The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-03-09
THE NEWS.

Ia " Ia W Ss
VIENNA special of the Goth ult. says
a. uczegoviniaps had rejected the re-
snrms ,D recently offered by Turkey,
Tur Redpath sugar refinery at Mon
,.,.I Canada, has suspended. Over 300
lands are thrown out Of employment.
rur Connecticut Republican State
c..~op,ion was held at Hartford on the
oo.r NIL and the following State ticket
s.s nlaced in nomination: For Gov
.~or Henry c. Robinson; Lieu
.anant. Governor, Frederick J. Kingsland;
So,rctary of State, Francis A. Walker;
Trs,surer, jeremiah Onley; Comptroller,
mi Cprtis. The platform declares that
,he Republican party is pledged to make
-reenbacks as good as gold to the holders,
anil spproves of the Resumption act as a
ner expression of such pledge and de-
,srripation. 1t expresses the belief that
~. .,tbc unwritten law of the land which
gcrlarcs # unNise for the Chief Magis-
t,sta 10 hold his Office beyond two terms,
and We accept the declaration of President
Grant, in harmony with this law, as but
.uo,bcr claim to our admiration and graf
i,ule."
4 MINNEAPOLIS (Minn.) dispatch of the
ogb nit. SAYS adviccs just received from
fine Black Hills, dated Feb. 10, report the
discovery of hillside diggings which pay
from seven to eighteen cents TO the pan
None Of the creeks in the hills had been
prospccted to the bedrock owing to the
dccp water. Several promising quaItz
lcajs had also been discovered.
TIE United States Supreme Court has
lately decided that the eastern terminus
Of the Union Pacific Railroad is on the
Iowa shore. at Council Bluffs, and that the
Omaha bridge is Il part of the road, and
must be operated in connection with the
whole line,
THE wholesale grocery house Of Allen,
Keith Il Co., of Chicago, has suspended.
The liabilities are stated at T175,000 1t
was believed the firm would be enabled to
continue business, or that, in any event,
all debts would be paid at the rate Of 100
cents on the dollar.
MARDI GRAs festivities occurred in sew
cral Southern cities on the 29th ult The
celebration at Memphis, Tenn, was of a
very elaborate character, and in the after
noon the streets of the city were so
crowded that il was almost impossible for
the police 10 clear them for the street pa
gmt.
PROF TYNDALL, the distinguished sci
enlist, WAS married to Miss Louisa Claude
Hamilton, at Westminster Abbey, on the
9g.L ult.
ACCORDING to Berlin kilograms of the
lsl, the Emperor William had refused the |
petition Of Count Won Arnim for safe
conduct to visit his son, who is i'll at Ber- !
lin, The Foreign office had preferred an
accusation Of treason against him. The |
floods i'll the eastern provinces were in
rcasing, and many persons had been
drowned near Poscn.
Az official Carlist statement was pub
lEIcd in Paris on the 1st, in which the |
declaration was made that Don Carlos |
had not rclinquiShed his claim to the !
throne Of Spain. lie had surrendered |
neither to France nor the Al phonsists, but |
lail down his arms, after a
heroic struggle, thus rcserving for himself
the future.
AVTENNA dispatch of the list states
that tIty-tive Hungarian villages near the
border were entirely submerged, the
water over some of them being nineteen
feet deep.
WASHINGTON kilograms Of the 1st give
a letter from Lieut. Gen. Sheridan to the
Military Committee Of the House, recon-
mending the immediate establishment of
Two military posts on the Yellowstone, for
Inc protection and development of the
Ioh regions of the Black Hills and
'ler west lie thinks the two military
posts would not cost 10 exceed $200,000
Tic says the Black Hills country will
'ro0abIy he covered with towns and vii
ayes during the next five or six years;
ApreSScS the belief that the largest de-
'oSii8 OF gold are further west than where
NJ miners are now working, and
Jus The head-watcrs of Wind
.Ncr are gold-bearing; the Owl Creek
Mountains are gOld-bearing; the Big Horn
alley IS gold-bcaring; Powder River is
oIu-Dearlng; also Clark's Fork of the
elIowstonc Besides this, the Black Hills
ave abundance Of good timber for the
eelesS country south Of them and west of
1T Missouri River. The success of all
eSe depends on the establishment of the
w posts named. Military operations
ave now been commenced against the
OSulc bands Of Sioux, by request of the
1eFIoF Department, and l consider the
p"opfLalion so necessary that especial
request immediate action on it."
LIE following is the public debt state
tent March /: