The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-12-16

leaders, we're killed. No whites were
hurt
] In letter signed by him as Governor
OF Louisiana McEnery regrets the action
OF Mcmillan in Withdrawing his creden-
tals as Senator from that State, and gives
1t as his opinion that Mcmillan has seri.
ously erred in the conclusions to which he
has arrived.
GEORGE REYNOLDS was found guilty OF
polygamy at Salt Lake on the 10th. and
remanded for sentence.
The Arkansas Legislature adjourned
sine die on the 10th.
The schooner Cornelius B. Windiate
foundered on Lake Michigan in one of the
late storms, and her entire crew of ten
men perished.
THE Kentucky State Grange has adopted
resolutions favoring Government aid to
the Texas Pacific Railroad.
THE Indictment against Gen. Babcock
and the capias for his arrest reached
| Chicago on the 10th. A Cabinet meeting
| was held in Washington on the same dav,
| and the action of the President in the dis
! charge OF Gen. Henderson was sustained.
The Military Court of Inquiry in Gen.
Babcock's case met in Chicago, and voted
to adjourn from day to day until the re.
suit OF the st. Louis trial was known.
THE Opinion Nattonale of Lima, Peru,
Of late date, says that while repairs were
- y al.
! on the I'd, wall, on being thrown down,
was found to have been hollow, and filled
with human remains. Between 1000 and
5000 skeletons were taken out. They
appeared to he from 100 to 200 years old,
and all had fragments of clothing upon
them. They were believed to have been
the victims of the 1nquisition.
A DYNAMITE explosion occurred on the
docks at Bremen Haven on the 11th, which
caused the death of sixty Of the by stand
ers and four Of the passengers of the
steamer Mosel, then about to leave for
New York. The explosive was in pas
senger's baggage.
A HENDArE telegram of the 11th says
several Carlist soldiers had lately been
frozen to death. The Carlist forces in
that region numbered $4,000 men, with
los pieces of artillery.
A PANS dispatch of the 10Th says all
France was intensely excited over the
pending Senatorial election. The Left
had SO far secured a majority, and their
success was thought to mean a disturb
ance of the present conservative condi-
ton of affairs The Bourse was greatly
excited, and the funds had fallen largely.
SIR Houston STEWART, ce-Admiral
OF the British navy, is dead
SPEAKER KERR was the recipient of a
serenade at Wizards Hotel, in Washing
ton, on the nj ght of the 1th and responded
in brief speech.
THE bill recently introduced into the
House for the regulation of postage on
printed matter provides that on and after
June 1, 1876, postage shall be charged on
pamphlets, transient newspapers, etc., at
the rate of one cent for each two ounces or
fraction thereof, and that the postage on
all other mailable matter of the third class
shall be unchanged.
THE agricultural report for November
shows that the corn crop Of 1915 is one
fourth larger than that of 1874, and one Of
the heaviest ever grown in America. The
same is true of potatoes, both as regards
quality and quantity; while all the tobac-
co-growing States show a large increase
Of product.
THE newly-appointed Commissioner of
Indian Affairs, John Q. Smith, has taken
charge of the Indian Bureau in Washing
ton.
THE Republican National Committee
will meet in Washington on the 18th OF
January for the purpose of determining
upon the time and place for holding the
next Republican National Nominating
Convention.
WILLIAM DELANEY was recently hanged
in New York for the murder, in August
last, of CAPT. Lawrence, on board the
schooner Cow Boy.
/. A NUMBER of Methodist ministers, at
meeting in Boston few days ago, under
the lead of Bishop Haven, adopted reso-
luton favoring the denomination OF Presl-
dent Grant g as measure OF public safe
ty." Several Methodist ministers at Salt
Lake City, Utah, at recent meeting, pro-
tested against this action on the part OF
their Boston brethren, and passed rcso-
luton denouncing the President for his
action toward that Territory.
THE ice was ten inches thick in some
portions of the Eric Canal on the 10TH
THE Moody and Sankeyrevival meetings
in Philadelphia on the 18th were crowd
ed. At the womens meeting in the after
noon II 900 persons were present, and
fully 300 visited the inquiry rooms.
THE jury in the case of Burbach and
REYNOLDS, Milwaukee whisky-rectifiers,
brought in verdict of guilty on the even
ing of the 18th.
GEN. BABCocK gave bail at Chicago in
the sum of $4,000, on the 18th, for his
appearance for trial before the United
States District Court al st. Louis.
JUDGE BANGS, of Lacon, ILL.,, has been
appointed to succeed J. D. Ward, OF
Chicago, as United States District-Aftor-
ney for the Northern District of Illinois.
In his late message to the California
Legislature Gov. Irwin urged that the
State endeavor to induce such modlfca-
ton of the treaty between the United States
and China as will restrict Chinese imml-
grafton.
JAMES 0. BRoADHEAD, prominent
Democratic lawyer of st. Louis, has been
appointed to succeed Gen. Henderson as
an assistant in the whisky trials at st.
Louis. He accepted the position on the
18th.
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.