The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-03-30
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ACCORDING to Paris dispatches Of the 18th,
another inundation of the Seine had occurred.
In Paris several Of the more important
bridges over the Seine were threatened, and
travel over them had been prohibited
Government tobacco factories and the facto-
ries ut Alprtville had been flooded. At st.
Mauf, 200 houses were filed with water to
he depth of several feet During the gale Of
the l2th, at Cambray, eleven persons had
been killed. High water was also reported
along the Rhine, in Germany.
REV. ROBERT MILAN, D. D., Bishop of Cal.
cutta, is dead. ''
The Italian Minister of Public instruction
has ordered the Vatican University to be
closed, on the ground that it is an illegal es-
tablishment.
ACCORDING to Paris dispatch of the 18th,
on that day an arch of the railway bridge
over river Ill near Lauterburg, had given
away under the pressure of the high water.
A passenger railway train from Mulhouse to
strasburg, which was crossing at the time,
was precipitated into the water, the cars fall
ing upon each other and being dashed to
pieces. Every passenger was either crushed to
death or drowned. Up to the morning Of the
18th thirty corpses had been recovered.
A BLOCK of shipping houses in Portland
street, Manchester, England, was burned on
the morning Of the 18th, involving loss Of
several hundred thousand pounds.
ROBERTS, the ex-President of Liberia, died
at Monrovia on the 26th of February, and
was buried with military honors.
The Surgeon of the Turkish army estimates
that the Turks have lost, by battle and by the
diseases incident to war, . total Of 81, 000
men since the beginning of the Herzego.
vinian Instruction.
FERDINAND FREIL1GRATH, the distin.
guished German poet, died at his home in
Cannstadt in Wirtemburg, on the 18th, aged
sixty years.
On the night of the 18th, the steamer lisa.
bel went ashore on Pendever Rocks, between
St. Ives and Lands End, England. All on
hoard-thirty nine in number-perished.
A NAPLES telegram of the 10th reports the
commencement of the long-expected erup.
ton of Mount Vesuvius. Lava was flowing
toward Pompeii, and the sight is said 10 be
magnificent.
KING ALPHoNso and his army entered
Madrid on the morning of the Goth, amid the
cheering OF the inhabitants and shouts Of
Long live the Pacidcator King" Over 49,.
600 strangers participated in the festivities
LONDON dispatches of the 10th report in.
tense cold throughout England and Scotland
In the latter country great quantities Of
snow had fallen and railroad traffic was
generally suspended.
CONGRESSIONAL.
In the Senate, on the 18th, the bill fix.
ing the salary of the President of the United
States at $25,c0O was paesed-yeas Is, nays 2C
-. .Hallett kilbourne, who had refused to pro-
duce the books of his firm or to answer certain
questions before the Select Committee on the
Real-Estate Pool and Jay Cooke Indebtedness
was brought before the House, and, still persist
ing in his refusal to answer, was committed to
the custody Of the Sergeant alarms, to be con
fine in the common jail Of the District until he
should purge himself Of his contempt. The eg
islative Appropriation bill was further debated
in Committee Of the Whole.
A BILL was passed in the Senate, on
the 18th, to exclude Missouri from the provisions
of the act to promote the development Of the min
ing resources of the United States. "A resou
tion Of inquiry was adopted in the House as u
the powers conferred on A, B. Steinberger as 8
Special Agent or Commissioner to the Samoan OF
Navigator Islands. Speeches were made, in Com
mittee Of the Whole, On the Legislative Appro
priation bill.
A BILL WAS introduced in the Senate, on
the 18th, for establishing the Territory of Penn
bina. A resolution was adopted requesting the
Secretary Of the Treasury to furnish information
as to the annual product of gold and silver in the
amount in other parts of the world for the same
years, and an estimate OF the amount in the
United States at the present time. The bill te
for President and Vice-President was further dis
cussed. Adjourned to the goth. :. In the House
the bill to supply the deficiency in the Currency
Printing and Engraving. Bureau Of the Treasury
ing the Secretary OF the Treasury to issue silve1
coin in redemption of all fractional currency out
standing) was debated in Committee OF the
Whole.
No SESSION of the Senate on the 18th
But little was done in the House, beyond au
thorizing the Committee Cd the Centennial ques
ton to sit during the recess of Congress, and
adopting resolution Of inquiry into the maj ing
OF contracts for the transportation of army sup
plies to Texas in 1874. Adjourned to the 20th.
In the Senate, on the Goth, an amend.
ment was agreed to to the House bill to supply
the deficiency for feeding the Sioux Indians
of 100000 for such purpose. The bill to provide
for counting the votes for President and Vice
President was taken up, and amendments were
offered and debated. A Committee of Confer
bill was ordered and appointed. Among the
bills introduced in the House were several relat.
ing to the currency question. A motion to sus
the provisions of the Resumption act which an.
thorize the Secretary of the Treasury to redeem
and cancel United States notes, and to sell
United States bonds for that purpose, was made
and rejected-1O9 to 1OS, not two-thirds In the
Affirmative.