The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-11-11

mittee of its members to examine into the
. charges against Mr.. Beecher and report
whether he ought to be retained in mem-
=, bership.
THE United States Grand Jury in Chi
cago on the 5th found large number of
indictments against persons alleged to be
guilty of violations of the Revenue laws.
RETURNS received by the Albany argus
of the 9Th give Bigelow (Dem.) for Secre-
tary of State of New York IS, 1913 major
ity. 1t thought there was prospect of a
further increase. 1 p.
THREE of the counts in the indictment
against H. B. Clafiin & Co., of New York,
for completely in silk-smuggling frauds
have been sustained by United States
Judge Benedict
THE Atchison (Kan.) Daily Champion
of the 9TH has returns from 80 of the 1O3
Representative districts in Kansas, show
ing the election of fifty eight regular Re-
publicans, eight Independent Republi-
cans, eleven Democrats and twelve elected
on Peoples and Reform tickets. The
by the election of Republican, and the
Republicans had elected two of the three
District Judges.
A ST. LOUIS special of the 4th says the
Grand Jury in the United States Court at
/ st. Louis had indicted VIM. Mckee. one
Of the proprietors of the Globe Democrat,
and Constantine Mcguire, late Revenue
Collector, for conspiracy to defraud the
Government of its revenue in connection
with the whisky tax.
On the 9th the London stock market
was greatly depressed in consequence of
the report that Austria had garrisoned the
frontier forts and was preparing to take
hand III the Turkish troubles. 1t was re-
ported on the Tth that 10000 Servian
militia had assembled on the frontier
and that that Government had sent an
agent to Paris and London to negotiate
a loan.
THE Scraps, with the Prince of Wales
on board reached Bombay on the 7th.
THE Republicans in Washington on the
evening of the 9th fired 100 guns over the
victories gained by them at the elections
on the ID The President was serenaded,
and briefly responded.
THERE were issued by the Postoffice
Department during the month Of October
81 ,138,00O postal cards, being 100000
more than during any previous month.
JOHN A. RAYMOND has been appointed
Postmaster at Vicksburg, Miss, in place
of Henry r. Pease, suspended under the
Tenure-of- Office act.
THE claim of the State of Nebraska for
So, 1888, being ) per cent. on the value of
the estimated quantity of Indian reserva-
tions in that State, has been disallowed by
the Treasury Department.
THE following named gentlemen COM
pose the committee appointed by the Con-
gregational Association of Ministers to
investigate the charges against Mr.. Beech
er: Rev. VIM. Taylor, New York; Rev.
DR.. William Ives Burlington, Brooklyn;
Rev Profs Parsons and Martin, of the
New York Theological Seminary, and
Rev. Charles H. Everest, of Brooklyn.
Plymouth Church has referred to COM
mittee the charge made by Mrs. Moulton
against Mr.. Beecher.
A GREAT multitude Of people attended
the Moody and Sankey services, at the
Brooklyn Rink, on the 7th. Some 5000
people were unable to gain admission.
THE Congressman elected on the I'd are:
First Massachusetts District, VIM. w.
Crapo Rep); First Mississippi, Louis Q.
C. Lamar Dem. J, reelected; Second, G.
Wiley Welles Rep.); Third, II. D. Money
(Dem.); Fourth o. r. Singleton Dem.);
Fifth, C. E. Hooker Dem.); Sixth, Rod
erick Seal (Dem.); Thirty third New York,
Nelson l. Norton (Rep.) Oregon, Henry
Warren (Rep).
THE election returns in Colorado show
that the Territorial Legislature will be
composed as follows: Council-Republi
cans, 4; Democrats, 8. House-Republi-
cans, 16; Democrats, 10.
ACCORDING to Milwaukee dispatch of
the 7th Ludington's (Rep.) majority for
Governor of Wisconsin would be about
900. Kuehn Dem. J, for State Treasurer,
was probably elected. The Republicans
had majority of seven in the State Sen
ate and one in the Assembly.
THE Prince of Wales received a mag
nificent ovation at Bombay on the Sth
participated in alike by natives and Euro
peans More than 10000 people took
part in it.
A SINGAPORE telegram of the Sth says
the Malays had organized for the purpose
of attempting the eviction of the British.
A LONDON dispatch of the morning of
the 9th says the great powers had decided
to demand of Turkey guarantees for the
fulfillment of her promises of reform.
DURING the last fiscal yearthe Postoffice
Department issued 107,616OOO postal
cards of the value of 81, 1,076, 100. The esti-
| mate for the next fiscal year is 154, ,937 900.
The number of ordinary postal stamps
issued during the fiscal year was 6S2 ,342,-
TO, valued at SIS, ,271 40. The value
of newspaper postage and period
ical stamps was $Sl5,902. The num-
Der of official stamps issued was
! 1S,4J0,JUU, WOrlH Soof,JIu. lHc uuili.
ber of stamps of all kinds issued was
973, 1875 OPS, valued at $25, ,477.511. The
stamps sent by registered pouches TO Post
masters numbered 359, ,462, of which,
/ amount there were lost but ten packages,
valued at $3.50. There were mailed to
foreign countries 12,500000 letters, of
which 106, 200 were returned undelivered.
The number of letters received from for
eign countries was II, 100000, of which
219, 100 were returned undelivered.
A WASHINGTON dispatch of the 9Th says
that Secretary Bristow had refused in all
cases to compromise with the illicit dis
tillers and whisky dealers who had been
detected in their frauds upon the Govern
ment revenues, his reply invariably being
that the only possible compromise is
through the courts. Several more Chi
cago parties implicated in revenue frauds
gave bail on the 9Th. The last of the in
dicted distillers of St. Louis-Jouette-
pleaded guilty on the 8th, making thirty
three pleas of guilty in that city.
A FIvE-DoLLAR counterfeit National
Bank note on the First National Bank of
Galena, ILL.,, has been discovered in the
! Redemption Agency at Washington.
There is no such bank in existence.
THE complete vote of Massachusetts,