The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-06-08

form favors specie resumption as soon ,s
the business interests of the country w;,,
permit.
THE Iowa Episcopal Diocese has unan.
ImouSly elected as Bishop Rev. DR.
Stevens Perry, the President of Hohar,
College, Geneva, N. Y, Or. Eccleston
of Philadelphia, having declined Dr
Perry subsequently telegraphed his ac.
! ceptanCe
LONDON dispatches of the Cd saw that
several important failures had occurred
in Italy and Russia, and financial manic
prevailed in both countries. ",
In his cross.cxamina,ion, on the %
Harney persisted in lis assertions that be
bad paid money to Mr. Kerr to prosure
Lieut. Green's apphannentN 1,,sfeyer
q Congress, testified ,AI < i, stassl'ss 1sssJ sf
Harney's request, he had written to pres;
dent johnson in behalf Of Green's anno;ni
ment.
MR. BLAINE on the I'd refused to de.
liver the private letters, obtained by him
from MuLigan, to tie Investigatfno Com.
mlttee, by advice of his counsel-Messrs.
jeremiah s Black and Matt H. Carpep-
ler-Who state that they found nstbinr in
the letters bearing at all upon the case
pending before the committee, and that
they advised Mr.. Blaine to assert his
rights and refuse to yield up the letters.
AADUL AzH, the recently dethroned
Sultan sf Turkey, committed suicide on
the morning of the 4th by cutting open
The arteries of both arms with pair of
scissors. He was buried on the evening
OF the same day in the tomb of Mahmoud
II.
ACCORDING to London dispatch of the
AN, England had sent Admiral Drum
mond TO the East with orders to prevent
the forcing of the Dardanenes. The Ber-
lin Telegraph Agency of the same date
says England had concluded an alliance
with Turkey and guaranteed the latter's
integrity.
The special train from New York for
San Francisco reached the latter city at
9:25 on the morning cf the 18th,
making the run in eighty-th three hours and
thlrty-tvc minutes, nearly four hours
ahead of schedule time. On one portion
of the trip sixty miles We're made in fifty.
seven minutes.
THE Florida Republican State Convcn-
ton was held on the I'd, and chose dele
gates to the National Convention, of whom
one for Conkling. NJ L. Stearns was
for Governor and D. Mont, !
gomcTy for Lieutenant. Governor. A bolt |
was made by certain dissatisfied members |
Of the COnVention, who placed IN nomina-
ton Senator Conover, for Governor, and q |
Mr.. Lee for Lieutenant Governor The !
boilers chose no delegates to the National !
Convention.
A late New York dispatch says large
number of counterfeit five dollar bills was |
atioat in that city and Brooklyn. Among |
them were eounterteits on the First Ma |
tlonal Bank of Chicago, III. Paxton, Ill !; |
Canton, H.; Peoria, H.; Aurora, H. ;
Galena, H.; Louisville, Ky; and the |
Traders National Bank of Chicago. The |
best bills are those on the Chicago banks. |
OFFICIAL kilograms were received in |
Athens, on the 5Uh, from Constantinople,
stating that Abdul Aziz committed suicide |
IN account of the seizure of his private |
'unds The Porte had officially notified |
he foreign ambassadors Of the accession |
)f Murad El1endi and demanded his
A WOMAN named Wilhelmina Weick
was recently sentenced at Buffalo, n. Y, |
o be hanged on the 21st inst, for the
last September, Of her step-son.
A CINCINNATI dispatch of the 4th says
etters had been received from members of
he two expeditions from that city to the
Black Hills, which show that the reports
If the massacre of portion of their num-
Der were false. Both expeditions had ar
lived safely at Custer City without being
by Indians.
A MAJORITY of the Circuit Judges for
Cook County, H., TO whom the question
If the legality Of the election of Mr.. Hoyne
IS Mayor was submitted on the applica
ion by Mr.. Colvin for q writ of qato Wdr-
'ant0, decided on the 9TH adversely to Mr..
Ioyne, Judges McAllister, Rogers and
Williams concurring, and Judges Far
we'll and Booth dissenting. The decision
5 to the effect that there had been va
ancy in the Mayoralty ever since the
expiration Of the term for which Mr..
Jolvin was elected, and that the failure
# the Common Council to provide for fill
ng the vacancy at the late election by is
uing call for the same (the regular pc
iods for electing a Mayor being bienni-
lily, beginning with 1879, nullified the
,ote of the people for Mr.. Hoyne at the
lection. 1t is also decided that the Com
non Council can still call special cleo
ion for Mayor to I'LL the vacancy.
On the 4th inst. Mr.. Moody preached
lis first sermon in his new tabernacle in
chicago to a large congregation.