The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-11-18
General News Summary,
FROM WASHINGTON.

Ahh SecTetaFy OF the treasury has az
dressed letter to the Collectors of Gu.
toms announcing that no further imports
tons of neat-cattle or hides will be Above
for the present from England, in const
quence of the prevalence of the foot an
mouth disease in that country.
THE annual report Of the Postmaste,
General will show that during the past yea
s,64O, 797 letters were received at the Dead
Letter Office in Washington, of which nun
Der 2lo,ST7 were foreign. These dead letter
contained 50, SAG, 1854 in money, drafts, etc
all of which except about 5000 was re
turned to the senders. The foreign letter
were returned unopened.
By the decision of the umpire of the Amer
lean and Spanish Claims Commission TO
the settlement of claims of citizens o
the United States against Spain for wron!
and injuries committed against persons an,
property on the island of Cuba since tn
commencement of the present instruction
Joaquin G. Deangerica, whose property wa
embargoed in 1869 and restored to him il
1854, is awarded $74S,1SO, with interest
Pedro 8. Isioliera gets $4,000 and interest TO
sixteen days imprisonment.
One HUNDRED guns were fired by the Re
publicans in Washington on the evening O
9th over the victories claimed by them at tn,
elections on the I'd. The President was ser
cnaded at the Executive Mansion, and re-
sponded in brief speech.
TWENTY ONE MILLION ONE HUNDRED AMI
THIRTY-EIGHT THOUSAND postal-cards were
issued by the Postofice Department during
the month of October, being 5,0O0, 900 more
than during any previous month.
THE President on the 9th appointed John
B. Raymond Postmaster at Vicksburg, Miss,
in place of Henry r. Pease, suspended under
the Tenure Of Office act
THE First Comptroller of the Treasury has
disallewed the claim of the State of Nebraska
for s5S,93s, being per cent. on the value, at
sl.25 per acre, of the estimated quantity of
Indian reservations in that State
DURING the last fiscal year there were is.
sued by the Postcffice Department 1O7,6l6,-
900 postal-cards of the value of $1,O76, 100.
The estimate of the number for the mex. ifs
cal year is l54 ,9S7 900. The number of pub
lie or ordinary postal stamps issued to Post
masters during the fiscal year was 6S2, $40 no,
of value of $lS,27l,479 The value of
newspaper postage and periodical stamps
was SSl5,9 o2. The number of official stamps
issued to the executive departments was
1S,495 800, of value of 1854, 1870. The total
number of stamps of all kinds issued was
97S,275,G25, of value Of s25,4T,511.
The increase in the number of ordinary
stamps is about 10 per cent. The increase,
including official stamps, is about per cent
The postage stamps sent through the mails
by registered pouches to Postmasters num-
bered 1853, 1862. OF this entire amount there
were lost but ten packages, of an aggregate
value of $3.50. There were mailed to foreign
countries II, 600 letters. Of these, LOG, 200
were returned undelivered. The number of
letters received from foreign countries was
1l,soO,000, of which 219, 100 were returned un-
delivered.
IT was reported from Washington on the
Sth that Secretary Bristow was refusing in all
cases to compromise with the illicit distill-
ers and whisky-dealers who had been de-
tected in their frauds upon the Govern
ment revenues in Chicago, St. Louis, Mil
waukee and elsewhere; his reply invariably
being that the only possible compromise is
through the courts. Several more Chicago
parties implicated in the frauds gave bail on
the Sth. The last of the indicted distillers
of St. Louis-Jouette-ple guilty on the
sth, making thrty-three pleas of guilty in
that city.
A F1vE-DoLLAR counterfeit National Bank
note purporting to have been issued by the
First National Bank of Galena, ILL.,, has been
discovered in the Redemption Agency at
Washington. There is no such bank in ex-
istence. The note was evidently altered from
the plate of the Traders National Bank of
Chicago.
THE EAST.
THE new Legislature of New jersey is
composed as follows: Standardization
II; Democrats, 9. neutrality-suspicious., 81;
Democrats, %.
THE Tammany ticket was defeated at the
recent election in New York city. Recorder
Hackett was elected by over 5000 majority,
and Morrissey was elected State Senator by
about 1000 majority. The news received
up to the morning of the 4th rendered it
probable that the Democratic State ticket
was elected. The Albany Evening Journal of
the 4th put the Democratic majority in the
State at between s, 900 and 1900. The Legis-
lature is Republican Senate by 10 and House
by l6 majority.
DUEL occurred in New York city on the
I'd between two Polish Jews named Joseph
Goldman and Moses Piskall, who were part
ners in the jewelry business. Goldman was
shot over the right temple and right cheek
aud instantly killed. Piskall was shot over
the right eye and MORALLY wounded.
AT business meeting of Brooklyn Ply.
mouth Church on the evening of the 4th the
names of Deacon West and Mrs. Frank D
Moulton were dropped from the roll of mem.
bership on the ground of continued absence
from the services of the church. Mrs. Moul.
ton was present at the meeting, accompanied
by her counsel, Roger A. Pryor, who read q
protest signed by Mrs. NJ, in which she re.
iterated the charges against Mr.. Beecher
which she said she knew to be true by con.
fessions made to her by Mr.. Beecher and Mrs
Tilton. 1t was reported in Brooklyn on the
9Th that the New York and Brooklyn Asso.
citation of Congregational Ministers had ap.
pointed committee of its members to care
fully examine into the charges against Mr.
Beecher and report whether the association
ought to retain him in its membership.
RETURNS received by the Albany Argus o
the 5th give Bigelow Dem.) for Secretary O
State of New York 16,79s majority, with
prospect of further increase.
THREE Of the four counts in the indictment
against H. B. Claain s. Co., of New York, fol
completely in silk-smuggling frauds have
been sustained by Judge Benedict.
THE following named gentlemen compose
the committee appointed by the Congrega
tional Association of Ministers to investigate
the charges against Mr.. Beecher: Rev. VIM
Taylor, of the Broadway Tabernacle, New
York; Rev. DR.. William Ives Burlington, o.
the Clinton Avenue Church, Brooklyn; Rev
Profs. Parsons and Martin, of the New York
Theological Seminary, and Rev. Charles Fl
Everest, of the Church of the Puritans, Brook
Ign. Plymouth Church has referred to a com
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