The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-01-11
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not such canvass as the mandamuS con
tempiated, or the Court could accept, and
issued peremptory order for the lmme-
8 iiate canvass of the vote for Governor,
omitting all votes cast for any other cftl-
Ger. Such canvass was accordingly
made, and the Court adjourned to give
counsel for relator an opportunity to ex-
anime it.
PASSENGERS tickets from Chicago to
New York were advanced to $1S, on the
Sd; to Boston, $40; to Philadelphia, Bal
timore and Washington, $l6.
In his late message to the.Ohio Legis-
lature, Gov. Hayes shows the Indebtedness
of the State to be $36, ,O59, ,9S7.56 The
reimbursable debt is So, ,4s45O3.9O, and
the irreducible debt, 4,2O7, 1850. The
State debt was reduced during the past
year nearly 81 100000.
THE Chicago Inter-Ocean of the Sd
says there is now no doubt in the minds
of the postal officials in this city that the
entire mail which was due here last Satur-
day morning was burned in the railway
\ disaster at Ashtabula." The mail was a
large one.
ACCORDING to a Tallahassee (Fla.)
special of the Sd, Gov. Drew had been
peacefully inaugurated, the oath OF Office
being administered by Chief-Justice Ran
; dali. The inaugural address was short
and conciliatory.
JAMES GORDON BENNETT, proprietor
of the New York Herald, was horse
whipped on the morning Of the I'd by the
brother of Miss May, his affianced.
Bennett was to have been married on
Christmas He did not appear. A new
arrangement was made, and the Sd was
fixed upon for the ceremony. Again the
groom failed to appear. After waiting Il
long time for him to come, Fred May
found Bennett just as he was coming out
of the Union Club House, drew raw
hide and struck him three blows across the
face and forehead. The parties then
separated. kilograms of the 4th say Ben
nett had challenged May to tighta duel.
Con- VANDERBILT died at his residence
New York city, on the morning of the
4th. He was in his eighty-third year.
THE Illinois and Indiana Legislatures
organized on the 4th. In each case, the
Democrats and Independents united and
elected the Senate officers, and the Re
publicans those of tie House.
On the 1st the Short Mountain and Lv-
kens Valley Pa.) coal mines caught fire,
and up to the 9TH were burning with great
violence. A loss of several hundred
thousand dollars had already been sus-
tanned, which promised to be largely
augmented.
GEN. JOHN A. LOGAN was unanimously
renominated for United States Senator by
the Republicans of the Illinois Legisla-
ture on the evening of the 9Th.
GEN. Crooks command returned to
Fort Fetterman on the 4th.
The 1000 package which was stolen
somewhere between the cash-room Of the
Treasury Department in Washington and
its destination, the National Bank of 1lli-
nois, in Chicago, was restored, less about
500, to Treasurer Wyman on the 7th. 1t
is stated that the person abstracting the
package, fearful Of detection, had re-
turned it through third party, in the
hope of being saved from public ex-
posure, and that no person connected with
the detective service had anything to do
with its recovery.
The Louisiana Republican Legislature
and Gov. Kellogg having applied to the
President, asking for military protection
against apprehended violence at New Or
leans, the latter called an extraordinary
meeting of the Cabinet on the 7th, and
submitted a reply prepared by him,
which was unanimously approved of in
the Cabinet and forwarded to Gov. Kel-
logg, and the substance was also
given by the President to the Associated
Press, as follows: There will be two
unless one of them is prevented.
do not, however, propose to interfere with
them. have nothing before me to
justify action in the way of the Iecogni-
ton of either Governor and, therefore,
cannot do so, particularly as committee
of each house of Congress is now engaged
in investigating all the facts of the late
election, including the contests of the two
Governors and two Legislatures, both
claiming to be legally elected Under
these circumstances, to recognize one or
the other would be hardly justifable, and
l have so informed Gov. Kellogg"
BRENT, the Louisville forger, arrived
at New York on the 7th, from Europe,
being the first criminal surrendered to this
Government under the re established Ex-
tradition treaty.
A WASHINGTON dispatch of the 7th
states that, under orders of President
Orton, the Manager of the Western Union
Telegraph Office there had sent to New
York all the kilograms received at or sent
from the former city during the campaign.
The manuscript made carload of
freight.
A SISTER of the late Com Vanderbilt
(Mrs. Charlotte DeForest EgberD died at
her residence on Staten Island on the
5th, of pneumonia. She was eighty-fiv
years and seven days DID, or about two
years older than her brother. 1t is stated
as most remarkable fact in the annals of
medical history, that both she and her
brother closed their eyes few moments
before they died, and that they remained
tightly closed after death. Mr. Wander
bilt's funeral took place on the 7th, and,
Notwithstanding the weather was very in
clement, large number of persons called
at the house prior to the removal of the
remains to the Church of the Strangers,
where the funeral services were held
The floral offerings were of the most sim
pie character, and all attempts at display
were studiously avoided. The process
sion from the church to the Moravian
Cemetery, on Staten Island, was large
one. The monument over the remains of
the deceased is about thirty feet high, Of
granite, with marble statue of "Grief," "
in front, and the simple inscription
Vanderbilt"
SOUTH CAROLINA.
A Columbia dispatch Of the I'd says
Wade Hampton had issued an addres.
calling upon all faithful, law-abidinl
and loyal citizens who desire to main
tain the government of their choice
to come forward and pay ten per cent