The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1874-12-10
THE NEWS.

ueCllHiHS W VOte
The British Government has annexed
Grigua Land to Cape Colony.
The Postofiice Department have pre-
pared Instructions regulating the pre-
payment of postage on newspapers un-
der the law which goes into effect JAN /,
1875. Instead of placing stamps on sep
arate periodicals or papers, or on the
packages containing them, according to
weight the forms already printed show
a current account with publishers, and
after the printed matter is weighed the
requisite amount of stamps is posted in
the form of a receipt given to the pub
Usher or his agent at the time of mailing,
the credit and receipt having a CORE
spending number.
The New Hampshire State Republican
Convention will be held at Concord on
the l2th of January, 1875.
The National Board of Underwriters
ilavc decided to resume the business Of
insurance in Chicago.
The newly elected city officials of New
Orleans were inaugurated on the 3Oth
The statement of the condition of the
public debt Dec. is as follows:
Six per cent. bonds .. 81 167 274 700
FIVE per cent. bonds. .............. 55s,525, 100
Total coin bonds ... sl,71s79s 900
Lawful money debt ........+...... 1461S.0O0
Matured debt. .-...............*... 1Sff6,030
Lcgal-tender notes Observation-Disclosures. 3S2.y15 267
Certificates of deposit. AZ 12u,Oo0
Fractional currency ................ 41.3S5 .63S
Coin certificates. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES 23o45, 400
Interest 80 251 Ill
Total debt. ............ .....s... 2,aS5 sol ,406
Cash in Treasury
Coin. Observation-Disclosures. ....... Ssa0i}. 762
Currency. .....:.........,+.,..... 1869, ,31l
Special deposits held for the re-
dcmption of certificates of deposit,
as provided by law. 471m,000
Total in Treasury. ............... sl46s63,o73
Debt less cash in Treasury .... 81, 1873 93S. .3334
Decrease during November 123,427
Decrease since June 30, 1874 ...... 4,149.9T
Bonds issued TO the Pacific Railway
Companies interest payable in
lawful money, principal out
Interest accrued and not vet paid. . 1918 5S1
Interest paid by the United States. "a ,325, 1896
Interest repaid by the transportation
Of mails etc c......i.... 5,51oo44
Balance ol interest paid by United
States .................. 1s.Sl5352
The Ohio Legislature met at Colum
bus ON the 1st. From the message Of
Gov Allen the following items of general
interest arc gained: The total local in
dedtedness Of the State is $2l, 1886, ,007 SO;
reimbursablc debts, $7,9SS, ,205.30; total,
$29,S74,2l2 &C. The irreducible debt is
81, ,122 i9l SO. The aggregate debts in
Ohio Stata loao1 and truot FIND
997 ,20452. The taxes levied in 1878, col
lcctable in 1874, aggregate $26,474, ,459
The taxes levied in 1874, collectable in
1875, aggregate $27,6l4,729. The taxable
valuation in Ohio, as shown by the grand
duplicate of 1874, is: Real estate in
cities, towns and villages, S354 S49, ,197;
real estate not in cities, towns and vii
lagos, $697 ,40S,537 personal property,
1928, 12l ,5sS. Total, 81, $50, ,379, 1924, which
is an increase over the grand duplicate
of 1873 of $l3, l04,s65.
The American Cheap Transportation
Convention met at Richmond, Va, ON
the 1st, seventy-iive delegates being pres
ent and Hon. Josiah Quincy, of Massa-
chusctts, presiding. A report on trans
portation was read by f. b. Thurber, of
New York, in which he argued in favor
of trans continental railroads in prefer
ence to canals. Committees We're ap-
pointed.
The steamer La Plata, employed in the
repair of the telegraph cable, foundered
off the coast of France on the Goth ult.,
and sixty persons were drowned, includ-
ing the officers and Mr.. Ricketts, the chief
electrician of the cable company. Four
teen seamen were rescued.
The counsel for the Tichborne claim
ant has been degraded from the British
bar
Tie British Government has abolished
slavery in Ashantec.
According to the annual report of the
Register of the Treasury the total ton
mage Of the United States exhibits an
apparent increase of 4,626 tons, 5,635
tons in registered tonnage and 9S. .991 tons
in the enrolled and licensed tonnage.
Ehe New Hampshire State Prohibition
Convention met at Concord on the I'd and
nominated Nathaniel White for Gov
ernor, David Heald for Railroad Com
missioner, and the following for mem
bers Of Congress: First District, the Rev.
A. C. Hardy; Second District, j. NJ.
Fletcher; Third District, Edward H.
Weston
The Jersey City Presbytery has ac-
quilted Rev. John S. Glendenning of the
serious charges lately preferred against
him
On the I'd Judge Barrett, of New York,
on hearing of counsel in the Tweed
ha5eas corpus case, decided that the court
which sentenced him had jurisdiction of
the case and remanded him to prison.
The entire business portion of the town
of Wilton, n H., was burned on the 2d.
Loss 100000
Henry Clews & Co, of New York, have
been declared bankrupt.
The Alabama State Grange met at
Montgomery on the I'd. One hundred
delegates were present.
According to the official returns of the
recent Michigan election McCreery, the
Republican candidate for State Treas
urer, received majority over all OF
s3lS. The rest of the ticket received
about 1000 majority.
Wilbur F. Storey, the editor Of the Chi
cago Times, was married on the I'd to
Mrs. Eureka G. Pearson.
The managers of most Of the Western
railroads, at session held in Chicago on
the 3D. resolved to abolish the free-pass
system on the 1st of January.
The Virginia Legislature met on the
ID
The annual convention Of the Amer
icaH Association of Short-IIorn Breeders
was held at Springfield, Ill, on the I'd.
A meeting of representative colored
men from twenty of the cotton counties
of Alabama was recently held at Mont
gomery to concert measures for whole
sale emigration to States where the col
ored men are in the majority The emf
grafton feeling is said to be very strong