The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-10-28

! completed his annual report The invalid
pension roll is 105,4 ,478, costing yearly
S10,961,21 The roll of army widows is
04,SS5, at an annual cost of S12, ,S35, SO.
The survivors of the war of 1912 number
1873 and the annual payments are ST.
524 900. The widows of the war of 1912
number 5,163, at total annual rate of
S495, 5,649
In a late letter to the New York Herald
DR.. Hayes, the Arctic explorer, expresses
his belief in the existence of an open Polar
sea, and his belief that in the vicinity of
the pole there is an open navigable sea in
the summer; that it may be reached by
ship or boat by.way OF Smiths Sound, and
that the north pole is within the reach of
any nation that will spend money enough
TO get to it,
MEssRs. MOODY AND SANKEY began
their revival labors in the Brooklyn On.
W rink at $50 o'clock on the morning
of Sunday, the 24th. An afternoon service
was also held, to which at least 5 200 peo-
pie were unable to gain admittance An
nouncement was made that services would
be held every evening during the week ex-
cept Saturday.
The registration in New York city for
the coming election aggregates 144,934,
against 146,2lS last year
Mr.. AND Mrs. MURRAY were burned to
death during fire in the house OF Susan
Bradley, at Cheshire, Conn, few nights
ago.
THE town of Vermillion, Erie County,
Ohio, was almost wholly destroyed by fire
on the 22d. Loss estimated at $4,000;
insurance light.
Mrs. D. L. MURDEN, of New Orleans, |
was burned to death on the 22d by the ex-
plosion Of coal-oil lamp.
PROF. ATCHINsON, an aerOnaut, recently |
attempted a balloon ascension at Elkhorn |
Ky, but when several hundred feet high
the balloon took fire, and he was precipi- /
tatcd to the earth and badly, and it was
thought fatally, injured.
THE Charlottesville (Va) National |
Bank suspended on the 23d Several
business firms connected with the bank,
doing business there and in Baltimore, |
were also forced to suspend.
THE trial of Col John A. Joyce forcon-
spiraCy to defraud the revenue, at Jeffer- |
son City, Mo-, was concluded in the |
United States District Court on the 23d |
by verdict of guilty on all four counts
Of the Indictment.
LONDON dispatches of the 25th say dis
astrous floods had occurred at Gainsbor-
ough, England. The river Trent had |
overfowed its banks, washing away the
railroad and causing the drowning of sew
eral persons. Thirteen persons had per-
ishcd by the late inundatiOn at Noting |
ham and six at Burton on Trent Be. |
tween the 18th and 22d tifty-tive persons |
had pcrished on the Scottish coast by |
shipwreCk.
The Carlist leader, Mendiri, has recog-
nizcd the Government Of King Alphonso. |
A MONTREAL (Canada) dispatch of the
2jth announces the failure Of the Moisic |
Iron-Works Company, with liabilities
estimated at S250,00O.
IT was lately reported from Washington
thal the treasury department hao olScon-
tinucd the purchase of silver for the
present. Oh account oi the hlSh price
THE New York Hippodrome has been
engaged for the use of Messrs. Moody and |
Sankey during the month of January |
next.
THE annual report of L. S. Treasurer
New contains the following statement of |
the receipts and expenditures for the fiscal
year 1870:
RECEIPTS.
Interna revenue iIS CO3 90; 495 %
ands s............,............. .1,n3,6to Y
" '"7 ''''' 90 -@,-.-.--o
-Set revenues ~'o'''oooi W
Net civil and miscellaneous ex- --
War 6anartment ali 0fi5 SS
Navy. Department. ................ 2 .4s7 $50 q
Public debt interest. 1Oi,5o9 A 81
Total net expenditures .sg74, o23 3g2 "a
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1873. s144, 416 Al |
IHE United States supreme Court late
Iy reversed decision OF the New York /
Court Of Appeals to the effect that the
agreement for the discount Of a note above
the legal interest in New York was cor
rupt and illegal, and that under the law |
of that State the whole debt was forfeited. |
The Supreme Court holds that, under the /
National Banking law, The plalntlfl Tor