The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1878-02-21
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A FIRE in New York City, on thu
evening Of the 18th, destroyed six-stor]
iron-front building, known as Excelsior Block
on the south side of Twenty-third street, neal
Second avenue, and two Presbyterian Churche,
adjoining. The total loss was estimated al
from $500, coo to 100000.
The income tax of 1870 produced !
| revenue of Is, ,O00, 900, and was paid by 75,OOl
people. Commissioner Raum has recently ex
pressed the opinion that the renewal of suci
tax would not now yield over half tha
amount.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAI.
JOHN F.. TRACY, for many years Pres
ident Of the Chicago, Rock Island q Pacific
Railroad, died at Erie, Pa., on the 18th, aftel
long Illness He was in his fifty y-second year
The President, according to a Wash.
ington dispatch of the 14th, has refused to re
move Gen. Anderson, of the Louisiana Re
turning Board, from the office of Collector Of
the Port OF New Orleans.
AMONG the nominations made by the
President, on the 18th, were those of Bayard
Taylor to be Envoy Extraordinary and Minis
ter Plenipotentiary to Germany; John Baker
of Illinois, Minister Resident to Venezuela:
VIM. A. Howard, of Michigan, to be Cover
nor of Dakota Territory; A. w. Spaight and
w. C. Quimby, of Texas, and Homer D. San
born and John Van RenerdeD, of Oregon, to
be Honorary Commissioners to the Paris Ex-
position.
ABOUT sixty members of the National
House of Representatives, who favor the re-
monitization of silver, met Immediately after
the adjournment of the House on the 18th,
and, after considerable debate, agreed to a
motion that the bill returned from the Senate
should be referred to the Committee on Bank
ing and Currency.
A NEW ORLEANS telegram of the
18th says fifty-three Republican members OF
the Louisiana Legislature had signed petit
ton asking for Executive clemency in behalf
of Gen. Anderson. No decision had vet been
reached in the case of Anderson's appeal for q
new trial.
FOREIGN.
REV. ALEXANDER DUFF, ID. D., dis
tinguished Scottish Missionary, is dead.
The house of Daniel Reardon, at
Wickham, N. B., was burned, few days ago,
ished in the flames.
A CONsTANTINoPLE telegram of the
18th announces the arrival of the British feet
of Constantinople. 1t was also reported that
the Russians were marching Constantinople-
ward, and only few hours Distant
AN Athens dispatch of the 14th says
fighting had been renewed on the Thessalian
frontier.
The Turkish Parliament was dis
solved, on the 14th, by message from the Sui
tan, who stated that the necessities of the
State forced him to this step, and that he hoped
soon to reconvoke them.
1T was reported from Havana, on
the 14th, that all hostilities in the Island of
Cuba had been suspended, and that the insur-
gents, headed by their Chiefs, were trying to
arrange terms for permanent peace.
A BUCHAREST telegram of the 18th
says the feeling there was exceedingly bitter
toward Russia, and there was some talk of
recalling the Roumanian contingent.
The British Ambassador at Constan-
tinople had long conference with the Sultan,
on the night of the 18th, to explain England's
policy to His Majesty. Itwas reported, on the
10th, that the British fleet had been withdrawn
to Mudania Bay, forty miles south of Con-
cfa mi oh ~nf<l <l,o
says it had been authoritatively stated that, in
Of representations made by Aus
tria, backed by Germany, the Gar had aban-
doned the idea Of occupying Constantinople.
All the Powers, including Russia, were stated
to have assented to Congress at Baden-Baden.
TIE Car and the Sultan were actively ex-
changing personal and friendly dispatches.
The London Observer of the 18th be-
lieved that Russia had represented to England
that the United States, as great maritime
Power, should participate in the coming Con-
gress. England had not objected, but had
suggested that Greece also be allowed to take
part.
A PARIS dispatch of the 18th says
two iron-clads, from the French squadron at
Smyrna, had gone to the entrance of the Dar-
danelles.
A TELEGRAM from Constantinople,
on the 18th, says the Russian advance guard
had not transgressed the lines settled by the
armistice. In consequence Of the withdrawal
Of the British fleet to Mudania, the Russians
would not occupy the suburbs of CONSTANT
nople.
A PERA correspondent of London
says it was reported that the Cir
cassians, when retreating before the Russians,
suffocatcd with sulphur 500 women and chill
lren who had taken refuge in a cave.
THE Porte has informed the Powers
that the Greeks have again crossed the Turk
ish frontier, near Arta, in Albania.
PRINCESS CHARLOTTE, daughter of the
Crown Prince of Germany, and Princess Eliza
beth, daughter of Prince Frederick Charles,
we're married, on the evening of the 18th, to
the Prince of Saxe-Meiningen and the Prince
If Oldenburg, respectively. The ceremonies
we're solemnized at Berlin.
AN official telegram from Zanzibar,
IN Africa, announces the death there Of
Messrs. Mars and Crespel, who were sent by |
biiV AihS VI ehC DCAkidho W CAPAoiO eiAC M
terior of Africa.
A PARIS dispatch of the 18th says |
that, at the earnest request of the Emperor
Wilhelm, Of Germany, the Russians had con-
,ented to forego the occupation of CONSTANT
noplc. The British demonstration had not |
,onduced to this end.
A PEsrH (Hungary) dispatch of the
18th says the Hungarian Ministry was in CON-
plete accord with Count Andrassy, the Aus
rian Premier; that Austro-Hungary would |
defend her interests automatically in the |
European Congress first, and that failing she
would, II necessary, use all the force at her
ARoME dispatch of the 18th states that
ixty-one Cardinals, who had assembled there
o attend the Conclavs for the election Of a
Pope, entered their cells on the evening OF |
hat day. They would meet twice daily there
lfter in the Sistine Chapel to vote-at ten
,'clock in the morning and four in the after
loon-until choice should be made.
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