Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1867-04-05
General News.

OF the author IaWlles VI VI 'h"i 'iA">.N' -
which are now TO become common property
are the writings Of Schiller, Goehe, "eiiand,
Jcsne Paul and other German classics many
Of which series of cheap reprints are already
announced in Berlin
The people Of Main understand the proper
way to keep infants out OF places OF amusement
A town in that State recently held festival,
and on its show bills the public were inform
ed that the terms Of admission was 70 cents
for children under fourteen years, fifteen cents;
tut under four years,Sl.
1 Aman has Just been sentenced, by the Dodg'
county wis Circuit Court, to Imprisonment
for life. for the murder Of his wife. The MUIR
der was effected just before her confinement,
| by the introduction of some instrument, prop
sbly A knife, which the brue of husband
actu ,llv cul the fetus TO pieces, for the pur-
poses, it is claimed, of killing the woman
without leaving any marks OF violence
few minutes after school had been dis
missed, At Bitler, Ind the other day, and ere
The pupils were out OF hearing the jolsls, anu
nrincjpal rafters and beams came down with
a terrible crash crushing nearly everything
beneath Full fifty pupils had been IN "t'en
lance daily, and had il fallen when they we're
in the room the result would have been fright,
full
The Memphis Bulletin, under the head OF
;. the iatcs, news" has the lowing
Ecpuog was invented by the Greeks OF the
Island Of Ihera
Nire of the larees, diamonds ever seen in
,b;s c,untrv are now on exhibition in Broad
way, N. Y. opposite Grace Church Tn y are
attached to string of sixty nine pearls, the
whole forming a necklace and breach, when
for value and beauty of the stones, are une-
onaled bv any but the court jewels. 1t has
taken Ave years to make this collection oi
massive lrillauts. and he price OF the triting
bauhle is only sixty thousand do,lars-a
arrer sum, we believe, than was put on any
single piece of Jcwlery yet Manufactured IN
America.
Perhaps our reaiers nave not heard OF
ido~, who, sitting meditatively by cheerful
Are after her hu 3blnis deacesed sighed out
"Poor fellow. how he did like = good tire
hone lie is gone where they keep good h'es
Hon. NJ. T. Jugg. recently delivered tenn
r.rance lecture before the Friendly Sons and
Temperste Daughters Of the A and
of NE T.. S. in which he said that there Is
no harm in glass Of good whiskey, provided
il is allowed to remain in the glass
The example Of the rebel General "ade
HAMPTON and other Southern leaders, who arc
sndeavoring TO conciliate the co!ored voters,
will. 1t is believed be generally followed in all
Tie Southern States not because they care Tor
the freedmen, but they want their votes!
4 meeting was held at Savannah, Ca, At
which about 5000 negroes were present. Three
white and Ave coloded speakers addressed the
assembly. The speeches were confined to the
topics of universal suffrage and the right to
sit on Jules. The affair passei off quiately
The wives ana da lighters Of officers aud so!>
diers are ordered back to the States from all
the frontier posts as soon IS navigation opens.
This is done in anticipation OF sudden ATTACKS
y Nv ,he Indians. and in that event defense
less" women and children should not be sacri-
feed
| The testimony of General Howard and Sax
ION before the House Judiciary Committee,
proves that the President, without the ieas'
authority Of law, has restored hundreds OF
millions of dollars worth of abandoned or con-
fscated property to leading rebels in the South
The emancipation Of the Russian serfs Is
still far from being completed. According to
a official return just published, there were a
the beginning of the present year, no fewer
than 1864 40 peasants under obligation
while the number Of those who had been Tree
ed from their Obligations up to that date II
) 5,slO,607.
A Los Angeles letter states That q Govern
ment train en- route for Arizonia was lost Marcl
10Th in Colorado Desert, BY water spout
I, consisted of eleven wagons, accompanied by
two companies of the 14th United States In
f,ntrv. Several lives were lost. Commissary
stores and wagons were carried eighteen miles
from the scene Of the disaster.
A survey has been made Of the Dutch GAY
Canal by the City Engineer Of Richmond, and
upon his favorable report to the authorizes O
that city, it has been determined to deepen thu
excavation and make it navigable. This may
be done at very little expense, and the bene
ft to the commerce of Richmond will be com
mensnrately great. Vessels navigate tn
James river, by passing through the canal
will save q distance Of at least seven miles
besides avoiding peculiar difficult part of thu
river. where the stream IS narrow and runs
like mil race.
The Great Eastern will arrive in New York
j, about the 1st of April, ready to take 5000
passengers 10 the great Exhibition. She has
: new boilers, new shaft, steel steam latci
Fifty feet long by twenty wide, steam steer
ing apparatus, 500 lofty and convenient state
rooms q new deck, saloons that will dine 5O(
passengers, and other saloons, equal to dining
z 600 in all 1T the same time.
The arrival Of the pioneer steamship at Sar
Francisco, on her round trip to China and
Japan, and the instantaneous transmission o.
he news by telegraph, makes new and I'M
portant era as it has been ascertained thai
: the electrict current can be transmitted to a