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 tina
parish, the prejudice against hin
having increased during the preceding fey
days. The Judge stated that the jury ha,
been drawn in the most impartial manner, ant
was composed OF conscientious, honest men
of unimpeachable character. The defens
took a bill of exceptions to the ruling of tn,
Court, after which the inn paneling of the jur,
| was begun. A full jury, composed of tel
white and two colored men, was secured, O,
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, o
Nevada.
JUSTICE CLIFFORD, of the United
States Supreme Court, attended State dinner
| at the White House, on the 30th ult. This |,
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 $4,000 to an
swer to the charge of perjury in swearing tc
alleged false statements of the condition Of
the road The complaint was made by an En-
| glish stockholder.
THOMAS LORD, Sr., 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 hotly 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 Rigolets
Station, on the New Orleans Il Mobile Rail
road, where he had been sojourning since his
departure from New Orleans, about a 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 fuoi
tives, surrendered to the authorities, on the
4th, and gave bail in the sum of S25,
FOREIGN.
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
destructiyeness.
AN Adrianople dispatch of the 3Oth
ult. says all the Turkish troops within the
bod I,,or rat;ra1 ,,no, +ho g..
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 a 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 caricatunst, is dead.
A BUCHAREST dispatch of the 1st
says orders had been issued to all Russian col
umns to stop where they are and await fur
ther instructions.
A VIENNA telegram of the 1st 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 prelminaries between Russia
and Turkey had at last been signed, and that
they wsre 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 a beligercnt, 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 Mohammcdan neighbors The entire
Turkish feet had been ordered to the Piraeus.
THE blockade of the Black Sea be-
fwaan Conctantioopla aud Odessa hoe baa,,
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 Gee S 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 a c Icus performance, some one
raised n alarm Of fire. panic resulted, and
ten persons were trampled to death and many
Others badly i iurcd
VIENNA dispatches of the 4th say it
had transpired that Russia was concentrating
a very large force in r R,umania, to be used
against Austria in the event of armed opposi-
tion to the pea con tions. Russia had
ordered the raising of forty battalions of new
troops.
LATE Montenegrin adyices are to the
effect that Montenegro was inclined to disre-
gard the armistice and continue the war. 1t
was reported, on the 4th, that she was about
to attack Scutari.
ADvICEs from China, received at
London the morning. of the 4th, state that
an asylum for W, men and children at Tien-
t in, a been b rncd, and over 200 perished
in the fire. Nine MI ons of people were re-
por ed destitute in NJ rthern China, and the