The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-05-06

Rye brought sl.O61a @l.07L. Barley, No. 2.
$1.23@L27. Cash mess pork closed at
s22.lO@2215. Lard, sl5.5O@l5.7O. Choice to
extra graded steers brought $6.5O@7 80;
prime to choice native. stock, S5.25@625;
Texans, s3.OO1575; scalawags, $275@s.75
Hogs brought s7.70as.25 for good to choice,
and $S.20(d 900 for extra.
THE SOUTH.
IMPEACHMENT resolutions against State
Auditor Clinton for high crimes and misde-
meanors in office were passed by the Louisi-
ana House on the 2lst by a vote of g to 81
New Orleans dispatch of that date says the
Republicans claimed that the action of the
Democrats in unseating four Republicans and
seating four Democrats in their places was
gross breach of the plighted faith of the
Democratic party, and Messrs. Wheeler and
Frye, of the Congressional Committee, had
expressed the opinion that the four unseated
members were to retain their seats under the
Wheeler compromise.
THE Louisiana Senate on the I'D voted
% to l0-to take up the Clinton impeach-
mcnt resolution, and after passing the same
to a second reading resolved itself into
court Of impeachment for the trial of the
Auditor on the charges preferred against him
by the House. The House passed Joint
resolution to extend the extra session to
Mays.
THE steamer John Kyle, while lying at her
dock at New Orleans on the 23d, caught fire
and was turned adrift. She floated toward two
other steamers, the Exporter and Bodman,
which were also cut adrift to avoid the burning
vessel, but they came together, and were all
consumed. Many persons had collected on
the decks of the Exporter and Bodman to
witness the contagration, and of them from
twenty to one hundred persisted.
THE Louisiana Legislature adjourned sine
die on the oath. In the Senate the resolu-
ton suspending Auditor Clinton from office
was postponed to 1876.
A COLLISION occurred on the Baltimore &
Potomac Railroad, in Maryland, on the Goth
between two passenger trains, and the two
engines and four cars were completely de-
molished and nine persons were seriously in
jured and several others slightly hurt.
MEMORIAL DAY was observed at Augusta,
Ga, on the Goth with unusually imposing Ger.
monument being laid, after which the Ladies'
Memorial Association decorated with flowers
the graves of the Confederate and Federal
dead in Augusta Cemetery.
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
ASr.PETERsBURG correspondent, in letter
published in the London Daily Neps on the
| morning of the 21st, says q plot had been
discovered in Khva for the massacre of all
the Russians in the Khanate. The Emir of
Afghanistan had been accused of completely
| in the conspiracy.
THE Presidentof the French Geographical
gold medal presented by the society to the
family of the late Capt. Hall, in commemo-
Grafton of his exploits as an Arctic explorer.
TEN men are on trial in the City of Mexico
| charged with burying three men alive, .leav-
ing only their heads above ground, and then
dispatching them with hatchets and knives
after prolonged torture.
A MOTION by DR.. Kenealy in the British
House of Commons, on the 23d, for the
appointment of a royal commission to in
vcstigatc the circumstances attending the
Ilchborne trial elected an exciting debate,
and was then rejected by vote Of 4SS noes
to one aye.
THE police authorities of Posen have mott
fed all Ursuline Sisters in that district who
are not natives of Germany that they must
leave the country within two months.
J. NJ. KERRos, United States Consular
Agent at Brest, is dead.
THE Roman Catholic Bishops of Great
Britain have written letters of sympathy to
the Bishops of Germany and Switzerland, now
claiming to suffer persecution at the hands of
their respective Governments.
A BANQUET is to be given to the American
rifle team on its arrival at Dublin, and the
Lord Mayor Of London has signifed his inten-
ton to 60 in state, and at the end of the inter-
national contest to give the American rifle
men dinner in London.
The origin of the American races is
pretty plainly limited at by some facts COL
lected by c. w. Brooks, for seventeen
years japanese Consul at San Francisco.
Mr.. Brooks finds that since 1882 forty one
wrecks of Japanese vessels have been
borne upon the coasts Of the Sandwich
Islands and of America, twenty eight of
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