The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-01-21
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Governor Of New Hampshire by the Re
publican State Convention which met on
the 18th, and Chas. F. Powers for Rail
road Commissioner.
The National Council Of Sovereigns OF
Industry opened It's second session in
Philadelphia on the 18th. The member.
ship was reported to be 100000, dis
fributed over twenty States.
The Legislature of Mississippi has
adopted resolutions indorsing the course
of Gen. Sheridan in New Orleans.
King Kalakaua had public reception
in Chicago on the 12th.
Pinchback was reelected United States
Senator by the Louisiana Legislature on
the 18th, in order to silence all question
as to his title to a seat in that body.
The vote stood: Senate, 10 to 5; House
As to Z.
William Sharon (Rep.) has been elect
ed United States Senator by the Nevada
Legislature.
Chas. H. Hardin was inaugurated Gov.
ernor of Missouri on the 18th.
The Illinois State Grange meta Spring
field on the 18th in secret session.
The Spanish Government has promised
Germany full indemnity for the outrage
upon the brig Gustav.
Madrid dispatches of the 18th an
nounce that several Carlist bands have
been lately defeated by the National
forces in Barcelona and Navarro.
The Secretary of the Illinois State
Grange reports 1883 Oranges in the State
with membership of 115,000.
On the 18th the Louisiana Legislature
adopted resolution requesting Congress
Ito Immediately institute thorough in
vestigation into affairs in Louisiana.
Ex-Gov. Thomas E. Bramlette, of Ken
tucky, died suddenly Of heart disease, in
Louisville, ON the 18th.
Both houses of the Ohio Legislature
have adopted resolutions condemning the
interference of Federal troops in Louis
fana affairs.
Late dispatches from New Zealand re-
port that the Santa Cruz natives had re-
Gently burned the British cutter Lapwing
and massacred the crew.
The cashier Of the National Bank at
Carbondale, Pa, was gagged at noon on
the 14th by two strangers and robbed
of SO, 900 in United States currency.
Dispatches from Helena, Mont, of the
14th say that the weather was so cold on
the night of the 18th that mercury froze
solid and that whisky had to be dis
tributed with hatchet. Four China
men were found frozen to death half
mile from the town. They had left
the place about four o'clock on the after
noon Of the 18th.
The British steamer Alice, plying be-
tween Cardiff and Constantinople, is re-
ported foundercd at sea. Twenty per-
sons are reported drowned.
Louis A. Wiltz, claiming to be Speaker
of the Louisiana House Of Representa-
tives, has telegraphed to the President
asking him to restore the stGtu quo exist
ing at the time Gen. de Trobriand elected
certain members.
Charles A. Stevens has been elected to
Congress from the Tenth Massachusetts,
District, as the successor of the late
Alvah Crocker.
Lewis Jarvis and Elbert jackson were
hanged at North Hampstead, N. Y, on
the 10Th, for the murder of Samuel Jones
in June, 1873. Jackson confessed the
killing. The hanging OF Jarvis was
bunglingly performed, ard the Sheriff's
assistants seized the rope, hauled him
up by hand and held him there until he
strangled to dea til.
On the 10Th, at Norwich, Conn, a
national salute was fired in honor of the
President because of his action on the
Louisiana question. At the annual meet
ing of the Union League Club of New
York, held on the 14th, his course was
also approved. An indignation meeting
was held in Albany on the evening of
the 14th to express disapproval of the
Presidents course in the same affair, and
a similar meeting in Baltimore on the
night of the 18th. At the latter meeting
Reverdy johnson was the chief speaker.
The Virginia Legislature has adopted
resolutions protesting against the recent
conduct of Federal troops in Louisiana
as gross usurpation of power.
A Berlin dispatch of the 10th says
Germany is about to send fleet of fifty
guns to the northern coast of Spain.
The first and second Kings of Siam
father and son-have quarreled
The packages carried in the mails, it
has been ascertained, form less than 2
per cent. of the weight of the whole
mail-matter, and less than one-half of /
per cent. of the number of pieces.
The astronomers at Greenwich Observ-
atory have published the result of their
first computations from the data obtained
through observations of the recent transit
OF Venus. Remarking upon these re-
suits an American astronomer, in the
New York World of the 18th, states the
suns distance from the earth to be
ss,H3,726 miles-6, ,926, ,274 miles less
than the distance as computed By Encke
from observations of the last trsnsit.
He says at this rate of progress the
earth will fall into the sun in about
1,44O years. But as the earth's motion
will be greatly accelerated through the
increased influence of the suns attrac-
tion as the two bodies approach each
other, the catastrophe may, and in fact
must, inevitably occur much sooner. un-
less the sums force should be proportion.
ately decreased or its volume reduced.
Meetings to protest against the late al
legged interference of the military in the
organization of the Louis,sna Lsgisla-
ture, have lately been held in St. Louis.
Boston, Cincinnati and elsewhere.
The report of the Congressional Sub
Committee was received with satisfsetion.
by the Democrats of New Orleans. The
Republicans Of that city say It abounds
in misstatenents.
The Republican members of tho Ohio
Legislatufe have caused protest to b
entered on the jouEnal Of tho House
hgainst the recent passage Of the Louisi-
= fssolutions BY that body.
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