The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-01-27

| " hNoiSc uPon me SERVICES is eS
tlmated at 900,O 600, and the expenses wer,
about $4,000. AT the closing meeting
held on the evening of the 10Th, over 1s
00o people We're present, and as man,
more were turned away for lack of room
A collection of over 100000 was taker
up to aid the completion of new build
ing for the Y. NJ. &. A. One lady, whose
son had been converted, sent as thank
offering diamond ring, for which gen
tleman gave $1,000. -
On the night of the 10Th a mob at
tackled the Office of the Ne,os and Press
of Cimarron, New Mexico, and threw the
press, type, and other fixtures into the
river.
| EIGHT persons, members of promi.
nent boarding house in Columbus, Ohio
were taken seriously i'll on the 20,h
caused by eating diseased pork. Other
persons in the city had been affected in a
similar manner, and from like cause.
The Illinois Farmers Association. for
three days previous IN session at Bloom.
ington, adjourned on the Goth. Resolu.
| tions were adopted demanding the with.
drawal of the National Bank circulation
and the issue of greenbacks direct from
the Treasury, to be legal tender for all
debts, public and private, except the prin-
clpal and interest on the public debt con-
tracted to be paid in gold, and inter
changeable for registered bonds bearing a
rate OF interest, TO be paid in gold or legal
tenders, at the option of the holders, not
exceeding 3 per cent, said bonds being
redeemable at the pleasure of the Govern
ment IN from ten to fifty years; and declar.
ing that the transportation of the country
should be under the direct supervision
and control of the public authorities OF
the nation, State, county, township or
city, according to the Interstate or local
character.
K. b. OAKLEY, proprietor of the Cor
porative Credit Bank, of London, was ar
rested on the 21st on charges of fraud
false pretenses and conspiracy to swindle
depositors. He was examined before the
Lord Mayor and committed without bail.
VICTOR HUGo issued an address to the
Senatorial delegates for Paris and France
on the 2lst, in which he asks them to
found democracy which shall "end
foreign war by arbitration, civil war by
amnesty, and distress by education"
GEORGE H. JACOBS was hung at Joliet,
H., on the 21st for the murder of his wife
on the 26th of last May. Marshall Grain,
the hired assassin of one Of the parties to
the Williamson County vendetta was also
hanged on the same day, at Marion, H.
THE Wisconsin Republican State Cen
trail Committee have called State Con-
vention to meet at Madison ON the 22d OF
February, to select delegates to the Ma
tional Convention and to nominate State
Electoral ticket.
A SUSPENSION of all mining of anthra-
cite coal IN the Pennsylvania mines has
been decided upon from Feb. to March
II, inclusive.
THE Ohio Republican State Convention
will be held at Columbus on the 29th of
March.
On the 22d collision occurred on the
Great Northern Railway in England which
resulted in the death OF thirteen persons
and caused serious injury to many others.
The accident took place in the midst Of
binding snow-storm. Among those killed
was the son of Dion Boucicault the we'll
known playwright.
MOTHER STEWART, well known in con-
nection with the Ohio crusade, made her
first appearance before London audience
on the evening Of the 23d.
RAGUsA kilograms of the 22d report
continued fighting between the Turks and
the insurgents in which the latter gen
orally had the advantage. Trebigne was
threatened with famine. A report pre-
vailed in Constantinople on the 22d that
the Porte had accepted Count Andrassey's
proposal for the qualification of the dis
turbed provinces.
A BERLIN telegram of the 23d says a
German squadron, consisting of three
iron.clads and one tender, would visit
during the Centennial.
AN Austrian army of observation num-
bering $4,000 is reported to have been or
dered to the Dalmatian frontier to await
A MADRID telegram of the 23d an
nounces that the Ministry had secured a
large majority in the new Cortes. The
opposition numbered seventy.
THE Russian Imperial Academy has re-
Gently elected Prof. Newcomb, of the
Naval Observatory at Washington, Prof
Gould, of the Argentine Republic, and
Prot. Whitney, of New Haven, as CORE
spending members.
ACCORDING to news received in New
York on the 22d from Havana force led
by Henry Reeves, $500 strong, had in
yaded Sagua County and destroyed sugar
estates, some of which were valued at
50 ZOO, 900 each Sagua La Chica, where
there were warehouses containing 1000
hogsheads of Muscovado sugar, had been
burned and all the sugar consumed. The
estate Cayoespino was in the hands OF the
rebels and of course destroyed. m g-- !
THE correspondence between Secretary
Fish and Minister Cushing and other for
eign Ministers OF the United States were
to the House of Representa-
ives on the 2lst This chiefly consists OF
a rescript Of the note to hlr. Gushing, the
lone of which does not materially differ
from that part of the Presidents message
relating to Cuban affairs. Nothing was
given of the replies received from Euro
pean Governments to the advisory circu-
lar forwarded by Secretary Fish, and no
allusion made to any correspondence with
he Spanish Government directsince Nov.
), 1875.
THE latest counterfeit circular shows
hat there are in circulation spurious bills |
On the First National Bank OF lndianap-
olis, the First National Bank OF, New
Albany and the first National and Rich
mond National of Richmond.
q JORDAN, CLARK & Co., one of the lead
ing wholesale clothing firms in Boston
have suspended, owing to the Justification
Of their books by their confidential book
keeper, Frank Sanford, who has alb
seconded. s,F 4
THE wife of Sir Hugh Mckenzie, OF
Canada, lately eloped from Montreal with
John II. Bridges, taking with her her
four children. The parties were arrested
!, Nou, Vork and subsequently discharged