Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 March 1881 — Toledo. [ARTICLE]

Toledo.

, Wheat firm ; No 1 white Michigan, 104; red Wabash March, 1 06V. Corn flraa, high; mixed 44;N0.2, 5p0t, dull, nominal. clover seed prime mammoth, 6 86; No. 2, do.; and No. 2. 4 90. Closed; wkeat quiet; N 0.2 red, Michigan, 10&*.

Fernando Wood was a member of the congress which appropriated S3O, 006 in aid of Professor Morse's experimental telegraph line between- Washington and Baltimore. Mr. Wood voted for the appropration, and wais, in consequence, defeated in his next race for congress by the intelligent voters of his district, who couldn't tolerate a representative who would waste public money on such a chimerical project as that of transmitting in telligence upon wires strung upon poles.

The total traffic of the Suez canal during 1880 amounted to 2,026 ships of 4,349,548 tons, producing a revenue of 89,750,000 ' francs—thus enormously surpassing the traffic of any year since the opening of the canal ten years ago.