The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-07-29

surface of the lake. The schooner followed
after it until it was observed to rise suddenly
into the air, when the chase was given I'M.
very severe gale occurred on the lake about
midnight, and, as no further udings had been
received in Chicago from the balloon or its
occupants up to the morning of the 18th,
grave apprehensions were felt for their safety.
1t was the opinion OF experts that the balloon
could not possibly have reached the Michigan
shore before the storm burst upon 1t, and that
the acronauts persisted in the lake. It is said
by some that the balloon was rotten,
patched-up affair.
ONE of Brigham Young's wives died on the
18th. Her name was Emmeline.
A YOUNG married woman, wife of Henry
Pedsn, of Indianapolis, Ind, used kerosene
oil to kindle a fire, on the 18th, and was ia
tally burned.
INFORMATION was received at Washington
on the 18th that the st. Louis United States
District Court Grand Jury had indicted Chief
Clerk Avery, of the Treasury Department, for
completely with st. Louis distillers in whisky
frauds.
GEO. N. JACKSON, the cashier of Collector
of Internal Revenue Buckuer, of the Louisville
(Ky.) District, died recently from the effects of
poison. Since his death he has been discov-
cred to be in default in his cash accounts to
the extent of about SIS, 600.
No POSITIVE tidings from Messrs. Donald
son and Grimwood, the missing aeronauts,
had been received in Chicago up to the
morning of the 10th. A vessel Captain re-
ports having seen something floating in the
water which lad the, appearance of being a
life-preserver and basket, and another
Captain thinks he saw the body of man in
the lake off Grand Haven. The report that
Donaldson's balloon was a rotten and poor
affair is Indignantly denied by the managers
of the hippodrome with which Donaldson
was connected.
In Chicago, on the 10th, spring wheat,
No. 2, was higher, closing at $1.1S(@1.1S1,
cash. Cash corn, No. 2, closed at 7OA(c for No.
and 66c for rejected. Cash oats, No. 2, sold
at 4s11@49c; August options we're sold at
S9Ac. Rye, No. 2, brought 81 .Ol@1.O2. Barley,
No. 2, sl.17@l.2O. Cash mess pork closed at
s197O@1975. Lard, SIS. 371S@134O. Choice to
extra beeves brought s6.0O@6.75; medium to
good, $4.75@5.S0; butchers stock, $500
$3.50; scalawags, ETC., $25O@3.OO. Hogs
brought s7.15@7.45 for good to choice.
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
MOODY and Sankey, the evangelists, leave
England for the United States on the 4th of
August.
LONDON dispatches of the 18th say that
heavy rains had lately occurred in various
parts of England and Wales. An immense
dam in Cinderford Valley, Gloucestershire,
had burst, flooding the forest of Dean. The
river Ogmore, in Wales, had overfowed its
banks, inundating the town of Brigend,
drowning several persons and much live
stock. At Concarvan reserve pond for sup.
plying the Monmouthshire Canal had burst
its banks, entirely destroying factory and
several dwellings,, and drowning thirteen
persons.
failed on the 18th with 100000 liabilltie-.
IT was reported in London on the 18th
that an insurrection had broken out near
Bhamo, in Burmah.
A ST.. PETERSBURG letter to the London
Standard says the Russian city Of Morschansk
had been recently destroyed. Over 200 lives
were lost and more than 1000 were seriously
burned. It was thought that over 1000
buildings had been destroyed. The property
destroyed was valued at s, 600, 900 roubles. .
A LONDON dispatch of the 10th says the
amount of coin and bullion in the Bank of
England is greater than ever before.
A MADRID telegram OF the 10th says the
provinces of Valencia and Castellon were free
from Carlist troops. The instruction was
confined to the mountains of Navarro and the
Basque and Catalonian provinces.
A BERLIN dispatch of the 18th says the
Government had ordered that declaration of
submission by the Catholic clergymen to the
new laws should be kept strictly secret, to
secure them from persecution by the Ultra
montanes.
LADY FRANKLIN, widow of Sir John Frank.
lin, the Arctic explorer, died on the night of
the 18th.
OVER 1000 persons met in Hyde Park,
London, on the night of the 18th to protest
against the grant of el5O, 600 to the Prince of
Wales for his Indian journey.
A SAN SEBASTIAN dispatch Of the 18th an
nounces that the Carlists had begun the bonn
bardment of Puigcerda.
LONDON dispatch of the 10th says the
American rifle team had decided not to
shoot as team at Wimbledon. The ties on
the 18th at the same place we're shot off on
the 10th, and Fulton, of the American team,
won. In the contest for the Albert prizes
Sir Henry Halford won the first prize with
score of los, and Col. Gildersleeve took the
second with score of ninety-two. The
dispatch says the excellence of the Ameri-
cans craftsmanship caused establishment.
COMMISSIONERS to Herzegovina, sent by
the Porte to tranquilize affairs, reported by
telegraph on the 10th that the whole country
between Mostar and the Austrian frontier, as
far as Pagusa, was in state of revolt, and
that the insurgents had threatened death to
all who refused to unite with them.
An Old Flint-Lock Rifle.
An elderly man named Beckwith, re.
siding in one of the peninsula counties,
came to this city last Thursday on bust
ness. He brought with him an old-fash-
Toned t1int-lock rifle to have a stock and
lock MT on TN the cars he foil in con