The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-12-22


confidence cf the President
1t is stated the President is soon to
send message to Congress on Southern
affairs, the greater part being devoted to the
late tumults in Mississippi and the mode OF
conducting elections in that State, based on in
formation gained by persons designated for
that purpose.
GENERAL MATTERs.
In Huanita, Peru, during the voting
for President riot took place in which twenty
persons were killed outright and an unascer-
tanned number wounded.
The German and American bondhold'
ers of the Davenport Il st. Paul railroad have
agreed to submit their differences to a United
States court and abide by its decision.
A Cheyenne, W. l., telegram Of the
10th, says that Frank George, in from the
Black Hills tor provisions, brings with other
coarse gold, one nugget weighing S27, and one
S..
At meeting held in Bismarck the
evening of the 10th, mail and express route
was established to the Black Hills. It stated
that one thousand men are now in the Hills
and doing welI.
The body of DR.. Charles Durham Of
New Brunswick, N. J., called on the 9th to at
tend a wounded boatman, was fshed from the
canal on the 18th, when the head was found to
be smashed and the pockets turned inside out,
indicating murder.
E. 8. Alexander and others have Oh.
tanned in the Supreme Court of the United
States confirmation of their judgment against
the Phillips & Colby construction company
for Sl07 900, for work and damages from stop
ping work on the Wisconsin Central railway.
At a meeting Of Methodist ministers in
Salt Lake, on the 9th, resolutions were adopt
ed protesting against the action OF Bishop Ha-
ven and the Methodist preachers Of Boston in
nominating Grant for third term, and de-
nouucing the course pursued by President
Grant as regards this territory.
The Secretary Of the Interior now
holds in trust for certain Indians, stocks and
bonds, the par value of which is about 81, 0OO,-
600. He says it seems to him the United
States Treasurer should be the custodian OF
this property, and therefore sends to Con-
gress the draft OF bill providing for such GUS
tody.
The American Board Of Transports.
ton convened in Chicago on the 18th, about
300 delegates being present. Among the
proposed enlargement of the Welland canal
and the st. Lawrence river, in order to secure
an outlet ior the largest lake vessel to the
ocean.
The crooked whisky men of Milwaukee
startled that city on the 10th inst by rumor
that Judge Dixon, Judge Hopkins and E. w.
Keys would be presented to the U. S. grand
against the administration OF justice, on &C
count of the leniency exercised toward Sam
uel Rindskopf by Hopkins at suggestion of the
others.
Mr.. Biddle, counsel for the Pacific Mail
steamship company, in the district court,
Washington, the 18th, stated he had hereto
tore dismissed, in entire misapprehension Of
the wishes Of the company, and without auth
GRITTY, the suits against parties tor recovery OF
money received by them on account of subsidy,
and on his motion the court reinstated the
cases.
The published report that the United
States have submitted . oposals to Great Brit
ain, France and Germany looking to all inter-
vention in the Cuban question, is contradictcd
1t may positively be asserted that even it this
government should in future be inclined to
such Intervention, it would do so without
asking or desiring the cooperation Of foreign
powers.
The suit of the city of St. Louis for
possession OF the St. Louis Gas Light COM
pany, which has been before the courts for the
past five years, has been decided by the circuit
court in the city's favor. Should this decision
be affirmed by the higher courts to which the
case is to be taken, the profits OF the company
since 1870, computed to be several million
dollars, will revert to the gas consumers of the
city.
Six thousand, six hundred and tiftv.
| one disabled soldiers were cared for in the
several soldiers homes of the country the
past year. These were distributed as follows {:
At the central branch, Dayton, Ohio, s,769 !;
at the eastern branch, Augusta, Maine, 424 !:
at the northwestern branch, Milwaukee, Wis,
es7; at the southern branch, Hampton, Va,
87l-being total of 592 more than were sup
ported last year.
The Paris organ Of the French govern.
ment, after reviewing the cases of atrocities
upon Frenchmen in Cuba by the Spanish au-
thorities, intimates that France and England
| may join with the United States in intervening
in Cuba, but will be opposed by Germany,
which hopes to gain footing in the West In.
dies by purchase Of st. Thomas and will then
have policy antagonistic to the interests of