The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-08-03
General News Summary.
FROM WASHINGTON.

VCAAClOA NCVO 0uAlAuAdbA y
FROM WASHINGTON.
Ex-SEC'Y BRIsTow has written q letter to
the President in reply to the
of the latter removing all obligation of Sc
crecy in giving testimony before the House
Committee concerning Cabinet consultations
or personal conversations on official sub
jects. Mr.. Bristow adheres to his former re-
fusal to so testify, claiming that such con-
situations and conversations are ma tiers en-
tirely confidential and privileged, and that
the public duty to treat them as such is not
removed by the Presidents consent that he
should make full answer to the questions
He hoped he would not be recalled by the
committees; but should they see proper to
call him again he could not consent, as at
present advised, to testify to conversations
held with the President on official business.
THE President has refused to sign the bill
amendatory of the Postofiice laws. The
reasons assigned for this veto are given in
statement of Postmaster-G Gen. Tyner, who
regrets exceedingly that a mistake should
have been made in the title and enacting
clause of the bill, which renders inopera-
tive its provisions in relation to straw bid
ding.
The President, on the I'D, nominated
George F. Talbot, of Maine, to be Solicitor
of the Treasury, rice Bluford Wilson, and
Thomas j. Brady, of Indiana, to succeed J.
n. Tyncr as Second Assistant Postmaster
General.
President GRANT, on the oath, signed the
silver-Coin and Army Appropriation bills.
THE EAST.
THE Intcr-C Collegiate boat-races came off
at Saratoga, n. Y, on the 18th. Cornell won
in the three contests. In the first race Har-
ward came in second and Columbia third;
Harvard also was second in the single scull
and in the freshman contests.
THE New York Central and Pennsylvania
Central Railroads, on the 10Th, reduced the
rates of freishts between Chicago and New
York to twenty cents per 100 pounds for
inst, second and third classes, and fifteen
cents per 100 pounds for fourth class
freight.
The formal letter of acceptance of Will
lam a. Wheeler, Republican candidate for
the Nice-Presdcncy, has been published.
THE Hudson River steamer Baltic was
burned on the night of the 10Th. No lives
lost.
y New YORK dispatch of the Goth says the
heat in that city continued intense. The
mortality among children was frightful.
For the previous twenty-five days the deaths
of children under five years of
age had averaged nearly 100 daily.
In Brooklyn the previous week the
deaths were 5S3, the largest death-rate ever
recorded there. Of this number, $50 were
children under five years of age. There
were many fatal cases of sunstroke on the
10Th Similar reports of extreme heat came
from Philadelphia and the Eastern cities, on
the 20th. The heat was also intense in many
sections of the West.
A CoLoRED man, giving his name as
George, and saying that his home was in
Utica, \. Y, was in Philadelphia on the 2lst,
and sought an interview with the police au-
thoritcs. He said he had seen Charley
Ross, alive and well, within five weeks, and
also that he was the servant of the gang of
the associates of Mosher and Douglass, who
had charge of the stolen boy. He claimed
to I've able to restore the child, and said he
was after the reward, but did not dare come
forward before. Little confidence was placed
in his story.
Mr.. BLAINE left his home on the 2lst for
Rye Beach, to recuperate. His health was
not much improved, but he was physically a
little stronger.
The call for National Liberal Republi
can Convention to be held at Philadelphia,
July Is, has been annulled by Ethan Allen,
"h,.sr % %Lo
THE yacht Mohawk was struck by a squat,
off Staten Island, on the afternoon of the
Goth. Of those on board seven were
drowned. 1t is supposed they were all in
the cabin, as it was raining hard at the time
Among the lost were Com. Garner and his
wife, Miss Adele Hunter, of Hunters Point;
Frost Thorne, brother of Mrs. Garner; two
cooks and seaman. The sailors of the
yacht charge the blame for the accident to
the saiing-master, Capt. Rawlings, and he
was put under arrest.
EX-Gov. HALLE, of New Hampshire, died at
keene on the morning of the 22d, aged sixty
nine years.
SEVERAL vessels were in quarantine on the
23d in the lower New York Bay, because of
the alleged prevalence of yellow fever on
Dix's Island. Several deaths are said to have
occurred from that disease in that locality.
IN the case of the yacht Mohawk calamity
at New York, the Coroner's jury have rem
dered verdict that Capt. Rawlings was not
guilty of any criminal negligence aud he
was at once discharged.
Anew days ago, Ada Apologize, a twelve
year old girl, of Eatonto~n, N. j., in the
hcn of hos a., ~.
die fire by using kerosene oil, when the
can from which she was pouring the fluid
burst, aad she was shockingiy burned. A
Mrs. Carlyle, living in the same house, was
severely burned about the neck and arms
while attempting to smother the flames.
THERE was slight frost few miles north
of Port Jervis, N. Y, on the night of the 2sd.
GOLD closed in New York on the oath, at
11lA. The following were the closing quo
tations for produce: No. 2 Chicago Spring
Wheat, 95096c; No. 2 Milwaukee,, So
@l.OO; Oats, Western Mixed, 25@3Oc;
Corn, Western Mixed, 50@55c; Pork,
Mess, $3.50; Lard, Ike; Flour, good
to choice, s4.30@525; White Wheat Extra,
s4.So@7.25. Cattle, s19@lO11c for good to
extra. Sheep (shorn), 4Z@5xc.
AT East Liberty, Pa, on the oath, cattle
brought: Best, $5.25@5.5O; medium, $4.75@
$500; common, $4.0O@45O. Hogs sold
Workers, s6.5O@675; Philadelphias, s6sO@
100 Sheep (shorn) brought $3OO@4.75, &C.
cording to quality.
WEST AND SOUTH.
THE Hon. George E. Pugh died of pa.
ralysis, at his residence in Cincinnati. on the
10th, aftera long illness. He was in his fifty
fifth year ..-.-.
THE Missouri State Democratic Conven
ton, in session at Jefferson City, on the
18th nominated John g Phelps for Cover.