The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-06-03

encouraging character than any which have
been received heretofore Nebraska is es.
peclally hopeful of escaping renewal of the
visitation; in Missouri, between prayer and
Paris green, there is feeling of encourage.
ment; in Kansas the farmers have recovered
from their alarm and feel reassured; and in
Minnesota and Iowa the prospects arc moi
considered as gloomy as heretofore"
A STATE TEMPERANCE MASS CONVENTION
of women met at St. Louis on the 10th. Miss
Ida Buckingham was chosen President. The
State Constitutional Convention, in session
at Jefferson City, was requested to incor.
porate clause in the new Constitution giving
the ballot to women.
DANIEL O'LEARY, the Chicago pedestrian,
has accomplished the unprecedented feat, at
the skating rink in Chicago, of walking 500
miles in l53 hours, 2 minutes and 50 seconds,
thus beating the time set for the walk by
nearly three hours. In the course of this
walk he accomplished SO miles in nine con-
secutive hours, 200 miles in less than fifty
hours, and made mile in seven minutes and
twenty eight seconds, the shortest time on
record. He now claims to be the champion
pedestrian of the world.
SUPERVISOR OF INTERNAL REVENUE Nc
DONALD, of st. Louis, was removed on the
ed and Ferdinand Myers appointed as his
successor.
A DISEASE strongly resembling cerebro-
spinal meningitis has broken out among the
horses in St. Louis, and proves fatal in many
cases.
GEN. SHERIDAN sent dispatch from Chi
cago to Sioux City on the Esd to the effect
that Gen. Terry had directed that the Gordon
mining party be released if the capture was
made outside of the Sioux Reservation, but
in case it was made inside to require prom.
Use from each individual composing it not to
violate the conditions of the treaty of 1863
with the Sioux Indians, which forbids any
trespass on the part of the whites until
the Government gives permission. The dis
patch says parties have no more right under
the treaty Of 1860 to go to the Big Horn than
they have to go to the Black Hills, and it
might just as well be understood at once that
no party will be permitted to 90 to these
places until the instructions which now gov
ern the military are revoked.
In Chicago on the oath servant woman
named Anna Kuhnwenski attempted to light
q fire by using kerosene oil. She was fatally
burned.
A SPECIAL to the St. Louis Globe Democra,
of the Esd from Sedalla, Mo-, says three mem.
bers of family named Finley, living in
Cooper County, thirteen miles from Sedalia,
died of starvation the previous week.
In Chicago, on the Oath, spring wheat,
No. 2, was weaker, closing at 95@9517c
cash. Cash corn closed at 6614c for new No.
2 and Csc for rejected. Cash oats sold at
60@6014c; June options were sold at Gle.
Rye brought s105k@1,06. Barley, No. 2,
S1341136. Cash mess pork closed at
saO25@2O.So. Lard, s14.75@14sO. Choice to
fancy graded steers brought se.so@6s711 {;
prime to choice native stock, $5.5O(06.O0;
Texans, S2.5O@5.sN; scalawags, $25O@325
Hogs brought s7.4O@s.oO for good to choice.
THE SOUTH.
THE funeral of Gen. John c. Breckenridge
took place at Lexington, KY, on the 10th, and
was attended by an immense throng of people.
Hon. JESSE D. BRIGHT, ex.United States
Senator from Indiana, died at his residence in
Baltimore, Md, on the Goth, of organic disease
of the heart. He was sixty three years old.
AN attempt to remove the public archives
of West Virginia from Charleston, w. Va, to
Wheeling, the new capital of the State, was
thwarted on the Goth by the enforcement of
the Injunction issued by Judge Smith. Gov
Jacobs denied the authority of the court in
the matter and protested against it's inter-
erence, but decided not to remove the public
property, holding the court responsible for its
safe-keeping, the State officers deciding in the
meantime to make their headquarters at
Wheeling.
THE centennial of the Mecklenburg Declare
ton Of Independence was celebrated at Char
lotte, N. c., on the 20th. There was large
and enthusiastic gathering of people from
that and adjoining States. The hosting Of
the stars and stripes in Independence Square
was greeted with enthusiastic cheers, and
flags were displayed from all the principal
buildings and other places in the city. Many
distinguished gentlemen were present and
delivered addresses
THE memorial services at Memphis, Tenn,
on the Oath are said to have been the grandest
ever witnessed in the South. Business was
almost entirely suspended, and National and
Confederate flags were displayed from numer-
Gus buildings. One carriage in the procession
carried two large fags-Federal and Confed.
erate-made entirely OF flowers, the latter
partly unfurled and the national one flung
to the breeze. About 100 ex-Federals partici-
pated in the ceremonies. The graves Of both
the Confederate and Union dead were deco.
rated with the floral tributes, and everything
is said to have passed off in pleasing man.
ner.
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
TwENTY-oNE members OF the Committee
of Thirty in the French Assembly resigned
on the 10th on account of the failure Of a
measure advocated by them.
A SAN SEBASTIAN dispatch of the 10th says
the smallpox had broken out in the Carlist
camps and was raging violently.
A DISPATCH from Hendaye, Spain, on the
Goth says the Carlists, after two days heavy
fighting, had occupied Usurbil and Ario,
from which the Alphonsist troops had retreat
ed with heavy losses.
A DUBLIN dispatch of the 21st says Judge
Keogh, before whom Moore's election peti.
ton was heard, had decided that the late
John Mitchell was disqualified from holding a
seat in Parliament because he was felon and
an alien.
A ROME dispatch of the 21st says the
Italian Government had ordered the removal
of all Bishops who have not received the
royal exequatur indorsing their appointments.
THE Belgian tribunal at Liege has dis
missed the charges against Duchesne Of plot
tina fo. tho assaaai,aa4ieasa.