The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1874-09-03

DacKS; 1avOrS the abOllshlng OF the fran
chise Of the National Banks to issue !;
paper currency as soon as the same car
! safely and prudently be done, and advo
Gates that the notes so withdrawn by tn.
banks be substituted by the Government
with legal-tender currency; declares
that the 5-2O bonds, by the letter ant
spirit Of the law and the genera
understanding of the community
) were payable in legal-tcndcr notes
and that the act of March
1869, which pledged the nation to
their payment in coin was an unncces-
sary and wicked sacrifice Of the interests
Of the tax-paying laborers for the benefit
OF the nOn-tax-paying bondholdcrs
favors revenue tariff; opposes grants
of public lands to railroad corporations,
etc, etc.
The Congressional nominations on the
26th were: Rcpublican-Fifth Illinois
District, Hon. H. G. Burchard, rcnomi-
snat3; Sixteenth Ohio District, Hon. L.
n brth, renominatcd; Fifteenth Ohio
District, N. II. Van Voorhees,. Demo
cratic-Richmond (Va) District, ex-Gov.
S. G. Walker.
4 According to Nashville dispatch of
the Goth the negroes of Pickettsville had
threatened trouble for some days on ac-
count of previous supposed wrongs done
them, and had manifested strong in
tcntion to kill two or three citizens and
fire and sack the town. On the 25th
sixteen Of the ringleadcrs were arrested
and placed in Trenton Jail for safe keep
ing. On the morning OF the Goth from
scventyfive to one hundred masked men
| entered Trenton, rode up to the jail and
compelled the Sheriff to deliver the KEYS
to them. They then took the sixteen
negroes and killed six of them at the
edge of the town. The masked men then
rode off with the other ten, and it was
thought at last accounts that they had
killed them. Whites and blacks were
said to be arming
Henry G. Bowen, OF the New York
| Independent, on the eth commenced
three libel suits against the BROOKLYN
A,yus and Brooklyn Eagle.
The New Jersey Republicans held
their State Convention on the 27th and
nominated Geo A. Halsey for Governor.
They resolved that they approved and
would continue to uphold the principles
upon which the Republican party was
founded; that President Grant deserves
their unabated confidence; that they are
in favor Of such national legislation as
will maintain intlcXibly the faith Of the
Government to its creditors and secure
the speedy resumption Of specie pay
ments.
The Pennsylvania State Democratic
Convention met ut Pittsburgh on the 27th
and nominated Warren j. Woodward for
/ Supreme Judge, John Latta for Licuten-
ant-Govcrnor and j. +. Temple for
Auditor. Their resolutions declare OPP
position to Government grants of public
lands to corporations; that a steady
elfert should be made to bring the Gov
crnment notes to par with gold, and TO
secure return TO specie payment at the
earliest possible period that resumption
can be Effected with safety; dcnouncc
the Civil Rights bill Of the last Con
grcss as II gross invasion of the right
of the States to control their own do
mcstic concerns; declare against the
establishment of mixed schools by law,
in which white and black children shall
be compulsorily educated, as the interests
Of the two races will be best served by
training the children in separate schools.
On the 9th the Missouri Democratic
State Convention placed i'll nomination
the following ticket: For Governor,
Charles H. Harlin; Lieutenant Governor,
Norman J. Colman; Secretary of State,
nj. X. McGrath; Auditor, Thomas Halla
day; Treasurer, Joseph w. Mercer; Reg
ister Of Lands, Oscar kochlitsky. The
platform adopted declares that the $50
bonds are distinctly, by their terms,
made payable in lcgal-tender notes or.
grecnbacks, and that the act of March Is,
1869, whereby Congress solemnly pledged
the faith Of the United States to a
coin redemption, was an utterly unjusti
fable usurpation of power; favors a re-
peal of the National Banking law and
the substitution of grcenbacks to the ex-
tent Of the National Bank currency, if
he policy of issuing national paper
currency is to be persisted in; that the
lcgal-tender notes should be made re-
ceivablc for duties on imports that rail
road and all other corporations created
for gain or profit should be rendered sub
scrvient to the public good by such legis
lation upon the subject both State and
National as will effectually secure the
industrial and producing interests of the
country against all forms of corporate
monopoly and taxation.
Licut-Gen Sheridan on the 9th issued
an order forbidding private parties to
visit the Black Hills unless under au
thority of Congress or the Secretary Of
the Interior.
A Salt Lake telegram of the Goth says
that Brigham Young had recently an
swcred the bill filed by Ann Eliza, his |
nineteenth wife, in which she demanded |
an attorney fee of $4,000 and alimony |
at the rate Of $1,000 month during the |
pcndency Of her suit for divorce. Brig |
ham admitted the plural marriage, but
demurrcd to the sum demanded. He was |
willing to give her 800 month. He
said he was worth only about 5000, 900,
and ms his income is but $1,000 a month,
and he has to support about sixty persons
wives and children-$1OO per month |
would be the fair proportion for Ann
Eliza.
There are 500 Oranges in the State of |
Michigan, with membership of 10000.
The following Congressional nomina-
tions were made on the 27th: Demo- |
cratic-Eleventh Indiana District, J. d. |
Cox. Independent Reform-Sixteenth-
Illinois, Rolla B. Henry. Anti-Monopoly
Second Iowa, j. L. Sheean. Republican |
Fourth Ohio, Lewis B. Guncks re
nominated.
Elsewhere appears the report OF the
Beecher Investigating Committee to
Plymouth Church. In the opinion OF
the committee Mr.. Beecher is fully ex-
onerated.
The official canvass of votes cast at
the recent Ohio election was made on |
the aSth. The clause permitting the
grant of aid to railroads is. defeated by a |
majority Of 251 900: the majority against |