The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-03-18

an order to the heads of the several de
partments instructing those officers t.
recognize the present Government 0
Arkansas as being valid and in unot
structed operation.
The recent act Of Congress establishe
the rate of postage on mail matter of tn
third class-in which is included tran
sient newspapers and magazines, hand
bills and circulars, and merchandise
one cent per ounce or fraction thereof
which must be fully prepaid to insur,
transportation in the mails
Gen. Sheridan left Washington on thu
18th for New Orleans.
The most important witness in thu
Beecher trial on the 18th was Mr.
Charles Cowley. a Lowell Mass lawyer
who testified that in 1871 he was intro
duced to Mr.. Tilton at Mrs. Woodruff.
house, and there heard them avOw theil
sentiments regarding the marriage re
lation. They also told witness of the
alleged immoral doings of Mr.. Beecher
Mrs. Tilton, and other members Of Ply
mouth Church, and how Mr.. B. was tc
be coerced into presiding at Mrs W.'s
lecture. This witness thought Mr.. Til
ton and Mrs. Woodruff evinced great
affection for each other
Caroline and Lizzie Germain, the two
young girls who have recently been re
turned to the Cheyenne Agency from
their captivity among the Indians, tell Q
horrible story Of their treatment at the
hands of the heartless savages. During
their SIX months captivity they endured
almost every species of torment and out
rage known to savage devils.
The National Independent Labor Re-
form Convention concluded its session
in Cleveland on the 18th. A series oil
resolutions were adopted, and it was
voted to continue the present National
Executive Committee, giving them
power TO add to their number and to Sc.
lect subcommittee Of thirteen. The
committee was instructed to issue an ad.
dress to the people of the country set
ting forth the ideas and platform Of the
party and asking their cooperation and
votes. The committee is also to decide
upon the place for holding the Presiden-
tial Nominating Convention.
Two colored walters of a Chicago
restaurant went into another restaurant
in the city on the evening Of the 18th and
ordered supper, which was refused them.
They have demanded redress under the
Civil-Rights bill.
The Ohio State Grange, on the 18th,
refused to sanction the action of the
National Grange recommending Con-
gress to grant Government aid to the
Texas Pacific Railway
Brigham Young refused to comply with
the decree Of the cour: granting alimony
to Ann Eliza, and was fined $25 and i'm
prisoned one day for contempt of court
He subsequently paid the fine and sub.
mitted to the judgment Of the court by
advice of his friends, who wish to carry
the case to the Supreme Court.
There was quite rio; in Tipperary on
the night Of the 18th because some of
the residents refused to illuminate their
dwellings in honor Of the second election
of J ohm Mitchell to Parliament Several
houses were sacked.
A large consignment Of horses recent
ly purchased by French dealers in East
Prussia for the French Government have
been stopped in transttu at the Berlin
depot by order of the German Govern
ment.
A secret session of the Louisiana Arbi-
tration Committee was held in New York
city on the 18th.
Samuel Wilkeson, once of the New
York Tribune and now one Of the pub
fishers of the Christian Union, and the
Rev. Edward Eggleston were the wit
ness for the defense in the Bcecher trial
on the 18th. The former testified that
he drew up copy Of the tripartite
agreement, and that Mr.. Tilton's COM
plant against Mr.. Beecher at that time
was that he (BeecheD refused to
help him when he was in need
of aid because of his discharge by
Bowen. He said Mr.. Tilton denied the
greater crime charged against Mr..
Beecher, saying all he accused defendant
ofwas improper proposals. On the cross
examination witness stated that IN
April, 1872, he had told MIR. T. that Mrs.
Stanton had asserted that Mr.. Beecher
had committed the crime with which he
is charged, and that Miss Anthony had
told him that Mrs. T. had confessed the
same to her To this Mr.. Tilton said
Miss Anthony's mind was always dwell
ing on morbid subjects. Mr.. Eggles-
tons testimony was to the effect that he
had been at Mr.. Tllton's house on one
occasion when the latter's attentions to
certain lady were the subject of remark.
The steamer B. B. Hart sunk near
New Orleans on the night Of the 18th,
and ten or fifteen lives were lost.
A Cheyenne (W. IT, telegram Of the
18th gives information Of the arrival at
Fort Laramie of four more Black Hills
miners, with fine specimens of gold-dust
and rich specimens Of silver.
Suits to test the constitutioaalty of
the Civil-Rights bill have been initiated
in various sections of the South and
West The hotels in some Of the South
ern cities have been closed by the proprie-
tors, who preferred to do this rather than
submit to the requirements of the Civil
Rights bill.
Immense crowds are attending the re-
vival meetings in London Of Messrs
Moody and Sankey, the Chicago mis-
sionaries. On the night Of the 18th
there were 10000 people present, and
thousands were turned away.
Duke D'Andifret Pasquier has been
elected President of the French Assem-
bly,.
twenty-five young men of Cuban birth,
residents of Cienfuegos, were lately ar
rested by volunteers and shot outside the
walls, without even the form of trial.
over 1900 colored laborers, together
with few whites, marched in process
sion to the White House in Washington
on the evening of the 18th, for the pur-
pose Of making complaint that the
money appropria ted by Congress for the
use of the District Government had been
paid to contractors instead Of the labor
ers employed BY them. The President
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