The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-06-15
General News Summary.

hEUWOOD FALLS, MINNESOTA.
General News Summary.
FROM WASHINGTON.
The new Secretary of War, J. D. Cameron,
was sworn into Office on the LIST, and at the
same time Judge Taft qualified as Attorney
General.
BEFORE the Judiciary Committee, on the
LIST, the witness Mulligan "a bookkeeper of
Mr.. Fisher, of Boston, with whom Mr.. Blaine
had had business relations) stated that in an
interview between himself and Mr.. Blaine,
the day before, the latter had obtained pos
session of certain private letters of his
;Blaine) In witness hands, under promise
that he would return them after refreshing
his mind with their contents; witness said
Mr.. Blaine had plead earnestly for the letters,
which he had refused to give him until he
promised to return them; witness also said
Mr.. Blaine had promised him Consul
ship on condition of yielding up the letters.
Mr.. Blaine, in his statement, denied the
pleading and consulship portion of witness
story; he said he only wished to retain pos
session of such portion of his private letters
as bore no relation to the matters in question
before the committee, and that such letters
only properly belonged to one of two parties
the writer or the one to whom they were
written-Mr. Fisher. Mr.. B. declined to sub
NIT the letters to the committee until he had
consulted his counsel in relation to the mat
ter. He had offered to return one of the let
tiers to Mr.. Mulligan-the only une bearing
at all upon the question before the commit
tee; he (Blaine) regarded it a gross outrage
that his private correspondence should be
published, as Mulligan had threatened, in
certain contingencies, should be done.
The monthly debt statement issued on the
LIST shows the public debt to be s2,2l3,6l6,-
ALI. Cash in Treasury-coin, $66B24, 766;
currency, $9,2s5, 70s; special deposits held
for redemption of certificates of deposits,
1854 $50, 900; total, $11O,295,4 74. Debt, less
cash in Treasury, 81, 1Os, s20, 743. Decrease
during May, $4.6l7.5l5.
In his cross-examination, on the I'd, Har-
ney persisted emphatically in his assertions
that he had paid Mr.. Kerr money to procure
Lieut. Green's appointment Ex-Congress.
nan Meyer Strauss, of Pennsylvania, testified
that in 1865, at Harney's request, he had
written to President johnson in behalf of
Green's appointment; that HarDey had stated
to him that he (Harney) could make little
money out of the business, which he needed,
as his position did not pay we'll.
On the I'd, Mr.. Blaine refused to deliver his
private letters, obtained by him from Multi
gan, to the Investigating Committee, by ad
vice OF his counsel-Messrs. jeremiah S.
Black and Matt. H. Carpenter-who stated
that they had found nothing in the letters
bearing at all upon the case pending before
the committee, and that they advised Mr..
Blaine to assert his rights and refuse to
yield up the letters.
THE EAST.
THE Republican members Of the Rhode
Island General Assembly, in caucus on the
Slst ult., nominated Henry b. Anthony for re-
election to the United States Senate.
PETER COOPER, in replying to the letter in
forming him of his nomination to the Presi-
dency by the Greenback Convention, says:
"There is bare possibility, if wise counsels
prevail, that the sorely needed relief from the
blighting effects of past unwise legislation
relative to finance, which the people SO
earnestly seek, may yet be had through
either the Republican or Democratic
party, both Of them meeting in National
Convention at an early day. \ l
therefore accept your nomination condition
ally, expressing an earnest hope that the In
dependent party may yet attain its aims,
while permitting me to step aside and remain
in that quiet which is most congenial to my
nature and my time of life"
THE New York Democratic State Conven.
tlon, called to choose delegates on a green
back platform to the st. Louis Convention,
met at New York city on the LIST. Delegates
were chosen and platform was adopted
claiming admission for their delegates to the
st. Louis Convention declaring for the I'M
conditional repeal of the resumption act; the
substitution of legal-t tenders for National
bank notes, these legal-tenders to be re-
ceived for all deb.s, taxes and Gus
toms; no forced imitation or contrac-
tion, but circulation equal to the wants
of all; legislation for the development of
the resources and wealth OF the country by
the people to the exclusion of monopolies,
ETC., etc.
THE Vermont State Democratic Conven-
nj.
mated VIM. H. H. Bingham for Governor and
E. B. Baldwin for Lieutenant Governor. The
delegates to st. Louis were uninstructed
except to vote as unit The platform
favors an early return to specie payments.
A NEW YORK dispatch of the I'd says
large number of counterfeit fve-dollar
bills were in circulation in that
city and Brooklyn. Among them were
counterfeits on the First National
Banks of Chicago, ILL.,, Paxton, ILL.,,
Canton, ILL.,, Peoria, ILL.,, Aurora, ILL.,, Galena,
ILL.,, Louisville, KY, and on the Traders Ma
tional Bank of Chicago. The best bills are
on the Chicago banks-First National and
Traders National. Some of the others are
fairly executed, but not sufficiently so as to
deceive anyone who is on the lookout for the
"queer." There is no such bank ss the
First National of Galena, Ill.
AwoMAN named Wilhelmina Weick has
been sentenced at Buffalo, N. Y, to be hanged
on the 2lst inst, for the murder, last Septem-
Der, of her step-son.
GOLD closed in New York. on the 5th, at
1925. The following were the closing quo
tations for produce: No. 2 Chicago Spring
Wheat, $l.17@l.1S; No. 2 Milwaukee, $1.19
CLIO; Oats, Western 32@35c; Mixed,
Corn, Weatern Mixed, 57k@59xc; Pork,
Mess, $500; Lard, 111c; Flour, good
to choice, s5.40@5.75; White Wheat Extra
s5.so@775. Cattle, 911@lo1c for good to
extra. Sheep (shorn), 5@61Sc.
AT East Liberty, Pa, on the 5th, cattle
brought: Best, $5.25@5,5o; medium, $500
@5.15; common, $4.25@45O. Hogs sold
Workers, $6.oO@62o; Philadelphias, $4,000
$50. Sheep (shorn) brought $4.5O@6.0O &C.
ording to quality.
WEST AND SOUTH.
THREE extensive pork-packing houses of
Louisville, KY, have suspended recently,
with aggregate liabilities of about 81 ,0OO, 600.