The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-04-08
The &edwnad 6azette,
REDWOOD FALLS, MINNESOTA.
General News Summary,
wAshinet0u News.
EvERY THURSDAY.

General News Summary. |
washineten News.
The Grand Jury of the District Of Columbia |
has indicted Whitelaw Reid, Of the New York |
Tribune, for libeling cx-Gov. Shepherd.
The United States Supreme Court has de-
cided that dividends and profits earned in the |
last half of the year 1870 are subject to the
income tax Of ~ per cent
A recent Washington dispatch says it ap.
pears that the late John Mitchell, who Vas
elected member OF the British Parliament
from Tpperary, Ireland, As . subject Of
Queen Victoria, was In fact citizen Of the
United States, Is appears from transcripts Of
the records recently made In the office Of
the Clerk Of the Supreme Court of the
District of Columbia for the British Minister.
1t is presumed the Government Of Great Brit
ain intended to use said transcript to unseat
him in Parliament.
Atty-Gen. Williams has given an opinion to
the effect that the vacant Judgeship in Lousi-
ana caused by the resignation Of Judge
Durell, and to which Judge Pardee was nomi-
mated BY the President, but which nomina-
ton the Senate refused to confirm, cannot be
filled until the next session of Congress. A
New Orleans dispatch Of the 18th says Judge
Woods had decided that the statutes give
him the power to select q District Judge in
his circuit to fill the Durcll vacancy.
After the LIST of next May mutilated cur
rency will be redeemed according to rules
which were formerly in existence but after
ward abolished. Money will be redeemed
according to the proportion remaining of the
bill.
A Senatorial excursion party left Washing
ton ON the 10Th en- route for Mexico. 1t ia
composed of the following persons: Senators
Cameron, Patterson, Dennis, Anthony, Nor
ton, ex-senator Chandler, Tom Scott and
wife, Wayne McVeigh and wife, Ben Per-
ley Poore, of the Boston Journal, and
Miss Poore, Mrs. Senator Morton and
ex-Gov. Brown, Of Georgia, and wife. It is
stated that the State Department has official
]y assured Mexican Minister Mariscal that
the excursion has no political significance
whatever, either immediate or remote.
Washington dispatch of the 18th says in
structions would Immediately be issued
through the War Department to the General
commanding in Texas to take such measures
as may be possible to deal summarily with
Mexican raiders.
The United States Supreme Court has de-
cided, in the case of Mrs. Minor, of Missouri,
who claimed the right to vote under the
Fourteenth Amendment, that the Constitu-
ton Of the United States does not confer the
right OF suffrage upon anyone, and that the
Constitutions of the several States which COM
nit that trust to men alone are not necessarily
void. The court is unanimous in this decis-
ion, which was delivered by the Chief Justice.
Gen. Spinner has rendered his resignation
as United States Treasurer, to take effect
July l. and the resignation has been accepted
by the President, and the position offered to
and accepted by John c. New, Cashier of the
First National Bank of Indianapolis, Ind.
Foreign Intelligence.
A Paris dispatch Of the oath announces the
discovery of a conspiracy the object of which
was the assassination of Gen. Cabrera, the
recusant Carlist chicftain. Don Carlos had
issued decree calling into the military
service all the males in the Navarro Provinces
over eighteen years old.
Louis Kossuth has been defeated in par
liamentary contest in Hungary.
Over 10000 people attended the funeral of
John Mitchell, at Newry, ireland, on the 3d.
A great fire occurred in Osaka. Japan, on
the It'll of February, which destroyed loo
buildings and caused the loss of several lives.
On the preceding day 800 houses were burned
in Yokohama.
Another defeat has been inflicted upon the
Carlists at Huguet, in which they lost 800
and the Aphonsists sixty eight killed. Ac-
cording to the latest advices from Estella, up
to the 18th, Gems. Mundera, Saballa and Iris
tany had united in a protest against Gen.
Cabrera's manifesto in favor of Aphonso.
Melbourne (Australia) dispatch of the
18th announces the escape of twenty Com
munist prisoners from New Caledonia, under
the leadership of DR.. Rastaoul.
AMadrid telegram of the 26th says that on
the recent arrival of Gen. Iona at Zuru-
quarry the Carlists fraternized with the
AlphOnsists, and demonstrations were made
by both armies in favor of peace.
An Estclla (spain) dispatch of the 2sth
says that deputies from the four provinces
occupied by the Carlsts had met to consider
the request of Don Carlos for contributions
and had replied that the country is ex.
hausted, that fresh sacrifices are impossible,
and that Don Carlos should procure funds
abroad. Dispatches from Madrid report that
Don Carlos had ordered persons found read
ing the Cabrera manifesto to be shot
There have recently been additional in
stances of determination of the Carlists and
Alphonsists on the banks of the Orea. A
santander dispatch states that Don Carlos
had departed for Ramales with sixteen
battalions and artillery to meet threatened
invasion of the province. Spain had paid
1000 thalers for the Gustav outrage.
An equinoctial hurricane passed over Van.
couver Island ON the oath. At Victoria
several vessels were badly injured, trees were
uprooted and the telegraph lines demolished.
The French Government has denied to the
Due de Montpensier passport to Spain on
the ground that in giving it the Government
would establish q precedent by which ex-
Queen Isabella might return to Spain, which
was undesirable.
Nearly 100000 people met in Hyde Park,
London, on the 10Th ult to express sympathy
with and demand justice for the Tchborne
Claimant. :.
The East.
James Brown was hanged at Pottsville, Pa,
on the oath for the murder, in February, 1872,
OF Daniel g. Kreamer, his wife, her mother
(Mrs. Machemer) and Annette Kreamer.
In the Rhode Island Legislature on the oath
special committee report was made on the
recent conflict Of authority between the
United States Marshal and the State Consta-
bles over the wholesale stock Of liquors At
tsched by the Marshal and afterward seized
by the State Constables because the
sales were made from the stock in viola.
ton Of the State law. The commit
tee censure the Chief OF Police of Provi.
dence for refusing to obey the State
Constables, but aiding instead the United
States Marshal, and recommended the adop-
ton Of resolution requesting the Governor
to transmit to the President of the United
States a abatement of the facfa xsl.ffnr "a fho