The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-07-29

DONALDSON and Grimwood, the missing
aeronauts, had not been heard from up to
the morning of the Oath, and no traces of
| them or of the balloon had been found in
| the lake.
REPORTS have been recently circulated
| that gold had been discovered near Deca-
tur, Ill. A special to the Chicago Journal
of the 23d says that gold has been found
in paying quantities, and one man had
| refused $4,000 an acre for his farm of
eighty acres.
CAILLAUx, Minister of Public Works,
estimates the total damage done to prop
erty by the inundation in the South of
France at $15,OO0,OOO.
THE Spanish Government has decided
to contract a loan of $7,000,000 to indem-
nifty the owners of emancipated slaves in
Porto Rico. A London dispatch of the
Gath said Don Carlos had written letter
to King Alphonso, reproaching him for
allowing the civil war to be conducted
with such excessive rigor, and counseling
moderation on the side of the Alphonsists
on pain of reprisals by the Carlists The
Carlist losses during the three weeks end
ing July 25 were estimated at 1000 men
in killed, wounded and missing
A LOCKOUT commenced in several cot
ton-mills in England on the Gath.
SEVERAL thousand sailors and work
ingmen attended meeting held at Birken-
head, England, on the 25th, to indorse
Plimsoll's course in Parliament. Resolu-
tions expressing sympathy with and pledg-
ing support to him were adopted.
The report of the Department of Agri-
culture for July shows the condition of
spring and winter wheat together at about
80 per cent. of an average. Winter wheat,
including California, averages IA, and
spring wheat SO. Spring wheat States in
the Northeast and Northwest are general
ly in higher condition. OF the winter
wheat area the South Atlantic and Cuff
States are generally above the average,
but in the Middle States the condition is
very low, New York ranging down to As.
West of the Alleghenies the prospect is
better, the State averages being between II
in Ohio and 95 in Iowa. California re-
ports winter wheat at rs and spring wheat
at i5
THE Postoffice Department has sent to
the Department of Justice the names of
thirty-ninc mail contractors who are to be
prosecuted for failure to perform service
after their bids were accepted. The con-
tracts were relet and the difference be-
tween the amount paid and the bids, for
the thirty mine routes, was $417 ,0S7, which
is the amount of damages claimed.
IT was announced by the New York
Tribune of the Goth that Postmaster-Gen.
Jewell had set the new route along the
shores of the lakes for the fast mail to the
West, expected to begin to run by the 1st
of October. 1t will make the distance
from New York to Chicago in not more
than twenty-six hours, and it is hoped to
reduce the time to twenty -four, a gain of
twelve hours over the present mail and ex-
press train.
In Boston, recently, Hugh Donahue
walked ,1CO miles in LOO consecutive
hours. He was in good condition at the
close.
MARY FRAMES, at Indianapolis, on the
23d, used kerosene oil to light a fire. She
was fatally burned.
ATTY. GEN. PIERREPoNT has decided
adversely to the Chorpenning claim.
frIr at 81.
cola, Fla, and other gulf ports, according
to advices received at Washington on the
Goth, and orders have been issued for the
adoption of all possible means to prevent
the spread of the disease.
ACCORDING to dispatches from Lisbon
on the Goth there was Il very severe drought
in several districts of the province of
Mimic, Portugal Crops were destroyed
and cattle were dying of hunger. a
famine was threatened, and the Govern
ment had sent relief to the suffering in
habitants.
ISAAC NJ. SINGER, inventor of the Singer
sewing machine, died at London on the
24th, aged sixty-eight.
A LONDON dispatch of the Goth says
Plimsoll was meeting with warm support
for his course in Parliament and the Gov
ernment was evidently terrified. The
Shipping bill had been revived and the
House of Commons had fixed upon the
29th for its second reading.
THE Viscompte de Beaumont Vassy, the
well-known political writer, died in Paris
on the Goth.
IT was stated in June last that the Pres
ident had addressed letter to Secretary
Delano requesting his resignation, and
that the latter had besought the President
to retain him in the Cabinet. A Wash
ington Associated Press dispatch of the
Goth says such statement was without any
foundation in fact.
CHIEF CLERK AVERY, of the Treasury
Department at Washington, who was in
dicted by the Grand Jury at St. Louis for
completely in fhe whisky frauds, was re-
quested to resign on the Goth, and did so.
AN order has been issued by Brig. Gen.
Ord, commanding the Department of
Texas, that persons appearing in that de-
partment in the disguise of Indians will
be treated as Indians, and, if not killed
when captured, will be sent to Fort Marion,
Augustine, Fla, and not be allowed to
change their Indian dress
ANN ELIZABETH HoAG and Thomas P.
Willis testified in the Mountain Meadows
massacre trial on the 26th, and con-
firmed the statements that the outrage was
instigated and committed by the Nor
mons. The emigrants were promised
peace if they would give up their arms ;
they agreed to this and marched out along
side the Mormon soldiers, who shot them
down at signal, the Indians killing the
women. One of the witnesses was at
meeting called before Lee and the Indians
started for the massacre, at which IL was
stated that the emigrants should be de-
stroyed. An express was sent to Brigham
Young, and Lee, at the head of the soldiers
and Indians, started.
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