Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1867-03-01
General News.

in the Treasury, two years ago, AMI WAS &C
quilted by the jury which tried her, has jus
been Committed to the Insane Asylum .
Washington.
, Some mis- hief.loving rascal who eviden,l!
has o spite against the organist of q fashion.
able church in Dubuque filled UP the orga,
with bran; and on Sunday, when tie organ
lists hand swept the keys, n ncise came out rs
musical rs would be rendered by a brace O
ill-natu,ed felnes strung across 4 clothes-linc
The organist says he's hound to whip the mar
"who soaped that horn"
i Ladies interested in tie Home for Errias
Females, at ST. Louis are getting up renoa-
straGt2s against licensing the prostitutes q.
pe,itioned for by about three thousand citizens
The wife of a poor artist died suddenly a,
Darlington, Pennsylvania, last week, and ii
was discovered that she and her husband had
been sIbsistng on nothing but eolnmeal.
The female teachers of Philadelphia chose a
committee CT seven of their number TO argue
the cause of increase Of wages before the f.
nance committee Of The Common Council
They talked to much or rot enough, for the
committee reported in favor Of sno increase.
The Commissioner General OF the Land Of
! flee has transmitted TO the Governor of Iowa
| i've patents for swamp indemnity lands
located with special certificates, Nos. IS, 81,
u, and 81, embracing IL tie the aggregate
| 1886 acres.
The assets oc Rowland Ellis, q banker il
| iaciupatti, who failed last month, ere declar-
Cd to be S4,oCe His liabilities exceed
$200 000 His creditors will got about two
per cent Oh TIC dollar.
A man named Blackburn and his W fe have
been arrested in Columbus, Ohio, for incred>
! be cruelty 10 their little daughter seven years
I'D. The hands Of the little victim have beef,
nearly burned off by her fentlisl s;epmo,he
md she is mass of fostering scars fronl heao
to feet. Some Or tie cruelties prs:ticed upon
her are too indecent for narration
A fisherman living near BuGaio, we4t cut
on the lake the other da. for fish. lie did
| return a, the usual t:mc, MSS searched for aud
, .oilul next day and taken to his honle. He Aa'
los, lis way in the driving snov storm, ant
when his boots we're removed his feet came Of.
With thea. n.z 40. dead yct b.t II c..ica!
condition
\ co.orea hish-s,loo. vas on,aa; 81 Tuesday
in St. Marks Church, Louisville, Ky, unaer he
auspices ofille Epscopalians. Rev. Nj. Badge,
AID Hon. James Speed. Miss Coinelia Jen
nings, a graduate of the Co.orea institute,
philadelphia, is he Principal.
A pair of Lilliputans were bgoaght into the
"orl. by a lady C: lrestoa Connecticut. One
Of the infants weighed less than one pound
and half, anu the other q little over tho and
half pounds. a ladys finger ring fits heir
,rms nicely.
Mr. Greedy lately made great fun for enc
Of his Western audiences BY beginning his
lecture in this way: Ladies' and gentlemen
believe il is now universally believed that
am the worst public speaker IN the United
States
Tie Army Bill coataines al appropriation
for various 4 rscnals, as follows: Rock Island
sG36,5pJ; St. Louis, $4,000; Leayenvorth
$4,000; Indianapolis, Slb9,625; Columbus
Sl3o,625; Allegheny, $4,000.
One oftle en- grants who had been induced
by the offer Of q free pass to try Lis fortune
in Brazil, writes home that great imposition
is being prac.iceG ~ those WHO are enga ged
in promoting American emigration 10 Brazil.
The writer says the natives are hostile to the
emigrants, and that lahorers commonly got 81
per day, and little work at tina, they live
like doga, ard are not 80 clean or weli-ted as
dogs in New York. Those who are taking
land, he says, arc hopelessly exiled iot life
The whole emigration scheme, he says, is got
up BY set Of land speculations OF the mea y
es. kind and the Government. las nothing TO
do with il.
In Cincinnati, las, Saturday night, the po-
lice made q dcscen, upon tie gambling house
OF Alexander Il. Spencer on Broadway, arres>
ted Spencer and eighty-one gamb ere and
seized complete gambling apperatas. Among
these arrested we're twenty-six married mel.
Tie prisoners ages range from nineteen to
, fosty-fyc.
Firginia papers are considerably exercised
a. the rapid Disappearance Of The colored pop
ulation from the STATE; and advise that no
efi,or, should be s. AIRED, snc as hind treat
ment ana good pay, to retain them within the
State limits. Estimates frem Washington
pat Ike reduction OF t!is class, since the close
CT the war. at 10000
The Salt Lake VRs.s announces that the
woik Of Gentle expulsion by the Mormans
is still progressing. On the 18th Of January
two prominent citizens received the mysteri.
oUs notice 70 leave the place o. ''take the con,
sequences Accepting the invitation as
inevitable, they left
| II is said the health cf Jefferson Davis is
now much better than it has been for six
months past. He is allowed free intercourse
! with visitors, but avoids all conversation with
reference to political affairs, and to his own
condition as a prisoner. He has full range Of
the grounds OF the fort, and lives as com fort
able as any Of The State officers