The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1873-08-07

REDWOOD FALLS, MINNESOTA.
General News Summary.
Washington News.
A recent circular Of the Post-office Depart
ment cautions Postmasters from selling, and
the public from buying, the official stamps OF
the Department. 1t seems that Postmasters
In several States have been furnishing the
public with these stamps. Letters under such
official stamps are sent from their points of
destination to the Dcad-Lettcr Office, as they
are known to be private letters. One Post
master in Ohio recently received 200 official
stamps and sold 40.
The Acting Comptroller of the District of
Columbia has furnished the Government with
an official statement, in which he saws the
funded and bonded debt of the District, in
GLIDING those of the late corporations amount
to g, 2S6, S9l. The District of Columbia and late
corporations have no floating debt, the current
revenue being amply sufficient to meet all the
current expenses. The sinking fund revenues
arc more than sufficient to meet current inter-
est and retire an annual proportion of the out
standing bonds. The amount authorized by
the last legislative Assembly will not increase
the debt beyond the amount as limited by act
Of Congress.
delegation of prominent South Caro-
linians had an interview with Attorney-G Gem
eral Williams on the 24th, and urged that the
further prosecution of Ku-Klux offenders in
the South be discontinued, as that organiza-
ton was broken up, and a cessation Of prose-
cutions would have conciliatory effect upon
all classes of that section. They also urged
that those convicted and serving out terms
Of sentence be pardoned. The Attorney
General, in reply, said that instruc-
tons has already been issued to stop the
prosecutions against the Ku-Klux offenders,
except in very aggravated cases, and some of
those convicted had already been pardoned
1t was the policy Of the President to PARDON
them all, keeping the most aggravated cases,
however, until the last.
The Post-Office Department on the 25th,
commenced supplying the small offices
throughout the country with postal cards.
The Bureau of Agriculture has ordered four
hundred bushels Of wheat from France and an
equal quantity from Chill, embracing all vari-
cites of winter wheat. Cargoes are expected
to arrive about the first of September, and will
be distributed in season for fall sowing.
The July report of the Agricultural Bureau
represents an improvement in winter wheat,
but decline in the prospect of spring wheat
on account of unreasonable weather in some
quarters, and insect enemies in Others The
average in corn is increased in West Virginia
and Minnesota, and decreased in all other
States except Florida and Arkansas, where it
remains the same as last year.
The Attorney General has recommended that
pardons be issued to Felix Dover, Stephen
Spawn, Evan Murphy and William Scruggs,
convicted in North and South Carolina of con-
nection with kuklux outrages.
Foreign Intelligence.
The Emperor William visited the American
Department in the Vienna Exposition on the
morning of the ed, and spent two hours ex-
aiming the display there made. He is repre-
sented as saying that, "for improvements and
new inventions since the last exposition Amer
lea is without comparison in the entire build
ing;" also, that america makes here more
varied, instructive, and interesting display than
it has shown in any previous foreign exhibit
ton. Beyond that, the most noticeable fea-
ture in your display of industry and art is the
constant evidence that the artifcers are think
ing men, and that your labor seems inspired
by constant and active intelligence:'
A Bayonne dispatch Of the ed says the Car
lists, after getting control of Cartagena, had
captured the squadron lying in the harbor at
that place. They thus secured three IRON
elads, one screw frigate and three steamers,
the iron-clads and the screw frigate being
among the finest vessels in the Spanish navy.
A Paris dispatch of the sd says the French
Government had refused to accord the Carlists
the belligerent rights for which they had
sought formal recognition, and had forbidden
Spanish Republicans in France to send their
countrymen any aid.
The Carlists claimed, on the Esd, that their
effective force in Spain numbered $4,000
men.
On the evening of the 22d, the German
troops evacuated Merziercs, in the Department
of Ardennes, and the town of Charleville, on
the opposite side of the river. The garrison
remained at Nancy. When it is withdrawn
from that city, Verdun will be the only place
in France occupied by German troops.
severe thunder storm in the northern and
western counties of England, on the I'D, caus-
cd great damage to property and crops.
recent dispatch from Khiva says the de-
cree issued by the Khan, abolishing slavery
throughout his dominions, provides that ali
persons held in bondage shall be made citizens
or returned to their native countries.
The Paris Journel of the oath says the pro-
ject of placing Prince of the House of Hob
enzollern upon the throne of Spain has not
been abandoned.
Prussian frigate dispatched by the Ger
man Consul in pursuit Of the Spanish war
steamer, Vigilante, which was captured by
the insurgents, overhauled and captured her
en- route for Almiria, whittier she was bound,
for the purpose of proclaiming that province
an independent canton.
dispatch has been received by the Russian
Government announcing that the treaty be-
tween Russia and Khiva had been signed.
The Khan promises to pay Russia two millions
OF rubles, (about $1,000, 600, gold), and to
abolish capital punishment in his dominions.
In return for this, Russia guarantees the inde-
pendence OF the Khanate. The Cars troops
will occupy Khiva until the war indemnity is
paid. portion of the territory of the Khan
ate is to be given to Bokhara for assistance
rendered to the Russian troops.
Madrid dispatch of the 18th states that the
Cortes had passed bill suppressing the Ad
miralty, and that President Salmeron had is
sued a proclamation calling $4,000 men of the
reserves into active service against the insur-
rectionists. The Germans had liberated the
crew Of the Vigilante for fear the German
Consul and his family at Cartagena would be
shot.
The laying Of the fourth cable between
Sidney, Cape Breton, and Placentia, N. F.,
has been successfully completed.
A cable telegram Of the 9th says the cholera
had appeared in the seaport town of Helsing-
varg, in South Sweden.