The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-08-19
facturers of Rockford declare they will
send nothing to the fair in such event

THE death of Hon VIM. A. Graham, of
North Carolina formerly United States
Senator, Governor of North Carolina,
Secretary of the Navy and candidate for
Vice-President on the ticket with Gen.
Scott, is announced He was seventy-fve
years old.
Col. BAKER, the distinguished British
officer recently convicted of an indecent
assault upon young lady in a railway
car, has been cashiered.
A PARTISAN firm had redeemed 800 900
of Duncan, Sherman & Co.'s letters of
credit up to the 18th.
A BERLIN telegram of the 14th says the
Catholic clergy holding State appoint
ments in the district of Posen had sub
mitted to the ecclesiastical laws.
A PARIS dispatch of the 14th reports
Carlist victory at Arduna.
THE Turkish regiments in the garrisons
in Roumania and Bulgaria have been Or
dered to march to Herzegovina The in
surgents have burned some villages and
massacred whole Mohammedan families
THE following is statement of Govern
ment receipts and expenditures by war
rants for the year ending June 80, 1875:
NET RECEIPTS.
customs. ....................,..S St5I, ,1bI, Ky
Internal revenue, ... ............. 110,007, ,493
Sales public lands. ........... 1,413,640
Miscellaneous sources. 19,411, ,l95
Total ....................... s2sS,O, ,O,O5O
NET EXPENDITURES.
Civil and miscellaneous. .......... $71,070, ,702
War Department ....... ............ al, ,l20,645
Navy Department. ........ ........ 21,497,6l6
Indians and pensions. ................ 3I,S40,S73
Interest on public debt. ,544
Total ordinary expenditures. -. S274 800
A WASHINGTON dispatch of the 18th
states that about forty Postmasters
throughout the country have been re-
moved for unlawfully disposing of post
age stamps, unjustly increasing their sala-
ries thereby.
MEssRs. MOODY AND SANKEY, the Chi
cago evangelists, reached New York on
the Nth
Mrs. Book. at Waterloo, ILL.,, undertook
a few days ago to hurry up the kitchen
fire by using kerosene oil. The usual ex-
plosion followed and she was burned to
death.
A CONVENTION of all the Grange pur-
chasing agents will be held at Louisville,
KY, on the 1st of October for the pur-
pose of adopting a plan by which bust
ness can be conducted on Il uniform sys-
tenn.
TtII- mr. m
at Berlin on the 18th in the presence of the
Emperor and an immense concourse of
people.
PRINCE CHARLES THEODORE, the great
uncle of the King of Bavaria, fell from his
horse at Naples, Italy, on the 10th and
was instantly killed.
THE Austrian Government has notified
Turkey that she must devise more ener-
getic measures for the suppression OF the
insurrection in Herzegovina. The town
of Metakia and Fort Govansko were re-
ported on the 10Th to have been captured
by the insurgents.
IT was announced on the 10th that the
broken Freedmen's Bank at Washington
would speedily pay 20 per cent. of its liza
bilities.
THE President was present at the Ma
tional Sunday-School Convention at Fair
point, n. Y, on the 18th.
EDWIN BooTH, the tragedian, was
seriously and probably fatally injured by
being thrown from his phaeton at Coscob,
Conn, on the 10th.
THE Chicago Inter -Ocean of the 18th
published crop reports from large portion
of the Northwestern States and the Terri
tory of Dakota, from which itappears that
the wheat average is IS per cent, oats ~
per cent, and corn 81 per cent. Rye and
barley show a diminished yield. The po-
tato crop is represented as excellent.
THE Rockford, Rock Island & St Louis
Railroad was sold at auction in Chicago
on the 10Th, by order of the United States
Circuit Court, under foreclosure OF a
mortgage. 1t was bid off by representa-
tive of the German bondhOlders for ST.
300. 900, of which 5000, 600 was in cash.
THE Directors of the Winnebago Coun-
ty Agricultural Society on the 10Th voted
five to four-to sustain the action OF the
Secretary in inviting jefferson Davis to
deliver the annual address in September.
Mr.. Davis subsequently sent telegram
saying that unforeseen events had maoc IL
impossible for him to attend the fair.
THE official returns OF the kentucky |
State election show majority OF 36,l39
for McCreery. The House stands ninety
Democrats to ten Republicans.