The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1874-04-23

have compounded their difIerences On tn
Military bill, the former couseuting to Aoly 900
men - tho peace maximum, and limiting The
term Of service to seven years.
A London dispatch Of The 18th says that "a.
vices from Atlantic, dated April ., report that
Marshal Serrano had made proposals for SET
Element through Gen. Elio, which the Car.
lists had definitely rejected.
Previous favorable accounts Of the famine
In India were contradicted BY dispatches from
Calcutta on the 18th. According to these the
distress was increasing In Tlrhoot, and accord
ing to o6icial estimates 4,57S,0oo persons In
the districts Of Patra, Chazepore and Rajesh-
nye were starving.
The body of In. Livingstone reached South.
ampton, England, on the morning Of the
18th, In . good state Of preserva.
ton. Bells were tolled and minute-guns
fred as the body passed from the pier to the
railway station.
The upper house Of the Austrian Reichs-
rath, on the 18th, passed the Ecclesiastical
bills, whereupon the Bishops withdrew in .
body. A Vienna dispatch Of that date says
the Emperor had sent concilistory reply to
the Pope's recent protest against the bills.
Bishop Of Pernambuco, who was recently Inn.
prisoned for refusing obedience to the COM
mands of the State In ecclesiastical matters.
A Madrid dispatch of the 18th says the Car.
list forces before Corona had retired, the mu.
nicipal authorities having paid them 100000
reals.
The French Government, on the 18th, issued
circular prohibiting newspaper attacks upon
the septennat, and declaring that President
McMahon's powers are incontestible.
The East.
Gov. Dix has sent . message to the
New York Legislature asking that body to
contribute all In its power to prevent the adop-
ton BY Congress Of bill expanding the cur
rency of the country. The State Senate, on
the 7th, with only three negative votes, and
the Assembly unanimously passed resolutions
iudorsing the message and requesting Senators
and Representatives in Congress to resist any
expansion Of the currency, and to promote,
by all proper means, an early return to specie
payments.
A Hartford Conn., dispatch Of the 7th says
complete returns give the following result of
the vote for Governor Ingersoll, 46, 7S4 Har.
rison, 4o,O42; Smith, 4,S26; scattering, 10.
Ingersoll's plurality, 6,742; Ingersoll's ma
jority over all, 1897.
Two ballots were taken for United States
Senator by the Massachusetts, Legislature on
the 7th. The first resulted rs follows: Whole
number of votes cast, $50 Dawes, 81; Hoar,
Is; Curtis, -; Adams, 16; Banks, 3; Wash
burn, Whittier, and Phillips received each one
vote. The same number of votes was cast
on the second ballot, divided as follows:
Dawes, 96; Hoar, 81; Curtis, II; Adams, 16;
B. F. Butler, Speaker Sanford, Washbun,
Whittier and Phillips received each one vote.
The bankruptcy proceedings against the
extensive Sprague Manufacturing Company,
of Rhode Island, have been discontinued and
the case Is dismissed.
Four ballots were taken for United States
Senator by the Massachusetts, Legislature on
| the Sth. The last two resulted as follows:
Sixtecnth-Whole number, $50; necessary to
q choice, 1S5. Dawes, 80; Hosr, 6; Curtis,
e; Adams, 10; Sanford, Is; Washburn, 6;
Judge Devens, 2; Judge Colt, Q; Phi Hips an
Whittier, each. Seventeenth-Whole num-
her. PSI; necessary to choice, l3l. Dawes,
50; Hoar, 60; Curtis, e; Adams, Is; San
ford, II; Banks, 2; Washburn, 5; Devens, 4;
Charles Hale, Amass Walker, Whittier and
Phillips, l each.
Four persons were instantly killed ut Pat
tenburg, N. j., on the sth, by the explosion
Of steam boiler. A number of persons were
injured by the flying debris.
The ballot for United States Senator In the
Massachusetts, Legislature on the 9th re-
suited rs follows: Whole number of votes
cast, 273; necessary to choice, 1877. Dawes,
81; Hoar, e; Curtis, "A; Adams, Is; Sanford,
.; Banks, Z; Washburn, 4; Whittier, 1.
| The New York Eueniag Post of the 10th
says: 1.-THE train which left vanderbilt's
Landing, at Staten Island, at seven o'clock
last evening was stopped about two miles out
by band Of Italians, who tore up the track.
Particulars of the outrage have not yet been
received, save that the robbers secured the
| cash.box on the train, but were themselves
soon arrested, and they are now locked up"
Lowenstein was executed at Albany, N. T.,
on the 10th, for the murder of q one-armed
peddler last fall. He maintained to the last
that he was innocent.
Two ballots were taken on the 10th for
United States Senator from Massachusetts,:
Nineteenth-Whole number of votes cast,
26S; necessary to . choice, 135. Dawes, 81;
Hoar, 60; Curtis, y; Adams, Is; Washburn,
4; Whittier, 1; Sanford, z; Banks, 8; Bull
lock, z. Twentieth-Whole number Of votes,
26o; necessary to . choice, 1885, Dawes, IS;
Hoar, 66; Curtis, u; Adams, Is; Bullock,
IL; Sanford, z; Washburn, 4; Banks, 8; Whit.
tier, G. F. Hoar, Reuben Noble and Mrs.
Mary A. Livermore received each one vote.
Discussion ensued.
By fire at Williamsport, Pa, on the 18th,
$50o, 900 worth Of property was destroyed, in.
GLIDING large amount of lumber, . large
planning. mill, . saw-mill and fourteen frame
dwelling houses. 1t is reported that one man
was burned to death.
The twenty.arst ballot for United States
Senator In the Massachusetts, Legislature wa
taken on the 18th, with the following result:
Whole number Of votes cast, ss6; necessary to
q choice, 119. Dawes, 0s; Hoar, 81; Curtis,
6S; Adams, IA; Sanford, 2; Banks, 8; Wash.
burn, 4; A. II. Bullock, Is; Edward Learned,
8; Judge Putnam and Whittier, one each.
One Of the New York Cremation Society'a
members having recently died, the organize,
tion have practically applied their idea Of dis.
posing Of the dead. The body was put up
right in fire-proof receptacle, through which
intensely heated air was forced. The fathe,
Of the deceased paid the bill-SS.e5-and nov
has the ashes Of his son In an urn on his par
Tor mantel-piece.
A secret session Of the international Work.
ingmen's Association was being held in Phila'
delphia on the 18th, in which every labor union
In the country had Representatives. A. far d