The Iowa transcript. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1858-1866, 1866-02-14

ISL IkIANAN0lSs
= The widows in India are growing SEN
sibie They are beginning to marry again.
instead of burning themselves on the funeral
| piles of their deceased spouses.
Twenty seven school children, while
+. skating on the ice Of reservoir at Celma,
Ohio, on Wednesday last, broke through,
and all were drowned before help could
reach them.
| The Profcssorship Of Greek and Latin
in the Baker University, Kansas, is accept
ably filled by Miss Martha Baldwin, grad
uatc Of the Berea (Ohio) University. She
has occupied the chair for year, and at
the late Commencement was selected by the
faculty to deliver the annual address, which
duty she performed very handsomely. She
is but Il years Of age.
The New York Evangelist says that
Father Agapius, the Greek Church priest
who made such sensation in New York II
few months since by officiating in An Epis-
copal Church there, has been turned out Of
his church by his ecclesiastical supcriors,
for countenancing church outside of the
Apostolic succession, and the Father, dis
gusted, has made application to be received
into the Presbyt terrain Church.
There is more skating on Central Park,
New York, on Sunday. than any other day.
The crowd there Sunday, 4th inst. was esti-4
mated at 100000, no less than $4,000 being
skaters.
A large addition to the well known
Glen House, at the White Mountains, which
was in process of construction, was blown
down by tornado few days since.
- The new ship canal across the Isthmus
/ 10 nnvn in r,nnsn n~1n
A verdant but terribly determined pair
of clippers were married in the cars near st.
Louis the other day. The passengers
liked it.
Nevada is on the eve Of adopting tho
national currency (greenbacks); and things
are working toward the same result in Cali
fornia.
-Obrien county, Iowa, was organized
some five or six years ago; has never had a
population Of over thirty never polls over
ten votes; and yet has county debt Of
$4,000.
Seven persons have just escaped from
4 Sing Sing. This makes fifteen or twenty
who have broken Jail there within month
or two.
| Two brothers, both old men and smart,
are living in Essex, Mass, within four miles
OF depot, yet have never stepped into
railroad car.
= Bierstadt's new picture, ga Storm on
| the Rocky Mountains" has just been fn-
ished and placed on exhibition in New York.
The young lady students of the Seneca
Falls Academy have organized literary
society, which meets once week, and call
themselves "The Go-Home- Alones.''
False announcements Of marriage are to
be punished by fine of $500 and five years
Imprisonment, in Pennsylvania.
The match trade for the present year,
it is estimated, will amount to $9,OOO,OOO.
| Adams Express Company found out,
without much difficulty, who stole half
million recently, but they are unable to
learn the whereabouts Of Joseph NJ. Hoad-
ley, who has had dog sent to him by ex-
press.
Mr.. Trenholm, Secretary of the Con
federate States" Treasury, testiAes that,
just before the evacuation Of Richmond, the
total amount Of specie in the possession Of
the rebel government was between $500, 900
and $4OO, 900, part Of which was distributed
among the soldiers of Johnson's army, and
part among the military escort of JEFF.
Davis.
| There are now twenty three daily and
weekly newspapers published in Tennessee.
In Alabama there are over AZ 900 per-
sons in state Of destitution.
The appointment Of Notary Public has
been conferred upon Miss Stebbins, in
Chickasaw county, Iowa.
The thieves are getting sharper and
sharper in New York. On Monday week a
young man Of pleasing address made several
purchases in jewelry store in Maiden
Lane. and rendered q thousand dollar bank
bill in payment. While the shopman was
counting the change at his safe carriage
drove up, and man leaping out, handcuffed
the customer in q trice, announced himself
rs a detective, ordered the jeweller to fol-
low to the TOmbs to prefer q charge against
the man 50 nearly successful in passing
counterfeit money upon him, and hurried
off with the prisoner, sjewelry, and bank
note all in his possession. The mcrchant
made his way to the Tombs, but could find
nothing Of either detective or criminal. and
at last discovered Inst he had been robbed
by the conniyancc Of two skillful confeder-
ates
Prof. Newton, Of Yale College, has been
to Washington for the purpose of submitting
to Congress . system Of metricsl weights
and measures, and to aid in endeavoring to
secure the passage Of q law establishing that
system throughout the States.
The young men Of Rushville, Ind, have
agreed to total abstinence for o year, on the
condition that every one who violates the
pledge shall be published in the papers.
! 1t is not generally known that soldiers
who have lost limbs in the Service Of the
United States are entitled to artificial sub
stitutes, that can be procured upon the pre-
sentation Of evidence Of honorable dis
charge, and that the wound causing the loss
Of the limb was received in service. They
are furnished free of charge, and do not
affect any pension or bounty claim the SOL
der may have against the Government.
-Kourakine, Georgian; prince was re-
Gently SO unfortunate as to get in the way
of rambling bullet. His bereaved widow
has but seven million dollars on which to
lament his loss.
Liquor is sold at l, 400 places in Wash
ington, one for every ninety Of. the popula-
ton. NJ
There isn't . single printer confined in
any Of the N. Y. State prisons. What
| good lot they r.ust bel This is particularly
striking, considering the number Of deriis
employed.
"A French newspaper recently an
nounced that mono Of its subscribers had
died Of the cholera, that few Of its sub
scribers were peck marked, and these were
subscribers for only three months, and that
three only were bald, and they were in ar
rears with their subscriptions.
LIN 1850, Mr.. Garnet, living near Au-