The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-01-05
ST. PAUL AND RED WING, MINI
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

NEWS VF HE " EEk.
TUESDAY, Dec. 29.-lhe application of
<tBoss' Tweed for all appeal to the Su-
preme Court has bAen granted and it will
be heard before the general term sitting
the lst proximo. -. Among the acts
signed by the President is that allowing
homestead and ption settlers in the
grasshoppers districts to be absent from
their lands until July 1916 without detri-
ment to their rightss... The internal reve-
nue. receipts for December are estimated to
be 81 900 over the corresponding month of
last year. Four hundred men and
women were Saturday discharged from
the engraving and printing bureau Of the
U. S. treasury, on account OF
large part Of the work being
transferred to New York. Jack w.
Smith, a planter living short distance
from Memphis, was shot and killed Sun
day by two negroes trespassing on his
lands. The negroes escaped. Tom
-enford w.s shot and killed Sunday at
Huntsville, Ala, by Sandy White. The
1ewelry store of Geo. ". Deering & Co.,
Boston, was robbed Saturday night Of
jewelry diamonds, etc., to the value Of
$4,000. .. Captain General Concta OF
Cuba has issued orders to the military to
act lenient'y toward captured or su1ren'
dered insurgents but to execute all incen-
diaries or fibusters who may be taken.
The report telegraphed from WASH
ington to New York Saturday, that Gen.
Phil. Sheridan was to be sent to New Or
leans has rot been confirmed. The report
caused considerable excitement in New
Orleans, Ill the leading papers criticising
his past course IN that State very bitterly,
and accusing him Of being mainly respon-
sible for the condition of affairs now pre-
sailing.
WEDNESDAY, Dec. 1o.-At the Cabinet
session yesterday, Attorney General Will
liams urged that the action Of the Louisi-
ana returning board must be sustained by
the General Government, but no decision
was reached. .. Daniel Baker is to he ap-
pointed chief Of the land division of the
Treasury, vice Bigelow, resigned. The
Postmaster General has discontinued the
steamboat mail service from New York and
other points to Key Yves, and that pace will
be supplied but twice a week from Cedar
Keys. The discontinued service cost an
nually Sl43,973, as against but $4,000
Tor the new. VIM. A. Potter of New
York, son of Bishop Potter, has been ap-
pointed and accepted the position Of
supervising architect of the treasury to
succeed Mullett. 80. Later dispatches rela-
tive to the Caspatrick disaster leave little
room to hope that any Of the 474 passen-
gers frs: reported lost, were rescued. %.
The city court Of Brooklyn yesterday de-
MED Beecher's application to compel Til
ton to furnish bill of particulars. -. The
wife of TT. Rev. Horatio N. Potter, Bishop
of New York, died at the residence of her
sister in Fa' mouth, Va, Christmas night
lit is now asserted that Gen. Sheridan
goes to New Orleans merely in answer to
personal request OF the President to report
from his own observation the condition OF
affairs in that city and State. . Mary Lee,
a colored girl is years old, Of Cincinnati,
stepped out on the street Monday night,
and a few minutes afterwards was found
with her throat cut from ear to ear. No
clue to the perpetrator.. Patrick Wal
lace, of Williamsburg, N. Y, murdered
his wife Monday nigh: by knocking her
brains out with a hickory stick. 90. DR..
Chas. Denoire and brother, Of New York,
have been arrested for killing an illegiti-
mate bid Of the former. The mother
who gaze the information is also in custo-
dy... The Opers House at Ottawa, ILL.,,
valued at s65, 900 was burned yesterday;
insurance $50, 900 1.-The estimated ship
ments of bullion from Utah the past year
is $1,000, 900. . AS an economical meas
ure the Offices of some thirty inspectors.
weighers and CANCERS, ard that of deputy
collector of the Boston Custom House have
been abolished. I. The President, not
doubling the passage of Hitchcock's grass
hopper bill has already authorized the dis.
tribution Of clothing and other supplies to
the needy. o.. The colored citizens of Ober-
lin protest against the passage sftha House
civil rights bill.
THURSDAY, Dec. 3l.-Ex-senator Nor
gan, of New York. declines the Russian
The 1arelirninarn examination,