The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-03-11
THE NEWS.

John Mitchell, the newly elected 1ri
Member of Parliament, is said to
alarmingly i'll.
All European troops have been wit
drawn from Yokohama.
A railway accident near Litchfiel
England, on the I'd, resulted in the injul
pf thirty persons.
Mr.. and Mrs. f. j. Ovington and r,
fus E. Holmes were the witnesses for th
defense in the Beecher trial ON the q
Their evidence was intended to ref1et
npon Mr.. Tilton's character.
The steamer Gothenburg was recent
wrecked on one of the Forneaux Islands
between Van Dieman's Land and Aus
ralia. She had on board eighty-fiv
passengers and crew of as many more
Df these only four are known to b
baved.
The date of the return match betweel
he American and Irish ritlemen has beel
Fixed for June 80.
The bill for the admission of Colorado
is State, which passed Congress on thu
Bd, provides that the election for dele
kates to frame State Constitution shall
be held under proclamation of the Terri
korial Governor, to be issued within
ninety days from the 1st of September
ISIS, and that the Constitution thu.
framed shall be submitted TO the people
IN July, 1876.
Adjt-Gen. Lorenzo Thomas died il
Washington on the Cd, in the seventy.
ccond year of his age.
A Little Rock (Ark.) telegram of the
ID says there was great rejoicing through
nut the State over the action of the
House of Representatives on the resolu.
ion relative to affairs in that State
oint resolutions had been passed by
10Th houses of the State Legislature,
banking the members of Congress who
oted for the Poland resolution and
bledging the State Government to see
hat equal and exact justice is done to all
hen
ST. Petersburg dispatches of the 4th
lay there was great excitement in Gov.
rnment circles over certain statements
bf Russian disagreement in Turkestan,
contained in the late report made by Mr.
bchuyler, the United States Charge
'1fdires, and it was said that Prince
Eortschakof had demanded his recall.
John Mitchell has been renominated
for Parliament.
A Washington dispatch of the 4th says
The President had refused to sign the
bill for the equalization of soldiers
bounties. The Force bill was read first
bnd second time in the Senate BevOnd
Ibis the Senate took no further action
bnd it failed. 1t was said that the Pres
dent would take no action in
Arkansas affairs, being influenced by the
Expression OF the House against Govern
mental interference.
Representative kellogg has been re-
dominated for Congress by the Republi-
cans of the Second Connecticut District.
The Democrats of the FirsI DistIicL have
dominated Geo. NJ. Sanders.
Mr. Ovington was recalled ON the Sd
and testified in the Beecher case as to
the money placed in his hands for the
benefit of Mrs. Tilton He had found
ON looking over his books that he had
made q mistake, the amount being
Isl ,245 in all. Mrs. Ovington con-
tinued her evidence, but nothing of
| Importance was elected. Mrs. Putnam
was called to the stand and soon after
the beginning of her testimony one of
the jurors was taken suddenly sick, and
the court adjourned for the day. She
continued her evidence next day, and
testified to the love she had seen Mrs
[Tilton e7ince for her husband, and said
she did not have the power to live out
her own life in opposition to his wishes.
Mrs. Iliton had often made statements to
witness which the latter did not believe,
when cndeavoring to hide her husbands
faults While the witness was giving her
testimony the juror who had been taken
sick the day before sent word to the
Judge that he was again unwell, and the
court adjourned to the Sth.
The third annual convention of the Ma
tional Butter and Egg Association was
recently held in Chicago. G. E. Gooch,
/ OF Chicago, was elected President and
Col. X. NJ. Littler, of Davenport, Iowa,
Secretary. A resolution was adopted
declaring that the term g Western
should be dropped in the market reports,
and that butter should be graded and
stand on its merits without any refer
ence to the place where it is made.
A foot of snow on level fell in St.
Louis on the 3D.
Inc town of Jasper, Tenn, is SUBJ
merged by a flood, and people are living
In the second stories of their houses.
The water was four feet deep in the
courthouse on the Sd. Many cattle had
been drowned.
Bismarck has demanded the dismissal
oi the Papal Nuncio at Munich and the
cessation OF relations between the Vati-
can and Bavaria. The German Gov
ernment has issued decree nrobih;tinp
uie importation of American potatoes
ana 'he expectation Of horses.
lhe Eads Jetty bill, as passed by Con-
gfess, likes upon the Southwestern Pass
lor m the channel and appropriates 81, $50.
ooo TO carry out the Improvement.
Andrew johnson met with, quite an
ovation on making his appearance in the
United States Senate on the 5th.
The Pennsylvania Republican State
convention is to be held at Lancaster on
the 10Th of May. The Democracy will
hold their State Convention on the 9Th of
September, in Eric.
Inc next annual meeting of the Ma.
.ional Butter and Egg Convention will
ne held at Davenport, Iowa, the first
Wednesday in March, 1876.
The manager of the Public Library
nan IN Louisville, KY, On the night Of
'he 9th, refused admission to a colored
man who applied for ticket to the first
circle, among the white people. The
same person was subsequently admitted
70 Macauley's Theater, where he took
mont seat. At Wilmington, N. c., re.
Gently, the case of colored man who
nao oeen refused a drink at saloon was
Drought before the United States Com
missioner, and dismissed on the ground
that the Civil. RIGHTS hill