The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-11-23

the Board the returns from the undisputed
parishes are to be disposed of before the
disputed ones are taken up.
Tilden's majority in Alabama is "a 1888.
ar HOME.
THE Postmaster General received the
designations of John w. Watts, Postmas-
ter at Lafayette, Ore, and of Ii. NJ. Sol
lace, Postmaster at Bridport, VT, both of
whom were chosen as Presidential Elect
ors at the late election. Their designations
have been accepted.
THE yellow-fever epidemic at Savan-
nah, Ca, has been declared at an end
THE annual report of the Commissioner
of Agriculture shows there were distrib-
uted during the past year 1, ,520, 900 pack
ages of vegetable and field seeds and tex
tiles Seeds were collected from all parts
of the world because of their peculiar ex-
cellcnce.
THE bill according to women political
privileges was defeated in the lower
house of the Vermont Legislature on the
18th by vote of III to As.
THE Methodist Missionary Committee
met in annual Convention in New York
on the 10Th, and decided upon $500, 900 as
the limit to be spent on mission work the
coming year.
THE National Grange of the Patrons of
Husbandry met in National Convention at
! Chicago on the 18th. The Trcasurer's re-
port shows tlourishing financial CON
ditiOn in the Order. The Secretary's
report exhibits paying membership of
| $50 600
J. B. CHAFFEE and II. NJ. TELLER Re |
publicansJ were elected United States Sen
ators by the Colorado Legislature on the
18th. They received forty nine votes to
twenty-five for W. A. il. Loveland and
Thomas Macon DemOcrats.)
By the late boiler explosion in the Union
Rolling Mills, of Chicago, two workmen
were fatally, and four of them slightly, |
| injured.
The business portion of the town of
Magnolia, W. Va, was destroyed by fire
on the night Of the 18th. Nineteen build |
ings, including the railroad depot, tele-
graph and express offices and their con-
tents, were burned.
| A WASHINGTON telegram to the New |
York ECening Post gives the following |
statement, taken from the books OF the |
Postoffice Department, and showing the
receipts and expenditures for the fiscal year
ending June 30, 1876:
Receipts from all sources S2S, GA, 1870
Increase over last year. .........,.. lo3!o t6.9l
Expenditures of all kinds %, .65.4Stae
De rease from last year ............. dl',o2loi |
Excess of expenditures over re- ..o.,oo ri, |
Excess If expenditures for previous ..o
year was ..............'.'''..'' 'l-o''
Nearly the entire receipts of the Depart !
ment are derived from the sale of stamps, |
stamped envelopes, and postal cards, there
ceipts from these sources being $26, $40, |
512 10.
The following were the principal items
of expenditure:
Inland transportation. ......... S14,Il5Sl593
Compensation of Postmasters ........ l,Yl ,39lHl
Clerks for Post-Otces s.......... 3dS0 S0 ao ~ 10 10
Letter carriers. ................... l'oo. Lho'
Railway clerks ks..................,. l'%%' 'oo'l'
Manufacture of stamped envelopes, ,.
postal cards and wrappers 6sO'eluSo |
Foreign mail transportation .......' @|''l -'"S'
The revenue from money-order business
was 1920, 900.
SOME miscreant threw a hand grenade |
into the sitting room of the residence OF
| VIM. H. Price, of Davenport, Iowa, on
the night of the 10TH which exploded
with considerable violence, forcing out
the wall of the house and demolishlng
the ceiling. Fortunately no. lives were
lost. 1t was believed by some that the
object of the perpetrator of the outrage
was to kill Hon Hiram Price, member
elect of Congress from the Davenport
District.
| ELMER WAsHBURN, eX-Chief OF the
| United States Secret-Service Bureau, win
several detectives, on the nighto of the lith, |
effected the capture of Jack Hughes, at'as
J. Smith, and Terrence Mullen, alas L.
| Durham, in a saloon called the Hub,
at 294 West Madison street, Chicago,
upon the charge Of attempting to ron the
tomb of Abraham Lincoln, at Springfield,
H., on the night of the 7th inst
In the case of Admiral Porter and
others of the North Atlantic Squadron
against the rams Texas and Beaufort ana
ten other Confederate vessels, in which
81, 500 900 were claimed decree was Is
sued in the United States District Court
at Washington, on the 18th, declaring
that for want of proof, the captors are
entitled to but half of the proceeds OF
the prizes and that the value of the Texas
was $50, $50 and the Beaufort $12, 900
Ir is estimated that there is an aggre'
gate of So, 800 900 held in the pool-boxes
in New York city, wagered on the result
of the Presidential election, 81, ,25O ooo OF
which amount is in the establishment OF
Join Morrissey.
OK the 18th the Vermont House OF Rep
resentati yes passed a bill for filling the
vacancy in the Electoral College-129 to
10. The act is specially designed to meet
the case of Ii. N. Sollace, said to be incl
igible.
DURING performance at Moore's
Opera House in Sacramento, Cal, on
the night of the 18th, the noor
gave wav, and the entire audience
of about 1000 persons was pre-
Clpltated lnto u livery sVaoio
lights we're extinguished by the concus-
!, sion. and scene of fearful confusion en-
: sued. Eight persons were killed out
. right, and about 100 others were injured,
, many probably fatally.
A DISPATCH from Att'y-Gen. Taft was
: received by United States Marshal Lei
, fngwell, at st. Louis, on the 1Sth' to the