The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-10-14


Companies. interest payable in
lawful money. principal outetand-
Interest accrued and not yet paid. S6ss5s
Interest paid by United States. S,As,so7
Interest repaid by Transports
tion of malls, etc. 6,396,524
Balance of interest paid by United
States NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. Sl,oUo>Zc0
THE Comptroller of the Currency reports
that eighty three National Banks have been
organized since the passage of the act of
Jan. II, 1875, with capital Of So, 2234 900, to
which circulation has been issued amount
ing to IS, 0223, 80. The total amount OF ad :.
ditional circulation issued since the passage
of the act is s1021S, 900, of which 81, $40, :.
900 has been issued to Pennsylva-
MIA, $4,000 to West Virginia, 1888, 1000 to
Kentucky, $234, 900 to Ohio, 1881 600 to Indi-
ana, 800, 900 to Illinois and 1921 900 to Iowa,
The total amount of legal-tender notes depos-
tied for the purpose of retiring circulation
from the passage of the act of June 20, 1874,
% Oct. l, 1875, is $25,O42,749 The amount
of National Bank circulation outstanding on
the LIST was $347, 1858, 742-being g., OO0, 600
less than on June 20, 1874, and 81, OOO, 600 less
than on Jan. H. 1875
ACCORDING to the ruling of the Postofice
Department, anything whatever, except the
address, printed upon or written upon the
side of a postal-card intended for the address
renders such card unavailable, and the same
cannot be legally forwarded unless prepaid
at the letter rate-three cents. But if by in
advertence it reaches its destination without
such prepayment it is chargeable with double
the letter rates, under the provisions of the
Postal laws.
THE Secretary of the Treasury has given
notice that the principal and accrued interest
of $50 bonds of the issue of June 80, 1864, to
the amount of 81, 5oO,O0O, and of registered
bonds to the same amount, will be paid at
the Treasury at Washington on and after
Jan. l, 1875, and that interest on said bonds
will cease on that day.
THE receipts from internal revenue for the
fiscal year up to the I'd were $29, 2S9 ,0S7, and
from customs 81, 1857 ia.
THE EAST.
THE Massachusetts, Republican State Con-
vention was held at Worcester on the Goth
ult. Vice President Wilson was chosen to
preside. Alexander H. Rice was nominated
on the third ballot for Governor, receiving
$40 out of 99S votes. The rest of the ticket
Horatio g. Knight; State Treasurer, Charles
Endicott; Auditor, Julius L. Clark; Attorney
General Charles r. Train; Secretary of
State, Henry B. Pierce. The platform adopt
ed favors speedy return to specie payments
and declares against imitation; opposes the
continuing in Office of Presidential lncum-
bent for more than two terms; eulogizes
President Grant for the independence,
courage and good sense manifested by
him in the discharge of his duties as Pres
dent, and expresses an earnest desire that the
people Of the South "may enjoy to the full
est extent those inestimable blessings to
which We owe all our prosperity-universal
free education and security of personal rights
under local f-government-without the
necessity Of any interference from abroad"
JOHN Mccormick and wife, of Newark, N.
j., were absent from home several hours the
other day, and left their three children
twins of five years and three-year. old-to
keep house. The fire went out, and the little
housekeepers set about reminding it. They
replenished the stove with wood, poured
kerosene on it in the usual way, and
applied match. The top of the stove was
Immediately blown off and the children were
enveloped in flames. Some of the neighbors
got badly burned helping the little sufferers.
When Mrs. Mccormick came back, an hour
or two afterward, she had two children
fewer in the house, one of the twins and
the youngest child being blackened corpses.
A LARGE number of the operatives at Fall
River, Mass, had resumed work on the 3Oth
ult., and all the mills were running. Quiet
prevailed and no further serious trouble was
anticipated, although the militia was still on
duty.
THE Rev. DR.. George B. Porteus, late pastor
Of All-souls' Church, Brooklyn, N. T., was
drowned in Long Island Sound on the 2sth
ult, by the capsizing of boat in which he
was riding. t.
NED o. BALDWIN, the pugilist-known as
the Irish Giant"-was fatally shot BY his
business partner, in their saloon in Ne
York city, few days ago.
IT is stated that the mother of little Mabel
Young, the victim of the belffy murder at
Boston, has lost her reason, and has been
placed in an insane asylum in that city.
The official canvass Of the votes on the
New Jersey constitutional amendments shows
that all received majority of more than
as the Five County act" which received q
majority of 6,7A. -.
THE Third Avenue Savings Bank of New
York city has suspended. Amount due de-
positors, s1,34O,0OO. The failure is said to
be BAD one. 7'''s.'i
In the United States Circuit Court at Bos.
ton, on the 4th, George Miller and William
Smith, who had been convicted of murder
on board of the schooner Jefferson Borden,
were sentenced to be hanged Jan. IA.
VIcE-PREsIDENT WILSON has been coun-
seled by his medical advisers to abandon his
intention to lecture this season, Is it would
prove too serious strain on his constitution
if Undertaken in addition to his official du-
ties and the completion Of his book.
A HORRIBLE outrage aud murder was COM
mitted at suncook, N. H., on the 18th. The
mutAated body of a young lady named Josie
Lengmade was found on the evening of that
day in piece Of woods half mile from the
road over which she had started In the morn
ing to 20 to school, The head was missing.
having been entirely severed from the body.
Ar the town elections in Connecticut on
the 18th the larger places generally voted for
1iouor 1icenaa and the am ALTAR fouupe x.,a..