The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1878-02-07

named person was formally commenced, !
change of venue having first been denied
Anderson's counsel, on the motion for {
change of venue, alleged that the defend
ant could not have fair trial in thai
parish, the prejudice against hin
having increased during the preceding few
days. The Judge stated that the jury ha6
been drawn in the most impartial manner ane
was composed OF conscientious, honest men
of unimpeachable character. The defense
took bill Of exceptions to the ruling Of the
Court, after which the mpaneling of the jury
was begun. A full jury, composed of ter
white and two colored men, was secured, OF
| the Goth.
The President, on the 30th ult., an.
pointed the following Honorary Commission
| ers to the Paris Industrial Exhibition: ALEX
| ander Mcleod, of Delaware; Joseph G.
Thorpe and Robert n. Baker, of Wisconsin
and john w. Mackey and W. s. Keys, Of
Nevada.
JUSTICE CLIFFORD, of the United
States Supreme Court, attended State dinner
at the White House, on the 3oth ult. This h
his first social recognition of Mr.. Hayes.
On the 30th ult., Mr.. Hugh j. Jewett,
Receiver of the Erie Railroad OF New York
was held to bail in the sum of SEC, 600 to an.
| swcr to the charge of perjury in swearing to
alleged false statements of the condition Of
the road. The complaint was made by an En-
| glish stakeholder.
| THOMAS LORD, ST., of New York, the
wealthy old gentleman who recently married
the Widow Hicks and thereby incurred the dis.
| pleasure of his sons, has recently come out
from his retirement, and will holly contest the
suit brought against for his alleged lunacy.
! He has engaged the services of the law firm Of
| ex-Judge Porter.
A NEW ORLEANS dispatch of the Sd
| states that J. Madison Wells, in accordance
with an arrangement made on thai day, had
surrendered to Sheriff Houston, at Rieolets
Station, on the New Orleans q Mobile Rail
road, where he had been sojourning since his
| departure from New Orleans about week
before. He was taken to the Parish Prison in
New Orleans, on the 4th, and his bail was
| fixed at $4,000.
Ex-STATE SENATOR HARRY GENET,
one of the New York Tammany Ring fugi-
tives, surrendered to the authorities, on the
4th, and gave bail in the sum of $50, 1000.
F9HEIGN.
RUSSIAN papers of the 30th ult. re-
port that typhus fever prevailed among the
Russians in the Caucasus and Armenia to such
an extent as almost to equal the plague in
destructiveness
an Adrianople dispatch of the 30th
ult. says all the Turkish troops within the
Quadriateral had been retired upon the for
tresses.
ACCORDING to Athens dispatches of
the 31st ult., Thessaly had demanded of
Greece protection and assistance in her war
with Turkey. The Grecian Chamber was
holding secret sitting to consider the de-
mand. Twenty-four Communes in Thessaly
had formed Provisional Government
The Pope has ratified the plans for
the reconstruction of the Scottish Hierarchy,
and appointed. two Archbishops and four
Suffragans.
On the evening of the 31st ult.,
meeting called in London in the interest of
peace was captured and broken up by the war
element. The feeling against Russia had be-
come intense.
THE Cretan insurgents have formal
ly decreed the annexation of the island to
Greece.
GEORGE CRUIKsHANK, the we'll
known British artist and caricaturist, is dead
A BUCHAREST dispatch of the LIST
says orders had been issued to all Russian col
umns to stop where they are and await fur
Their instructions.
A VIENNA telegram of the LIST says it
had been decided to hold the European Con-
ference which was to follow peace in that city.
AN Adrianople dispatch of the Sd
says the peace preliminaries between Russia
and Turkey had at last been signed, and that
they WIRE substantially as heretofore pub
lishcd except that instead of war-indemnity
Turkey agrees to surrender Erzeroum and the
Danubian fortresses.
A BERLIN telegram of the Sd says
Russia had formally notified Roumania of her
intention to annex Bessarabia, giving her. in
exchange therefor, territory in the Dobrud-
scha.
RoUMANIA has notified the Powers
that, as belligerent, she claims the right to
participate in the forthcoming European con.
ference
AN Athens telegram of the Sd says
10000 Greek regulars had crossed the frontier
into Thessaly, the ostensible object being said
to be the protection of the Christian subjects
of Turkey from massacre at the hands of their
fanatical hammcdanneighbors. The entire
Turkish feet had been ordered to the Piraeus.
THE blockade of the Black Sea be-
a,.d hos
raised.
THE different Servian Commanders
have been ordered to suspend hostilities
AN Athens dispatch of the 4th an
nounces the capture Of Domoco in Epirus.
The Gree had so killed and captured 1900
prisoners. The Ieys of Epirus had submitted
to Greece,
AT Calais, France, on the evening of
the ID during rcus performance, some one
raised alarm Of fire. y panic resulted, and
ten persons were tramped to death and many
Others badly iured
VIENNA dispatches of the 4th say it
had TRANSFERRED that Russia was concentrating
very large force in Rlumania, to be used
against Austria in the event of armed opposi-
ton to the pea conl TONS Russia had
ordered the raising of forty battalions of new
troops.
LATE Montenegrin advices are to the
effect that MONTENEGRO was inclined to disre-
gard the arfnistice and continue the war. 1t
was reported, on the 4th, that she was about
to attack Scutari.
ADv1cEs from China, received at
London the mornin, of the 4th, state that
an asylum for W. men and children at Tien-
t in, been rned, and over 900 persisted
in the fire. Nine m ons of people were re-
por ed destitute III NJ rthcrn China, and the
Foreign Relief ommttee had msde an appeal
to England and America for aid
Artificial Pearls.
To such perfection has the manu-
facture of artificial pearls been carried
that none but connoisseurs can readily
distinguish the real from the false. The
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