The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-08-30

ton act, and the Board therefore recon
mends that Congress should enact Ia,
authorizing the funding Of legal-ter
der notes In boEds running forty year.
at per cent. interest per an
mum, payable quarterly, to an amour
not exceeding $1O,000,e00 per month, unit
the legal-tender notes shall be at par wit
coin; that the existing Bankrupt law Is un
: just in its essential icAtures, and providin
for special committee to devise changes Il
the law to avoid the alleged unjust pro
visions, and present the same to Congress
II AHoToRroUs Texas desperado, nam },
John Wesley Harden, who Is said to ha,
, committed twenty-seven murders, was cap
tured, after desperate resistance, ON boar,
train of cars at Pensacola, Fla, ON th
oath. A companion named Mann was killed
The Legislature of Texas had offered larg
reward for Hardcn's body.
Music was transmitted distinctly owe
the telegraph wires from New York City 3
Hartford, Conn, and back, distance Of ~
miles, on the 26th, while testing the nev
Edison telephone.
Two SPANS of the eastern end Of th,
Union Pacific Bridge at Omaha were blowI
down by . whirlwind, on the night Of tn,
25th. John Pierson, the watchman at thu
end of the structure, was carried down th,
embankment, but not SO badly injured bu
that he attempted, soon after the accident
to signal the watchman at the other end O
the bridge to stop train which was to star
across the bridge at four o'clock q. m. Fail
ing to get any response 10 his signal, ht
crossed the rivs II in boat during the storm
and reached Omaha in time to stop the train
The damage to the bridge was estimated al
over $1,000 and 1t will take three months
time to repair it
CAPT. WILKINSON, an Aide Of Gen.
Howard, telegraphed from Lewiston, Idaho
on the oath, to the effect that the council
with the Northern Indians had been quits
successful, all the Chiefs having signed an
agreement that they would 20 ON the reser-
vations designated. The Indians seemed
peaceably disposed, and 1t was thought there
would be no fur her occasion for apprehend.
ing hostilities from those tribes. A dispatch
was received by Gen. Gibbon, at Fort Ellis,
Mont, on the 9th, from Lieut.. Schofield,
stating that the Nez Perces, under Chief Jo-
seph, had, on the oath, attacked party and
killed seven men and captured two women
and one man. OF another party attacked by
them, nine were killed and one escaped.
The main camp of the Indians had crossed
the Yellowstone, the warriors going back,
on the 25th, to fight Gen. Howard.
A PITTsToN (Pa.) telegram of the 9th
says the Pennsylvania Coal Company's
miners had resolved to resume labor when
they were allowed 10 per cent advance.
PERSONAL.
CHARLES A. MINNIE (colered) won the
West Point appointment in Congressman
Miller's IN. " District, his average being
ninety-eight
A TELEGRAM was received on the 22d,
announcing the safe arrival Of Gen. Sherman
at Helena, NJ. T.
PRESIDENT HAYES and his party reached
Washington, on the evening Of the oath, from
their New England trip.
AT noon on the 25th, Senator Morton's
condition was such that his friends about
him gave up all hope Of his recovery, but dis
patches on the night of the 26th announced
that the crisis had passed, and that ne was
tai he %oa Effe
Ex-Gov. WELLS and Gen. Anderson, of
the Louisiana Returning Board, arrived at
Washington on the 25th. They said their
visit had no connection with the informa-
tion fled against them in New Orleans.
THE Army and Macy Journal says o.
man Pasha, the victor in the Plevna battles,
is none other than ex-Marshal Bazainc. of
France, who was in command at the Grave.
lotte Battle in the Franco-German War.
The dead body of the daughter Of s. c.
Rose, of Washington County, Neb, who dis.
appeared mysteriously, on the 14th, under
circumstances suggesting second Charlie
Ross case, was discovered in Davis Greek,
two miles from her fathers house, on the
96th.
A SALT LAKE (Utah) dispatch of the
9Th states that Brigham Young was very
sick and not expected to live.
POLITICAL,
THE Pennsylvania Democracy met In
State Convention at Harrisburg on the 23d,
and nominated John Turnkey for Supreme
Judge, and VIM. p. Schcl for Auditor GEN
eral. The resolutions adopted declare
that the induction Of Mr.. Hayes into the
Presidency, notwithstanding the election Of
Mr.. Tilden, was high crime against free
government which has not been condoned and
will not be forgotten; that the applications by
the Fedora Administration OF the Demo
cratic policy Of non-intervention in the in
ternal affairs Of the Southern States, and the
purpose to reform the civil service which
has been proclaimed by the present Admin
istra, ion, are confessions OF the failure Of
Radicalism, and 3 just tribute to the De-
mocracy; opp, Sc further Federal or State
ensctments for the special benefit Of capital
at the expense of other interests; accept the
admo ition Of jackson concerning standing
armirs Us dangerous to free government In
time of peace; protest against Subsidies,
land grants, leans Of the public credit and
appropriations Of the peoples money to any
corporation as legalized plunder Of the tax
paying industri Of the country; affirm and
adopt the financial resolutions of the st.
Louis platform Of last year.
The San Francisco Eramsnsr Of the
oath says it had befn informed that an error
had been discovered in the return OF Kern
Coun'y for Representative In Congress from
the Fourth California District, by the cor
rection Of which Wigginton would receive
an addition Of three votes which were pre-
viously credited to Pacheco. This viii give
the seat to the former, as only one majority
was ci.imcd for Pacheco before the error was
discovered
Diving for Gold.
Through our townsman, William Huth-
erland, who returned on Saturday last
from his extensive cattle range in Fresno
County, we learn the particulars Of q
somewhat remarkable gold discovery.
Some ten or twelve years ago considerable
gold was extracted from the gulches bor-
dering upon what is known g The Upper
Kings River country. The diggings
proved rich, but were limited in extent
and soon worked out 1t is In the vicin-
ity Of these same gulches, where num-
Der OF men, two weeks ago, went into the
river to bathe while bathing, one Of them,
to show of his diving capabilities, I'M
dert0Ok headern to the bottom, bring
ing up . handful Of sand. Az though ne
had 8 dreamed . dream" Of turn II his
luck, he, instead Of throwing tho sand
careleNly Into the stream, got out on the