The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-02-11

enacting and providing Tor the enforce
ment of appropriate laws for the bettel
protection of persons, property ant
political rights" in the South. The ad
= dress claims that wretched state of af
fairs in the South will grow out of ths
neglect Of Congress to pass such law.
before the adjournment of the present
session.
According to Harrisburg telegram Of
the I'd, difficulty of considerable pro
portions occurred during the preceding
evenings session of the Pennsylva
MIA House of Representatives. Dur
ing discussion in contested
election case, MIR. Wolf (Rep'
came in contact with the Speak
cr, who ordered his arrest, when the Re
publican members rushed to the defense
of their colleague and wrested him from
the midst of the commotion the Speaker
adjourned the House. Pistols were
drawn during the difficulty.
Gen Sheridan has left New Orleans fol
1 Vicksburg.
The St. Louis Peoples Savings Insti
tuition has suspended in consequence OF
As the absconding of the Cashier with q
large portion of the money belonging tc
the bank.
Gen. Moriones is said to have succeed
ed in relieving Pampeluna.
The Pope is reported to have writer
to Don Carlos advising him to reconsider
his determination to continue the war in
Spain.
II A Carlist defeat with the capture OF
q the Carlist Gen. Agana was reported OIL
the 3d.
The Marquis of Harrington has been
u elected Liberal leader in the British Par
lament.
The Senate has rejected the Canadian
reciprocity treaty.
Some OF the large manufacturing estab
lishments of Fall River, Mass, have re.
Gently been closed, in consequence of a
disagreement on the question of wages.
The National Grange met at Charles.
{ ton, S. c., on the Sd, Grand Master
Adams presiding. The officers and about
sixty delegates were present.
Hon. Angus Cameron, of La Crosse
was elected United States Senator from
ii Wisconsin on the Sd. Mr.. Cameron is
said to be an Anti-Monopoly Republican,
and was nominated on platform includ-
ing hard money, tariff for revenue only,
and the supremacy of the civil authority
in time of peace.
A Republican State Convention to
nominate two Justices of the Supreme
Court and two Regents of the State Uni
versity has been called to meet at Jack
. son, Mich, on the Sd of March.
King Kalakaua sailed from San Fran
cisco for Honolulu on the I'd.
The Khedive has lately annexed Dar-
four to Egypt.
Senator Buckingham, of Connecticut,
died at his residence in Norwich on the
night of the 4th, aged seventy yeas.
Representative Hersey, of Maine, mem
Der of the present Congress and member
elect of the next, died on the 4th, at Ban
gor, aged sixty-two years.
Rev. James De Koven, ID. D., Presi-
dent of Racine College, Wis, was elected
Episcopal Bishop of the Diocese of Illi-
nOis on the 4th.
Taylor Hall, part of the Episcopal
college at Racine, Wis, was burned early
on the morning of the 4th. Loss about
100000; insurance $4,000.
Don Carlos has issued counter proc
lamation to that recently issued by King
Alphonso. He declares he will issue his
protest from the mouth of his cannon.
There was fighting on the 7th near Estel-
la, in which eight Carlist battalions are
reported to have been worsted.
A Mexican mob recently attacked a
Protestant church at Acapulco. Four
Mexicans and one American were killed
and eleven wounded
Tsae Tien, son of Prince Chen, has
been proclaimed Emperor of China.
The British Parliament was opened on
the 9th by a speech from the throne.
The jury in the libel suit of w. H.
Kemble against the New York Sun failed
to agree.
The New Lebanon On. Y. Shaker set
tlement was very badly damaged by fire
on the 9th.
One of the Judges of the Cook County
Circuit Court has lately declared the law
requiring ballots to be numbered to be
unconstitutional
A bill to abolish capital punishment
has been defeated in the Ohio House of
Representatives by vote of AZ to A.
A caucus of the Conservative men,
bers of the Louisiana Legislature was
held on the night of the 5th, at which a
proposition was adopted-3S to 27-fa-
voring as a proposed compromise that
the Conservatives should be allowed a
majority of about ten in the House, and
that the past action Of the Kellogg Gov
eminent should not be inquired into.
After the vote Speaker Wiltz, it
it said, rendered his resignation,
and Gov. McEnery, vino was
present by courtesy, said by this
action of the caucus it was evident to him
that it was time to lower the Democratic
banner, and he therefore wished to re-
tire. At mass meeting held on the
evening of the 9th, addressed by Nc
Emery, Wiltz and others, resolutions
were adopted denouncing the proposed
compromise in strong terms, and declar-
ing that nothing less than the reinstall-
ment of the legally declared Legislature
as it stood on the 4th Of January would
be agreed to.
The messenger of the House Sergeant
alarms has discovered w. S. King near
Compton, Canada, and served him with o
subpoena to appear and testify in rela-
tion to the Pacific Mail subsidy business.
J. ]. Routt, Second Assistant Postmas-
terGeneral, has been confirmed as Gov
ernor of Colorado.
The President has signed the Little
Tariff bill
The following message from the Presi.
dent was presented to the Senate on the
9Th:
To the Senate Of the United states:
Herewith have the honor TO send, in accord.