The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-08-18

it will take some time for the wound to
heal, owing to his advanced age. The pa
tlent showed a vast amount of cool COM
posure under the circumstances, and made
tacetious allusion to the expeditiousness
OF the doctors arrival as he entered the
room where he lay, and after his wounds
we're dressed he would have walked across
the house but was not permitted without
assistance.
False Pretenses..Wnrntng for kmerf.
can Railway Builders.
Davenport, Iowa, August :, Correspondence
Chicago Trbune.)
AS important document as has been
known in legal proceedings in this coun.
try for many year was received at the
law office OF Grant & Smith yesterday
from Germany. 1t opens an entirely new
feature Of litigation over the sale Of rail.
road bonds in the old country, and is we'll
calculated to create sensation in certain
railroad circles. It appears that certain
holders Of the bonds Of the Davenport
4 st. Paul railroad company residing in
Germany have sued Sau|sbach & Co., the
banking firm in Frankfort through whom
the bonds were sold in Europe, for dam
ages Tor obtaining money through mis-
representations. The firm, it is alleged.
represented that the conditions under
which the bonds were issued made them
absolutely safe as an investment. and so
people were induced thereby to exchange
their money for them. With the papers
that came yesterday is a statement of
these alleged representations. The doc
uments are all in German, and are to be
translated at an carly day. With these
papers came notice from the branch of
of the banking firm in New York, served
on TIE President Of the Davenport & St..
Paul Railroad Company, and Secretary of
the Construction Company, that if the
firm is mulcted in damages in Germany.
they will hold the gentleman who made
the representations to them responsible,
and sue IN the courts of this country
to recover. This will open up an endless
litigation, and will be productive of i'm
portant results.
Return Of Gen. Crcoks--NIiners Pre-
pairing to Leave. Plenty Of Gold.
Gen. Crooks and Col. Stanton have
reached Cheyenne. w. T., on their re-
turn from the Black Hills. They report
the miners preparing to leave, covering
up the richest lodcs to prevent their be-
coming known till such time as they can
return. The country is considered rich
and Gold Mountains are full Of quartz.
Capital and skilled labor will develop
mines equal to those Of Colorado or Ne
vada. There were about 500 miners in
the hills, and great deal of preliminary
work has been done by them in the
way of bitches and sluices. There were
no Indians in that region. but
few have been seen. Those at the
agencies are still demanding that the
miners be driven out. Some gold was
PANIED out in the presence of the party
which yielded Is cents to the pan. There
is an abundance of water and grass; also
timber for building. but the pine is not
OF the highest merchantable quality, A
town called Stonewall has been laid out
in Clusters gulch, in the vicinity Of which
some rich diggings are located. The
whole country is we'll adapted to grazing
and farming. Troops are now en- route
to establish temporary post near Stone.
wall, for the purpose Of keeping out the
miners.
Prof. Jenney's party were still explor-
ing the hills, and will probably remain
till the middle Of October. Gen. Crook
and party had fine hunting on tho Spring
rapids, Elk and Box Elder creeks, taking
large number Of Red deer, elk and
mountain sheep. Gen. Crook leaves to-
morrow for Omaha.
Lieut.. Tiffany and Widow Waiting
ford.
A clandestipe marriage occurred at St.
Louis which is causing good deal of
talk. The parties are Lieut.. w. H. TIT.
iany, OF the regular army, and son Of
Rev. DR.. Tiffany of the Metropolitan
church Of Washington. and Mrs. Capt
u. W. Wail'ngford, a leading Washing
ton belle, who was the recipient at the
centennial tea party last winter Of marked
attention from Secretary Belknap. which
caused newspaper comment. The cere-
mony took place at the residence of DR..
Vananda, Of the Union Methodist church,
in the presence of that gentleman, his
wife, and leading clergyman of St.
Louis, but the whole affair was kept very
secret, the parties not living together af-
ter the marriage. The husband, however,
visited the lady at her hotel, and upon
one occasion was caught by the virtuous
nightwatchman entering the lady's room.
The matter was investigated, and to
shield themselves from scandal the couple
explained the situation and enjoined Sc
crecy. Lieut.. Tiffany was ordered to Fort