The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1878-03-28

be brought about by the date fixed in the Law
without difficulty.
The general meeting Of the Ameri
can Social Science Association will be held
this year in Cincinnati, Ohio, beginning Ma,
Is and ending May a.
THE election returns from all the
towns in New Hampshire foot up rs follows,
Prescott (Rep.). 39,377; Mexican (DemL \. 81.
1858; Kendall, Isl; Flint, 223; scattering, O.
frescott's plurality, 1874; majority, 941
The House stands: Republicans, 2O5; Demo
Gratis. 165.
THE Pennsylvania State Central Dem
ocratic Committee has called State Conyen
ton TO meet at Pittsburgh ON the ed of May
The Rhode Island State Convention
Of the new National party was held at Provi
dence on the 20th. William Foster was nomi.
mated for Governor, Jason P. Hazard for Lieu
tenantrG Governor, Henry Appleton for Secre
tary Of State and Andrew B. Moore for Treas
urer.
TEE Iowa Republican State Conven.
ton is to be held at DesMoines, on Wednes
day, June 10.
The Rhode Island House of Repre-.
sentatives have defeated the proposed Con.
stitutional amendment, giving to unmarried
women and widows the right to vote on prop
ositions to impose taxes, to appropriate mon
ey and for members Of City Councils, by avote
Of 10 to IS.
ISAAC ADAMS, the manufacturer OF
the printing-press bearing his name, died at
Sandwich, N. H., on the Goth. He left an es-
tate valued at from y, 900 600 to $6.O00O0o.
A PROVIDENCE Or. L. dispatch Of
the 2lst states that family named Murray
then had four children lying dead of diphthe-
ria, and three others were not expected to live
during the day. The father, who was almost
insane, threatened to shoot the undertaken,
and policeman had been placed in the house.
TIE bill granting female suffrage at
municipal elections has been defeated in the
Massachusetts, House Of Representatives-the
vote being 9S for to 127 against.
The Rhode Island State Republican
Convention was held at Providence, on the
2lst. The present State officers were renomi-
mated.
The Wisconsin Legislature adjourned,
on the 2lst, after session Of seventy-one
days. An extra session will be held in June
to act upon the report of the Commissioners
appointed to revise the Statutes.
The Rhode island State Democratic
Convention met at Providence, on the 22d, and
nominated ]. B. Barnaby for Governor and
Isaac Lawrence for Lieutenant-G Governor.
The Arkansas State Central Commit
tee have fixed upon Little Rock as the place
and July 4 as the time, for holding the mex,
Democratic State Nominating Convention.
ATT'Y-GEN. OGDEN has asked for a
rehearing in the Anderson case.
A NEW ORLEANS Grand Jury, to
whom was referred the charges contained IN
E1-Gov. Wells letter of the 10th ult., against
the parties concerned in the prosecution Of
the late Returning Board, reported, on the a2d,
that none Of them we're sustained.
MRS. PRESIDENT HAYES arrived al
Columbus, Ohio. on the evening of the $50,
where she was the guest Of her kinsman, Gen.
Mitchell, who gave private reception In hel
honor.
Hon. JOHN ALLISON, Register of the
United States Treasury, died very suddenly
in Washington, on the morning OH the 23d, Of
apoplexy. He was sixty-six years old, was
formerly Member of Congress from Penn
sylvania, and was appointed Register of the
Treas ury in 1859, by President Grant.
THE Secretary of the United States
Treasury, on the 25th, announced as Govern
ment Directors of the Union Pacific Railroad:
e. F. Adams, Jr., of Massachusetts,; Ralph P.
of Ohio; G. w. Smythe, of Iowa;
Daniel Chadwick, of Connecticut; C. c. Hous-
Ell, of Nebraska.
The Massachusetts, Legislature has
lately passed an act-and the Governor hav
ing signed the same it is now a law-giving to
the Board of Commissioners of Savings Banks
the right, whenever it judges that "the secur-
ity and welfare of the depositors require it,"
to limit the amount and time of payment to
them. The law is to continue in force for
three years.
A VIENNA dispatch of the goth says
Gen. Tcherkosky, late Provisional Governor
of Bulgaria, had committed suicide because he
had been threatened with removal.
AT London, on the goth, the Earl Of
was married t. Miss Hannah de
The fair bride brought her hus-
band the comfortable dowry Of between $l5,-
600. 900 and 20,0O0,000
A ROME Qtaly) telegram Of the goth
says the proclamation of the Catholic HER
archy in Scotland would be made at the next
Consistory.
The official text Of the treaty between
Turkey and Russia was published ON the Goth.
It is substantially as heretofore published. 1t
was believed in London, on the same day, that
Great Britain would resist with all the means
at her disposal the absorption of territory In
Asia Minor bY Russia.
ACCORDING to the Hungarian papers
Of the 21st, Count Andrassy, the Austrian
Premier, had, on the preceding day, absolutely
declined to enter into an alliance with Great
Britain against Russia. It was reported that
Sir H. G. Elliott, the British Ambassador, had
thereupon declared that England would no
participate In the Congress. It was believed,
in Pesth, that an Austro-R Russian alliance had
been formed.
A REPORT was received in London,
on the 22d, to the effect that revolution had
broken out In Roumania and that Prince
Charles had been compelled to lee the coun-
try. "A dispatch, received on the morning of
the sd, stated that Roumania had refused to
accept independence at the hands Of Russia,
or permit the passage Of Russian troops over
her territory during the occupation Of Bull
garia
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