The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1874-08-20
18th and passed resolutions deprecating
all violence and conflicts between the

all violence and conflicts between Til
races.
The Congressional nominations on th
18th were as follows: -Nintl
Indiana District, Thos. J. Cason, renomi
mated; Ninth Ohio, j. NJ Robinson, re
nominated; Eighteenth Illinois, Isaa
Clements renominated; Ninetcentl
Ohio, Jas. A. Garfield, renominated
Democratic-Eighth Tennessee, j. d. C
Atkins, renominated; Tenth Indiana
VIM. s. Hoymond. On the 18th as fol
lows: Democratic-Ninth Tennessee,
District, w. p. Caldwell. Republican
First Alabama District, jeremiah Haral
son (coloreU.
The funeral of the late Bishop White
house took place at Chicago on the 18th
and was largely attended.
According to late Madrid dispatche.
the Carlists had cut the railway and tele
graph lines between Saragossa ant
Madrid. Gen. Blanco had relieved
Vittoria and had compelled the Carlists
to fall back upon Estellas
The Governor Of st. Marguerite had &C
cording to Paris telegram of the 18th, dc.
clared that he neither knew nor dreamed
of the intended escape of Marshal Ba
Zaine. Madame BaZainc, in letter to a
friend which had been published, de.
clared that she alone was responsible 70,
her husbands escape.
A st. Petersburg telegram Of the 18th
says that ten persons had recently been
sentenced to from three to ten years hard
labor in the Siberian mines for preaching
and practicing communism Among
them were two wealthy ladies'.
An excursion train ran into coal train
at Eddingham, ~ j., on the 10Th, in con
sequence of the displacement of switch
Five persons were killed and "a large num-
Der seriously hurt.
The failure of the last Congress to ap-
propriatc money to continue the Civil
Service Commission had not, according
to a recent card of Hon ID. b. Eaton, its
Chairman, caused it to abandon it's la
bors.
lished report of an interview with
Theodore Tilton in which he is repre-.
sented as firmly insisting on the truth of
his charges against Mr.. Becchcr. He
gave the correspondent card on which
the following vas written: Ills sworn
statement was never thought of by T. T.
till after Beecher had originated the
Committee Of Inquiry, and after Eliza
beth had deserted her house and Mr.
Ovington had published a card in her
behalf, announcing that she had gone
from him forever. Mr. Beecher's apol-
ogy was made six months before r. r.
ever saw Mrs Woodruff"
Earl Dulfcrin, the Govelnor-General of
Canada, was entertained by the Chicago
city officials ON the 18th.
The case of the Bishop of Illinois cs
Cheney has been dismissed for want of
equity by Judge Williams, of the Chi
cago Circuit Court The effect of the
decision is to declare that the defendant
was not lawfully deposed from the Epis-
copal ministry.
Cairo was visited on the 18th by a very
as the full moon and almost as brilliant
as the noon-day sun. 1t exploded near
that city, and caused the houses to shake
and the windows to rattle, as if an earth
quake prevailed.
The Prohibitionists of the Fourth Ohio
District have nominated Rev James
Campbell for Congress, and those of the
Twentieth Ohio District, d. W. Goldman.
According to il Charleston IS. ca dis
patch Of the 10th, Georgetown, in that
State, was the scene Of dangerous con-
test between negro factions led by Bow
Icy and Jones, negro members of the Lcgis-
lature, each of whom seeks to control the
county, in which the negroes have a large
majority. On the 18th the town was
filled with armed negroes, and the excite
mcnt was intense and liable to break out
in deeds of violence at any moment
The Currency law passed by the last
Congress had worked contraction of
the circulating medium to the extent Of
$1,000,0OO up to the 17th. A majority Of
the banks withdrawing their notes had
been from the West and South.
A Prussian Jew, named Charles Levy,
has surrendered himself to the Sheriff of
Mclean County, Ill, claiming to be one
of the murderers Of Nathan in 1870. He
says he had a partner who instigated the
crime, but that he levy killed the vic
tim with a stonemason's tool, sharp at
one end and round and heavy at the
other, while his accomplice committed
the robbery, securing between $1,000 and
$4,000 in money and a large amount of
bonds, the greater part of the latter hav-
ing since been destroyed.