The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-11-25
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General News Summary
FROM WASHINGTON.

FROM WASHINGTON.
VICE.PREsI DENT WILSON was taken sud.
denly i'll just after warm bath at the Cap
itol in Washington, on the morning of the
10th, and his friends became considerably
alarmed at his condition during the day, but
his physician reported him as much improved
in health on the 18th, and thought he would
speedily recover.
THE report of the Paymaster.General OF
the Army shows that there has been dis
bursed to the army during the last year $12,-
27a, 1ea.3S, and to the Military Academy $780,
236.04. The number of desertions during the
year was 2,52l, against 1905 the previous
year. The -enlistments aggregated 1856,
as against 500 the year previous.
In his annual report the Commissioner of
Internal Revenue says the British public,
numbering less by one-fourth than our peo-
pie, paid under their excise laws during the
year ending March 81, 1875, taxes measured
in gold to the amount Of slss, 962, 756, against
sllo,45, 1874 paid in currency by the people of
this country during the fiscal year ended
June 80, 1875
The Commissioner of the General Land
Office in his report recommends that all the
timber lands owned by the Government be
opened to purchasers at a minimum valua-
ton, and thus be placed under private guard
ianship. He also recomm ends the adoption
of the plan Of public sales heretofore prac-
ticed but now abandoned. He thinks
that the Pre- emption laws should be re-
pealed, and the homestead system be made
the only method of acquiring title to
agricultural lands. The number of acres
disposed of during the last year was 7,O7O, 81,
being 3,i60,6Ol less than the previous year;
of this amount 1856, O57 acres were home
stead entries and 3,lO7,643 were certified to
railroads; 745,061 acres were disposed of at
cash sales. The cash receipts during the
year were 81, col.
ACCORDING to the annual report of the
Commissioner of Education there has been an
increase of 164, 900 school children during the
year. Thirty five out of thirty-seven States
report the number of teachers; thirty-seven
States and eleven Territories report the pub
lic-school income, which shows an increase Of
sl,2S2, 900, bat only thirty-tive States and nine
Territories can show their school expendi-
lures. There are enrolled in the public schools
100000 pupils. The average daily attend
ancc is 1850, 600; the estimated population
between six and sixteen years of age is 1O,-
514,614; number of teachers employed, 241 -
500; total income public schools Estates and
Territories, So, is, sos; total expenditures,
S14,o74,9SS; value of school buildings, $685.
15S,447
PRESIDENT GRANT has appointed Hiram
the District of Missouri, and T. c. Wood
or1 81 t., - No -,
the Patent Office.
SECRETARY BRIsTow has given notice that
$50 coupon and registered bonds of 1854 and
1854 IS to the amount of 81, 7S5 $50 will be
paid on and after Feb. Is, 1876, and that in
tcrest will cease at that date.
4 REPORT that Treasurer New contem
plated resigning his official position has been
cmphatically denied by recent Washington
dispatches.
THE EAST.
FURTHER failures at the East were an
nOunced on the 10th. Among them were the
firm of James Wickham 4 Son, commission
merchants, of New York city, and F. Geedow-
sky, an extensive urniture-manufacturer, of
Boston.
THE New York State Senate will contain 81
Republicans and II Democrats; House, 6S Re-
rublicans and 60 Democrats.
FORGED tickets, purporting to have been
issued by the Illinois Central Railroad, at
Chicago, and to be good for a passage from
Chicago to Denver, by the way of St. Louis,
were offered to ticket-agent in New York
city, ON the 10th, for sale at a reduced price.
q State Convention at Concord on the 10th
and nominated A. J. Kendall for Governor.
ACCORDING to the latest publication of
what is said to be the official returns of the
Pennsylvania election Hartranft's plurality
over Pershing is ,945. The Prohibition vote
is nearly 10000.
Mrs MoULToN on the 18th addressed let
ter to Lawyer Shearmau, as Clerk of Ply
mouth Church, asking the church to join
with her in calling Council of Churches,
before which Plymouth Church should give its
reasons for the action taken in dropping her
name from its roll of membership, and she
should state her reasons for absenting herself
from the services of the church. In case of
refusal on the part of the church to comply
with this request within four weeks she gives
council.
On account of the state of the markets the
Amoskeag Mills, of Manchester, N. H., have
given notice Of cut-down of from to Is per
cent on the wages of operatives from Dec. l.
A NEW YORK dispatch of the 18th says
Judge Moore, of Brooklyn, had decided to
grant an order for commission to take the
testimony of Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Richards
in the Loader perjury case.
THE New England Labor Reform League.
held a convention in Boston on the 18th. A
series of resolutions were adopted denuncia-
tory of all political parties, creeds and faiths,
and asserting that all legislation in this
country tends not to protect persons and
property, but to promote the interests of
speculative robbery. A large number of
speakers addressed the convention. Dark
hints of a revolution and secret military or
CARNATIONS among the labcring men were
thrown out.
GOLD closed in New York, on the 18th, at
11411. The following were the closing quo
tations for produce: No. 2 Chicago Spring
Wheat, $127@1.2s; No. 2 Milwaukee, $3.50
@131; No. 2 Northwestern, $1.2S@12 90;
DoiACyS oAsVaNXA'1Vs o0SDS VVosCIu U1lAcus
44@45c; Corn, Western Mixed, 4@76c;
Pork, Mess, $2262k; Dressed Hogs, 9Nc;
Lard, new, 12fc. Flour, good to choice, $50
@6.10; White Winter Extra, $6.15@S.OO.
The cattle market was active; 12@l3c for
good to extra. Hogs, s@s1sc. Sheep,
41@611c. -
AT East Liberty, Pa, on the 18th, cattle
brought: Best $6.O0@650; medium, $500
@525; common, $s5O@4.00. Hogs sold
Workers, s7.40@7.60; Philadelphia, $7.sO@
500. Sheep brought $4.0O@5Oo according
to quality. .-.-
WEST AND SOUTH.
The steamship City Of Waco, which ar
rived At Galveston, Tex, on the 9Th from
New York, loaded with oil, anchored out
side the harbor and was discovered to be
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