The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-09-23
General News Summary,
FROM WASHINGTON.


FROM WASHINGTON.
THE President has appointed Virgil d.
Stockbridge, of Maine, Examiner in Chief of
the Patent Office.
AWAsHINGToN special of the 9th says the
Secret Service authorities in that city had in
formation that a company of Italians had
gone West with large amount of the coun.
terfet $40 bills on the First National Bank of
Philadelphia. These counterfeits are said to
be exceedingly dangerous. One OF them was
recently received at the Treasury cash-room
and exchanged by the experts for small
money. The counterfeit is perfect imi-
tation on its face, but there are few de-
fects on its back
THE Red Cloud Investigation Committee
commenced it's open session in Washington
on the 10TH Bishop Hare made statement
in relation to his knowledge of conducting
Indian business affairs. Commissioner Smith
and Prof. Marsh were present.
THE EAST.
THE New York Republican State Conven-
ton was held at Saratoga on the Sth, and
the following ticket was nominated: For
Secretary of State, F. W. Seward; Comp
troller, F. E. Spinner; Treasurer, Gen. E. A.
Merritt Attorney General, Geo. L. Danford; ;
State Engineer, o. II. P. Cornell; Canal Com
missioner, VIM. E. Tinsley; State Prison
Inspector, Rev. Benoni T. Ives. The plat
form adopted declares against further cur
rency imitation and in favor of the speediest
possible return to specie payments; recog-
nizes as conclusive President Grants decla-
ration that he is not candidate for renom
ination and declares opposition to the cleo
ton of any President for . third term;
indorses the Administration of President
Grant, etc.
CAPT. JOHN c. JONES, Of New York city,
committed suicide by jumping into the rapids
and going over the American falls at Niagara
on the Sth, in sight of several hundred Wis
itors.
AN explosion occurred in the celluloid fac
tory at Newark, n. j. on the Sth, setting the
building on fire and destroying it. OF thirty
men in the building at the time some were
uninjured, but several were either killed out
right or fatally injured.
THE Pennsylvania Democracy, in their
State Convention at Erie on the 9th, adopted
resolutions on the currency question similar
to those ia the Ohio platform. They demand
that the policy of contraction be abandoned
and that the volume of money be made and
kept equal to the wants of trade; favor the
extinction of the National Banks and the re-
tirement of their circulation, to be replaced
by full legal-tender issues by the Govern
ment, and the establishment of system of
free banks of discount and deposit under
State regulation. Judge Cyrus L. Pershing,
Of Cambria County, was nominated for Gov
ernor on the eleventh ballot and his nominal
ton was made unanimous.
THE prosecution in the Westervelt trial
closed its testimony on the 9th. On the 10th
Mrs. Westervelt testified that on the 9th of
July, 1874, the day when her husband was
according to the evidence of Mrs. Peers, seen
in a street car with Charlie Ross, he re-
NAMED in the house all day. She remem-
bered it distinctly, as it was her birthday
Hon. HENRY T. BLOW, of St. Louis, died
suddenly of congestion at the United States
Hotel in Saratoga, N. Y, on the 18th.
THE election in Maine on the 18th, resulted
in favor Of Gen. Conner (Rep) for Governor
by about 5000 majority. Legislature Re-
publican.
JUDGE GILBERT, of the New York su-
preme Court, in Brooklyn, on the 18th, rem
dered decision in a civil-rights case, where
in VIM. F. johnson, colored, sought to COM
pei the principal of public school to ad-
nit his son, instead of sending him to the
school provided for colored children. The
court holds tina. the common schools are q
public charity; that the benefits conferred
by them are free gift from the State, and
like every other donor, the State may pre-
scribe in what manner the gift may be en-
joyed. In conclusion, Judge Gilbert says
that the statute, by guaranteeing equal priv.
ileges, does not confer the right to enjoy
them in common with ally class of per.
sons, or in any particular school, and that
nothing has been shown from which it can
be inferred that the relator has been deprived
of the equality of privilege to which he is en-
titled. The motion for mandamus was de.
MED.
WEsTERvELT testified in his own behalf on
the 18th, and swore that he never saw Charlie
Ross, and, in answer to a question whether
he had any knowledge of his whereabouts,
he replied emphatically that he had not, but
wished he had.
SUIT has been commenced by DR.. H. T,
Helmbold against the Pennsy lvania Hospital
for the Insane, Drs. J. Littell and j. Gordon
Maxwell, Alderman John Urcan and others
who were concerned in his incarceration in
kirkbrde's Asylum.
COMMODORE PERRY's flagship, the Law.
renee, sunk in Erie harbor sixty-two years
ago, has been raised and the bottom found to
be in good state of preservation. She is to
be exhibited at the Centennial.
GOLD closed in New YORK, on the 18th. at
11GH. The following were the closing quo.
tations for produce: No. 2 Chicago Spring
Wheat, $l.35(91.2s; No. 2 milwaukee, 81 .3OL
@l.Sl; No. 2 Northwestern, $127@1. 2s;
Barley, $1.22@1.35; Oats, Western Mixed,
4O@54c; Corn, Western Mixed, 72@75Lc;
Pork, Mess, $21.25; Dressed Hogs, 1OXc;
Lard, 13Hc. Flour, good to choice, $500
@84O; White Winter Extra, $645@75O.
The cattle market was weak; 1ONc to l3c
for good to extra. Hogs, S1@s1Sc Sheep,
4f@6hc.
AT East Liberty, Pa, on the 18th, cattle
brought: Best, s6.5o@7OO; medium, 5000
$50; common, s4OO@45O. Hogs sold
Workers, s74o@79O; Philadelphia, $500
s25. Sheep brought s4.5O@5.65 according
to quality.
WEST AND SOUTH.
THE Democratic Reform State Convention
OF Wisconsin, in session at Milwaukee on the
sth, renominated the present State officers by
reclamation and adopted platform indoors
ing the reform resolutions adopted in 1873,
including the declaration in favor of a sound
currency in coin or its enuiyalent