The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-10-21
General News Summary,
FROM WASHINGTON,

THE Comptroller Of the Currency has called
upon National Banks for report exhibiting
their condition at the close Of business on
Friday, the LIST of October.
TRUE bills have been found by the Grand
Jury of the District of Columbia against Ben.
jamin B. Halleck, William II. Ottman and T.
w. Brown for having been concerned in the
$4,000 robbery of the United States Treasury
The United States Supreme Court has de.
cided, in the appealed st. Louis Minor case
that the new amendments to the National
Constitution do not confer the right of suf.
frage upon any one, and that the Constitu-
tions and laws of the several States which
conflne that right to men alone are not neces-
sarily void.
EX-SENATOR PEAsE and U. s. Atty. Wells,
of Mississippi, and the Attorney General of
that State called on Atty. Gen. Pierrepont in
Washington on the 9th and assured him that
if there was no interference by the General
be the redemption Of the State from many
serious difficulties now existing.
THE EAST.
THE United States Assistant Treasurer at
in gold on each Thursday of the present
month-S4 0O0,OOO in all.
THE New York Supreme Court on the 9th
confirmed the decision of the lower court de-
nyng the motion to vacate the order of arrest
on the $6,OOO,OOO suit against William NJ.
Tweed and ordering 81, 200 900 bail.
THE Labor Reformers of Massachusetts
have nominated Wendell Phillips for Gov
ernor; VIM. NJ. Bartlett, Lieutenant-Gover
Isaac W. Andrews, Secretary of State; S. B.
Coffin, State Treasurer; John F. Fitzgerald,
State Auditor, and H. B. Mclaughlin, Attor-
ney-General. Resolutions were adopted
favoring a reduction in the hours of labor
and system of factory inspection; condemn
ing the action Of the manufacturers of Fall
River; favoring the greenback currency and
the retirement of National Bank currency.
AT Prohibition meeting held in Boston on
the 9th John J. Baker was nominated as
candidate for Governor. No other nomina-
tons were made
AT the recent election in Connecticut it was
voted to change the time of the State election
from the spring to the fall of the year and to
make the Governors term of Office two
years.
GEORGE W. PEMBERToN, the murderer of
Mrs. Bingham, at East Boston, in March last,
was hanged at Boston on the Sth.
A New YORK dispatch of the Sth announces
that Messrs. Moody and Sankey will begin
their revival on the 3lst of the present month
in the Brooklyn On. W Rink, which has the
capacity for accommodating from 200 to
5000 persons. The services will be on the
same general plan as that pursued in Great
Britain.
JOHN S1SEY, President of the Miners Ma.
tional Union, and Aingo Parks, a prominent
and active member of the same association,
were recently tried at Clearfield, Pa, on the
charge of riot and conspiracy. The former
was acquitted and the latter convicted and
sentenced to hard labor for one year and
fined one dollar and costs of about $500.
WEsTERvELT convicted of being implicated
in the abduction of Charlie Ross, has been
sentenced to seven years solitary contine-
ment in the Penitentiary.
THE me mbers of the firm of Duncan, Sher.
man & Co., the bankrupt bankers of New
York city, were arrested on the Sth, on COM
plant of John A. Roebling's Sons, on a
charge of fraud. They were released on bail
of 5000 each. Mr.. Duncan has withdrawn
his offer to pay his creditors SO per cent. in
notes.
ANOTHER suit has been instituted against
VIM. NJ. Tweed to recover the sum of 1888, $40
alleged to have been fraudulently paid on
warrants certified by him.
JOHN RYAN, of Boston, died on the 9th
r,,,, o+f,, &c ;,;,,
prizc-tight the day before with Michael Car
ney. The latter fed.
SAMUEL C. DIMN1cK, Acknowledgement of
Pennsylvania, died at Harrisburg on the 18th,
of pneumonia.
THE Springfield (Mass.) Republican of the
18th announces that Gen. Bartlett had de-
clined the nomination for Lieutenant Gov
ernor of Massachusetts on the Democratic
ticket.
MICHAEL CARNEY, the surviving principal
in the fatal prize-hght near Boston, and the
seconds of the pugilists have given them
selves up to the police authorities.
GOLD closed in New York on the 18th at
1867. The following were the closing quo
tations for produce: No. 2 Chicago Spring
Wheat, sl.24@1.26; No. 2 Milwaukee, s129
@13o; No. 2 Northwestern, s125@1. &c;
Barley, s115@1.2O; Oats, Western Mixed,
46@4sc; Corn, Western Mixed, 69@73c;
Pork, Mess, s22.35; Dressed Hogs, 1Oc;
Lard, 1890. Flour, good to choice, s6O5
@6.55; White Winter Extra, s6.55@75O.
The cattle market was dull; 12@12%c for
good to extra. Hogs, sI@SAc. Sheep,
495Ac.
AT East Liberty, Pa, on the 18th, cattle
brought: Best, s6.5o@6.75; medium, s525
@5.15; common, s3.75@40O. Hogs sold
Workers, s7.25@7.6o; Philadelphia, $3.50
$50. Sheep brought s40O@525 according
to quality.
WEST AND SOUTH.
THE American Board of Commissioners for
Foreign Missions of the Congregational
Church met in Chicapo IN tho sth Tho