving machine and .
horse-rake. He was about three weeks
doing his haying.
AUTHORS have occasionally amused them
selves by constructing lipr ograms, or writ
ings, in which certain letter is entirely
excluded. We are told Of Latin prose
work of Fulgentius, in % chapters, accord
ing to the order of Latin alphabet, in
the first Of which was omitted, in the
second b, and SO on to the last letter.
DR.. Busy illustrated a sound principle
when his school was visited by the King,
and the doctor marched into the room be-
fore his majesty with his hat on When re-
proved for his disrespect to royalty, he
apologized by saying: ~ could never govern
this herd of boys if allowed them to think
there was any man of greater authority
than DR.. Busby."
JuDdE NOAH DAVIS, holding the Circuit
Court in Warsaw, New York, on Monday
last, thus pronounced sentence on q man,
arraigned for selling liquor without license,
whose lawyer had begged that he might be
lightly dealt with: 'This court cannot
consent that the crime Of selling liquor con-
trary to law shall be reduced to the level of
the crime Of high treason, in which every
body goes free and nobody is punished. We
fine you $50, and you will be committed to
Jail until it is paid"
"PEoPLE about to marry" who wish to
know the proper ages, are referred to the
following presidents Adam and Eve, @ !;
Shakespeare, 1S; Ben johnson, 81; Frank
lin, "A; Mozart, 25; Dante, Kepler, Fuller,
johnson, Burke and Scott, %; Tycho,
Brahe, Byron, Washington and Bonaparte,
27 Penn and Sterne, %; Linnaus and
Nelson, %; Burns, so; Chaucer, Hogarth
and Peel, 80; Wordsworth and Davy, 33 !;
Aristotle, SO; Sir VIM. Jones and yelling
ton, 81; Wilberforce, So; Luther, AZ; Ad-
Olson, AZ; Wesley and Young, AZ; Swift
40; Button, 55 Old Parr, last time, 100.
If Adam and Eve married before they were
year old, and the veteran Parr buckled
with widow at 80, bachelors and spinsters
may wed at any age they like, and find
shelter under great names for either early
or late marriages.