The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-09-28

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REDWOOD FALLS. MINNESOTA
General News Summary.
FROM WASHINGTON.
THE United States Treasury Department
has recently issued the following order rela-
tive to the purchase of silver bullion for
coinage: Until further notice, silver bullion
in the form of foreign coin or amalgam
plate will be purchased at the minis at Phil
adelphia and the assay offices at New York.
The purchasing rate will be 1O1 cents per
standard ounce at Philadelphia, San Fran.
cisco and New York, and 1905 cents at Car
son; payable in United STAB gold coin on
the determination of value by the mint
assay, the seller paying mint charges for re-
fning.
TIE thirty-fourth call for the redemption
of $50 bonds Of 1865, May and November,
was issued from the Treasury Department
in Washington on the 18th. The call is for
sl0,ooO,0Oo. The principal and accrued in
terest on these bonds will be paid Dec. r.,
after which date interest will cease.
A WAS HINGToN special of the 14th says
Attorney-Gen. Taft, after very thorough
examination of the case, had decided to
make out the papers for the pardon of A. c.
llcsins, of Chicago, and to recommend to
the President that it be granted.
THE EAST.
THE latest news received up to the morn
ing of the 18th from the Maine State cleo
ton indicated that Conner (Rep.) for Gov
Crnor would have a majority in the State of
about 5000. The Republicans elect their
candidates for Congress in all the districts
of the State, aud the State Legislature is
largely Republican in both branches.
THE Independent Greenback party of Con-
necticut has nominated a full State ticket
Charles Atwater is the candidate for Cover
nor, and Francis Gillette for Lieutenant
Governor.
Two cases of yellow fever were reported
in New York city on the 18th. John Evans,
wealthy business man, died of that disease
at a fashionable hotel on Broadway, and
sailor was found suffering from the same
complaint at boarding-house on Market
street. Mr.. Evans had come from Savannah
to escape the scourge. Prominent physicians
said there was no cause for alarm in the city,
as the season was too far advanced for the
disease to become prevalent
TIE Massachusetts, Woman Suffrage State
Convention was held at Boston on the 18th
was nominated composed of the candidates
of the Prohihitory party, headed by John J.
Baker for Governor.
GEN. B. F. BUTLER has been nominated
for Congress by the Republicans of the Sew
euth Massachusetts, District The vote
stood: Butler, 81; Russell, 10; Dwight, 8.
A motion to make the nomination unani-
nous was lost, ten delegates rising in oppo-
sition.
The Sheriff of New York on the 18th re-
turned the execution in the Tweed siX-mill-
lon-dolar Judgment wholly unsatistied he
being unable to find any property on which
to make levy.
THE New York Democratic State Conyen-
ton reaSsembled at Saratoga on the 18th
and nominated, by reclamation, Lucius Rob
EN-Gov. Seymour, declined.
The Republicans of the First Connecti-
cut District have nominated Gen. Joseph r.
Hawley for Congress.
WRITs of error have been taken out in the
supreme Court of Pennsylvania, in the cases
of the five "Mollie Maguires' recently
convicted and sentenced to be hung for
murder in Schuylkill County. The writs
were made returnable in January next, and
the prisoners will not be hanged for several
months to come, if they are hanged at all.
JUDGE WEsTBRooK, of New York, has
granted an injunction restraining President
Grant and the Secretary of State from issu-
ing mandate for the surrender of Leopold
Nettel, demanded for eXtradition by the
Austrian authorities, on the charge of for
gerry.
The cash receipts at the Centennial Exhi
bition on the 18th were over $4,000, the
hest paying day yet had. A telegram saws
the attendance had very largely increased
with this month.
The newly-eected Maine Legislature
stands as follows, politically: House, 100
Republicans and thirty-o ne Democrats; Sem
ate, twenty-nine Republicans and two DEM
Ocrats.
The International Rifle match at Creed
moor, l.. l., has resulted in substantial
victory for the American team, which won
by twenty-five in a score of 8, 126 points,
The second prize is awarded to the Irish
team, which made g. 104. All parties seemed
satisfied with the result except the Scotch
team, who protested against the Americans
hn ~
Bodinc at the last moment.
VICTORIA c. Woodruff has obtained a de-
cree of absolute divorce from her husband,
Col. James A. Blood.
THE negotiations for converting the Old
South Church, Boston, into historical
museum are at last successful, the church
corporation having accepted the offer of
100000 for the purchase of their ancient
editice. The condition of the sale is that
the church shall be used for museum, ETC.,
and not for commercial purposes for thirty
years
The Philadelphia Typographical Union
has agreed to a reduction of ten per cent in
their rates both in book and newspaper
work, the new rates to go into effect Oct g.
Rev. E. s JAMES, Senior Bishop of the
MctAOulsI Episcopal Cnurch, cled at his
residence in New York city on the after
noon of the 18th. He was about seventy
years old
CHARLES DAVIES, well known mathcma-
tcian and professor at West Point and Co.
lumbia College, died on the night of the
18th. Prof. E. s. Smell, of Amherst College,
died on the 18th.
JUSTICE DYKEMAN has rendered decision
on the preliminary motion in the suit of
Francis D. Moulton against Henry Ward
Beccher, holding that the defendant must
make in New York County his motion to
change the place OF trial.
GOLD closed in New York on the 18th at
1924. The following were the closing quo
tations orproduce: No. 2 Chicago Spring
Wheat New, 1.l6@s1.1s; No. 2 Milwaukee
(New), sl17@119; Oats, Western and