The Iowa transcript. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1858-1866, 1866-09-21
CURRENT ITEMS.
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Lowell has 437, 200 spindlcs In opera
ton this year, and Fall River 42S,OOO
"A lady In San Francisco has been fined
and imprisoned for wearing the bloomc'
costume.
"A noted courtesan of Cincinnati, Mrs
Thomas, died on the 7th, and left $50, OO(
to charitable institutions.
Rochester, N. Y, is to he made the
seat of new Catholic Diocese so Bishop
Timon announces in late discourse in that
city.
1T Is reported that the reason why Ber-
nard Friery died SO easy was because the
cap which cavered his face was saturated in
chloroform.
"A rich lady in Nashville, large real
estate owner, has voluntarily reduced her
rents 33A per cent. The usual plan is to
voluntarily increase them.
The census Of Mobile recently taken,
shows . population Of 4O,962. OF this
number. $4,000 are negroes-showing an in
crease Of 5000 in six years.
The husband of woman who was
killed by . locomotive recently, in Portland,
lIe., has sued the railroad company on the
ground "that she was his only support"
"A tourist at Niagara Falls writes that
when he sees the approach of q man,
woman, child, or Indian, he puts his hand
in his pocket, and inquiries, swell, how
much 7"
Tho New York Herald, September 9th,
publishes schedule Of q claim preferred
against an insurance company for lady g
wardrobe. destroyed by fire in that city,
which foots up $2l, 900!
AT Detroit great iron ferry boat has
been launched to ply at the railroad cross
ing Her tonnage is 1900 tons Upon the
two tracks running the length Of the steam
er can be placed fourteen cars.
The citizens of St. Peter, Mimi. have
subscribed and paid in the sum Of $1,000
required for the purchase Of the Dorning-
ton farm for presentation to the State Of
Minnesota for Insane Asylum purposes
1t is stated that New Haven is the only
place in the United States where fishhooks.
needles, and steel DO we'd specta cles are man
ufactured. Needles, however, are now man
ufaotured in Bridgeport and other places.
"A wedding was to take place at Nash
vie one evening last week, and bride, par
son and guests were ready, when it was an
nounced that the unhappy groom was on .
jury which was unable to agree, and had
been locked up for the night.
An alligator, about two feet in length,
was discovered in cellar, 5i3 Broadway,
New York, one Monday morning. 1t was
supposed he was Matched from an egg acct
dentaily dropped during the recent stay Of
Van Amburg's menagerie next door.
DR.. Potter, of Tionesta, venango
county. Pa, recently drove pair of horses
100 miles, on an ordinary country road, in
hours aad IL minutes, stopping once to
feed AID twice to water. He after wards
refused $4,000 for his team
Alta iIebre :, temple in Cincinnati pews
were sold fer $1,000, and premiums were
bia aJ NJ "A CD $500. Two hundred thou
sand dollars was realized, the most liberal
ren.ir, il ~ history Of edi6ces for divine
worship Ia this or any other country.
"A col-ai5sion firm in Atlanta, Georgia,
on tie l6tn last, received thirty bales Of
cottoa Tor sale, which, when opened, were
found 70 consist Of fifty per cent Of heavy
lCs.5, with several chunks of rusty iron,
which tse13 naaily slowed away in the CEN
tire Of I've bales aud artfully concealed from
visr.
A young lady named Mary Dougherty,
residing ia Charleston, s. c., was killed re-
Gently, in u singular manner. She was en-
ployed in making up the bed Of the proprie-
toi OF tie house in which she lived, when
loaded pistol which had been left under the
pillow, fell upon the floor, and the contents
were discharged into her thigh and abdo-
men.
I'm lead mine, in Tennessee, recently,
some specimens of red sandstone were
broken open, and one was found to contain
petrified human hand, In perfect state
of preservation. In other cases, parts Of
animals were found, and one black snake,
some five feet long, was found, Of the con-
sistency and weight of the stone.
The Columbus (Ohio) Journal says that
Mr.. NJ. L. Sullivant formerly of that city,
has sold to Mr.. Alexander Of Kentucky six
teen thousand acres Of what he called his
home farm in Illinois. The proceeds Of
the sale amounts to 100000. This was a
part Of the farm in Champaign county, and
but . small section Of Mr.. Sullivants pos
sessions.
"A gentleman, resident of Cleveland, be
came crazy on Monday, on hearing that his
brothers, sister and her husband, and their
family, had all died Of cholera at Cincin-
natl. He was ON Tuesday morning found
roaming through the streets, needless Of the
tears and entreaties Of his wife, who was
trying to persuade himto return home. The
police took him home, where he has to be
gurded and confined to his room.
1t is the duty of each member Of the
Mt. Holyoke Female Seminary to write an
annual letter, stating whether she is m ar
ried or single, how many children che has,
and other particulars concerning her status
and progress. A young lady of the class of
1861, has just written to the class secretary
that she is not married, but that she thinks
she can see little cloud that ariseth out of
the sky Of the future, like mans hand.
Some individuals, slightly disguised
with faro, keno, and games Of that descrip-
tion, are now playing game in which they
stand just as good sight as the bank does.
Half dozen or more get together, and each
man writes his name on a slip of paper.
The slips are laid on counter, and the
money put up On each slip, and covering
each name, lump Of sugar is placed, and
the lump Of sugar upon which Q fly FIRST
lights 10 the winner, the party whose name
the lump covers sweeping the board.
"A terrible catastrophe occurred in San
Francisco, Cal, ON the 18th Of August. A
building known a. the Summer Street
House, in Summer street, few doors west
Of Montgomery, used a. boarding house,
fell to the ground about 2 o'clock in the
morning, burying in the ruins nearly all
the occupants. The exact number in the
establishment ct the time is not correctly
known, but it is thought to be between so
and 40. Already eight persons have been
taken out dead, and from fifteen TO twenty
wounded.
"A cornnanv ara huailv enOaOad At sink