The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-07-22
General News Summary.
FROM WASHINGTON.

FROM WASHINGTON
A WASHINGTON dispatch of the 7th states
that under the act of July IS, 1874, providing
for the resumption Of specie payments, the
Treasury Department had disposed OF about
$4,000 GOO of bonds known as 5per cents,
authorized by the act of July IA, 1870, and
with the proceeds had purchased about 80, :
100000 in silver, for the purpose Of retiring
fractional currency.
THE Executive Committee of the National
Grange, in session in Washington on the Sth,
agreed, by a vote of three to two, to remove
the headquarters of the National Grange
from Washington to Louisville, KY They
also resolved to hold the next meeting of the
National Grange at Louisville on the third
Wednesday in.November next. The head
Quarters will be removed to Louisville in a
few weeks.
THE count of the funds in the Treasury
vaults at Washington has developed no dis
crcpancy or deficit, with the exception of the
$4,000 package stolen some weeks ago, and
to which no clew has yet been obtained.
The Comptroller of the Currency has called
upon the national banks for report showing
their condition at the close of business June
so. The Comptroller desires to retire all the
circulating notes of the denomination of five
dollars of the following banks, the notes of
that denomination having been success
fully counterfeited: The First, Third and
Traders National Banks, Chicago; First Ma
tional Bank of Paxton, Ill.,; First National
Bank of Canton, III. National banks through-
out the country are requested to return all
notes of these banks Of the denomination of
s, to the Treasury for redemption, and NO ad-
ditional bills of this denomination will here
after be issued to these banks. - =
THE Commissioner of Internal Revenue has
decided to allow such claims of State officers
for the refunding of the income tax paid upon
the emoluments of their offices as were filed
in due time, whether those emoluments con-
sist Of salary or of fees.
THE EAST. :t-,5
AT a largely attended meeting Of Plymouth
Society of Brooklyn-composcd of pew
holders in Plymouth Church--on the evening
of the 9TH a resolution was unanimously
adopted fixing Mr. Beecher's salary for the
ensuing year at 100000. 1t is understood
among the congregation that this increase of
SaiaiS 10 ioi tulS ySSli why 10 lulCHOCu ~
help defray the expenses of the recent trial
Mr.. BEECuER testified before the Grand
Jury in the Loeder-Price case on the It'll, de-
nying all the allegations made by the accused
SO far as they related to himself. In reply to
the usual questions Price acknowledged his
guilt of perjury and conspiracy, Loeder plead
ing not guilty.
Mrs. ALGERNoN SARToR1s, daughter of
President Grant, has fine boy, born on the
18th, at Long Branch. 1t weighed ten and a
half pounds.
Mr. F. D. MoULToN has recently addressed
letter to the District Attorney of Brooklyn,
asking for speedy trial under the indict-
ment for libeling the Rev. Henry Ward
Beecher, which has been pending against
him (Mou!tOn) for nearly year. Attorney
Britton responded that he could not well at
tend to the matter at the present time, owing
to more urgent cases, but intimatcs that
later in the season he will endeavor to have
the matter attended to in the courts.
On the evening of the 18th, as a number of
Orangemen were returning to Lawrence,
Mass, from picnic celebration of the battle
of the Boyne, they were assaulted by crowd
OF several hundred Irishnen, and a serious
riot cnsued which lasted for two and half
hours, during which several persons were
wounded, many of them seriously. The as
sailed party sought protection at the police
station and the Mayor was sent for, who, with
a squad of police, undertook to quell the
disturbance, and were themselves assaulted
and fired rcvolvers in self-defense, the mob
being thus compelled to disperse.
A MINERS strike occurred in the collieries
at St Clair and Wadesville, Pa, on the 18th,
the men being dissatisfied with the 10 per
cent reduction submitted to upon the recent
assumption of labor.
GOLD closed in New York on the 10Th at
115sl. The following were the closing quo
tations for produce: No. Chicago spriag
Wheat, sl.ls7a@119; No. 2 Milwaukee, s12lla
@1.2S; No. Northwestern, SL1S15@l19;
Barley, $l25@1.3O; Oats, Western Mixed,
G5667c; Corn, Western Mixed, 791Ss1fc;
Pork, New Mess, s2O.45; Dressed HOGS,
9s4c; Lard, 13Hc. Flour, good to choice;
s5.50@59O; White Winter Extra, $5.95@6 60
The cattle market was firm; 1910 to
1870 for good to extra. Hogs were dull
at s7.5o@7. 6a1z. Sheep, clipped, brought
4A@55sc. s.e- i. 49,. -
AT East Liberty, Pa, on the 18th, cattle
brought: Best, s6.75(9725; medium, $3.50
COCO; common, s5.O0@5.25. Hogs sold
Workers s7.a5@7.4o; Philadelphia, s74o@
7.5o. Sheep brought s4.oo@5.OO according
to quality. ."t''si-.+ 80
WEST AND SOUTH.
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ton was held at Madison on the 9TH The
Hon. Harrison Ludington, of Milwaukee, was
unanimously nominated, by acclamation, fol
Governor. The other nominations are: For
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, II. L. Eaton; Secretary
Of State, Hans B. Warner; State Treasurer.
Maj. Henry Baek; Attorney General Johh
r. Bennett; Superintendent of Public In.
struction, Robert Graham. E. W. Reyes
was reelected Chairman of the State
Central Committee. The platform adopt
ed approves the letter of President Grant
"discouraging the continuance in Office OF
] any. Chief Magistrate of the nation for a
, lopserperiod than two terms;' indorses the
present Republican National Administration;
indorses the policy of arbitration in settling
difficulties between nations; favors a tariff
for reveSue only !; advocates the gradual re-
sumption Of specie payments; favors legisla-
tive control Of public corporations, etc.
THE Opposition State Convention of Min.
nesota, held at st. Paul on the 9TH, nomi-
mated D. L. Buell. for Governor; E., w. Du.
rant, Lieutenant-Governor; Albert Schef
fer, Treasurer; J. W. Sencerbox, Rail
way Commissioner; Adolphus Bierman
Secretary of State; Lafayette Emmett
Chief Justice; NJ. Doran, State Audi.
tor; A. A. Mcleod, Clerk = Supreme
Court. The name Observation-Disclosures
was adopted, and the reselNtions favor . re.
sumption of specie payments and return to
gold and silver as basis OF currency; tariff
for revenue only-none for protection; the
State control of public corporations, etc.
A ST. LOUIS dispatch Of the sth announces
the death, at his residence in that city, Of
Gen. F. P. Blair, Jr. He was ffty-three years
of age. r"Pwl9d sgasT7f 3 Cd s,"sG