The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-08-26

invited and had consented to deliver the ad.
dress before the Agricultural Society in Sep
TENDER. At meeting in Rockford of the
Grand Army of the Republic resolutions
were adopted denounciag the action of the
Board, and declaring that they would not at
tend nor contribute to the success of the fair
in the event of Mr.. Davis delivering the ad-
dress. Resolutions of a similar nature were
passed by citizens of other towns in the
county, and the manufacturers of Rockford
declared they would send nothing to the fair
in such event.
ANNOUNCEMENT is made of the death of
Hon. VIM. A. Graham, of North Carolina,
formerly United States Senator, Governor
of North Carolina, Secretary of the Navy, and
candidate for Vice -President in 1852 ON the
ticket with Gen Scott. He was seventy-fivc
years old.
Mrs. Book, of Texas, on visit at Water
loo, ILL.,, undertook few days ago to hurry
up the fire by using kerosene oil, when the
usual explosion followed, and she was burned
to death.
LOUISVILLE, KY, has been selected as the
place for holding convention of all the
Grange purchasing agents on the LIST of Octo-
Der. The national executive and all the
State Executive Committees will be present
for the purpose of adopting a plan by which
business can be conducted on a uniform sys-
TEN throughout the United States.
The Chicago Inter- Ocean of the 14th pub
fishes crop reports from large number of
points scattered throughout the Northwest
ern States and the Territory of Dakota, from
which it appears that the general wheat
average is IS per cent, oats 70 per cent, and
corn 81 per cent; while rye and barley show
q diminished yield. The potato crop is repre-
sented as excellent, with no inclination to rot
Railroad was sold at auction in Chicago on
the 10th, by order of the United States Circuit
Court, under foreclosure of a mortgage in
favor of the Union Trust Company, of New
York, and was bid off by representative Of
the bondholders in Germany for 81, 39O, 900,
of which 100000 was in cash.
THE Board of Directors of the Winnebago
County Qn) Agricultural Society on the 10th
voted-ive to four-to sustain the previous
action of the Secretary in inviting jefferson
Davis to deliver the annual address in Sep
tcmber. A telegram was subsequently re-
ceivel from Mr.. Davis, saying that unforeseen
events made it impossible for him to attend
the fair.
THE Louisville Ceurier-Journal of the 10th
gives the official returns of the Kentucky
State election, which show majority of Sc, 139
for McCreery. The House will stand ninety
Democrats to ten Republicans.
In Chicago, on the 10th, spring wheat, No.
2, was weak, closing at $1.16@1.1614 cash
Cash corn lower; closed at 65Ac for No. 2
and 62Ac for rejected. Cash oats, No. 2,
sold at 4619@47c; September options were
sold at 351c. Rye, No. 2. 7O@75c. Barley,
No. 2, sl.10@1.15. Cash mess pork closed at
s2O75@2O.S5. Lard, $13.2o@1S25. Choice
o extra beeves brought s5.75@665; medium
o good, s4.25@5.6O; butchers stock, $2.75@
400; scalawags, ETC., s2.25@25O. Hogs
brought s7.55@s0O for good to choice. Sheep
sold at $4.25@4.75 for good to choice.
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
ACCORDING to London dispatch of the
morning of the 18th serious affair had arisen
between the Russian and Prussian frontier
guards at Donbrowa, on the boundary be-
tween the two countries. The trouble was
provoked by the Russians, who trespassed on
German territory. Several of the guards on
each side were wounded.
ALL the Carlst villages on the plain of
Alaoa have submitted to the Government of
King Alphonso. A Madrid telegram of the
10th says the official Gazette had published an
order directing levy of 100000 men.
Mr.. GLADSTONE, late English Premier, has
published another pamphlet, in which he
discusses anew the questions relating to
papacy, which formed the subject of his
former pamphlets ON "Vaticanism."
SHAW Il THOMPSON, British iron merchants
and manufacturers, failed for 5000, 900 on the
18th, and then compromised with their cred
itors by paying so per cent. of their indebt-
edness.
HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN, the Danish
poet and author, was buried at Copenhagen
on the 18th. The day was made one of na-
tional mourning throughout Denmark.
A LoNDoN special of the morning of the
18th intimates that Russia would not prevent
Montenegro from aiding the Herzegovinians,
aud that great numbers Of Montenegrins had
joined the insurgents around Trebigne.
THE French Government has prohibited
the sale in France of Mr.. Gladstone's writings
against papacy.
THE Alphonsists have carried one of the
outlying towers of SEQ dc Urgel and, on the
18th, turned its guns toward the citadel. The
levy for troops recently ordered includes
youths who shall be nineteen by the 31st Of
December Iext. The man.of-war Victoria
was reported, on the 18th, as bombarding
Lequito, on the Biscayan coast.
A CoNsTANTINorLE dispatch of the 18th
says the situation in Herzegovina was becom.
ing exceedingly grave. The insurgents had
attacked Trebigne, and were burning and pill.
laying in all directions. The Turks had been
defeated at Bileridia after an obstinate fight
The French Geographical Congress has
awarded first-class medals to the American
Statistical Bureau at Washington and Prof.
Hayden.
THE British Parliament was prorogued on
the 18th until the Doth c: October.
A LONDON dispatch of the morning of the
18th reports several additional and important
failures.
The pamphlet of Mr.. Gladstone has elected
a reply from Cardinal Manning in which he
says the ex-Premier is among the chief apos-
ties of revolution against the peace Of the
Christian church.
On the 18th Webb, the Englishman, under.
took to swim across the English Channel
without a life-saving apparatus, and failed
when halfway across owing to the roughness
of the waves.
Col. VALENTINE BAKER, distinguished
British officer who was convicted recently of
an indecent assault upon young lady in a
railway car, has been cashiered.
DRExEL, HAYES & Co., of Paris, had re-.
deemed 500, 900 Of Duncan, Sherman & Co.'s
letters of credit up to the 18th.
A BERLIN dispatch of the 14th says the
Catholic clergy holding State appointments
in Posen had submitted to the ecclesiastical
laws.
ACCORDING to Carlist advices of the 18th a
hattie had been fOu rht at Ar(luna between the