The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-02-16

1872. -s l.a.,s.
contribute an additional amount sufficient to
erect said buildings.
The Secretary of War, in answer to
the inquiry Of the House COMMITTEES. pives it
As his opinion that the best and most econom.
1cal way to protect the Texas border from Mex
lean raids is to fill by recruiting he military
companies now stationed alongthe Rio Grande
up to their maximum strength -
The Committee on Indian Affairs of
the House of Congress has decided that the
government is not at all liable for depredations
committed by Indians and will report to the
House resolution to that effect; exoentinc
only cases where the United States has a.
summed the responsibility in treaty stipula-
tons.
The first proceedings ia the, case of
Gen. Babcock for connection with the crooked
whisky conspiracy were had atFSt. Louis on
the 1st This was upon motion to vacate the
writ compelling the telegraph company to
produce the various kilograms that passed be-
tween Babcock and John Mcdonald. joyce
and Mrs. Joyce, over various signatures, dur
ing several months of last year. After argu-
ment Judge Dillon overruled the motion.
A special from Berlin says the report
that Germany has declined to make any rep
reservations to Spain in regard to Cuba is in
correct. The German government has not an
swered the communication of the United
States, which did not require or invite an an
swer, but there is every reason to believe that
Germany is not unwilling to impress upon
Spain the justice of American complaints. and
the ACCESSIBILITY of making some redress.
The walking match, in progress at Chi
cago since Monday, between Miss Bertha Won
Hillern of Germany and Mrs. Mary Marshall
of that city terminated Saturday the 9Th, Mrs.
Marshall having made ga miles and Mrs. V on
| Hillern 23l. The original intention was to
walk 800 miles for purse of $500, but neither
were able to make the distance on account of
great exhaustion. The second regiment ar
mory where the walk occurred was filed with
| spectators most OF the time
A big fight is in progress in Milwaukee
betweens the bulls and bears in wheat, and
! cedented quantity-over four million bushels
Of wheat is now held in warehouses. A report
has been started that winter wheat looks poor
owing to the weather, the ground being every
where bare, and extraordinary efforts will he
made on both sides to affect prices by CONTRA
dictory reports from all sections Of Iowa, Min
! nesota and Northwestern Wisconsin.
Cardinal Manning writes to the Lon.
don Times that the telegram from Rome that
he intends to proceed thither to promote thu
union Of portion Of the English ritualistic
clergy with the Roman Catholic church. and
that he had made proposal to the Vatican
looking to thst end, are both, from first to
last, wholly devoid Of truth. He proceeds as
| follows: "No scheme whatever on the SUBJ
ject of ritualism has ever been conceived by
me; none has ever been, to my knowledge,
proposed or opposed or defended at Rome
A Yankton, D. T., telegram of the 9Th
| says: A party OF forty men left here for the
Black Hills Saturday. Fifteen men left to-
| day. A third party will leave Thursday next.
Those leaving to-day are all settlers in this
country, familiar with all the streams, and
will make q survey both going and coming Of
the most practical routes, and the exact dis
lance ofeach. Some OF the party expect to
return in fifteen days and will be prepared to
give full report Of the prospects at the
Hills.
BY report made to the House OF Rep.
resentatives, itappears that the amount of
money in Uncle Sans cash box, on the first
of January 1876, was s190, 770, o4s. The amount
of s per cent. bonds sold to October 2, 1875, in
obedience to the resumption act, is, interest
included, sl5,795, 1855. The silver purchased
by the treasury department has been paid for
with the proceeds of 5 per cent. bonds sold,
and the balance OF the proceeds of said bonds,
together with the revenues Of the government,
has been applied to the retiremento of legal ten
ders, as provided by the specie resumption
act
CnfOrgiving Massachusetts.
philadelphia Times]
Blaine's persistent antagonism to Jeff
Davis is scarcely circumstance to the un-