The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-03-16

ST. PAUL AND RED WING. MIMI.
NEWS IF THE WEEK.
TUESDAY, March s.-The widow Of the late
Gerrett Smith died on Saturday .... The Indi-
ana Legislature having failed to pass the gen.
era! appropriation bills, have been convened in
extra session go. Gordon and Whitcher, re-
turned Black Hillites, deny the statements that
the Sioux City party left behind them was IN a
suffering condition, and say they have food to
Last them till June .... Senator Andrew John
son has been interviewed, and said in sub
stance that he placed country above party, and
that he would support such measures as in his
JUDGMENT the best for the country. Speaking
Of his personal wrongs in the past, he re-
marked that he had been elected to represent
Tennessee and not himself, and that As Sena-
tor he had no enemies to punish or @Eiends to
reward go. The severest snow storm of the sea-
son swept over q portion Of the Eastern,
Southern and Southwestern States on Saturday.
At Memphis snow fell to the depth
of fifteen inches; at Cairo about the
same; at Wheeling, West Virginia, twelve,
and at Poughkeepsie eighteen inches. Rail-
road travel was very generally interrupted 90.
A dispatch from St. Johns, Newfoundland,
saws the bodies of over forty persons, who
died there this winter, have been temporarily
inferred in the SNOW, which lies in such i'm
mense quantities in the cemeteries as to pre-
vent the opening of graves 90. Attorney Gen
eral Whitney OF Utah having, after the ad-
tournament of court, called Judge Mexican =
liar. the Judge has issued an order to the ef-
feot that Whitney pay fine Of 500, that he is
forbidden to practice his profession until he
shall make written apology, and that in de-
fault of the payment OF his fine and the apollo
~ in one month, he be debarred from furthor
practice 90. Tie convention between Spain and
the United States for the settlement of the
Virginius affair has been signed 90. The
proclamation, appointing Thursday,
March Goth, day of thanksgiving for the
many blessings bestowed upon the State dur
ing the past twelve months, and especially for
the action Of Congress, by which the govern-
uent of the State is restored once more to its
wn citizens go. The standing committees of
the Episcopal dioceses OF Northern New Jer-
sey, Of Vermont, OF Mississippi and of Mary
land, have voted against the confirmation OF
Bishops DeKoven and Jaggar. The votes now
stands 9 for to 10 against 80. The steamer City
of Vicksburg, valued at $40, 900, with valua-
bic cargo on board, was sunk on Sheep Islands,
lower Mississippi, Sunday night 80. A special
dispatch to the Rev York Herald says the
young King Alfonzo of Spain has already tired
Of his crown, and desires to abdicate in favor of
Duke de Montpensier.
WEDNESDAY,, March 10.-At indianapolis
Monday night, brute named Lewis Bishop
cut his wife's throat because she refused to
live with him any longer. 900. A Mrs. Evans Of
Seymour, Conn.,, Monday, cut the throat Of
her two children, two and six years OF age, and
then cut her own throat go. Mr.. Whitelaw
Reid of the New York Tribune has sent s., 900
more to the Kansas aud Nebraska grasshopper
sufferers; making total OF $4,000 sent from
the Tribune dollar fund for the needy in those
States 90. The President did not, as has been
stated, veto the bill for the equalization OF
bounties, except in Withholding his signature.
He had, however, prepared draft of veto
message in pencil, bit was thrown
aside for want of time to perfect
before the adjournment of the House 90. The
aggregate sum in the twelve general appropri-
alton bills passed during the late session Of
Congress is about $l75, co. 900, apart from
other bills containing appropriations go. Two
boys named Welsh and John Owens at work
in coal screen in Mt. Pleasant mine near
Scranton, Pc, Tuesday, were caught in the
screen and before the machinery could be
stopped, both were crushed into shapeless
mass, their heads and arms severed from their
bodies, and altogether presenting shocking
spectacle 80. Judge Treat of the U. S. District
Court setting at St. Louis, in the case Of Buell.,
the correspondent charged with ibelltng, ex-
Senator Zach Chandler decides that what is
known as the Poland Gag Law does not au-
thmize the sending of a person to Washington
Tor trial charged with having published libel
outside the District of Columbia. The case
will come before Judge Dillon, Of the Circuit
Court, this month 90. An Alexandria, Va,
telegram says that Saturday negro named
Haines went to the house OF his mistress, and
Seizing Ratchet, made murderous
attack on the children cutting
and slashing them terribly: The
woman resisted the fend, fighting him out o.
doors, when she succeeded in splitting his
head open with an axe, killing him instantly.
The woman was hurt seriously and the child
zen SO badly they will probably die 80. A tele-
gram from Rome announces that at the procon.
sistory to be held Monday next, a number O.
new Cardinals will be named, among whom
uill be Archbishop McCloskey Of New York.
THURSDAY, March 11.-Latest returns iron
the New Hampshire election indicate tina