The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-01-27

says advices from the Upper Missouri coun
try represent that Sitting Bull was preparing
for the war-path and that he threatened dc.
struction to the frontier settlements. Com.
manders at up-river posts were 10 readiness,
At the first note Of alarm, to pursue him Il
bis winter quarters, and either capture o.
kill Linn and his entire band should he make
the attempt to carry out his threats.
D. W. MUM, ex.Supe.visor Of internal
Revenue for the Chicago District, has bseu
required to give BAH In the sum Of $4,000
for his appearance In Milwaukee to stand
trial on charge Of conspiracy to defraud the
Government revenue and accepting brides
The Chicago papers of the 10th say that he
| emphatically denies being guilty Of any Of
the alleged charges. Several Of the Chicago
distillers and rectiners have confessed In
court to having been engaged in manufactur.
ing and dealing in crooked whisky and ex.
pressed their willingness to tell ali they
know concerning the ring frauds and the
revenue officials and others engaged In them.
The Memphis appeal Of the nth says that
on the night of the 18th body OF disguised
men took four negroes from the Jail ct
Friar's Point, Miss, AID shot them to death.
The mob was composed Of about nfty men,
half of them being colored. The victims
had been guilty Of murder, arson and rob-
| berry.
In Chicago. on the 18th, spring wheat, No
., was active, closing At $l.0Ok@l.Ol cash.
Cash corn dull; closing At 43]fc for No.
and SIC for new rejected. Cash oats, No. Q,
sold At so<@3osSe; February options were
sold at SOAc. Rye, No. ., 6611@67c. Barley,
No. 2, SS1<@S4c. Cash mess pork closed at
$l92o@19.25. Lard, s12.90@l225. Good to
choice beeves brought s4.7596.25 medium
grades, S4.25@450: butchers stock, $325@
4.25; scalawags, etc., $2.25@a75 Hogs
brought $7.O0@7.2O for good to choice.
sheep sold at a. 75(05 SO for good to choice
FOREIGN lNTRLLIGENCR.
BERLIN dispatches of the 18th say ecclesi
astical proceedings had been commenced
against DR.. Meichers, Archbishop of Cologne.
The Prince Imperial had finally decided not
to visit the Philadelphia Exposition, the En-
peror'e health rendering the absence of the
heir to the Empire unadvisable.
The Marquis Of Ripon, the English noble
man recently converted to Catholicism, has
presented the Pope with $4,000 in gold.
ACCORDING to Constantinople dispatch
of the 18th the Sublime Porte had Just re-
ceived a message from the Turkish comman.
der that tranquility had been restored every
where in Herzegovina except In the district
between Trebinje, Bilek and Gatschke, on the
Montenegro border.
PRESIDENT MAcMAHoN issued a proclama-
ton on the 18th advising the French people
in the coming Senatorial election to vote for
those candidates who would rally around the
Government as at present constituted. The
resignation of NJ. Leon Say had been with.
drawn.
AVIENNA dispatch of the 18th says Rus
sia was making inceesant preparations for
war. A third track had been added to the
railroad line from Moscow to Polish Lith-
uania.
A PARIS dispatch of the 18th announces
the arrival of Sir John H. Glover, the newly
appointed Governor of Newfoundland, who
had come to settle the differences between
France and England In relation to the New.
foundland fisheries.
A CoNsTANrINoPLE telegram of the 18th
says the powers had relinquished their In.
tention OF making collective communication
to the Porte for reform In the disafected
provinces.
A LONDON dispatch of the 18th says 600
wesvers at Macclesfeld had been locked out
of the Lower Heyes mills in consequence of
disagreement between the proprietors and
the Secretary of the Weavers' Union. A por-
struck for higher wages.
JOHN LorHRop MOTLEY has been elected
Foreign Associate Of the French Academy Of
Moral and Political Science.
A LONDON telegram of the 10th says the
English National Rifle Association had &C.
cepted the challenge Of the American Rifle
Association to compete in a match for the
championship of the world during the Gen.
tenniul.
ADMIRAL KRABBE, Russian Minister of
Marine, died lately and vice.Admiral Les
sowski has been appointed his successor.
A ROME dispatch of the 10th says the
Vatican had instructed the Archbishops of
Cologne and Trcvcs to endeavor to find means
to avoid deposition from their sees.
A MADRID special of the 10th says the
Spanish Government had sent out diplomatic
note in reply to the American circular on
Cuban affairs. The reply is quite telligerent
in tone and takes high ground On all ques-
tons raised by the United States.
FROM information received in New York on
the 14th there is little doubt of the sinking in
the Irish Channel of the American chip
Harvest Queen and the loss If her entire
crew of thirty men. 1t is thought the disss.
ter was caused by . collision with the steamer
Adriatic early on the morning Of the 3lst ult.
A corroN'M1lL At Manchester, England,
owned by Dilworth & Son, and another at
Ashley, owned by Lumley s. Simpson, were
burned on the 18th, involving loss ct over
$500, 600.
The election of Senatorial delegates in
France took place on the 10th. La Patrie,
of the morning of the 18th, gives profcssedly
official information that of 5000 communes
5000 had returned Conservative delegates.
ACCORDING to Berlin dispatch of the
18th the Government had determined to
close all Ursuline converts and schools on
the LIST of April next.
A BRUssEIs, ultramontsne paper of the
18th says that Louise Lateau, the peasant
girl who some time ago attracted crowds of
pilgrims by the exhibition on her person of
an alleged miracle Of the stigmata, was Sc
riously i'll and likely to die.
CONGRESSlONAL.
BILLS were introduced In the Senate on
the 18th for the formation Of State Constitution
In New Mexico and the admission Of ouch State
/ into the Union; to establish . branch mint at
st. Louis. Formal announcement was made OF
| the death of ex-President and Senator Andrew
johnson. and several eulogies were delivered,
AFTER which the usual resolutions Of respect
were ad0pted....A bill was introduced in
the House by Mr.. Morrison preparatory to
the redemption Of United States notes aid the
resumption Of specie payments. The Pension
made the special order for the 18th. lF. Hill, Of
Georgia, made lengthy speech IN reply to the
| remarke of Mr.. Blaine ON the Amnesty bill, afte1